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Speaker 1: I was like, finally getting out there yesterday with pads on,

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Speaker 1: you're not it was fun. Uh, finally get a tance

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Speaker 1: play football again. We've been running around with helmets on

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Speaker 1: and shorts, but now the paths are on, so something,

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Speaker 1: go out there and do it. We came up here

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Speaker 1: for and play the game we love. We all love Lolamentzia.

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Speaker 1: Does it feel like do you know when you they've

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Speaker 1: got it right? You know, you know when you're doing

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Speaker 1: the right things. You know, there were a couple of

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Speaker 1: plays yesterday and it seemed like everything went right for

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Speaker 1: you and Rent the quarterback of space. Do you feel

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Speaker 1: that coming? And this is almost kind of get you

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Speaker 1: going all right that next town that kind of like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you you feel it. Definitely can tell what you do

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Speaker 1: it right, Um, just the way things happen. Um, you

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Speaker 1: can tell where your eyes in the right place, when

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Speaker 1: your movements are feeling are doing the right things. So

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just try to keep keep doing what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing, try to keep getting that feeling, because I

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Speaker 1: mean that's the thing. You just want to let the

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Speaker 1: coaches know that you can continuously do it. Also, only

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Speaker 1: you're doing that. Definitely, you definitely know when it's going wrong,

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Speaker 1: that's when you just turn around, just put the jets on,

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Speaker 1: trying to keep running. But this, I mean, when you

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Speaker 1: do it wrong, everybody's gonna make mistakes, especially as a rookie.

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Speaker 1: But you just have to make mistakes and don't you

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Speaker 1: don't lose, You just learn lessons. Georgia kind of opening

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Speaker 1: just tres easier for you. Yeah. I was talking to

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Speaker 1: my old teammate Davin Bellamy, he's in Houston, and we

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Speaker 1: were just talking about how Georgia really prepared us well

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Speaker 1: for this this stage and just the just the style

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Speaker 1: of defense that we play. Um, they taught us a

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Speaker 1: lot about playing outside linebacker and setting the edges and

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Speaker 1: also being able to drop. So I'm I'm grateful for

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Speaker 1: all the coaching tips that they k was there. So

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Speaker 1: when at the same time you did so many different

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Speaker 1: things in that scheme in college, I'm guessing here as

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Speaker 1: a rookie, they probably have you focused in more on

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Speaker 1: one type of linebacker. What is that and how well

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Speaker 1: was that working for you to have one focus instead

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Speaker 1: of many. Yeah, yeah, so I had a lot of

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Speaker 1: focuses um back in the day. But here's I'm playing

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Speaker 1: straight outside linebacker. Strong side. So my job is simple

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Speaker 1: set the edge, um, affect the passer, and then lastly

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Speaker 1: I have to drop. But dropping that's that's not even

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Speaker 1: that's an afterthought. On the front of my head is

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Speaker 1: pass rushing and being aggressive going forward. So that's what

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Speaker 1: I love it. And what about your style of games?

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Speaker 1: Shoots you well for what they're asking you to do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the coaches asked me to go forward and go forward fast.

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Speaker 1: I can go for that. I can do that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's protecting the edge. It's just it just comes, um,

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Speaker 1: I would say, kind of natural. You just have to

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Speaker 1: get off the ball and just try to get some

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Speaker 1: knocked back. That's been thing coaches telling us we don't

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Speaker 1: have to really, you can set the edge by knocking

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Speaker 1: somebody back, forcing them to get in the whole. So

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Speaker 1: just playing physical, playing very disruptive. How quickly have you

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Speaker 1: and connection? I love Connor. I mean once he got

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Speaker 1: in here, I just saw he's a tenure veit. I've

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Speaker 1: learned as much as I can from he. He knows

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Speaker 1: the recipe, he knows he has the formula. So it

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Speaker 1: would be ignorant of me not to follow him and

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Speaker 1: do everything he does. You guys, have similar skill sets,

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Speaker 1: I think. So I think Connor. Connor showed me a

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Speaker 1: little bit of his quickness and his agility the other day.

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Speaker 1: So I mean that's we're just watching films, Like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I can do some stuff that he does. And I

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Speaker 1: mean I love learning from If you guys were out

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Speaker 1: there on the practice field after everything broke down here

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Speaker 1: said right, you and Connor and Jordan's correct, what what

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Speaker 1: is that? I mean is that something that he brings up?

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Speaker 1: You guys talk to him about words just kind of

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Speaker 1: happened organically. It just happens organically. Um, Like I said,

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Speaker 1: he's a tenure guy. Um, he's where all of us

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Speaker 1: want to be, all of us want to have the

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Speaker 1: chance to get to. So if you see that he's

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Speaker 1: doing something, then hop in. I mean he's he's going

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Speaker 1: to work out. I'll go work out with him. I

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Speaker 1: mean anything he does, try to get that edge that's happening.

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Speaker 1: But then I think that was like his third day

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Speaker 1: here with us. But I mean, I'm definitely gonna ride

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Speaker 1: and the riders till Yeah. I feel like I can

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Speaker 1: do a lot of things. Um, it's our rushes. I

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Speaker 1: can rush the edge. I don't want to just be

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Speaker 1: known as a guy's gonna keep juicing the edge because

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Speaker 1: like you, guys know what the offensive tackles know what,

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Speaker 1: the the offensive coordinators know it. So I mean you

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Speaker 1: gotta switch it up. I have to have the ability

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Speaker 1: to do a little bit of different things more aggressive. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a little a little bit heavier guys in there,

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Speaker 1: But I mean you gotta use what guy gave you.

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Speaker 1: Guy gave me quickness. So I'm not gonna run in

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Speaker 1: there and try to bang with those three hundred pounders.

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Speaker 1: I'll use my quickness and get around them. Be to

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Speaker 1: work at edge when the pads are on its at

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Speaker 1: some point for rookie, when you always wanted to think,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean I played at a high college level,

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Speaker 1: but I want to see my physical stuff can do

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Speaker 1: it here. If did you get that sense in the

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Speaker 1: last couple of days. Definitely that's been the thing. Like

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Speaker 1: like I said, we've been running around in short to him,

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Speaker 1: that's that's not football. Football is when the past come

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Speaker 1: on and when you gotta go strike a man. So

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Speaker 1: that's what I've been looking forward to is went out

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Speaker 1: there yesterday and we got after it. So I'm continue

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Speaker 1: to get after my teammates. We're gonna keep pushing each other.

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Speaker 1: Any particularly gave on particular that thinking like you got

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Speaker 1: I got you. Oh not really. I mean, I'm just

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Speaker 1: going out there trying to work