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Mac & Bone Show - JJ Jansen Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Let's bring him on JJ Jansen, a wreck, another record
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  Speaker 1: down for JJ Jansen, JJ.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: Congratulations, brother. What's happening.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I want to let you know that they did
• 0:10
  Speaker 3: stop the game after, after I broke the record for
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  Speaker 3: two and a half minutes, but like commercials and I'm
• 0:17
  Speaker 3: sure some gambling website, we'll let you know, every, everything
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  Speaker 3: worked out just fine for me.
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  Speaker 2: That is hilarious, man. That is hilarious. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So JJ, I respect I respect the fact when I said, Hey,
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: we want to do Snapchats and we want to celebrate you.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: We want to congratulate you. And I respect the fact
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  Speaker 1: you texted back. Let's just talk about the win. You
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? Let's just talk about the win.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think it's freaking amazing that, that you
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  Speaker 1: have done this for this long. And like, we have
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  Speaker 1: jokes all the time and I'm sure there's going to
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: be text jokes, all the textures. And I'm sure we
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: might tell some of them in the next 10 minutes
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  Speaker 1: as well. But like, it is amazing that you like
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  Speaker 1: have wanted to go to training camp this many years,
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  Speaker 1: work on it, be in the trenches. Like, I mean, dude,
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  Speaker 1: you've got so many things you could do and you
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  Speaker 1: will do post football.
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  Speaker 2: Um, you don't have to do this stuff, man.
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  Speaker 1: Like why, why is it worth it to keep doing
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  Speaker 1: this year after year, man?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, playing football with your friends is the absolute best. And, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I have a ton of fun playing the game. Also
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  Speaker 3: locker rooms. Anytime you talk to any player that's retired,
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  Speaker 3: they all talk about the locker room and, uh, the
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  Speaker 3: feelings of being on a team. And yes, when I'm
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  Speaker 3: done playing, I'm going to find my team again. There'll
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  Speaker 3: be things that I'll be doing, and I'm always going
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  Speaker 3: to be about being on teams and building teams. But
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  Speaker 3: there is nothing better in the world than playing in
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  Speaker 3: front of your home crowd. And the only thing that
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  Speaker 3: may beat it is what we just did on Sunday,
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  Speaker 3: which is go into a hostile environment and no one's
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  Speaker 3: rooting for you except for a smattering of whether it's
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: roaring riot or this small smattering of Carolina process blue
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  Speaker 3: and quieting an entire crowd over the course of three
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  Speaker 3: hours that those two feelings are the best. And so
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  Speaker 3: you can't beat this adrenaline rush, but it was, it's,
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  Speaker 3: it was a lot of fun. I was glad. I
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  Speaker 3: was glad we got it over quickly. We went right
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  Speaker 3: down and scored, got, got a big field goal to
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  Speaker 3: start the game. And we could go on about our day,
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  Speaker 3: which was beating the Eagles and getting the three and two.
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  Speaker 4: What's the, what's the key do you think to your longevity.
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  Speaker 2: In this league?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if I'm being completely honest, the Lord has just
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  Speaker 3: blessed me tremendously with good health and being a part
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  Speaker 3: of an organization that wanted me around. That is not
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  Speaker 3: always the case. I've been very fortunate in that regard. I,
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  Speaker 3: as we've talked about a few times, I had to
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  Speaker 3: navigate a few things a few years back, but other
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  Speaker 3: than that, I've been very, very well taken care of
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  Speaker 3: by everyone around. I think the other part was I
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  Speaker 3: was just really well mentored when I was a young
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  Speaker 3: player in terms of what the job required, how to
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  Speaker 3: be a professional, not only on the field, but off.
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  Speaker 3: And I've done as best I can to, to mirror
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  Speaker 3: those things in my own career and then pass that
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  Speaker 3: information along to the young guys. I was having a
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  Speaker 3: conversation with someone yesterday and I said, my entire career, my, my,
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  Speaker 3: teammates have always been 23 to 28 years old. That's,
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  Speaker 3: I don't see my teammates as anything different than when
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  Speaker 3: I was a young player. It's just, they view me
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  Speaker 3: very differently because we've got an older family and older kids,
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  Speaker 3: but it's been fun as the years have gone on.
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  Speaker 3: I get to do more of the teaching and mentoring
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  Speaker 3: and be a part of the, uh, the veteran leadership
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  Speaker 3: of the group.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody tipped us off, by the way, on this South Park. See,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see this. This is from like three weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: South Park Magazine story about JJ written by Ron Green,
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  Speaker 1: the great Ron Green Jr. This is like when Coach
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  Speaker 1: K got in the Garden Magazine. So I start reading
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  Speaker 1: about it. I didn't know the thing about Charlie Weiss,
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  Speaker 1: your coach at Notre Dame, was the first person to
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  Speaker 1: make it clear to you, like, dude, you're good.
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  Speaker 2: Enough to do this in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: But my favorite part, JJ, is when you, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't think you told us this, where
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  Speaker 1: you say Nick Scorton came up to you last year
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  Speaker 1: and said, how old are you? You said 39. And
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  Speaker 1: he says, damn, my mom's younger than you are.
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  Speaker 3: Speaker 0 5,000 I think there were a few Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Jansen's and sirs in there too, which made me feel
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  Speaker 3: particularly old. Yeah, that was, that was a new one. I,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's a few milestones as you get older
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  Speaker 3: in the league. The first is typically you're playing for
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  Speaker 3: coaches that are younger than you. The second one is
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  Speaker 3: you're playing with the sons of people you played against
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  Speaker 3: earlier in your career, but that one was an all
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  Speaker 3: time milestone. You are older than players parents. That was
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  Speaker 3: a new one for me. And, but, but again, Nick
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  Speaker 3: is such an awesome kid that he was incredibly respectful,
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  Speaker 3: which actually made it worse. Nice to me about it
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  Speaker 3: actually felt like he was cutting me even deeper.
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  Speaker 4: JJ, one of the storylines the other day that we've
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  Speaker 4: talked a lot about was the return of Taylor Moten.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think of him coming back and not
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  Speaker 4: missing a beat? And just from your perspective, Taylor Moten,
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  Speaker 4: the person and what he means to the Panther organization?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it was awesome. You know, the special thing about
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  Speaker 3: Taylor is he doesn't say a whole lot. he is
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  Speaker 3: incredibly consistent in his work ethic. And then for, for
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  Speaker 3: just about every game of his career, you sort of
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  Speaker 3: forget that he's out there because he does his job
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  Speaker 3: so well, something that I hopefully can appreciate. You don't
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  Speaker 3: really want to notice if you're right tackles out there
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  Speaker 3: a whole lot. Same with the left tackle. If they're
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  Speaker 3: just shutting people down and there isn't a lot of
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  Speaker 3: noise over in their area, that's a good thing. And,
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  Speaker 3: of course, coming off the bench after three months and
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  Speaker 3: blood clots and the whole thing, of course, he draws
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Carter and that pass rush, and he just did
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  Speaker 3: an awesome job. a model of consistency. He's become the
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  Speaker 3: grandpa of the locker room. He's the one telling us
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  Speaker 3: to pick up our mess. And so it's a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have to do that. Those grandpa duties. That's
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  Speaker 3: more of a Taylor Moten thing, but it's so good
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  Speaker 3: to have one of our leaders, one of our captains,
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  Speaker 3: one of our guys back with us. It's a stabilizing
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  Speaker 3: force for the offense and the offensive line for sure.
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  Speaker 3: <HAL> I haven't seen him yet today, but we will
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  Speaker 3: let him know it's the happiest of birthdays. For those
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  Speaker 3: that don't know, we often give a happy birthday shout-out
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  Speaker 3: to Taylor Moten. So he's had about 500 of those
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  Speaker 3: over the course of his career.
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  Speaker 2: I love that bit.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips did it behind him in the locker room
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  Speaker 1: during an interview the other day.
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  Speaker 2: I love that bit.
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  Speaker 3: J.J.
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  Speaker 1: Jansen with us, talking about a big Panthers win to
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  Speaker 1: get over 500, game-and-a-half lead in the division, and, of course,
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: talking about his record-setting day. Let's talk about another one
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  Speaker 1: of your teammates, Tommy Tremble. What a game he had,
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  Speaker 1: and the touchdown catches were nice. They were awesome, but
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  Speaker 1: I loved the catch he had on the sideline where
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  Speaker 1: he was fighting like he wasn't getting dinner if he
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  Speaker 1: didn't get that first down. He got really close to it.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about some of the blocks. I
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  Speaker 1: on Chuba's fourth and one run, the block, dude, the
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  Speaker 1: block he had on Cooper DeGene, where he just planted
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  Speaker 1: him with all his body weight into the turf in Philly.
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  Speaker 1: Like how nasty, how savage is Tommy Tremble, man?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the first thing I have to say is, everyone
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  Speaker 3: should get somebody that blocks for you the way that
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  Speaker 3: Tommy blocks for tuba. Those two are two peas in
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  Speaker 3: a pod. But if we, we should tell Tommy, no
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  Speaker 3: matter what the play that you was getting the ball,
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  Speaker 3: that is number one. If tubas got the ball, Tommy
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  Speaker 3: is going to go murder somebody on the other side
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  Speaker 3: of the field. So there's a, there's a special bond
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  Speaker 3: between those two. And you know, They pro they provide
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  Speaker 3: so much energy on the field. You see it. It's infectious.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, Tommy is hitting people so hard
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  Speaker 3: that Felipe Franks has got to get into the action
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  Speaker 3: and Felipe inadvertently hits Tommy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my hit him hard too. That was crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Standard.
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  Speaker 3: That's the standard. The guys like Tommy are setting that
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  Speaker 3: the tight end room is just hitting everybody, including their
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  Speaker 3: own people. So that is how, that's how those guys roll,
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  Speaker 3: which is awesome. Tommy, you had a fantastic day. As
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  Speaker 3: Anyone that has watched our team closely, that has always
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  Speaker 3: been him. And where I think he's been underappreciated by
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  Speaker 3: the fan base for a long time is he does
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  Speaker 3: so many things for our team, multiple phases of special teams.
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  Speaker 3: He's in line. He's off the ball. He's in the backfield,
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  Speaker 3: like a fullback. We ask him to be our Swiss
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  Speaker 3: army knife when it comes to, uh, blocking and receiving.
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  Speaker 3: You can call him a fullback. Sometimes he's sometimes the
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  Speaker 3: tight end. He's great in space. He certainly has jumped
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  Speaker 3: over every corner that's ever tried to tackle him low.
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  Speaker 3: And he just provides such an infectious energy for us
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  Speaker 3: on the field in the, in the huddle downfield. He's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, it's, it's fun that he was able
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  Speaker 3: to also celebrate with a couple of touchdowns, but like
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  Speaker 3: you said, that play on the sideline, fighting for every
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  Speaker 3: extra yard, knowing the game situations and, And that's just
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  Speaker 3: Tommy Tremble to a tee.
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  Speaker 4: JJ, at this stage of the franchise's growth and rise,
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  Speaker 4: how important is it to win games when not everything's
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  Speaker 4: going your way? There's a lot of penalties. It's not
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  Speaker 4: your best day. But winning in different ways, how important
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  Speaker 4: is that for the future of this franchise?
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  Speaker 3: I think it was fantastic. And, you know, it was
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  Speaker 3: just one of those games when it came to the penalties.
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  Speaker 3: There were some silly mistakes and whatnot. I'm convinced that
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  Speaker 3: those officials all had a late flight so they could
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  Speaker 3: throw as many flags as they wanted. They were throwing
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: stuff left, right? Both teams. It just felt like one
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  Speaker 3: of those days. We certainly were, we were certainly committing fouls.
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  Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it, but sometimes you're just in
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  Speaker 3: one of these types of games where things get a
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  Speaker 3: little physical and then the officials start getting ticky tack.
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  Speaker 3: They had a lot of fouls too. I know we've,
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  Speaker 3: we've set some records, which isn't necessarily something you want
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  Speaker 3: to do, but when you're controlling the game and controlling
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  Speaker 3: physicality and you'd maybe take a little of the good
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  Speaker 3: with the bad. I, although I gotta be honest, will Lee,
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  Speaker 3: there's no penalty for panting. So I think that one
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  Speaker 3: should have been called off. There's no foul against that.
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  Speaker 3: So again, sometimes these officials just get a little flag happy.
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  Speaker 3: There's no rules against that. I, I, I think it's
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  Speaker 3: good to win ugly. I think it's good to win clean.
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  Speaker 3: The reality is in the NFL, every single game is hard.
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  Speaker 3: And we see it every Sunday. Good teams we think
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: are good lose to teams we think are bad. Every
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  Speaker 3: game is a battle. And so to go on the
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: road in Philadelphia against that team, and especially that defense
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  Speaker 3: in particular, and play well, score 25 points. And really,
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  Speaker 3: it felt like we were in control of the game
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  Speaker 3: the whole time. That was what was most encouraging. We'll
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  Speaker 3: have plenty of stuff to clean up. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: the penalties, sometimes it's mental mistakes. Sometimes it's technique. And
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  Speaker 3: then sometimes it's just the officials get a little flag happy.
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  Speaker 3: And I think there was a little bit of all
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  Speaker 3: three of those on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know you now play for the Carolina Panthers?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Me? What'd I say?
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  Speaker 2: That's good.
• 11:33
  Speaker 4: No, I'm saying the pants, Will Lee pants in Goddard.
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: The Carolina Pantsers. New branding, baby.
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I missed it. It was very highbrow humor like
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  Speaker 2: Dennis Miller.
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  Speaker 3: I'm older than some people's parents.
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to keep it to us young folk,
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: those kind of hip jokes. Jeff the Braves fan, two
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: texts here. He says, first one is, one's a legitimate question.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a second. His first one,
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  Speaker 1: his first one is, is JJ kidding? The Panthers will
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: have to get a restraining order against him to keep
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  Speaker 1: him away from the team at some point. And then
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  Speaker 1: his question, his question is, what did JJ think about
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: Felipe Frank's near clothesline? And I don't even know if
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  Speaker 1: that was near, that might've been a clothesline. And the
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  Speaker 1: best part about it on the coverage team, the play
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  Speaker 1: he made is that two dudes were blocking him. And
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: he fought off two dudes blocks to make that freaking
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  Speaker 1: play ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, that, that was a fantastic play that got, that,
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  Speaker 3: that got under underappreciated in large part because there was
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: a foul. Rochelle was downfield. He got blocked in the back.
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  Speaker 3: So that, or maybe it was a whole, so that
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: play was going back anyways. So after Thomas income got
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  Speaker 3: injured in the game, they were trying to figure out
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: who to double Thomas TI, as we call him, it
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: was catching all their attention. So they turned their attention
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  Speaker 3: to the Felipe. And let me tell you, whenever the
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  Speaker 3: other team turns their attentions to Felipe, he's not only
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: going to beat them. He's going to tell them about
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: it and then they'll make the play. So we watched
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  Speaker 3: that one on film. That is a full on clothesline
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  Speaker 3: while he's being held in a double team. And nobody
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: was happier than Ryan Fitzgerald, who let's just say we
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: all agreed. We were lucky that we were all wearing
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: dark pants because the R the return man was running
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  Speaker 3: right at Ryan. And there was a lot of life
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  Speaker 3: flashing before his eyes. So Felipe not only did it,
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: did a great job for us, but he protected our
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  Speaker 3: kicker from having to get engaged in any sort of tackle.
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  Speaker 3: So hats off to Felipe. He hits their team. He
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: hits our team. He's just a flying missile, and that's
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  Speaker 3: why we love him.
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  Speaker 1: That shot on Tremble, I couldn't believe how hard he
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: hit his own guy. Friendly fire. All right, last thing.
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  Speaker 1: 704 number says, as a fellow Golden Domer, can JJ
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  Speaker 1: please light up the Big 12 officials and their replay officials?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's that big of a deal. I'm just,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just waiting for the last second of the game
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  Speaker 3: to be played. This will all be figured out quite,
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  Speaker 3: quite easily. Once we go back to Provo to play
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: the last second, I'm assuming there was just like a
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: lightning delay or something's going on that just pause the
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: game briefly. I don't understand. in college football. I don't
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: think we've had as many issues in the NFL. The
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  Speaker 3: clock stuff is getting so messed up. It's beyond me,
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  Speaker 3: but look, that was an awesome environment. It was a
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: great game. We did not play our best brand of
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: football for the majority of the game, and yet we
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: still had a shot and really should have had one
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: more shot at it, but hats off to BYU. They're
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: a very good football team as well. I think I've now...
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: said all the niceties I have to say for Brady Christensen.
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  Speaker 3: So at that point, forget about BYU and we're on
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: to next week, but it was a good game. And
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: when we finish it, it will be even better.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. All right, JJ, appreciate you, brother.
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  Speaker 2: Congrats again.
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  Speaker 1: Keep wrecking up these records and the winds too, man.
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  Speaker 2: Good luck against Tampa.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it. I think we're out of records. It's
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: just over now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we'll find one.
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  Speaker 1: No, you, I want you to be the player that
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: plays the most games in NFL history.
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  Speaker 2: You're like 23rd now, I think. I need you to
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: get to number one, JJ.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Who's number one? Do we know?
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: I saw the list over the weekend, but I didn't
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: really look.
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  Speaker 3: Probably Morton Anderson. It's probably Morton Anderson.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: All-time games played record? Morton Anderson.
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  Speaker 3: Morton Anderson.
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  Speaker 2: 382. So how many do you have to play to
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: get there? You're at 282?
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: I'd play 100 more. I'd play 100 more games.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: What is that? Six seasons plus? If you want to
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: count postseason, Adam Vinatieri's got 397.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, jeez. Oh, my God. Well, at this point, why
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: don't we just go for 400?
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, make it around 400, JJ, and then walk off, baby,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: after that game. All right, man, you got some work
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: to do, JJ. You got 100 games, all right?
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Get to it.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: I do. Thank you. I appreciate it, guys.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: All right, be good.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Thanks so much.