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Speaker 1: All right, demire Bird joins us. Now we'll start with

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Speaker 1: Mark Daniels. I'll ask anybody else with questions, please raise

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Speaker 1: your hand and it'll come to you head, Mark, Dad.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Mark? Not too much? Man? Um? So,

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Speaker 1: I was talking with a few of your former coaches

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Speaker 1: this week and I wanted to sort of ask you

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Speaker 1: about this thing about you. I think it Patriots signed

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Speaker 1: you and people google your name and I think your

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Speaker 1: forty time pops up and obviously you were pretty accomplished

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Speaker 1: with the track, and you were younger. I know at

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Speaker 1: one point you were you know, you were sort of

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Speaker 1: thinking about like Olympics in the NFL. But like, at

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Speaker 1: what point were you in college when you sort of

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Speaker 1: said to yourself, you know, I need to focus on football.

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Speaker 1: And you know, what point did you want to be

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Speaker 1: more of a I don't want to say less known

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Speaker 1: of the track I but what point it was football

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Speaker 1: more of the focus for you. I think growing up

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Speaker 1: football was always my number one sport. I just don't

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Speaker 1: happen to be good at track. I initially started track to,

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Speaker 1: you know, get faster and get better for football. Initially, Um,

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Speaker 1: and I think I always going to choose football I

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Speaker 1: was just trying to ride track out as long as

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Speaker 1: I could and have you do you feel like you've

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Speaker 1: had to work hard to sort of prove yourself and

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Speaker 1: out of all that, you know, you're not just a

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Speaker 1: track guy. I feel like when you guys, like when

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Speaker 1: people with four you know, fast forty times come into

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Speaker 1: the league, they sort of get labeled a certain way.

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Speaker 1: If you had to sort of work hard to show

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Speaker 1: that you're more than just that, you know, four point

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Speaker 1: two eight or four point two five. Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 1: I think you know, when you when you see a

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Speaker 1: fast guy, you automatically think of a deep threat running

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Speaker 1: off doing those type of things. But I wanted to,

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Speaker 1: you know, be a well rounded receiver, being able to

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Speaker 1: go in there and run any type of route, intermediate,

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Speaker 1: shorter routes, you know, third down routes, all of that,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. And just a final one for me, just health.

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Speaker 1: You know, you've started a career Sam so far this season.

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Speaker 1: Just how much fun have you had playing as much

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Speaker 1: as you you know, continue to do here in New England. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm having a lot of fun. Um, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: here to play the game and the attempt to play

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Speaker 1: the game well and be out there as long as

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Speaker 1: I can. UM, So, being able to be out there

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Speaker 1: and to help the team and try to get better,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm always gonna have fun with that. Thank you. Yep.

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Speaker 1: I'll pause for a second, and I'm seeing other hands race,

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Speaker 1: so I'll give um other other people another chance, a

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Speaker 1: chance to jump in and ask any questions. All right,

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Speaker 1: I guess we'll make it short and sweet. Hey, Mike,

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Speaker 1: if you don't mind, I can I can ask another

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Speaker 1: I want to go ahead, Mark, do you mean do

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Speaker 1: you do you? Do you ever mind the track label?

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Speaker 1: I mean you must be proud obviously the fact that

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Speaker 1: you're you know, you're a fast individual. Did it? Did

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Speaker 1: ever bother you like that? You know the speed label?

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Speaker 1: Where the track label? No? Not really? Um obviously, other

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Speaker 1: other people's opinions are don't don't weigh heavily on my own.

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Speaker 1: So I just you know, I always focused on just

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Speaker 1: going out there being the best player that I can be.

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Speaker 1: And you know, the labels that you get it are

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Speaker 1: just what you get. But I heard this story about

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Speaker 1: when you you know, you faxed in your letter to

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Speaker 1: South Carolina You're you're out in Japan. What what were

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Speaker 1: you what, what event were you running in out there?

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Speaker 1: UM that was and intermediate indoor event that was a

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Speaker 1: sixty meters so that was a unique unique experience, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, being able to be out there and also

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Speaker 1: uh you know, just trying to get my letter in

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Speaker 1: UM one time. Yeah cool, that's it for me. Thank

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Speaker 1: you all right, thank you very much, Tamir. Yeah,