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Speaker 1: It's kind of been It's not necessarily the guy, but

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Speaker 1: maybe more of the week y'all this shit. Yeah, definitely

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Speaker 1: a little bit more, being a little bit more involved

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Speaker 1: in offense. So it's definitely great. And you know, in

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Speaker 1: my job, I just try to get better every weekend

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Speaker 1: this guy to go out there and make place for

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Speaker 1: my teams. Um, when you're able to kind of get

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Speaker 1: you stead of getting park for six touchess and getting

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Speaker 1: read the ball, just stay out there and get it

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Speaker 1: definitely helps. It helps. So I mean, just to be

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Speaker 1: the speed of the game, you know, especially earlier on.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, regardless of what I'm asked to do,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out there and give my best and

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Speaker 1: give and do it to the best my abilities. You

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Speaker 1: were a high volume guy hit. I mean, because you

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Speaker 1: have forty seven carriers against in Cincinnati the morning. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I get I like it. I like getting the ball

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Speaker 1: a lot. Man. That was college though, but you know,

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Speaker 1: the NFL is a lot of different games. So but

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Speaker 1: you know, I definitely like getting the ball and I

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Speaker 1: like to be involved. When you were out of basically

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Speaker 1: out of football, did you ever work getting get too

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Speaker 1: closely for it than to where he just said, you

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Speaker 1: know what, maybe it's just a love me to be.

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Speaker 1: I no, never, you know, I just kept I just

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Speaker 1: kept working, kept working hard. So I knew that. I

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Speaker 1: opportuning me. But just keep working hard every day and

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Speaker 1: just try get to be one day at a time

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Speaker 1: and just keep working hard. Do you feel any pressure

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Speaker 1: because it's a high track for your happlict? Uh no,

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Speaker 1: not at all. Un I just pot because I love

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Speaker 1: the game. So you know, all the other stuff you know,

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Speaker 1: which is prepare hard for my teammates and make sure

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to go and I can give it off

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Speaker 1: on my team on Sunday. I haven't pet And when

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Speaker 1: he came out, was how disappointing was that to not

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Speaker 1: get drafted where he may have wanted at first for you. Uh, well,

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Speaker 1: I was a little disapplined, you know, just because you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm very confident my abilities and I see some of

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Speaker 1: But you know that's that's anybody who gets drafted. But

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Speaker 1: at the same time, band draft is a blessing, So

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Speaker 1: have opportunity to live on my dreams backfield. And how

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Speaker 1: they started adding guys, what were you thinking then early

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Speaker 1: I know everyone wanted to play their part, but how

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Speaker 1: Home just got to just just keep working hard to compete,

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Speaker 1: you know, I never shied down from competition regardless. But

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Speaker 1: But you know, and everybody can make play, so he's

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Speaker 1: definitely a great group to be around. You great guys,

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Speaker 1: and we all compete. Someone you like bigger around mid season,

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Speaker 1: you man. I just just started getting blow up more

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Speaker 1: and more and yeah, more involved, seeing my role increasing

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Speaker 1: it sure I prepare for it, just kept working extremely hard,

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Speaker 1: practicing harder so I could get ready to make plays

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Speaker 1: in the game. When you look at the last play,

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Speaker 1: I know you struggled a little bit of Jacksonville, you

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Speaker 1: after I made a mistake earlier, just quickly to Cleveland

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Speaker 1: and that little little spot in that training camp there,

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Speaker 1: you're having a great training camp there. What was that

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Speaker 1: like to have that injury when things were looking great

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Speaker 1: it was definitely definitely disappointed, you know, just so they're

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Speaker 1: looking at other work I put in that off season

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Speaker 1: I was definitely a little disappointing, but you know, it's

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Speaker 1: part of life, you know, just light ups and downs

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Speaker 1: of life. Just gotta keep getting back up when you

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Speaker 1: get knocked down. So and that's why I tried to

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Speaker 1: do and I think that that's what I did. There

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Speaker 1: still just kind of resolving you that you persevered so much,

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Speaker 1: like who influenced you along the way going back to

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Speaker 1: when you were growing up and who is kind of

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Speaker 1: the guiding light through all this for you. Just just

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Speaker 1: my family and my mom I got, you know, they

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Speaker 1: raised me the right way. Um. They instill just immitate

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Speaker 1: to instilled that you had to work hard if you

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Speaker 1: want to be successful in life. And that's what I

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Speaker 1: carry on in this day. And I never let anything

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Speaker 1: that happened in my past affect me. I don't let

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