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Andrew Wingard's philosophy on football and life | The O-Zone Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast, presented by by Star Credit
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Speaker 1: with Jaguars senior writer John Osan. All Right, welcome to
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Speaker 1: this week's Ozone podcast. And I say every week, I'm
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Speaker 1: excited about it. I'm excited about this and I think
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Speaker 1: fans are gonna be excited about it too. He's a
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Speaker 1: guy that we've gotten to know a little better lately
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Speaker 1: through the media. We've known him for four years by
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Speaker 1: his play on the field. Jaguars safety Andrew Wingard. And
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Speaker 1: I'm ben sure how to introduce you. Is it Dewey?
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Speaker 1: Is it? What's the nickname now? Is Dowey? It's been
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Speaker 1: Dowey for a while. Okay, you can call me whatever
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Speaker 1: you want. And Andrew's my government name my mom when
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Speaker 1: she's mad at me. So now I'm curious, um because
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Speaker 1: of COVID, because a lot of things. I haven't got
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Speaker 1: to know you that well, but from observing you, it
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Speaker 1: seems like you really enjoying what the Jaguars are doing
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Speaker 1: right now and really enjoying your football. I think you
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Speaker 1: always enjoy it. But am I reading that right? And uh,
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Speaker 1: I kind of it's back to my offseason and stuff.
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Speaker 1: But you know, last year was what it was. I
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Speaker 1: won't go any deeper into that, but I really kind
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Speaker 1: of just rekindled my own love for football this year,
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Speaker 1: and uh, Doug Peterson has really helped at that. And
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Speaker 1: the culture he's brought in and the guys he's brought in,
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Speaker 1: it's like we're all just kind of on the same
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Speaker 1: wavelength and it's, uh, it's just really it's so fun
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Speaker 1: seeing how you can when you get older, you you
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Speaker 1: really start to observe, like you said, even more. But
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Speaker 1: the preparation, how the preparation, the how coach talks to
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Speaker 1: the players, how everyone just interacts, how that carries over
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Speaker 1: into winning games, which is the ultimate goal, is just
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Speaker 1: it's awesome. And I haven't, like you said, I'm having
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun this year. Hell do you twenty
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Speaker 1: I will be twenty six in a week. They don't
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Speaker 1: talk to me about getting older, all right. The way
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Speaker 1: my body feels today, Holy cow, I feel like I'm
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Speaker 1: about seventy in on what you just said about Doug,
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Speaker 1: if you will, because I've tolked to a lot of
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Speaker 1: players about it, But it trit to me that what
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Speaker 1: you've seen here, your perspective, why is it that what
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Speaker 1: he's doing connects with you guys. You just you know
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Speaker 1: he's doing something right. When you're like excited to come
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Speaker 1: in and practice. You know, it's like, do I really
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Speaker 1: want to practice in week twelve? Yes, because I know
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Speaker 1: that what I do weeken we what I do on Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: what I do on Thursday, what I do on Fridays
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Speaker 1: really what wins football games. And that's that's kind of
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Speaker 1: a hard thing, you something that's hard to grasp as
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Speaker 1: a young player when you're really not aware of all
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Speaker 1: that stuff and everything is just kind of going fast.
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Speaker 1: But as you as you come along and gain experience
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Speaker 1: and you know, really start to actually listen to what
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Speaker 1: the coach has to say and meetings and stuff, you're like,
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Speaker 1: that rings a bell with me. You're right. It's in
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Speaker 1: the preparation. And that's really what he preaches, is the preparation,
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Speaker 1: the process, doing all that and and really staying together.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's kind of two sides to it. There's
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Speaker 1: the prep and then there's just that subconscious how you
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Speaker 1: feel and feeling good and being locked in and being
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Speaker 1: with the team and eating together and loving each other
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Speaker 1: and and it's life. You know, everyone talks about how
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Speaker 1: football is a game. I really think it's Everything's just
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Speaker 1: life and how you how you go at football is
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Speaker 1: how you how you go at life and how you
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Speaker 1: interact with people and all that stuff. It everything comes together.
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Speaker 1: And um, you know, he stayed consistent in his message.
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Speaker 1: He's never panicked. And and you're starting to see the
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Speaker 1: you're starting to see the fruit of the labor kind
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Speaker 1: of you know, creeping its head out, creeping its heat out.
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Speaker 1: And when you gain momentum, then it really then stuff
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Speaker 1: really starts to go your way. So um, kind of
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Speaker 1: went on a rant there, But I just I love
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Speaker 1: the guy. He's everything he preaches, he does and and
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Speaker 1: and guys really buy into him. In his press through
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Speaker 1: this morning, he referred to you as a core player.
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Speaker 1: What does that mean to you? For hear me say that.
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Speaker 1: I just I pride myself on being a football player.
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Speaker 1: I you know, I will do what ever it takes
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Speaker 1: to play football, and I will do whatever it takes
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Speaker 1: to get paid at something I'm good at, you know.
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Speaker 1: And a lot not a lot, And that's real. A
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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of guys kind of put themselves as, Oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm a corner, I'm a safety year on this, on
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Speaker 1: that Not a lot of guys want to block guys
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Speaker 1: on kickoff return. Not a lot of guys want to,
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Speaker 1: you know, play on punt and stuff. And those guys
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Speaker 1: don't play ten twelve years in the league. This is
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Speaker 1: my dream job. It's it's awesome. I couldn't think of
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Speaker 1: anything better to do. And just how blessed I am
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Speaker 1: and lucky to be able to be in this position.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not going to have a single regret. I
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Speaker 1: will I'll go to my grave saying I gave everything
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Speaker 1: I had and and you know, whatever my role was,
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Speaker 1: I did it willingly and did it as to the
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Speaker 1: best of my ability. So core player, core football player,
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Speaker 1: football guy. And the reason I asked you that is
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Speaker 1: your path to being called a core player has not
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Speaker 1: been easy. I mean, obviously undrafted guy. And it seems
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Speaker 1: like every story you ever in the offseason, it is
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Speaker 1: always Andrew gencores on the bubble. It's just kind of
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Speaker 1: what h Yeah, I guess it's your lot in life.
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Speaker 1: You don't here about it that much what people say,
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Speaker 1: but talk about your path so far, he has it
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Speaker 1: felt to you like you're overcoming as much that as
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Speaker 1: maybe people on the outside see it. If you follow me. Well,
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Speaker 1: from my point, it's hard. Here's what I'll say. I
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Speaker 1: love my teammates and I love If people want to
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Speaker 1: pile on me and not pile on my teammates, that's fine.
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Speaker 1: I can take it because I don't care about it.
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Speaker 1: But it's like, you know, when I got I got
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Speaker 1: here in twenty nineteen, right, and it's right when I
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Speaker 1: got here, they fired Tom Coughlin right when I got here,
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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey. They'll hold Jalen Ramsey thing. Everyone kind of hey,
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Speaker 1: kind of the Titanic kind of sunk when I got here.
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Speaker 1: And you know, when you're losing games, you people like
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Speaker 1: to black sheet people, you know, And I mean, there's
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Speaker 1: a reason I there. I will say, I'm not trying.
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Speaker 1: This is no ego involved. But the reason I've been
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Speaker 1: on these teams is because I'm a ballplayer. And if
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Speaker 1: you just no one. People kind of watch TV and
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Speaker 1: you know, they kind of you know, people like armchair
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks like to say, all this guy sucks blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: But you watch the tape and I'm I'm playing ball.
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Speaker 1: But um, from my journey, from my standpoint, like you said,
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Speaker 1: it's I just go out and I do my job.
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Speaker 1: Football to me is easy when I know what I'm doing.
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Speaker 1: And that's really how I've how I've kind of prided myself.
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Speaker 1: Where is that attitude? I mean, because that's the attitude
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Speaker 1: you have to have, a lot of guys say that
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Speaker 1: you seem to live it. Yeah always or has that
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Speaker 1: been learned? Um, It's it's actually really cool. You just said.
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Speaker 1: It's I embody my philosophy, and that's my philosophy on life.
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Speaker 1: It's like I didn't work for twenty years of my
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Speaker 1: life to make it to the NFL to lose confidence
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Speaker 1: in myself based on what some Twitter warrior has to
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Speaker 1: say and stuff like that, or a senior writer or
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Speaker 1: well or a media person, and it's it's not a
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Speaker 1: dog on you guys. You guys have a job to do. However,
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of guys waste time and energy
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Speaker 1: where time and energy doesn't need to be placed. You
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Speaker 1: guys have your opinions. You're to say whatever you guys want,
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Speaker 1: but I'm also allowed to not care or give any
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Speaker 1: weight to what you guys say. And I think that's
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Speaker 1: where you know, watching guys who've come before me, the
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Speaker 1: Jared Wilson's the really Jared Wilson is like my ultimate
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Speaker 1: role model. You want to talk about someone who sort
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Speaker 1: of the same path. Yeah, it was cool, the same
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Speaker 1: same path undrafted. We actually played for the same dB coach,
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Speaker 1: Kurt Mallory. He was at Michigan with with Jadubbatt, Wyoming
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Speaker 1: with me. But it's like just a guy who goes in,
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Speaker 1: doesn't care what anyone thinks, does his job, teaches the
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Speaker 1: young guys. Is just a damn good person. And that's
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Speaker 1: that's how I try to be. And and but really
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Speaker 1: back to your back to your question. My philosophy, like
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Speaker 1: you said, is come in, do my job, know what
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Speaker 1: I'm doing, go out play football, let everything else fall,
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Speaker 1: you know, fall where it needs to be. And you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't waste my time. I go home and I
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Speaker 1: watch film and I try to get ready. I don't
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Speaker 1: go home and sit on Twitter and sulk in what
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Speaker 1: people are saying about me. So is it is it gratifying? Fun?
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Speaker 1: Do you care that you're starting to start to become
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Speaker 1: a fan favorite? It's cool. I mean, it's it's funny.
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Speaker 1: It's just insane. It's honestly, it's funny because, like you said, there.
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Speaker 1: I definitely, you know, when I first got in the league,
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Speaker 1: I was like, dang, these people are these people are
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Speaker 1: piling on me. Man, I'm doing my like I'm trying,
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Speaker 1: I'm balling. Just go watch the tape. It's like people
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Speaker 1: are you would think you'd be a guy root for,
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Speaker 1: but it's it's so cool. It's like the path God
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Speaker 1: laid for me is like all that's supposed to happen.
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Speaker 1: And it's like some people are gonna love you sometimes,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna hate you sometimes, but you just gotta be you.
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Speaker 1: And you can never change someone's opinion. But the only way,
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Speaker 1: the only way, the only thing you can do to
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Speaker 1: change maybe someone's opinion about you is to be you consistently.
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Speaker 1: And I've been me consistently. And I'm glad. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm glad fans are coming around. I love this place.
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Speaker 1: I love playing for this team. And I was just
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Speaker 1: I was actually just sitting at walks through today and
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Speaker 1: I was like thinking about how young our team is
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Speaker 1: and how Dougs building this culture. I was like, this
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Speaker 1: team is gonna be And I'm coming up on a
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Speaker 1: free age, my first unrestricted free agency, and I'm sitting there.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm like, this team is gonna be this
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Speaker 1: is this, you know, this is gonna be a good
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Speaker 1: This is a good team now. But the the young
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Speaker 1: guys like, this is gonna be Doug's building something here
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Speaker 1: and it's just super cool. But I love Jacksonville. I
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Speaker 1: love golfing twice a week. This fan base, they deserve
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Speaker 1: good football. I mean, they deserve good football. And I just,
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Speaker 1: you know, I guess if if they've come around on me,
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Speaker 1: I appreciate them when they when they don't like me,
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Speaker 1: I still wake up and go about my business. But
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Speaker 1: now it's it's all love for sure. You mentioned the franchise,
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Speaker 1: and it's funny that was my next question to you, um,
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Speaker 1: because it's queer and I think Doug said this earlier
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Speaker 1: in the week. This franchise does mean something to you.
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Speaker 1: Why And I guess maybe it's because you've seen it
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Speaker 1: go through so much, right, Yeah, Well, and this franchise
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Speaker 1: gave me my shot. I mean, I'm in forever indebted
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Speaker 1: to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Whoever was in management doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: It's the principle of the the organization. They gave me
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Speaker 1: my shot and not a lot of guys get opportunities,
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Speaker 1: and I'm lucky enough to have the opportunity and also
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Speaker 1: thankful in myself and God for me being able to
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Speaker 1: capitalize on an opportunity. But like I said, this place,
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Speaker 1: they just they deserve it. And seeing Doug come in
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Speaker 1: here and and change this the vibe, really, the vibe
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Speaker 1: was wrong for three years, I'm telling you, and that lock,
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Speaker 1: I mean it was wrong. There was that, it was
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Speaker 1: just ugly. It never never a good feeling. But now
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Speaker 1: it's starting to shift. And the amount of the fan
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Speaker 1: base on Sunday against against the Ravens was freaking awesome.
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Speaker 1: I even remember coming out and saying hi to my
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Speaker 1: family and they were like that it was rocking and
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Speaker 1: there was a lot more teal and black than purple
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Speaker 1: and and and that's how it should be. I guess
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Speaker 1: for you, it was cool. It feels like what you're
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Speaker 1: saying is the fans I think maybe for the first
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Speaker 1: time felt what you guys feel right, no doubt. Took that,
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Speaker 1: no doubt, and it's good. Sorry, And the football some
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Speaker 1: of the honestly, some of the football they've seen for
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Speaker 1: the past couple of years is not good football. No,
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Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. But it's cool. And that's
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Speaker 1: that's kind of goes back to me. It was like
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Speaker 1: that you're on pins and needles with this fan base.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes with the games, it was like just from losing
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Speaker 1: so much, everyone starts to, you know, criticizing people. But
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Speaker 1: now that you start to see it's a week to
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Speaker 1: week league, we're building some But when the fans get
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Speaker 1: behind you and that energy and it's like, come on, boys,
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Speaker 1: you know, we everything to win, not like just oh
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Speaker 1: we're gonna lose. Let's you know, throw all these guys
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Speaker 1: under the fire. When we're all together and that vibe
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Speaker 1: in that fourth quarter, I mean, we were it was awesome,
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Speaker 1: and that that's kind of it's kind of what I'm
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Speaker 1: alluding to. And it's like, I hope towards the end
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Speaker 1: of this year, years down the road, whether I'm here
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Speaker 1: I'm not, this place is jacked up and Jacksonville should
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Speaker 1: be a tough place to play. And it can be
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Speaker 1: that way because I've seen it a couple of times
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Speaker 1: Buffalo last year, that Ravens game this year, and I
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Speaker 1: think we can get I think we can start to
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Speaker 1: see that more consistently. It's cool, you're amazingly enough after
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Speaker 1: four years one of the veteran guys on this team
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Speaker 1: that which is staggering. But you are, um, what you
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Speaker 1: just talked about, that fan connection. You know I've done
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Speaker 1: this since because I can remember when it was every week?
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Speaker 1: What did it mean to your teammates who haven't been
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Speaker 1: around to feel that on Sunday? So because frankly, when
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Speaker 1: you're losing, they a lot of the newer guys probably
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Speaker 1: haven't felt that. What did that mean? Oh this can
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Speaker 1: be this way, no doubt, Like you think about, especially
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Speaker 1: being the new guys here when we played the Giants.
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Speaker 1: We played the Giants and there was probably sure thirty
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Speaker 1: thousand Giants fans and you're like, dang, is this is
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Speaker 1: this how it usually is? And we're kind of like,
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Speaker 1: latently it has been sometimes sure, I'm like We're like, yeah, bro,
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Speaker 1: But like you said, for a lot of the guys,
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Speaker 1: to see the teal, to see the teal, the energy,
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Speaker 1: it was just awesome on a November Sunday afternoon in
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Speaker 1: November when it's seventy degrees and in November, that's just
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Speaker 1: the vibe is freaking awesome. And like you said, a
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Speaker 1: lot of the guys the four is the fold. He's there,
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Speaker 1: They're all I'm like, yes, that's how it should be.
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Speaker 1: So I'm struck Andrew. But I mean, I'll call you
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Speaker 1: Andrew because that's your name, uh, by your passion for
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Speaker 1: this place, and you're one too, and I guess there's
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Speaker 1: he's really not a question there, but you don't always
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Speaker 1: see it. And it's pretty cool. Yeah, And that's one
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Speaker 1: of my biggest you know, one of my biggest philosophical
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Speaker 1: principles to live by is just control what I can control,
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Speaker 1: my attitude, my preparation, my work, and and like, like
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Speaker 1: you said, one of the things I have no control
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Speaker 1: over is whether I will be whether I'm here. I'm not.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, this place is gonna be no no
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Speaker 1: matter where, no matter who's here. With Doug at the Helm,
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be good things happening here. It's always all
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Speaker 1: the best everywhere. So will you ever have a better
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Speaker 1: quote than wind Drunk. It's funny because my my dad
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Speaker 1: came down to play golf a week ago on our
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Speaker 1: bye week and they were playing bingo at a at
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Speaker 1: some restaurant. They named their team win Drunk, and he
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Speaker 1: calls me, He's like, hey, we named our team win drunk.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, what are you talking about? Like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you remember you said that in your press press conference,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, I did say that, didn't I.
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Speaker 1: When you can't get wind drunk, you can't get wind drunk.
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Speaker 1: This week. We can't be we can't be stuck. Here's
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Speaker 1: a perfect here's a perfect analogy for this conversation. We
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Speaker 1: can't stay on Twitter, you know, living in our press clippings,
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Speaker 1: living and living in our glory. That's when you get
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Speaker 1: smacked in the mouth. That's getting win drunk. So we
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Speaker 1: gotta dial in like we did today, dial in Thursday.
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Speaker 1: It's new Slate, um. And I'm just saying here, thing is,
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Speaker 1: I know how much you thought about it. What do
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Speaker 1: you want to do that for football in ten years?
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Speaker 1: Whatever that is? And his strikes me. It's writes me
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Speaker 1: the coaching might be there somewhere. I think, maybe not.
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Speaker 1: I think it has to be. I think it has
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Speaker 1: I think the coaching I love. I love seeing how
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Speaker 1: how there's two different sides, the playing, and but then
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Speaker 1: there's the coaching. But then it's just so deep and
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Speaker 1: I think I would be good. I I just love
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Speaker 1: like teaching like it's actually more gratifying, like something like
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Speaker 1: we'll work with the young guys in training camp and
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Speaker 1: kind of tell them how to play certain techniques and stuff.
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Speaker 1: But year old talking about the young guy. That's fine,
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Speaker 1: it's all relative, but it's like, it's really gratifying when
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Speaker 1: you like kind of, you know, give someone some advice
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Speaker 1: on how to do something, but then you see them
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Speaker 1: like gain the perception of it and kind of morph
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Speaker 1: it into their own little visualization of something. But then
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Speaker 1: you see them do it, and how grat That's really
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Speaker 1: gratifying when when you kind of teach someone and let
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Speaker 1: them take over and kind of make it their own.
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Speaker 1: So that's really cool. So maybe coaching, but you just
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Speaker 1: can't see yourself not being around the game. Didn't sound
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Speaker 1: like it's tough. It's tough, and I I sent it.
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Speaker 1: I really gambled all in on football. I was like
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Speaker 1: I said, I showed up here with my bags undrafted.
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Speaker 1: I was like, I really didn't know what I was
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Speaker 1: gonna do. It was some I hoped it was football
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Speaker 1: and luckily it worked out. But it's it's I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I'm just loving so much of just being locked in
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Speaker 1: on the present. Moment. I don't really haven't really thought
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Speaker 1: about that yet, so but I think coaching maybe a
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Speaker 1: high school dynasty in Colorado or something like that. I
16:31
Speaker 1: could see a coach in the NFL, because it's obviously
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Speaker 1: and yeah, so um. The last thing we do on
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Speaker 1: the ozone podcast is what I call the ozone five
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Speaker 1: five five quick fun questions. Andrew, what was your last
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Speaker 1: binge watched? If you even have time? It was? I
16:49
Speaker 1: actually I rewatched film YEP, I rewatched Breaking Bad, and
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Speaker 1: that I've really only watched. I'm not a huge like
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Speaker 1: show guy. I've only watched Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad.
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Speaker 1: Those are the only two shows I've ever watched, like
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Speaker 1: in their entirety. Sore. If you moved on to better
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Speaker 1: cos Saul, I haven't yet. It's it's it's up. I've
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Speaker 1: heard it's really good if you like Breaking Bad some
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Speaker 1: people who think better, which okay, I'm not sure I
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Speaker 1: like it. I like Saul better, but um I lot
17:18
Speaker 1: to be my next ye they're both out. It's a
17:20
Speaker 1: last song in your car this morning? You know it
17:23
Speaker 1: was his uh Doobie Brothers listen whoa this to music?
17:31
Speaker 1: I was locked in this morning. I was feeling good
17:33
Speaker 1: this morning, and I love I'm kind of an old soul. Okay,
17:37
Speaker 1: so when I call myself old, i'm I'm an old soul.
17:39
Speaker 1: But I love I love seventies and eighties music. I
17:42
Speaker 1: thought you were gonna call it old people music just
17:44
Speaker 1: to get old old soul music. Um, what sport other
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Speaker 1: than football could you play? I would have been it
17:52
Speaker 1: would have been something with downhill skiing. I was like
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Speaker 1: really good at football and skiing as a kid, Like
17:57
Speaker 1: I was crazy. I was I was a little I
18:01
Speaker 1: was a little douche as a kid, and I needed
18:04
Speaker 1: I needed fast, I needed aggressive, I needed I needed
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Speaker 1: danger as a kid, and skiing. Skiing was one of
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Speaker 1: those things you still ski at all or football I do.
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Speaker 1: It's not definitely not cut it off right now, No,
18:19
Speaker 1: But I just cruise. I just cruise. I go out
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Speaker 1: and cruise down Blues with my mom and so. But
18:24
Speaker 1: after football, I'll get I'll get after it again. Got you,
18:27
Speaker 1: you know? Christian Kirk's like, for me, the one guy
18:29
Speaker 1: that's psychic. He's like, that's some danger that's harder. That's
18:34
Speaker 1: a uh favorite nickname you ever head, It's gotta be dooey, Okay,
18:39
Speaker 1: I mean, how many of you had made It's probably
18:43
Speaker 1: something I can't say, but it's really just like I
18:47
Speaker 1: can't even remember how old I was. Someone said Dewey
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Speaker 1: this and that, and then that's what it's been for
18:52
Speaker 1: twenty years. Who's the person most responsible for you being
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Speaker 1: here in the NFL? I would probably I'd probably just
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Speaker 1: say my the staff I had at Wyoming. I mean
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Speaker 1: we had in one recruiting class, we had Josh Allen,
19:09
Speaker 1: we had myself, Marcus Epps who's with the Philadelphis starting
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Speaker 1: safety for the Eagles, Logan Wilson with the Bengals. We
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Speaker 1: had all those guys in one recruiting class under Craig
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Speaker 1: Bowl up at Wyoming. Are our assistant coaches were just
19:27
Speaker 1: as awesome. A J. Cooper, Scottie Hazelton, guys like that.
19:30
Speaker 1: But you know that culture up there at Wyoming under
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Speaker 1: Coach Bowl, it was amazing. It was Chad moment. I mean,
19:39
Speaker 1: the names, a ton of names, Tay, Shaun Gibson, he's
19:42
Speaker 1: in the NFL, Tanner, Gentry, Jacob Pollister, who was here.
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Speaker 1: But that culture up there, and I was funny. I
19:48
Speaker 1: was actually thinking about it the other day. It was
19:50
Speaker 1: like the philosophy of the game, of how to play
19:53
Speaker 1: the game, how to how to prepare, how to play hard,
19:56
Speaker 1: how to do all that stuff, how to show up.
19:58
Speaker 1: That was all ingrained in us at wyom Me without
20:00
Speaker 1: you know, as as nineteen twenty year olds where you
20:04
Speaker 1: just want to go to college and play football and party.
20:06
Speaker 1: But they did such a great job of instilling the
20:09
Speaker 1: work and the blue collar mentality. Um so I would
20:13
Speaker 1: probably say that that experience I had up there, I
20:16
Speaker 1: was the best thing that ever happened to me. And
20:18
Speaker 1: and that's where I really honed my craft and really
20:21
Speaker 1: kind of sparked. Then always had the dream of playing
20:23
Speaker 1: in the NFL. But once you get to college and
20:25
Speaker 1: you play D one football, you're kind of like, oh
20:27
Speaker 1: I can, I'm pretty good at this start figuring out
20:29
Speaker 1: what do you Yeah, So I would I would definitely
20:31
Speaker 1: say Coach Bowl and his staff and and all all
20:34
Speaker 1: the all my good buddies who have whether they made
20:37
Speaker 1: it or didn't make it in the NFL, that that
20:39
Speaker 1: culture up there really sprung board us. So I am
20:43
Speaker 1: looking forward to the first Dewey podcast, which I think
20:47
Speaker 1: I think your future is definitely that you will have
20:48
Speaker 1: your own podcast. Have me on sometime. Will be boring.
20:52
Speaker 1: It was your idea, but Andrew, I can't thank you
20:56
Speaker 1: enough for doing this. I could talk to you all day.
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Speaker 1: Terrific job and I best looking and Ford, thank you
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Speaker 1: for joining the ozone podcast. Thank you very much