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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, welcome back, talk to after the game. It's

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Speaker 1: good to see back at third. What are you seeing

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Speaker 1: from the Falcon's defense, Uh, an experienced explosive defense. It's

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Speaker 1: a lot of experienced guys out there, a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys that are explosive, a lot of guys that make

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Speaker 1: a lot of flash plays. Um got one of the

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Speaker 1: best three techniques in the league, crazy Jared Um. And

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Speaker 1: you got some linebackers that can really sideline the sideline.

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Speaker 1: Play sideline the sideline. So uh, hopefully we can do

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Speaker 1: our best to kind of minimize that. You've been pretty

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Speaker 1: complimentary of not going back to like training Candid that

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Speaker 1: I remember what don't you order some of of his leadership

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Speaker 1: style I told you guys early on the way he

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Speaker 1: commands the huddle, the way Um if if anybody messes

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Speaker 1: up on a play in practice, he doesn't just allowed

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Speaker 1: the fly into the rug or he didn't wait till

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Speaker 1: the coach says no running again, he does it himself.

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Speaker 1: So I mean that's enough saying right there. Impressed with

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Speaker 1: what you've seen from super impressed. It's Mac ten mm

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Speaker 1: Mac teen trying because Sunday that's my dog on and

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Speaker 1: off the field. So Um, I think of us just

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Speaker 1: having a relationship we have is it's kind of like

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Speaker 1: second nature for us to kind of make the kind

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Speaker 1: of plays that we do on the field. Would you

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Speaker 1: see from yourself when you watch that film from Sunday? Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely not satisfied. Um it was it was a

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Speaker 1: decent first outing. But I can do better. I can

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Speaker 1: be better. How do you feel having play the game

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Speaker 1: now and it's two days later? I feel great, still

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Speaker 1: feel fresh. We do you think take Harris is brought

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Speaker 1: to your group? Ted is another smart guy. Him and

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Speaker 1: David both played the center position. They both see the

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Speaker 1: see the field through the same set of eyes, and

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Speaker 1: that's just another another set of eyes to help Mac

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Speaker 1: and we ad a lot of stuff that much faster

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Speaker 1: and get the ball rolling. I like you've missed a

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Speaker 1: lot of practice. But do you still take snaps at

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Speaker 1: all on the story right? Tackle? I take a few

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Speaker 1: here here and there, just to stay polished. And then

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Speaker 1: the lead for a while. Now when you think about

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Speaker 1: like go back to like rookies and leadership, Like I

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Speaker 1: think sometimes it's hard for a rookie come in and

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Speaker 1: sort of take control or lead, you know, And so

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Speaker 1: I guess how rare is it what you've seen Mac

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Speaker 1: do well? I think, um he was a bit timid

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Speaker 1: at first to kind of command the offense from like

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Speaker 1: a huddle after the practice or whatever, but like I

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Speaker 1: would like I would told him. I know, I personally

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Speaker 1: told him that this is this is your offense, this

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Speaker 1: is your team. We go as you go. UM, and

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Speaker 1: he's done that and the name and it's not right.

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Speaker 1: It sounds good though, trying how did you stet engaged

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Speaker 1: during the time that you weren't able to play? Like,

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Speaker 1: how did you how did you keep your mind in

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Speaker 1: the games? Um? I pretty much just went in a

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Speaker 1: shild kind of just killing workouts and rehab, trying to

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Speaker 1: try my best to get back on the field as

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Speaker 1: quick as possible. I would have liked to have have been

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Speaker 1: back on the field sooner than I was, but um,

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Speaker 1: I had a setback the Tampa week and that's when

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Speaker 1: the season was made for. I had to go ahead

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Speaker 1: and go on IRU and to kind of come back

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Speaker 1: play against the Browns. I thought it was pretty cool

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Speaker 1: since I almost died before we played them last year.

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Speaker 1: Zeppelin your mind much since it since it happened, And

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Speaker 1: I said, like that to break. I mean that was

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Speaker 1: probably that was that was different. Um, to be expected

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Speaker 1: well coming off of COVID and then just expecting to

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Speaker 1: play a game and then make it all the way

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Speaker 1: to the city to the game, to the locker room

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Speaker 1: and I'm going through my normal routine in the IV

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Speaker 1: and to just pass out and almost going to cardiac

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Speaker 1: arrest was crazy. Something Mike step in for you at

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Speaker 1: right tackle for a series late in that first half.

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Speaker 1: Was that just kind of part of the plan going

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Speaker 1: in to keep you keep you fresh? Yeah, the plan

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Speaker 1: the plan going in was to you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: and uh, not to overdo it. There was nothing wrong

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Speaker 1: with me. It was just a part of the plan

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Speaker 1: to hype on that accident from last year. But just

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Speaker 1: how scary was that situation for you and how long

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Speaker 1: did it take you to kind of get over? I

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Speaker 1: mean I almost died, so it was scary. I was

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland by myself in the hospital for three days. Um,

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Speaker 1: it was yea. To actually fully recover, it probably took

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Speaker 1: about eight months to feel normal again and to actually

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Speaker 1: start making steps as far as improvement to feel like

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Speaker 1: myself in on the field after eight months try to

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Speaker 1: know year later situation. Nah, I'm good, I'm I'm full

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Speaker 1: green light. It was just uh a part of the process,

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Speaker 1: I guess. It was just a compound of things happening

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Speaker 1: uh over and over and back and back. You know.

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Speaker 1: I had a couple of injuries and then COVID straight

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Speaker 1: to that, So it was just a lot of stress

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Speaker 1: on myself and I uh to still come back and

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Speaker 1: play last year when I really didn't have to was

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Speaker 1: crazy when I look back on it, but I felt

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Speaker 1: like I did what was best as that effective respective

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Speaker 1: on football in my life. Really. Um, when I was

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Speaker 1: laid out in the floor, I definitely thought about my kids.

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Speaker 1: I even thought about retiring, Honestly, I was. It was

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Speaker 1: that scary. UM, I was about to be done with it.

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Speaker 1: But then it was just like after it kind of

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Speaker 1: settled down a bit, Uh, I was fine that that

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have been the right ending for the greatest un

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Speaker 1: the dog story, not at all, not at not at UH.

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Speaker 1: He's doing he's doing better. He's doing a lot better,

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Speaker 1: a lot better. What's your feel moving forward to this team?

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Speaker 1: Make you've been around them for a Why I haven't

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Speaker 1: been playing with them, But you've been around a lot

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Speaker 1: of locker rooms. What do you get a sense of this?

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Speaker 1: What this team is made up through ten weeks now, Um,

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Speaker 1: this is a very tight knit group. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's any different from any other Patriots roster or team. Um,

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Speaker 1: no egos, everybody's family. Everybody hangs out with each other. Um,

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Speaker 1: nobody's hits by the sales of the cafeteria and none

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Speaker 1: of that kind of kind of the stuff. So it's family,

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Speaker 1: all family, off for one, one for all. Ask Mac

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Speaker 1: he couldn't help me. Do you have a favorite Judo story?

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's another one creative every day, So

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Speaker 1: I don't have a favorite. It's definitely like a character,

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Speaker 1: one of many, though, one of many. I think everybody

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Speaker 1: has a little bit of personality on the team. Question

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Speaker 1: trying to your first time around your pretty scar sing this,

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Speaker 1: wondering what your relationships like. Um, well I'm a bit

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Speaker 1: older now and he's kind of a younger position coach.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's the relationship is pretty good. Um,

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Speaker 1: we help each other out he um. He asked me Shack,

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Speaker 1: Dave and Ted and we just kind of bounce things

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Speaker 1: off of one another. It's no, he's our coach and

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Speaker 1: he leads us and that's just what it is. Thank

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Speaker 1: you all right, thank you