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Speaker 1: Thank your first experience out here. It's really cool.

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Speaker 2: You know you dream of of playing for a NFL team,

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Speaker 2: but actually, you know, having that and why on your helmet,

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Speaker 2: it's it's a different feeling.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: How much room do you think you have to grow

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Speaker 3: as an NFL player after your experience in the scene.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's really exciting for me cause I think

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Speaker 2: I have, you know, super high ceiling. I think I

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Speaker 2: haven't even scratch the surface of what I'm capable of. So, uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm really looking forward to improving every day

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Speaker 2: when I'm on her.

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Speaker 1: I think I've read that.

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Speaker 4: Do you have five brothers?

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Speaker 1: Five brothers? That's a lot of brothers, it.

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Speaker 3: Is, Uh, what's my this is mother to day weekend?

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Speaker 3: What what's mom meant to to you and your brothers?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: My mom's met everything, uh to me and my family.

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Speaker 2: She's been on a rock.

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Speaker 1: Uh. I wouldn't be here without her.

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Speaker 2: You know, she took us out of a a really

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Speaker 2: bad situation and was able to work her tail off

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Speaker 2: for for me to be here. So you know, I

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Speaker 2: tribute everything I got and m me being here today

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Speaker 2: or Yeah, you.

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Speaker 3: Paid much attention to whether Darren Waller is gonna play

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Speaker 3: this season or not?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, having Uh, like I I've heard stuff. I'm not

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Speaker 2: sure what's gonna happen. At the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: him being in the room is is. It's gonna be

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Speaker 2: good for everybody. So we'll see how it shakes out.

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Speaker 1: You see your reach jobs. You know, no, ma'am. What's

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Speaker 1: it been like getting to work with uh? You tit

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Speaker 1: ends coach and just kind of start to form that relationship.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, you know coach Kelly. We we spoke

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Speaker 2: during the pre draft process. I got a good feel

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Speaker 2: for him, but you know, it's been a lot more

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Speaker 2: hands on now. I think he's done a great job

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Speaker 2: of coaching and I think he's gonna really help me improve.

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Speaker 1: What were those pre draft conversations.

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Speaker 2: A lot of 'em was just kind of just getting

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Speaker 2: a feel for each other, just him, you know, showing

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Speaker 2: me a little bit of his coaching style and just

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Speaker 2: trying to get to know me as a player, how

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Speaker 2: I learned stuff like that. So it wasn't anything super

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Speaker 3: I got it's kind of hard to you know, you

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Speaker 3: when you're just meeting someone, but what stood out about

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Speaker 3: maybe his coaching style or maybe attracted you to know

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Speaker 3: that is something you want to work with.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think he's very honest and a little blunt if

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Speaker 2: I'm honest, if I'm being honest with you, And I

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Speaker 2: think that's good because you want someone that's not going

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Speaker 2: to sugarcoat anything, and and you want someone to be

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Speaker 2: straightforward because that's, you know, the best way to improve

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Speaker 2: and grow.

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Speaker 1: In my opinion, Do you enjoy blocking? I do?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, That's that's a big part of my job was

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Speaker 2: a college and Penn State. You know, we took a

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Speaker 2: lot of pride in and especially we had those big packages,

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Speaker 2: three tight ends, two running backs.

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Speaker 1: So I do enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: It's something I take a lot of pride in and

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Speaker 2: something I'm going to continue to work out every day.

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Speaker 3: Is that something you have to learn to like or

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Speaker 3: is just dominating somebody.

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Speaker 1: Want I wanted to block?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, naturally something you have to

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Speaker 2: work on. I think you know, when you have that

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Speaker 2: right mindset, when it's coached, it can be coached. But

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Speaker 2: some people just have that switch that you can't coach

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Speaker 2: or teach.

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Speaker 3: You have a lot of the attributes that you can't

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Speaker 3: coach that the height, weight, speed that are just God gives,

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Speaker 3: what is it that you want to focus on this

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Speaker 3: to help.

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Speaker 2: Me take it to the next level of Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: think the big thing for me is consistency, you know,

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Speaker 2: being consistent. I'll I'll flash a lot of really good

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Speaker 2: things on tape. Uh, but it's putting all that stuff together, uh,

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Speaker 2: every single snap that's gonna help me reach my potential.

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Speaker 4: So much in the PREDIGT process has made about you know,

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Speaker 4: your your high ceiling for being a pass catcher to

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Speaker 4: Do you think people might be a little surprised with Uh,

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Speaker 4: I'll be honest, I'm surprised that you're bigger than what

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Speaker 4: maybe people have made you out to be surprised by

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Speaker 4: your strength, your physicality a little bit when you get

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Speaker 4: out on their field with veterans.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I mean it. It's never been a

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Speaker 2: surprise to me. I've kind of always known that about myself.

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Speaker 2: But you know, based on what people have said about me,

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Speaker 2: maybe people will be surprised about that.

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's something I've always known.

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Speaker 2: You know, the people I work with closely have known

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Speaker 2: social just a matter of you know, kind of showing

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Speaker 1: How do you find consistency? Right? Yeah, K.

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Speaker 2: Consistency comes from uh, you know, repetition, uh, doing it

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Speaker 2: a lot, and then being very detail oriented, so you know,

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Speaker 2: being very honest with yourself when you're watching film, and

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Speaker 2: then having a coach that's gonna hold you to that

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Speaker 2: standard every single day and not let the little stuff slide.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a big part in having consistent technique.

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Speaker 2: I say tight end is a tough position coming into

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Speaker 1: It's just curious like what are your first impression amount

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Speaker 1: What type of thing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tight end tight ends a lot. Even at the

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Speaker 2: college level. You're just asked to do so much. And

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Speaker 2: that's why I think it's a great position because everything

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Speaker 2: you're asked to do, it's it's very unique. It's not

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Speaker 2: just you know, a one tool guy. The best tight

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Speaker 2: really cool for a guy like me that I feel

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Speaker 2: like I have the potential to do all the things

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Speaker 2: that you can ask a tight end to do, and

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Speaker 2: and be a guy that you can't take off the field.

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Speaker 1: So it's a lot, but it comes with the territory.

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Speaker 3: He became a real red zone weapon last year to

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Speaker 3: get seven touchdown catches. That just get more opportunities or

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Speaker 3: something you developed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that that has to go with how

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Speaker 2: to you, uh uh improve on.

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Speaker 4: See I ask this says a Penn State and I who

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Speaker 3: Do you how much more room to grow in an offense?

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Speaker 1: Do you think that you can show at this level?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I have a tremendous, tremendous room to improve.

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Speaker 2: I think I can grow a lot more than than

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Speaker 2: where I'm at right now. And and I think that's

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Speaker 2: why I'm so excited. You know, I'm coming in here

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Speaker 2: with a learning mindset. I wanna, you know, uh develop

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Speaker 2: that's gonna help me continue to uh, grow and improve.

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Speaker 2: But I'm super excited to get to work and and

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Speaker 2: get going here because you know, I think I have

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Speaker 2: I have a potential to be a really special player here.

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Speaker 1: When you're when.

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Speaker 4: You're in high school, in college, you go from at

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Speaker 4: least you have four years to go from a freshman

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Speaker 4: to a senior where you're, you know, small guy in

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Speaker 4: the leader. You pretty much have forty eight hours coming

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Speaker 4: off of rookie minus, can't be in a draft pick

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Speaker 4: to now on Monday, when the veterans walk in, have

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Speaker 4: you prepared yourself.

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Speaker 1: Mentally for what that's going to be like.

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Speaker 4: Have you've gotten advice from people about you know, how

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Speaker 4: to carry yourselves when when the veterans walk back in

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Speaker 4: here into their locker room, which is essentially your locker.

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Speaker 1: Room the last two days.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a little bit different than going

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Speaker 2: from high school to college because you know, in college

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Speaker 2: you go from being a you know, a kid for

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Speaker 2: the most part, and you leave a man. So I'm

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Speaker 2: coming into this league twenty three years old already being

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Speaker 2: So I don't think it's gonna be as much of

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Speaker 2: a of a difference with my approach because I feel

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Speaker 2: like I already kind of did that at Penn State

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Speaker 2: with Waldern.

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Speaker 3: I mean on there is unsearch that he's gonna play

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Speaker 3: where he's not gonna play if he's not there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the the tight end positions open for playing time. Now,

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Speaker 1: is that excitement the opportunity to get on the field

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Speaker 1: and contribute that one?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm super excited for whatever role I have this year,

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Speaker 2: you know whatever that looks like, I'm gonna take it

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Speaker 2: to you know, d give everything you'll have to it.