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O-Zone Podcast: S Rayshawn Jenkins · 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: Union with Jaguars senior writer John Osan. All right, welcome minute.
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  Speaker 1: This week's Ozone podcast was entered by by Star. And
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  Speaker 1: I've got to say every time we do one of these,
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  Speaker 1: I say I'm excited to talk to a player, because
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  Speaker 1: I always am. But this one's a little unique because
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  Speaker 1: for Sean Jenkins, who is our guest today, has been
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  Speaker 1: here a year, but because of COVID, because of unusual
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  Speaker 1: circumstances last year, I've never had a chance to talk
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  Speaker 1: to you face to face. First of all, Rashan, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for joining us. No, thank you guys for having me.
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  Speaker 1: He's always great. You know, one of these and and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's funny. Um, you came in a situation last
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  Speaker 1: year when you're a free agent, everything's high profile, everything's
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  Speaker 1: your story is kind of out there. Fast forward to
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  Speaker 1: this year. Maybe because of the injury, I haven't really
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  Speaker 1: talked about you a whole lot, even practiced that much. Um,
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  Speaker 1: what's your outlook? Where are you at mentally professional right now?
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  Speaker 1: Coming into this year? Right? Um? No, I'm in grond
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  Speaker 1: Mold right now. Just like you said, I'm here to
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  Speaker 1: lay all my cards on the table, so I'm not
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  Speaker 1: I'm not here to hot my hand at all. So
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  Speaker 1: whatever I have to bring to the table, I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: to to show that. Uh, this year, I know, last
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  Speaker 1: year it's different, Like you said, we had you know,
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  Speaker 1: some of the coaches. It can be, it canvy, but no,
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  Speaker 1: but it was different as far as like the COVID
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  Speaker 1: stuff and the new coaching staff. I mean, we got
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  Speaker 1: a new coaching staff this year as well. But I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you right now, it just it completely feels just
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  Speaker 1: just degree is different, you know. So um, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just here to, like I said, just show what
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  Speaker 1: I bring to the table and and be you know
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  Speaker 1: what I can be and be the you know, show
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  Speaker 1: why they brought me into free agency last year. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get this out of the way. Ankle injury ended the
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  Speaker 1: season last year. Um, how how is it? H? It
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  Speaker 1: was an ankle injury. Is pretty severe for an ankle injury.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you at with that? I feel pretty good
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  Speaker 1: right now. I've been practicing with the guys as far
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  Speaker 1: as individual drills, I've been cutting on it. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: really been thinking about it too much, so it feels
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  Speaker 1: really really good. Shout out to Dr Vossler who did
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  Speaker 1: my surgery. Um, like you said, I actually snapped my
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  Speaker 1: bone and I had to get a I had to
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  Speaker 1: get a plate in six screws in it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with a tight rope. I want to say so mentally
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  Speaker 1: I'm good, though, I will say, just because this isn't
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  Speaker 1: the first time I've had to go through something like this.
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  Speaker 1: And I had back surgery in college in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and fourteen. I was out twenty months with that. So
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  Speaker 1: with this one, I was only out five months, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So to me, that was that that's a blessing of me,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So some good news is this is just
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  Speaker 1: some injuries that are severe, which this was a tough one,
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  Speaker 1: can be ones that physically it's difficult. Yeah, it could
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  Speaker 1: be career anything. It just doesn't sound like that. No, No,
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  Speaker 1: not at all. I feel when I when I tell
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  Speaker 1: you it, I literally feel like nothing happened to my
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  Speaker 1: leg at all. And thank God, you know, for that.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, like I said, shout out Dr Vssler
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  Speaker 1: for that as well. So, Um, it can be a
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  Speaker 1: good thing or a bad thing depending on how you
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  Speaker 1: look at it and how you approach it and I'm
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  Speaker 1: approaching it, you know, very optimistic. So you mentioned a
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  Speaker 1: minute ago, Uh, it feels are different. What do you
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  Speaker 1: like about the culture, about Doug, about what's going on. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you've been around the league, You've seen different stuff. Why
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  Speaker 1: do you like this? I like it because, Uh, this
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  Speaker 1: is more, in my opinion, more learning, you know, not
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  Speaker 1: more so Hey, I'll tell you what the dude do it?
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  Speaker 1: You know, UM that that can work in some cases.
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  Speaker 1: But when you have a team like this, Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of young guys, you want to teach them.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I think the main thing is teaching. So
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  Speaker 1: was Doug and all every guy who's brought in so
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  Speaker 1: far in um on his staff has done a tremendous
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  Speaker 1: job of doing that. And UM, like I always say
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  Speaker 1: to everybody, these guys have played in the NFL, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And these guys have played in the NFL ten eleven,
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  Speaker 1: twelve plus years. So when it's coming from them, it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's much more understandable now because they've been
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  Speaker 1: in your shoes before. There's a and and I listened
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  Speaker 1: to the dog over here and speak now with the
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  Speaker 1: Jags fifteen twenty times. There's a respect that he has
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  Speaker 1: for players. Um. And and I'm quite sure what I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting at. I'm sure why that comes across. But having
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  Speaker 1: played he knows what you guys go through, but he
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  Speaker 1: also respects what you guys go through. There is that
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  Speaker 1: something you guys feel from him as well? Yeah? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: that's just like you know, if I was to become
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  Speaker 1: a head coach or a coach of some sort, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I would, I would, you know, take the same approach,
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  Speaker 1: because just like you said, I've been there before. I
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  Speaker 1: understand what these players are kind of thinking about right now,
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  Speaker 1: understand what um brings these UH players together, and I
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  Speaker 1: know what drives these players apart. So you know, you
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  Speaker 1: have to you know, you have to have you have
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  Speaker 1: to just have a feel for that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And and just like you said, UM, you know he's
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  Speaker 1: been in the locker room before, so I bet it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty easy for him to distinguish between you know, stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. UM, tell me about the defensive scheme you
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  Speaker 1: will be playing in. Without giving away too much, what
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  Speaker 1: do you like about it? What do players like about
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  Speaker 1: my call? I will say it's like, this is absolutely
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  Speaker 1: the crazy defense I've ever played in in a good way.
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  Speaker 1: In a in a really good way. UM. This is
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna present a lot of looks for
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  Speaker 1: for people. You won't just see us and you you
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  Speaker 1: you won't ever know we're in like but we we
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  Speaker 1: might be in the same spots but doing completely different things. UM.
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  Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people like his fense
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  Speaker 1: because he gets a lot of uh players with different positions,
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  Speaker 1: um to make plays on the ball, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: he puts people at the point of attack a lot
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  Speaker 1: you know. Um. And and hats off the coach. I
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  Speaker 1: love what he's doing, but they're seen. Uh. And people
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  Speaker 1: have said this about the Todd Bowls defense because there's
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  Speaker 1: it's one and the same or pretty close to it.
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  Speaker 1: It's complex. You just told me, I wouldn't know what
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  Speaker 1: you're in, but it's not necessarily difficult for you guys
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  Speaker 1: to learn. And how does that work? Well? My thing,
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  Speaker 1: well this always say just just whatever your job is,
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  Speaker 1: don't you don't have to worry about what the nose
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  Speaker 1: is doing, you know what I mean? So just just
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  Speaker 1: focus in on on on maybe two or three positions
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  Speaker 1: that you may be in. You know that that like
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  Speaker 1: for me, uh, it might be the strong safety spot
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  Speaker 1: the dome spot in the nickel spot, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: I would have to know what these people are doing,
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  Speaker 1: and let's just say cover whatever because I may be
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  Speaker 1: in a position. You know, just know how to do
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  Speaker 1: your job and the rest take care. So I got
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  Speaker 1: you a lot of new teammates, not that many in
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  Speaker 1: the back end, you know. I'm not trying to get
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  Speaker 1: you to criticize what was going on last year and
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  Speaker 1: the personnel last year. But how much better does the
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  Speaker 1: personnel look to you right now? Ben it? Did you
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  Speaker 1: know or how optimistic are you about the players you're playing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm very optimistic. I love what we did
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  Speaker 1: in the draft, especially in the in the first round. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I love what we did in free agency, bringing in
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  Speaker 1: those some key positions to help us on both sides
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. Um getting some weapons in here for
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  Speaker 1: for Trevor, you know, so he can you know, open
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  Speaker 1: up the offense and do what he does well. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm optimally like, I'm optimistic about it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm ready to go, man, I'm fired up. Our
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  Speaker 1: defense looks really fast, like really fast. We're young, but
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  Speaker 1: we're old enough to to you know, know our jobs
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  Speaker 1: and not you know, make a whole bunch of mistakes
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  Speaker 1: and you've played on a team they can get it
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  Speaker 1: for the quarterback. And uh, is this front seven You're
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  Speaker 1: starting to look around and see a bunch that can
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  Speaker 1: that can come in waves. Right. Yeah. And and what
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  Speaker 1: impresses me the most about our our our de lion
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, is our interior pass for us.
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  Speaker 1: Um that that's one of the best interior past rises
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  Speaker 1: I've been a part of, coming from you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the l A and from you know last year. That
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  Speaker 1: it's a major upgrade. Not saying that you know the
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  Speaker 1: guys that we had, but you can definitely feel you
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  Speaker 1: can definitely feel their presence back there, and it gives
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  Speaker 1: you a shot cock in your head like, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: once a place starts, you know when to start breaking
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  Speaker 1: or driving on the ball because you know that he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be hit with them let's just say three
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  Speaker 1: to four seconds or whatever it. Maybe I mentioned to
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  Speaker 1: you before we started that I cheated a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen a couple of interviews you've done, one of
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  Speaker 1: them talking about your numbers, and you've had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different numbers every time, so uh, why too, What
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  Speaker 1: sort of settled you here on too? What was the
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  Speaker 1: appeal of that? Right? So? Yeah, two was uh my
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  Speaker 1: first number I ever had has a skill player, if
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense. So I used to like my first
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  Speaker 1: year in the NFL, I made not in NFL. My
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  Speaker 1: first year ever playing football, I was a number two,
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  Speaker 1: but I switched out of it before the first game
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  Speaker 1: because we didn't have a bunch of a linement to block,
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  Speaker 1: so they wanted to put like the toughest guys on
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  Speaker 1: the line just to block, So actually switched me to
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  Speaker 1: number seventy. Maybe you could be an interior I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why that this level up, but no,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, when I got the opportunity to come here
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  Speaker 1: and they said, hey, this is gonna be the first
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  Speaker 1: year we opened up single digits to to you know,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, so I was like, that would be cool,
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  Speaker 1: And then I thought about it. You know, I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna do number three because that was my high school number,
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  Speaker 1: and that was and you had that briefly in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL when he first got I did have a briefly
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, but single digits weren't a thing, so
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  Speaker 1: I had to get out of it, yeah, so I
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  Speaker 1: had to get out of it. So I actually went
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  Speaker 1: to thirty three, but got paid out of it if
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  Speaker 1: I got a veteran player. But I came here and
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  Speaker 1: got opportunity to get a number two or three, and
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  Speaker 1: I chose to and and uh yeah, I'm ready to
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to give me all the numbers you've ever
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  Speaker 1: had in the NFL. All right. I had a number
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  Speaker 1: three as soon as I got in, right, I had
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  Speaker 1: a number thirty three. Then I had a veteran player
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  Speaker 1: come and pay me for that one. So I got
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  Speaker 1: number twenty five. I had a veteran player come baby
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  Speaker 1: yeah yeah right, and then I uh, then I settled
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  Speaker 1: on twenty three at the Charges. So I went through
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  Speaker 1: four numbers before I got well three numbers before I
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  Speaker 1: got to three. I had the charges that I played
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  Speaker 1: in twenty three for three years and came here number
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  Speaker 1: two even two here ever since. All right, I know
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  Speaker 1: we're running up against time, so amazing. If I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna ask your name all your brothers and sisters, how
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  Speaker 1: does that? How does that influence you? Uh? Like huge
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  Speaker 1: influenced me in a major way. Um it Like I
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  Speaker 1: always want to be able to to show them it's possible.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know, anything's possible, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: and just growing up with seventeen siblings just made it competitive.
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm talking about everything, like everything, like anything you
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  Speaker 1: can think of. Like, but now it was cool. It
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  Speaker 1: definitely you know, molded us into you know, whatever you
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  Speaker 1: know we're doing today as far as you know, just
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  Speaker 1: being mentally those mentally strong. Um, but now it was fun.
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  Speaker 1: It was cool. I wouldn't change anything about it. I still,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I talked to a majority of I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna see her line say I talked to
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  Speaker 1: all of them, that's yeah. But but but I talked
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  Speaker 1: to to quite a bit of a man, and everybody's
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  Speaker 1: doing pretty good. I'm gonna trust you that you can
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  Speaker 1: name him all. I'm not gonna ask you to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I can try. The last thing we do
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  Speaker 1: on this we called the ozone five. She's five quick questions,
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  Speaker 1: left hands, get to know you a little bit. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: Sean Jenkins, what was your last binge watch? Binge watch?
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  Speaker 1: That's a good all American on Netflix. It's a it's
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  Speaker 1: a new series. It's about this this uh college, I
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  Speaker 1: mean this high school. Football story. Yeah, so so it was.
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  Speaker 1: That's probably what I'm binge watching now. I would say that,
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  Speaker 1: and oh, you're a double up guy. No, no I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not. I'm trying to get on the
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  Speaker 1: stranger things right now. Okay, so I'm trying to hurry up.
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  Speaker 1: You'll watch the All American so I can get over
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  Speaker 1: the next I get them through this. And what's the
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  Speaker 1: best one you ever had? Favorite beinge watch? Oh, Dexter,
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  Speaker 1: that's good one. Yeah, Dexter. Yeah, I love. That's my
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  Speaker 1: wife's favorite. Yeah, I love. Have you seen the new one? No,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen. You know there was a new blood out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, either's a new Dexter that came out sometimes
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  Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, it's it's uh, it's what you would expect.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same Yeah, same theory, but I think they
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  Speaker 1: lived up to it. So the last song you listen
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  Speaker 1: to on the way in this morning, the last song
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  Speaker 1: I listens who was probably scy Jim bawling. He looked like, Um,
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  Speaker 1: who's the best player you ever played against? The best
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  Speaker 1: player who played against would probably be I mean I
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  Speaker 1: got a few of I'm played against. I played in
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  Speaker 1: the f C West, you know with those tight ends
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  Speaker 1: over there man with Darren Waller and Kelsey so so An,
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  Speaker 1: Tyree Hill, Patrick Mahomes. So I can I can name
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  Speaker 1: a few. I would say, just just that West bunch
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  Speaker 1: right there, and we play him this year. So that's
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna be that's gonna be fun. If you weren't
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  Speaker 1: playing football, what sport would you play? Sport? Track and field.
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  Speaker 1: I was a two time state champion in the one
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  Speaker 1: hundred ten meter hurdles. I went to state three three
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  Speaker 1: out of four years. My last year I didn't go
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  Speaker 1: only because I didn't run, because I was preparing for
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  Speaker 1: football and that sport in this state. Oh yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's recovered way back in the day on high
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  Speaker 1: school track and field. It's it's yeah, you're winning that,
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  Speaker 1: you're oh yeah, oh yeah. I went a low fourteen
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  Speaker 1: when fourteen one in the one and ten the hurdles
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  Speaker 1: in the thirteen as well, So I was I want
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  Speaker 1: to say, I was like top like fifty in the nation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you never forget this. Yeah, all right, who's the person
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  Speaker 1: in your life? That's no, it's responsible for you being here. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, I can't just say one person, I
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  Speaker 1: say a handful. So my my childhood coach, my dad. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I got a friend, and you know, I got one
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  Speaker 1: of my best friends. I just feel like they kind
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  Speaker 1: of held me accountable growing up and kind of kelped
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  Speaker 1: me on my path, you know, and not let me
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  Speaker 1: veer off. And it just kept kind of me connected
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  Speaker 1: to the vision. Yeah you know what I mean. So
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  Speaker 1: anytime I want to go do something dumb or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that, it was just like, yo, really right, it
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  Speaker 1: was I said those three Yeah, fair enough, Sean Jenks,
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  Speaker 1: and I gotta get out of here. I can't thank
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  Speaker 1: you enough for joining the others done podcast today. Kind
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  Speaker 1: of look forward to working with you down the right. No,
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  Speaker 1: thank you guys for having me. Thank you