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Speaker 1: Okay, Lewis, thank your time. I'm great to see you here.

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Speaker 1: Have you found this whole experience? Obviously yesterday sort of

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Speaker 1: Prince William R Own Phoebe Scheckter as well. Was that

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Speaker 1: another counting moment in your NFL journey. You're an ambassador

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Speaker 1: of the NFL at days out of the foundation.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing and obviously you get to see, you know,

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Speaker 2: all the kids you know, growing up loving the sport,

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Speaker 2: loving football, loving flag football, you know, and there's an

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Speaker 2: opportunity for them to learn the game at a young age,

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Speaker 2: which unfortunately I didn't really have back when I was

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Speaker 1: Yeah, looks, do you feel like you're close to getting

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just working hard every day to try

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Speaker 2: and you know, whenever that comes, and I'm going to

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Speaker 2: try and take her with both hands. But for me,

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Speaker 2: it's just about learning every day and you know, learning

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Speaker 2: from my teammates, learning from coaches, and just doing the

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Speaker 2: little things right, the little details, learning the playbook. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: you know, joining a different team first week of the season,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's going to take a little bit to

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Speaker 2: adjust and adapt to things, but you know, I'm learning

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Speaker 3: What was that transition from Kansas City to Jacksonville like

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Speaker 2: I mean it was it was pretty tough because you know,

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Speaker 2: I was just starting to get the hang of one

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Speaker 2: every moment being in in this league. And you know,

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Speaker 2: the opportunity that Jacksonville Jaggers have given me is one

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Speaker 2: I'm working hard at every single data to continue to

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Speaker 2: learn this playbook and you know, work hard every single

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Speaker 2: day to to learn to learn playing receiver as well,

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Speaker 2: which is which is quite big for me, you know,

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Speaker 3: So yeah, as I said, I'm loving every single day.

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Speaker 1: The people in the receiver room that you're kind of

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Speaker 2: I mean, everyone's so helpful in our room and we

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Speaker 4: Was coming back to the UK with the Jaggers. How

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Speaker 2: Sorry for you're about to speak, Uh, yeah, I mean

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Speaker 2: You know, the transition from the very start was tough.

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Speaker 2: this is what I wanted, and I'm tracing the stream

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Speaker 4: I'm trasing the IFL dream then as you were as

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's two different things, you know. Now I'm here,

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Speaker 2: You know, being a rugby player and wanting to play

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Speaker 3: You're actually in the stands right at Tottenham last year

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Speaker 3: Are you're thinking that this is something I want to

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm loving being here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely a tough experience, you know. Obviously, you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's taken a lot of my time

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Speaker 1: Come at having to go from Kansas City to Jack

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Speaker 3: Young top rugby players who are maybe interested in American football.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, most definitely. I've had a load of messages from

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I mean, I'm here to try and

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Speaker 4: Who's line right that comes with the NFL.

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Speaker 3: I mean I try not to.

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Speaker 2: I try not to focus on, you know, the social

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Speaker 2: and you know, doing the best I can for that

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Speaker 2: because ultimately, you know, you don't get that limelight without

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Speaker 2: I'm working hard every single day with the coaches, with

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