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Speaker 1: How different is this year for you coming in though,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't say it's any different than

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Speaker 3: The only difference is, you know, I've been here before.

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Speaker 3: I know what's going to happen. I know, like the

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Speaker 3: training camp is coming up. I know, like you know,

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Speaker 3: I gotta prepare my body, prepare my mind, I my soul,

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Speaker 3: But I'm still grinding, man, I'm still grinding. There's really

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Speaker 3: no no safe space in the.

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Speaker 2: League and the NFL. Everyone's trying to take your spot.

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Speaker 3: So I'm grinded every day, you know, trying to make

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Speaker 3: sure that the coaches can trust me, that my teammates

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Speaker 2: There's a telling us now. There's just a different energy

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Speaker 2: that he feels this camp. I mean, do you see

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Speaker 3: You know, I think we got a lot of dolls

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Speaker 3: think that we have some people out there that want

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Speaker 2: Want to be, you know, vocal and speak up.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's the things you need on the

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Speaker 3: winning team. And I also think that you know, everyone's

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Speaker 3: the best player to you.

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Speaker 2: Know, the last person on the roster, like whatever it

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Speaker 4: Go with you and rookie scatterb How do you see

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Speaker 4: your styles messing? You know, if you are, you know,

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Speaker 4: you know you've got speed. He's got I'm not sure

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Speaker 4: Explain to me what that is and how your styles?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean obviously I got my speed and elusiveness.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: I watched this film. Obviously I've seen him play. I

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Speaker 3: power to him. So I think that's, you know, one

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Speaker 3: of his his strengths is his his strength, really his power.

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Speaker 2: The way he run the ball.

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Speaker 3: He runs angry, he runs hard, he runs physical, some

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Speaker 3: of the things that Dave's love.

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Speaker 2: But again I think that you know, we're two different backs.

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Speaker 2: But again we think we compliment each other really, well, what.

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Speaker 5: About your game when you looked at them last year?

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Speaker 5: What did you see and what do you what did

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Speaker 5: you say to yourself this year? I gotta get this better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Really Obviously, ball security was like a huge thing for

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Speaker 3: more vocal, being a leader, making sure that I'm coming

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Speaker 3: I think consistency is the best thing that shows up

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Speaker 2: So that's what I want to be.

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Speaker 2: By it starts with consistency. So and that's gonna start

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Speaker 5: What are you doing for a ball security? Are you

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Speaker 5: mean people kind of poking out what exactly how have

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Speaker 3: You know, every time I'm holding the ball or I

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Speaker 2: A little strength.

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Speaker 3: It's a grip strengthener off amazon that I use every night.

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Speaker 3: You know, it just helps me. Again, I also just

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Speaker 4: Were you a rough skuy growing up watching and you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was definitely a rest guy. I was

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Speaker 3: You know, I didn't obviously know him personally up until now,

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Speaker 3: he's a he's a great leader. He speaks up, he

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Speaker 2: The rest of us. He's working hard, you like the

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Speaker 3: But I think we have a lot of quarterbacks out

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Speaker 2: A great job.

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Speaker 2: Hey man, I'm not I'm not a big expluraguer, but

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Speaker 3: You know, I saw some food on my play that

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Speaker 4: What did you eat You've never eaten before?

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Speaker 3: They had so I know, I mean, like I probably

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Speaker 4: How has Russ I guess his addition contributed to that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think it's the energy he brings

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Speaker 3: every time he walked into the mir and he greased everybody.

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Speaker 2: That's it starts with that, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: So like that's the main thing that I see Russ.

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Speaker 3: He's very intentional to what he does, Like he speaks

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Speaker 2: You like you're the start of the person, you know

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Speaker 2: what I'm saying. But he also give confidence and he

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Speaker 2: Let's us know, like, man, we got this like let's go.

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Speaker 2: He's a he's a great phenomenal leader. He's very vocal.

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Speaker 3: He and he lets us know that like there's gonna

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Speaker 3: And he's he's a true professional.

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Speaker 2: Well you think his style of play will benefit the

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Speaker 3: I mean to be honest, like when you have a

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Speaker 2: He done this for a long time, so he knows

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Speaker 3: So he he'll literally like tell me like yo, get

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Speaker 2: But he's also like, you know, he can run. You

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Speaker 3: Obviously we had, you know, past quarterbacks that can run,

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Speaker 2: But then you know, you got good receivers, good tight ends,

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Speaker 2: Nah, he actually knew. He knew he came in all

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Speaker 3: Like I think one of the biggest things that we're

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Speaker 2: That's to win. You were talking about you played white

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Speaker 2: How did that go? Yeah, so it will be he

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Speaker 3: I want to say my I was there at twenty one,

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Speaker 2: He knows his stuff.

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Speaker 3: when he come in here, he already knows, like you know,

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Speaker 3: what's going to happen. He knows how to handle it,

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So like, like I said,

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Speaker 3: he's a great coach.