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Oklahoma Sooner Defensive Back Kendel Dolby Joins The Show and RAVES About THESE Players · Sooner or Later Sports

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  Speaker 1: What's good everybody. Welcome to the Sooner or Later Sports Show.
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  Speaker 1: Me and your boy Coop got special guests today, his
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  Speaker 1: first time being here. He's here actually this time last year.
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  Speaker 1: We got a boy Kenda Adobe jumping in. Katie. Man,
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  Speaker 1: how are you feeling?
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  Speaker 2: I feeling good man. It's good to be back on
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  Speaker 2: here with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Hey man, we missed you, so I ain't gonna lie. Man,
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  Speaker 1: we missed you. We know, the football season gets crazy
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  Speaker 1: and then unfortunately the injury happened, so we couldn't try
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  Speaker 1: to tag you then. But hey, we got you now
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  Speaker 1: because we want to talk about a few things. We've
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  Speaker 1: got winter workouts, want to get your thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to talk about your new journey to the
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  Speaker 1: content creation game. You got to tell us how that's
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  Speaker 1: going also, and then we're gonna look forward into next season.
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  Speaker 1: So Coop, you want to lead the way. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about winter workouts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Man, So you know, back in the green room we
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  Speaker 4: were talking and you're saying, you know, you're kind of
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  Speaker 4: diving into the rehab full force.
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  Speaker 3: So tell me kind of about what you're.
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  Speaker 4: Doing now, and many I know it's an emotional journey
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  Speaker 4: going from being down on the field to being this
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  Speaker 4: close to being backed.
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  Speaker 3: So just kind of touch on that a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've just been going through rehab every day, you know,
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  Speaker 5: a bunch of different treatments and a lot of time
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  Speaker 5: that's put that's put in behind, you know, getting back healthy.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, I've also been working out while doing it.
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  Speaker 5: I've been going with the team doing workouts. Winter workout
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  Speaker 5: has been fun. Obviously a lot of things is modified
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  Speaker 5: than what I'm used to, but uh, this is my
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  Speaker 5: life right now, and you know, I've been attacking it
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  Speaker 5: every day. I'm doing everything I can to get healthy.
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  Speaker 5: So it's been it's been a journey. But you know,
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  Speaker 5: I mean it's building my character more than I could
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  Speaker 5: ever imagine.
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  Speaker 1: I could totally see that, man, So tell us you
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  Speaker 1: rocking a boot or you now free freestyle and walking
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  Speaker 1: around like normal.
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  Speaker 2: Thank god I'm not the boot man.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, I got two shues on because man, that
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  Speaker 5: boot was the worst thing I've already experienced with my life.
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  Speaker 2: It was terrible.
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  Speaker 1: I could see. I mean, it's uncomfortable about it, itches
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  Speaker 1: and all of that. Hunh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like its because it's like, yeah, it's bad.
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  Speaker 2: It's bad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And then and then every once in a while when
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  Speaker 4: you go to step over something and you miscalculate and
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  Speaker 4: the boot just drills it, and you're just like god,
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  Speaker 4: you know, because that's the last thing you're looking for
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  Speaker 4: look for protection with that boot.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're just kind of lugging it around.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll feel you on that one gets a little
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  Speaker 2: way to it for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so him got strong is what you telling me.
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  Speaker 2: To get readjusted too? Because I ain't terrible.
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  Speaker 1: I don't run around with one one big leg and
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  Speaker 1: one smaller leg because he had to lift that thing around.
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  Speaker 1: That makes sense. I get that.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, hey, Katie, tell tell me about this because you know,
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  Speaker 4: a long time ago, it gets leaked that, oh, you
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  Speaker 4: and Texas are heading to the SEC, and there's anticipation
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  Speaker 4: around that and a lot of the questions around where
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  Speaker 4: could oh you handle up, you know, size wise on
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  Speaker 4: the offensive defensive line, and then what could that defense
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  Speaker 4: like going into the SEC. So you you started off
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  Speaker 4: just playing like a man possessed you know, this past year,
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  Speaker 4: and at what point did you look and kind of
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  Speaker 4: internalize you guys as the defense or you just personally
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  Speaker 4: We're like men. I mean, not only are we hanging
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  Speaker 4: in there like we're dictating things, Like how did that
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  Speaker 4: feel to be able to know that, like walking into
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  Speaker 4: the SEC, the Oklahoma Sooner defense was now part of
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  Speaker 4: that SEC toughness.
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  Speaker 5: It felt good to be honest, but it was also
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  Speaker 5: respected from us. And that's from the off season. You know,
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  Speaker 5: the way that we prepare in the winter time in
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  Speaker 5: the spring, we knew he was gonna be a good defense.
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  Speaker 5: We know we had guys who like to fly around
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  Speaker 5: his defense, gods who like to work hard. So you know,
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  Speaker 5: going into the SEC, you know, being a new team
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  Speaker 5: the SEC, coming from the Big twelve, the disrespect is crazy.
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  Speaker 5: They're not ready for the SEC, the physicality. So we
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  Speaker 5: all took it, took that like like real life disrespect.
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  Speaker 5: So every time we touched that field man, we wanted
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  Speaker 5: to pun these people and we wanted to fly around.
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  Speaker 5: We wanted to show that it was an intense defense.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, it was fun and like I said, like
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  Speaker 5: we fully expected everything that came with the defense this year.
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  Speaker 1: I can see that. So when your game against Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: that was the unfortunate one where you got the injury
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  Speaker 1: where you got to feel playing against an SEC squad,
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  Speaker 1: but you didn't get to finish it before the injury.
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  Speaker 1: Where was your mind that in that game? How'd you
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  Speaker 1: feel playing against a team like Tennessee at home?
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  Speaker 2: Well, one of the environment was crazy. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: was college game day.
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  Speaker 5: So just the atmosphere was crazy, the energy behind it,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, I just had missed the week before,
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  Speaker 5: I missed a two line game with concussion. So coming back, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I was hyped, you know, I was. I
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  Speaker 5: was excited, you know, first SEC game, you know, being
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  Speaker 5: a part of ou team that gets to be the
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  Speaker 5: first team to being the SEC was a big deal
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  Speaker 5: to me. So, like I said, the environment was crazy,
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  Speaker 5: and I was just out there kind of like you
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  Speaker 5: said earlier, just feeling possessed. Man, I'm ready to go.
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  Speaker 5: But unfortunately, you know things, it didn't end the way
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  Speaker 5: I wanted it to. But in a little taste of it,
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  Speaker 5: that's that's honestly now where I'm at in my rehab,
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  Speaker 5: it's something I'm looking forward to and so and the
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  Speaker 5: reason why I'm going part of the reason why I'm
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  Speaker 5: going so hard to get back, and so I could
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  Speaker 5: be a part of that and be out there with
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  Speaker 5: my teammates and that environment.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 4: You're talking about the injury and once again you're going,
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  Speaker 4: you're playing hundred percent, full tilt, and then that happens,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, you find yourself you obviously know something's wrong.
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  Speaker 3: What was that like laying on the field.
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  Speaker 4: Listening to that stand The stands just absolutely you know,
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  Speaker 4: going that shit crazy to all of a sudden, everybody
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  Speaker 4: just dead silent, and it was for you, and it
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  Speaker 4: was for solely you, Like, hey, what were you feeling
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  Speaker 4: in that moment?
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  Speaker 5: The emotions was honestly crazy, Like, to be honest, it
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  Speaker 5: really felt like a movie, Like it felt like I
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  Speaker 5: was really watching myself in third person. So when it happened, uh,
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  Speaker 5: my deelin was running, so I to be honest, it
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  Speaker 5: sounds weird, but I didn't really feel the physical pain
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  Speaker 5: at first. When I went down, I knew something was
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  Speaker 5: wrong because I couldn't get up. I was trying to
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  Speaker 5: get up, but I couldn't get up. But what really
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  Speaker 5: put it in perspective for me is one of the
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  Speaker 5: Tennessee o linemen.
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  Speaker 2: He walked right past me and he just starts screaming.
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  Speaker 5: He's over there cussing, screaming, so when I seen him,
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  Speaker 5: he was looking down at me when I've seen it.
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  Speaker 5: So when I seen it, I looked down on my
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  Speaker 5: leg and I see my ankle, you know, going to
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  Speaker 5: a different directions, something I've never been through before.
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  Speaker 2: And it hurt. The physical pain, I wasn't worried about
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  Speaker 2: the physical pain in my eyes. I'm a tough guy.
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  Speaker 2: If I could take that. It was. It was just
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  Speaker 2: the mental, the mental behind it.
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  Speaker 5: When I seen my ankle in that moment, I just
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  Speaker 5: knew what it was gonna do to me mentally, and
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  Speaker 5: it's I love the game of football.
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  Speaker 2: I love being out through my brother.
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  Speaker 5: So when I seen my ankle looking the way it looked,
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  Speaker 5: it really hurt me because I knew it wasn't I
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  Speaker 5: knew it wasn't just a small injury.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've never been injured before.
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  Speaker 5: But I, like you said, like everybody seen like you know,
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  Speaker 5: that's not a small injury.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's not just something all. So it was tough.
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  Speaker 2: It was tough. My heart was honestly shattered.
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  Speaker 5: And going through the process of surgery and just man,
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  Speaker 5: just everything up until now, it's been a tough journey.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be lying if I said it's easy. It hasn't
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  Speaker 2: been easy, but.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, it's lokey a blessing in this God just give me.
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  Speaker 2: It gave me a chance to, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Really look back on my life and really reflect and
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  Speaker 5: build my relationship with God. So it's really been building
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  Speaker 5: my character and I'm really thankful for that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a blessing right there. That's definitely a blessing
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  Speaker 1: right there. Katie, we you I gotta ask you about this.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about this new room and told you just
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  Speaker 1: gonna ask you about this. You got a sack in
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  Speaker 1: the Temple game. So I got two questions for you.
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  Speaker 1: Do you still feel like getting a sack is better
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  Speaker 1: than an interception? Like you said last year? Let's answer
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  Speaker 1: that question first. Are you still more excited about sacks
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  Speaker 1: than interceptions?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going with the sack. That's always gonna be
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  Speaker 5: the sack, just because man, it's just when you come
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  Speaker 5: up the blitz and uh, you know, being a DV,
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  Speaker 5: we don't really get to do that as much. So
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  Speaker 5: when you're able to do that and you're able to
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  Speaker 5: get to the quarterback and just feels good, it kind
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  Speaker 5: of makes you feel like a sick five past brush
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  Speaker 5: her a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point, all right. Then my second
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  Speaker 1: question is why did you lose your mind when you
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  Speaker 1: tip that pass and I got the interception? What was
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  Speaker 1: going through your mind at that moment when you look
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  Speaker 1: back on it, like, oh oh wait, we did get
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  Speaker 1: Why did you lose your mind at that moment?
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  Speaker 5: It's kind of the mentality I had just I felt
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  Speaker 5: like I left food on the dinner table. And what
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  Speaker 5: I mean by that is I wanted that pick so bad.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to pick that ball off, like uh, I
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  Speaker 5: was happy. So when I tipped the ball, I thought
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  Speaker 5: it was just the incompletion. I didn't know that Cana
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  Speaker 5: was behind me and picked it off. So in the
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  Speaker 5: moment I was I was mad, you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 5: an incomplete pass, and I'm like, man, I don't want
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  Speaker 5: a PPU like I want to pick. So uh That's
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  Speaker 5: why I lost my mom because I didn't want that pick.
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  Speaker 5: But then when I seen I heard the crowd going wild,
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  Speaker 5: and I seen Canal with the ball in his hands,
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  Speaker 5: and I realized, okay, it was a it was a
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  Speaker 5: PBu I n t. So that made me feel a
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  Speaker 5: lot better. I went to Cana let him know. I
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  Speaker 5: was happy for him. But that's that's why I lost
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  Speaker 5: my mind. I wanted that money man did.
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  Speaker 4: When you went to the sideline, did holler anybody or
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  Speaker 4: VLA come over to you and be like, hey man,
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  Speaker 4: play through the ball, like, don't lose it? Or were
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  Speaker 4: they just celebrating and congratulations uh to Canai.
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: They were congratulating nai Man. I was literally asking why
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  Speaker 5: did you Why would you losing your mind?
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  Speaker 2: Did you know? I was like, but you look crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like oh.
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  Speaker 5: And then when I seen the replay and everybody told
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  Speaker 5: me what happened, I was like, oh yeah, I look
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  Speaker 5: back at the video and I'm like, man, I'm kind
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  Speaker 5: of mad. I did that a lot, but it was
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  Speaker 5: just a real uh interact reactions.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's kind of like how you just just
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  Speaker 1: an initial reaction. You kind of had the knee jerk
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  Speaker 1: moment of dang it, man, this was my pick. I
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  Speaker 1: had the plot and just grab it and you just
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  Speaker 1: look at me like, oh wait, we're good.
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  Speaker 2: Oh all right, I.
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  Speaker 1: Guess we can. We can. We can take that. Cool.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny because I still that that play and as
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned in the green room, that play in the
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  Speaker 1: DEA's Malone was still my favorite two plays of the
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  Speaker 1: year because you lose your mind over here and then
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  Speaker 1: des Malone perfectly catches Ki Lewis's spike and just chunkins
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  Speaker 1: to the stands. I'm like, that should have been a flag,
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  Speaker 1: but with all the lights and everything going on from
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  Speaker 1: the touchdown, it made sense that they did not see it.
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  Speaker 1: So we're talking chopping it up here with kend Adobe
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  Speaker 1: dB cheatah. So are you still you're still kind of
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  Speaker 1: a nickel slash cheatah? Right? Is that still the role
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  Speaker 1: that they're they're still trying to make make make sure
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  Speaker 1: you're playing next season.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, they want to keep me in that role. They
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  Speaker 2: want me to be around the ball.
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  Speaker 5: They feel like, you know, my skill sets to fly
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  Speaker 5: around the ball, but they also do want me to
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  Speaker 5: if needed. They trusted my skill set to go play
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  Speaker 5: outside corner if I need to. So just being a
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  Speaker 5: Swiss Army knife man, and it makes me feel good
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  Speaker 5: that that that my team trusted me to be able to,
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  Speaker 5: you know, go make a play and line up on
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  Speaker 5: the best player that they got and compete at.
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  Speaker 2: A high level.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm for that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously, like one of the biggest things that
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  Speaker 4: allowed you to move over to the cheatera role was
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  Speaker 4: the pure combination between like the ball skills and the
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  Speaker 4: covered skills, and then you're willing to get in there
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  Speaker 4: and put your nose in the middle of a you
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  Speaker 4: know a lot of the traffic. And I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 4: just gonna say, you look like it looks different when
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  Speaker 4: you blitz. It looks different from just anybody. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: Samuo does his own thing, you know the song when
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  Speaker 4: he was back out there, even to Shaun White. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, I harken back to old school days, like
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  Speaker 4: when I see you blitz, there was a defensive back
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  Speaker 4: and Brandon Shelby and I don't know if you've ever
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  Speaker 4: got a chance to meet him, but like go back
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  Speaker 4: and watch some of his clips. Talk to BV about that,
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  Speaker 4: because that's who you remind me of. Brandon Shelby. When
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  Speaker 4: he came to blitz, he just he just had it.
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  Speaker 4: He just knew that lane, he knew where things were
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  Speaker 4: going to open up. And it looks like you because
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  Speaker 4: there's times where I'll watch the tackles kick out and
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  Speaker 4: you'll wait until that tackle kicks out, and then you
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  Speaker 4: just hit that gap and so I mean just seeing
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  Speaker 4: you blitz. That's I'm down for the sack. I love
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  Speaker 4: the interceptions, but I like watching you sack the quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: That's probably my favorite.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a Do you have a celebration you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna start doing when you get sacks for like this season?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have like a particular thing.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be practicing my room. I'm gonna bring it out
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  Speaker 5: with game day.
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  Speaker 2: Come I like it.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty four twenty four you follow up a year in
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  Speaker 4: which twenty three, you know, you basically cleaned house with
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  Speaker 4: the you know, all the interior team trophies as far
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  Speaker 4: as like the Grit and the Strain and all those
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  Speaker 4: awards that you got. Now you're in a new new
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  Speaker 4: spot because now now you're you're you're an old head,
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  Speaker 4: You're a vet.
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  Speaker 3: Of the team.
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  Speaker 4: Have you seen your how's your role changed from being
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  Speaker 4: just a guy that you know people are pouring into
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  Speaker 4: to you working with some of these younger kids that
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  Speaker 4: are now starting to come in and come up.
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, just that right there, Like when I first came in,
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  Speaker 5: it was kind of the older guys. I mean I
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  Speaker 5: came in out of Juco so I guess I was
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  Speaker 5: technically an older guy. But the guys who have been there,
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  Speaker 5: like Billy and and Danny, you know, they were all
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  Speaker 5: teaching guys like me the way. And now you know
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  Speaker 5: that I've been here and I know how everything goes,
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  Speaker 5: I'm teaching younger guys and my role has changed a lot.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, those younger guys are looking up to me, and
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  Speaker 5: it honestly feels good because you know, going through what
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  Speaker 5: I've been through, whether it's Zuko to the injuries that
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  Speaker 5: I've been through so much, and like I said, Gods
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  Speaker 5: really has tested my character and I'm able to shed
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  Speaker 5: my light on the younger guys and give advice in
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  Speaker 5: a big.
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  Speaker 2: Way and they buy into it. So yeah, my roles
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  Speaker 2: changed a lot. I've just been more of a vocal guy.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, last year being an injured beating on
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  Speaker 5: the sideline, it was weird because you know, I'm on
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  Speaker 5: the sideline, I'm out there on the field. So my
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  Speaker 5: role also had to change on you know, motivating my guys,
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  Speaker 5: keeping my guys into the game from the sideline. So yeah,
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  Speaker 5: my roles changed a lot, definitely, you know, in a
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  Speaker 5: way better leader role for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can see that. And you you put up
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  Speaker 1: a lot of snaps. You played a lot Temple Houston
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  Speaker 1: had the you know, concussion that kept you out of
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  Speaker 1: the two lane game. You got to come back against Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: But now that we're coming we turned the calendar over
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  Speaker 1: to twenty twenty five and we're in when the workouts,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, as you're going through and watching it,
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the players that you've got
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: to nerve at winter workouts. How are you feeling about
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: some First off, how are you feeling about the freshmen
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: that have come in to the squad so far?
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: The freshmen, they are a hungry class. To be honest,
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: A lot of those guys have bought in fast and quick.
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: So yeah, I think they're a really good class. They
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: have a lot of guys in that class that want
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: to play, and they're coming in with the mindset, I don't
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: want to be a freshman.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: I don't want it.
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: That's because p says all the time, like you're a freshman,
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: but you don't have to be a freshman.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: So a lot of them, gods are hungry. A lot
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: of them guys work very hard, and.
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: I'm excited to see what what gods from that class you, Marge,
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: because I think there's gonna be a lot of them that
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: do really soon.
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: I like it the sticking with that film sessions. Obviously
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: you're gonna do a lot of mental reps when you're
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: going through all of this. What do you do you
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: feel like the time off allows you to get in
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: a better place mentally and understand the game a little
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: bit more, something that you can use with your advan
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: once you're physically healthy. Or do you think that you
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: know you had the film's portion of it down pretty pass.
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: I would say I would I had what I thought
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: is I had the film portion every down, you know,
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: when I was out there playing.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: But being on the sideline actually gives you a way
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: different view of things.
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: You know, you're really able to sit there and read
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: out different things that you might miss when you're in
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: the game because you know, in the game everything's going
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: so fast. So I think definitely, you know, kind of
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: having a year office to sit back and learn mentally,
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: it's going to help my game tremendously.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: I've seen different looks and.
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: There's times when I wasn't at the game, so I
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: was watching on TV and you know, when you're watching
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: it from the TV, you're able to see at a
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: different angle, you know everything, You could see everything at
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: that point. So I definitely say it's helped build my
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: mental start of the game a lot more.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I can definitely see that. So we asked
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: you this last year and it's had a little controversy
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: that went down from it. Do you still feel like
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: he's still the hardest hitter on the side of the ball.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: And I fully get that title to Michael bokanow.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: So Baba Yeager. We call him Bobba Yaega the Boogeyman.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: That's what his dad always says. So you're saying that
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Babba Yega is still the hardest hitter. It is now
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: the hardest hitter on the team.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, most definitely. Hey, they hit, they hits him, mate. Yeah,
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: I definitely gave it to him real quick. I'm like, okay,
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: you got it, you got it.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now he loves to hit though.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: He's a big dude, big physical guy, and I tell
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: him all the time, bro, like do you close your
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: eyes when you hit?
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Because you hit so hard? So yeah, he definitely got
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: that title.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Okay. Passing to Bobby Yeaga didn't expect you to. Hey,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: don't give.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: It to him, and that's that's that. That's pretty funny.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Hey the new podcast.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Tell me a little bit about the new podcast, because
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: you know, obviously I saw that pop up and I
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: was like, oh, I'm gonna be watching this.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: And so you had Kip come in. How long have
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: you been wanting to do that?
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Is that something that's fairly new or is it something
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: you've kind of had bruined for a while.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Kind of a little bit of both.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: I always wanted to, you know, after my football career
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: is over, I've always wanted to get into like sports
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: broadcasting and staying around the sport and stuff like that.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I love learning people's story. I love telling people my story.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: So it's always been something I wanted to do, was
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: to get into like media and the media.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Side of things.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: But last season I was like, man, I'm just gonna
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: focus on football, get to the league, and start that
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: up when I get in the league. Well, obviously the
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: injury happened, and like I said, it just gave me
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: a time to reflect and I feel like God really
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: put it on my heart to man, this is your
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: time now to show people and show people behind the
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: scenes of your life and what it takes. So yeah,
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: I just like, man, I'm gonna start a YouTube channel
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: and I want to do podcast segments on there. I'm
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: gonna be doing game day blogs, workout blogs, and just really,
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: like I said, showing the fans and younger kids, just
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: what it takes to be a divisional athlete and what
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: it takes to grind and how to persevere when it
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: comes to having step back. So I feel like God
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: man put me in a position to be able to
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: do that and spread my story.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna make sure I do that the best
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: way I can.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Let's be honest.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: You came on, you came on with us, and you
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: saw me, and you're like, man, anybody can do it.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Like if that guy's doing you got.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: As fired me for sure.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm about. I'm glad to hear that part. Well.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Speaking of your story, we're talking to kend Adobe here
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: from University of Oklahoma. I'm a fifteen the Cheetah dB
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: that likes to get sex more than interceptions. Uh KD.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Talk about your story. I mean you went from you know,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: from Ohio, played Jucobal at in EO and now you
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: ended up at Oklahoma? What what? How did that? How
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: did that storyline happen for you? Get Let's let's let's
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: go back to the roots of kend Adobe and tell
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: his story here as well.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: So just come out of high school going to Juko. Uh,
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: it was a journey in itself. Never in a million
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: years where I think a kid from Oho I is
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: gonna end up in Oklahoma. And people out here in
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: Oklahoma make sure to remind me all the time, like
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: you're from Oha, what are you doing out here? But yeah,
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: it's been it's been a blessing though. Going Juco met
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: a lot of cool people like also built that was
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: something that also built my character up. So going from
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Juco to transition to the D one level was also
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: a big transition, and it's been something I've been so
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: grateful for. It's just changed my perspective on everything. It's
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: given me a vision of gratefulness and being appreciative of
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: everything that I've earned. And I'm just grinded and it
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: kind of goes into it goes into the injury, you know,
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: being injured.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Now it's like, man, I didn't made it from Juco.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: I didn't grind it I dine came from hard times
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: and persevere every time. So now that I'm injured, it's
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: having that in the back of my mind, like if
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: you'd have made it out of the hardest things, like
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: this is nothing. So it's been man, it's all been
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: a test of character, and I've just been been thankful
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: for this journey. You know, in the moment, it's tough
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: to really be like, man, I'm I'm thankful for this,
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: or but it's one of those things when it's all
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: said and done, you're gonna be like, man, I'm thankful
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: for that because I do it all the time with Jugo.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: When I was in Juco, I was mad I was
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: in Jugo. But now I look back and I was like, okay, yeah,
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: I needed that.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: The opportunity to grow that was that was your Like
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I said, God getting you on that proper path to
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: he can build the best version of you and let
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: you learn on the on the on that path and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that trail that you that you needed to go down,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: which exactly I can definitely understand that. That totally makes sense. Cool.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, I mean when you're when you were kind
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: of getting this podcast together, were you doing research, looking
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: and kind of see how you wanted that that that's
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: a flow and then did you get inspiration from anywhere
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: specific or is it just like, hey man, I'm gonna
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: hit play and then just let my spirit run.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: I kind of looked around and just seeing different videos
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: and stuff like that, just to see the setup of everything.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I have a camera man.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: That was when I when I spoke on, I posted
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: on my Instagram that I was gonna start it up
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: and I had a bunch of get the different camera
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: man who reached out to me saying that they wanted
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: to work with me. So my cameraman, he was telling me,
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: you know, this is what we need to do. This
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: is a setup that we can have. So as far
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: as the conversations and and everything like that, it was
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: just something I wanted to flow because, to be honest,
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: when I did the podcast, uh kick came on and
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Kip kiped comfort Ward is like and he kept saying,
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: I like so much, and it started rupping off on me.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: I was over there st I'm saying I like a lot.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: So at first I wasn't gonna post a video because
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: I'm like, man, we said light like Kip, let's redo
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: it like, let's you know, let's do another take or whatever.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: But then when I really sat there and thought about it,
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: I was like, man, that's as bad as I want
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: to redo the video. That was a genuine conversation that
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: was going on. I don't want to go back and
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: redo the video because then everything's gonna sound scripted. So now, yeah,
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: just have it, posting that video and just showing a
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: genuine conversation.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's really what I've been on.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: Its being something that it's been flown off the off
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: my mind, to be honest.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: That makes sense. So for you, your goal is to
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: do some interviews with your teammates and around sports to
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: really like get those stories out correct.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna do my teammates.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: My goals to also go to other other sports too, Gymnastics, basketball, Yeah,
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: I want to do everybody.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I want to learn.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Everybody got a story to tell, and I want to
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: learn people's story. Like I said, I love learning about
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: people's story and I love spreading my story.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: So I'm right now.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: The focus is, you know, get a couple of football
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: guys on there, and then I definitely move to other
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: sports for sure.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: I like that a lot expectations for this year. Obviously,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: the defense shows out, balls out, and you know that
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: you could have been even better. You guys left some
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: food on the table as you made in common earlier.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: What's your outlook for twenty twenty five? And a lot
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: of people were wondering, Hey, was that just a one
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: year glitch?
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Was it?
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Is this who we are now? But what do you
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: think about this team for twenty twenty five? And do
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: you have any personal goals yet? Uh?
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think this team, I think the team this year,
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: our goals is to you know, win a conference championship.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: The goals never changed when you go to a school
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: like oh you So I feel like this year we
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: have a team to do it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: To be honest, we had.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: I thought last year we had the team to do it,
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: but fortunately a lot of things happen unfortunately, and a
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: lot of younger guys had to step up. So this year,
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: I just think having the experience, uh is going to
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: be a big thing. I think we're going to be
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: a really good team. You know, it takes time to
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: build that chemistry. Obviously, the defensive side of the ball,
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: we we didn't really lose too many guys, so we
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: have that chemistry. The office side is going to take
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: a little bit of time, but those guys are doing
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: a good good job, you know, John Uh, the receivers,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: the all them guys, you know, they're they've been doing
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: a good job of bonding and getting to know each other.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: So I definitely think that this this team has can
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: make a run for sure. But my personal goals is, uh,
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: I want to be first team SEC uh, first team
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: All American.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: And I literally got it written all my mirrors to
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: go win the thrope.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: And I know some people sounds crazy, you know, this
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: guy's come off with injury, you know this and that.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: But in my head, like it's just like I said,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: going through this this made me so much.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: More hungry and just.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Sitting down and reflecting, it's like I just got a
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: different a different monster and me that's ready to come out.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: So man, when I get back healthy, I'm coming for
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: it all. Like that's really my mindset. That's that's genuine words.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: That's not just something I'm saying. That's that's really how
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: I feel. I'm coming for it all. I'm wonning every award,
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: and man.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: A lot of people, a lot of people gotta see
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: me I love it.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: That's yeah, I'm glad to push for the awards. Season
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: is always something big and definitely having high expectations and
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: ambitions is always critical to being successful. You also got
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to have a little bit of a little bit of
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a narcissism and delusions were playing football you gotta make
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: you got to feel like I'm better than that dude.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, even if.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: You're like, man, that dude's really good, right, but I'm
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: definitely better than him. So I'm totally here for it,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and we definitely will be cheering for you to get
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: as many awards as possible. So on that note, as
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: we talk about uh, good players and everything, let's look
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: back at the winner workouts that some of the young
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: guys who's in your room, who do you feel like
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: as a player that sooners and sooner fans need to
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: know about going into fall practice into the season.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, there's a lot of those guys.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: Michael Prosusi, he's one that that always pops on in
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: the back of my head every time.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: He grinds hard. Big dude. He's two among us. I'm
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: not gonna lie, but yeah, big dude.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: Malie Hawkins, he's a baller you know, he has a
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: certain type of attitude to him that you need.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: He just goes out there and competes.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: And it's funny because when he gets to go get
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: his brother, he makes sure that talks so much to Mike.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Is funny.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Courtland Guillery, he's gonna be a baller too.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Just you know, he's in the dB room.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: So I'm really able to get to know these guys
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: and see them work and see their progression.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: He's he's gonna be a baller.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: A lot of thim's on the off side receiver man,
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: he's gonna be a baller.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: A lot of those guys. There's a lot of those guys.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: I feel like there's gonna be somewhere when fall camp
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: comes around.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Because it's like a process thing.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: You know, there's a guys who he starts clicking in spring,
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: and then there's those guys.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Who in summertime. When summertimes here, it just it clicks
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: form fully.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: So I expect a lot of guys in that class
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: to you know, make a name and and definitely get
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: some click this year.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: That's what's up. Who's who's following underneath your wing? Who's
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the one that you're mentoring the most catch yourself Hawkins.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, they got him.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Uh he's been moving around a lot, so he's been
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: patching a little bit of cheat or too. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: he he's kind of you know, he makes her to
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: ask me questions all the time, and I love working
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: with him. He's a humble kid, and he kind of
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: reminds me as far as the you know, I like
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: the trash talk. I like to fly around. So would
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: I see him do it? It makes you feel good.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: So yeah, that's that's probably one of the guys. I
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: will say right.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Now, you obviously haven't gotten a chance to go out
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: and do any like one on reps. But so I'm
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: gonna go back to last year. Who was the guy
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: that when you lined up in practice that you know,
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: when he came across you and you got that responsibility.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Let's say in pass coverage first that you were just like, man,
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: this is this is just a tough cover?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Are you kind of glitched out on that last part?
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: I apologize the last far.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: No, it's okay.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Who is a receiver or tight end or whoever that
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: you were matched up against last year when you're going
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: against practice you're just like, you know, you guys just
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: had good battles, epic battles. It seems like, you know,
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: it was just a tough cover or for you. You know,
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: maybe you gotta win here and there and he got
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: to win here or there.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: Dion Burt, Me and d I used to go at
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: it all the time, like all the time.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: It used to be so bad.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: In practice, We're talking, he's making a play on me,
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: getting up talking trash. I'll make a play on him,
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: and I'm getting up talking trash. And man, he's a
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: baller and going against him. Honestly, Uh, it brings the best.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: You bring up the best out of each other. It's
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: one of those things. We would say the most craziest
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: things to each other on the field, and then we
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: would get off the field and we're dapping each other up, like, man,
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: I love you brother, good work, good work. So yeah,
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: that's that's the one. I would always say, like, man,
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: we used to go at it.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. Okay, So now I gotta
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: add there's we It appears there's a night and day
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: situation on the office side of the ball. Last year,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the offense just couldn't get itself going and it ended
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: up being one of the worst offenses of Oklahoma in like,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: you know, twenty years. But you bring in a quarterback
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: and Jomaterier with an offensive coordinator of been our Bucal.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: What's it been like having Jeometerier there at the practice?
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: What have you observed with the offense comparating from last
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: year to this year?
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: The thing I'll say about John is if you looked
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: up the definition of a quarterback in the dictionary, John's
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: picture will pop up. And what I mean, Yeah, what
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: I would mean by that is this, he's just he's
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: a leader and he just takes control of the room.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Man. Uh.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: He demands, you know, people's respect, and as a quarterback,
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: you got to have that. You're you're literally the whole
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: team runs through you. So just his attitude. He's a
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: fighty dude. Like he he gets up talking trash the
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: defensive side and we haven't seen that in a long time. Like,
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: he's just a he's a guy who you can tell
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: like you he feels like he has a chip on
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: his shoulder and he feels like he got something to prove.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: So he goes out there and works really hard every
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: day and I feel like that's a big difference right there.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: He's just a he's a full long leader and he
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: hasn't even been here that long. And then having coached
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: Arbuckle to the you know, coach the offense, obviously they
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: got that chemistry coming from Washington State together. They're literally
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: they're there, they're in a new spot, but they're coaching
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: the people who've been here because they've been.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Running this offense, you know what I'm saying.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: So they're getting everybody on board right now and getting
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: them adapted to the system that they run. And coach Arbuckle,
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: he's a cool coach. He's a young guy, so man,
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: he loves the crack jokes. And not just not just
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: with the office of guys either, he's he's talking to
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: the defensive guys and I haven't even been practicing and
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: he's over there talking to me, getting to know me
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: a little bit more.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: So, he's a a great coach, and just just the what.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: You call or the aura of the team or the
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: office societies, it's a big, big, big difference.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: I will say that.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I like hearing that. We definitely want to hear that
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: there's a change in the aura of his oh, because
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: again with how good the defense was. A defense efficiency
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: the team finished number ten in the nation on ESPN's
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: efficiency rating, So that's pretty darn high. When you don't
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: really have an offense there to really help you bring
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: this offense from the one hundred to the fifties, it's
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: a good chance y'all can produce a top five defense
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: in the country and definitely one of the best ones
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: in the SEC. So you know, we're rooting for a
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: good competent offense that can just keep the ball movie
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: keep you off the field just for a little bit,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: or with y'all get turnovers, go and get touchdowns. You
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. We keep that, we keep that going.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I think it'd be good. I got one more though
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the transfers. You know, we brought in some new players.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: We got another Kendle, got Daniels instead of Adobe. I've
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: been hearing that the men's a giant. So tell me
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: about the other kd on defense? What do you think
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: about him and how do you think he plays in
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the defensive system? So far, no trade secrets, just more so,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: how do you.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Think he fits right? He is a big dude. I
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: will say that John normous.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: Well, God, I think he's like, I don't know his
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: exact way, but he's definitely up there.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: He's definitely no small guy. But his transition has been good.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: You know, he's a he's an Oklahoma guy, so uh, yeah,
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: him coming in, Man, he fits in really well. Been
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: getting to know him. He's been getting to know a
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: lot of guys and uh, we have fun in the
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: locker room, like I said, getting to know each other.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: But he's been fitting in really well. You can tell
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: he's one of those guys you know, Uh coach Minibles
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: defense takes a lot of repetition and a lot of
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: studying to be able to get down.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: But you can see his want to learn this defense
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: and his want.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: To to get it down. So he's working hard every
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: day workouts. I see him at workouts practice. He's doing
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: everything that it takes to thrive in his defense and
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: thrive on his team. So he's taking all the right steps,
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: uh to be a contributor on the team.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be really.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Good any bad. But you're gonna reserve the k D
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: name for yourself, right, Like you're.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Gonna have y'all volled over that yet have y'all, have
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: y'all decided who deserves that name yet?
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: To be honest, they see they that's the thing, you know,
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: teammates like to instigate.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: They always yep, yep. Yeah, he was a real KD.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: But everybody like K is. But I don't really trip
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: too much, you know what I'm saying. I don't really
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: trip about it too much. But uh, everybody tends.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: To call me KD. They kind of call him K five.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: Some people call him Katie, And I'm perfectly followed that.
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: That's what you've been called your whole life. And hey,
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna let that that's live. But you know how
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: I fail at the time, Like everybody knows Katie, you know.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: So that's true. So we're gonna go with K five
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: for him, and we gonna let you keep the k
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: D name. I like K five. That's actually a pretty
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: interesting thought. Didn't didn't think about it that way.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: That's it's it's it's a good alternative.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: That's hey, Uh, last year, obviously you weren't able to
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: go on the road to a lot of these new
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: places to play. Uh, so you know you can answer
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: this one of two ways, Like, is there a team,
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: or is there a trip that you're really excited to
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: make this year? You know, go into a couple of
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: new stadiums, new opportunities, and you can say Texas if
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: you want, but who are you really wanting to you know,
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: get out there and compete with this year?
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: Definitely Number one would be tennessee you playing a kneeling.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: You know, you hear the stories about healing.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: The ad Yeah, man, the atmosphere just if you if
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: you hear all the rumors and the stories and you
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: even see the proof of the atmosphere, it looks crazy.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: And it's gonna be a game that means a lot
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: because everybody knows that's the game I went down.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: So that game is gonna mean a lot to me.
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: I can't wait. I can't wait to go check Needland out.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: I'm excarted for South Carolina. Texas is always fun. Getting
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: to go to the Cotton Bow. That's a fun game.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: But then the most underrated one, I definitely say when
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: we play Temple, and that's just because we're they playing
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: the Eagle Stadium. So getting the playing yea, yeah, getting play,
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: getting a play in the NFL stadium, that's gonna be fun,
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: you know, just playing where a lot of us are
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: playing on going. It's gonna be a real moment. So
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: I'm excited for all those games.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Though I didn't think about the Lincoln Financial Peace and
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: playing at the NFL stadium. That's a very good point.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: You could see the locker type locker rooms and stuff,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: so yes, get a taste before you head over to
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: the draft and everything. So I know, I know you're
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: you are definitely stoked about that portion of it being
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: your last year. Unfortunately, I wish we could have you
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: for like another one or two years, but I do
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: want you to go to the next level and make
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: big things happen. What message do you have for Sooner
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Nation as we prepare, uh, going through the spring, going
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: into the fall, in to the next season. What message
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: do you have for them? Words of encouragement? Do you
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: want to remind them to keep patient? Whatever give give
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: them the final message of the day.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: The message I would give is man just to stay
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: to stay positive with it. And what I mean by
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: that is, you know, it takes time for things to develop.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: It takes time for uh things to grow. You know,
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: you got to start off low to get high. So uh,
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of growing pains that came last season.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: I know, you know, going through the season, it sucks
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: losing games. But now that we're on the other end
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: of it, everybody, and I'm sure even the fans can
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: even say, like, man, we're glad that so and so
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: had to step up and take earlier reps. Now, so
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: now when he comes back this year, he's gonna be ready.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: So I just think, you know, just like I said,
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: growing pains is not always a bad thing.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: It's really not. And I know a lot of time,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: you know, as human beings, we think it is.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: And that's one of the things I thought going through
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: this journey is it is a growing pain, and I'm
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: gonna come out the other side of the stronger. So
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: I feel like that's the same thing for this football
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: team and Sooner Nation. Man, we're gonna the season we had,
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: We're ready to grow off of it and come out
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: of the stronger, and I think we really will this year.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: So I'll just say be patient.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: You know, we do this for y'all, We do this
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: for Sooner Nation, and we want to win games, and
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: we really seleve we can this year.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: It's gonna take time, man, so to stick with us
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: for sure.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: I like that message. That's a good message.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Hey, we've got Kendall
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Adobe here cheatah corner, the real KD holdenough to join us.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming back again, and I'm so glad
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: to hear that you add a boot that when a
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: workouts are going great for you. We are just gonna
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: be hoping and praying at Illinois State. We see you
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: running out of the tunnel.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Yes sir, Yes sir. I'm looking forward, so I'm doing
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: everything I can to make sure that happens.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. Down in the description below,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: you'll see a link to Kindle's YouTube channel so you
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: can go check them out. You got the interview with
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Kip Lewis, Go get subscribed, do all the likes and
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: all of that stuff. And when's the next video coming out?
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Uh probably be two weeks one screen break right now.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: So I'm a way for everybody to get back, you know,
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: kind of get accimated to coming back and stuff like that.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna really rush nobody into it, but I.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: Would say that should be the next time some something
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: should be coming out.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: You got a surprised person who it is or are
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: you gonna keep that a secret.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep that a secret. It's gonna be good though.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: I like the I like to ask the fans and
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: see who they want to get on, so I kind of,
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: you know, just look around and see what I'm what
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: I'm seeing the most, and whoever they the fans wanna see,
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: I'll make sure to go get them.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: So yeah, hey and fans, let us know down here
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: in the comments here. If you're watching this video and
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: there's somebody you want Katie to bring up and you know,
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: chop it up with, let him know in the in
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: the chat and obvious, so hit him up on the
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: twitters because I know that you're, you know, got.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: It, got football to do.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: But still, this is it seems like a natural for
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: you with this podcast thing, so you know, I wish
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: you the best with it.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that it anestly means a lot