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Speaker 1: D Ray. Bunch of the players have said that this

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Speaker 1: is the tough one. The same for you guys, preparation wise,

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Speaker 1: attitude wise. What's it been like for you and the

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Speaker 1: rest of the team this week. I would say just that, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, we put that that game behind us and

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Speaker 1: we're onto a new week. It's a it's a huge week.

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Speaker 1: You know, we only got a few more so, uh,

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Speaker 1: all these games mean that much more. So we're just

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Speaker 1: focused on the next week. Uh that's the Cincinnati Bagos

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. I give a challenge they present to you guys,

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Speaker 1: a huge challenge, a great team. Uh. Defensively, they're you

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Speaker 1: know they're great. Uh, front seven, very active, those those

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Speaker 1: linebackers very active. So it's gonna be a it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a tough one. We spoke with you a few

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Speaker 1: weeks ago and you compared Pierre's development to some of

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Speaker 1: the things that you went through last year. How kind

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Speaker 1: of rewarning was it for you as a teammate see

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Speaker 1: him finally start to break out a little bit in

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Speaker 1: these last couple of games. Yeah, it's great to see. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I mean all of us in that in that running

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Speaker 1: back room on the team period. Really we see how

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Speaker 1: how hard these guys work. Young, these young guys, they're

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Speaker 1: you know, they're really working hard. So just to see them,

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Speaker 1: you know, show it on the field and you know,

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Speaker 1: presented to everyone else, it's a good feeling. I know

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Speaker 1: that he feels good about him, happy for him. I

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Speaker 1: just Oklahoma guys, you know a couple of guys who

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Speaker 1: played the same position, you see the same school on

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Speaker 1: the other side. Do you have any relationship with Joe

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Speaker 1: or Smash you talk to them at all? Uh? I

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Speaker 1: don't have a huge relationship, no, but I respect their

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Speaker 1: game totally. Like you said that, Oklahoma alum, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I respect their game a lot. Great runners, sir, something

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Speaker 1: like you watch a lot of film on the back

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Speaker 1: when you were at school, or yeah, Joe is actually

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Speaker 1: my one of my favorite college running backs when I

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Speaker 1: was at the jew color level. So yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 1: What about him makes them made him one of your favorites? Versatility,

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Speaker 1: three down back, I would say he knows how to

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Speaker 1: catch the ball, block round the ball. I mean, yess um.

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Speaker 1: The last year, um and when you were you were

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Speaker 1: coming up, we were talking about the you know, the

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Speaker 1: young running backs right now, it's like you got a

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Speaker 1: lot of hard coaching from uh, you know, from from

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Speaker 1: coach Fears and from you know, Josh McDaniels and everything,

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Speaker 1: and you know it. You know, kind of a lot

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Speaker 1: of trial by fire and you can be tough for

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Speaker 1: you know, a young guy, but when you look at

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Speaker 1: how um you know they've been, you know, coming through

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Speaker 1: and you're finally getting their opportunities and playing well, I mean, like,

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Speaker 1: what what of that experience you feel like you were

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Speaker 1: able to pass on to them, you know, you being

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Speaker 1: a second year player and saying like, hey man, I

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Speaker 1: went through some of this. Yeah, I don't know my

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Speaker 1: first My first I would say, like month here it was,

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Speaker 1: it was very rough, like the coaches of all me

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Speaker 1: constantly things like that. So when the young guys got

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Speaker 1: here in my room, you know, kind of the same

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Speaker 1: things happened, uh coaches on them, things like that. So

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Speaker 1: I just tell it them like I was in your saying,

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Speaker 1: like the same exact boat ye're in last year. Just like,

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Speaker 1: don't even listen to like how they're saying it. Just

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Speaker 1: listen to like what they're saying. Things like that. Just

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Speaker 1: just try to be coachable and your time's gonna come.

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Speaker 1: There's some ballers back there, so I just knew they

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Speaker 1: you face coming in and uh, you know to the league,

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Speaker 1: and then obviously you know last year getting your chance,

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Speaker 1: like how how have some of those experiences you know,

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Speaker 1: shape how you know you respond with adversity now, you know,

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Speaker 1: and how you're gonna you know, carry on going forward.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't let things like that, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm here for, what I'm here to do. So you know,

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Speaker 1: it's always bumps in the road, and I let those

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Speaker 1: Things are not going to go your way the whole time.

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Speaker 1: But just you know, stick to it, just stay down,

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Speaker 1: and you know, uh are your are your hard work,

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Speaker 1: Sh'll play off. Did you did you feel that that

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Speaker 1: tough coaching early on or whatever, the lessons that we're

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Speaker 1: another level here? Yeah? Of course, uh uh here we

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Speaker 1: you know, we we coach hard. They hammered the fundamental

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Speaker 1: like like just playing football, like no fundamental things like that.

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Speaker 1: So they kind of taught me like how to be

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