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Speaker 1: and living And when you got the call from the giants, like,

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Speaker 1: how did you stay ready? In four wayn Indiana my hometown.

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Speaker 1: Just work and train it um at traction Athletic Performance. Um.

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Speaker 1: Some guys there, Geronte Powers, Lawns Burnett Um just doing

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Speaker 1: a great job keeping me in shape, keeping me fine

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Speaker 1: tune for when the opportunity to present itself. How is

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Speaker 1: this opportunity the right one for you? I mean, did

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Speaker 1: did having a chance to play those guys have anything

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Speaker 1: to do with it? Oh? It was a blessing. It

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Speaker 1: was a blessing. Got the call from my from my agent, UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, saying that the Giants were calling asking about me.

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Speaker 1: I was actually working out when they called me, and

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Speaker 1: my phone was dead, so I didn't get a chance

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Speaker 1: I'm here. It feels great like it was the last

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Speaker 1: few days leading into that. What was that like that

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Speaker 1: WorldWind moment over here? You know, there for ten minutes

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Speaker 1: pro guy. That's that's always gonna be prepared and ready

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Speaker 1: for the opportunity. UM. So that's that's really what it was.

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Speaker 1: I've been playing the game since I was seven years old,

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Speaker 1: so getting in here learning the system. Um. The coach

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Speaker 1: There's so much there's so much more to improve, and

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Speaker 1: that's the focus this week, getting the playbook all the

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Speaker 1: after the Eagles this weekend. How much was it? How

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Speaker 1: much were they trying to, you know, simplify things for

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Speaker 1: was it wasn't just like, Okay, we're gonna make it

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Speaker 1: so that the place that you're in, you're you're doing

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Speaker 1: you know, certain specific things that rather than you know,

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Speaker 1: yeah that stuff that might take time. And then you know,

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Speaker 1: this being my six year in the league, I've been

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Speaker 1: in a few systems now, so UM, you you kind

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Speaker 1: of understand as time goes on that you know, teams

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Speaker 1: So for me, it's just taken the day by day

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Speaker 1: UM and learning does it doesn't know. Yeah, you've been

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Speaker 1: an accomplished player for for a period of time now obviously,

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Speaker 1: and but you're still young and I'm just curious what

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Speaker 1: Has it been what's the what's the vibe been for

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Speaker 1: The first year really dealing with the politics business side

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Speaker 1: that's you know, if I've I've been through so much

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Speaker 1: who's gonna continue to work, continue to learn. Um. Just

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Speaker 1: blessing to be able to show that verse. Uh universe,

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Speaker 1: the team that drafted me last weekend and uh you

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Speaker 1: know now it's just about moving forward. How much you

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Speaker 1: team is welcomed me. Um, these guys that I was

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Speaker 1: Me just taking it all in. But but I'm focused.

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Speaker 1: all respect, All respect, all respect. Does it help you

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Speaker 1: that you obviously knew last week's appointment very well? This

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. Being you know, playing five years in the

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Speaker 1: done flaming. Um, it's just how how it works in

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Speaker 1: the league, but specifically in the NFC East. We all

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Speaker 1: know each other. So, um, big week coming up, and

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Speaker 1: what were the circumstances and each of those scenarios and

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Speaker 1: for for me, it's just about keeping my head up high.

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Speaker 1: And you can but we move at business and politics.

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Speaker 1: I don't rely understand that. I mean, it was a

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Speaker 1: money thing or what. I can't really speak too much

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Speaker 1: on it, but I'm I'm blessed to be here. That's

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Speaker 1: my main focus is is being here with the New

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Speaker 1: getting here, learning this playbook, UM, getting great camaraderie with

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Speaker 1: the guys, with the coaches, and doing whatever I'm asked.

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Speaker 1: How much do you have to prove or you know,

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Speaker 1: I know what I can do. It's just about going

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Speaker 1: able to play the game I love again. Did you

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Speaker 1: But did you have other opportunities that you said not

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Speaker 1: bringing um, you know, the right opportunities you know to us.

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Speaker 1: So what was it like wearing the you know the

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Speaker 1: same number roar here, Ah, Yeah, it's a blessing. It's

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Speaker 1: a blessing being able to to where my brother's jersey. Uh,

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Speaker 1: like I said, he spent some time here in New

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Speaker 1: the family. He's training, he's ready, uh staying patients. So

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Speaker 1: for me, it's just about going out here and competing

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Speaker 1: at a high level and adding value to the team.

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Speaker 1: Conversation with him about here, um just really how well

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of Notre Dame love here, so he

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Speaker 1: kind of warned me about that. So that was that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a blessing having some some uh some familiar

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