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Speaker 1: Official pods presented by win bet Betty is a team sport,

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Speaker 1: but together at winbat. Eric Allen here at one Jets Drive,

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Speaker 1: joined by Jets cornerback DJ Reed. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: coming up to the studio. Hey, listen, it has been

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Speaker 1: a long road for you to get to this point

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League. And we go back to

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Speaker 1: your story coming out of high school and you trying

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Speaker 1: to walk on at Fresnel.

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Speaker 2: State, we can what do you want to know?

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Speaker 1: So, so take me back to Fresnel. What was the

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Speaker 1: thought process there as far as you starting out and

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Speaker 1: trying to get on that football team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so the thought process was had no offers, had

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Speaker 3: no offers out of high school. So it was either

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Speaker 3: go Juco or go walk on on a Division one.

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Speaker 3: That was my mindset. I didn't want to go to

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Speaker 3: D three. I just felt that, you know, I could

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Speaker 3: at the time, being in high school, I was kind

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Speaker 3: of anti Juco. I was like, in my mind, I

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Speaker 3: was like, Juco is only for you know guys that

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Speaker 3: or whatever the case was. That's just how I was

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Speaker 3: looking at Jucos. But yeah, I ended up going to

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Speaker 3: I was convinced that, you know, I'm gonna show them

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Speaker 3: what I could do my red shirt year and then

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Speaker 3: I would get a scholarship because my mom couldn't afford

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Speaker 3: to pay for me to you know, be at Fresne

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Speaker 3: State for four years. So that's just kind of just

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Speaker 3: how it happened. Red shirted was doing good, but uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, I got my spring evaluation and they pretty

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Speaker 3: much said they just see me as a special teams player.

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Speaker 2: They don't see me playing defense.

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Speaker 3: So had to make that business decision and that's how

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Speaker 1: And so you walk away from Fresnel, Yeah, and then

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Speaker 1: what's the plan there when you go to Sritos.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, these plans is kind of obvious. It was like, okay,

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Speaker 3: so you're gonna go Juco. I mean, if that doesn't work,

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Speaker 2: You're not gonna be playing football.

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Speaker 3: So really, Juco was the wake up call as far

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Speaker 3: like you're gonna have to you know, go get some money,

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Speaker 3: was either you know, you gotta get a scholarship, like

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Speaker 1: Can you talk about that experience at the critos. Weren't

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, it was rough man, it was real, like

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Speaker 3: It was trenches man. Like the living situation was bad.

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Speaker 3: Just yeah, the living situation is bad. I'll just keep

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Speaker 1: So you were literally starving at school.

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Speaker 1: You said, you basically no choices. You basically there's one choice,

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Speaker 1: continue to go. Did you think that leaving high school

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Speaker 3: I was very confident, like from a little kid and

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Speaker 3: you're not going to get discredited for your height if

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Speaker 3: Listened to him and we made that move from there

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Speaker 3: Man, I love basketball, I still do. But the guys

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Speaker 1: So you get to the little Apple. Now you're playing

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Speaker 3: Man, So just going through the Juco experience really, like

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Speaker 1: It definitely did fit like a glove. You got selected

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Speaker 3: Nickel Yeah, man, just off my height like literally, like

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Speaker 3: I remember the combine. I think it was the Vikings.

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Speaker 3: two inches taller, like five to eleven. But then they drafted

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Speaker 1: Robert Sally, your head coach here, is really hard on

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Speaker 1: himself for what has up into San Francisco because you

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Speaker 1: played under him with the forty nine ers. What was

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Speaker 3: First of all, when he was in San Francisco, he

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Speaker 3: You know, there's some coaches just have a different level

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Speaker 3: You know he would call you out if he's seen

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Speaker 3: a mistake. And you know we would get it corrected.

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Speaker 3: So that's one thing I really respected about Salo when

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Speaker 1: How did they use you early? And then it can

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Speaker 2: And it was the Bills.

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Speaker 3: Crazy bro, crazy universe universe is crazy. Yeah, first career

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Speaker 1: What clicked in Seattle? Because for you, it's always been opportunities.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I would say those things, and just getting

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Speaker 1: You're two here with the Jets. How important was it

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody in the National Football League is

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I'll be hearing stuff like, oh, he's done

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Speaker 1: How much did he enjoyed being paired up with Sauce?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, Sauces, that's my brother. I mean, yeah, man.

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Speaker 3: I always say, like the sky isn't the limit for him,

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Speaker 2: And I think the thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, cool dude.

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Speaker 3: He's really funny too, like the music he'd be playing

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Speaker 2: Kind of music playing be playing hip hop? Playing hip hop?

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Speaker 3: I forgot nah man, he just he just put it on.

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Speaker 1: How does he raise the competition on the practice field

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Speaker 3: You better be ready, Like on defense, if you if

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Speaker 1: You you played in a super Bowl before, Yeah, what

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's why we train, That's why I work out,

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Speaker 1: It.

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Speaker 2: Definitely want to do this year.

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Speaker 1: Aaron texting you about your daughter. How old is she now?

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Speaker 1: What's her name and how has that changed you having her?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Man, so she's about to be six months. Her name

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Speaker 3: is Kinsley Nicole Reid, and man, fatherhood is beautiful, bro.

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Speaker 3: It's definitely softened me up. Definitely didn't know I had

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Speaker 3: that much love to get to somebody. And she could

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Speaker 3: literally do no wrong, like her crying, none of it

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Speaker 3: bothers me. It's just beautiful, like just going skin to skin.

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Speaker 3: We're just laying down and just like it's like my lock,

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Speaker 3: like the lock in my heart, like when she just

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Speaker 3: chest to chest.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, it's just a beautiful feeling. Like it's indescribable really.

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Speaker 3: But fatherhood is beautiful, bro, Like I didn't know that

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Speaker 3: I could love someone that much.

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Speaker 2: That's really.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, That's that's the real lockdown corner is lockdown is

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Speaker 1: the only I get better from here. I got a

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Speaker 1: three and a half year old daughter.

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Speaker 2: Girls are the best, they really are. Girl Dad's for real,

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Speaker 2: Like we want to have a boy next.

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Speaker 3: But if I wasn't having another girl, I would be grateful,

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Speaker 3: Like it really wouldn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Dj I appreciate you coming up and catching up.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no problem. Appreciates you Bro

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Speaker 1: Eighty