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Speaker 1: TJ.

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Speaker 2: How did you spend the off season trying to stay

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Speaker 2: busy waiting for your.

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Speaker 3: Deal to come to fruition, changing diapers, honestly, spending as

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Speaker 3: much time as I could with Danny and Blakely. It

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Speaker 3: really wasn't that difficult, honestly to put football on the

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Speaker 3: back for the first half of the off season, just

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Speaker 3: folcus on my family.

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Speaker 2: How were you able to then start the process of

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Speaker 2: getting ready not knowing what was going to happen, and

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Speaker 2: then not that you could ignore it seeing all the

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Speaker 2: crazy moves and different things that were happening. In terms

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Speaker 2: of adding to this roster.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm constantly training, so I'm never worried about

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Speaker 3: how I'm going to perform once I'm here, once I'm

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Speaker 3: able to play with the team and get back in

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Speaker 3: the swing of things, So that wasn't an issue. I

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Speaker 3: think more than anything, it was just not paying attention

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Speaker 3: to everything everybody was writing about and tweeting about, just

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Speaker 3: because ninety percent of time it's completely false. Anyways, That's

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Speaker 3: one of the biggest things I've learned.

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Speaker 1: Throughout this process.

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Speaker 3: But just trusting that the deal was going to get

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Speaker 3: done and just being overjoyed when a deal did get done.

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Speaker 2: Is it weird or are you used to looking around

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Speaker 2: when you guys are out here on the fields and

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Speaker 2: seeing so many new faces and guys who have done

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Speaker 2: a lot of stuff in the league.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean every year that goes by, it seems

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Speaker 3: like we have so much turnover, not like you know,

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Speaker 3: my first couple years and you have your rookie class

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Speaker 3: still intact. But we do have big name guys out there.

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Speaker 3: But more than anything, the big name guys that we

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Speaker 3: do have, just getting to know them DK, Jalen, Darius Slay, Aaron.

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Speaker 3: They all want to win and the football is important

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Speaker 3: to them, and it's more about the process.

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Speaker 1: And just playing in games. And it's been really fun getting.

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Speaker 3: To know them.

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Speaker 2: DK had said that he thinks you are the best

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Speaker 2: defense he's ever seen. Is that pressure? Is that a compliment?

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Speaker 2: Is that DK trying to get on your good side

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Speaker 2: for your unit because I know Cam said you guys rib.

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Speaker 1: Them a little bit. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean there's been good bands out training camp so far,

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Speaker 3: and it's still early.

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Speaker 1: We have all the pieces to make a great defense.

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Speaker 2: Is there anything off the field that tells you that

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Speaker 2: you have that feeling as well? Not just what you

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Speaker 2: guys are able to do on the field together.

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Speaker 1: We've been hanging out a lot.

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Speaker 3: Whether it's game night in Cam's room, there's always at

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Speaker 3: least eight to ten people in there.

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Speaker 1: We were just playing NHL two v two. Me and

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Speaker 1: Herb just.

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Speaker 3: Kicked the crap out of Cam and Alex before we

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Speaker 3: came over here and Homer and Derby's always fun.

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Speaker 1: It's been a good bonding experience.

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Speaker 2: Some of the younger guys on defense. Is anybody really

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Speaker 2: standing out you're pleasantly surprised with?

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Speaker 3: I mean, Peyton looks incredible second year round, It's fast.

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Speaker 3: They always talk about that jump from year one year two,

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Speaker 3: very physical, becoming more vocal in our room. I think

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Speaker 3: the harm looks really good for a young rookie. I

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Speaker 3: think Sawyer looks good too. Just guys that are football

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Speaker 3: guys and they're asking the right questions. They want to succeed,

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Speaker 3: they want to know how they can continue to improve

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Speaker 3: and get better. So it's been refreshing.

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Speaker 2: I know Arthur Smith has admitted that he likes to

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Speaker 2: go after you guys have practiced. He talks a lot,

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Speaker 2: so does he trash talk you guys more? Does Aaron

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Speaker 2: Rogers trash talk.

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Speaker 3: The defense more. Aaron trash talks more, I'd say, but

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Speaker 3: Art trash talks too.

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Speaker 1: But if you start to beat.

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Speaker 3: Him a couple of times, he kind of goes away

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Speaker 3: a little quicker than Aaron does.

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Speaker 1: But it's been good banter.

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Speaker 2: How is that helping you with Aaron on that side

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Speaker 2: of the ball In terms of what this defense.

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Speaker 3: Is doing to get better, it's huge, from snap count things,

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Speaker 3: to pre stamp communications to holding your disguises so the

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Speaker 3: no look passes. It's a challenge eachon every day, and

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Speaker 3: I think it's the ultimate iron sharpend's iron concept.

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Speaker 2: How does Jack Sawyer fit into the group that you

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Speaker 2: guys have at outside linebacker?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Sawyer that we call him five star.

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Speaker 3: He's a five star recruit, the golden child out of Ohio.

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Speaker 1: He's been great, He really has been.

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Speaker 3: He's a big guy, isn't afraid to go go in

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Speaker 3: and hit people, but also has some good finesse moves,

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Speaker 3: some pastors moves, and he's been a good rookie so far.

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Speaker 1: But it's it's still too early to say.

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Speaker 2: Have you told Aaron Rodgers that you were also a

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Speaker 2: really good quarterback in the state of Wisconsin?

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Speaker 3: I haven't yet. We'll have that conversation at some point.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to hear if he thinks I could do

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Speaker 3: it at the high school level.

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Speaker 1: Right now, I'm going to stay Yeah. Yeah, it's disrespect

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Speaker 1: to Wisconsin football.

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Speaker 2: But yeah when Jack Sawyer, who also had to play

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Speaker 2: quarterback in high school.

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Speaker 1: After the conversation, I need to see some clips. I

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Speaker 1: need to see some clips before five Stars. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: need to see some clops to five Star.

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Speaker 2: And lastly, for you, what has changed becoming a dad

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Speaker 2: in terms of being a football player.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just the ultimate perspective change.

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Speaker 3: I think for a long time I thought I was

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Speaker 3: literally meant to play football and go about my life.

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Speaker 3: And now it's like it's much more than that. It's

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Speaker 3: almost seems silly that I even thought that, But it's

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Speaker 3: allowed me to separate.

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Speaker 1: Football and when I'm home a lot better.

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Speaker 3: And may it'll be more present when I'm here, and

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Speaker 3: may it'll be more present when I'm home.

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Speaker 1: And more than anything, it gives me.

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Speaker 3: More motivation to want to show my daughter how when

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Speaker 3: you put your mind to something, you.

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Speaker 1: Can accomplish anything. Perfect. Thanks to you, Ja, Thank you