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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. Now,

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Speaker 1: while nagging injuries kept Cam Curl out of the action

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Speaker 1: down the stretch of the season, it was very clear

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Speaker 1: early on that he was going to have a big

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Speaker 1: impact and be a force to be reckoned with in

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Speaker 1: the defensive backfield. Now he had eighty three tackles in

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Speaker 1: just twelve games that he played and is becoming a

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Speaker 1: leader on defense for head coach Ron Rivera. They're expecting

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Speaker 1: him to have a big impact on the team next season.

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Speaker 1: But before he took off for the off season, while

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Speaker 1: he sat down on the players Club with London Fletcher

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Speaker 1: and Santana Moss check it out. So Cam, first off,

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Speaker 1: we want to know how's how's your body feeling? How's

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Speaker 1: your ankles progressing? Really good? It's been good right now,

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Speaker 1: just when really liked performing at a high level for

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, like I couldn't go ahead

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Speaker 1: and do what I needed to do, you know, But

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Speaker 1: it's getting good. That is going in the right direction.

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Speaker 1: I know. I know earlier this year, um, it was

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Speaker 1: like one of those signs when you when you didn't

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Speaker 1: get a chance to play. We didn't know and then

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Speaker 1: when you got in there and played, we saw how

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Speaker 1: much you meant to the defense. What was it like

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Speaker 1: just seeing how it thinks it seemed like things shift

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Speaker 1: again when we didn't have you them last few games.

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Speaker 1: Was it something that you felt though saw also or

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Speaker 1: it was just like you know, you wish you could

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Speaker 1: have been out there. You weren't thinking about that. I

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Speaker 1: mean I wish I could have been out there, but

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Speaker 1: I mean watching the game like you see, you know,

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Speaker 1: anytime you're on the sideline, you see stuff like I

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Speaker 1: could have made that could have been that, Like you're

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Speaker 1: just trying to help your team, you know, no matter

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Speaker 1: like who out there, just trying to help your team

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Speaker 1: get better. You know, you can make it the team

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Speaker 1: better at being on the field. So anytime off the field,

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Speaker 1: like it's just I don't like it because I don't

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Speaker 1: like never come off like playing I'm playing every snap,

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Speaker 1: so not being even able to play one snap, like,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's not I'm not used to that got you.

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Speaker 1: You were like a Swiss army knife for this uh

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Speaker 1: this team, and you're playing Buffalo Nickel, You're playing strong safety,

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Speaker 1: playing Mike backer at at times during the week from

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Speaker 1: US preparation standpoint all in off the field in the classroom.

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Speaker 1: What what's your week like studying just locking in like

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Speaker 1: just uh, probably we come out Monday, watch the film

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Speaker 1: for one game, and then I'm on to the next

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Speaker 1: team like Monday Tuesday, just trying to get to jump

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Speaker 1: on them, like before the meetings on Wednesday, just so

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Speaker 1: like I'm not hearing that stuff for the first time,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Then we get the game plan,

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Speaker 1: just uh figuring out where they want me certain packages

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Speaker 1: were in and then just watching film all week on that,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Because playing like more than

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Speaker 1: one position, like you really got lock in for but

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Speaker 1: like during during the plays and different personnel groups. I

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Speaker 1: know you might have a responsibility, different responsibility playing strong safety,

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Speaker 1: but if you're playing a nickelor, do you have to

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Speaker 1: cut out constantly remind yourself, okay, well position that my player. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: In fact, like it's been time and practice where like

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Speaker 1: I'm standing a safe the de fosting right behind me,

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Speaker 1: Like what you doing my fault? But like that's just

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Speaker 1: like when it coming out, you gotta know what everybody doing.

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Speaker 1: Like and one thing Orlando taught me when he was here, Like,

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Speaker 1: make sure you know what everybody doing on the defense,

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Speaker 1: and that's gonna make your job easier. So just doing that,

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Speaker 1: and then when they asked me to play out a

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Speaker 1: different position, like I already know what they gotta do,

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Speaker 1: so that's that's gonna make it easier. Well, I know,

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Speaker 1: we don't want to take up all your time. I

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Speaker 1: want to ask you this one thing before we let

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Speaker 1: you go. Do you have any plans for the all season?

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Speaker 1: Are you wanting those guys that you like to relax

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Speaker 1: out all over or did you get right back into

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Speaker 1: the weight room and get out there and start, you know,

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Speaker 1: get ready for the next season. I'm gonna chill for

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Speaker 1: a little bit, right I gotta get healthy first. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna make sure that's like the main thing, Just making

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Speaker 1: sure my whole body healthy. Um, just chilling my mind

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Speaker 1: off a little bit, and then I'll be back at it,

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Speaker 1: like late February March, trying to get ready for tas.

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Speaker 1: Just trying to you know, workingna footwork stuff, running again.

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Speaker 1: Different ways. Got you appreciate your time, man, appreciate you'all

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