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Speaker 1: Who even four year?

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Speaker 2: So it's for me, it's just you know, taching these days,

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Speaker 3: So take us back a year at what would what

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Speaker 1: Man? Blessed for sure?

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Speaker 2: Last year was a was a a big learning curve

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Speaker 2: For me, uh, learning and growing, it's it's doing my job,

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Speaker 1: For sure.

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Speaker 3: I'll know you had a pick six today against Brock.

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Speaker 3: Conversations that take place after that with him, like hey,

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Speaker 3: There are any tweets to your responsibilities this season with

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Speaker 2: Allows the defense to be well versatile. So as a

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Speaker 2: Honestly, you know, we could switch it up each and

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Speaker 1: It allows us to just suppost to play fast.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, we know about your relationship with Troy Paul Malu.

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Speaker 2: I think that's just it would be cool for him

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Speaker 2: take command of that huddle, you know. And again that

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Speaker 2: he's a rookiem they call him mystery relevant and you know,

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Speaker 2: a lot of people don't want to listen to that,

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Speaker 2: but for him, it's like, I think that's what helps

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Speaker 2: him the most. You know, he has that chip on

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Speaker 2: his shoulder to go out there and play his game,

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Speaker 2: and I love it personally.

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Speaker 1: I think that's what he.

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Speaker 2: Does and how he commands a room, commands a team,

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Speaker 2: and for us, it just helps us go out there

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Speaker 2: so we can win.

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Speaker 1: So all right, thanks, thank you, thank you. Guys appreciate

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Speaker 1: that today