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Speaker 1: Is there a part of you that which is the

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Speaker 1: game was in Carolina?

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Speaker 2: Definitely? Yeah, for sure. Do you think of a different

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Speaker 2: fleeing that's my partner. I don't know. I don't really know.

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Speaker 3: There is an outs of why it happened, you know,

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Speaker 3: but you know, that's just somebody I got close to

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Speaker 3: since I got here, So it's a bummer.

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Speaker 2: Do you think he helped the team? Do you think

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Speaker 2: he helped? For sure?

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Speaker 3: He's a dog on special teams and he knows everything

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Speaker 3: through and through with the defense, So I always thought

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Speaker 3: he was an asset what.

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Speaker 2: He talks about. JC horn yours teammate for WHI all

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Speaker 2: over there at the young corner. J C. I'm just saying,

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Speaker 2: let me have to say that because I might take

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Speaker 2: this out of the question. Nah, j C my dog man.

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Speaker 2: I love j C Man.

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Speaker 3: We close meet him, meet him and a couple of

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Speaker 3: other guys that you know, split from that defense, were

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Speaker 3: still keep in touch all the time. So that's my dog.

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Speaker 3: But he's a talented player. You know, it's gonna be

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Speaker 3: great seeing him again, and you know, I'm wishing him

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Speaker 3: the best.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of I assume when you got

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Speaker 1: traded there that they were rebuilding. I said they were rebuilding,

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Speaker 1: so they moved in a different direction. When you got

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Speaker 1: traded here, did you expect to be in a bitter like?

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Speaker 1: I assume you didn't expect to be on a different

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Speaker 1: two and seventeen?

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Speaker 2: Did you?

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Speaker 1: Were you expecting better things when you got traded here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean going into a new situation, you always want

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Speaker 3: to look out, look on the positive side of things.

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Speaker 2: You know. But football is football, and this is how

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Speaker 2: I go.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes it's how to cars pole, but overall, still a

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Speaker 3: bless opportunity and a blessed position I'm in.

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Speaker 1: Do you see, you know how that you were part

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Speaker 1: of that team for five years some difficult seasons? Are

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Speaker 1: there similarities here and there?

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Speaker 2: Like? Is it?

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like this team's handling it differently than

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Speaker 1: that team handled difficult situations?

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Speaker 3: Everything is different. It's kind of hard to, you know,

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Speaker 3: compare the two just because of the different variables in

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Speaker 4: Does it feel like just any other game or does

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Speaker 4: it feel like a little bit more emotionally charged for

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Speaker 4: you in light of your time with the Panthers?

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Speaker 2: Personally, I have my own my own you know, thoughts

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Speaker 2: about it.

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Speaker 3: But I'm not gonna make it any bigger than with

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Speaker 3: the line, and everything's gonna be about it, So it's

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Speaker 3: just another game to me. I'm prepared the same way

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Speaker 3: and uh planning to get a win.

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Speaker 2: In general.

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Speaker 4: You've talked about the last couple of weeks about how

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Speaker 4: you know the importance of of you guys getting a

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Speaker 4: win and coming out trying to end you know, the

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Speaker 4: bad times the last couple of weeks and the losses.

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Speaker 4: Does that carry even more weight going into this weekend

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Speaker 4: knowing that, you know, the more this adds up, the

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Speaker 4: worse it's gonna feel for you guys as you you know,

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Speaker 4: you head into a bye week that kind.

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Speaker 3: Of here, I think it's best that we put emphasis

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Speaker 3: on getting a win this week just because we're going

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Speaker 3: into the bye week. I would say that's the main,

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Speaker 3: the main goal, and then you know, coming off the

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Speaker 3: bye week, we will be you know, a lot fresher.

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Speaker 3: We'll have Thibodau back hopefully around that time, so then

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Speaker 3: we can hit that that that last seven game stretch

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Speaker 3: would have, you know, would have run with some momentum.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think you ever asked correct me if

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Speaker 1: I'm wrong on cliff. I think you ever asked to

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Speaker 1: be traded from Carolina? Right? No, So was it a

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Speaker 1: surprise like when you got traded when it came to

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Speaker 1: you when it all went down, Like, how.

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Speaker 2: Did you I would say a surprise.

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Speaker 3: I would say you can you can kind of feel,

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Speaker 3: you can kind of feel the direction that was going in.

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Speaker 2: But Nah, just to answer your question, I didn't ask for.

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Speaker 1: Drake and then New York. What was your first reaction

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Speaker 1: in New York? They could have come to you and

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Speaker 1: said thirty one other teams are interested. What was your

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Speaker 1: reaction when you heard you were coming here?

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Speaker 3: I was just excited, man, to start a new opportunity,

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Speaker 3: a new uh, a new adventure, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: To continue my chapter and uh, you know, let's play

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Speaker 2: some good ball. That's it.

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Speaker 3: Have you been in contact with that of your old teammates.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I talked to Shaq JC, you to a DJ.

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Speaker 3: I talked to all my loogo, I talked to all

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Speaker 3: my guys, you know, every now and then outside of

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Speaker 3: outside of the football, any trash talking going on. Nah,

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Speaker 3: we don't even really talk about football, honestly.

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Speaker 1: But it doesn't sound like you carry any at least

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Speaker 1: does not here like you carry any bad blood towards

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Speaker 1: the Panthers.

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Speaker 2: Nah.

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Speaker 3: I respect those people in that building, that organization. Like

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Speaker 3: I said, I'm blessed. It ain't really it ain't really

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Speaker 3: too much to say speak on. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I'm happy where I am now and I'm just trying to,

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Speaker 2: you know, make this team win.

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Speaker 4: How different is the player that you are today different

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Speaker 4: than the one that was in Carolina, whether it was

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Speaker 4: last year or the year before. Do you feel like

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Speaker 4: you've grown individually since you've left there.

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Speaker 3: I'd say maybe from a holistic view, just of like

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Speaker 3: I kind of took on a different role coming here,

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Speaker 3: you know, from when I was in Carolina.

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Speaker 2: So, you know, just being able to adapt, I would say,

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Speaker 2: is improvement. What's the different role you know.

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Speaker 3: Coming from a place you were drafted and you you know,

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Speaker 3: worked to become that guy and that leader of that defense,

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Speaker 3: to coming into a situation that has that guy or

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Speaker 3: has you know, other leaders already established. It's a different

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Speaker 3: role in a different avenue you have to take to

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Speaker 3: did that and I was able to adapt