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Speaker 1: Ms Shannon, heyo, only three days left in this beautiful

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Speaker 1: which the weather will probably be just as nice as

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Speaker 1: not nicer. Joining me on the show today one of

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Speaker 1: our last guests. I guess of training camp justin March, Lillard,

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Speaker 1: how's it going? Justin going well? Like you said, you

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Speaker 1: can't beat this weather out here, so I guess just

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Speaker 1: hooking it all up before we get back to Texas. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So got to play a couple of days ago, finally

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Speaker 1: got to hit somebody that's not on your team. What's

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Speaker 1: that like the first day back at uh? Back in

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Speaker 1: I guess action act Initially it's always kind of like different.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're trying to adjust to the speed of

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Speaker 1: Any trash talking go on during preseason or is it? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's always I guess anytime there's you know, man verse man,

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Speaker 1: So what aspect of the game do you like the most.

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Speaker 1: I know, you play, you play special teams, you play

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Speaker 1: I kind of like them both. Evenly he's been out

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Speaker 1: But just as equally, been on special teams and being

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Speaker 1: We kind of say, you know, we're part of both,

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Speaker 1: I kind of enjoy doing both. Yeah, And it seems

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Speaker 1: Is anything seem different this year than it did last year?

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Speaker 1: Is it just kind of business as usual? I say,

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Speaker 1: last year. Um, probably because like most of us were,

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Speaker 1: obviously you got Sean who who's the leader, Um who

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Speaker 1: just you know, he just loves football. So he'll even

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Speaker 1: And they obviously we got some young some young linebackers.

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Speaker 1: That's uh man, there's some some great guys, UM, great athletes,

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Speaker 1: so you were fifty three, right, Yes, sir? What is

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Speaker 1: through a lot, yea, So how do you for young

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Speaker 1: a Midwest guy, right, Yes, sir, grew up in Illinois

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