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Speaker 1: First of all, welcome to Pittsburgh. Can you kind of

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Speaker 1: take me through the free agency process for you and

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Speaker 1: how you ended up with the Steelers? Right? Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad to be here. Um. This process has been

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Speaker 1: tremendous for me. You know, it's been a blessing, you know,

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Speaker 1: to have an organization you know, believe in me. Um,

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Speaker 1: So you know I had a smooth process, to be honest.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever consider staying with the Chiefs? Were you

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Speaker 1: looking at other teams? Was the Steelers one you targeted?

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Speaker 1: How did how did that work? I guess right, you know,

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Speaker 1: just being with the Chiefs, you know, my whole four

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Speaker 1: years obviously I wanted to, you know, be back with

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Speaker 1: the team, but you know, it's it's just best for

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Speaker 1: my for my family, my situation, and you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: whatever team you know it's happy to give me. I'm

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Speaker 1: happy to sign with him. Now, correct me if I'm wrong.

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Speaker 1: But you did come in for pre droft, is it right?

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Speaker 1: I did? What do you remember from that? Oh? Man?

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Speaker 1: It was a great time. I was me and my family,

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Speaker 1: We thought we was gonna still in here. Thought I

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Speaker 1: was gonna come here. Coach Tomlin, you know, he kind

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Speaker 1: of told me everything I wanted to hear know the time,

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Speaker 1: and uh so, but you never know how those things go.

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Speaker 1: What was your interaction was just with coach Tomlin or

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Speaker 1: what do you remember from that visit? Um? It was

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Speaker 1: coach Tomlin. Um, there's a few position coaches and I

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Speaker 1: believe we went out to eat and you know, they

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Speaker 1: showed me around a facility, you know, weight room, and

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Speaker 1: um it was a good I mean it was about

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Speaker 1: four years ago. That's all I remember. Yeah, and then

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Speaker 1: what is your I guess interaction been with people that

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Speaker 1: are in the building right now as you were here

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Speaker 1: and signing your contract. Oh, it's been amazing. As soon

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Speaker 1: as I walked through the door. I mean, everybody, you know,

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Speaker 1: just showed the you know, good respect. You know everybody's

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Speaker 1: there respectful, you know, nice and just welcomed me in

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Speaker 1: with open arms. How would you describe yourself as a player?

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Speaker 1: I guess you had to build your resume of assets?

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Speaker 1: What are you listing? Obviously have tough, your physical, relentless, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, just try always trying to make place, you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever I can do the healthy team. What do you think, Um,

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Speaker 1: I guess was the best part about last season when

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Speaker 1: you were the first first time a full starter for

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Speaker 1: an entire season. Yes, um, I would say, Uh, my

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Speaker 1: biggest change was just getting my hands on the ball,

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Speaker 1: you know. Uh ended up with like four interceptions, and uh,

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Speaker 1: I'm happy be here so I can translate it over

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Speaker 1: to steal his nation. Is there anybody in the I

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Speaker 1: guess the defensive room that you already know, or somebody

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Speaker 1: even not from defense. Uh, well I knew, but the

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Speaker 1: pree you know prior to coming in, so you know,

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Speaker 1: it was kind of cool knowing somebody on the team already.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure I'm gonna fit right in with all

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Speaker 1: the rest of the guys.