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Speaker 1: What's Good Command is Family Brian Cole Jr. And this

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Speaker 1: is the Next Man Up Podcast. Our next man Up

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Speaker 1: is no other than rookie second.

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Speaker 2: Rounder Kwan Martin.

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Speaker 1: Kwan talks about growing up at Fort Mines, Florida, having

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Speaker 1: supreme confidence in itself, he's a relationship with his parents,

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Speaker 1: and what it felt like getting picked up by the

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Speaker 1: Commanders on draft night. All that and more starts right now.

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Speaker 1: What's Good Command is Family? I'm Brian Cooviagin. And this

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Speaker 1: is the Next Man Up Podcast where it's not so

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Speaker 1: much exits and those, but we look at your favorite

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Speaker 1: Commanders player and get to know the person behind the helmet.

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Speaker 1: And our next man Up is no other than our

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Speaker 1: rookie defensive back Kwan Martin.

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Speaker 2: Kuwan, how are you doing today, brother, good Man?

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Speaker 3: How you doing?

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you, man, I'm doing real good man. Happy

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Speaker 1: to be talking to you.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: It's always exciting to talk to the young guys because

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Speaker 1: you guys give such a different perspective, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, Like y'all just started playing. You know, y'all

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Speaker 1: made y'all dreams come true, you know, So it's always

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Speaker 1: good to talk to you man. I appreciate your time

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Speaker 1: because I know you're extremely busy with halfway through the

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Speaker 1: season and.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna get into some football talk.

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Speaker 1: But like I said, I really like to talk to

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Speaker 1: the person and get to know who you are and

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Speaker 1: get these fans to know the person behind the helmet.

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Speaker 1: So first things forced First, Fort Minors, Florida. That's home.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean to you?

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Speaker 3: Man? Means everything. Man's you know, where everything started, where

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Speaker 3: I grew up, born and raised. Nah, you know, just

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Speaker 3: to be from there, man, just to be one of

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Speaker 3: those guys who you know, made it out of four

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Speaker 3: I feel like the whole city is behind me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And what.

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Speaker 1: Are those feelings where you say you know the city's

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Speaker 1: behind you? Like, is that from Draft day where people

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Speaker 1: makes you feel like, Yo, this city's really behind me

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Speaker 1: and got my back through all of this.

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Speaker 3: Uh, you know, it's it's kind of always been there, man.

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Speaker 3: But you know, like you said, there's a couple people

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Speaker 3: it's all love at the end of the day.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: The support that you know my city had for me

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Speaker 3: is you know, second to nine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Man, And I've read that you've been playing football since

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Speaker 1: you were five years old. And we talked before the

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Speaker 1: show and you say it spen tackle since five years old.

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Speaker 1: What got you into football so young? Was just something

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Speaker 3: Uh? I don't know, man, I feel like just growing

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Speaker 3: up like I've always had like older cousins, so you

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Speaker 1: Now, when was the moment where because starting at five,

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Speaker 3: I probably feel like mile school, high school, just growing up,

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Speaker 3: I felt like that was like my okay moment, like

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Speaker 1: And do you feel like when you started noticing your

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Speaker 1: Comes into football, especially even for middle school. You're Florida, Man,

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Speaker 3: Nah, I would definitely say, like I feel like I

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Speaker 3: For me, like man, throughout my career has always been

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Speaker 3: So you know, I just go out there, man, and

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Speaker 2: And you definitely do.

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Speaker 1: Man, You definitely go out there and ball, and you

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Speaker 1: Javon and Desiree Martin, your parents, the people that have

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Speaker 3: Man, It's been everything.

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Speaker 3: Parents has been there since day one. You know, my

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Speaker 3: growing up littlely having to lose weight. He's always been there,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And they're very vocal and support you man. They

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Speaker 1: come to a lot of your games, especially when you

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Speaker 1: What goes into that decision? Because I can't imagine looking

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Speaker 3: I mean that goes back to the whole like prove it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: It's like I was under recruited coming out of high school.

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Speaker 3: So Illinois was one of my biggest offers I had, Illinois,

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Speaker 3: you know, just committed on visit. That was my only visit.

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Speaker 1: It's so crazy you say you weren't like super highly recruited,

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Speaker 2: You weren't just a football player.

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Speaker 1: You were a hooper too, Like you were actually a

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Speaker 3: I mean, football has always been my number one. I

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, somebody else cruising prove me otherwise, man,

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Speaker 1: Co And you know, man, we talk about your athletic

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Speaker 2: We have some big, big numbers. Never been in a

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Speaker 1: What was that moment like in going through that process

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Speaker 3: Uh, Like I said, man, it just goes back to

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Speaker 3: So it wasn't like a whole lot of like nerves

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Speaker 3: So I mean, I always knew that I could jump high,

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Speaker 1: And it's obviously you have supreme confidence in yourself. I

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Speaker 3: Man, I feel like it comes from like I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I feel like my motivation is kind of weird the

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Speaker 3: like people doubting me. Like that's where like part of

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Speaker 3: the whole proven thing is like like, man, like, this

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Speaker 3: They don't believe me, Let me go prove it. Let

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Speaker 3: me go show them like I belong here and I'm

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Speaker 3: capable of, you know, playing at a high level. So

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Speaker 3: I feel like that's that's where that confidence come from.

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Speaker 3: And just believing in yourself, man, like knowing your capability,

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Speaker 3: knowing what you're capable of and you know, and going

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Speaker 3: out and showing it to the fullest.

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Speaker 1: And clearly believing yourself worked. Man, you made it draft

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Speaker 1: night with your family. You didn't go to the draft

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Speaker 1: you were think of Airbnb or something like that with

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Speaker 1: like your whole family. They got the shirts on, they're

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Speaker 1: representing you. Take us to that moment, right, This is

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Speaker 1: a moment you dreamed of your whole life since you were.

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Speaker 2: Five years old, even playing.

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Speaker 1: Right, take us back to that moment being around your

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Speaker 2: The call from the commanders during all that time.

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Speaker 3: So it was a lot man, Like I said, it

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Speaker 3: to do a lot of like setting up, putting.

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Speaker 2: Up it looked nice, it making it look nice.

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Speaker 3: So you know, we got the shirts made and all

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Speaker 3: I was kind of like pretty calm really, So I

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Speaker 3: was like, you know, if it's meant to happen, it's

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Speaker 2: I got no doubt about that. Man. We talked about identity.

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Speaker 1: Last question, Man, I show I actually camera right there,

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Speaker 1: him know who kwalm Martin is for those that aren't familiar.

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Speaker 3: Man, No, I love ahead of dude, man, confident you

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Speaker 2: Hey man, Kwan, we appreciate you. Man.

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Speaker 1: It's so exciting to see you developed. We can't wait

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Speaker 1: to continue to watch you develop. Rack up more riends,

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Speaker 1: rack up more interceptions. Right Command is fantas This is

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Speaker 1: the next man Up podcasts. I'm honored to be here

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Speaker 1: Smooth doing what they do best, getting loud. This show

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Speaker 1: it out. And then, of course we have the Next

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