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Speaker 1: Had the old man look out and feels the what man,

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Speaker 1: that's old? I want to be old. He's uh man,

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Speaker 1: he's still top of his game. I mean, it's just

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Speaker 1: a credit to him, you know, his hard work which

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Speaker 1: we all knew, and you know back ten years ago

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Speaker 1: and hasn't changed, had the same energy. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: guys still look up to him and and follow his lead,

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Speaker 1: and and uh he does a good job of leading

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Speaker 1: getting back with him. I wouldn't say that, I would

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Speaker 1: say I would say maybe like like writing a you know,

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Speaker 1: of motions. But there's new terminology. Um, obviously there's you know,

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Speaker 1: for me, it's it's learning new terminology in the run game,

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Speaker 1: in the past game, all those sorts of things, and

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Speaker 1: and getting used to his cadence again. What's it like

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Speaker 1: for you kind of going through that process and getting

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Speaker 1: back up. There's there's an excitement to it because it's

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Speaker 1: a new challenge. Really, every year my career has been

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Speaker 1: presenting new challenges. Obviously this year, um, being you know,

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Speaker 1: a year older, going to a new area of the country,

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Speaker 1: kind of new and that I haven't been here in

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Speaker 1: a decade, and a new offense. Some of the same

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Speaker 1: concepts some of them, but a lot of different terminology,

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Speaker 1: a lot of different calls UM. You know, essentially a

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Speaker 1: new office for me. It's exciting to challenge myself in

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Speaker 1: that way. Obviously there's a big hole to fill your

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Speaker 1: position ranking, but what kind of a responsibility do you

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Speaker 1: look at you take on? M None? None, whatsoever? None, whatsoever? UM.

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Speaker 1: You know, every year is a new team, whether the

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Speaker 1: same player is in the same position or not. There's

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Speaker 1: there's always turned over the NFL, UM you know. Obviously

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Speaker 1: I've been on a few different teams. It's always been

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Speaker 1: turned over, and so my biggest thing is always learning

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Speaker 1: what to do and perform to the best of my ability.

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Speaker 1: It's never been an issue of trying to to be

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Speaker 1: someone or at a different time because there's been players.

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Speaker 1: One thing I learned when I first got here is

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Speaker 1: that we all rent our lockers and that's what the

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Speaker 1: NFL is about. You come in and you enjoy the ride,

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Speaker 1: You work as hard as you can, uh, you play

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Speaker 1: for how many years God gives you to play, UM,

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Speaker 1: and then after that somebody else is going to be there,

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Speaker 1: and it's somewhere early in the process. But what's the

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Speaker 1: surprise so far? Beigest surprise, Um, I would say, outside

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Speaker 1: of the game, it would be the weather. I knew

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Speaker 1: that it was a little cooler up here, but but

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Speaker 1: the contrast of being in the ones and being here, um,

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Speaker 1: two great areas of the country. Um. But but I mean,

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Speaker 1: any given day, I look at the weather and it's like, man,

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Speaker 1: I have a jacket on and then there I really

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Speaker 1: want to walk around in my underweard because it's so hot,

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Speaker 1: you know. And then in the wintertime it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: the opposite of way. So uh. Talking to my kids

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Speaker 1: last night, I was I was face timing them and

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Speaker 1: they're like, Dad, you got on the coach. I say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got on a little jackets. A little chilly here

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Speaker 1: here at night, but it's gonna beautiful in the summertime

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Speaker 1: gets here. Hey man, Hey, how are you doing? Y good?

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Speaker 1: Good to see you. Congratulations on, thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate that. Um, I'm a little bit

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Speaker 1: about your thinking and just deciding to play because yeah,

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Speaker 1: when last scene I heard from yeah yeah, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a swine song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it was.

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Speaker 1: It was one hundred percent it was, and um that

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Speaker 1: was it for me. And I was was looking at

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Speaker 1: other opportunities, going into different things. We had the twins

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Speaker 1: and everything, and um, you know, around early May, uh

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Speaker 1: seemed to be a little bit of interest and I

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Speaker 1: started thinking about it, and this opportunity arose to come here.

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Speaker 1: So really it really was one hundred and eighty degree

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Speaker 1: turn that we talked about collectively as a family decided

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Speaker 1: to try to do it. So what changed in your mind?

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Speaker 1: Because I haven't said, you've been in the league for

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Speaker 1: a long time. Yeah, for you to even get to

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Speaker 1: the point to say, okay, this is I'm gonna walk away, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: one that I made one hundred percent wholeheartedly. And uh,

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Speaker 1: into feeling that, um, there may be uh something else

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Speaker 1: those decisions that you pray about and you talk to

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Speaker 1: your family about that. It's a group decision you had

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Speaker 1: want to Super Bowl with the Saints, I mean after

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Speaker 1: the way that was going bast Yeah, that was a

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Speaker 1: you know, it was right there to be had and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't didn't play in the tampas hip. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't can't answer that question. I can't answer that hypothetical. Um,

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Speaker 1: wish we could have won one. Uh there that's a

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Speaker 1: city that deserves it, and that team is amazing, you know,

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Speaker 1: leadership they have there, and so I wish I wish

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Speaker 1: it would have been differently. I don't know how that

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Speaker 1: would have played into my decision or not. So what

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Speaker 1: are the twins up too now? After they are they

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Speaker 1: are six weeks now, six weeks and uh, they're they're

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Speaker 1: sleeping a little bit longer. We're getting a little for

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Speaker 1: our stretches in there, so so mommy and me have

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Speaker 1: a little bit more rest. But they're they're doing well.

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Speaker 1: They're healthy. Um. The great thing they didn't even stay

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Speaker 1: the NICKU. They came out in like two days. They

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Speaker 1: were healthy in home, so Fair Blessing