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Speaker 1: The Colts active again in NFL free agency. This time

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Speaker 1: they have brought in safety free agent safety Armani Watts

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Speaker 1: coming over from the Kansas City Chiefs inside the Power

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Speaker 1: Home Solar Radio Studio with Casey Valley. I'm Matt Taylor, Armani.

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Speaker 1: First off, welcome to Indianapolis. Congratulations man, What did this

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Speaker 1: decision for you boil down to to join the Colts?

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Speaker 1: Really just blessing. Happy to be here right now. Great

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Speaker 1: opportunity to play for such a great organization, and especially me,

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Speaker 1: I got lucky being in Casey all four years and

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Speaker 1: to come into an organization like this is truly a

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Speaker 1: blessing and get that second contract. Not to me, dudes,

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Speaker 1: get the opportunity. So I'm definitely excited to get out

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Speaker 1: of here and work. And it really just came down

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Speaker 1: to the opportunity to getting on the field and helping

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Speaker 1: the team get to that big that goal. It's Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: So m this team is a great team. They're definitely

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Speaker 1: a winning program, head in the right direction. So definitely

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Speaker 1: happy to be a part of it. Now, what was

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Speaker 1: that like, I mean, your first time entering free agency,

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Speaker 1: you know the kind of that fear be unknown, but

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Speaker 1: what was that experience? Like, I'm not gonna lie, it's

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Speaker 1: definitely weird at first, differently weird, feeling a little stressful,

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Speaker 1: but then um, when she started just to trust the

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Speaker 1: process and just just um, really just can't let yourself

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Speaker 1: just wander too often, you know what I'm saying. It's

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Speaker 1: just like it's a long process right now and for

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Speaker 1: me to get picked up right now, like I said,

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Speaker 1: as a blessing, So really I'll just taking the time,

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Speaker 1: taking a vacation, spending time with my daughter and my girl,

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Speaker 1: hanging out with family, and just taking a day by

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Speaker 1: day just everybody here, just seeing who's interested in, what

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Speaker 1: teams were making moves, and just really letting guy take controls.

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Speaker 1: So now I'm in a spot so I'm happy to

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Speaker 1: be here, ready to work and learn. ARMANI, what do

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Speaker 1: you know about this defense Gus Bradley, and what excites

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Speaker 1: you about this opportunity on we got a new decordinator

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Speaker 1: right here. Um, definitely very energetic, energety guy personality is

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Speaker 1: say it's through the roof. So I'm excited about that

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Speaker 1: high energy need that on defense for sure, And I'm

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Speaker 1: really just excited to getting locker room with the guys

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Speaker 1: the already great defensive team, great d line, great great linebackers,

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Speaker 1: great dvs. So I'm ready to just to add on

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Speaker 1: and just mode myself in. Now I know one of

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Speaker 1: the areas you've you've strided it in the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years of special teams. I don't know how much

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Speaker 1: you know about Bubba Ventrone, but you know you talk

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Speaker 1: about the you know the hype that Gus Bradley is

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Speaker 1: Bubba's maybe on a whole other level. Do you know

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Speaker 1: much about definitely seeing seeing especially his energy too. I

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Speaker 1: love it so definitely on his special team. He's a

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Speaker 1: great mind too. So like so defense, special teams, whatever

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Speaker 1: it is, I'm ready to play. So I was with

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Speaker 1: Dave Toby, another great step special teams UM coordinator, so

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Speaker 1: I started to look straight to another one. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: had ten special teams tackles last season with the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: which I think was tied for most on the team.

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Speaker 1: For you, what what is it about special teams that

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Speaker 1: you take pride and how important is that to you

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Speaker 1: as a player? Really? With me, I love football, So

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Speaker 1: whenever I'm on the field, I'm gonna try to give

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Speaker 1: it one hundred percent. UM and I took it from

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Speaker 1: my old team. Oh, one of his interviews, why not

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Speaker 1: on the field with special teams? Be the best player

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Speaker 1: on special teams? From Tyrone Matthew like, why why not

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Speaker 1: go out there and try to get the ball every time?

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Speaker 1: So I took that to me and then just ran

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Speaker 1: with it right on. Watch Matthew Slater all the time.

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Speaker 1: He goes crazy out there again gets them a couple

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Speaker 1: of times. So there's a lot of guys that's been

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Speaker 1: on special teams and just showing me the ropes that

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Speaker 1: special teams really helps with more than just like on

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Speaker 1: defense and everything, especially as a big part of the game.

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Speaker 1: So really, every time I'm on the field, I'll take

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Speaker 1: it everything that one hundred percent er. So special teams

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Speaker 1: is a huge part of the game. So I played

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Speaker 1: it in college and I'm willing to play it steal,

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Speaker 1: So no no doubt about that. That's Armani Watts with us,

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Speaker 1: a free agent safety joining the Indianapolis Colts. And you

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Speaker 1: just talked about special teams and the culture there in

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Speaker 1: Kansas City and some of the guys that you've you've

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Speaker 1: looked up to when it comes to winning a championship.

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Speaker 1: You know what it takes to win a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: You've been part of that process. What can you take

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Speaker 1: away from that experience and help infuse that in this

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Speaker 1: building here with the Colts. M I said, A couple

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Speaker 1: of things I can bring over just the close to

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Speaker 1: how our close our locker room was. I feel like

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Speaker 1: we were all brothers. There was no bad apples in

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Speaker 1: the locker room. Everybody was dead to work, everybody pushed

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Speaker 1: each other, We knew to go. So I think it

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Speaker 1: would have come down to is consistent to see and

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Speaker 1: just the details of the everyday grind and just just

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Speaker 1: loving the process, loving the process of the grind. Then

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Speaker 1: when Sunday comes, it's like it's like clockwork. So um,

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Speaker 1: I think that's something that was that I can take

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Speaker 1: and bringing from here. It's just the everyday grind, loving

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Speaker 1: the process and coming together as one. Yeah. And then

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Speaker 1: once once you got that on the field, you want

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Speaker 1: to do anything for your brothers, So no doubt about

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Speaker 1: it again, Armani Watts with us. Lastly, I know we're

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Speaker 1: cramming in a lot at you here in a short

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Speaker 1: period of time, but describe yourself off the field, where

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Speaker 1: are you into so Colts fans can kind of get

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Speaker 1: to know you personally, so to speak. I say, you

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Speaker 1: probably get on my twittering figure out real quick. I'm

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Speaker 1: a big video game nerd. Yeah, I'm actually I'm part

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Speaker 1: of a KCP team, esports team in Kansas City right now.

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Speaker 1: So Kansas City Pioneers out there, okay, yeah, esports team.

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Speaker 1: Um love Star Wars Harry Potter. Really yes, I'm a

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Speaker 1: really different guys. So I'm into all that anime everything stuff.

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Speaker 1: So I say, I'm all over the place. I'm interested

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Speaker 1: in a lot of stuff, but you could put me

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Speaker 1: in a nerd same a. Star Wars is definitely my thing.

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Speaker 1: My daughter's name Laya, Laya Race. Yea. That's beautiful. Congratulations

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Speaker 1: again and we look forward to tapping into that that

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Speaker 1: nerd them that you have because there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: people in here like you. So thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: the time, and we'll see here in a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks wout program, Yes, sir,