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Rookie Diary with Mac McWilliams: "It Was So Cold I Had To Go Back Inside...And Get My Mind Right" · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

• 0:13
  Speaker 1: So we have to catch up.
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: How how was your bye week? That was great? Went
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: back home cheered with a family for Halloween. No, great
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: time did you go.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: I know you like to say when you're not playing football,
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: you like to get near a water.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: Did you do anything?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I definitely got into the wild when it depends,
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: called the beach, you know, share out there on the
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: jet skis with my granddad.
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  Speaker 2: Uh it was a great time.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Are you someone that likes to completely unplugged, like get
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: away from football that you watch?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? You know football, guys. All we do is come
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  Speaker 3: in here, work on football, watch football, steady football. Everything
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: is about football when you get here. So you know,
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: just having that time, you know, relax your mind and reset. Man,
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  Speaker 3: that's a big thing about it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I think all guys needs to get away from football
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: just for a little bit, you know, just to research
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  Speaker 3: your mind and go back to your your normals.
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  Speaker 2: I get r I get away from it too. I
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  Speaker 2: do it every single Yeah, he write about it. I
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: watch it.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned to me a couple of weeks ago that
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  Speaker 1: someone the best advice somebody gave you was keep your head.
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  Speaker 2: Down and keep working facts. Who was that person? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: My older brother Fish. Actually, you know, ever since we
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  Speaker 3: was little. Uh, you know, I've real I really wasn't
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  Speaker 3: the biggest guy. I would always underestimate him things like that.
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  Speaker 3: But having the big brother like Fish, he always made
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  Speaker 3: sure that he kept a good word.
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  Speaker 2: Then for me, I.
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  Speaker 3: Always made sure I was critique critiquing me on good
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  Speaker 3: things in the bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, just seeing him grow.
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  Speaker 3: Up and just watching him go about his daily life
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  Speaker 3: and really put uh, I would say, impacted me a lot.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: What were your impressions of Lambou Field, the legendary Lambo Field? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: It was great man.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, real history down there. It's a lot of history.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, vioument was great, the crowd was great,
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  Speaker 3: and we got to do it. That's the most important thing.
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  Speaker 3: So happy about that.
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  Speaker 1: Could he get a chance to you know, walk out
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  Speaker 1: there on the field and see a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: lot of the stuff that they have going on.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know all the the you know the names
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  Speaker 2: and the things like that in the history. No, actually,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't able to. I ain't gonna lie.
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  Speaker 3: Once I got in the locker room and I went outside,
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  Speaker 3: it was so cold out there. I had went back
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  Speaker 3: inside and I had to return on myself, try to
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  Speaker 3: get myself together, get my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and you know, just to go back out there.
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  Speaker 1: So I know you're obviously someone who played in heat,
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  Speaker 1: so you know how to handle that. Yeah, what's your
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  Speaker 1: method to handling that kind of cold and the wind,
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  Speaker 1: that kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of it's probably it's it's for me. It's my mindset.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you got a good mindset.
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  Speaker 3: You gonna go out there and it don't matter if
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  Speaker 3: it's rain, seat, snow, hot, cold, it don't matter.
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  Speaker 2: You gonna go out there and play and do it
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  Speaker 2: do its best.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, in practice, are you still cross training outside
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  Speaker 1: or are you still focusing more inside now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm still focusing a little bit on more inside.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel it's going for you?
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel like it's going good. You know, I
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: still got a lot or I still got a long
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  Speaker 2: way to go. You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a stepping stone for me right now, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm just trying to build every day.
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  Speaker 2: I know. Uh, Dare wasn't here very long. Yeah, what
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  Speaker 2: was uh what were your interactions to him? I did you?
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  Speaker 1: Was he somebody that you watched kind of coming up?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, always Uh he's a great corner back.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna go down one of the best cornerbacks you
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  Speaker 3: know to ever play the game. Or when he came in, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: very excited for him, you know, Uh seeing a idle
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  Speaker 3: like that. You know, when he came in we met
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  Speaker 3: first day, uh and we clicked, you know, just me
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  Speaker 3: telling him the things that I liked about his game,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, he's just giving me the insize and
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  Speaker 3: out of playing cornerback.
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  Speaker 2: And you know it was a great time. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever he does, even if he if he if he
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  Speaker 3: don't decide to play an it no more or he
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  Speaker 3: do decide to play, I'm off for him.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I know he wasn't here long. But what's the the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing that he taught you that just in that
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  Speaker 1: short time, Just being yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Man, he come in here, he gonna be yourself every
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  Speaker 3: day when he go out on the field, he gonna
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  Speaker 3: give you the best. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: He gonna talk trash, he gonna do whatever whatever needs
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  Speaker 2: So just staying confident and believe in yourself, not counting
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  Speaker 2: the link.
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  Speaker 1: What's your favorite stadium that you've ever played?
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  Speaker 2: I probably say in the Bounce House.
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  Speaker 1: The Bounce House, talk talk to me about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy, man, it ain't gonna lie. Uh, especially
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  Speaker 3: like once you get up sold our crowd. Uh, you
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  Speaker 3: a actually feel the stadium shaking, like if you go in,
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  Speaker 3: like when when we got a little tunnel things that
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  Speaker 3: we had before we run out, so another tunnel, you
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  Speaker 3: can like the stadiums right there, so you can hear
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  Speaker 3: the student section they.
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  Speaker 2: Jumping and you can feel the whole ground move.
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  Speaker 1: Now that you have the extended pause with the byeway,
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  Speaker 1: what perspective do you have on the first half of
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  Speaker 1: your rookie season.
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  Speaker 2: With the.
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  Speaker 3: Perspective I have, I really just I'll just say maintaining
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  Speaker 3: you know, it was a long, long season. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's different from college now that I see, we literally
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: just starting our real season out until so I'm just
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  Speaker 3: I'm just taking everything again, man, day by day.
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  Speaker 2: And just going with the flow.
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  Speaker 1: Will that leads to my next question, what's the biggest
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  Speaker 1: difference from the college game to this point in your
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  Speaker 1: you know, your pro creu.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, the length the length of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, definitely, Uh, you know right now you'll be seeing
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  Speaker 3: guys going to the college football player some guys not
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  Speaker 3: playing no more after a few weeks and then was
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: you know, football is just getting started.
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  Speaker 1: Ha, how have you sort of prepared yourself for that longevity,
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  Speaker 1: that marathon of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I'll just say, making sure I'm critiquing myself in
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  Speaker 3: in and out the field, you know, coming in and train,
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  Speaker 3: the room, make sure I get my body right, make
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  Speaker 3: sure I get a proper.
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  Speaker 2: Sleep, you know, doing the necessary.
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  Speaker 1: You talk to me before about you focusing on getting
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  Speaker 1: your mental right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but how do you go about doing that?
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  Speaker 3: It's just an everyday thing, you know, reading, you know,
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  Speaker 3: listening to other guys, you know, taking stories in and
• 5:31
  Speaker 3: you know, just trying to critique their stories and try
• 5:33
  Speaker 3: to apply them a little bit two months.
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: It's a bit of a heavy subject.
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: But you know, obviously there's some news that came out
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  Speaker 1: Dallas last week. Is there an outlet, like is that
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  Speaker 1: something that you're a proponent of mental health and.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of being a proponent for that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like, is that something that I guess you
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  Speaker 1: have a uh an area, an outlet here in Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: that that really supports anyone who's dealing with that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like your mental health is one of the
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  Speaker 3: biggest things that you need in this life home as
• 6:07
  Speaker 3: sorry for the guy that lost his life to you know,
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  Speaker 3: to what happened. And I don't wish that on nobody,
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  Speaker 3: but uh, you know, you just gotta have the right
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  Speaker 3: mindset you need. You gotta talk to people, you know everything.
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  Speaker 3: You can't hold everything inside or yourself. You can't, you know,
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  Speaker 3: say the things in your head that's that's that's bad,
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  Speaker 3: or you know, you gotta give it out. You gotta
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  Speaker 2: What's the worst job you ever had? I never had it.
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  Speaker 2: I never had a job for really never Oh that
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• 8:01
  Speaker 2: one nine to five in my life. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So we've talked about CP and the impact that
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: he's had on you, but we don't talk enough about
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: Roy Anderson.
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Roy Anderson is a great guy. Definitely. How has
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: he helped your game.
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  Speaker 3: He used to help me a lot. Coach rutt I.
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  Speaker 3: I still come in with Coach Rhett at six in
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  Speaker 3: the morning. Every day we come in and meet. I
• 8:18
  Speaker 3: would't say sixth three, I would say six thirty. We
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: come in at six thirty every day. You know, we're
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  Speaker 3: making sure that we go over the plays I had
• 8:25
  Speaker 3: and practice and things like that. And he critiqued me,
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: like I say, just like CP. He critiqued me on
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  Speaker 3: the things that I need to get done and the
• 8:32
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• 8:34
  Speaker 3: my game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think I had a really really good conversation with Roy.
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: Actually it was like the day before the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and just you know, a wealth of knowledge if
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: I enjoy that conversation. Last one for you, what's one
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: thing you're focusing.
• 8:47
  Speaker 2: On, particularly this week as you look towards some day.
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  Speaker 2: That's the same old thing. You know. I'm gonna be
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: the same guy.
• 8:55
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna focus on keeping my mental health and keeping
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: you know, keeping the guys up. You know, got a
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: big game coming in and we got sort coming in,
• 9:03
  Speaker 3: so you know, we just focusing on little things and
• 9:05
  Speaker 3: critiquing ourselves ups and downs.
• 9:08
  Speaker 2: Thanks