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Speaker 1: How y'all doing. Ill feel good, you know, just my

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Speaker 1: I feel good over all. The talk about right there,

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Speaker 1: all right, the whole thing speaker over there, I don't

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Speaker 1: even want to I don't want to break it. See

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Speaker 1: you when you're gonna get me in trouble, all right,

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Speaker 1: mister Graft's got a lot of money, start talking about

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Speaker 1: this water train. Yeah, yeah, make sure I'm just being

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Speaker 1: honest with my trainers, being honest with my coach, and

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Speaker 1: then also leaning on those guys, you know, trusting that

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Speaker 1: they have a good, uh good little good plan for

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Speaker 1: me is moving forward. So I just put my trust

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Speaker 1: in those guys. I focus on coming in, um, getting

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Speaker 1: to work in, you know, knowing what I gotta do

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Speaker 1: on the field, to know my assignments, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we go from there. What was it like? Oh man,

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Speaker 1: it's just kind of difficult, But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: it is what it is. You know, deal with it

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Speaker 1: just like any any any other type of adversity. So um,

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Speaker 1: I'm just glad to be back out here with the guys,

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Speaker 1: back with the team, getting back in the group of

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Speaker 1: things and get the season started. You started to work out,

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Speaker 1: but we saw you running into communition fields and feel

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent. Now it's or anything lingering for you

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Speaker 1: obviously feel rocks. Oh yeah, I mean I don't think

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Speaker 1: all about getting back into the groove of everything, getting

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Speaker 1: back into you know, my routine with the guys being

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Speaker 1: here you know all day, getting in the meetings, you know, um,

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Speaker 1: getting on the on the field and getting my reps

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Speaker 1: in and just getting familiar, getting that muscle memory back.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, did you hear from the teammates while you

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Speaker 1: were away? Oh yeah, most definitely all reached A bunch

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Speaker 1: of them reached out and bunch of them just sent there,

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Speaker 1: you know, the their prayers and everything. I'm just I'm

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Speaker 1: really grateful for that as well too. Oh yeah, it

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Speaker 1: feels different. You know, we didn't have this last year,

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Speaker 1: so you know, having this preseason and having a UM

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Speaker 1: game to look forward to before our whole season starts,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely a different, different, different for me, but it's

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Speaker 1: something pleasant as well, So I can't wait. So Oh man,

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Speaker 1: I'm still I'm still you know, with my trainers every day.

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Speaker 1: I'm with my my coaches every day, just playing the

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Speaker 1: day by day and just you know, getting repaired and

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Speaker 1: taking this month step by the time. Part of this,

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Speaker 1: oh most definitely exciting. You know, to two season vents

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Speaker 1: that we have, you know who who come in with

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Speaker 1: a lot of knowledge, you know, a lot of experience.

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Speaker 1: So being able to just you know, share that table

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Speaker 1: with them and pick their brains about, you know, how

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Speaker 1: to become a better tight end is is a great thing.

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Speaker 1: So I really like being around those dudes a little

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Speaker 1: bit last year yesterday, Yeah us out you know when

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Speaker 1: you can get the three year and I know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: most definitely. But I think we all focused on playing

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Speaker 1: our roles and and knowing, you know, we all have, um,

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Speaker 1: and to our side the ball. So I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: just us being prepared every day, um, knowing what we

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Speaker 1: making sure that you know, our coaches trust us when

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Speaker 1: we when we get put out there is the most

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Speaker 1: important thing, oh man. Trying to find our road in

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Speaker 1: any way I can. You know, UM, obviously there are

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Speaker 1: two great tight ends and two guys that are capable

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Speaker 1: keep working with my coaches, keep working with UM coach

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Speaker 1: Kayley as well, and just you know, find our way

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Speaker 1: and and UM just do anything I can to help

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Speaker 1: the team and help the team win. Oh yeah, we

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Speaker 1: had a couple of virtual meetia set up with them,

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Speaker 1: with our coaches, you know, UM, we had a couple

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Speaker 1: of guys that you know helped me out on the side.

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Speaker 1: When um, when they when they had a little free time.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you know, the schedule was demanded, but you know,

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Speaker 1: my due diligence of my work each and every day.

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Speaker 1: So behind it, oh man, I think you know, in

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Speaker 1: the spring, I feel like the coaches did the real

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Speaker 1: When we returned in the fall, So I mean I

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Speaker 1: and putting those pads on. It's a little different, and

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Speaker 1: you know, you gotta get us to that again, you know,

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Speaker 1: being away for you know, probably like over half a

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Speaker 1: So I can't imagine it was a good feeling. But

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Speaker 1: I gotta ask you your vaccinated, what is your first reaction,

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Speaker 1: what you're feeling like? Man, it's crazy, it's crazy. But

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Speaker 1: just like everybody else, I knew that, you know, you

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Speaker 1: weren't immune to the disease even if you got the vaccination.

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Speaker 1: So for me, you know, I just dealt with it.

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Speaker 1: It is what it is. You know. The best thing

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Speaker 1: I could do moving forward is just making sure I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm hydrating, making sure I'm taking care of myself and

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Speaker 1: making sure, you know, my family and everybody, all my

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Speaker 1: loved ones are doing the same. So Spring, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it was a It's a big thing for um.

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Speaker 1: For a bunch of a second years as well. You know,

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Speaker 1: not having that last year and being able to have

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Speaker 1: that this year with the OTA in in a mini

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Speaker 1: camp was a big thing for us, just to get

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Speaker 1: those extra reps, you know what I'm saying, um that

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Speaker 1: extra meeting time with the coaches just so everything can

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Speaker 1: kind of you know, um sync in as far as

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Speaker 1: you know what the playbook you know holds. So I

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Speaker 1: for all of us. So I feel it felt good

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Speaker 1: and it felt good to be back in the spring

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Speaker 1: and getting those reps as well. So I'm appreciate y'all.

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Speaker 1: Y'all are going. Thank you.