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Speaker 1: Jared, if you had a chance to sort of look

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Speaker 1: at the past month or so and and you know,

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Speaker 1: to go from from where you were to where you

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Speaker 1: where you have been in the last two games, and

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Speaker 1: and kind of absorble all of that, and or or

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Speaker 1: you just so focused on on the day to day. Uh. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you just gotta be played day by day. You know,

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Speaker 1: things happened week the week with guys going down, so

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Speaker 1: you just gotta stay ready. Um. So when the opportunity came,

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Speaker 1: you know, I treated every week like I was gonna play,

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Speaker 1: So you know, I was preparing myself for that for

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Speaker 1: that moment. Did you feel like, do you feel like

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Speaker 1: with the opportunities you've been given you you sort of

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Speaker 1: earned a role in the rotation? Uh? Probably maybe what

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Speaker 1: than you did before you you got on the field. Um,

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Speaker 1: really that's not my call, that's up to the coaches.

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Speaker 1: But whatever is asking me, you know, I'm ready for

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Speaker 1: it going forward. Yeah, okay there. Yeah, And I'm just

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Speaker 1: kind of curious with regard to Learn Williams, who's been

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Speaker 1: going through some physical stuff this year and stayed in

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Speaker 1: the in the lineup. What has that shown you this year?

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Speaker 1: When what have you kind of learned out of watching

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Speaker 1: him operate and play through stuff. Um, I'm not too

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Speaker 1: sure on what, Like he's been fighting throws though he's

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Speaker 1: been banged up pretty bad. But like, you know, seeing

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Speaker 1: a guy compete at a high level every week, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's a lot of respect and you know it makes

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Speaker 1: me kind of we don't you don't want to follow

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Speaker 1: suit and you know, you guys got guys like that

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Speaker 1: putting it all on the line every week. You know,

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Speaker 1: even with the way the season has been going, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's still battling out there and not really tapping up.

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Speaker 1: So like that's a lot of respect for him. All shorts, Hey, Jared,

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Speaker 1: thank yeah, I got you good. Um As as a

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Speaker 1: small school guy, um, um, you talk about the mindset

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Speaker 1: you have to bring in and undrafted, small school guy,

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Speaker 1: you're competing against guys from big schools, you know, high

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Speaker 1: draft picks and things, and um, how do you think

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Speaker 1: you did with that? You know, is it always kind

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Speaker 1: of an uphill underdog mentality? Uh? You know not really?

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Speaker 1: Is this believing in my own ability? Um? You know,

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Speaker 1: I can't get too caught up on you know, the

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Speaker 1: narrative of like it's being hard for small school guys

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Speaker 1: to make it or we can't compete with you know,

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Speaker 1: Power five or anything like that. I can't get too

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Speaker 1: caught up in that. I just at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, I gotta believe in my own ability and

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Speaker 1: that you know, I belong here the um um. Some

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Speaker 1: of your teammates and coaches have have said that, Um,

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Speaker 1: you were pretty aggressive from the start, which is um

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Speaker 1: often what does not happen with with a small school cornerback,

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Speaker 1: you know, is that just your mentality that you know,

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Speaker 1: if I'm gonna be here, I'm gonna go down or

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Speaker 1: come up swinging sort of thing. Um. You know that's

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Speaker 1: kind of how you know. I was taught to play

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Speaker 1: the game, you know, my my dad taught me to

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Speaker 1: play that way, always the aggressive you know. But um,

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Speaker 1: you know I can't. This is the opportunity for me.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a once in a lot of time.

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Speaker 1: You know, I can't be I just can't let it

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Speaker 1: slip away. So I gotta do everything I can, you know,

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Speaker 1: to stay. Thank Mark Kennisaro. Just a question with regard

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Speaker 1: to to Joe Judge, and I'm curious how you've seen

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Speaker 1: him handle these difficult times as you've been losing. I

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Speaker 1: know you haven't been around here a long time, but um,

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Speaker 1: I'm just you know, how was he kind of kept

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Speaker 1: your guys motivated and how do you feel like you

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Speaker 1: guys responded to him during these tough times with a

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Speaker 1: losing games. Um, you know, everybody in the building got

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Speaker 1: a lot of pride. You know, we're all pros in

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Speaker 1: a sense to where we want to win, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So nobody's throwing in the towel, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we might have been eliminated from the postseason, but nobody's

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Speaker 1: thrown in the towel. You know, we still got, you know,

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Speaker 1: two games left that we're trying to win, you know,

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Speaker 1: especially with this one coming up.