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Speaker 1: Thank y'all so much. Man, nice, I really I really

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Speaker 1: do appreciate you. Man, this this is a blessing to

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Speaker 1: come true.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: I just I can't thank you all enough as an

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Speaker 1: organization for you know, believing in me, man, for.

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Speaker 3: Real, absolutely absolutely all right, we'll go ahead and get

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Speaker 3: served with some media.

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Speaker 2: James boyd cut congrats. You know drafted.

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Speaker 3: Uh, you're looking at your background. You are a really

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Speaker 3: high level of crew come out of high school if

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Speaker 3: you viewed it, going a different.

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Speaker 2: Way in college and getting to the next level.

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Speaker 3: But what did you learn about yourself throughout the journey,

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Speaker 3: having the ups and downs, having the adversity, and then

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Speaker 3: still getting here at the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: Man, just first and foremost, you know, just like you know,

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Speaker 1: believing in God, man, and staying true to myself.

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Speaker 2: Man, just fum my head down.

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Speaker 1: Working just just believing myself, just knowing, like just just

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Speaker 1: really just really like knowing, like knowing yourself, man, like.

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Speaker 2: Making this dream come true, you know as a young kid.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 1: Just that's really why I learned about myself in this

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Speaker 4: Joel Erickson Jalen, what's your level of experience with playing

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Speaker 4: press coverage?

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Speaker 1: How about to say in college, this game we played,

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Speaker 1: I was impressed a lot, especially somewhere to the boundary,

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Speaker 1: especially this year coach Dirkin coming in as well. We

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Speaker 1: did a lot of you know, cover one man, so

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Speaker 1: definitely a lot of experience with press.

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Speaker 4: Nada Atkins. Hey, Jale, I'm just curious what today's been

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Speaker 4: like for you. Did you have a draft watch party

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Speaker 4: or how did you kind of handle this?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I had a draft watch party.

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Speaker 1: I just had the people closer to me, family and

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Speaker 1: friends come, you know, support me.

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Speaker 2: Men on this great day. You know, you know this

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Speaker 2: today's today has been one of the best days of

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Speaker 2: my life.

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Speaker 4: Now, just to follow up, what's it like that waiting game, Like,

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Speaker 4: were you nervous? Did you believe that you'd get picked

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Speaker 4: at some point?

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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I believe, you know, just god that you know,

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Speaker 1: she was gonna believe in me, and I was gonna

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Speaker 1: take any of with any organization. I just think Inndianapolis

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Speaker 1: as an organization, don't believe in me, man, just because

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Speaker 1: like mak you Saud like you gotta you gotta believe

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Speaker 1: all the chips in yourself.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: So I really I really do appreciate them, man, and

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Speaker 1: you know I wouldn't, you know, really stressing about the

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Speaker 1: way in game. You know, just gotta believe in yourself

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Speaker 1: and then you can make anything come true.

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Speaker 2: So all right, a couple more here, George Bremmer, yeeling

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Speaker 2: Uh come from a military family. How does that help

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Speaker 2: shape you as a person and as a player. Uh?

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Speaker 1: Very very you know, discipline, You know, in every aspect

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Speaker 1: of my life, I believe you should have a plan

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Speaker 1: or a routine and you know that's that's what caused

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Speaker 1: your success and things like that. And you know, just

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Speaker 1: as just as a personal different perspective my life. I

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Speaker 1: live in Japan, and you know I love all people.

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Speaker 1: I got a big heart. So man, I'm just ready

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Speaker 1: to get around, get around the family man in Indianapolis, my.

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Speaker 2: Brothers, all the staff and things like that, and get

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Speaker 2: just than rolling man.

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Speaker 4: So so all right, and the last one here, James Boyd.

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Speaker 3: Jalen, what would you say are some of the strengths

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Speaker 3: of your game? And who do you look at in

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Speaker 3: the league past present? It's like guys that you want to,

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Speaker 3: you know, model your game after and hopefully get to

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Speaker 3: that same.

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Speaker 2: Level as it was.

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Speaker 1: Definitely a you know, me being a bigger corner. You know,

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Speaker 1: I look at guys like Jalen Ramsey, Walton Humphrey, you

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Speaker 1: know guys like that. Man, just watch how aggretion they

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Speaker 1: be at the line, you know, messing up ross from

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Speaker 1: the get go. You know, man, just all the answers

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Speaker 1: to my game. I just feel like I'm a long,

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Speaker 1: rangy corner, very physical man, you know, get to the

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Speaker 1: ball and man just very very intelligent man, just you know,

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Speaker 1: slowing the game out for myself, seeing seeing what it

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Speaker 1: looks like seeing with his floor man just attacking and

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Speaker 1: bring one hundred ten percent every day. So that's type

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Speaker 1: of player you're getting. Indianapolish one more quick one.

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Speaker 3: Three years at Texas A and him I believe. Yeah, sir,

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Speaker 3: what gave you that confidence to come out? Like what

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Speaker 3: made you bet on yourself that you could have went

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Speaker 3: back for another year but.

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Speaker 2: You thought this was the right time.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: It just fought right. Man.

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Speaker 1: Talking to God man and you know he guides me

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Speaker 1: through my through my path of life. So just trusting

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Speaker 1: to him, trusting myself. You know, That's that's why I

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Speaker 1: came out early.