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Speaker 1: So your your emotions heading into your first NFL action.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited. I mean, this is just the start

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Speaker 3: So excited to take that next step, be out there,

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Speaker 3: compete at the highest level. And you know, my family

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Speaker 3: I think that's really I'm just stoked for the opportunity.

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Speaker 4: One of the coaches told you about, but to expect

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Speaker 3: I think they're gonna make, you know, more decisions in

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Speaker 5: Abdul told us to some of the best talk to

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Speaker 5: you guys about what playing a presets is gonna be

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Speaker 5: like that first game. What did you kind of glean

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, the main point was, you know,

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Speaker 3: football's football. Obviously you're taking a next step, so you

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Speaker 3: know it's a little bit more advanced and just little

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Speaker 2: It's the same game that you're playing when you were

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Speaker 3: So just enjoy that, you know, compete, you know, don't

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Speaker 2: And there's no light that's too bright to play.

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Speaker 1: You have to get your own. So it's the start

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Speaker 3: So I've grown a lot, you know, just my understanding

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Speaker 3: big steps and uh, you know, I'm feeling more and

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Speaker 3: more confident each and every day in this offense and uh,

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Speaker 3: you know kind of what they're asking me to do.

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Speaker 3: So you know, I'm just happy to, uh you know,

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Speaker 3: and you know, great players around me, great leadership around

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Speaker 2: We've been ten year.

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Speaker 6: Vets with Commander and says it's a complicated offense and

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Speaker 6: learn so the guy going through for the first time,

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Speaker 6: what to you makes it feel complicated?

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is the only NFL offense I can

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Speaker 2: Your knowledge and whatnot.

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Speaker 3: But you know, there's been long night to just study

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Speaker 1: Are very new situations like in this preseason game coming up.

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Speaker 1: Are there any situations that you hope to find yourself

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Speaker 3: I mean I hope I can get every situation, you know,

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Speaker 3: But you know, I'm just excited for this. I mean,

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Speaker 4: Gross is deep ball is kind of famous, the moon

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Speaker 4: And how is it compared to like your deep ball

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Speaker 3: But you know, that's what you know, that's part of

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Speaker 3: So it's been good to just talk to him about that,

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Speaker 2: But it's elite for sure.

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Speaker 1: Your first game action at Old Miss, what do.

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Speaker 1: Well, you have butterflies on Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Maybe when I run out once, I once, I you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm in my zone.

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Speaker 1: Said, there's no light too bright to play in.

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Speaker 2: Do you crave that? Like, do you do something come

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Speaker 3: I don't think that you can be in a competitor

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Speaker 4: Is there a sense of you have to maximize your

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Speaker 2: I'm just focused on being prepared.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, I'm gonna go out there on the field and

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Speaker 3: because you know, obviously you're out in practice we can't

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Speaker 6: Another quarterback, another sideline which obviously been through kind of

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: Just curious you have a relationship with him.

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Speaker 6: Have you been in touch with him at all since

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Speaker 3: I talked to Josh like a few days after I

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Speaker 3: I think like the biggest thing is just a quarterback.

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Speaker 3: You talked a lot about leadership, you know, that was

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Speaker 2: You know, obviously schematics.

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Speaker 3: I think that what shows up on coach Daves's record

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Speaker 3: you know, what they're good at. So you know, kind

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Speaker 3: But you know, the special thing about coach Daves is

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Speaker 2: So there's answers to everything that you can really think

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Speaker 1: Motivation from being listed as a third quarterback on the touch.

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Speaker 3: I'm just coming to work every single day just trying

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Speaker 2: Know when your number is gonna be called on.

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Speaker 3: We have a great quarterback room, and you know, any

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Speaker 2: So you know that's kind of been our motto.

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Speaker 1: Has the veto given you any advice, buddy?

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, I think I've you know, hit on this

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Speaker 3: many times that you know, Tommy's probably been the one

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean, you know, he's telling me to

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Speaker 3: You know, he's kind of just shared like his experience

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Speaker 3: So I honestly like when you come into these games,

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Speaker 3: the end day, it's just football.

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Speaker 2: So you got to go out there and play your game.

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Speaker 3: And you know the real you know, the real good players,

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Speaker 3: the ones who show up for you.

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Speaker 5: Talked about not being afraid to make mistakes that kind

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Speaker 5: of help care for this game, that whatever happens, you're

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Speaker 5: not gonna worry about if you already have that mindset

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm not scared, Like you know, when

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Speaker 3: you shouldn't be out.

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Speaker 5: There is there anything so I want you want to

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Speaker 5: prove that you can handle in your first action.

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Speaker 3: I don't feel like I need to go out there

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Speaker 3: and think to myself like I need to prove this,

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Speaker 3: I need to prove that, Like I want to kind

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Speaker 3: of just be in my game.

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Speaker 2: I want to be in my own space.

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Speaker 3: I want to be able to encourage others, help, you know,

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Speaker 3: raise the play of the guys around me, and you know,

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Speaker 3: I just want to win. So whatever that takes for

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Speaker 3: for me to do when I'm out there on the field,

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Speaker 3: that's my mindset.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's not really about, oh, I'm going to prove this

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Speaker 3: or prove that, Like, well, how am I going to

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Speaker 3: put our team in the best situation when