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Speaker 1: to welcome Cowboys Receiver Deontay Thompson, thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for being here. And we are going in a moment

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Speaker 1: going to do a little table setting. And thanks to

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Speaker 1: those of you who have come out, Thanks to those

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Speaker 1: Alex is fixing the little camera boxes even as we speak. So, Taylor,

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Speaker 1: we have a great crowd. We have a great crowd.

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Speaker 1: You know why we have a fan from Bermuda. It's

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Speaker 1: Victory Monday. That's why Bermuda. Yeah, they're waiting their five. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is victory Monday, after the Cowboys most complete game

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Speaker 1: And we'll have this kind of a we'll have this

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Speaker 1: kind of a good time every Monday night at six,

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Speaker 1: with a few exceptions when we'll be on different nights.

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Speaker 1: We'll tell you more about that later on. But so Deonte,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about victory Monday. Yeah, especially when you've been

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Speaker 1: trying to get it going a little bit, when you

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Speaker 1: have a day like that yesterday and especially at home.

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Speaker 1: So so what does victory Monday like that? Man? It's

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Speaker 1: great man. You know, it's the day that we get off,

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Speaker 1: you know, we get it some time to kick it

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Speaker 1: with the family and whatnot. But it was great, man.

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Speaker 1: I think we really played a full game yesterday. Offense

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Speaker 1: we just got to keep stacking those kind of games,

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Speaker 1: keeping these victory Mondays and sky's the limit. This was.

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Speaker 1: This was such a good victory Monday that the head

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Speaker 1: players will be mostly off tomorrow and you get a

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Speaker 1: buy in two weeks and everybody's got some little stuff

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Speaker 1: The most prevalent question being asked by Cowboy fans all

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Speaker 1: And and you are you know, a critical part of it?

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Speaker 1: Everyone believe in each other. I mean, we together every

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Speaker 1: In fact, hold up your hand if you knew not

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Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that a little bit. But the

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Speaker 1: How does that confidence thing work in a team concept Um.

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Speaker 1: it's different now you know what they're working for. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: So when you went to Disney, before you went fishing,

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Speaker 1: actually got sick. Man, I got sick on the trip,

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Speaker 1: right before the deep sea fishing. You went to Disney. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: toy story. Well, all of you guys haven't been on

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Speaker 1: he said that he kind of kept up with you

425
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Speaker 1: and wanted to see how you were doing. And then

426
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Speaker 1: you know, this is this is really your first year.

427
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Speaker 1: He had his first career reception two weeks ago, so

428
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Speaker 1: I know I was there, You were there, you called it. Yeah,

429
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Speaker 1: So you know, it's just that full circle of moment.

430
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I mean it's been a process, you know,

431
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 1: a transition, you know, and I mean it's been you know,

432
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 1: I had my ups and down last year. I thought,

433
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Speaker 1: you know, I was gonna be able to step on

434
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Speaker 1: the field and you know, making impact. You know, after

435
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 1: I was doing everything I was doing, but you know,

436
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 1: things kind of set me back, and uh, you know,

437
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 1: this year it's just been a grinded out, you know,

438
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,360
Speaker 1: really fightful, what you want type of type of year

439
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 1: from me. You're still learning, oh yeah, each and every day.

440
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:21,399
Speaker 1: How much can you describe how much you've learned or

441
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Speaker 1: how different you are as a football player today than

442
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Speaker 1: from when you decided to come out and got drafted

443
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Speaker 1: by the Cowboys. Oh totally different. Um. I mean even

444
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 1: going back and looking looking at some of the pitches,

445
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:37,959
Speaker 1: just you know, in the way that I run the

446
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 1: room with the football now, it's totally different. Um. My

447
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,439
Speaker 1: approach to you know, studying studying the game is a

448
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 1: whole lot different. Um, you know, for them for the

449
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Speaker 1: most part, Like what I've learned mostly like you know,

450
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Speaker 1: as much as we strategize during the week and stuff

451
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Speaker 1: and we game playing, we work our technique, we work uh,

452
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Speaker 1: you know, everything that we work on, it goes into

453
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Speaker 1: you know, one day, which is you know, Sunday, you know,

454
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 1: whenever you kick off. It's mostly just you know, getting

455
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Speaker 1: out there and really having to want to to execute,

456
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:09,639
Speaker 1: you know, because it's not gonna be perfect, you know,

457
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,360
Speaker 1: And that's one of the things that coach always tells

458
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 1: tells it's not gonna be perfect, but it's all about

459
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: the strain and the finish. I know we have to

460
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 1: go to a break soon. But you know you're saying

461
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: how you'd always wanted to play football, Deonta, You ever

462
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 1: hit the basketball court? Um? I played up until tenth grade.

463
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: I also was a track and football guy. Yeah, I

464
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,200
Speaker 1: heard that, multi sport guy. But you think you could

465
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Speaker 1: take Reeko on? Uh, big guy? No, I will tell

466
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Speaker 1: you easily, probably want to. There's a lot of guys,

467
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys on this football team who,

468
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Speaker 1: especially before you got here, would say, oh, I'm the

469
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Speaker 1: best basketball player on this team. All right, there's a

470
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Speaker 1: bunch of up on the defensive side of the ball. Now.

471
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Speaker 1: I hope the answer this is yes, are you the

472
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Speaker 1: best basketball player on the team? I mean statistically and um,

473
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: with the years that I'll put into it. Yeah, but yeah,

474
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure a lot of my teammates would argue,

475
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:12,199
Speaker 1: you know me definitely, who would argue cold? Yeah? Cold?

476
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Speaker 1: Cold is cold day basketball playing on the planet. Like

477
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: you gotta jump quick, like jumps out. Vandersh won a

478
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: state championship in basketball. See you talk. Yeah, really did.

479
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 1: Didna Taylor was right. We do have to take a break.

480
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Speaker 1: But when we come back, I think we should pursue

481
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Speaker 1: a little bit about what a what a gathers versus

482
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Speaker 1: Beasley one on one matchup because there we have sponsors here,

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Speaker 1: were great and we'll be right back with Deontay Thompson

499
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Speaker 1: and Rico gathers on the Cowboys Hour. Like Cowboys Hours,

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Speaker 1: the Star, Welcome back to the Cowboys Hour, brand Sham

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Speaker 1: and Taylor Stern our special guests. Rico gathers at Deontay

503
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Speaker 1: Thompson this evening on Victory Monday. Victory Monday now to

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Speaker 1: be followed by a Victory Tuesday this week and next week.

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Speaker 1: We will be here on Tuesday night. We'll give you

506
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Speaker 1: we're not a hunt percent of locked in on the

507
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: are we locked in on the guests yet? Not like

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Speaker 1: eighty five percent. We'll hold off until we're one hundred percent,

509
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: but we'll let you know. But it's Tuesday night next

510
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,360
Speaker 1: week and if the weather's better, we'll be right back

511
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: over there at the at the Omni First Call, guys,

512
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: Connor McGregor basically took over the game yesterday once he

513
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: was there, Once you saw him on social media, on

514
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 1: the big screen the Jumbo tron of AT and T Stadium,

515
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: seemed like he inspired the whole game. Were you guys,

516
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Speaker 1: pumped to see him out there? What did it? Were

517
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: you indifferent? Is either First of all, is either of

518
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 1: you a boxing Well it's not boxing. You have seen boxing.

519
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: I'm a boxing fan. But now I mean just you know,

520
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: seeing him, you know, like actually in person and stuff

521
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 1: like it was a good feeling. He's yeah's time. But

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Speaker 1: you know like that, just let you know, Like I said,

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Speaker 1: um yesterday when somebody asked me, it's just you know,

524
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 1: you never know who will be at a Cowboys game,

525
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, just being able to see Connor McGregor,

526
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Speaker 1: that's what you were talking, right, that's likely. I mean,

527
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 1: do you don't ever know? You really never know. I

528
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:16,199
Speaker 1: remember when I was with Chicago, we can't even play here? Yeah,

529
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: I was like, boy, everybody at the Cowboys we go.

530
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: Alluded to it a little bit earlier. Your preseason play

531
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: last year going into the twenty seventeen season was great,

532
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 1: and it really started with that Hall of Fame game

533
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: followed by that Hall of Fame weekend that I don't

534
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Speaker 1: think anyone can ever top again. Jerry Jones Hall of

535
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: Fame party. Body was there, Everybody was there. Buffett. I'm

536
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: glad you named Warren Buffett. At first. Yeah, yeah, you know,

537
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: just being in the same room as a Warren Buffett.

538
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Speaker 1: You know, I actually mentioned that in one of my songs,

539
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Speaker 1: thanks to you know, mister Jones. You know, I was

540
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Speaker 1: able to mention it. Do you think Cowboys Hour will

541
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Speaker 1: get a mentioned in any of your future raps? Yeah?

542
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: I think it should. I think I'm actually working on,

543
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: you know, things a game to theme song. Are you okay? Now,

544
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: so we know a little bit about Cole's Cole Beasley's

545
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: musical career, but tell people more about yours. Um. You know,

546
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: I'm more of the traditional rapper unadays. You understand how

547
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: for somebody like me, those two words don't go together.

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Speaker 1: Traditional Yeah, I mean, you know, just traditional and the

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Speaker 1: you know I would I would call my my rap

550
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: you know, southern twin. Um. But I mean, you know,

551
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: music is mainly like my it's like my release. Yeah,

552
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: I get a get a release. You know. I talk

553
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: about a lot of things within my music. Um, you know,

554
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: not just you know, like one of my songs. I know,

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Speaker 1: I guess that we cannot repeat it at You're not

556
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: gonna repeat that. But I mean, even even like I

557
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Speaker 1: told I don't like, you know, just because the title

558
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 1: is what it is like the stuff within the song,

559
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: Like you just gotta listen to the words within the song.

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00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: I need to get. Yeah, don't don't let the title

561
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: spooky out like it's it's stories behind show an hour

562
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: before the game headphones. Yeah, what are you listening to? Um?

563
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: Or who yourself? Myself? I gotta listen to myself because,

564
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: like I said, I speak a lot of stuff that

565
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Speaker 1: you know I deal with, you know, so um a

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00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: lot of motivation for myself within my music. Who else? Uh,

567
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: Kevin Gates, um, money Man, um, little Wayne? Yeah, so

568
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: you know Little Wayne, Kevin Gates and money Man. Right now,

569
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Speaker 1: that's that's my topic. YouTube music before the game. I

570
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: kind of vary different week. I'll be on different people,

571
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: but for the most part, um probably got a little

572
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Speaker 1: Rick Ross and now tupac Um. I listened to Juicy

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Speaker 1: before every game, Notorious b I G. I'm a little

574
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Speaker 1: bit older. Uh, and that's all relative, I tell you,

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Speaker 1: That's that's that's what being consistent. Please. I listen to

576
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Speaker 1: everything you know from a little Baby, oh little guys, Yeah,

577
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: little Baby's new I heard. Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't

578
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: name my sister Alex Stern. You know they're just when

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Speaker 1: your sister. Did you know that Alex? Her sister is

580
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: her co operational singer. Yeah. Yeah, she's a singer in Nashville.

581
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: I mean it's a little Southern Twain for you. Yea.

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Speaker 1: When is she coming here soon? Titans game? Okay, of course,

583
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Speaker 1: but you're not titling your song? Yeah, Will, We're gonna will.

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00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna let her not titling that Will Alex Will

585
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Speaker 1: Alex sing like on the night after the game on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night? Yeah, could she and Rico maybe do something together? Sure,

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00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: I see it. I'm gonna get back here cause we're

588
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: gonna put that together. I think that would be fun.

589
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Yeah, I'll get you a new Twitter handle.

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Speaker 1: You sing with my sister? All right? Very good? I

591
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Speaker 1: want to I want to look. I want to come

592
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: back to the field for just a minute, because so

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Speaker 1: when you saw Rico in person, when you were in

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Speaker 1: practice with him, and I mean, there's tight ends are

595
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: getting bigger and bigger, but they don't all look like this. No,

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00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: it's a big guy. Yeah, what what did you what

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00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: did you think when you saw Ricco? I didn't know

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Speaker 1: he played tight end. At first, I thought he'd like

599
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: a right you know, I totally could be. But then

600
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Speaker 1: I seen him odd tight end. He was round, like man,

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Speaker 1: that big what can run? You know, didn't I see

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Speaker 1: him play? You said it like that? No, not exactly,

603
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: Please don't repeat the exact words. Yeah, I wasn't like that. Um,

604
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: he's a hell of athlete for to be that big.

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Speaker 1: He can move good side Rico, When did you have

606
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: the thought that, Okay, that was a dream. Then I

607
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: got drafted. I've been doing all this stuff to get right,

608
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Speaker 1: but wait, I might actually be good enough at this

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Speaker 1: to actually do it. When did you start thinking that? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I mean really, you know, going through my my, my,

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Speaker 1: you know, rookie transition, uh, and you know, coming to

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Speaker 1: the practice squad, working throughout that whole year, and you know,

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Speaker 1: being able to work with Tony I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: Tony really gave me my my confidence, you know, just

615
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Speaker 1: being able to work with him, because I was just like, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm working with a Hall of famer, like you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. And you know, though, like you know

618
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Speaker 1: the circumstances of why we was working together, weren't you know,

619
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Speaker 1: to his favor? H You know, I took. I made

620
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Speaker 1: the most of it because it was just like a

621
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Speaker 1: legendary moment for myself. And he says that he was

622
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Speaker 1: in a room with Jason Witten, who's another Hall of Famer. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, just being around those type of

624
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Speaker 1: caliber players, um, and you know they're giving you, you

625
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: know confidence, you know, telling you you know everything that

626
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: you might be doing wrong or what you can work

627
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Speaker 1: on and stuff like that, helping you getting better. I

628
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: mean it, you know, you can't do nothing but go

629
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Speaker 1: up from there. So to me, one of the there

630
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Speaker 1: was a plus in the minus for last year. I

631
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Speaker 1: mean obviously two years ago, practice squad, you're you're in

632
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Speaker 1: practicing meetings all the time. Last year you couldn't practice

633
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: because you're on injured reserve. Right, So this year, just

634
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: from the bit, let's just take it to we can

635
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,959
Speaker 1: take the OTAs if you want. Yeah, but how much

636
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: better have you gotten since just this year? Well, I

637
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: really credit me getting better to my coach, Um, coach Doug.

638
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: I mean he does a great job with all of us,

639
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: and um, really he just broke the game down for me,

640
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: um and just put it to my understanding. And you

641
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: know just how he stresses the technique, the technical side

642
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 1: of it, and really focuses on that with me. Um,

643
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: you know that that's really made me a whole, a complete,

644
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: completely different player than what I was. I mean last year,

645
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: I was just playing on raw talent. This year, I'm

646
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: actually annoying, you know what, I'm what I need to

647
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: do every play. Yeah, And I was gonna ask you,

648
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 1: but you kind of just answered it. You know, when

649
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: you're talking about the setback that you have last year,

650
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,240
Speaker 1: and then this is something that wasn't necessarily your first sport,

651
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,720
Speaker 1: and you have to keep that passion, that momentum going,

652
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: especially for you too, you know what I mean. You're

653
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: in your seventh season and you can get yourself down

654
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 1: really easy. Yeah. Yeah. How do you guys keep yourself

655
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: going and saying I love this game? Music? Music? What's

656
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 1: easy one there? Oh? I mean just really just they

657
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: keep the love going. You just gotta keep it fun. Yeah,

658
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,240
Speaker 1: I mean, once the fun leave is over. I always

659
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: tell people, especially young players, I mean older guy Ray

660
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: Lewis told me that, you know, one of his species

661
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: speaking to the teams, just like, man, if it ain't fun,

662
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: I was hanging up. You gotta be fun. Because I

663
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: mean sometimes you know, if you get caught up in

664
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Speaker 1: the business side and this and that and who getting traded,

665
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: how much money you got, you lose interest in the

666
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:49,879
Speaker 1: fun to leave you so murdered about the business, Isn't

667
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: it a little bit of what Scotland Ham's message was

668
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: last week about having fun, not about the business side.

669
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Speaker 1: But yeah, gotta have fun. Yeah, yeah, fun. When you

670
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Speaker 1: having fun out is the end of you still got

671
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: that fire burning, you know what I mean, just like

672
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Speaker 1: he was when you was a kid. I told my

673
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 1: wife we had this camp this summer, um and the

674
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: kids that we had out there, they was doing one

675
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 1: on one from my old high school and it got

676
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: real competitive and they had me up with him. Started

677
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: my palm swing just watching them, just because they're the

678
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: one to decide of the love. Just fun and that

679
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 1: and gave me that, just put that thing back and

680
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: me like, this is what it's all about. You know.

681
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: Rico just said something that that triggered a thought in

682
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 1: my head. Hold up your hand, the nice folks will

683
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: come out of here tonight. Who's a coach? Anybody? Coach? Um?

684
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: When you were talking about Doug Nstmayer a minute ago,

685
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: I thought, because I've had the opportunity. You guys never

686
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:46,439
Speaker 1: see the assistant coaches at work. We get to see

687
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: him up close in training camp and we get to

688
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: know him a little bit. I've been to Baylor basketball practices.

689
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: I know how coach Drew and the assistant coaches coach.

690
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: And sometimes there's some um urging and prompting and sometimes

691
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 1: there's some serious coaching. Right, sometimes it's you. You better

692
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: not bring bruisable feelings in there. How how do you

693
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 1: both find that you respond to being Coacheddee? How do

694
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: you how do you what kind of coaching gets the

695
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: most out of you? Um? I think when it's a

696
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: respect they get the most out of me. I mean

697
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: in college, though everybody get muf then yeah, urban Urban

698
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: Meyer was not always nice to you, and now you're

699
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: gonna get m all that in college, you know, But

700
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: mostly the professional of it's I just it's a respect thing,

701
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: you know. Um as we all man, you know, we

702
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 1: all adult. So you know you just tell us once

703
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,919
Speaker 1: and we don't get it right correctly. Man, Most most

704
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 1: coaches to day patients. But you know, they got to

705
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: keep correcting you on something. Then they get pissed off.

706
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: Because they feel like you're grown man. They should have

707
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: to keep telling you something that. But besides that, it's

708
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 1: mostly about respects to respect there. And you know, you're

709
00:37:58,320 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: playing for your coach. Like with me with sons of

710
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: we always tell you know what I mean, we play

711
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: for you coach. You know, we want to make you

712
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: look good. So it's all about that. Is there any

713
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: similarity to what uh nush Meyer and Lenahan and Garrett

714
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: the way they coach compared to Drew and the and

715
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: the assistance at Baylor h different sport. I would say

716
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 1: they true, Um in math guys, all of them they true.

717
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: They true in math guys. Because Drew is more um,

718
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 1: you know, laid he's more laid back. Um. I've seen

719
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: him get excited. Now he gets excited, but it's not

720
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: like that type of excited, you know. He he he

721
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: holds his water with you know what he says and

722
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and um, I think, um, you know

723
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: all in all, like I think the message still gets across.

724
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 1: You know what was being said. I mean, you know,

725
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: whether you're getting in me about it or you you know,

726
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,399
Speaker 1: getting told in a respectful manner, you know what I mean.

727
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: It's just about receiving a message, and I think most important,

728
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: that's that's what I look for. That's I like. But

729
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: he does seem to me to be a guy who

730
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: would get a little excited. Oh yeah, nah nah. He's

731
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: funny though, man like you know me and we always

732
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: you know, going back and foot, but I mean, I

733
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: know that it's always full the bet of my game.

734
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Speaker 1: Rico gathers in Deonte Thompson our guests tonight on the

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Speaker 1: Questions from the audience. In just a moment. We were

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774
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Speaker 1: you got here, we were talking to Deontay about the

775
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: offense in general, and you know how yesterday's results get

776
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 1: duplicated a little bit. I want to narrow it down

777
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,800
Speaker 1: for you before we take some questions out there. How

778
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: close do you feel you are to be a little

779
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: bit more of a target something that they look for

780
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: a little bit more to get that once or twice

781
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: a game? Tuddy, Oh, I mean honestly, I think, um,

782
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: it's coming um. But you know, we're just trying to,

783
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: you know, figure it out. You know what what do

784
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: we all have? You know what I mean and obviously

785
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: we got the talent um, but you know, it's all

786
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: about being able to go out there and you know,

787
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: put it, put it on display, and um, you know,

788
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: if we can have more games like yesterday where you know,

789
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: everybody getting an end zone, everybody contributing and you know,

790
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: it was it was fun man, just being out there,

791
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 1: you know, being able to put up that many points

792
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: in the defense, you know, getting stops the way they do.

793
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 1: But UM, I think, um, you know, for me, you know,

794
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: I'm not really I'm not really worried about you know,

795
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: when I'll get an end zone. I know it's coming.

796
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,320
Speaker 1: I know that, you know, I'll be able to contribute

797
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: um as soon as possible on that end. But you know,

798
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just glad we're getting dubs. That's the

799
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: only thing, you know. And Taylor, Taylor just mentioned that.

800
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 1: And so you're you were in the end zone in

801
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: the Detroit game, right and it was a third down route.

802
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: Would you would you do anything different with that route

803
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 1: if he had it over to run it again? No,

804
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do anything different. Um. I think you know

805
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: the position and was right there. I just think it

806
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 1: was a miss missed opportunity. That's all. Now, before we

807
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Speaker 1: get to a fan questions, Rico gathers, I'm looking at

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00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: you for that touchdown celebration when you do that page

809
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Speaker 1: Deonte Thompson. I hope you're involved here. And I say

810
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 1: that because I hope they do something where it's very

811
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Speaker 1: basketball related. Now, if you're like, Nope, this pass would

812
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: be so cliche, that would be so c It's gonna

813
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: be something crazy. You know, I got something. You got

814
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: something planned to um No, not really. I just give

815
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Speaker 1: it all to God. Hey, that's the best way. But

816
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: see how you said did I just heard you say

817
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Speaker 1: that you had something different I got. I got something

818
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 1: basketball related, basketball related. I knowed y'all y'all gonna see it.

819
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,240
Speaker 1: Y'll gonna be like, like, I can't believe it just happened.

820
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: You are playing in the NFL. I can't believe it

821
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: will happen. It's gonna be, you know, real basketball related.

822
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Speaker 1: All right. I am looking forward to that, Okay, Steven, alright,

823
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Speaker 1: I do watch this. We got Braun Lou, the gentleman

824
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Speaker 1: that y'all met earlier with a question from Bermuda. Yes,

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Speaker 1: good evening, everybody from Bermuda greetings to everybody Texas, A

826
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Speaker 1: great host. Rico. You go through training, can hurd is

827
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Speaker 1: now you make your fresh cut? No, the second cut.

828
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Speaker 1: It's been old players get caught down to fifty three?

829
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Speaker 1: Why is it like not knowing that you're gonna make

830
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Speaker 1: the team. It's final twenty four hours? Why it's like

831
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 1: that great question? Good question, but a great question. Um, Honestly,

832
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: you know it's out of your hands. Um, you can

833
00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: literally just sit in religious just pray and hope. You

834
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 1: know that you get to see Yo Hu and you

835
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: also from from from nervousness or anything like that. Oh,

836
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, definitely nervous. I mean, you know, you

837
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Speaker 1: guys asked my wife and my family that you know,

838
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 1: just just being nervous. I mean, it's it's it's hard,

839
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, just not knowing, like, am

840
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Speaker 1: I gonna be here? Is it over? Do you love me?

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Speaker 1: Are you riding like? It was? Well played? Okay? Steven? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we got Larry here. Gotta cut out Larry here with

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Speaker 1: a question. Hello, Um, glad you guys are on the team.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask both of you as far as

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Speaker 1: uh your alma mater's high school, have you gone back to.

846
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Speaker 1: I know you did. Demanta mentioned it earlier, but frequently

847
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Speaker 1: do it. Like my alma mater, I've got two joints,

848
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: brothers who you know, from two different infl teams go

849
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 1: back to their high school and they do a lot

850
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Speaker 1: of visiting and trying to encourage their players of that

851
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Speaker 1: high school. Do you do the same thing, another great question,

852
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Speaker 1: tell them about that a little bit. Um. Yeah, Um,

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Speaker 1: I go back a lot. Um, you know I come from.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna know if you guys for me. With Belle

855
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Speaker 1: Glade and Florida. It's a little small time in Florida. UM,

856
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 1: a little bit low below the Lake of Contovia. It's

857
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Speaker 1: not much to do there. Um. Kids can really get

858
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Speaker 1: poured into the wrong direction if you're not you know,

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Speaker 1: on them. So me, I just try to go back

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Speaker 1: and be that that image for them, to show them

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Speaker 1: that as possible being from there. Yeah. Um yeah, my

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Speaker 1: foundation we does a lot that. Um. Last year we

863
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Speaker 1: did a college tour. We took over thirty kids on

864
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Speaker 1: a on a college tour throughout the state of Florida.

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Speaker 1: UM had great success. Um. We do football accounts, We

866
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Speaker 1: do Christmas drives with the kid We go to the

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Speaker 1: elementary schools in the in the community, um do like

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Speaker 1: Secret Center. So it was just you know, just just

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Speaker 1: giving back, just aspiring to youth man, just trying to

870
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Speaker 1: be positive, showing them that there's a way out that

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Speaker 1: anybody can do it. You know, I'm a kid from

872
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Speaker 1: the project, so if I could do it, you could

873
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Speaker 1: do it. Rico, we got about fifteen seconds left. You

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Speaker 1: go back to your high school and for me, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'll go back to the community because my, my, my,

876
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 1: every you know, I'm it's so small. Everybody knows one another. Um.

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Speaker 1: I went to private school by the way, so you know,

878
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: but I'm cool. You know, the public school was right

879
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Speaker 1: up the street, so you know, I would have to

880
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Speaker 1: do something, you know, for the community as a whole.

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Speaker 1: We're great, We're grateful that you're here tonight. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: meeting with us. Something Cowboys Hour