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Speaker 1: So Jake from was teammates in college with Justin Fields,

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Speaker 1: obviously the Bears quarterback, and it reminds me that you

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Speaker 1: were teammates with Russell Wilson, so you had your own

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Speaker 1: great college quarterback, Duel. I'm wondering if you could talk

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Speaker 1: to me a little bit about what that was like

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Speaker 1: for you go and what that taught you, maybe about

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Speaker 1: competitiveness coming into the NFL to have to go against

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Speaker 1: the guy like Russell and win that job at nt State. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it was. Um, you know, I really enjoyed

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Speaker 1: my time with Russell at NTY State. Obviously an incredible player, UM,

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Speaker 1: and kind of to your point, saw what it was

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Speaker 1: like to see a NFL caliber quarterback at eighteen years old. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we we obviously had I guess what you

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Speaker 1: could call a friendly competition. Um. He won the job

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Speaker 1: the first couple of years, and then eventually, um obviously

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Speaker 1: left for Wisconsin and gave me an opportunity to play

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Speaker 1: for two years. But you know, really enjoyed my time

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Speaker 1: with Russell one the heart is working. UM, dedicated teammates

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Speaker 1: I've ever been around, And uh, you know, I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure what Jake experience was with with Justin Fields, but um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess some similarities in in the aspect of two

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Speaker 1: one class behind Russell obviously, Um, a tough situation when

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Speaker 1: when a player of that caliber's only a year ahead

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Speaker 1: of you and kind of creates an uncertainty of your future.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it worked out

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Speaker 1: for both of us. He's had a great career both

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Speaker 1: when he went to Wisconsin and now when with his

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Speaker 1: allowed me to play for two years, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm a ninth year in the NFL, So we're tough

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Speaker 1: for both of us. Yeah, I just I thought it

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Speaker 1: was interesting because not every college quarterback gets the level

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Speaker 1: of competition on their own team that you and Jake

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Speaker 1: both got, so I figured that that had to help. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a definitely unique Um, you know, two NFL quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: are only a class part probably doesn't happen a whole

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Speaker 1: lot um at the college level, but it was it

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Speaker 1: was neat to see kind of his progression in college

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Speaker 1: and then go on to the NFL when a Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl the second year and really Uh. Kind of gave

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Speaker 1: me confidence, you know, after seeing him every day. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and I knew what he was capable of doing, but

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Speaker 1: knowing that I belonged at this level as well. Or

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Speaker 1: Hey Mike, UH, anything special for you by playing going

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Speaker 1: back to Chicago? Playing in Chicago this week? I mean

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Speaker 1: I played them before, really the past three seasons I've

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Speaker 1: played them, This will be my first time returning to Chicago. Um,

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Speaker 1: but I have nothing but great things to say about

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Speaker 1: the Bears organization. I enjoyed my time there. Uh didn't

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Speaker 1: necessarily work out on the field, but um, as far

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Speaker 1: as just the people in that that organization, the way

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Speaker 1: it's run from ownership all the way down, I really

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Speaker 1: enjoyed my time and it will be fun to go back.

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Speaker 1: And how you reation this week in general? Are you

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Speaker 1: looking at It's sort of like an open competition here

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Speaker 1: regards to whether who starts and win. Prepare like I

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Speaker 1: always do. UM kind of told you guys, I probably

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Speaker 1: myself on on the preparation side of things and prepared

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Speaker 1: to be ready to go, and uh, we'll treat it

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Speaker 1: just like like I always do. Tom Rock, Like, what

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Speaker 1: are the challenges of sort of doing situation it sounds

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Speaker 1: like that's what Joe is just thinking about doing, where

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Speaker 1: both quarterbacks will play at different times in a different pack.

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Speaker 1: Just what, you know, what obviously the quarterbacks probably want

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Speaker 1: to stay in and keeper rhythm. What what are the

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Speaker 1: challenges of dealing in this system like that? Yeah, I think, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, getting into a rhythm would be probably on that.

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Speaker 1: I've never actually um had that, but I think it would,

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Speaker 1: uh you know, create a challenge. But if that's what's

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Speaker 1: best for the team, that's we'll be ready. We will

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Speaker 1: be ready to do