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Speaker 1: Deonte coach Tomlin said this week during his press conference

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Speaker 1: that he felt like, you found your professional routine taking

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Speaker 1: care of your body. Can you kind of take me

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Speaker 1: through how you got to that point and if anybody

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Speaker 1: helped you? Uh? Really, just extra really just me. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I want to say that a badger, but you know,

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Speaker 1: just me going through that a little rough time, you know,

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Speaker 1: dropping the ball or whatever. You know that makes you.

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Speaker 1: I want to come back obviously next year with a

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Speaker 1: better purpose or not. And I feel like in the

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Speaker 1: off season I've been working my tail off or whatnot,

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Speaker 1: drill at the drill at the drill and carrying it

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Speaker 1: over to the season or whatnot. Just Blue out there

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Speaker 1: with me throwing extra every day. I gotta give it

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Speaker 1: a props to him, because without him, nothing that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be possible, you know. So I'm just taking it a

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Speaker 1: day out of time. For real. I've seen you outside

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Speaker 1: even on Tuesdays that's a player's day off. So is

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Speaker 1: it an everyday thing for you? Yeah? Every day. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's always something to get better at, in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: in but you know, I just try to do what

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Speaker 1: I can and help the team out. Each of her day,

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Speaker 1: and those little jewels I do on all days on.

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Speaker 1: It's been paying off in the games or whatnot. So

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna keep doing it. Um, hopefully it's gonna

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Speaker 1: continue to carry out through the season. So we've seen

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Speaker 1: it at the practice facility, we see it pregame at

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Speaker 1: you know, Hinesfield opposing stadiums. Is it a certain amount

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Speaker 1: of balls you want to catch or like what is

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Speaker 1: your quota or what you're trying to accomplish. Um, that's

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Speaker 1: not really a certain amount. It's just like just trying

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Speaker 1: to kind of woman up my eyes or what not.

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Speaker 1: I would call it just to be a catch the

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Speaker 1: ball in different positions obviously, and towards the end of

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Speaker 1: the routine, I tryed to we catch twelve because that's

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Speaker 1: how many drops I had last year. So I keep

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Speaker 1: that in the back of my mind. I got it

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Speaker 1: in my locker buff on east Side. So what what

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Speaker 1: do you mean in your locker, like just the number,

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Speaker 1: the number, because that's the number of drops that had

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Speaker 1: last year, your mom, myself, and you know, I pray

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Speaker 1: about those. I pray. I gotta live whatnot goes. I

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Speaker 1: want to reach a prayer of him every day. You know,

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's been showing on Sundays out. I

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Speaker 1: don't have no jobs because of my hard work, but

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Speaker 1: paying off. I'm gonna continue to do that and lean

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Speaker 1: on them. Man upstairs, I know that you spent time

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Speaker 1: in Florida this offseason training, but you also said you

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Speaker 1: were you know, with your family. Did that help you

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Speaker 1: maybe reset and get ready for this season? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would say me. I had a little boy, my son,

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Speaker 1: Creek Johnson. Uh, he's been motivating me every day. So

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Speaker 1: that's why I do what I do because of him,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to, you know, give him a

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Speaker 1: better life obviously, you know that's what's just then keeping

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Speaker 1: me giving me this, Uh, his motivation. Just keep pushing

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Speaker 1: for him, because at the end of the day, I

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Speaker 1: know he count them and I'm not gonna lay him

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Speaker 1: down no matter what. Ben in the gun, which Nelly

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Speaker 1: was right, band's gonna throw it down the right side

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Speaker 1: buying that passage cut touch, I take Shotshi pulls it

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Speaker 1: in that's shop for four hundred for a big band.

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Speaker 1: There it is thirty seven, throws it long down the

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Speaker 1: right side line. Yeah, how do you step it side

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Speaker 1: to five and into the edge for the Steelers touchdown.

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Speaker 1: I'll see your forty five from last weekend. I'll raise

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Speaker 1: you fifty, Billy. Is it fair to say that you

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Speaker 1: and Ben are going to connect on every opening drive

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Speaker 1: now moving forward? Oh? If he if he looked my way,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a play from regardless of Obviously we

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Speaker 1: got other guys out there that can make plays too.

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Speaker 1: So if you throw me the ball my way, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna do what I do and continue to make plays from.

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Speaker 1: And that's each and everything that where it's a bad through,

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Speaker 1: good through, still got to make him look good at

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Speaker 1: you can do. Do you guys have a good connection

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Speaker 1: because you're Mac guys or what is it he get

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Speaker 1: on me, joke about me, joke about it a lot.

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Speaker 1: He loves the Mac. Yeah, I would say just the

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Speaker 1: competitiveness that the Mac brings or not because a lot

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Speaker 1: of people kind of sleep on the Mac or whatever.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like our connections grew out the time.

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Speaker 1: You know, you don't just happen overnight, So come with trust.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like he's been trust me a lot

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Speaker 1: to be in the right position that every time or whatnot.

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Speaker 1: So just being aver had that connection on him, so

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Speaker 1: is that he can rely on me in any moment.

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Speaker 1: I'm be able to rely on him to put the

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Speaker 1: ball in the right spot so I can make a play.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I've been doing and I'm gonna continue

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Speaker 1: to do that. Fun he got hurt your rookie season,

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Speaker 1: so you didn't really have a lot with him. And

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Speaker 1: then last year and you said he did believe in you, so, um,

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Speaker 1: how did he help you maybe get through two thousand

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Speaker 1: twenty Just you know, you got the ball, you getting

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Speaker 1: you kind of get in your head. Um, he's kind

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Speaker 1: of there from you know, just telling me just pick

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Speaker 1: my head up, whatnot. Um, just keep going, you know,

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Speaker 1: not the dwell on it because we just still more

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Speaker 1: football to platform and they drop. Everybody gonna drop the ball,

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Speaker 1: you know, the best of the best doing so I

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Speaker 1: can't let that get in the back of my mind.

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Speaker 1: I gotta focus on the next play. And that's what

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Speaker 1: I've been doing this year. I've just been locked in

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Speaker 1: playing that. I feel like I ain't even reason my

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Speaker 1: highest love of that. Yeah, you know, so it's something

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Speaker 1: I still got a lot more to prove and I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna continue to do that. Each never didn't take it

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Speaker 1: day by day, one at a time. Obviously opposing coaches

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Speaker 1: see the connection on film between you and then only

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Speaker 1: two targets against Denver or teams doing something different to

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Speaker 1: try to take away that connection and to defend you.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say they took away to connection

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Speaker 1: that game. And I was opened a couple of times.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're not gonna get the ball every time,

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Speaker 1: but I was open. If you look at the film,

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Speaker 1: the film don't lie. Um it was times I could

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Speaker 1: have got the ball. But you know, like I said,

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Speaker 1: I got other team that's out there that's making plays,

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Speaker 1: getting open, you know, helping us win. That's all I

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Speaker 1: care about at end of the the day. Whoever is hot

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Speaker 1: that day, that's who gonna get the ball. And Chase

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Speaker 1: is hot and perfect. I can't do nothing, but I

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Speaker 1: can gratulate them and just route them on each and

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Speaker 1: every snap. So, like I said, the ball come my

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Speaker 1: way and making my play do what I do. Is

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Speaker 1: it fair to say that Juju was the lead or

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Speaker 1: of the wide receiver's room. Yeah, he was a leader,

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Speaker 1: although he was an oldist or whatever, but we look

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Speaker 1: at him as a leader because he's been here longer

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Speaker 1: five years in or whatnot, the same team or whatever.

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Speaker 1: But he he we looked out to him because he's

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Speaker 1: he's a football player and that he knows the game.

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Speaker 1: He's smart, real tough player. Just it was hard to

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Speaker 1: see him go down like that, and we just we can't.

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Speaker 1: You can't do nothing to just beat that for him

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Speaker 1: on on the field. Even then when he's in the building,

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Speaker 1: we try to do try to be around him or whatnot.

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Speaker 1: So that's all we can't do and just keep his

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Speaker 1: spirits of that moving game. So then who steps up

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Speaker 1: in the room who kind of maybe you can't replace Juju,

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Speaker 1: but maybe that intangibles the off the field things. Wait

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Speaker 1: and see. Yeah, we're gonna wait and see him. I'm

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Speaker 1: not a vocal leader. I'd like to lead by example

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Speaker 1: on the field. So we're just gonna see uh Seattle's defense,

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Speaker 1: Jamal Adam somebody that coach Hama mentioned. What do you

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Speaker 1: know about them and what are you expecting to see

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. We know that they're a real good team.

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Speaker 1: They got a good defense. But Jamal, he's a great

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Speaker 1: player playing against for my rookie years as well, so

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Speaker 1: I'm familiar with him. Um, just the competitives he brings

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Speaker 1: to the game and how alread he plays each and everything.

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Speaker 1: Now you see it and on the film and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: But we're gonna come out there already. Um, we're not.

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Speaker 1: We're not afraid of nobody. We got a game plan

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Speaker 1: for every every game. We're gonna execute it on every Sunday. Perfect.

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Speaker 1: Thanks