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Speaker 1: If you google my name my rookie year, it would

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Speaker 1: have been like Chris Long bust, you know, and really

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Speaker 1: through the first half of my second year because I

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Speaker 1: couldn't get it going. But then the second half of

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Speaker 1: my second year just started rolling. And then you know,

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Speaker 1: like had forty over four years and I was one

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Speaker 1: of the guys. But then then got hurt, you know,

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Speaker 1: and tried to play hurt, you know, played through a

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Speaker 1: high ankle, shot it up all year, contract year, had thirteen,

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Speaker 1: got paid, things were going well. Broke my did something

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Speaker 1: to my ankle, head surgery, decided to come back. Looked awful,

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Speaker 1: like awful, embarrassing. If I look back at I wish

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Speaker 1: I'd never played. Then the very next year came back.

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Speaker 1: I felt like everybody thought I was on the way

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Speaker 1: out pretty much, and second game broke my leg. So

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Speaker 1: two years in a row, Eyard, I'll never forget getting

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Speaker 1: cut by the Rams, and like the last two years,

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Speaker 1: like the team moves, you know, I can remember last

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Speaker 1: night at the Dome. It was the weirdest thing in

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Speaker 1: the world. You're like, I'm getting cut in a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks. I've been here eight years. We're never gonna

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Speaker 1: win you know, I'm gonna leave an embarrassment. I came in,

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Speaker 1: you know, my first year, I'm a bus My eighth year,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm always hurt, you know. And I thought my

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Speaker 1: career was over at that point too. And funny I

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Speaker 1: talk about the Pats game and thinking I was done.

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Speaker 1: But I owe a lot to Bill, to Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: for giving me a shot, because I did not want

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Speaker 1: to go play for any old team in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to win, you know, like otherwise I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have kept playing, and a place to build good memories. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like yeah, seeing that's like yeah, And so I'll never forget.

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Speaker 1: We just had our first one whaling and I'm in

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Speaker 1: the hospital. I'm kind of feeling sorry for myself, even

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Speaker 1: though the babies here, I'm just still just dwelling on

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Speaker 1: all this shit. I go to Harris here to grab

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Speaker 1: a six pack or whatever, and my phone rings and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, fuck, I better pick it up. And I

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Speaker 1: like go to the front of the aisle where the

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Speaker 1: service is decent, and it's like gross Bill Belichick, you know,

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Speaker 1: in his voice, and I'm like whoa, whoa. And I'll

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Speaker 1: just never forget, Like just the call. He took a

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Speaker 1: guy who was like really downtrod and probably ready to quit,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, I have no information on what

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Speaker 1: it's going to be up there, but I'm ready to go,

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Speaker 1: you know. And had he not called and he said

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Speaker 1: on the phone, he was like, hey, man, you're a

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Speaker 1: hell of a player. I don't know what we're going

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Speaker 1: to do with you, Like, I don't know where you're

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Speaker 1: gonna fit, but I'm going to find a fit. And

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Speaker 1: that leap of faith on my end and the leap

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Speaker 1: of faith on his end which he takes him all

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Speaker 1: the time. This isn't a big deal for him, but

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Speaker 1: it was the biggest deal in the world for me.

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Speaker 1: And if it weren't for that, I probably would have broke.

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Speaker 1: So some of it's me pushing through. We had a

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Speaker 1: picture in our d line room. Mike Waffle was our

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Speaker 1: dal coach, who's the coach for the Giants, Old Marine,

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Speaker 1: fucking intense cat. But we had this great room Aaron Donald, Me,

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Speaker 1: Robert Quinn, you know, like William Hayes, Nick Fairley, Kenna

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Speaker 1: Lang for like all first rounders. But we never had

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Speaker 1: success as a team. And we had this picture on

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Speaker 1: the wall and I think This is true in life,

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Speaker 1: and it's true in football. There's this diagram of these

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Speaker 1: two guys with pickaxes and they're like diamond mining. I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty sure you've seen this. And one of the guys

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Speaker 1: is walking right to left, back towards the entrance to

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Speaker 1: the cave with his pickaxe over his shoulder, and he's dejected, sweating.

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Speaker 1: On the other side of that wall to the right

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Speaker 1: where he's walking away from, there's a huge diamond, like

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Speaker 1: six inches through that wall, and there's another dude on

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Speaker 1: the bottom and he's just hammering away, and it's just

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Speaker 1: it's a very simple thing, but so many people give

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Speaker 1: up before they get to realize what they've been working

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Speaker 1: for this whole time. And for me, that was a

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Speaker 1: very clean incident that illustrates just that is like I

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Speaker 1: was this close to saying, hey, fuck this, and who

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Speaker 1: knows what I'm doing right now, but my life is

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Speaker 1: a lot better for having just just wake up one

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Speaker 1: more day, you know, just just put your shoes on

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Speaker 1: one more day. Just keep fucking walking, dude. You know,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be a sprint, but just walk

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Speaker 1: and if you keep walking, eventually you get a break.

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Speaker 1: And that was for me Bill calling me in a haristeater.

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Speaker 1: I love that, dude. That is great.