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Speaker 1: Coach. Going back to when David Baker surprised you, is

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Speaker 1: that a vivid memory or was that an out of

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Speaker 1: body experience for you? Well, it's a little both, to

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Speaker 1: be quite honest with you, and it was very vivid

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Speaker 1: memory I will always have. It's also a really experience

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Speaker 1: I've never experienced before. So, um, you know it was

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Speaker 1: it was something I did not expect, Cotton totally by surprise.

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Speaker 1: This isn't right that this is happening right now. But okay,

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Speaker 1: I never come back your David if we see it

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Speaker 1: all the time with the knock on the door, but

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Speaker 1: this was on national TV in part of my callings

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Speaker 1: and then like well, and so it really was something

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Speaker 1: again if it was totally unexpected. Um, we of course

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Speaker 1: know that our Rooney the Second is your presenter and

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Speaker 1: very good reason that you picked him. But knowing how

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Speaker 1: special this entire weekend is, with so many people tied

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Speaker 1: to the Pittsburgh organization, what do you think his father,

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Speaker 1: Mr Rooney would have said, knowing just what this this

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Speaker 1: would mean to the team. You know, it's it's the

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Speaker 1: honest responsibility. It's what the Pittsburgh Stealer way is. I

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Speaker 1: just came out of a luncheon, the rain Nitchy Luncheon,

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Speaker 1: and we're all sitting around this table. We had a

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Speaker 1: picture taken and you just think about the decades of professionalism. Um,

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Speaker 1: how tremendous these athletes were, what they contributed. Tony Dungeon

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Speaker 1: and I were sitting in bright and standing next to

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Speaker 1: each other. If you just said to me when I

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Speaker 1: was in crafting that I had to stand here at

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Speaker 1: this luncheon with these people in this room, UM, I

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Speaker 1: would have said, no Way. So I'm sure he's very proud,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully we can make him proud as well. You

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Speaker 1: said how unexpected it was. Did you seek advice from

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Speaker 1: anybody just to go into this experience this weekend of

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Speaker 1: what to expect? No, you know, kind of the way

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Speaker 1: I did for the Pittsburgh Steel's head coaching job, you know.

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Speaker 1: So it's one of those things I think you have

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Speaker 1: to experience yourself. I've just tried to take it all in,

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Speaker 1: being very humbled by this whole process and trying to

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Speaker 1: really just grasp every each and every event and just

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Speaker 1: take it in and and trying to slow it down.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not looking forward to the next one.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna e brace where I'm at right now this moment.

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Speaker 1: And I think when you look around you see them

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Speaker 1: people that are eighty years old, like bellby Bell, and

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Speaker 1: you see people coming in for the first time, like

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Speaker 1: Alan fantica Um. You just see the decades of legends

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Speaker 1: that these people are. And I just talked about today

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Speaker 1: the different paths that everybody took to get there, and

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Speaker 1: everyone's different in our own way. But the one thing,

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Speaker 1: and we'll Lanier said just today, we all have the

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Speaker 1: same d n A. And so it's really just to me,

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Speaker 1: it was just you get around these people and you

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Speaker 1: just you're almost in all of the people you're around,

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Speaker 1: and yet you see you you're one of them now,

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Speaker 1: and so it just is very humbling. It's a blessing,

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Speaker 1: and I am so honored. I went back and was

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Speaker 1: rewatching that night in Miami when Troy got the knock

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Speaker 1: the after party and we handed you the mic and

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Speaker 1: you guys start interviewing each other, and the bond between

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Speaker 1: you two is just very crystal clear. My rookie year,

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Speaker 1: you definitely didn't give me any confidence looking back on it.

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Speaker 1: What did Troy teach you? What did he impact you

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Speaker 1: as a coach or anything that you take away from

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Speaker 1: your relationship with him on and off the field. Well,

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Speaker 1: number one, off the fields, he's just a great kid,

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Speaker 1: and you knew that from the very beginning. He's he's

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Speaker 1: very humble down Darth. But I think the one thing, Missy,

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Speaker 1: and that's why I kind of grab it. I said,

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Speaker 1: let me interview this kid, and the one thing that

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Speaker 1: I just took from him is he was one of

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Speaker 1: those guys that was willing to learn and soak up

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Speaker 1: everything you gave him, and you almost find yourself this

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Speaker 1: is the guy who just wanted to know everything. Tell me,

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Speaker 1: tell me, tell me. And at the same time, it's like, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I gave you enough. Now you just be you. And

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Speaker 1: I think that was the thing I realized some mores

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Speaker 1: around and this, don't harness this kid. He's want to

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Speaker 1: do everything you ask him to do. He's going to prepare,

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Speaker 1: he may take some chances, but he's so special at

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Speaker 1: a kid that they're calculated everything that he does. And

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Speaker 1: so when we did that, I just had to say

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Speaker 1: to him, I'm apologized for the first couple of years

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Speaker 1: I put you in so many musicians because every time

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Speaker 1: I gave you something you could do it, and you

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Speaker 1: wanted more, but it's probably too much at the one time.

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Speaker 1: And his funny line was, you know, Mr Rooney came

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Speaker 1: up to him after the first year and says, don't worry, kid,

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Speaker 1: and you're not playing as bad as they say you are.

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Speaker 1: And he's going they say, I'm playing there. And so

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Speaker 1: it was that kind of thing, as I just learned

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Speaker 1: was watching him. It's just the way prepared I said before.

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Speaker 1: And you watch you know Troy during the course the

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Speaker 1: wee can practice. His hair is an abundant. He's underneath

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Speaker 1: the helmet and he's you know, he goes around, he's

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Speaker 1: getting a feel for what we're trying to do and

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Speaker 1: what he knows the offense and we're trying to simulate

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Speaker 1: they're trying to do, you know, Sunday and he comes out.

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Speaker 1: He goes from Clark Kent to serve that because he

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Speaker 1: lets the hair down and he's out there and he

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Speaker 1: is just exploding from one side of the field to

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Speaker 1: the other. So he's a guy that knew what to do,

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Speaker 1: when to do it, and how to do it. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: thanks coach, we appreciate your time. Thanks missing