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Jordan Love the playoff playmaker, C.J. Stroud on being a game changer · NFL Game Previews

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  Speaker 1: This is camp Jordan here. We are on off the
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  Speaker 1: edge of the podcast. It's more like a brief sitting
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  Speaker 1: down with legendary people. I got my guy, Jordan Love here,
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  Speaker 1: coming out of Utah State, which there's not a lot
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  Speaker 1: of pickings out of there, but you were picked in.
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  Speaker 2: The first round. Yeah you know that twenty twenty drafts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, four yeah, yeah, man, you talked state was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Man, Like you said, not a lot, you know, smaller
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  Speaker 4: school and not a lot of people coming out of there,
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  Speaker 4: but we got we got a couple big times.
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  Speaker 2: Got a first round here. Cal hasn't had a first
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  Speaker 2: round since Jared Goff.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you know, I mean I ain't say I
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  Speaker 1: felt like we were a big school and then all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, we we sort of you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: fighting back to get back. Yeah, you know, so just clearly,
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  Speaker 1: let's just get my stuff out the way because I've
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  Speaker 1: got grievances, right, you know.
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  Speaker 2: We we played early on in the season.
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  Speaker 1: At some point we were up seventeen to zero, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, we taxing this, We we taxing
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  Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers never been to Lambo, where it
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  Speaker 1: had been so quiet you could hear pin.
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  Speaker 4: Drops, bullying and all types of stuff, booing it was
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  Speaker 4: tough environment.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I was like, I've never I've never seen
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  Speaker 1: the green turn. You came back in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: ended up beating us eighteen points unanswered. Uh, eighteen seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, how the hell did we blow this?
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  Speaker 1: And low key my embarrassing loss of the year. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, but to your credit, you came.
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  Speaker 4: Back that that was my favorite game of the year,
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  Speaker 4: saying no, that makes sense, not that makes sense, but no,
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  Speaker 4: that was I mean you said, man, I think I
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  Speaker 4: think it was motivation here here in Green Bay, be
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  Speaker 4: so quiet in Lambeau, and uh, you know, you get
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  Speaker 4: you get some boos from your home crowd is tough,
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  Speaker 4: so you know you want to step that game up,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, you know we're able to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Right office.
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  Speaker 1: You had a couple of bombs in the game. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, ain't no way these prayers getting Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Guys making plays out there, man, dudes making plays.
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  Speaker 1: When you have plays like that, you'd be like on
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  Speaker 1: the deep side, You're like, no, it's a lot.
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  Speaker 3: He must be living right, man.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it was a it was a different game. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: you never want to see anybody get hurt. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: obviously Derek getting hurt right in that game was right
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  Speaker 4: right before halftime. It was tough for you guys. You
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  Speaker 4: never want to see that, but uh, you know you.
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  Speaker 1: Got to take advantage of everybody is man, what did
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  Speaker 1: y'all say at halftime? Because our halftime was completely different.
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  Speaker 1: We're like, it's time to bury you ever lit your
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  Speaker 1: foot off the neck?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know yours one?
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  Speaker 2: What happened the our size?
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  Speaker 4: Zero points at halftime? You know, it's defense looking at
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  Speaker 4: the offense like, man, what do you guys? Do you
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  Speaker 4: guys gonna show up today like you're gonna put up
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  Speaker 4: some points? And you know, we take that personal. We're
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  Speaker 4: trying to show up for the defense, help those guys out, get.
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  Speaker 3: Off the field.
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  Speaker 4: And man, we knew we had to play a lot
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  Speaker 4: better because zero points at half it's not gonna win
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  Speaker 4: you in the games.
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  Speaker 3: Man. So you know there's a lot of motivation that
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  Speaker 3: in that locker room halftime.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt that that was my personal gram. Get out
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  Speaker 4: you know, everything in between, everything in between you if
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So so when so now we can get back
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  Speaker 1: to football. You know, love good love, good old spice.
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  Speaker 3: Great.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, so like it was that with our game.
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  Speaker 1: Was that the game that a click for you? Was
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  Speaker 1: that the game that gave you confidence? Because I mean
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  Speaker 1: from from there on out you sort of.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know about click.
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  Speaker 4: I think that was a great game for us to
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  Speaker 4: be able to see that being behind it and being
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  Speaker 4: able to put a performance and turn it around and
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  Speaker 4: come back. So that was great. But after that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we did go on a like a four game losing streak.
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  Speaker 4: So I think just going through that, going through the
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  Speaker 4: growing pains, the adversity, you know, it helped us going
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  Speaker 4: forward to you know, the biggest thing in NFL, you
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  Speaker 4: gotta find ways to win. Everybody's good, right, that margin
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  Speaker 4: for aari slim. So our biggest thing was was finding
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  Speaker 4: ways to get over that hunt. We're in a lot
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  Speaker 4: of close games that we lost and find ways to
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  Speaker 4: win it at the end, two minute drills, things like that.
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  Speaker 1: So the back third of the season, though, we went
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  Speaker 1: lights out, you know, Presston, Rashan Gary, you know, a big,
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  Speaker 1: big Frank was out there going to work. And then
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  Speaker 1: off the side, you guys started getting stellar. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's about the it's about the timing of
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  Speaker 1: it all.
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  Speaker 3: It is timing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you want to get hot at the right
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  Speaker 4: time and start winning at the right time. And I
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  Speaker 4: think it worked out well for us at the end.
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  Speaker 4: But uh, like you said, man, guys making plays. Dude
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  Speaker 4: stepped up. Everybody stepped up, huge man, right.
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  Speaker 1: It was like and then you, you know, which led
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  Speaker 1: you right, it rolled right into that playoffs where you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was.
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  Speaker 2: Like, all right, I was like when I played it,
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  Speaker 2: I was like when we played them, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. I don't know if I saw it, but
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  Speaker 2: started really clicking in on the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that first of first playoff debut,
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  Speaker 1: took the Packers to the playoffs and the first year
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  Speaker 1: as a starter, and then you posted a perfect perfect
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  Speaker 1: quarterback rating.
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  Speaker 4: Almost almost perfect incomple that dropped it off, man, almost perfect.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, I was I was looking.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I sort of looked at you, like
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  Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, like, you know, everybody was calling you a rookie,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, technically he's got time on it my
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  Speaker 1: rookie year.
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  Speaker 3: Well, first year starting, you know what I mean, But
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  Speaker 3: I'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: Right something like yeah, man, this first year, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: as a starter, right, he's been here for a while,
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  Speaker 1: but okay, you know, so that improved, that improved passer rating,
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  Speaker 1: that bolt clearly, that picks up your confidence.
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  Speaker 2: That puts you in for a position next year to
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  Speaker 2: really shine.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, definitely, you know, I think, like you said
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the year, getting on a run
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  Speaker 4: going into the playoffs, first playoff game, being able to
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  Speaker 4: win over a good, a really.
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  Speaker 3: Good Dallas team.
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  Speaker 4: Right, So it's gonna have us, you know, put us
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  Speaker 4: in a good spot going forward. You know, we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: work this offseason and find ways to improve on where
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  Speaker 4: we you know, fell short this year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what does uh? I mean clearly talks to
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  Speaker 1: your leadership, But what does that do for? What were
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  Speaker 1: you looking forward to clearly and OTAs creating more whatever?
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  Speaker 1: What are you looking forward to in terms of draft?
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  Speaker 1: What are you looking forward to it to your second
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  Speaker 1: year starting? Man, I'm looking forward to seeing where we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna build this year.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we had a great draft this last year,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of young guys on our team, and those
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  Speaker 4: guys all stepped up to Huges made big time players
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  Speaker 4: throughout the year. So I'm looking forward to those guys
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  Speaker 4: being able to come back make that year two jump,
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  Speaker 4: because I mean, they did some really good things first year,
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, I was kind of blown away
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  Speaker 4: by a lot of way they played and just being
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  Speaker 4: so young, and so I'm looking forward to those.
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  Speaker 3: Year two jumps.
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  Speaker 4: We got a little couple of changes new defense coordinator
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  Speaker 4: coming in, so I'm excited to see who next year
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  Speaker 4: is gonna look like.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I'm just thinking, like, there's a lot of talent
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  Speaker 1: on your team. Obviously, I'm trying to I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: poach Franklin, your big No, man, you ain't him, but
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  Speaker 1: we need him. I'm texting him. I'm texting him right now.
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  Speaker 1: We've got the same agent, so just no, I'm like message.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna text him to him, like, don't listen.
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  Speaker 2: To Cam say he comes for you.
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  Speaker 1: He is.
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  Speaker 2: They love you and bad man.
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: But you know, I really wanted to ask the last
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  Speaker 1: question because I mean, we had some controversy at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year with us putting the extra seven
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  Speaker 1: points on the Atlanta Falcons because it's a rivalry game,
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  Speaker 1: needed it. But for you guys, you had some controversy
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  Speaker 1: with uh Jaire Alexander went out to a random coin toss,
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  Speaker 1: which I've never even heard it. Clearly, I've been in
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  Speaker 1: the league for thirteen years and my poss being in
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  Speaker 1: the league for thirteen years, and we've got twenty six
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  Speaker 1: years of Jordan experience, and I still never heard of
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  Speaker 1: somebody like, yeah, I'm a volunteer myself, go to the
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  Speaker 1: coin toss.
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  Speaker 2: How what where?
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  Speaker 5: Huh? Man?
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  Speaker 4: You know, Jayan is a special person He's a unique character,
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  Speaker 4: three unique personality, man, hell of a player. But uh,
• 7:16
  Speaker 4: you know, uh, you know he does his own thing.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's what he is. That's what he's what he's
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  Speaker 4: known for. And you know, I was on the sideline.
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  Speaker 4: Someone's like, why job out there? I'm like, what's y'all
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  Speaker 4: doing out there? And he's talking.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was interesting, but you know that that's job man.
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  Speaker 4: You never know what you mean. You got to support
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  Speaker 4: your teammates.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I love him, man, I love love him. He's a
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  Speaker 3: great player.
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  Speaker 2: Hey.
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  Speaker 1: One of my coaches told me he's like pretty babies,
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: ugly babies. They're still your babies.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 2: That's what a brotherhood is.
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  Speaker 3: That's my dog. You love him for everything he does,
• 7:43
  Speaker 3: but you never know what you're gonna get with job man.
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  Speaker 2: Man, love it.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to you much success, apparently, shout out old Spice.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you tapping in with the post off the edge
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  Speaker 1: with me Cam Jordan's and hopefully you know he's turned.
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  Speaker 2: Up from here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, pleasure being here with you man. That pleasure man peak.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are on off the edge of the podcast me,
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  Speaker 1: your host Cam Jordan, and here I am another legend
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  Speaker 1: in the building and the well legend in the making.
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  Speaker 1: About first year standout, second overall picks for the Houston
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  Speaker 1: Texans and when I was like, oh man, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: bury this dude at the Houston Texans. Man with you, dimigo,
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  Speaker 1: Ryans have been able to do cultivating this team. Of course,
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: you know you can't do it alone, but I mean
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  Speaker 1: just the way you were playing, had an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: play against you guys this year. The leadership, the charisma,
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  Speaker 1: the energy. Hell, you ran out of one of my sacks.
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  Speaker 1: I sat, you ran like fifteen yards out flushed to
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  Speaker 1: the right, Like I was like, all right, kids, got
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: some juice, tool bro. You said all types of NFL records,
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  Speaker 1: you know, most passing yards in the game by a rookie,
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  Speaker 1: passing touchdowns in the game by a rookie, youngest starting
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  Speaker 1: quarterback to win a playoff game. The stuff that you've
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  Speaker 1: been able to do this year has been nothing but phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: So I just want to know, like, how is it
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  Speaker 1: that you quickly earned that respect and trust of your teammates.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate that, bro.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I got a lot of respect for you,
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  Speaker 6: man and watch you a long time, so appreciate the
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  Speaker 6: coin words, bro, but really manages. I wanted to come in,
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  Speaker 6: you know, and just show who I was as a person,
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  Speaker 6: you know, and I knew that the football stuff will
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  Speaker 6: hopefully take care of yourself. And you know, I just
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  Speaker 6: really put in a lot of work, you know, just
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  Speaker 6: grinded and made sure that people not only see me,
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  Speaker 6: but they felt me, you know, And I think that's
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  Speaker 6: more important to building that trust. And I wanted to
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  Speaker 6: be natural and once I once I became a leader
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  Speaker 6: on the team, I knew the football stuff will take
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  Speaker 6: care of itself. And you know, it's been a blessing
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  Speaker 6: to have a great year like you did. But I
• 9:38
  Speaker 6: couldn't do it but on my teammates, you know, with
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  Speaker 6: all my coaches, you know, without the Houston Texans organization
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  Speaker 6: and the fans you know.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, winning Offensive Rookie of the Year, bringing the jew
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  Speaker 1: season every time you touched the field. And then speaking
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  Speaker 1: of you know that energy, tell me about what you're
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  Speaker 1: pushing today.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, So I'm here with C four you know, I'm
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  Speaker 6: been working with C four all the way since n
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  Speaker 6: I l man my first n IL deal. Yeah, been
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  Speaker 6: a little process with these guys, and you know it's
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  Speaker 6: been a ball. This relationship has been great. I'm here,
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  Speaker 6: you know, representing them and I've been taking their products
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  Speaker 6: and you know it helps me. And then you know
• 10:06
  Speaker 6: them days when you day fifteen and training camp, you
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  Speaker 6: know you need an extra source of energy.
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  Speaker 3: You know C for is right there for the help.
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  Speaker 6: And I'll take the protein powder, the energy drinks, and
• 10:16
  Speaker 6: then I'll take the pre workout as well, and you
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  Speaker 6: know it all helps me. And you know it's NSF certified,
• 10:21
  Speaker 6: so the league approves it and you know that's it's key,
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  Speaker 6: yes past fact. So it's been a blessing work with
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  Speaker 6: these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Man, Man, that's awesome to hear. I got teammates that
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  Speaker 1: take C four and late like, yeah, this is the
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  Speaker 1: good stuff. I don't know what good stuff is. I
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  Speaker 1: still don't do take any caffeine, Like, I don't do
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  Speaker 1: any any like pre workouts, no cop that way. But
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  Speaker 1: one day I keep up staying one day where I'm
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  Speaker 1: like maybe thirty five facts.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I'm gonna head down way, you can't
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  Speaker 6: do it too much, but like when you really need it,
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  Speaker 6: I think that's when you best take it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, So the only other question I'm asking you know,
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  Speaker 1: Cam Newton, you know another quarterback who's wont the MVP before,
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  Speaker 1: quarterback who played ten plus years in the league called
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  Speaker 1: you a game changer?
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  Speaker 2: Does that title hold anyway for you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: For sure. You know, I know you got a lot
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  Speaker 6: of screwtiny but I think like calling guy's game changer
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  Speaker 6: game managers. But you know, at the same time, you know,
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  Speaker 6: Cam has the right to have that opinion because you know,
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  Speaker 6: he's been one of the best quarterbacks in the league
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  Speaker 6: that we've ever seen. So for him to call me that,
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  Speaker 6: you know, it's an honor, especially the first year. You know,
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  Speaker 6: something that I hold myself, uh, you know, at a
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  Speaker 6: high at a high standard, you know, making everybody around
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  Speaker 6: me better. I think that's what being a game changer
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  Speaker 6: is is, you know, making everyone around me better and
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  Speaker 6: making plays.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. What are you looking forward to next season?
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  Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to winning, you know, I want to
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  Speaker 6: you know, hopefully, I really wanted to make it to
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  Speaker 6: this game this year, and you know, we came up
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  Speaker 6: a little short, but you know, I'm excited to line
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  Speaker 6: up again with my guys next year and you know,
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  Speaker 6: just to build more chemistry and just get more wins.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, but it's a long process.
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  Speaker 6: Got to attack ot all season training camp and you know,
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  Speaker 6: learn from our mistakes and you know, make everything right to.
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  Speaker 1: A to a blue of reds and first black and
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  Speaker 1: goal super Bowl next year. Appreciate you tapping in.
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  Speaker 3: Let's do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Don't hear you too hard.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta get you back much.
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  Speaker 4: Blessings, Broo Brot, keep back.
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