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Speaker 1: Well year ones in the books and what a great

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Speaker 1: second half. Just talk about your rookie year, kind of

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Speaker 1: where where it started and where it ended up. Um.

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Speaker 1: At first it was kind of it was kind of

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Speaker 1: it's kind of tough for me. Other first four games,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't suiting up. Started suiting up game five. The

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Speaker 1: first couple of weeks, I was playing like special teams

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Speaker 1: like kickoff or pun return that corner, and then I

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Speaker 1: want to stay around, like Week twelve is that Week

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Speaker 1: twelve got my first opportunity to gets to fist verse

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Speaker 1: of it's that kick return and then just didn't look

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Speaker 1: just didn't look back. Um took my opportunities and kind

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Speaker 1: of ran with it. Um I finished up. I believe

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Speaker 1: I finished up pretty well. Um last four games, started

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Speaker 1: playing defense, So I mean second half of the season,

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Speaker 1: it was pretty well. When you talk about what happened

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Speaker 1: in week twelve, that kickoff foot football is such a

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Speaker 1: game of momentum. How much momentum and confidence did that

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Speaker 1: give you moving forward? Oh? Yeah, that that definitely gave

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Speaker 1: me a lot. Um. I knew what I was capable of,

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Speaker 1: but after that running just held me more because my

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Speaker 1: rookie year just getting used to the floor of the

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Speaker 1: game in football in the NFL, So it definitely helped

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Speaker 1: me a lot. Now sticking with special teams, real quick

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Speaker 1: talk about you know that the play and that that

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Speaker 1: unit has been a very tight unit and a really

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Speaker 1: good unit for a handful of years. You and Isaiah

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Speaker 1: in the return game. How much has he helped you grow? Oh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he definitely helped me. Um. Really just kind of just

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Speaker 1: staying in my ear, like keep telling me, like you're

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Speaker 1: you're capable of doing this, You're a good player, You're

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Speaker 1: not here for no reason, like it wasn't an accident.

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Speaker 1: Just trust and believing yourself every day at practice and

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Speaker 1: just performal game day. And then the opportunities have come

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Speaker 1: to play defensively the last handful of weeks. How much

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Speaker 1: growth have you seen from when you started playing defense

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Speaker 1: to the end And what do you want to do

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Speaker 1: in the offseason for twenty twenty Yeah, Um, I say

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Speaker 1: a lot. I'm just having to guys like Anny Moore

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Speaker 1: stuff on Gilmore, just just staying in my ear, just

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Speaker 1: keep keep pushing me and they know what I'm capable of,

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Speaker 1: and just trusting myself and just put it on tape

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Speaker 1: on Sunday on the game day, and then I'm in

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Speaker 1: the future next year, I definitely see myself taking a

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Speaker 1: bigger role next year. Um, helping me seem as much

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Speaker 1: as I can, but definitely a bigger role