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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Tory Mackley on the subpon here with

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Speaker 1: Now we have a special guest, as we always do

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Speaker 1: with this podcast, this week, we have quarterbacks coach TJ

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Speaker 1: Yates here joining us. Thank you for joining us, Thank

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Speaker 1: In case you didn't get it all right, TJ, we're

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Speaker 1: going back in time a little bit. Okay, we're going

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Speaker 1: back to let's say you're maybe fifteen, sixteen years old.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure a great kid. I'm sure you were a

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Speaker 1: great kid.

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Speaker 2: Phenomenal kids, aenomenal kid.

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Speaker 3: Did nothing wrong.

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Speaker 1: No, definitely not Pope high school in Marietta.

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Speaker 3: That's correct, yep.

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Speaker 1: So what's so funny about this is that I didn't

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Speaker 1: realize you quit football. I did, and which is hilarious

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Speaker 1: because you would go on and you would have a

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Speaker 1: really great collegiate career, a solid NFL career, and now

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Speaker 1: you are coaching football. So but as a fifteen sixteen

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Speaker 1: year old, you're like football not it? Sooball. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: explain to us the story of the day that you

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Speaker 1: thought football was not for you.

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Speaker 3: So it goes back.

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Speaker 2: I'm from Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana, which for those people have

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Speaker 2: seen the movie Hoosiers, it's a big basketball state. I

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Speaker 2: grew up loving basketball. Both my parents are Purdue boiler Makers.

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Speaker 2: This past NCAA tournament there glued to the TV. So

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Speaker 2: I just grew up a basketball fan, you know, from

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Speaker 3: I wasn't like a first football player.

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Speaker 2: I was a basketball player first all the way you know,

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Speaker 2: through growing up. So you know, I just naturally, you know,

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Speaker 3: But didn't, you know, I don't think.

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Speaker 2: I played baseball past middle school. So then we get

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Speaker 2: to high school in Georgia, I was literally running the

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Speaker 3: I wasn't very good at it.

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Speaker 2: It was getting beat up a lot, you know, just

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Speaker 2: And it was I don't know two three four games

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Speaker 3: I was like, I didn't know who are you.

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Speaker 2: I was like, Dad, I got offered from North Carolina.

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Speaker 2: He's like in basketball, no, no, in football.

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Speaker 3: I was like, he said, what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 2: So I committed before I've ever even been on campus

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Speaker 2: the long story short of me just kind of gravitating

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Speaker 2: Then I just knew, like, you know, being just a

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Speaker 3: I was like, oh, cool you and see, let's go.

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Speaker 2: I had no decision on like football, basketball. I just

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Speaker 3: I was like, okay, sounds good.

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Speaker 1: That is insane. And you say like you had a

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Speaker 1: And that's what's so crazy about Like, and the more

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Speaker 1: And the fact that you were only a few games

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: The guy who recruited me was a guy named Tommy Thinkpinn,

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Speaker 2: who I'm still very close with, Like I tell him

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Speaker 2: all the time, like, like you changed my life, like

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Speaker 2: It was more about another guy taking a chance on me,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you were trying to get recruited for basketball. When

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean it wasn't like pressure on me. It wasn't

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Speaker 2: Like I knew I always had basketball to like fall

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you get to you and C and you

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Speaker 1: kind of start that process. Was there ever a point

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Speaker 1: I feel like you probably never fell out of love

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Speaker 1: So at what point, maybe during the years that you

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to

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Speaker 2: It probably didn't happen till my senior year because going

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Speaker 2: freshman year, like a red shirted did all that, and

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Speaker 2: and it was basically like an open competition, and but

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Speaker 2: So again there wasn't much expectation from my point. It

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Speaker 2: come back from that. Started my junior year had an

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Speaker 2: awful year, like awful year, and then.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry to laugh, but true. We've been looking at

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Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, like all time I'm this all time bad.

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Speaker 4: This still holds this record.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm like there was like low points my

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Speaker 2: like change and batteries and like all this stuff.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, this is very fun.

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Speaker 1: I heard you got booed at a basketball game.

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Speaker 2: I got booded at a basketball I was there at

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Speaker 2: a basketball game. And then I somehow like they have

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Speaker 2: this like kind of prompt that all like the collegiate

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Speaker 2: athletes from around the school saying it and then here's

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Speaker 2: my turn. So it was well deserved because I did

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Speaker 2: not play good in my junior year at all.

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Speaker 1: How do you mentally like get out of that though,

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Speaker 1: because you go on to have, you know, the senior

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Speaker 2: So going into my senior year, there was you know,

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Speaker 2: he's there for a reason, whatever, And it was honestly,

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Speaker 4: Historic because they hadn't yet in franchise history clinched a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like week in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: I was like, okay, cool, got it. Gary Kuback is

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Speaker 2: keep slinging around. Yeah, second half, you know, go back

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Speaker 3: Like, wait, do we just win the division? Like I'm

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like that helped you though, Like that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of going back to what you're saying earlier.

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Speaker 2: It's like when you're not thinking about certain things, you're

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Speaker 2: actually doing. Like you're just playing free and going out

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Speaker 3: Against Matt Ryan.

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Speaker 2: Yes that I always still give him crap about.

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Speaker 1: Really did y'all beat him?

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Speaker 2: He played one of his uh not as good games, okay,

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Speaker 2: I think he threw a couple of picks early in

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Speaker 2: I handed the ball off, threw one touchdown pass, like

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Speaker 2: I had like eleven completions. Like it wasn't like I

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Speaker 2: care of everything for us. But every once in a while,

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Speaker 3: Yeah you know that one time I beat you.

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Speaker 1: It's funny because your your story kind of goes through

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Speaker 2: I was like, I'm going home anyways, what are you

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Speaker 2: So now that was really cool and being back with

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Speaker 2: in Atlanta or Houston, like I had a small stint

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Speaker 2: with Buffalo, a small stint with Miami, but coaching and playing,

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Speaker 2: I've been in Houston and Atlanta, which are basically like

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Speaker 2: been here. That's just so rare in this business. To

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Speaker 3: So that part's really cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you think back to that year, you know,

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Speaker 2: played a lot of golf together, a lot of good

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Speaker 2: times off the course. I do remember one time we

442
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Speaker 2: went to Green Bay on Sunday night. Okay, end up

443
00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,040
Speaker 2: ferocious comeback that he led. We ended up losing, but

444
00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,480
Speaker 2: he got up in front of the team after the

445
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Speaker 2: game and gave this like postgame speech and like I

446
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Speaker 2: swear the entire team was ready to run back out

447
00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:57,080
Speaker 2: on the field right after that. I was the most

448
00:19:57,119 --> 00:19:59,920
Speaker 2: pumped up I've ever been pregame, but it was after

449
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Speaker 2: a loss. Like it was wild, like to see like

450
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Speaker 2: his true leadership and how a certain person can make

451
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Speaker 2: an entire team believe in somebody.

452
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Speaker 3: Like that part was really cool, like opened my eyes.

453
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Speaker 2: I was like, oh wow, this dude is the real deal,

454
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Speaker 2: not only as a player, but like as a as

455
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Speaker 2: a leader and like a person.

456
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Speaker 3: That part was that was really cool.

457
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now the question that we have for you, did

458
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Speaker 1: you ever get to throw a pass to Julio.

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Speaker 3: No strict no.

460
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Speaker 2: Routes on air practice whatever. If Julio was up ready

461
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Speaker 2: to go over there, Matt Ryan's thrown him the ball

462
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Speaker 2: like nobody else but him. Like people are like, oh, yeah,

463
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Speaker 2: what's it like to throw to Julio. I was like,

464
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Speaker 2: I got no clue, no idea. That's my favorite, no

465
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Speaker 2: idea even the like I mean maybe like playing catch

466
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Speaker 2: like pregame or something like that, like I probably have

467
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Speaker 2: at some point, but it's like a physical route and practice.

468
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Speaker 3: Never thrown on the ball.

469
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Speaker 4: Like those two sound very quintindential.

470
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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, was it like an unspoken rule or did

471
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Speaker 1: Matt ever say like question?

472
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Speaker 2: I think it was probably like the first time around

473
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Speaker 2: when we're doing, like, you know, just throwing routes in practice,

474
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Speaker 2: and like it's just my turn up and his turn up.

475
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Speaker 2: Either Julio nw to like step back in line to

476
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Speaker 2: line up with Matt, or you know, Matt just giving

477
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Speaker 2: me a little little nudge like.

478
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Speaker 3: You're good, all right, buddy, to go pretty.

479
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Speaker 2: It's kind of an unspoken thing pretty early on.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I got you. That's great. So you're you go

481
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Speaker 1: back to Houston and your career kind of like and

482
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Speaker 1: I want you to set this up because it's such

483
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Speaker 1: an interesting full circle moment, a nice little parallel, if

484
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Speaker 1: you will, Yes, of your career.

485
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Speaker 4: Go ahead, Yeah, so you get back to Houston to

486
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Speaker 4: finish your career. Correct, just John Watson starter yep uh,

487
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Speaker 4: I forget to set Tom Savage, Tom Savage, Yes, thank you,

488
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Speaker 4: QB two you third, Trinck TV three, They they all

489
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Speaker 4: start dropping like flies again. Yes to parallel your rookie season.

490
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Speaker 4: How do you like, you know when you look back

491
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Speaker 4: at that, how do you quantify that moment. How did

492
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Speaker 4: you stay ready in those moments and not you know,

493
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Speaker 4: check out and just this is my career and this

494
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Speaker 4: is who I am.

495
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I heard the quarterbacks that are like on

496
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Speaker 2: the streets as free agents that are like still working out,

497
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Speaker 2: like during the season.

498
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Speaker 3: It is not an easy life. Like you wake up,

499
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Speaker 3: you don't really have anything to do.

500
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Speaker 2: You're trying to find receivers to throw to, You're trying

501
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 2: to work out, like you're watching every Sunday just like

502
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Speaker 2: I want to say, hoping somebody gets hurt, but like

503
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Speaker 2: hoping for an opportunity to open up, whatever that opportunity

504
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Speaker 2: may be. And it's like as soon as one quarterback

505
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Speaker 2: goes down, it's like, oh, maybe somebody give me a

506
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Speaker 2: phone call. But then you know, it's kind of just

507
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Speaker 2: a weird spot to be in, so you have to

508
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Speaker 2: like stay motivated, you know. At the same time, Like

509
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Speaker 2: at that point in my career, I'm starting to think, like,

510
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Speaker 2: all right, if I don't get that phone call, what

511
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 2: am I gonna do? Like, you know, your funds don't

512
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 2: last forever, so you guys start thinking about job. I

513
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:52,639
Speaker 2: had a family at that point, But then you know,

514
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Speaker 2: You're just sitting there on one random Thursday night at

515
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Speaker 2: eight thirty and Bill O'Brien calls you and he's like, hey,

516
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Speaker 2: what are you doing right now?

517
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Speaker 3: Like you you awake? I mean, yeah, I'm awake.

518
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 2: He's like, can you make a nine fifteen flight or

519
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 2: whatever it was? And I like hopped on a plane,

520
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Speaker 2: got to Houston on Friday morning, did my.

521
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Speaker 3: Physical walk straight out to practice.

522
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Speaker 2: No warm up, get thrown right into like a red

523
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Speaker 2: zone drill, and then I'm the two on Sunday, like

524
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Speaker 2: going into the game, like dressing on Sunday. Going from

525
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Speaker 2: like that Monday, I don't know. I was probably drinking

526
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Speaker 2: beers with my buddies, like hanging out watching Monday night football,

527
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Speaker 2: and then like fast forward to Friday, Like Sunday, I'm

528
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Speaker 2: getting ready to play a NFL game. So you know

529
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Speaker 2: those spots to be in you always have to be

530
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Speaker 2: ready and you always have to be you know, kind

531
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Speaker 2: of on point, and even if you're not ready, you

532
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Speaker 2: better be ready.

533
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what did you learn about yourself kind of during

534
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Speaker 1: that time and how does that experience relate to you

535
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Speaker 1: as a teacher and coach today?

536
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Speaker 2: I think my experience going back to Houston multiple times,

537
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Speaker 2: went back there three separate times. I think it honestly.

538
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Speaker 2: I mean, this would be more of a question for

539
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Speaker 2: somebody that in their organization to answer, But I think

540
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Speaker 2: I had to do more with relationships and me building

541
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Speaker 2: those relationships with you know, ownership and scouting departments and

542
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Speaker 2: all that stuff, and just trust that I had with

543
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Speaker 2: people in that building, trust that I previously had with

544
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Speaker 2: Bill O'Brien that I knew the system. I can come

545
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Speaker 2: back in and be on the drop of a hat

546
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Speaker 2: to be ready to go on a Sunday. So it

547
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,359
Speaker 2: was more about whenever you're in a certain spot or

548
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:32,959
Speaker 2: in a certain place, it's a lot more about you know, people, relationships,

549
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Speaker 2: you know, getting to know people, all that kind of stuff,

550
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Speaker 2: not just always strictly strictly x's and o's and performance.

551
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Speaker 3: And all that stuff.

552
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Speaker 2: Because I don't really have an answer for a while

553
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Speaker 2: else like there was a lot of other more talented

554
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Speaker 2: quarterbacks out there that they could have gone and picked up,

555
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Speaker 2: but I think those things were some of the stuff

556
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Speaker 2: that helped me get there.

557
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Speaker 5: I love it.

558
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Speaker 1: That's a nice note to end on. Well, we've been

559
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Speaker 1: talking for about twenty three minutes, but we always have

560
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Speaker 1: to finish up with our rapid fire section. I know,

561
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Speaker 1: it's very exciting. So everybody gets five questions, some are

562
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Speaker 1: we'll do the same like four ish questions for everybody,

563
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Speaker 1: but there's always one that is special to the person

564
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Speaker 1: in the chair. So are you ready?

565
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Speaker 3: I don't think so?

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well you're ready, nonetheless, because here we go. What

567
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Speaker 1: was your favorite play of your career? And this could

568
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Speaker 1: have been high school, it could be college, it could

569
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Speaker 1: be in the pros. It could be one that you

570
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Speaker 1: just watched too now that you've been coaching for a

571
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Speaker 1: little bit.

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Speaker 2: It was definitely the gam we referenced earlier the Cincinnati

573
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Speaker 2: game to clinch the playoffs through like a three yard

574
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Speaker 2: touchdown pass and my buddy Kevin Walter to clinch the division.

575
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Speaker 2: I did not know at the time, but I found

576
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Speaker 2: out later to clinch the division was that great?

577
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Speaker 4: All right? Uh? Fave player you know what?

578
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: Sport?

579
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Speaker 3: Yeah?

580
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Speaker 4: Probably basketball?

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Speaker 3: Maybe?

582
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Speaker 1: Growing up? What was he was your favorite player? Growing up?

583
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Speaker 3: Uh?

584
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Speaker 2: I believe it from Indiana. I was a huge Reggie

585
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Speaker 2: Miller fan.

586
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Speaker 4: Kind of feeling you're going to stay.

587
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Pacers were a big part of our life.

588
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Speaker 2: We're a big Pacers fans, and Reggie Miller at that

589
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 2: time was like the guy uh there.

590
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Speaker 3: So growing up, I was a huge Regi Miller fan.

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Speaker 1: I love it. That's so great. Okay. If I know

592
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on at this time of the year,

593
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Speaker 1: I feel like we're in the off season, but we're

594
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Speaker 1: also not in the off season because there's so many

595
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Speaker 1: balls in the air that you're juggling. But if you

596
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Speaker 1: could recommend a TV show or movie in the spare

597
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Speaker 1: time of the audience, what would you recommend to them

598
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Speaker 1: to watch current any anything, whatever you like to watch.

599
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Speaker 2: We were actually talking about this the other day in

600
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Speaker 2: the quarterback room, like favorite series to watch, talking about

601
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Speaker 2: movies and stuff.

602
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Speaker 3: I am a huge Entourage fan.

603
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Speaker 2: Oh okay, I've rewatched that series.

604
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Speaker 3: Disgusting amount of.

605
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Speaker 2: Disgusting about like everything about it.

606
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Speaker 3: I could quote the whole thing. I'd go back and

607
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Speaker 3: watch it tonight.

608
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Speaker 1: Okay, Ye, fantastic everyone Entourage watch it all right?

609
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Speaker 4: If you were to have a superpower, what would it be?

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Speaker 1: This is always one of my favorite ones because one

611
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: it kind of trips people up, but also two we

612
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: get some good answers from it. It really gets into

613
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Speaker 1: the mind of go time travel. Okay, are you jumping ahead?

614
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Speaker 1: Are you going backwards?

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00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:12,640
Speaker 3: Back?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Where you going?

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Speaker 3: Who?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: Time?

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Speaker 3: I actually can do both kind of go forward.

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Speaker 1: And but I guess if you're a time travel you

622
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Speaker 1: can do. But unless you kind of are under the

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Speaker 1: assumption that like time hasn't happened yet so there's nothing

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Speaker 1: to jump forward too.

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Speaker 3: Or it's a real deep time is linear and you

626
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Speaker 3: can jump through dimensions and all that stuff. Yeah, i'd

627
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Speaker 3: go time travel. I would go back.

628
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Speaker 2: I think there are so many advantages that, you know,

629
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Speaker 2: you could place a bet on something, maybe invest in

630
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Speaker 2: a stock here and there, you could go.

631
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Speaker 1: Back down on secretariat.

632
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, go back and you know, see your family

633
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Speaker 2: members when they were younger.

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Speaker 3: I think that would be cool.

635
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Speaker 2: I think it'd be a little weird to jump ahead

636
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Speaker 2: because then you'd find out some stuff you probably don't

637
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Speaker 2: want to find out.

638
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: Good point, you already like you want to go back.

639
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, you kind of already know what happened in the past.

640
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,679
Speaker 2: You can just go check it out from a observation.

641
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to.

642
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 2: Interact butterfly effect all that stuff.

643
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: Like I'm not even here anywhere exactly.

644
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Speaker 3: I think that's good.

645
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Speaker 1: That's the first time we've had time travel. It's a

646
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Speaker 1: really good one. Yeah, that's good. Okay. Last one, who

647
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Speaker 1: gave you the toughest hit of your career?

648
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 3: Oh, this is an easy one.

649
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 1: Okay.

650
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Speaker 2: Well I'll give you one college and one pro.

651
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: Okay.

652
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 3: So I was at.

653
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Speaker 2: University of North Carolina and one of my team, not

654
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Speaker 2: one of my team, that's one of the guys I

655
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 2: was on the team here last year. A guy named

656
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Speaker 2: Klays Campbell, you know him.

657
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,360
Speaker 3: He hit me so hard and like I.

658
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Speaker 2: Think, he hurt like five different things all my wrist,

659
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 2: like I cracked a rib, got like a minor concussion,

660
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 2: got the wind knocked out of me, like I thought

661
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 2: I got hit by a car, and like all it

662
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 2: happened at the exact same time. Fast forward to the NFL.

663
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 2: My first career start against the Falcons against Matt Ryan.

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Speaker 2: It was like the second quarter, third quarter, whenever it

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Speaker 2: was play action to the right, John aber him absolutely

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Speaker 2: whoops the right tackle. Sorry, Eric Winston, he missed on

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Speaker 2: that one, beats him and I'm going to throw to

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Speaker 2: my left and I just get absolutely leveled. And the

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Speaker 2: only thing I remember about it that I hit the

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Speaker 2: ground before I remember anything, somehow held onto the ball,

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Speaker 2: but I remembered vividly both of my contacts popping out

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Speaker 2: of my arm. No, this one like disappeared. This one

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Speaker 2: was like still on my eye, so like I found

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Speaker 2: this one, put it back in, and then the left

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Speaker 2: one was just gone, so like the rest, and I

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Speaker 2: didn't have like a spear on the sideline. So for

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Speaker 2: like a quarter, I'm playing without like a left field

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Speaker 2: like downfield contact.

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Speaker 3: Because John Abram hit me so hard on both of my.

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Speaker 5: Ins, I did not think we were gonna get that story.

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Speaker 3: It didn't hurt though. It was like it was just

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Speaker 3: like the like my pads did a great job. I

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Speaker 3: helped did a great job. Like I wasn't like I

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Speaker 3: was just like what just happened to me?

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Speaker 1: That's crazy. So I'm also glad that you brought up Klais,

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Speaker 1: because we have a parting gift for you, a nice

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Speaker 1: little photo. Here's you and Khalais. Look how nice y'all

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Speaker 1: look together. Show the people, Show the class, says Khalas Campbell.

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Speaker 2: One of his one hundred sacks against me. That's me

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Speaker 2: laying on the ground. This is like a basically a

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Speaker 2: screenshot of the exact same thing happened at Miami, right, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, who's your Who's.

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Speaker 1: Who's the guy who's seventy nine right there? Because he's

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Speaker 1: kind of giggling.

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Speaker 2: A little bit, you know what, I'm gonna leave him

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Speaker 2: on named because I don't want.

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Speaker 3: To uh, I don't need to call it. I want

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Speaker 3: to call out another tackle because I already got one.

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Speaker 2: That was so bad.

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Speaker 3: But yes, that was that was a rough day.

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Speaker 2: I think we lost like thirty one to seven, but

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Speaker 2: I threw a touchdown passing. Yeah, that's it. Well, that's

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Speaker 2: a great not to bring bad memories. Thank you.

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Speaker 5: You know, we like we like to bring up things

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Speaker 5: on this podcast. We like to have a little fun,

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Speaker 5: a little bit of laughter.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for taking the time to chat

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Speaker 1: with us. I hope, I hope it's been fun going

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Speaker 1: down memory lane.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Hey. Great, Well, everybody make sure to like and subscribe

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Speaker 1: This has been a fun one.

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Speaker 3: Thanks guys,