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Montaric Brown Gets Personal About How His Late Draft Pick Fuels His Motivation to Succeed | The O-Zone Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: All right, I am Don Oser and this is this
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  Speaker 1: week's Ozone podcast from Watford, United Kingdom at the Grove.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm excited about this guest because it's been a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun watching him play this year. He's played
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  Speaker 1: before for this team, but it looks like he's coming
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  Speaker 1: into his own Jaguars cornerback Monteric Buster Brown. I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: Joining us, Yes, sir, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: And when people approach you, do you prefer monteric Buster
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  Speaker 1: or what do you want people to call you?
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  Speaker 2: Montaria's fine with me, Buster, whatever you decide to.
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  Speaker 1: What Now refresh the memory? I know I know this story,
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  Speaker 1: but how did Buster come about?
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  Speaker 2: My grandma gave me a name as a child, and
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  Speaker 2: once she did that, it just stuck with me.
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  Speaker 1: Was there a reason for it? Or she just thought
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  Speaker 1: you looked like a buster?
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  Speaker 2: H my what I heard of I was just bad.
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  Speaker 1: That's fair, That's fair. My grandmother actually called me Buster
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  Speaker 1: because I had a Buster brown sweater. But that was
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  Speaker 1: way back in the day. Oh yeah, you used to
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  Speaker 1: actually be closed, called Buster Brown closed And if you knew.
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  Speaker 2: That or yeah, I found that out in college. A
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  Speaker 2: couple of people send me a picture of the store.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Like I was shocked when I seen that,
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  Speaker 2: Like I didn't know it was the store.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, back in my day, which is probably fifty years ago,
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  Speaker 1: for that, I busted brown clothes for kids were like
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  Speaker 1: the thing. So tell me about the team, the approach
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  Speaker 1: this week. I know, a tough loss and the records.
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  Speaker 1: Now what you guys want? How this week do you
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  Speaker 1: sort of focus and move on from the situation? And
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  Speaker 1: I try to write the ship if you will.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you just after a week like last week,
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  Speaker 2: you know you just got to flush it and move on.
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  Speaker 2: You know, even though we in London know it's the
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  Speaker 2: same mentality. And for the defense, you know, attacking aggressive
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  Speaker 2: and just taking the ball away and just doing doing
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  Speaker 2: your doing your job. You know, everybody do their job
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  Speaker 2: and just give effort and keep the main thing, the
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  Speaker 2: main thing.
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  Speaker 1: Got you duging. Some players have talked about maybe easier
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  Speaker 1: to focus here, easier to I guess, sort of circle
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  Speaker 1: the wagons and I developed some camaraderie. Is that a
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  Speaker 1: real thing, like hanging around the hotel, being around each
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  Speaker 1: other more than you would be during the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe a training camp type of vibe.
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  Speaker 2: You know, coming over in London. You know, it gives
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  Speaker 2: you a chance to you know, hang out with guys
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  Speaker 2: and see everybody's personality and really just to learn your
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  Speaker 2: teammate and get to know each other and things you
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  Speaker 2: don't know about your teammate. It give you a chance
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  Speaker 2: to know those things.
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  Speaker 1: Got you tell me about you a little bit. Came
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  Speaker 1: into the league as late round draft pick and have
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  Speaker 1: continued to sort of stay the course and get better
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  Speaker 1: and better each year. That's how I view it from
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  Speaker 1: the outside. But you've got to live that and sort
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  Speaker 1: of go through some tough times. How difficult has it
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  Speaker 1: been to sort of stay the course through I guess
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  Speaker 1: what is now? Three years?
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  Speaker 2: You know every year, you know, my goal is to
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  Speaker 2: get better and better. You know, being dropped in the
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  Speaker 2: late round, you know that motivated me and just letting
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  Speaker 2: that keep motivating me. You know, keep that wood in
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  Speaker 2: the fire, and you know, work my butt off every
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  Speaker 2: day and you know, just grinding every day. Man, that
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  Speaker 2: just motivated me and just want to you know, prove
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  Speaker 2: my respect and everything to my teammates and you know,
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  Speaker 2: be great.
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  Speaker 1: I got you now as we were walking over here,
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  Speaker 1: we talked a little bit. You play with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of energy, which you know, it takes energy to play
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, so everybody's playing with a certain degree
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  Speaker 1: of energy. But you take pride in that, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: where does that come from? Is that enjoying being out there?
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  Speaker 1: Just a personal style or subscribe how you play in
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  Speaker 1: that regard.
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  Speaker 2: Man, It's just it's just the NFL. In the NFL, man,
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  Speaker 2: it's the best league in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Doing something wrong right?
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  Speaker 2: Just having fun, man, Just treating it as a kid's game.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: We've been playing this game since a little one, so man,
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  Speaker 2: just having fun. Man, that's the fun of the game. Man.
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  Speaker 2: If you ain't not having fun, you shouldn't be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're not on the air as soon as we
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  Speaker 1: record this. This is just for audio. But when I
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  Speaker 1: asked you that you smile. You enjoy being here, don't you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like this league. I guess everybody does, but
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  Speaker 1: you really embrace it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. Man. It's always been a dream of mine.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you always dream of being an NFL and
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  Speaker 2: it hits you. It's a so real moment when you
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  Speaker 2: finally get in the NFL and you know you never
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  Speaker 2: want to take anything for granted.
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  Speaker 1: Is it tough? Not to sometimes because you're working, you're grinding.
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  Speaker 1: Life becomes a routine, but you seem like you still
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  Speaker 1: put it in the front of your mind. Hey, I
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  Speaker 1: need to enjoy this. It doesn't last forever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's times when you think of that.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, if you got a grace of poor stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my family, you know they always remind me
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  Speaker 2: when I get home and things like that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they helped me, you know, remind me and get my
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  Speaker 2: mind right.
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  Speaker 1: Got you and you performed at a high level in
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  Speaker 1: the SEC. You were an interception turnover guy. How much
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  Speaker 1: confidence did that give you, even when you're a late
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  Speaker 1: round draft pick to be able to say, hey, look,
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  Speaker 1: I know I played at a high level. I know
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  Speaker 1: I can do this. Was that a factor for you
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  Speaker 1: at all?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was a factor. You know, coming out
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  Speaker 2: of high school, I always wanted to play in SEC,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, when I got to the SEC, man,
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  Speaker 2: it's the same guys I played against an SEC in
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  Speaker 2: the league. So it definitely helped a lot. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's not that far from the NFL. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like the SEC, but you know, it's the same guy,
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  Speaker 2: So it definitely helped me a lot playing in sec.
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  Speaker 1: Now, still waiting for that first NFL pick. How close
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  Speaker 1: have you been do you feel like you had Do
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you've left any out there?
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  Speaker 2: I left a lot. I left a couple last year that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, frustrated me. The Saints, I had one, Saints,
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  Speaker 2: the Colts. You know, I had a couple, right, So
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  Speaker 2: it's hard that one.
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  Speaker 1: Fernando Bryant, who used to play here way back in
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  Speaker 1: the day, he was a first round pick in ninety
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  Speaker 1: eight or ninety nine. I'm sorry, he told me once.
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  Speaker 1: A very insightful thing, he said. Getting an interception in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, in his opinion, was the hardest thing to
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  Speaker 1: do because the game is designed for you not to
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  Speaker 1: get one right, and everything the quarterback and the receiver
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  Speaker 1: are doing is to prevent you from doing that. Is
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  Speaker 1: it that hard? It's definitely hard.
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  Speaker 2: You know. You just got to prepare even more, you know,
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  Speaker 2: lock in and make sure you're taking getting things right,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So it's definitely hard to get an interception.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I'm just focused on making the players that
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  Speaker 2: come to me and just wait on that opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: get one.
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  Speaker 1: Now you smile, but is your interception is the celebration planned?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how do you guys plan those out or
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  Speaker 1: do they come just sort of natural?
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  Speaker 2: We plan those out before? You got to plan them
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  Speaker 2: one out, so you gotta have one.
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  Speaker 1: I got you. How the opportunity that you've had this year,
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  Speaker 1: When you get that opportunity when Tyson goes out, is
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  Speaker 1: there a different approach? Is it a different adrenaline when
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  Speaker 1: you get this kind of opportunity, or how do you
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  Speaker 1: approach that over the stretch you've had in the last
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  Speaker 1: three or four.
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  Speaker 2: Games, It's definitely a different approach, you know. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you just got to turn everything up a notch, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and go even harder in your preparation when you your
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  Speaker 2: name is called, and you always want to make the
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  Speaker 2: best out of your opportunity. So you know, in my head,
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  Speaker 2: when I got the opportunity, every time I get an opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I want to make the best of it.
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  Speaker 1: How much more ready were you for this opportunity this
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  Speaker 1: year then maybe you would have been as a rookie,
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  Speaker 1: meaning how much have you grown in what is an album?
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  Speaker 1: The thirty four to thirty five games in the NFL?
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  Speaker 1: How much more ready were you? How much better a player,
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  Speaker 1: are you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very a much different type of player. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't learn so much from the guys you know,
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  Speaker 2: over the years, and just how to approach the game,
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  Speaker 2: getting a routine, you know what I like to do
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  Speaker 2: before the game, and you know what I like to
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  Speaker 2: do during the week, like just getting a routine. So
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  Speaker 2: I definitely learned a lot the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I'm just still learning.
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  Speaker 1: What's the difference in your confidence level now compared to
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  Speaker 1: you started one game as a rookie and a few
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  Speaker 1: last year. How much more confident are you from the
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  Speaker 1: experience you've had.
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  Speaker 2: My confidence out the roof honestly compared to my rookie year.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I got a little bit of playing time,
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  Speaker 2: and then my second year, I played like half the season.
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  Speaker 2: So my second year definitely helped me. You know, when
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  Speaker 2: I go out there, I feel just comfortable, like the
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  Speaker 2: game has slowed down from me tremendously, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like calm.
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  Speaker 1: Was there a moment you kind of knew that or
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  Speaker 1: does that sort of happened gradually?
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  Speaker 2: It's like a moment you know it. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: out there and not thinking, just playing, playing fast, and
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  Speaker 2: just reacting and just seeing what you like playing and
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  Speaker 2: seeing trusting what you see.
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  Speaker 1: You start realizing it's the game you've played all your.
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  Speaker 2: Life, right right, That's that's all it is.
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  Speaker 1: I got you. Where's the confidence level with the team
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  Speaker 1: right now? I mean obviously one in five? I guess
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you have to create your own confidence. But how
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  Speaker 1: do you, guys, approach going forward in terms of confidence?
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  Speaker 2: No confidence? You know, we just got to continue to
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  Speaker 2: grow and you know, get the confidence up right now.
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  Speaker 2: You know, even though we're not getting a resources we need,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, we got to go back to work
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  Speaker 2: and really just keep it going and build energy, create
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  Speaker 2: energy and just get that around the team.
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  Speaker 1: Secondaries had some tough games. The same approach for you
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  Speaker 1: guys as a group, Do you do you bond together
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  Speaker 1: during the week and say we've got to fight out
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  Speaker 1: of this ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we definitely do. You know, we have meetings with
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  Speaker 2: each other and you know, we look at things and
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  Speaker 2: how we're being attacked, and you know, we talk about
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  Speaker 2: the things and how we can approach those things.
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  Speaker 1: Got you. Last thing we do here busters what we
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  Speaker 1: call the ozone five. It's five quick fun questions. What
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  Speaker 1: was your last binge.
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  Speaker 2: Watch Ben's watch this season American Gangster. Tell me about
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  Speaker 2: Good It's a great movie with Denzel Washington, one of
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  Speaker 2: my favorite actsts. So man, he's just a great acting
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  Speaker 2: I just love the way he's performing while he performed
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  Speaker 2: in that movie, and it's a great movie. Got what was?
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  Speaker 1: I usually asked, what's the song that you're heard in
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  Speaker 1: the way over in the car, But since you didn't
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  Speaker 1: drive in London, I assume what's the last song you
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  Speaker 1: heard today?
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  Speaker 2: Today? Rode Wave Lonely?
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  Speaker 1: What's your pregame song?
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  Speaker 2: My pregame song is fifty Mini Man.
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  Speaker 1: Got you? What's your favorite thing about the UK?
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  Speaker 2: The UK? The breakfast, the breakfast food?
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  Speaker 1: Now you're small you like? I mean, it was an
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  Speaker 1: easy choice for it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I can't wait to breakfast time and
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  Speaker 2: I just love I love the hash browns in the
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  Speaker 2: French toast.
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  Speaker 1: Got you person or people who are most responsible for
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  Speaker 1: you being here in.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL My mom and my high school coach.
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  Speaker 1: I got you? Tell me about them? It's so important.
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  Speaker 2: My mom always know, she always there to up and downs,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, she always keep my head on straight
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  Speaker 2: and just motivated me and just man, just I just
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  Speaker 2: want to do everything for her, all the things she's
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  Speaker 2: been through. And you know, my high school coach, he
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  Speaker 2: always kept me on, kept my hair straight too, and
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  Speaker 2: just kept me on pointing and kept me focused. His
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  Speaker 2: name Matt Richardson.
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  Speaker 1: Mon Terry Brown. Thank you very much for doing this.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a crazy week. I enjoyed talking to
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  Speaker 1: you very much, and thank you for joining the ozone podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you