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Speaker 1: No, obviously it's never a good thing when a guy

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Speaker 1: Jabrille Peppers got hurt, your playing time went way up.

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Speaker 1: How much did that impact your growth those last five

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Speaker 1: games that seem might be rectig did from fires then

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Speaker 1: earlier in your rookie year, Yeah, it was crucial. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, I just try to stay ready whenever my

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Speaker 1: time I was gonna come, and obviously you came in Chicago,

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Speaker 1: and I just try to sap up to the plate

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Speaker 1: um for our team and help us succeed, help guys

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Speaker 1: grow and move forward. Um. And so yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: my home anse was to stay ready, and it always is,

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Speaker 1: you know, stay ready, to stay aware, um, be ready

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Speaker 1: to be ready to go. And then if you could

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Speaker 1: just take me to this back to this year's draft,

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Speaker 1: when they draft McKinney in the second round, what's going

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Speaker 1: through your mind and you're thinking, like my role just changed.

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Speaker 1: I might have some corner now, Like what's going through

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Speaker 1: your mind when the Giants picked McKinney in the second

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Speaker 1: round at your position? Yeah, I think, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: whoever was chosen, you know, you know, I got to

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Speaker 1: know I've gotten to know Xavier a little bit, um,

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Speaker 1: but as a person, I'm excited, uh you know to

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Speaker 1: have him, Um, you know as somebody who's next to me. Uh,

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Speaker 1: somebody who's next to me in terms of being you know,

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Speaker 1: when he was drafted, I just thought, Wow, that's great

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Speaker 1: heard about him, I know how he's as a person

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Speaker 1: as a player, how he prepares. I think that's what

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Speaker 1: we needed to run here. So I was excited once.

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Speaker 1: Uh call, what do you attribute to your guys as

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Speaker 1: a first team defense having such a strong day today? Um?

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Speaker 1: How was it getting getting in and out of the

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Speaker 1: calls and just overall? You know, why do you think

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Speaker 1: you guys did perform so well and your first thing

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Speaker 1: was pretty was pretty spot I think you know, we

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Speaker 1: kind of set the tone last night even Uh, let's

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Speaker 1: all prepare coming today like it was a game. We're

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Speaker 1: not getting those preseason game reps, um, so we tried

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Speaker 1: just play with each other. We wanted to fire around,

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Speaker 1: that was kind of my mindset. It's all, you know,

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Speaker 1: When you were talking last night about treating it like

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Speaker 1: practice the way it would be like a one o'clock

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Speaker 1: I got up early, got in here earlier. Um, it

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Speaker 1: little bit. Um. And yeah, it listen time music that

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Speaker 1: I listened to before games, you know, getting my my headphones, going,

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Speaker 1: play little Sudoku which I like to play before games.

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Speaker 1: Just getting you know, my routine. Um. And that's you

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Speaker 1: know why I did, because I really I took to

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Speaker 1: what we want. He always talked about everybody having multiple roles.

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Speaker 1: mean you're sitting there going good. I'll do whatever they want.

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Speaker 1: I've bounced around positions kind of my whole life in

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Speaker 1: the defensive backfield. UM, and it's no different now no

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Speaker 1: matter where I'm at, how old I am, I'm always

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Speaker 1: ready to play whatever. And you know, I'm excited to

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Speaker 1: do that. I just want to be getting a ballplayer.

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Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to. How exciting is it

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Speaker 1: for you to be in a defense where as you say,

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Speaker 1: you've you've bounced around from position position your whole life.

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Speaker 1: That's actually seems to be the scheme here, Like that's

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Speaker 1: not that's not something that you have to do out

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Speaker 1: um who are capable of doing, you know, whatever is

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Speaker 1: and you know, just to really be there for each

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Speaker 1: other no matter what, and the university strikes UM and

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Speaker 1: we just want to make sure everyone is ready. And

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Speaker 1: you just go through the play in the end zone

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Speaker 1: there against I think it was golden right when you

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, Um, so you know, like any play. Um,

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Speaker 1: to I mean he went up to get it and

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Speaker 1: I just try to finish it to the ground. We

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Speaker 1: and so that's all it was. And you know, just

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Speaker 1: and just trying to rip that thing out. And so yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was a good finish. Um. I wanted to be

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Speaker 1: You know. I just wanted to ask you about Darny

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Speaker 1: Holmes made a really nice play today. I'm curious what

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Speaker 1: what you think he's adding to your group. Um, you know, Darney,

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Speaker 1: uh talk to uh Jill about that one. But as

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Speaker 1: a person I will talk about you know, Darne is

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Speaker 1: very intelligent. He's a very kind person. Um. The person

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Speaker 1: think I love to see that. I think we all

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Speaker 1: feed off that energy and everybody. He was learning who

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Speaker 1: he is more and there's a person. Um. It's great

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