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Speaker 1: Morning and the morning things. It's going well. How about yourself? Good? Okay, sir?

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Speaker 1: The Panthers, what do you what do you seem from

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Speaker 1: the Panthers? Um, you know, they're a very sound team.

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Speaker 1: They have a good defense. Um, you know they rank

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Speaker 1: at the top of the league and UM a lot

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Speaker 1: of stats defensively. So, UM, we're gonna have to be

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Speaker 1: um very sound with our technique this week and then

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Speaker 1: just make sure we do everything to to ready ourselves

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Speaker 1: for their defense this week. You get a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago when you guys were two and four, it

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Speaker 1: seems like a lot of guys, a lot of rom

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Speaker 1: saying you guys don't feel like the two or four teams.

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Speaker 1: What you guys have done over the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Do you think you've proved yourself and others? What take

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Speaker 1: the team you guys are right now? Yeah, we've we've

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Speaker 1: been slowly building, Um, you know, day in and day out. Um,

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Speaker 1: we've had a chip on our shoulder going out to practice,

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Speaker 1: and uh, we know the the type a team that

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Speaker 1: we can be. And it's about making strides every day

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Speaker 1: and improving every day. So that's what we've been doing

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Speaker 1: and We're going to continue to do that moving forward.

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Speaker 1: Where does that ship come from? Um, just from being

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Speaker 1: tuned four. Honestly, Um, we've felt like we're a better

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Speaker 1: team than that, and uh, you know we kind of

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Speaker 1: wanted to prove it to ourselves. So, UM, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: continue to have that chip and continue to go out

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Speaker 1: there and work and do everything we can become better

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Speaker 1: team yourself, have an individual chip, just make yourself better. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I've had that my whole life, and that's something

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Speaker 1: that's not gonna go anywhere. You know, on the micup

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Speaker 1: segment after the Jets game, could Felichick said that you

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Speaker 1: made the same cash and practice that you ended up

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Speaker 1: making the game. Was that kind of that happen all

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Speaker 1: I have? I mean, that's something that that's kind of

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Speaker 1: abnormal to do that. Um. No, I wouldn't say it's abnormal.

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Speaker 1: You know, our coaches always say practice, execution equals game reality,

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Speaker 1: and you know that was just um one example of

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Speaker 1: that feel. Obviously, you have to trade with last summer.

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Speaker 1: The summer now the trade headline is kind of gone.

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Speaker 1: Are you good with how everything's played out? Yeah? I'm

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Speaker 1: a Patriot now I said it earlier. UM, I want

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Speaker 1: to do anything I can to help his team win,

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Speaker 1: and UM that's my focus. Gratify it toward that end

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, you know, the reption of the second half

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Speaker 1: of the two catches eating I would gratifyings for you

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Speaker 1: to have the opportunity at Um. You know, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be when, I'm gonna be ready whenever it comes to me. Um,

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Speaker 1: And you know, I'm just I'm I'm I'm more happy

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Speaker 1: that we were able to come out with the win.

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Speaker 1: You like blocking? I do. I enjoy blocking. Um. You

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Speaker 1: know it's something that our coaches ask of us as

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Speaker 1: wide receivers, and you know, I take I take a

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Speaker 1: lot of pride in Now, when's he gonna be like?

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Speaker 1: For you to go up against step the sunlight? What

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Speaker 1: he did last week, it looks like he's goals off. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, Steph is a phenomenal player. Um, He's helped

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Speaker 1: me grow as a player over these past couple of years.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited to be able to get to line

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Speaker 1: up against him this week. Would have, you know, a

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Speaker 1: defensive player of the year on your team. Kind of

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Speaker 1: helping Grom his homeport was of the Holly here. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know that's it was. It was very important just

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Speaker 1: just from getting reps. You know a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: don't get to get reps like that all the time

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Speaker 1: against a player of his caliber, So just going up

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Speaker 1: against him on the day to day it really did

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Speaker 1: help me improve as a player. What kind of conversation

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Speaker 1: to you guys have maybe and meetings that are just

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Speaker 1: kind of locker room about maybe that development and how

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Speaker 1: he might have helped you. Um, you know, he would

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Speaker 1: just often give me tips, um, stuff that could help me,

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Speaker 1: stuff that he was seeing. Um. And he would just

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Speaker 1: frequently go over some of the stuff that he was

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Speaker 1: seeing and just try to help me make those adjustments

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Speaker 1: and then you know, just become a better wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: How you enjoying the number one? I'm loving it. I'm

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Speaker 1: loving it. How part is it too? You mentioned how

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Speaker 1: you had to chip on your shoulder as a team

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Speaker 1: to get to do and four how portant is it

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Speaker 1: now that you're porn or to keep that chip going

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Speaker 1: forward just because you're at five hundred but now trying

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Speaker 1: to get better and better strengthen more wins together. Right, Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: we got to keep it going, um, because at this

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Speaker 1: point this is. This is for playoffs, Like we we

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Speaker 1: have to make it in the playoffs, so we have

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Speaker 1: to continue to keep winning games. We got to continue

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Speaker 1: doing that and kill you kind of just touched on it,

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Speaker 1: But was there any sort of uncertainty for you yesterday

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Speaker 1: ahead of the deadline, thinking you possibly to be traded. No,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't worried about anything trade wise. U. You know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, my main focus is doing whatever I

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Speaker 1: can to help this team winning. That's what I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: continue to do. You know the conversations you're having with

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Speaker 1: Steps sorry that we've heard other guys like Jacobe mentioned

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Speaker 1: that same thing too. Was that maybe not unusual? Like

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Speaker 1: they know, you guys are generally very helpful and locker

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Speaker 1: room But was that something maybe you noticed about Step

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Speaker 1: that was the moment things that kind of separated him

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Speaker 1: from the motive teammates You just might have lots um.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's unusual. You know, I feel like

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Speaker 1: we help each other out a lot, whether it's offense

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Speaker 1: helping defense, defense helping offense, whatever it is. We just

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Speaker 1: try to make sure if we see anything that could

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Speaker 1: help somebody else out. You know, I feel like guys

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Speaker 1: in this locker room have done a great job particulous

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Speaker 1: since I've been here. I can't speak on before that,

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Speaker 1: but since I've been here, they've done a very good

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Speaker 1: job of helping each other out. If you meet up

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Speaker 1: with him, when you talk a little trash, I can't say. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I'm more of it in the moment kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: So I couldn't give you an estimate on the expectation

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Speaker 1: of how how I'm being the game on the practice field,

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Speaker 1: and if so, is it a whisper? Not really. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't really talk too much. He's more of a let

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Speaker 1: us let us play do the talking kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: You have a favorite step story, a favorite Steph story, Nah,

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Speaker 1: not anything in particular, just just getting to see him

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Speaker 1: play for the last two years was was was enough.

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Speaker 1: Thank thank you, appreciate you. I We're going