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Press Pass | Jaguars Rookies Discuss Their First Days in Jacksonville · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: How was your first couple of days here so far?
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  Speaker 2: It's been great.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot different than Nebraska and I'm used to
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  Speaker 3: so I can feel the humidity the second I stepped
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  Speaker 3: out of the airport.
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  Speaker 2: But it's been amazing.
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  Speaker 3: I've met a lot of great people already, and I've
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  Speaker 3: learned a lot, probably the most I've ever learned in
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  Speaker 3: a two day span ever, So similar to A and
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  Speaker 3: M heat or uh, I would say the one thing
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  Speaker 3: that's better about this heat feels like the breeze is
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  Speaker 3: a little cooler. I guess at A and M it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of a warm breeze, but definitely more humid here.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't had time to look at kind of often
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  Speaker 4: love playbook yet or is.
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  Speaker 3: It just a lot hitting Yeah, we've had a We've
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  Speaker 3: had a chunk of the playbook, definitely not all of it.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a lot more to learn, but it's we
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  Speaker 3: spent a lot of time installing it and making sure
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  Speaker 3: we get it right.
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  Speaker 2: Spent a lot of time studying too.
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  Speaker 4: We'll talk about how complicated Lam's offense can be at times.
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  Speaker 4: Does it feel like that right off the battery, you
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  Speaker 4: just feel like with a lot of different.
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  Speaker 2: Options to it, There's a lot of options.
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  Speaker 3: The one thing that's great about it is everything correlates.
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  Speaker 3: Everything makes sense, and that makes it easier to go
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  Speaker 3: out and execute. You can think through it a lot
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  Speaker 3: more clearly. Like I said, it correlates, it makes sense.
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  Speaker 5: Was eighty seven slam Dunk.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely love the number, warn that all the way
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  Speaker 3: since high school, So definitely happy about that.
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  Speaker 1: Have you been able to talk to Britain Strange yet
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  Speaker 1: and episode? Just what have you guys talked about it
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  Speaker 1: turns communication?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, I met him. I talked to him a
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  Speaker 2: little bit in the locker room.
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  Speaker 3: They've been out of the building for a few days,
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  Speaker 3: and then we texted a little bit. But yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: had a mutual friend too, so kind of cool talking
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  Speaker 3: with him about that.
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  Speaker 2: But otherwise, just keeping it light and just.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of how you think that you'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to bet in the offense. I know it's only been
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days, but just how excited are you
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  Speaker 1: for for how that could be.
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  Speaker 2: I'm super excited. Mostly I've said it before.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just ready to go learn from these guys, these
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  Speaker 3: older guys, they have a lot of time in the
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  Speaker 3: NFL in their belt and I'm ready to go learn.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously I'm new to this, so I'm gonna just keep
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  Speaker 3: my ears open.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people talk look at the number of
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  Speaker 4: catches and make a big deal out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you just do you look at it as I
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  Speaker 1: was just under you to for.
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  Speaker 3: I would, I would say there's a lot that goes
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  Speaker 3: into I wouldn't say I was always under utilized. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: you know, I want more passes for sure, everyone does.
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  Speaker 3: It's like we go back to A and M. We
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  Speaker 3: had a complicated offense. It was a great firstile offense.
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  Speaker 3: We had too, probably two first round talent receivers with
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  Speaker 3: Mario Kraver and Case and so you know, those are
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  Speaker 3: the guys we really wanted to attack and uh and
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  Speaker 3: so you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, it's just is what it is. I just filled
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  Speaker 2: my role and played it and it's the best of
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  Speaker 2: my ability.
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  Speaker 4: Are looking forward after roemning camp, kindling in with the
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  Speaker 4: rest of the time, getting out there with everybody.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm excited to meet meet everybody.
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  Speaker 3: And like I said, the most important thing is just
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  Speaker 3: to go learn it from the players. I've learned so
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  Speaker 3: much from the coaches. You see a different side of
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  Speaker 3: everything from the players.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited for that.
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  Speaker 6: I think just being I'm going to understand route concepts
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  Speaker 6: inside out.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, and.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, and then just being able to read receivers and
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  Speaker 6: being confident. You know, we're confident whether I'm guarding a
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  Speaker 6: tight end or receiver or even a running back.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it doesn't really matter to me.
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  Speaker 1: And then Liam and James they talk a lot about
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  Speaker 1: finding guys who like play with edges, and it definitely
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  Speaker 1: seems like you do that.
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  Speaker 5: Why is that such a big part of your game
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  Speaker 5: and just how you.
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  Speaker 6: Approach it because I play with a chip on my shoulder,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I feel like, uh, my entire life, I've
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  Speaker 6: been a little overlooked or a little overshadowed. And and
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  Speaker 6: I I can show that I can produce too. You know,
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  Speaker 6: at every single stop, I produce and it's not gonna
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  Speaker 6: stop because I'm in the NFL. You know, I plan
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  Speaker 6: to come here and and be a great football player.
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  Speaker 1: So n now that you've gotten here and you've gotten
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  Speaker 1: another coaches, just what we've been your impressions of them, especially.
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  Speaker 6: Camp, they're They're exactly what I need as a coach,
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  Speaker 6: you know, super fiery, but they care about you.
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  Speaker 5: You could tell.
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  Speaker 6: You could tell it's not just they're not just yelling
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  Speaker 6: at you to yell at you.
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  Speaker 5: They care about you and they want you to get better.
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  Speaker 6: And uh it's something that's really gonna help me.
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  Speaker 7: Uh what over the last couple of weeks been like
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  Speaker 7: just the kind of whirlwind of getting drafted and now
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  Speaker 7: you're here on the NFL field practicing.
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  Speaker 5: Uh it's been a sh ah dream come true.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you you can't put into words like I've
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  Speaker 6: been dreaming of this since I was three years old,
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  Speaker 6: when I started trying to play football when I was
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  Speaker 6: three years old. So, I mean, it's everything I ever
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  Speaker 6: wanted it to be, and I'm just super grateful for
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  Speaker 6: the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Oka.
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  Speaker 4: Does it feel like a locket's thrown at you at once?
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  Speaker 4: So are you take it all in or just trying
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  Speaker 4: to take it a day at a time?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: Take it one day at a time.
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  Speaker 6: But you know you gotta understand that that you can't
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  Speaker 6: be great at the end if you don't be great
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  Speaker 6: for one day a m a bunch of days in
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  Speaker 6: a row.
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  Speaker 5: I apologize. Have you had a chance to meet some
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  Speaker 5: of your dB group teammates yet or Uh?
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  Speaker 6: Not not like actually get to know him, like there's
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  Speaker 6: s a few of them here, like at at the
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  Speaker 6: rookie minting camp, and but uh, just a quick hello
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  Speaker 6: when I got here, like what's up. My name's Jalen,
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  Speaker 6: my name's Husky, Like yeah, I didn't wanna ask.
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  Speaker 2: You about the legos. I mean, just when did that
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  Speaker 2: passion start?
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  Speaker 1: And couldn't kind of just take us through where that
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  Speaker 1: came from?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: Ever, since I was a little kid, you know, my
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  Speaker 6: best friend CJ. Nester, he had a huge level collection
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  Speaker 6: with his dad and they I used to go over
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  Speaker 6: the house and play with the legos.
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  Speaker 5: It was mainly like Star Wars legos.
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  Speaker 6: And uh, now that I got I got into college
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  Speaker 6: and I had a little bit of nio I could
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  Speaker 6: I could buy my own legos and uh, once I
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  Speaker 6: got to Maryland, it really like took off like I
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  Speaker 6: was doing something.
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  Speaker 5: At Bowling Green.
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  Speaker 6: But then once I got to Maryland, I had a
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  Speaker 6: I have a whole room my uh apartment just for
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  Speaker 6: legos and then.
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  Speaker 5: A huge backlog of legos, a closet.
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  Speaker 2: Fool.
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  Speaker 6: I used to build 'em in the facility, have 'em
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  Speaker 6: in my locker and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know how many you have, like total or
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  Speaker 1: have you lost?
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  Speaker 2: Is it gotten too many to count?
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  Speaker 6: I know I have like probably like forty unbuilt sets
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  Speaker 6: that I have to build. I probably have fifty that
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  Speaker 6: I built already somewhere around there. It's probably the number's
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  Speaker 6: probably completely wrong, but it's somewhere around there. Last time
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  Speaker 6: I counted it was it was around forty to fifty
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  Speaker 6: unbuilt sets.
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  Speaker 2: And do you have a favorite one that you would
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  Speaker 2: have already built?
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  Speaker 5: I would say I would say the bar door. I
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  Speaker 5: built that with my girlfriend, and uh it was it
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  Speaker 5: was really cool. We built it together, so it was
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  Speaker 5: really nice.
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  Speaker 4: I tell me about this weekend, just trying to acclimate quickly?
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  Speaker 5: What are you trying to get.
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  Speaker 7: Out as far as Just like you said, I I
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  Speaker 7: wanna be able to acclimate as as quickly as possible,
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  Speaker 7: be on the same page, same same level as everybody.
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  Speaker 7: That way, there's no hiccups, there's there's no anything. I
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  Speaker 7: could be an impact on the field now and help
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  Speaker 7: the help the team in the best way I know
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  Speaker 7: I can.
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  Speaker 4: And you so gonna use this to be ready for
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  Speaker 4: when the vets come in on Monday too, right.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I have some idea that you know what
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  Speaker 5: you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, how much you're looking forward to getting with those
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  Speaker 4: guys next week?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm I'm stoked to be honest, you know, to
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  Speaker 7: be with those vests and and just learn from them.
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  Speaker 7: I C one of my one of my traits as
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  Speaker 7: a person is uh, honor and integrity. So just coming
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  Speaker 7: in the room and s being able to get in
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  Speaker 7: with those guys that have played the game for you
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  Speaker 7: know how uh so long you know all those vests
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  Speaker 7: in there. I just wanna be able to learn and
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  Speaker 7: soak up everything I possibly can, so I could be
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  Speaker 7: come as great as they are.
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  Speaker 4: Is it really set in for you yet or do
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  Speaker 4: you feel like you gotta tackle somebody first before you
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  Speaker 4: realize you're in the NFL?
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  Speaker 7: I would say I I I would say, like, I
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  Speaker 7: f I feel it now. Just well, I guess like
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  Speaker 7: everything that we've been doing is from schedule and whatnot.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, I don't.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think I need to tackle anybody.
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  Speaker 4: No, what is it like coming in obviously transferred to
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  Speaker 4: you know what it's like to change and learn a
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  Speaker 4: new program. But what's the playbook from what you've learned
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  Speaker 4: so far? What does that look like to you?
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  Speaker 7: It's it difficult to just feel like a lot right now,
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  Speaker 7: or I wouldn't say it's difficult. I would just say, like,
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  Speaker 7: you know, when it comes to learning, you know, playbooks,
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  Speaker 7: It it just you have to have like a certain mindset.
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  Speaker 7: And I would say method to how you break things down.
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  Speaker 7: And I believe like throughout my collegiate career, I understood,
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  Speaker 7: I understand, I was able to understand how to process, uh,
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  Speaker 7: just like plays and playbooks. And I feel like that's
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  Speaker 7: helping me now just being able to process everything within
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  Speaker 7: the playbook faster.
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  Speaker 4: And I gonna talk to you on draft night asking
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  Speaker 4: your kind of blocking philosophy when it comes to blocking
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  Speaker 4: for your quarterback. You know, die for your quarterback, of course,
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  Speaker 4: what's your philosophy when you're trying to block for the
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  Speaker 4: run game?
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  Speaker 7: For the run game, make the make the whole as
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  Speaker 7: big as I can, and at the running back run.
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  Speaker 4: Through you down to run ahead if you have to
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  Speaker 4: like sprint a.
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  Speaker 5: Little bit, yeah, of course, of course.
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  Speaker 7: Any anything that's gonna get the hole opening and get
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  Speaker 7: the person moved out the way so he felt like
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  Speaker 7: he's free and you know, could score a touchdown