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Speaker 1: Zoom.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer John Oser.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to this one because it's always nice

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Speaker 2: to talk to a success story, and in my opinion,

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Speaker 2: this is the beginning of a huge success story for

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Speaker 2: this Devin Lloyd, Jaguars linebacker. First of all, I appreciate.

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Speaker 3: Your join us.

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Speaker 1: Of course, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: Good to see and do you see it that way?

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Speaker 2: Do you see your second year? You know, you went

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Speaker 2: through a lot as a rookie and have been very

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Speaker 2: consistent this year. Do you see it as growth for you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely see it as growth.

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Speaker 3: Every year I want to grow, and I think last

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Speaker 3: year there was so much that I just didn't know.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot that I had to kind

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Speaker 3: of adjust to going from college to the NFL, and

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Speaker 3: you know, I learned, and you know, I'm really playing

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Speaker 3: a lot better, but I'm also just doing a lot better,

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Speaker 3: you know, mentally, and I think that, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 3: everything ties in and you know, football is a beautiful game,

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Speaker 3: but it's just a game, and you know, I feel

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Speaker 3: like in the bigger picture in regards to life, you know,

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Speaker 3: that's the area of growth that you know I'm the

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Speaker 3: most you know, happy that I improved in and and just

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Speaker 3: looking to continue to keep growing.

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Speaker 2: Would you be It's a hard question to answer, but

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Speaker 2: would you be playing as well as you are now

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Speaker 2: if you hadn't gone through that?

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Speaker 3: If you follow me, Yeah, you know it's tough to say.

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Speaker 3: You never know, I would say no, but you know,

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Speaker 3: I think just I don't even want to worry about that.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm in the right spirits and definitely in

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Speaker 3: the right headspace and just looking to continue to keep

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Speaker 3: you in better.

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Speaker 2: Now what you went through last year, and we'll move

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Speaker 2: on after this question. Uh, it would have bothered some

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Speaker 2: guys at the point where maybe they don't recover. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it was a tough time and uh, we're back up

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Speaker 2: for a couple of games. Is the first round pick

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Speaker 2: that's not easy to go through? What enabled you to

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Speaker 2: grow from it rather than go the other direction?

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Speaker 1: You follow?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just completely humbling myself and doing what's best for

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Speaker 3: the team. You know, I completely bought it into my

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Speaker 3: role and whatever they asked me to do this what

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Speaker 3: I was just telling myself, whatever they asked me to do,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to do that to the best of my ability,

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Speaker 3: and we were on a good team too, So I

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Speaker 3: want to help the team win. At the end of

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Speaker 3: the day, I want to win, and so I'm blessed

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Speaker 3: to be in the position that I am to be

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Speaker 3: on such a successful team with you know, a lot

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Speaker 3: want to hold the team back in any way. I

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Speaker 3: want to do whatever I can to help propel the

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Speaker 2: Who did you lean on the most? Who's been I

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Speaker 2: guess the coach player, not just in that moment, but

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Speaker 2: overall through your first what twenty games?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean my family support was so big, you know,

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Speaker 3: and as far as you know in the building, I mean, really,

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Speaker 1: Cisco, those guys really just kind.

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Speaker 3: Of you know, we're in a way reassuring that you know,

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Speaker 3: I am the player that I am, and you know,

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Speaker 3: they all had confidence in me still, and you know,

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Speaker 3: everybody goes through it.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's better for me to have gone through

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Speaker 3: And obviously the expectations were different being a first round pick.

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Speaker 3: So sure, you know it was more kind of blown up,

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Speaker 2: When you see improvement, when you're watching film yourself now

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Speaker 3: I see stronger, play, stronger and faster. And last year,

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Speaker 3: one of the things I didn't know is you know

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Speaker 2: Season wears you down, doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, big time.

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Speaker 3: You're going to get guys that are way stronger than

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Speaker 3: just even little things like vision and break gets your landmark,

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Speaker 3: settle and then break. You know, I'm not always in college,

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Speaker 3: that wasn't a thing, you know, we always kind of

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Speaker 3: relayed off routes, and so that's what I was saying though,

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Speaker 3: like the NFL game is so much different.

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Speaker 1: So understanding all the techniques in the.

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Speaker 2: So it's uh, I've always said, you know, last decade

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Speaker 2: It's almost a different sport the NFL to college. And

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Speaker 2: maybe that's exaggerating a little bit, but it in terms

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Speaker 2: of what it takes with what you're talking about, in

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Speaker 1: For sure? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Every college does it differently, and so some things in

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Speaker 3: that don't, you know, you have to break those habits.

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Speaker 3: And some schools will have an NFL system, and some

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Speaker 3: You know, you taught we had a lot of things,

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Speaker 3: was a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: That I had to learn. Coverages that we didn't run

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Speaker 2: Got you how do you not use confidence?

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Speaker 3: I mean you have to for me, being a man

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Speaker 3: are in God, and for me I have to really

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Speaker 3: I see myself the way God sees me. And so

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Speaker 3: whenever I do that, you know, you're you realize, you

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Speaker 3: know where your strength comes from. And with him, you

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Speaker 3: know you're you will never least confidence. But really just

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Speaker 3: you have to make sure that you're ready for whatever.

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Speaker 2: Look you see, and they're talking about this defense a

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Speaker 2: But obviously it seems like you guys are playing to

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Speaker 2: the standard that you want to play, if that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: What is it about you guys? You know, Josh is

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Speaker 2: really the guy right now who's getting quote love nationally.

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Speaker 2: But it's it's playing more as a team than about

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Speaker 2: one guy. Do you follow me?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Is that you all's approach?

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Speaker 1: Josh is balling.

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Speaker 3: He definitely deserves that, and I'm glad we have a

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Speaker 3: representative and it's really yeah, like you said, we're all

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Speaker 3: playing together as one unit. Everybody shows up and works

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Speaker 3: every day. We all communicate really well and have a

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Speaker 3: and you see it manifest on the field by everybody's

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Speaker 1: Our mos.

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Speaker 3: This is what we do is we stop the run,

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Speaker 3: we pressure the quarterback, and we create takeaways.

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Speaker 1: And so that's what we strive to do best.

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Speaker 3: And you know that's kind of that fits the type

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Speaker 2: And it's funny every defensive guy Fouryer's bean in, Trayvon's

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Speaker 2: been in, has said the exact same thing you just said, meaning,

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Speaker 2: stop the run, create takeaways. Everybody being on the same

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Speaker 2: page matters, doesn't it. That's I don't know that I've

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Speaker 2: always heard that around every team I've been around.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it does.

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Speaker 3: We all have the same vision, and I think whenever

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Speaker 3: to accomplish. And that's so big and everyone has that.

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Speaker 3: So we're grateful.

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Speaker 2: One thing, even last year when there were some ups

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Speaker 2: you made plays, It created turnovers. Have you always had

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Speaker 2: that knack? Because I've been around really good defensive players

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Speaker 2: Has that always been something you've had?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ever since I started playing football, specifically on the

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Speaker 3: kind of always my thing. I always just made plays

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Speaker 3: that kind of translated. But I mean, yeah, every year,

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Speaker 2: What did you play offensively before you switch the defense

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Speaker 2: to make that change? Everybody was.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to score in high school, but I felt

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Speaker 3: like I played free safety in high school my sendior year,

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Speaker 3: and you know, I made a lot of plays, and

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Speaker 3: I loved the physicality of defense, like just flying down

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Speaker 3: getting recruited, I had some offers a free safety, summer

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Speaker 1: You know, I can make.

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Speaker 3: Transition obviously, you know, they see something in me, and

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Speaker 3: so I didn't really think too much about it, and

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Speaker 3: sure enough, you know, I went to Utah inside linebacker.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm glad I did. I'm grateful that I did.

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Speaker 2: A two star recruit, which back when I was covering recruiting,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't all stars, but now that's everything. So you're

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Speaker 2: obviously not everybody's all American in high school coming out.

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Speaker 2: How did that help in terms of continuing to have

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Speaker 2: to work and not being told from day one, hey,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a sense of like I have to

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Speaker 3: just improve so much, and it was almost a restart

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Speaker 3: because I was playing completely different position and this was

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Speaker 3: my second year on defense, ok So I really knew

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Speaker 3: nothing about defense. So I just was like, Okay, I'm

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Speaker 3: going to use this next year two years to just learn,

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Speaker 3: you know, and just just improve and get better and.

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Speaker 2: Your sponge everything. It was funny. You didn't have any

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Speaker 2: preconceived notions.

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Speaker 1: No, none at all. And I even asked my coach.

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Speaker 3: I was like, so are you read shirting me as

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Speaker 3: if like almost like I know you're going to and

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Speaker 3: he didn't bring it up, and I don't think he

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Speaker 3: For one, this is a week by week business. Just

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Speaker 2: How does that shape a kid? I would think that's

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Speaker 3: Well, my bathroom looks pretty good, probably not like how

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Speaker 2: How without bringing yourself too much, how where can you

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Speaker 1: He's always on it.

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Speaker 2: You saw what it can be to struggle as a team.

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Speaker 2: it feels like it's still ascending, feels like this guy

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I was just thinking about this last night because we're

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Speaker 3: So it's gonna come together. It's gonna come together at

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Speaker 1: But you know we're gonna put it together at the

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Speaker 2: Got you the final thing we do called the ozone

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Speaker 2: five five quick questions, your last binge watch.

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Speaker 1: Ballers?

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's almost old school these days.

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Speaker 1: I got you.

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Speaker 2: Last song you played in the car this morning coming out?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Did I play Presence of the Lord?

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Speaker 2: Best player you've played against college or NFL? NFL it stands.

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Speaker 1: Out best player? Ooh you gotta be.

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Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes favorite movie as a kid.

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Speaker 1: Favorite movie is a kid.

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Speaker 2: Like maybe when you were five or six, even like

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Speaker 3: That was Transformers. I love cars. Okay, so it was

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Speaker 2: Ye, you're my kid's age, same deal. So and I

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Speaker 2: think I said before what I say again, person or

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Speaker 3: To that, I would say my mom and dad, those two,

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Speaker 3: I have.

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Speaker 2: Got you, Devin Lloyd. Always enjoyed talking to you. I

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Speaker 2: appreciate you taking time on a busy week. Thank you

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Speaker 2: for joining the ozone podcast.

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Speaker 1: Yes, thank you for having me