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Speaker 1: Hey, Eric, congratulations and welcome to Jacksonville. Just if if

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it all happened very quickly. You know, my my

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Speaker 2: And you know me and being sure you have a

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Speaker 1: And it seemed like you you posted something on on

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Speaker 2: I feel, you know, I feel that it's it's Taylor

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Speaker 2: So I'm excited to see how you know the plans

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Speaker 5: Great to meet you, sir. Let's begin with this UH.

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Speaker 5: Your tweet on Saturday, number one. The reception to it

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Speaker 5: number two, UH masterclass has become known as as a

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Speaker 5: Trent Bulky term here in Jacksonville. If you could expand

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Speaker 2: Was that was terminology he uses. So that's news to me.

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Speaker 3: Know, I want to learn the lay of the land,

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Speaker 2: So, uh, I'm here for all the education and you know,

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Speaker 5: So and then as far as your relationship with Trent

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Speaker 6: Eric, congrats on the on the move across the country.

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Speaker 6: Uh you speaking very highly of Trent. And when we

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thanks Gene.

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Speaker 7: Where are you by the way, that's a that's a

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Speaker 8: Congrats on the big deal. And you know, if you've

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Speaker 3: Over the hunk. You know, the the Jags a good

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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome to Jacksonville. Man.

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Speaker 3: Thanks. Welcome to Jacksonville. Appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: So I'm excited to to, you know, take the field

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Speaker 2: Learn and learn this new defense together and and start

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Speaker 3: Appreciate it. Congrats, thank you.

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Speaker 10: Hey, I just was gonna ask about the Walter Payton

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. Uh.

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Speaker 2: Part of my massive class tweet and what I want

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Speaker 3: Learning you know, where impoverished.

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Speaker 2: It's across the country, but like I said, these issues

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Speaker 10: If I could follow real quick? Just when when did

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Speaker 2: It started my rookie year, you know, I had a

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Speaker 3: And uh, you know, we talked about living.

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Speaker 2: To me, that's where I got passionate and felt like

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Speaker 11: I have an opportunity to have a huge impact the

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Speaker 11: same as simple as you know, getting kids to reading

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Speaker 2: Successful and graduating high school and going on to get

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Speaker 4: Thanks justin all right, We've only got two more, so

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Speaker 12: Eric, how much conversation when you were being you know,

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Speaker 13: And the Ravens where a couple of teams guys came

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Speaker 2: I think they both go hand in hand. You know,

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Speaker 3: And you know, guys that I've had success and know

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Speaker 2: So that definitely, that definitely is part of it, and

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Speaker 2: that's something I look forward to, you know, entering your

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Speaker 3: It's been a lot, and uh, being able to share.

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Speaker 2: That with them, you know, something as simple as a

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Speaker 3: With and share.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Brenton. Last question from Mike Derocco.

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Speaker 3: Welcome Eric.

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Speaker 14: I'm curious you asked a question on Twitter, I think

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Speaker 2: That we hate the Titans. Okay, so I understand, I

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Speaker 2: so yeah, those are too big. A two big takeaways

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Speaker 14: You're you're gonna be in year ten? Is there is

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Speaker 14: that a significant number for NFL guys, like everyone wants

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Speaker 3: H So how does that? How do you view that

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Speaker 3: I view it as it is. It is accomplishment.

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Speaker 11: You know, having a longevity in this league is tough

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Speaker 3: But I do view it as an accomplishment.

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Speaker 2: But also too, I view it as a lot more

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Speaker 2: I continue to get better.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: Last year, I'm constantly working on my game, working on

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Speaker 3: You know, for for most people in the year ten,