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Speaker 1: It's good to see you'll do all these funny stuff

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Speaker 1: ready to plutu opportunities. When you know the starter's gone down,

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Speaker 1: you've prepared. Not really, that's only the second time in

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Speaker 1: my career, Um that I've had to go in mid

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Speaker 1: really it's really happened, particularly for me, so um but

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Speaker 1: I felt comfortable out there. I felt like I was prepared.

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Speaker 1: So it was good to see all the kind of

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Speaker 1: work that I put in throughout my career, throughout the

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Speaker 1: duration of the week. Um, you know, come to fruition.

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Speaker 1: What about weeks where like this could be where you

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Speaker 1: get a lot of reps with the ones and then

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Speaker 1: maybe Daniel played. You have you gotten to I have not.

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Speaker 1: This will be the first time going through experience like that.

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's great to get out there today,

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Speaker 1: just get you know, take snap from Billy and and

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Speaker 1: make the calls and do all that versions. Just kind

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Speaker 1: of standing in the background, watching and kind of getting

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Speaker 1: mental reps. Doing the actual thing is obviously more beneficial, Mike,

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Speaker 1: if you if you do get the start, how confident

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Speaker 1: you here? Yeah, I'm very confident in myself. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I haven't started, per say, a ton of games this lead,

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Speaker 1: but I've started enough, started five games last year, so

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Speaker 1: the in the past year. So um, yeah, I'm actuming

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Speaker 1: so I feel ready to go. Since you lust want

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Speaker 1: to start, obviously you hadn't started five games since then.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you want to win no matter what. But how

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Speaker 1: as a starter. Yeah, I wouldn't say I've put it

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Speaker 1: It's just about getting, you know, winning this week for

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Speaker 1: our team, not worried about the past, not worried about,

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Speaker 1: you know, next week, just focusing on now and obviously

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Speaker 1: any any chance you get to play an NFL you

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Speaker 1: want to win. So, uh, it wouldn't be about you know,

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Speaker 1: anything in the past, would be about what we could

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Speaker 1: do this week for for the giants involved. As Daniel

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Speaker 1: ben in the meetings, he's you know, just as he's

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Speaker 1: doing what he has to do. Um. You know, I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna get a medical side of of that, but

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Speaker 1: he's been he's been good. When you get back and

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Speaker 1: look at what you did, what did you do well?

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Speaker 1: What did you not do well? I think I ran

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Speaker 1: the offense officially. I think, you know, getting the ball

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Speaker 1: out of time, going ball the right spot. Obviously the

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Speaker 1: two interceptions you'd like to have back, and you know,

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Speaker 1: probably a little better ball placement. But uh, all in all,

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Speaker 1: I felt like we'd moved ball well as an offense.

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Speaker 1: You know, we I don't know if you've even plenty

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Speaker 1: it at all when I was in there, so we

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Speaker 1: were moving it. Just had to find a way to

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Speaker 1: finish drives. You've played in so many systems throughout your career,

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Speaker 1: Just what's your comfort level with this one? I feel good.

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Speaker 1: I mean I've been in so many assumes that there's

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Speaker 1: relatively similar. So just getting to know the plays that

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Speaker 1: j G likes the feature, um, I feel I feel

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Speaker 1: very comfortable. You know at going through this week you

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Speaker 1: think you'll be disappointed if you don't play. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm here to to do the best in any role

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Speaker 1: Daniels gone and play whatever it is. I'm gonna do

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Speaker 1: the best one of my abilities. I mean, and you

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Speaker 1: it happens this weekend, is there anything going with you ahead,

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Speaker 1: don't get hurt. No, I mean, yeah, obviously you don't

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Speaker 1: not something I'm thinking about. I mean, I guess, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would know what I have to suck it up

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Speaker 1: put your head down. I don't know if you've ever

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Speaker 1: seen you play, but that's not really part of my

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Speaker 1: skill set. You think about it on lines about quarterback, Ah,

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Speaker 1: he could do it all. I mean I think he was.

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Speaker 1: preseason and throwing the ball like seventy yards. I mean

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Speaker 1: he can he can spin it. So yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: it's exciting to see him back there. He's like, is

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Speaker 1: this something you know? You're a big, twell guy like Daniel.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel you can run a similar offense that

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Speaker 1: we do have similar skill sets outside of him him

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Speaker 1: obviously being a better athlete than me. That the system

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Speaker 1: I am, That's who he is. So I feel more

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Speaker 1: the past game that we run, the last name exact game.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, this team went to Seattle last year,

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Speaker 1: is one eleven point underdog and beat the Seahawks with cold.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you think you're no offense a cole, but

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Speaker 1: you probably think you're just as good as him, if

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Speaker 1: not better. Dzak Off you um confidence going to this

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Speaker 1: week that you guys can take something patched together and

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Speaker 1: win when people don't think you can win. Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's the NFL. I mean, given Sunday, I

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Speaker 1: this is the NFL. So either side you're on, you

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Speaker 1: gotta show up every week