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Speaker 1: DJ.

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Speaker 2: Great to see again.

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Speaker 3: One thing I wanted to talk to you about today

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Speaker 3: was Origins, not just the show that we'll get to

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Speaker 3: here coming up, but what did you think when the

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Speaker 3: NFL schedule came out and you saw the Jets opener

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Speaker 3: was against San Francisco, the team that drafted you.

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Speaker 4: I liked it, you know, I was excited. To be honest,

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Speaker 4: I love playing against San Francisco. You know, what they

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Speaker 4: built over there is really good. Like they probably have,

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Speaker 4: you know, one of the most talented rosters, if not

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Speaker 4: probably the talented, the most talented rosters. They have a

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Speaker 4: great coach and Kylee Shanahan John Lynch is a great GM.

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Speaker 4: So you know, I love games like that, especially it's

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Speaker 4: on a Monday night too, right, That's right, Yeah, it's

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Speaker 4: gonna be fun. I'm looking forward to that game.

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Speaker 3: But were you reflective at all in terms of, hey man,

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Speaker 3: that's the team that drafted me. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, to be honest, like, I would honestly be

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Speaker 4: excited for anybody that was playing, whether it was the Bills, Miami.

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Speaker 1: Even like another.

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Speaker 4: NFC West team if it was the Seahawks or whatever, like,

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Speaker 4: But no, I don't feel any type of like, oh extra, Like,

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Speaker 4: you know, I'm excited just for the first game.

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Speaker 3: How different are you as a player from the guy

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Speaker 3: who walked out of Kansas State to now?

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Speaker 4: I would just say, just more technical, just more deliberate

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Speaker 4: with like my steps. Every step that I do on

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Speaker 4: of wasted movement everything being like intentful. I think that's

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Speaker 4: the biggest difference.

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Speaker 3: When San Francisco drafted you, the defensive coordinator was Robert Salah. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he told me, hey, listen, one of my big mistakes

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Speaker 3: so he's gonna be on the inside.

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Speaker 2: How did they initially use you?

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Speaker 3: Do you remindmember those first OTA practices with the forty

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember them. I mean when they when I

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Speaker 4: got drafted, they pretty much called me and said, you know,

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Speaker 4: we're gonna put you at free safety, then we're also

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Speaker 4: going to be played nickel and I was on board

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Speaker 4: with it. As far as like the pro typical stuff.

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Speaker 4: You know, there's an evaluation, there's a process with scouting.

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Speaker 4: You know, a lot of coaches like guys at a

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Speaker 4: certain length, a certain height, especially for a scheme like

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Speaker 4: cover three. So I mean it was definitely understandable at

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Speaker 4: the time, but like you have exceptions, like obviously I

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Speaker 4: was an exception. So you know, it's a normal thing

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Speaker 4: for you know, a coach or a scout a scouting

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Speaker 4: but you know, it was a little overwhelming my rookie

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Speaker 4: year just with learning free safety. It's a lot of

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Speaker 4: it's completely different than playing corner corner. You really just

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Speaker 4: go to safety in school, no, so like before yeah,

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Speaker 4: before I got to San Francisco, I didn't have any

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Speaker 4: experience of playing safety other.

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Speaker 1: Than high school.

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Speaker 4: But like you're just really roman right, but like as

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Speaker 4: far as like the details and making all the calls

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Speaker 4: and like being the you know, the point guard of

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Speaker 4: the defense, it was a lot for me. It was overwhelming.

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Speaker 4: I remember Jeff Hafley, he's a DC over at Green

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Speaker 4: Bay right now. Great dude, he was my positions coaching,

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Speaker 4: Like man, he was really he really wanted me to

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Speaker 4: like just be successful at safety. So like we would

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Speaker 4: spend like hours I'm talking about like I'm still at

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Speaker 1: So it was just like, you know, just a lot

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Speaker 3: Do you still view yourself as the exception? Because when

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Speaker 3: you look around the National Football League, if you turn

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Speaker 3: there's not a lot of dudes like yourself who look

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say that I'm definitely exception. I feel like,

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Speaker 4: you know, the NFL is trendy. Yeah, I mean, like,

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Speaker 4: You know, we had Dunbar, we had Shaq Griff, we

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Speaker 4: So when I got there, obviously I got the chance

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Speaker 4: just think it's a it's a trend and you see

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Speaker 4: And then you had guys in the past like Calvin Johnson,

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Speaker 4: So it's just I just feel like it's just the

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Speaker 3: How would you explain your two years here? I think

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Speaker 3: this stage in New York has helped you, But I

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Speaker 3: don't think people in the National Football League were sleeping

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Speaker 3: on you. Like we've had this conversation before you thought

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Speaker 3: that breakthrough happened for you actually in Seattle, even before

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Speaker 3: you came here. But how would you explain kind of

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know, I've been playing at a

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Speaker 4: you know, I'm really starting to notice how big, like

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Speaker 4: the New York media is. Yeah, I feel like my

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Speaker 4: first year here, I didn't really grasp the understanding of that.

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Speaker 4: Even with the comments I made last year about the

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Speaker 4: eighty five Bears, I didn't like when you say stuff

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Speaker 4: like that, like like those are headlines that you know

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Speaker 4: the media and stuff is looking for. It's just something

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Speaker 4: I just learned like you just got to be careful

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Speaker 4: still got to be our authentic self, but like you know,

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Speaker 4: everyone here wants a headline, and you could use it

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Speaker 4: well in New York, you know people are going to

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Speaker 4: it's also the vice versas effect. If you don't play well,

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Speaker 1: So it goes both ways.

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Speaker 4: But for me at Corner, I know that you know

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Speaker 4: that comes with the game. But it's really just about

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Speaker 3: You're such a thoughtful dude, and you also care about

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Speaker 3: your teammates. When that reaction came back about the eighty

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Speaker 3: five Bears, how did you take it?

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Speaker 4: Honestly, I didn't care because I knew, like where my

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Speaker 4: be good. I mean, I believe PFF grated us as

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Speaker 4: But I just felt like the statement that I made

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Speaker 4: oh it wasn't the eighty five Bears, or if we

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Speaker 1: The eighty five Bears, Like you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: Like you see stuff.

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Speaker 4: Like that, so you know, you just live and you learn,

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Speaker 4: like it is what it is to be honest.

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Speaker 3: I gotta imagine no players talked about that on the

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Speaker 2: Hey, could you ever imagine?

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Speaker 3: No if I told you when you signed your free

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Speaker 3: it was going to be you could be paired up

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Speaker 4: No, I couldn't. I didn't expect it to be how

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Speaker 4: it is. To be honest, I knew we were going

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Speaker 4: you know, every day, like I go out with those guys,

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Speaker 4: like we work hard at practice and it shows in

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Speaker 4: the game. We definitely developed the standard. And yeah, it's

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Speaker 4: known across the league that we're considered the best CB trio.

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Speaker 4: But it's a testament to how those guys work, Like

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Speaker 4: a we just continue to just want to grow for real,

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Speaker 4: day and that's going to lead to success.

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Speaker 3: On Sundays, how do you, as a professional compartmentalize, Because

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Speaker 3: it's funny, they were just asking you downstairs, Hey, hey,

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Speaker 3: DJ to your three year contract. You know you can

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Speaker 3: sign a three year deal. How do you go about

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Speaker 3: just approaching every day, keeping the main thing the main thing,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I consider this job a day to

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Speaker 1: I feel like if you look.

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Speaker 4: Too far out, then you can miss the present and

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Speaker 4: and if you do that, in my opinion, for me,

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Speaker 4: I'm just comfortable as far as like with what I

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Speaker 4: signed coming here. Financially, I'm in a great place. My

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Speaker 4: family's happy.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: I was able to like buy my mama home, buy

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Speaker 4: Like I said, I'm in a great place and my

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Speaker 4: I signed a three year deal, so I intend to

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Speaker 4: play those three years out.

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Speaker 3: What's the luxury you just talked about, Sauce in MC two.

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Speaker 3: What's the luxury of having you guys back there as

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Speaker 3: far as communication and the way you guys work together,

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Speaker 3: and also you guys can play non traditional coverages.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we're doing some really cool things this year.

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Speaker 4: As far as the defense, I won't get into like

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Speaker 4: details and everything right, but I will say, LIKEW and MC,

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Speaker 4: they are talented as far as covering and being able

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Speaker 4: to cover guys. But they're really smart. And I don't

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Speaker 4: think people understand that. But if you start watching tape

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Speaker 4: and you start seeing like the success of certain plays,

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Speaker 4: it really comes down to film study and just anticipation

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Speaker 4: of what we already watched with what our coaches showed

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Speaker 4: us during the week, I would say, like, we're very smart.

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Speaker 4: I think that goes a long way, especially you know,

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Speaker 4: during a long season, your body gets worn down. But

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Speaker 4: to still be able to play at a high level,

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Speaker 4: like when your body is sore because of the long season,

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Speaker 4: they watch film, et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: Can you speak to that how everybody's got to be

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Speaker 3: on a string, so to speak, because we've looked at

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Speaker 3: they're just running zone back there. It's a simplified coverage

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta be chomping at the pit, right because

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I was looking at our d line the

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Speaker 4: And we got Reddick Man, he's I've been watching him

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Speaker 4: So I'm definitely looking forward to him. Same as Jermaine,

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Speaker 4: Q accuse the man. It's the reason why he commands

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Speaker 2: You're a competitor.

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Speaker 3: I know you enjoy playing against them, but what kind

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Speaker 4: Like I was just telling the reporters in there, like

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Speaker 1: The no looks, it's crazy.

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Speaker 4: But he's going to get to the weakness of the coverage,

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Speaker 4: He understands like what we're in, Like if we communicate something,

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Speaker 3: So what do you do in that situation where you

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Speaker 4: You just got to play football. You got to do

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Speaker 4: When you're playing zone, you're thinking he's looking this way

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Speaker 1: It affects the safeties.

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Speaker 4: It affects people when you're throwing no look passes, Like

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Speaker 2: To get some keys.

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Speaker 3: Exactly where I got to think sometimes if you're watching

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Speaker 4: Actually, I'll be telling the safety. He's like, don't just

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Speaker 2: Sauce.

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Speaker 3: Is his athleticism underrated not by you guys, but maybe

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Speaker 4: Just yeah, I agree, he's athletic, though, Like.

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Speaker 2: Like the way he moves.

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Speaker 1: He moves like a little guy. The way he could

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Speaker 3: A dime, the cod and then the flip of the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like he just he just moves real fluidly to

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Speaker 4: Like I watched his film from last year and I

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Speaker 1: He's the best in the league.

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Speaker 3: At do you see receivers, I mean, you're taking care

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Speaker 4: For sure, like we definitely like that's the most important

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Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong, but just the opportunities is just

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Speaker 4: You gotta know really like who the OC is, Like

441
00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,359
Speaker 4: I always talk about like the players is cool, but

442
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,360
Speaker 4: like knowing the offensive coordinator, like does he want to

443
00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,320
Speaker 4: try stuff or is he not going to try stuff?

444
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,879
Speaker 1: Vice versa. So it's really like knowing who the offensive

445
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:10,760
Speaker 1: coordinator is.

446
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:12,760
Speaker 2: Is it the same thing with a quarterback too?

447
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:14,200
Speaker 1: What quarterbacks too? For sure?

448
00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,600
Speaker 4: Because like you know, you got quarterbacks. Some quarterbacks don't

449
00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,000
Speaker 4: care who you are, like Stafford. I was just telling

450
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,720
Speaker 4: somebody like Stafford. I've seen, like Bro, you can get

451
00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:23,800
Speaker 4: an interception on Stafford and he gonna come right back

452
00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 4: at you the next drive. In certain quarterbacks, if you

453
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,160
Speaker 4: get a picked, then they're gonna more than like leave

454
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:28,760
Speaker 4: you alone.

455
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,480
Speaker 1: So like it just depends who the quarterback is too.

456
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Speaker 3: But that's the beauty of it with you guys too,

457
00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:38,840
Speaker 3: is you can't stay away from everybody. But you are arguably,

458
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,040
Speaker 3: in my mind and you said it as well, the

459
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 3: best tree on football. But they can't say, okay, we're

460
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:48,119
Speaker 3: not coming at any one of you.

461
00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 2: They have to attack.

462
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 1: No, I agree, they definitely have to, So come to me,

463
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:55,720
Speaker 1: give me some talk.

464
00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:58,840
Speaker 2: I love it all right.

465
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Speaker 3: So we got some excite news on a production front.

466
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 3: We are our internal production crew feature crew is doing

467
00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,160
Speaker 3: a big piece on you origins DJ Breed.

468
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 2: Can you talk about them?

469
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 3: Going back and what the story telling is going to

470
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Speaker 3: be involved there.

471
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:25,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm excited. To be honest, it's raw, it's uncut,

472
00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:27,639
Speaker 4: it's authentic.

473
00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,359
Speaker 1: You know. I did a couple of things on the

474
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 1: Niners side of story.

475
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,640
Speaker 4: But I just felt like it was like very like Vanilla,

476
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 4: but this is like the realness of like my story

477
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,280
Speaker 4: and my truth. And I told them that, you know,

478
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:40,919
Speaker 4: I wanted to film that way. I didn't want it

479
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 4: like Vanilla. Like I wanted to show like the struggles

480
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 4: that I went through in life from a childhood to

481
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 4: coming up to get to this point. And I wanted

482
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 4: to make it pretty much a nonfilter just to give

483
00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,919
Speaker 4: somebody hope that's going through a similar situation as me,

484
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 4: and even if you're not going through something similar, just

485
00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,440
Speaker 4: motivation and just to let them know like if I

486
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,040
Speaker 4: could do it, then you know you could do it.

487
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 4: That was really like my main objective objective for it, all.

488
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,680
Speaker 3: Right, So preview it for us though, because they went

489
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 3: back to California. You grew up in California. You got

490
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 3: a story here where after high school you can go

491
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,160
Speaker 3: to Fresno. Then you ended up going to junior college,

492
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 3: then you ended up going to.

493
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Speaker 1: Explain like this.

494
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, okay, okay, I thought you'all wanted to, like,

495
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, keep it.

496
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Speaker 1: A little secret.

497
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, well so we tease it.

498
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 4: I got you. So we went back to high school.

499
00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 4: Many people don't know, you know, I got arrested in

500
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 4: high school. So I was sixteen. I got arrested actually

501
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 4: with my little brother and a couple of friends at

502
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,440
Speaker 4: the time. And you know, that really changed my life,

503
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:46,239
Speaker 4: really impacted my life. You know, during that time, I

504
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 4: was a point guard for Independence High School. We had

505
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,400
Speaker 4: a great team. We went thirty three and two that year.

506
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,919
Speaker 4: I had to actually miss the playoffs because of me

507
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 4: getting in trouble and I had to watch it and

508
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,959
Speaker 4: I had to serve time in even a hall. And

509
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 4: you know, for me, it was something that really changed

510
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 4: my life because God just made it clear to me that,

511
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 4: you know, you could either go this way or this way.

512
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 4: And you know, I'm from Bakersfield. You know, a lot

513
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 4: of guys get in trouble and they end up you know,

514
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 4: going in out of jail, working in the oil fields,

515
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera. It's very rare that you know,

516
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:26,880
Speaker 4: guys have been able to get out. You know, now

517
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,120
Speaker 4: we have a couple guys in the league, but during

518
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 4: that time that that really wasn't a thing. So for me,

519
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,879
Speaker 4: it was about, you know, making my mom proud. I

520
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 4: didn't want to ever like make my mom feel like

521
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 4: she didn't raise me the right way. And I want

522
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,680
Speaker 4: to be a great example for my little brother who

523
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,679
Speaker 4: I got in trouble with. So it was just a

524
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 4: wake up call for me. That was the first time

525
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 4: that I really developed a relationship with God. When I

526
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 4: was in there, I was actually reading the Bible, and

527
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 4: I actually always believed in God, but that going through that,

528
00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,680
Speaker 4: I actually had a relationship with God. I've actually felt

529
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,479
Speaker 4: the Holy Spirit, actually felt God working in me, and

530
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,439
Speaker 4: he gave me a sense of peace during that time,

531
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 4: and I just locked in. Like my senior year, ended

532
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,640
Speaker 4: up winning MVP in basketball and football. Was the first

533
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 4: player to do that. Had schools talking to schools. A

534
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 4: lot of schools were kind of afraid of the situation

535
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 4: that happened, so I didn't end up getting any offers.

536
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 4: So that's when I walked on the Fresnel State. We

537
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 4: didn't document going to Fresnel State. We actually documented when

538
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 4: I went to Juco. So they talked to coach Kines,

539
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:32,160
Speaker 4: they talked to coach Grolsfield. So that was a cool experience.

540
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 4: I talked to the guys there. Yeah, that was pretty

541
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 4: much like the main the main story. We also talked

542
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 4: about my pops as well, how he impacted my life.

543
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 4: You get to see my mom. We go to Bakersfield,

544
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 4: get to see my mom. She's as real as it

545
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 4: gets in my opinion. She raised me like she raised

546
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 4: me the right way. And yeah, man, she shares her story,

547
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 4: her testimony as well, and she's a you know, she's

548
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 4: probably the main reason why I'm here.

549
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: She wasn't.

550
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 4: You know, she didn't impact my life the way she did,

551
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 4: I definitely wouldn't be here. So I'm forever grateful for

552
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 4: my mom.

553
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 3: So what do you think about being in this position

554
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,719
Speaker 3: right now to be able to retell that as a

555
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 3: guy who's not only accomplished professional, was not only one

556
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 3: of the best defensive backs in football. But now you're married,

557
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 3: you got a couple kids, you got one of them

558
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 3: on the way way, Yes, you got a beautiful daughter

559
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 3: one on the way.

560
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 2: I mean, how does that make you feel?

561
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: Man? It's a blessing. Bro Like.

562
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 4: That's why I'm always grateful. I'm always smiling because it's

563
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 4: just like how I'm living out is just crazy. Like

564
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,120
Speaker 4: obviously I still work hard, I still put into work,

565
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 4: but like this is just gravy on the top for me,

566
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,199
Speaker 4: Like this is my job to play football still at

567
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 4: twenty seven years old. So like I'm just forever grateful,

568
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 4: Go home, be a family man. That was really all

569
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 4: I ever wanted in life was, you know, to have

570
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 4: a successful career in whatever I'm doing, but most importantly

571
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 4: be a great family man, raised kids in a friendly environment.

572
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 4: And yeah, just be a great husband as well. That's

573
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 4: really all. Like I'm really a simple person when it

574
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 4: comes to that. So I'm living out basically the dreams

575
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 4: that I set out to achieve.

576
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 3: But you got to give yourself a lot of credit

577
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 3: because sixteen, you could have went one way. Yeah, but

578
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,360
Speaker 3: that showed a lot of maturity to take that kind

579
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 3: of situation, that kind of adversity that you self admittedly

580
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 3: put yourself in, and said, you know what, I gotta

581
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 3: take a different direction.

582
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 1: Yeah.

583
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 4: Man, I just felt like I knew I had I

584
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 4: knew I was talented, Like I knew God gave me

585
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 4: gifts from an athletic standpoint of course, But I just

586
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 4: feel like my mindset was always you know, I'm gonna

587
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 4: get out of Bakersfield. I'm gonna do something positive for

588
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 4: my city and for my family most importantly. And I

589
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 4: knew like that situation didn't show that. I remember how

590
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 4: people looked at me, Like when I went to school,

591
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 4: how teachers, how students was like treated me, and it

592
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 4: was just like, Man, this isn't it, bro, this isn't it.

593
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 4: So like I just made it, A made a decision

594
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 4: basically when I got in trouble, like we're gonna go

595
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 4: this way and we're gonna see where the stars for

596
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,919
Speaker 4: or whatever whatever whatever the saying is.

597
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 3: That's origins DJ Reid. We're all looking forward to that

598
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 3: coming out. Uh, what's the plans for you this summer.

599
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 1: We're going back home to Calabasas. Man.

600
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're going back home. It's gonna be with the fam,

601
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 4: just training, getting ready for training.

602
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 2: Count you're gonna chill, okay.

603
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 3: And then lastly, you were talking about hoops before any thoughts.

604
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 2: On what's going on right now.

605
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 3: I mean, the NBA Finals might be over by the

606
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,959
Speaker 3: time this errors, but I wanted to get your thoughts

607
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 3: on the overall maybe the postseason where we are.

608
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:58,479
Speaker 1: NBA landscape, right.

609
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 4: Can I keep it real, bro, Yeah, kick keep let's roll.

610
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 4: Celtics have the best team. Me personally, I want Dallas

611
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 4: to win because I'm a Kyrie guy. But to be

612
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 4: real with you, man, you know, injuries and stuff happened.

613
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 4: I just feel like the way that the Celtics got

614
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,479
Speaker 4: to it, which they can't control that, just with gianna

615
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 4: Is getting hurt, just the injuries, Jimmy.

616
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: Butler is just they had.

617
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 4: They had a lot of fortune going their way, which

618
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 4: I'm not taking anything from them, but I would have

619
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 4: loved to see the superstars that should have been playing play.

620
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: I want in Minnesota.

621
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie. I want Anthony Edwards in Minnesota,

622
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 4: Carl Anthony. I wanted them to really win it. But

623
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 4: I was happy for Kyrie because I love Kyrie and

624
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 4: I like Lucas game as well. But I don't I

625
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 4: don't know if they have that they're not coming with

626
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 4: the firepower and start on that.

627
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 3: Ye, the Celtics, but that's where I wanted to Whose

628
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 3: game do you relate to more?

629
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 2: DJ Reed? Going back in the day, you said you

630
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 2: were a point guard.

631
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 3: Who would be a guy in the pros right now?

632
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 2: Like, that's most like my game.

633
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna shoot my horn. Bro give us something

634
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I was nice, but I'm not NBA nice.

635
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: Like but my style.

636
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 4: I would say, like, that's a good question. I would

637
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 4: say prime Chris Paul. Really prime Chris Paul, because I

638
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 4: was getting my teammates. I was getting assists, but I can't.

639
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 4: I can't get buckets though, too. Don't get a twisted

640
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 4: you know what I mean? Cross give my buckets, shoot threes,

641
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 4: all that.

642
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 3: But you had a mid range game, if you you're

643
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 3: telling me Chris Paul.

644
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I had all that.

645
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 4: But I would like to say Kyrie just for his

646
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 4: yo yo, But Kyrie was is a peer score like

647
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 4: Kyrie could play shooting guard too, So I wouldn't go

648
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 4: that far. But I would say Chris Paul and defense

649
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 4: to Chris Paul is getting hell of deals back then too.

650
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kyrie off the bounce, incredible Kyrie.

651
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 4: I remember I watched the Brooklyn we went to a

652
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 4: playoff game last year? Was it last year? It was

653
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 4: when he was in Brooklyn. I don't know if it

654
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,719
Speaker 4: was last year. Or my first year here. But I

655
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 4: was watching him, Bro, it was just crazy, Like the

656
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 4: way he dribbled. Bro, he really got the ball on

657
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 4: the stream. He only had twenty that game, but it

658
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 4: was just how he was scoring.

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Speaker 1: It was just so technical, bro. Like, it's just amazing. Bro,

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Speaker 1: I ain't go line.

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Speaker 3: DJ Reid a man of many talents. Great seeing you

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Speaker 3: enjoy the summer.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that, Bro, you too,