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Speaker 1: back Rico Doubtle. Thank you so much for coming. I mean, seriously,

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Speaker 1: thank you for coming. As well said I really mean that.

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Speaker 1: There we go, there you go. We will not, Nicole

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Speaker 1: too short. Nobody's going to ask a player to come

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Speaker 1: out on Monday night of a Thanksgiving week after blah

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Speaker 1: blah blah. So we'll be back two weeks from yesterday,

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Speaker 1: and we are here tonight. What time did you get

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Speaker 1: to sleep last night? And Rico Dwell, what time did

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So that's three of us, and one of us is

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Speaker 1: way too old for all that. So here we are

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Speaker 1: and this is I know I say this from time

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Speaker 1: to time, and especially when things aren't going well. But

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Speaker 1: I cannot stress it enough for you folks that Rico

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Speaker 1: did not way up this morning and his first clear

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Speaker 1: on the radio tonight. I'm that was not his first

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Speaker 1: clear thought this morning or at any point during the day.

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Speaker 1: So when the season's going like it is, we know

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Speaker 1: it's tough to do things anyway, and especially after a

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Speaker 1: So let's just let's just ask this how. No, I

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Speaker 1: don't think anybody saw this coming. That could be struggles,

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Speaker 1: some changes in the team, but I don't know of

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Speaker 1: anybody who saw a record like this coming. How do

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Speaker 1: are going and keep your enthusiasm up where it has

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Speaker 3: I think it's the competitive and me personally, and everybody

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Speaker 3: on the team as well. I could speak for him,

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Speaker 3: but you know, just having to take it one game

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Speaker 3: It's not over yet. We haven't been eliminated yet so

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Speaker 4: Something that Mike McCarthy's always talked about this year is

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Speaker 4: the fight that y'all have shown despite the losses, and

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Speaker 3: I think it makes it up. I wouldn't necessarily say

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Speaker 3: And that's the type of team we are. Know we

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Speaker 1: You talked about flipping the switch, and in the last

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Speaker 3: It feel like that to you right right, I think

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Speaker 1: So that switch flipping to where you are doing the

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Speaker 3: And just playmaking being a playmaker and could say you

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Speaker 4: Something that I've talked to some of the receivers about

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Speaker 4: Does it make it a little bit more challenging for you?

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Speaker 3: No, I don't think it's challenging with either one, just

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Speaker 1: We had this conversation with Turpin two weeks ago something

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Speaker 1: So does that make it a little easier now when

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Speaker 3: I definitely think it helps that we've been out there

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Speaker 4: For sure, you've been officially we're been referred to as

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Speaker 3: I definitely said it feel good. You know, still got

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Speaker 1: What what did it feel like coming into the when

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Speaker 3: I say, last year kind of changed my approach. I

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Speaker 4: So it also helps to I remember when Will McLay

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Speaker 3: Though?

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Speaker 4: Having a guy like Will McLay in your corner.

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Speaker 3: Definitely helps a lot because you know Will, he's up

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Speaker 3: I definitely say that will help a lot. And they

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Speaker 1: The tricky part about what you do is there is

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Speaker 1: how do you adjust to and handle that?

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Speaker 3: And I want to say there's anything in particular that

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Speaker 3: Those guys come in and prepare each same kind of

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Cowboys, our Brad Sham, Nicole Hutchinson,

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Speaker 4: The day at the Star.

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Speaker 1: Not your favorite thing to do, is it?

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Speaker 1: How did they treat it at South Carolina.

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Speaker 3: We had interviews. It was if you go look me

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Speaker 1: But it's Nicole is just one of the most beautiful

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Speaker 1: That's how it usually works, right And you are sitting

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Speaker 3: still don't understand it to this day, honestly, just something

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Speaker 3: that happened and it was unfortunate, but it was a

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Speaker 3: situation that we were given, and I think it worked

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Speaker 3: out for me once I was able to get here

445
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Speaker 3: and get in front of my teammates, in front of

446
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Speaker 3: the coaches, and made the team that year. So I'd

447
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Speaker 3: say it worked out.

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Speaker 1: And I thought, I heard you say that. Just one

449
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Speaker 1: day they said, hey, we're sending a plane ticket.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, litterally. I still remember. It was a Sunday and

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Speaker 3: they were just like they called and they was like,

452
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Speaker 3: we're gonna fly all out here tomorrow and we're gonna

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Speaker 3: get started up. They said, they gave us the green

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Speaker 3: light to go and so, and that's what it was.

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Speaker 1: But and then you were still we were socially distanced

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Speaker 1: and right, you couldn't all sit in the same room,

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Speaker 1: could you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like I think when I found I

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Speaker 3: don't really remember, but I think when I first it

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Speaker 3: was like definitely like a certain amount of people in

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Speaker 3: the weight room at one time a certain amount of

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Speaker 3: people in the meeting room and had the white mask

463
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Speaker 3: and things like that, but it was very different.

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Speaker 4: What was the call like for you? Was it like

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Speaker 4: a weight lifted off your shoulders a little bit?

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Speaker 3: Kind of? It was a shock, honestly, it was like

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Speaker 3: a weightlifting, but it was a shot one like that.

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Speaker 3: It's really happening. But so definitely was excited though, and

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Speaker 3: to get out here and get in front of everybody

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Speaker 3: and pursue my dreams of the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Well, and that's when you started making things happen. And

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Speaker 1: that's where we're gonna pick it up when we come back.

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Speaker 1: This is the Cowboys Hour with our very special guest

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Speaker 1: Cowboys running Back, Rico Dabble, will be back at Sidecars

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Speaker 1: Social at the Star District in Frisco in just a moment,

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Speaker 1: No pros.

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Speaker 2: No cowbars to the Miller Lite Cowboys Hour, supported by

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Speaker 2: Albertson and broadcasting live from Sidecars Social at the Star

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Speaker 2: in Frisco.

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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back into Cowboys Hour here at the Sidecar. Okay,

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Speaker 4: we got the bands, we got some energy in here.

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Speaker 4: Nicole had to say, Brad sham En, Rico Dawdle here

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00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 4: at sidecar now, Rico, we were talking about your time

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00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 4: during COVID. I kind of want to switch gears.

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Speaker 3: A little bit.

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Speaker 4: If if we okay with that, can you switch gears?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll come back.

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Speaker 4: I get growing up South Carolina? What was that like?

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Speaker 3: Very I grew up in a small town, Gaffney. I

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Speaker 3: think it's probably like twelve thousand people in my town total,

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Speaker 3: but thousand, yeah, twelve thousand.

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Speaker 1: Still now all right?

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Speaker 3: I haven't really looked recently, probably around so but growing

494
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 3: up so I'm caring to everybody there. Everybody knows everybody.

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Speaker 3: My granddad has thirty legit kids. My mom has twenty

496
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Speaker 3: nine brothers and sisters. So a lot of family there.

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Speaker 3: But definitely growing up, but real it was smooth.

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Speaker 4: How often do you go back?

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Speaker 3: Every time I get to go home? So I go

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Speaker 3: to nor It's actually an hour away from Asville, where

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Speaker 3: I end up moving to, like an hour and fifteen.

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Speaker 3: So every time I'm back home, trying to stop by

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Speaker 3: and go see the fam.

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Speaker 4: Are you big on family? Is that something that's import Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I'll say growing up were real family oriented. We used

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Speaker 3: to take family vacations, family reunion every year. Kind of

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Speaker 3: went away when I got older, but definitely trying to

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Speaker 3: go back and see the family, big own family.

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Speaker 4: For now, we can tie this in because COVID year

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Speaker 4: you couldn't actually be around family. How difficult was that?

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Speaker 1: How smoother year?

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Speaker 3: Oh? I say, it wasn't really like I said, as

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Speaker 3: I grew older, it kind of like this far away

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Speaker 3: so and I had been in college and stuff like that,

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Speaker 3: but on my own for like four years previously, So

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Speaker 3: it wasn't nothing really too big of a change for me.

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Speaker 3: Just all during COVID trying to get through that stay

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Speaker 3: safe and check on everybody, you know, phone calls here

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Speaker 3: and there. But it wasn't nothing too crazy. Was it?

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Speaker 1: South Carolina all the way? For you? In college? Did

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Speaker 1: anybody else try to recruit you?

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Speaker 3: So it was even between South Carolina? N C State

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Speaker 3: wait for us, but did a couple visits, went to

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Speaker 3: Tennessee a couple of times, they never offered, went to

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Speaker 3: Notre Dame they never offered. But when I actually when

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Speaker 3: I got my offer from I committed the same day

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Speaker 3: I got I wanted to go to South Carolina because,

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Speaker 3: like I said, I grew up there, so I wanted

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Speaker 3: When I got the offer from them, I committed within

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Speaker 3: like fifteen minutes, and all don't now.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to pick up on the little bridge Nicole built,

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Speaker 1: because I just think that it's really informative for people

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Speaker 1: to understand what it was like for you guys who

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Speaker 1: came in, especially in that class. So I wasn't going

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Speaker 1: to embarrass Nicole by asking her like where were you,

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Speaker 1: Like were you still in high school or something? And

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Speaker 1: when COVID hit, which I would have been a joke

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Speaker 1: because I know you were. But you graduated from Howard

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Speaker 1: In and you started work at a television station in Alexandria,

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Speaker 1: Louisiana in September, so you've been there like four months

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Speaker 1: and here comes yep, and how did you do your job?

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Speaker 4: We had to still do interviews pretty much set up

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Speaker 4: like our cameras at home, So I brought all my

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Speaker 4: equipment back home and did all my like sportscasts from

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Speaker 4: little either my living room or like my bedroom. It

546
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Speaker 4: was kind of weird, but yeah, I had to edit

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Speaker 4: everything on my own, send it back, and then they'd

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Speaker 4: air it like a package pretty much.

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Speaker 1: So Rico, when you got here, I was just telling Nicole,

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Speaker 1: I remember training camp was at the Star and in

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Speaker 1: the media couldn't be down watching like we usually are

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Speaker 1: in training camp, interviews were all over telephones and conference calls.

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Speaker 1: When you got onto the field, which was I know

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Speaker 1: a little bit before training camp. Did it feel like

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Speaker 1: normal football when you were doing that? Could you kind

556
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Speaker 1: of put the bizarro part of it out of your mind?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I say for sure. On training camp everything felt normal.

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Speaker 3: Besides when we got to game day, I say that

559
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Speaker 3: was the only difference. On some places they weren't allowed

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Speaker 3: to have fans. I say that was the biggest difference.

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Speaker 3: But as far as when I got here in training

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Speaker 3: camp and stuff like that, everything felt pretty normal.

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Speaker 1: And there were no preseason games as I recall that year, Is.

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Speaker 3: That correct, right?

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Speaker 1: So you just jumped right in the regular season.

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Speaker 3: YEA training camp, well, ramp up period, training camp, and

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Speaker 3: then regular season.

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Speaker 1: So Rico was one of three free agents who made

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys team that year, and Terrence Steele was another one.

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Speaker 1: And have you guys talked about how unusual and difficult

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Speaker 1: it was to It's tough to make a team as

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Speaker 1: a free agent anyway, and then in those circumstances when

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Speaker 1: you didn't have a spring to show what you could do,

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Speaker 1: on the field, and I mean even more challenging.

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Speaker 3: I say it was definitely challenging, but I mean the

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Speaker 3: work New put in, the training and stuff leading up

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Speaker 3: until it, I say, gave us the opportunity. So definitely

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Speaker 3: definitely blessed. But as far as me and t Still,

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Speaker 3: I think we like right after it happened, like we

580
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Speaker 3: definitely talked about it. And I think the other the

581
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Speaker 3: third one was I think Sean mckins the tight End right, Yeah,

582
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Speaker 3: definitely like brushed over it a few times. And actually

583
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Speaker 3: early on in this this season, I actually talked, I

584
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Speaker 3: talked about it out of the class of that twenty

585
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Speaker 3: twenty class, like all of those guys have gotten paid,

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Speaker 3: but but me like made a joke about it. Literally, uh,

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Speaker 3: t Still and all the well, all the ones from

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty is still here. I think you got CD,

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Speaker 3: Terrence and me, and then it was Sean for I

590
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Speaker 3: think one more Trayvon Trayvon. All those guys gotten paid

591
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 3: and things like that, but except for me make a

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Speaker 3: joke about it. But other than that, no, no conversation

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Speaker 3: about it.

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Speaker 1: But you had some obstacles between you and a bag.

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Speaker 1: You had Zekiel Elliott, who in twenty twenty, was in

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Speaker 1: his fourth year, fifth year. And and when did they

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Speaker 1: When did they after Pollard?

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Speaker 3: I think the year before I got there, I think

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Speaker 3: twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: So they were both there. So you've come in behind

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Speaker 1: seeking Pollard. It's gonna be tough to get noticed, oh

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Speaker 1: for sure. And what did you what did you understand

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Speaker 1: that you had to do then to make the team?

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Speaker 3: Special teams? That's what the main thing was so my

605
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Speaker 3: first three years, and that's something that my agent did

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Speaker 3: tell me. Like guys like me in the situation that

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Speaker 3: I was going into, I was gonna be that third guy,

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Speaker 3: just making sure I went in there and did my

609
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Speaker 3: job on special teams. That's why I found my role.

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Speaker 3: Coach Bones, I actually told him during training camp. Without him,

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't be why I am today. He believed in me,

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Speaker 3: and that was a big reason why I made the team.

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Speaker 3: My role on special teams.

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Speaker 1: And you were a kickoff returner, but you did more

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Speaker 1: than that.

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Speaker 3: Did you have a special teams Yeah, it was all

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Speaker 3: four phases.

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Speaker 1: You didn't do all four phases south.

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Speaker 3: No, I never actually played a snapper, well, kickoff retterm,

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Speaker 3: but other than that, I never played special teams. In

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Speaker 3: college definitely was new for me.

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Speaker 4: How much he I'm sorry, keep going back, No, that

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Speaker 4: was it. How much do you preach that for some

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Speaker 4: of the younger guys coming in to take I guess

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Speaker 4: more roles on special teams in order to get more

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Speaker 4: time in the field.

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Speaker 3: Pretty much? I don't really, I wouldn't say I preach

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Speaker 3: it to them, besides the ones that come in the

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Speaker 3: running back room that come into like a situation that

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Speaker 3: I was in, just telling them, like I say, elite

631
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Speaker 3: Davis for an instant, like he's actually got an opportunity

632
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Speaker 3: to play on offense, but just telling him, like special teams,

633
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Speaker 3: that's how you're gonna make it, that's how you stay around.

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Speaker 3: I mean, guys have made careers that have been on

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Speaker 3: special teams. Definitely say that we all here for a

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Speaker 3: reason and a purpose, and we all have a purpose.

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Speaker 1: So did Malik come in twenty one twenty two? I think,

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Speaker 1: cause I remember that there was a pretty good battle

639
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Speaker 1: in training camp and pre season between the two of

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Speaker 1: you which one was gonna be the third running back

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Speaker 1: behind Jake and Pollard.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that was a two years ago.

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Speaker 1: Two years Is that all it was?

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Speaker 3: Really? Yeah? Two years ago?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so that. But I mean that was that

646
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Speaker 1: was an occasion where you're you had an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: compete and show the difference. But you like that, don't you?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, for sure. Definitely take pride in competition, and

649
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Speaker 3: I think it helps everybody at the end of the day.

650
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Speaker 3: Been a firm believer on that forever. So competition brings

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Speaker 3: out the best in everybody.

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Speaker 1: I believe your running style I have described it as violent.

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Speaker 3: You ever heard that, Yeah, I've heard it. H for sure.

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Speaker 3: How would you describe that I did violent? I guess

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Speaker 3: I said, I stick with the violent. I like being

656
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 3: called violent when I definitely want to impose my will

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Speaker 3: on the defenders and definitely know it's gonna be hard

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Speaker 3: for them to tackle me for four quarters with the

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Speaker 3: type of runners out that I have.

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Speaker 1: And yet, yeah, I'm sorry, And yet you are. You're

661
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Speaker 1: not just a heat seeking missile. And I think the

662
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Speaker 1: proof of you, your ability to move in space, be

663
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Speaker 1: shifty and get open is what you've done as a receiver.

664
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Speaker 1: And we've seen a little bit of it even this year.

665
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Speaker 1: You've you've made a couple of really big plays as

666
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Speaker 1: a receiver. How much do you enjoy that.

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Speaker 3: I enjoyed a lot, honestly, Like you said, you want

668
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Speaker 3: to be versatile. With the way the league is transforming,

669
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Speaker 3: you want to have guys that can do it. On

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Speaker 3: I problem myself on being a three down back, so

671
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Speaker 3: not wanting to come out the game first, sacond being

672
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Speaker 3: out there first, second, and third down, which in most

673
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Speaker 3: situations is a receiving down. But definitely take pride in

674
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Speaker 3: that and something that I want to do be able

675
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Speaker 3: to prove that I'm a three down back every now

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Speaker 3: and back.

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Speaker 4: That was something I was gonna ask you, is how

678
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Speaker 4: much pride do you take in knowing that you're so versatile?

679
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Speaker 4: But going back to you being a violent runner, is

680
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Speaker 4: that something that you've always been or how has that

681
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Speaker 4: kind of improved since your days in South Carolina?

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Speaker 3: I say, growing up, I think I've always been like

683
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 3: that since I was a little kid. Like playing I

684
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 3: can remember always just when you're a little kid growing up,

685
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Speaker 3: you always want to try and run somebody over, hit

686
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Speaker 3: somebody hard, get the oohs and ahs and stuff like that.

687
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Speaker 3: But I say, I've definitely been violent pretty much since

688
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Speaker 3: I was little.

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Speaker 1: Were there bigger kids that you were playing with that

690
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Speaker 1: you had to try to show him you belong, so

691
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Speaker 1: you had to kind of play that way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so actually when I was I say it all

693
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 3: started honestly. Growing up, we used to play this game.

694
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Speaker 3: It's called bumping run. So you literally have a sock

695
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Speaker 3: and they get the pillows off. My cousins will get

696
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Speaker 3: the pillows off the couch and you have to like

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Speaker 3: run through and try and make it to the other

698
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Speaker 3: end of the house in the house. In the house

699
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Speaker 3: trying to get to the other end of the hallway,

700
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Speaker 3: we called it bumping run, or they'll tell you the

701
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Speaker 3: same story. So I definitely say it started there. But

702
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Speaker 3: as far as football, when I started playing when I

703
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Speaker 3: was four years old and always played up. So when

704
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Speaker 3: I started playing when I was far actually started in

705
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Speaker 3: a seven year old group.

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Speaker 1: So can I ask you something when you're playing bumping

707
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Speaker 1: run in the house. My brother's sitting right down there

708
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Speaker 1: and he and it was just the two of us,

709
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Speaker 1: and we used to play baseball games with a soccer

710
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Speaker 1: or rubber ball or something. We had a small house,

711
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Speaker 1: and we've knocked clocks off the wall and broke lamps

712
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Speaker 1: and then tried to figure out how we're gonna explain

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Speaker 1: that to Bob and Dad when they got home. How

714
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Speaker 1: much furniture got broke playing bumping run?

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Speaker 3: Yes, so it was always at my uncle house, my

716
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Speaker 3: uncle Raymond. It was always at his house. We all

717
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Speaker 3: go up there. He stayed in Spottingbury at the time.

718
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Speaker 3: So he'll come pick us up on the weekends and

719
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Speaker 3: we'll all go up to his house. All the cut.

720
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Speaker 3: Like I told you, got a huge family. Probably got

721
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Speaker 3: over like two hundred cousins like, no joke, but not

722
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Speaker 3: that many was going there. Probably be like twenty of

723
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Speaker 3: us in there at the time, and go spend the

724
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Speaker 3: weekend in there. But a lot of furniture, a lot

725
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Speaker 3: of doors, a lot of glass and everything got broken

726
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Speaker 3: for sure.

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Speaker 1: And anybody ever get hurt playing bumping run?

728
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, a couple of times. A couple of times

729
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Speaker 3: for sure.

730
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Speaker 1: What's what's the worst bumping run injury?

731
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Speaker 3: So I say the worst is what kind of ended it?

732
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Speaker 3: Like he didn't want people coming to his house for

733
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Speaker 3: a little bit, but he had this It was a

734
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Speaker 3: little table on the side and my cousin he got

735
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Speaker 3: cut on it, cut his legs pretty bad. And that

736
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 3: was about Damn this stitch and stuff like that. It

737
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Speaker 3: wouln't make you crazy?

738
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Speaker 4: Did you ever get Oh?

739
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Speaker 1: No, no, because he runs violin. You know, man's a

740
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Speaker 1: violent runner. You can handle. Bump and Runner is our

741
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Speaker 1: guest on the Cowboys Hour. We are at Sidecars Social

742
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Speaker 1: of the Star District in Frisco. Will be right back.

743
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Speaker 5: Cowboys, No cowbows, don't cowboys.

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Speaker 2: Hos for the Miller Lite Cowboys Hour, supported by Albertson

745
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Speaker 2: and broadcasting live from Sidecars Social at the Star Infrasco.

746
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Speaker 1: Welcome back Brad Sham, Nicole Hutchinson. Our special guest Cowboys

747
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Speaker 1: running back Rico Dalblo. You know we always tell you

748
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Speaker 1: when we start these shows, usually on Monday night, come

749
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Speaker 1: out to Sidecar Social. The food's great. And they got

750
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Speaker 1: four hundred and twenty three television screens. I counted them again.

751
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Speaker 1: And so tonight's Tuesday, and I'm sitting here looking around

752
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Speaker 1: and there's a hockey game. There's actually college football being

753
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: played on a Tuesday at Kent, and there's how many

754
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: different basketball's were gonna go on on one, two, three, four.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's the place you want to come. Sidecard

756
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Speaker 1: Social and we are delighted to be uh be here

757
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Speaker 1: with Bump and Run all Star, Rico Daddle, We're gonna

758
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Speaker 1: take a couple of questions from the audience.

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Speaker 3: Let's do that first, Good evening. How you doing good evening, Rico?

760
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Speaker 3: My name is Rambo.

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Speaker 6: So they say playing in big markets like Los Angeles

762
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Speaker 6: and Chicago and New York are it's very challenging and tough,

763
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Speaker 6: especially when you're playing in big media markets like that.

764
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Speaker 6: Do you see it the same in the Dallas market,

765
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Speaker 6: especially playing for America's team my death.

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Speaker 3: This is one of the biggest markets in the world

767
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Speaker 3: in the sport and industry, so I definitely say it's

768
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Speaker 3: the same and competes with all those Like I said,

769
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Speaker 3: I think were the highest value franchise of any sporting team,

770
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 3: the Cowboys or so the opportunity, the marketing and stuff

771
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 3: that comes from here as a phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you mentioned all those big cities, Waterway, Odessa,

773
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Speaker 1: I mean, for crying out lone, Yeah today, come on,

774
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Speaker 1: I'm so punchy, It's just it's not even funny. Yes, Sir,

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00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: Rico Thready from McKinney, Texas.

776
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Speaker 3: Based on the WNC single season touchdown record was broken

777
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Speaker 3: by you for sixty three touchdown passes.

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Speaker 1: What was it before then? And does it still stand?

779
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Speaker 3: You said you're talking about oh the Western North Carolina. Yes,

780
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Speaker 3: Oh so it was. It was total. I had fifty

781
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Speaker 3: one rushing and like eleven passing and one receiving that year.

782
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Speaker 3: And yeah, high school my senior year in high school.

783
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Speaker 3: But I'm not really sure what the record was before that,

784
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Speaker 3: but definitely know that I broke that record that year.

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Speaker 1: But before we forget because I already did, Nicole, who

786
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Speaker 1: else is bringing us our fine program this?

787
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Speaker 3: See?

788
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Speaker 4: I don't know, lu Casey. Maybe no one is kidding.

789
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Speaker 4: Luke Casey stand tall while you're tailgating or cheering in

790
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Speaker 4: the stands with the Dallas Cowboys Collection by lu Casey.

791
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Speaker 4: Shot the collection today at lu Casey's six DFW locations

792
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Speaker 4: or online at lucasey dot com. Lu Casey the official

793
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Speaker 4: boot of the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.

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Speaker 1: What one part of Rico Dawdle's journey as a pro

795
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Speaker 1: football player that I really respect and we haven't talked

796
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Speaker 1: about it very much, uh, is that you've had to

797
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: come back from two or three injuries. I think there

798
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 1: were two years there where one year you appeared in

799
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Speaker 1: five games because you were heard and so how do

800
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: you Did you ever have an injury in school?

801
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Speaker 3: Serious one? Yes, I broke my sophomore year at college,

802
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 3: I broke my left fibbler, and uh, other than that,

803
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 3: that was my my freshman year, I had a sports hernting.

804
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Speaker 3: But other than that, that was my tooth.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's know, joke. So the first time it happens,

806
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Speaker 1: what what do you?

807
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Speaker 3: What do you do?

808
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Speaker 1: How do you handle it?

809
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Speaker 3: Just attack the rehab process, knowing that you still have

810
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Speaker 3: gold and things that you want to do and that

811
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Speaker 3: you need to achieve and you want to accomplished. So

812
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 3: just attack the rehab I said, it starts there and

813
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 3: just trying to come back better than you were before

814
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 3: to prove that you got over that injury.

815
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Speaker 1: And the first injury you had in the NFL was.

816
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Speaker 3: I broke my hip twenty twenty two. I want to know,

817
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Speaker 3: maybe twenty one broke my hip. Actually played the whole

818
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Speaker 3: game with a broken hip, broke it like the sacond

819
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Speaker 3: player of the game. But yeah, that was my first one.

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Speaker 1: I presume you knew something was not right.

821
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was one of those being determined and like

822
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Speaker 3: I said, trying to make the team and things like that.

823
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Speaker 3: That's what I'll played in was that preseason, Yeah, preseason.

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Speaker 3: It was first Detects actually the second preseason game I

825
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Speaker 3: think of twenty twenty one. But yeah, just and so the.

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Speaker 1: Reason I bring up the injuries is not to make

827
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Speaker 1: you relive them, but when you have a difficult season

828
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Speaker 1: like this one, it seems to me that if you've

829
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Speaker 1: had to put yourself through the rigors of rehabbing an injury,

830
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Speaker 1: which for a non athlete would that would be it.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you next year sometime. But when you've got

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Speaker 1: the discipline and the inner strength to fight back and

833
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Speaker 1: go through the rehab process, does that make dealing with

834
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Speaker 1: all this any easier? Does it put it in any

835
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Speaker 1: kind of perspective?

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Speaker 3: It definitely puts it in perspective to what you're trying

837
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Speaker 3: to say and what you're getting at. We're in a

838
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 3: tough spot right now. Everybody understands that. And like you

839
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Speaker 3: said something that we got to keep fighting. I guess

840
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 3: you can put it in it ties in all that

841
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 3: we got to keep fighting, had to keep fighting through

842
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,280
Speaker 3: those injuries, and we got to keep fighting through this season.

843
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 3: And like I said, try and turn that switch and

844
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Speaker 3: flip that switch to get it. Everything's still out there

845
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Speaker 3: in front of us, like I said earlier, like I

846
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Speaker 3: said during that same time, so it all ties in,

847
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 3: like I said, But this here, it's going to take

848
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 3: a team effort, you know, everybody in that locker room

849
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 3: to go out there and execute to get this done.

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Speaker 3: Injuries different, that is different. That's all on you.

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Speaker 4: For you, as an older guy in this h in

852
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Speaker 4: the locker room, how do you an older guy?

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Speaker 3: Sorry, it's crazy, how old I'm twenty seven older? God? Sorry,

854
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 3: you're fine. You're fine.

855
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Speaker 4: You know, a veteran in football.

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Speaker 1: Terms, your best guy.

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Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, you're a thing.

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Speaker 1: So let me tell you that's a big deal. Okay, sorry,

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Speaker 1: go ahead.

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Speaker 4: I didn't mean to say you was old because we're

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Speaker 4: the same age.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's fine even though you did.

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00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, my bad.

864
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Speaker 4: But anyways, as one of the more seasoned guys in

865
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Speaker 4: the locker room.

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Speaker 1: Oh nice, nice recovery.

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Speaker 4: How do you just go about just kind of keeping

868
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Speaker 4: the guys positive, not just the guys in your room,

869
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Speaker 4: but you know some of the younger guys that are

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Speaker 4: in that locker room as well.

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Speaker 3: Me, I wouldn't say, I wouldn't call myself. That all

872
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 3: plays into leadership. I wouldn't call myself more of a

873
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 3: vocal leader, the type of guy that gets up and

874
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 3: talks to everybody and try and inspire him that way.

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Speaker 3: But I try and lead by what I come and

876
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 3: what I do in practice each and every day. What

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Speaker 3: I try and go out there and accomplished on game day.

878
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 3: I try and lead by example of how it's supposed

879
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 3: to be done. So and letting everybody know that we

880
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 3: still got to put the work in and I go

881
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 3: out there and work hard every day, try not to

882
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,879
Speaker 3: take no days off and things like that. So trying

883
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 3: to lead by that way and keep them going through

884
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:35,720
Speaker 3: that aspect.

885
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 1: We got like three or four minutes left, I'm just

886
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 1: gonna scatter shoot around a little bit so we get

887
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: a little better sense of your life. So you talked

888
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 1: about all the cousins. We're fixing that Thanksgiving, which is

889
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 1: my favorite holiday. Nobody cares about that, but I love Thanksgiving.

890
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 3: What was Thanksgiving like thank all the holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas

891
00:52:59,120 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 3: growing up?

892
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 5: Was it was?

893
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 3: It was sweet, like getting out the whole family together.

894
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 3: It was nice though, everybody getting together, and like I said,

895
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 3: got out of that kind of want to get back

896
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 3: to it. We actually tried to get back toward this

897
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 3: year and trying to get back more family, getting everybody

898
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 3: back and everybody could know everybody.

899
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 1: The last year you were at home, close to home,

900
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,360
Speaker 1: whether it was high school or college either one. So

901
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 1: who would cook rico?

902
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 3: My mom?

903
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: For all the people?

904
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, my mom? So every well, I say for everybody.

905
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 3: Everybody played their part in that. My mom did a

906
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 3: lot of the cooking. My grandma was around for a

907
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:38,320
Speaker 3: little bit growing up, so she cooked. But you know,

908
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 3: everybody had their dish that they would bring it, stuff

909
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 3: like that and we'll mix it all. What did you bring?

910
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 3: I can't cook? Brough me?

911
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: So what is your uh what on your absolutely must

912
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: have menu for your Thanksgiving table?

913
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 3: Now it's deep for our turkey. It's been that for

914
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:00,800
Speaker 3: like the past two years. Do you r you're on turkey?

915
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 3: I just told you I can't. I get somebody to

916
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 3: do it, though, But yeah, I say, deep fried turkey

917
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:09,239
Speaker 3: is my number one that I want.

918
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 1: And what's with it?

919
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 3: Oh? Everything? You know you got mac and cheese, dressing,

920
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 3: potato salad that you want, jams, I want everything. I

921
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 3: want it all turkey, regular turkey, fried chicken. I want

922
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 3: it all. Eat good things, dessert, sweet potato pie.

923
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 4: With the whip cream on top.

924
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:35,840
Speaker 3: Sometimes sometimes yeah, sometimes.

925
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 4: All right, we can do sometimes.

926
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:39,320
Speaker 3: When will you do that?

927
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,279
Speaker 1: You said, when what whatever Thanksgiving you have? I mean

928
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 1: it won't be Thursday.

929
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 3: You're talking about what. No, I'm have it on Thanksgiving Day,

930
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,879
Speaker 3: so it to be after after the game. Yeah, well,

931
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 3: so this year is just gonna be me and my

932
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 3: family just at the house. So we'll have it on

933
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 3: after the game. When I get home, we'll be Thanksgiving.

934
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: And this question surprises people a lot all the time,

935
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: including some players. But I found through the years that

936
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: not all football players are football fans. Some guys just

937
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: don't like to watch a you football fan?

938
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 3: No, I actually say that applies to me. Yeah, I

939
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 3: actually don't watch a lot of fun I watched the

940
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 3: main games like Super Bowl playoff games and things like that,

941
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 3: but other than that, like even growing up, I never

942
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 3: really watched football.

943
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: So is there anything on any of these screens here

944
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,760
Speaker 1: at sidecars social that would attract your attention?

945
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 3: The basketball game?

946
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:27,879
Speaker 5: Right though?

947
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 3: Favorite basketball team Lakers. Why I grew up a Kobe

948
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 3: fan always been how did they know that? I grew

949
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 3: up a Kobe fan. Actually, well, but I say, and

950
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:41,400
Speaker 3: I played basketball up until my junior year in high school.

951
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 3: I stopped playing when I started getting football scholarships and

952
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 3: things like that. But I always been a basketball player.

953
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 3: So what position shooting guard? Interesting?

954
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:52,439
Speaker 1: And you never met a shot you didn't like either,

955
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 1: did you?

956
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 3: Right?

957
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 1: What kind of percentage did you?

958
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 3: I don't, I don't remember, man, But I mean I

959
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 3: was a pretty decent at basketball. I was pretty decent.

960
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 3: I always like to tell the guys that in the

961
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 3: locker room, like I'm a hooper for real.

962
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:10,359
Speaker 1: But everybody, everybody in that locker room, though, is an

963
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:11,320
Speaker 1: all American hooper?

964
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 3: Right, and let them tell it.

965
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly right. I'll tell you what. We We're just

966
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 1: so happy to have had Rico Dawdle with us this evening.

967
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 1: I know it's you'd rather be sitting down with your

968
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 1: feet up after last night in a short week. We

969
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:26,880
Speaker 1: really appreciate you being here.

970
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you.

971
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:29,839
Speaker 1: Everybody's Rico Daddle, everybody coming.

972
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973
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