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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox

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Speaker 2: Kevin Stefanski, the Falcons head coach, two time Coach of

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Speaker 2: the Year, joining us on the program. Coach, Congratulations, Where

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Speaker 2: are your Coach of the Year awards?

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Speaker 3: You know, one was on my daughter's bedstand for a minute.

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Speaker 3: She liked it, and that one I think is somewhere

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Speaker 3: in storage. And then the other one I gave to

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Speaker 3: my cousin Steve because the night of that award. I

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Speaker 3: don't know if you remember this, but I wasn't there, but

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Speaker 3: the person that announced the award said Steve Stefanski. So

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Speaker 3: my cousin, Steve, I'm very close with, he has that

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Speaker 3: somewhere in his home office.

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Speaker 4: Does it say Steve Stefanski on it?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 3: The award itself has my name. Care never miss an

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Speaker 3: opportunity to have a joke like that.

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Speaker 4: What do those awards mean to you?

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Speaker 3: You know, it means a lot to me because that's

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Speaker 3: such those individual awards are such a reflection of the

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Speaker 3: collective and I think about those. You know, one of

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Speaker 3: them was from year one for us in Cleveland in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty when I went to the playoffs, won a

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Speaker 3: playoff game and just that team and those coaches and

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Speaker 3: how we battled. That was the COVID year, and everybody

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Speaker 3: knows how unique all of that was. And then the

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Speaker 3: one from twenty three was a great reflection on an

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Speaker 3: amazing group of guys that fought and scratched and clawed

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Speaker 3: our way to the playoffs behind unbelievable defense, behind multiple quarterbacks.

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Speaker 6: And that's a credit to the coaching staff.

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Speaker 3: I know the award says my name, but man, that's

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Speaker 3: an award that goes to the coaching staff.

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Speaker 4: How do you know you're wired to be a head coach?

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Speaker 6: Great, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Good question, I don't. It's funny. I didn't set out

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Speaker 3: to have this job. This was not a grand plan.

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Speaker 3: I think fourth grade. I wanted to be an architect,

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Speaker 3: if I remember correctly. But yeah, these type of things,

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Speaker 3: they just what I try to do is keep my

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Speaker 3: head down, do the job I have that's currently in

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Speaker 3: front of me. I was so blessed on the way

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Speaker 3: to be put in positions that where I could grow,

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Speaker 3: and I can't tell you how lucky I was to

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Speaker 3: be at the Vikings, for instance, for fifteen seasons and

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Speaker 3: to move my way around that coaching staff I didn't

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Speaker 3: set out for that.

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Speaker 6: That wasn't the roadmap, but I found myself in this position.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I've said before there are certain guys who

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Speaker 2: were just meant to be coordinators. When you become a

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Speaker 2: head coach, I mean you got to be your answering

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Speaker 2: to everybody about everything. You got to be a CEO,

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Speaker 2: and you get further away from what you really love

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Speaker 2: doing and being a coordinator.

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Speaker 3: It's very interesting, You're right, and I loved my time

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Speaker 3: as a position coach. I loved my time as a coordinator.

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Speaker 3: I remember when I was named a coordinator for the

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Speaker 3: first time. I'm at practice and I'm walking around during

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Speaker 3: individual periods as the quarterbacks are working and the tight

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Speaker 3: ends are working over.

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Speaker 6: Here, and where do I go? Where do I fit

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Speaker 3: And then as a head coach, now I'm helping out

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Speaker 3: the defense or I'm watching special teams.

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Speaker 6: So you're always trying to navigate where you can help.

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Speaker 3: And certainly as you get far, as you get to

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Speaker 3: the coordinator role or you get to the head coach role,

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Speaker 3: it is easy to get.

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Speaker 6: Farther away from that. So you have to work very

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Speaker 6: hard to get.

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Speaker 3: Involved in drills, get involved in meetings be intentional about

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Speaker 3: that is important.

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Speaker 2: When you interview with the Falcons. How much is you're

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Speaker 2: interviewing them or them interviewing you.

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Speaker 6: It's absolutely both.

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Speaker 3: I was very fortunate over the last few weeks to

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Speaker 3: go on some visits to have some zooms with different teams,

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Speaker 3: and those were fact finding missions for me.

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Speaker 6: I've been doing this now. I've been in the league

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Speaker 6: for twenty years, so i.

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Speaker 3: Know a lot of people. I know a lot of

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Speaker 3: people I'm talking to, we have mutual friends. But I'm

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Speaker 3: trying to find out about these buildings and find out

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Speaker 3: who these people are and what they're about. Obviously, you

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Speaker 3: make your phone calls and you certainly know who they

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Speaker 3: are from other people. But then you sit across from somebody,

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Speaker 3: I think you get a feel for somebody and you

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Speaker 3: talk about what your values are, what they believe, and

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Speaker 4: There if you will, how do you use Matt ryan.

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Speaker 3: Man in a lot of ways, and Matt being here

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Speaker 3: pulled me to this building. Matt's somebody that I've known

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Speaker 3: about for a long time. We both grew up in

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Speaker 3: the Philadelphia area. I've known who Matt is about what

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Speaker 3: was important to me because Matt's somebody that I'm going

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Speaker 3: to rely heavily on on a day to day basis,

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Speaker 3: on a big picture basis as a thought partner. You know,

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Speaker 3: we hired Ian Cunningham last night as our general manager.

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Speaker 3: So within with myself with Matt, we're gonna put our

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Speaker 3: heads together as we move forward here. But having a

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Speaker 3: person like Matt that knows this city, that knows what

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Speaker 3: winning is about, that that's such a huge deal for me.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Stefanski the Falcons head coach Kirk Cousins situation, trying

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Speaker 2: to understand what happened either yesterday or day before. His

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Speaker 2: future with Atlanta is what we'll see.

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Speaker 3: That's why we hired Ian Cunningham. You know, I just

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Speaker 3: got in last night, so we'll see on all those

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Speaker 6: Obviously, it's no secret Kirk and I have a relationship.

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Speaker 3: I think very very highly of the person, I think

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Speaker 3: very highly of the player. All those type of decisions

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Speaker 3: are something that Ian we'll get in here and again

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Speaker 3: we'll put our heads together on all those type of things.

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Speaker 3: But no secret that you know, Kirk, somebody I have

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Speaker 3: a tremendous amount of respect for.

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Speaker 4: Do you have uniform approval?

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Speaker 3: That's not my not my contract. And I'm one of

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Speaker 3: those guys Dan like whatever is in the locker I'm wearing.

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Speaker 6: So let's go.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, those eighty throwbacks public public sentiment here, coach.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love as you can say, as you can see.

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Speaker 3: I love these colors. I love this logo. But I'll

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Speaker 3: stay in my lane. I'll let those the smart people

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Speaker 3: make those decisions.

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Speaker 4: Can we have your old Browns gear? You could have.

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Speaker 3: It's given away already though, so you're gonna have to

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Speaker 3: go find it, fight it from some other people.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: The hardest thing is what these teams do.

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Speaker 3: An amazing job of the equipment staff in Cleveland unbelievable,

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Speaker 3: the equipment staff here unbelievable. But what they do is

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Speaker 3: they put your name in every article of Clotland. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so you gotta be careful.

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Speaker 6: You don't want that to show up at good Will

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Speaker 6: and someone's pulling out, you know, Kevin Spanski's sweatshirt.

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Speaker 3: So I try to give those away to some friends

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Speaker 3: and family in the Cleveland area. But sure enough they'll

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Speaker 3: pull the tag and show you that that was my sweatshirt.

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Speaker 2: I watch your press conference, your introductory press conference. I

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Speaker 2: know you didn't want to talk about the Cleveland Browns,

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Speaker 2: So you want to swap this way you can. But

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Speaker 2: was it fair to Shador and Dylan to be put

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Speaker 2: in a situation like that as rookies.

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, that I would tell you I

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Speaker 3: have zero ill will towards anyone in that building. Dean

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Speaker 3: Jimmy Haslam treated me unbelievably, treated my family unbelievably, So

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Speaker 3: I have no ill will towards all those type of things.

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Speaker 3: As it relates to decisions like that. That's not fair

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Speaker 3: for me to comment those two young players. I love

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Speaker 3: those guys. I loved coaching them. I love their development

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Speaker 3: as a coach. Why we do this is you take

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Speaker 3: And I want to get this guy better at that

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Speaker 3: And I think both those guys, you can point to

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Speaker 3: their rookie seasons and say, man, they got better in

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Speaker 3: these areas. Ultimately, we want to continue to improve in

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Speaker 3: those guys. Both of them will, but I think very

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Speaker 3: highly of those two young men.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just tough, you know, no matter how old

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Speaker 2: you are to play that position in the NFL, let

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Speaker 2: alone to go win there and get you know, thrown

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Speaker 2: into that. And I just wondered, you know, you're the

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Speaker 2: head coach, and you know you're an offensive minded guy,

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Speaker 2: and trying to put them in a position to succeed

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Speaker 2: as rookies had to be, you know, one of the

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Speaker 2: more challenging things you probably have gone through.

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Speaker 6: I'm happy to have gone through it. You know.

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Speaker 3: It was one of those unique things, trying to find

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Speaker 3: out ways to structure the offseason, find out ways to

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Speaker 3: make sure you're bringing them along. You know, developing young

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Speaker 3: quarterbacks is something that we want to be, you know,

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Speaker 3: want to be at the forefront of souh Again, love

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Speaker 3: those two young guys and they'll continue to improve.

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Speaker 2: Once again, he's Steve Stefanski. He is the new head coach. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'll answer to that anything.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, coach, and uh appreciate your time.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 4: That's Kevin Stefansk.

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Speaker 4: Yes, what else?

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Speaker 5: You went too fast? Okay, because you went you went

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Speaker 5: too fast.

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Speaker 5: Oh wow, perfect for me on a on the Shabbat.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh, okay, schabata and shalom.

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Speaker 5: Thank you appreciate that. Yeah, you went too fast, but.

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Speaker 4: Okay, now maybe you could do a show, a Jewish show.

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Speaker 5: The bottom line, that's next level.

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Speaker 5: Wait a minute, No, that's that's the that's the score

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Speaker 5: scroll at the bottom of the screen. Yeah, on a

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Speaker 5: Friday night into senadays. The bottom line, you Dan, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I was just taking notes.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: The The one storyline that the commissioner, you know, during

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Speaker 2: a State of the Union next week, is there is

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Speaker 2: there an overriding topic that you think because normally there

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Speaker 2: is something the commissioner will be responding to about ongoing,

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Speaker 2: but is there something this year?

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Speaker 5: I guess it'll be probably officiating. It always is, certainly

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Speaker 5: coming off of a Bill's Broncos game that left an

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Speaker 2: But this is why I'm concerned about Mendoza going to

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Speaker 4: But I have to trust that the Raiders can do that.

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Speaker 5: disciplined by having to sit out the first drive like

436
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Speaker 5: a couple of Dallas cowboys had to be in Vegas

437
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Speaker 5: this past year. So you have to make those moves,

438
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Speaker 5: you know, if you can. How long is the pregame,

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Speaker 5: as you know, Dan, it started five minutes ago. Why

440
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Speaker 5: would you even ask that question. I'm late for it

441
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 5: eight and a half hours. Yeah, yeah, buddy, yeah, so

442
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Speaker 5: it'll start. We'll all have to be dressed in for

443
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Speaker 5: winter weather at six am Pacific and then I'll be

444
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Speaker 5: in sleeves and it's and sunglasses by the end of

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Speaker 5: the show at two thirty Pacific five thirty easterns.

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Speaker 4: Where you have an outfit change. Oh, I'm full.

447
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Speaker 5: On, j Lo. I'm gonna get it done. I'm all set, man,

448
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 5: you know me. I have a plan. I have a

449
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 5: pressure plan. I got a plan.

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Speaker 4: Great to talk to you always. Thanks for joining, I

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Speaker 4: got you.

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Speaker 5: Thanks again. Save me some of that pork point, yeah,

453
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Speaker 5: please pork absolutely. Yeah, I'll take Fritz's portion.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll share.

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Speaker 6: That's cool. Thank you, Thank you.

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Speaker 5: Rich.

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Speaker 1: That's Rich Eisen. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports

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Speaker 1: Search FSR to listen live.

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Speaker 2: We make way for the Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold

462
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Speaker 2: in his eight seed season in the NFL and taking

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Speaker 2: his team to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: Let me start there.

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Speaker 2: First recollection of a Super Bowl growing up was which one.

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Speaker 9: Oh man, I think one of the first ones that

467
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Speaker 9: comes in mind.

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Speaker 8: You know, it's got to be Colts Bears, that one

469
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Speaker 8: with Peyton Manning, Rex Grossman.

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Speaker 5: You know that.

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Speaker 8: I'm sure there was one that happened before that that

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Speaker 8: you know, I could vaguely remember, but that was the

473
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Speaker 8: that was really the one that was edged into my

474
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Speaker 8: memory just because we had a party, a Super Bowl

475
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Speaker 8: party with like all my Pop Warner football team and

476
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Speaker 8: it was really fun. I think there might have been

477
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Speaker 8: a bounce house or something right outside the house, and

478
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Speaker 8: I just remember having a ton of fun. You know,

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Speaker 8: it was it was a good time, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 8: I'm sure all the adults we were having a great

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Speaker 8: time as well. So, uh, now that that was one

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Speaker 8: that was kind of etched into my memory just because

483
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Speaker 8: of you know how fun that experience was. Just being

484
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Speaker 8: able to celebrate, you know, having a good Pop Warner

485
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Speaker 8: season with my teammates and then uh, you know, being

486
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Speaker 8: able to be able to watch the game and all

487
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Speaker 8: the fun things that come with the Super Bowl, you know,

488
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Speaker 8: the halftime show and all that.

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Speaker 2: What how does it feel to be the first USC

490
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Speaker 2: quarterback to play in the Super Bowl?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: I saw that.

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Speaker 8: I saw that after the game going around social media,

494
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Speaker 8: and uh didn't didn't realize that obviously, but yeah, it's

495
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Speaker 8: great to be able to represent the university and you know,

496
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Speaker 8: hopefully just represent them proudly at the game.

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Speaker 2: How do you make this a regular week? I know

498
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Speaker 2: it's the biggest week of your life, but you find

499
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Speaker 2: coaches will say or quarterbacks will say, we just try

500
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Speaker 2: to make it normal.

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Speaker 4: How do you go about doing that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: I think, you know, trying to keep thirteen the same

504
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Speaker 8: throughout the week, throughout the week leading up to the

505
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Speaker 8: super Bowl, and then getting getting a lot of game

506
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Speaker 8: plans stuff in this week, you know, because understanding that

507
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Speaker 8: you know there's gonna be a lot of media going

508
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Speaker 8: to be some media responsibilities the week of the Super

509
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Speaker 8: Bowl that that'll take most of some of the time

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Speaker 8: that I spent studying. So I think doing some of

511
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Speaker 8: the game plan stuff this week, and and really studying,

512
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Speaker 8: doubling down on kind of what the Pats do, what

513
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Speaker 8: they like to do defensively in certain situations, and kind

514
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Speaker 8: of get ready as if the game were to be

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Speaker 8: this this upcoming Sunday.

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Speaker 2: You know, But are you going to learn more from

517
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Speaker 2: watching Denver against New England or what you guys did

518
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Speaker 2: against the Rams?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: I think, you know, it's It's interesting, right because that

521
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Speaker 8: game was it was a blizzard, right, you know, it's

522
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Speaker 8: it's and sometimes it's kind of even tough to see

523
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Speaker 8: what they're doing on tape just because of you know,

524
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Speaker 8: how windy it was and how snowy it was at times.

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Speaker 8: But no, I think you know, you learned a time

526
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Speaker 8: just by one the other team. Obviously, there's there's times

527
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Speaker 8: where you can go back and learn a ton by

528
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Speaker 8: watching yourself, watching some tendencies that maybe you've shown throughout

529
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Speaker 8: the year, and uh, you notice some things watching for

530
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Speaker 8: sure of yourself. But I think you know, being able

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Speaker 8: to understand kind of what they're doing, especially being you know,

532
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Speaker 8: in a different conference and not being able to watch

533
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Speaker 8: any New England tape throughout this entire season.

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Speaker 9: Like we just came off of stretch these last two games.

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Speaker 8: We've played these teams three times throughout the season, so

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Speaker 8: we had a really good idea of kind of what

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Speaker 8: these defenses looked like, and you know, I think that

538
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Speaker 8: goes for a whole team obviously, So we just got

539
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Speaker 8: to do a really good job of understanding what New

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Speaker 8: England presents on defense and and you know what they're

541
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Speaker 8: kind of what their core is what they like to

542
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Speaker 8: do and then kind of what their wrinkles are in

543
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Speaker 8: certain situations.

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Speaker 4: Who reached out to you after the win that might surprise.

545
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Speaker 8: Us, Oh, shoot, A cool one was, uh was Luke Combs.

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Speaker 8: I had a couple of country country singers reach out.

547
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Speaker 8: Luke Combs, Kenny Chesney. Those are some cool ones. Obviously,

548
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Speaker 8: you have former quarterbacks that reach out there. That is

549
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 8: always really cool to to be able to hear from

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Speaker 8: guys like that.

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Speaker 9: But yeah, I think the the.

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Speaker 8: Celebrities and the country music singers and and different celebrities

553
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Speaker 8: that kind of reach out to you throughout that whole

554
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Speaker 8: process that maybe I talked to at you know, a

555
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Speaker 8: Super Bowl a couple of years ago when I wasn't

556
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Speaker 8: playing in it, or uh, you know at a you know,

557
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 8: going to the Masters in augusta like I might have

558
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Speaker 8: bumped into a certain person and forgot that I gave

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Speaker 8: them my number.

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Speaker 9: You know, Like just guys that, guys that reach out

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Speaker 9: like that.

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Speaker 8: It's uh, it's so cool to be able to you know,

563
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Speaker 8: just continue to get people to reach out because you know,

564
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Speaker 8: I think that kind of makes me understand too, like

565
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Speaker 8: how how important that game was, how important winning the

566
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Speaker 8: NFC Championship was and going to the Super Bowl, how

567
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 8: big of a deal it is. And you know, I

568
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 8: think there is there's a balance there, right because you

569
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Speaker 8: want to understand, okay, like it's just the next game

570
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Speaker 8: and it's a process.

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Speaker 9: But at the same time, like I want to enjoy this.

572
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Speaker 8: I want to enjoy every single moment with my teammates

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Speaker 8: and these coaches and even the media, like doing all

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Speaker 8: the media, you know, leading up to the game, Like

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Speaker 8: I want to be able to enjoy it because you

576
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 8: never know when you're gonna get back here. So you know,

577
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Speaker 8: there is there is that double edged sort of kind

578
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Speaker 8: of understanding to enjoy it, enjoying every single moment, but

579
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Speaker 8: also kind of preparing and understanding that is it is

580
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Speaker 8: a process and we're going to treat it like the

581
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Speaker 8: next game.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking to Sam Darnold, the Seahawks quarterback. Have you

583
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Speaker 2: played with a chip on your shoulder at any point

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Speaker 2: in your NFL career?

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Speaker 8: You know, Dan being honest with you, like, I don't.

586
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Speaker 8: I don't ever felt like I had a chip on

587
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Speaker 8: my shoulder. I just don't think that's really my personality.

588
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 8: I've never been like that, you know, at any point

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Speaker 8: in my life. You know, I've always just I've always

590
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 8: just worked hard and treated every single day as its

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Speaker 8: own day.

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Speaker 9: You know, I've never you know.

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Speaker 8: Because I feel like just with me personally, like if

594
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 8: I got too high or if I got too low,

595
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 8: that affected me, that affected performance. So I feel like

596
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Speaker 8: I was always just better if I just stayed right here,

597
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 8: just even keeled, and uh, you know, that's that's just

598
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 8: kind of who I am, so I think, and that's

599
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Speaker 8: what you learn throughout your career, right, you learn who

600
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 8: you are as a person, and and you know what

601
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 8: works best for you and preparation and all those things.

602
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Speaker 8: So for me, it was it was it's really important

603
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Speaker 8: for me to just stay even keeled.

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Speaker 9: And and you know, I see and I.

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Speaker 8: Understand what people say throughout the years, and you know,

606
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Speaker 8: I understand that. You know, there's some things that have

607
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 8: been said about me, and people are saying, oh, you've

608
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 8: proved the doubters wrong. But that's that's not for me

609
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Speaker 8: to say or for me to even really pay attention

610
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Speaker 8: to because that at the end of the day, like

611
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 8: that doesn't matter and it doesn't affect my performance at all.

612
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 8: Like I just got to go out there and do

613
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Speaker 8: my job every single day. And because if I do

614
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Speaker 8: anything other than that, if I think about the doubters

615
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 8: or proving anyone wrong, like I feel like I'm doing

616
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 8: my team a disservice because I'm thinking about the wrong things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I everybody wants to talk about your journey,

618
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 2: and you know, right after the game, you ask about

619
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Speaker 2: your journey and you're like, you know, my journey continues.

620
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 2: I don't know how many people sit there and go,

621
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Speaker 2: I just won something. Now I got to look back

622
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 2: on what happened prior to this. And I thought your

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00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 2: answers were mature. But I don't know how you you know,

624
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 2: you take those questions of let's talk about the Jets,

625
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 2: or let's talk about Carolina, let's talk about all of

626
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 2: these you know, rough moments there when you're trying to

627
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 2: focus on the game at hand, the you know, the

628
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 2: job at hand.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, for sure.

630
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Speaker 8: It's uh, you know, I think just being able to

631
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Speaker 8: handle it at this point in my career too, it's

632
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 8: I feel like even mentally, like I feel like I

633
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 8: handle it a little bit differently internally than I used to,

634
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 8: you know, because I realized, like it is a part

635
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 8: of the journey and it is a part of.

636
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Speaker 9: Who I am was.

637
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Speaker 4: Internally.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think like I gave.

639
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Speaker 8: It a little more thought than I had to, Like

640
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 8: I paid a little bit more attention to it, and

641
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 8: I guess, you know, I tested a little more thought

642
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 8: into kind of what happened in the past, and I

643
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 8: tried to you know, okay, like I threw this pick

644
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 8: against this coverage, you know, back in twenty nineteen, Like

645
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 8: I'm not going to do that again. It's like, no,

646
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 8: sometimes mistakes happen, and you know, you learn from it,

647
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 8: and you know it's you don't want to make the

648
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 8: same mistakes again. But sometimes throughout your career, especially if

649
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 8: it's a long career, like those things are going to happen,

650
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 8: but just being able to move on and to learn

651
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 8: from those experiences, but move on, and you know, the

652
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 8: the days in New York, the days in Carolina, like

653
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 8: those were those are part of my journey and they're

654
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Speaker 8: part of my experience. And I loved it, every single

655
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Speaker 8: part of it. Like, yeah, there were some loaves that sucked.

656
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Speaker 8: I'm not going to lie to you, you know, and

657
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 8: that's part of it, though, Like I learned so much

658
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 8: from that and you know, I'm able to move on.

659
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 8: And it's it's funny like after every single you know,

660
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 8: after every single game we lost or things that didn't

661
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 8: go well, like I was able to wake up that

662
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 8: next day and see the sunrise and go into the

663
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 8: building and see my teammates and have fun with my coaches,

664
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 8: like you know that that's that's a part of life.

665
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 8: And you know, I think being able to realize that

666
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 8: at this point in my career, like it allows you

667
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 8: to to kind of take it one day at a

668
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 8: time and enjoy every single little moment that you get

669
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 8: with with your teammates, because as we all say, like

670
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 8: we're never with the same team, you know, year and

671
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 8: year out. Yeah, you might be with some of the

672
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 8: similar guys, especially if you stick with the same team,

673
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 8: but you know, there's there's never all seventy that are

674
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 8: the same throughout a season, So you just try to

675
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 8: enjoy it as much as you can.

676
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 4: Did you keep all those jerseys?

677
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 9: Yeah? I have all all my jerseys framed. I don't

678
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 9: know if they're framed.

679
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 8: They're they're definitely not all of them are are framed,

680
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 8: but yeah, I got them somewhere.

681
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 2: They're up in the attic somewhere explain the luxury of

682
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 2: throwing to jsn.

683
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 9: Oh Man.

684
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's just a special talent. He's he's someone that

685
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 8: you know, is very quarterback friendly. You know, he he

686
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 8: allows you know, with his body language and the way

687
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 8: that he runs routes, he's very friendly to throw to.

688
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 8: But he doesn't It doesn't make it easier to cover him,

689
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 8: if that makes sense.

690
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 9: Like it's easy for me.

691
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 8: To kind of feel what he's thinking and what he's

692
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 8: doing on the field, and to read his body language

693
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 8: whether he's going to come out of a route at

694
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 8: full speed or if he's going to come out of

695
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 8: a route and maybe wrap the corner and show me

696
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 8: his you know, numbers and maybe slow down a little bit.

697
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 8: But you know, that doesn't, like I said, that doesn't

698
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,399
Speaker 8: make it any easier on the defense. Like he makes

699
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 8: everything look the same with all the different routes and

700
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 8: the different stems that come off those routes. So he

701
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 8: does a really good job of that. He's really like,

702
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 8: he's really smart. He's really cognizant of how he wants

703
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 8: to run routes. We're always talking and you know, the

704
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 8: dialogue that we share to be able to you know,

705
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 8: just talk about the little intrinsic intrinsics that you know,

706
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 8: come with running routes and with me, like sometimes I'm like, hey, dude,

707
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 8: like that route might be sweet, but that's going to

708
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 8: take too long and I'm not going to be able

709
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 8: to hold onto the ball that long. So I think

710
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 8: those little conversations that we'd have, uh, you know, are

711
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 8: are very important obviously to to our success. But he's uh,

712
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 8: he's a special, special player to throw to. But you know,

713
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 8: I think the secret sauce that makes it work is

714
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 8: is the other guys in that receiver room as well,

715
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 8: you know, the guys that are able to step up,

716
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 8: whether they're you know, playing special teams or whether they're gonna,

717
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 8: you know, have a special role for us, you know,

718
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 8: catching touchdowns.

719
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 9: So you know, that's a it's a really special group.

720
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 8: Js N obviously is a huge part of it, but

721
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 8: it definitely is a is a special receiver group.

722
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 4: What about that one handed catch that he made unbelievable.

723
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 8: I don't know if I don't know if the camera

724
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 8: has caught my my reaction on that, but I was

725
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,760
Speaker 8: kind of looking at our sideline like that really just happened.

726
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,720
Speaker 9: But I don't know. It should never surprise us anymore.

727
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,760
Speaker 8: You know, he makes so many of these special catches,

728
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 8: and especially one handed catches. I always, you know, if

729
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 8: he reaches out with one hand and he drops it,

730
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,800
Speaker 8: I usually blame myself for not throwing a spiral so

731
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 8: he could judge kind of where to put his hand

732
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 8: on the football. So he's a he's a special he's

733
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 8: a special player.

734
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 2: Man who's taking care of the tickets?

735
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 9: Beyonce? Oh oh yeah, Katie my fiance.

736
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,280
Speaker 8: So she's, uh, she's got a big I probably shouldn't

737
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 8: have said that just now, so she's probably gonna get bombarded.

738
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 8: Uh but uh, she's uh yeah.

739
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 2: How many how many tickets are we gonna account for?

740
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 6: I don't know.

741
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 9: We'll see, we'll see what happens.

742
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 8: I might, you know, may be able to get some

743
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 8: people in a suite, hopefully.

744
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 9: But you know, it's.

745
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 4: Lose money.

746
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 9: I think it's I think it's upwards of twenty So.

747
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't want you to lose money playing in

748
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:39,760
Speaker 4: the super Bowl.

749
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 5: You know as well.

750
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 8: I don't think I gotta lost you. We don't have

751
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 8: to worry about that. We don't have to worry about that. Dan,

752
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 8: that'll be that'll be all right.

753
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 5: All right.

754
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, poor fiance, she's got a tougher week leading up

755
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 2: to the game than you do. Put it that way,

756
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 2: you're gonna, yeah, no doubt, a lot of friends, a

757
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 2: lot of a lot of people.

758
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 4: It is who we're saying they're your friends.

759
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly. It is an underrated response possibility.

760
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 8: But that was the biggest That was the biggest you know,

761
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 8: part of kind of this whole super Bowl thing is

762
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 8: being able to figure that stuff out earlyly this week

763
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 8: so I don't have to worry about it next week.

764
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 8: But I also, you know, all the people that are

765
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 8: coming to the game are loved ones that have known

766
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 8: for a long time, and they're not there for the

767
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 8: wrong reasons.

768
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 9: So that's that was also a very important part of that.

769
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 4: Well, congrats, you're taking the right approach.

770
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 2: Enjoy it, you don't know when you'll be back, if

771
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 2: you'll be back, and absorb it all you can because

772
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 2: it's going to go by so quickly on Sunday and

773
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 2: win or lose. You know, you had a marvelous year

774
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 2: and uh my best to your parents.

775
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 9: All right, Thanks Dan, I appreciate you.

776
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 4: Sam Darnell