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USF OL Caleb Cook Joins 4th AND BULL · 4th AND BULL

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  Speaker 1: What's up, Caleb? Welcome to 4th and Bowl. Appreciate your
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  Speaker 1: time today. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I'm doing real good, man. How about you?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I can't complain. You know, got to see
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  Speaker 3: another dub on Saturday, 30-10 victory over UAB. Yeah, congratulations
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  Speaker 3: on that. I know that has to feel good. How
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  Speaker 3: about those black jerseys? I kind of dug the look.
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  Speaker 2: I dug the look, too. That was my first time wearing, like,
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  Speaker 2: black jerseys, and, man, I ain't going to lie, they
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  Speaker 2: look really good. I want them out in the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: You can't see a black jersey.
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  Speaker 2: You really can't.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think they look good. The only thing that
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  Speaker 3: I had about it, as I said, who decided to
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  Speaker 3: do it at one of the only noon games? Instead
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  Speaker 3: of at night, I felt luckily it wasn't too hot. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: it was still warm because it's Florida, but I was like, man,
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  Speaker 3: too bad. If it was like a 90-degree day, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if you'd like those black jerseys as much,
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  Speaker 3: but they looked really good on TV.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Luke Cromanhawk comes into that game, has that 42-yard run.
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  Speaker 3: Did that kind of– it felt like it sparked the offense.
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  Speaker 3: It felt like it sparked the defense. It kind of
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  Speaker 3: felt like it sparked the entire team. Did that feel
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  Speaker 3: kind of like the turning point in that game?
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  Speaker 2: Well, when you say– I wouldn't necessarily say turning point.
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  Speaker 2: That play did, I guess, spark everybody because, obviously, whenever
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  Speaker 2: you have a big play, that's how you get really
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  Speaker 2: stuff rolling off the ball. And him coming in, busting
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  Speaker 2: that big run, later down the road, busting another big run,
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  Speaker 2: making some throws and doing everything like that. that just
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  Speaker 2: helped us get stuff rolling a little bit more downhill.
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  Speaker 2: So it definitely helped. Definitely helped.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I had Aiden Jackson on last week. He told
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  Speaker 3: me Luke is, like, one of the biggest trash talkers
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  Speaker 3: on the team. So after that run, was he running
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  Speaker 3: his mouth to UAB?
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  Speaker 2: You know, the funny thing about that is he definitely
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  Speaker 2: was because that was, what, like a 40-yard run?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, 42, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm jogging, I'm running, I'm trying to go to him.
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  Speaker 2: It take me probably about three-fourths. Five seconds to get down.
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  Speaker 2: However long it took me, right, I'd get down there.
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  Speaker 2: He's still talking. I'm like, oh, all right, cool.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I kept thinking about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's definitely a good trash.
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  Speaker 3: The whole time that he was running, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: those boys are hearing it right now. And so I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad I got that validated. When Michael Van Buren Jr.
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  Speaker 3: goes down, what's the conversation like on the sideline? Do
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  Speaker 3: you guys kind of get together, go over game plan?
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  Speaker 3: Does anything really change between the two quarterbacks or? What
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  Speaker 3: was that kind of transition like for you as an
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  Speaker 3: offensive lineman?
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  Speaker 2: Well obviously you always hate to see a player go
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  Speaker 2: down and especially if it's like your starting quarterback go
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  Speaker 2: down that's one of the worst situations that can happen
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  Speaker 2: in a football game. Everybody knows this but at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day we all understand like this is
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  Speaker 2: a very violent physical game and unfortunately there will be
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  Speaker 2: some times where people go down there will be times
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  Speaker 2: where people I don't want to say injured but get
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  Speaker 2: injured get hurt and stuff like that and We all
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  Speaker 2: believe in the next man up mentality, and that's one
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  Speaker 2: of the most important things you can have on any
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  Speaker 2: athletics team, to be honest, because at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, you never know what can happen and when
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  Speaker 2: it can happen and who it can happen to. So
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  Speaker 2: as long as you have somebody ready to come in
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  Speaker 2: and make sure it's not a drop-off, then you really
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  Speaker 2: need that, especially at a QB position, the most important
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  Speaker 2: position in the game.
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  Speaker 3: Does that change anything for you up front in the
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  Speaker 3: way that you have to do your job when it's
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  Speaker 3: a different quarterback? You know, when it's Michael Van Buren Jr.
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  Speaker 3: compared to Luke Cromanhawk, does that change anything for you
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  Speaker 3: up front, or is it the same?
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  Speaker 2: It's the same. Our job is to protect the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter who's back there. We got to do
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  Speaker 2: our job regardless every single play. So it don't matter
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  Speaker 2: if one person's back there, if another person's back there.
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  Speaker 2: You don't just change the way you're blocking just depending
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  Speaker 2: on who's back there. You know, you got to do
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  Speaker 2: your job every single play. And our job up front
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  Speaker 2: is obviously you make lanes, you protect QB, you protect
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  Speaker 2: the running back. Not the people who play QB or
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  Speaker 2: running back. You protect the QB, you protect the running back.
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  Speaker 3: What are some of the things that both quarterbacks do
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  Speaker 3: behind the scenes that maybe people haven't necessarily seen that
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  Speaker 3: just make you go like, I want to kill everybody
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  Speaker 3: for these two because they're just fantastic people? Give us
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  Speaker 3: some insight on both of the quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, both of them are really, really, really
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  Speaker 2: good human beings. Both of them know how to bring
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  Speaker 2: the energy, know how to rally the troops. As I
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  Speaker 2: like to say, they're both really good leaders on the team.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, they're both just really good people. They
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  Speaker 2: even Just them being themselves and them just walking around
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of energy, in a good mood, brightening
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  Speaker 2: up everybody's days. That just really makes you want to
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  Speaker 2: go even harder for them, even more than you normally would.
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  Speaker 2: Because like I said, both of them are just such
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  Speaker 2: great people. They bring a lot of energy every single day.
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  Speaker 2: They're the same person every single day. You know what
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get from day in and day out.
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  Speaker 2: And I really appreciate that from both of them.
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  Speaker 3: What was the portal process like for you? Like, I
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  Speaker 3: know you went to Georgia Southern. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't Aiden Jackson go there, too? I had him on
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  Speaker 3: last week, I swear.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so do.
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  Speaker 3: You guys communicate that beforehand? Like, do you guys talk
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  Speaker 3: to each other? Like, hey, let's stick together. Let's go
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  Speaker 3: to USF. But, I mean, did you guys communicate at all?
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  Speaker 1: Did your agents talk to each other? What was that
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  Speaker 1: process like?
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  Speaker 2: You know, the funny thing is, when I took my
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  Speaker 2: visit here to USF, he was on a visit the
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  Speaker 2: same day, and I had no idea. You guys ran
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  Speaker 2: into each other? Or no? We ran into each other
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  Speaker 2: like we were eating. And then all of a sudden, like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get some sushi, right? I look up.
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  Speaker 2: I see Ajak. I'm like, hold on. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Then he started running towards me. I dabbled him up.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't going to lie, though. I still remember to
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  Speaker 2: this day, like, he kind of caught me off guard
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  Speaker 2: because he, like, ran to me and, like, gave me
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  Speaker 2: a shoulder check. I'm like, oh, okay. But, nah, man,
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  Speaker 2: it was real funny, man, because we didn't know either
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  Speaker 2: of us was going to be here. We didn't even
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  Speaker 2: know about either show of visits because we knew, like,
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  Speaker 2: obviously we both entered a portal and, We didn't really
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  Speaker 2: know about all that. But, hey, we ended up at
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  Speaker 2: the same place, and we're both doing real good. So
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  Speaker 2: we made the right decision.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny.
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  Speaker 3: So tell me about the visit. You just sushi on deck?
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  Speaker 3: Like you just walk in a room and there was sushi?
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  Speaker 3: Like where's the sushi?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no. This was just like the first night of
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  Speaker 2: the visit. You know they take you out to eat.
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  Speaker 2: We just went to a real good place, and they
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  Speaker 2: just had a good spread for us.
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  Speaker 3: Where did they take you? Aiden said they went to,
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  Speaker 3: I think it was Hyde Park is where they went,
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  Speaker 3: one of the restaurants over there.
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  Speaker 2: Is that what it's called? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It was like that real nice area where there's Lamborghinis
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  Speaker 3: everywhere and nicer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That is the nicest part of every time I was
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  Speaker 3: telling Aiden, every time I go there, I feel poor
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  Speaker 3: because everyone just has so much money over there, but
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  Speaker 3: the restaurants are so good. So what was, when, when
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  Speaker 3: you came to visit USF on that, that trip, obviously
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  Speaker 3: you see your boy.
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  Speaker 1: So that's cool.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure that, that kind of played a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of a factor, but what was the, what was the,
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  Speaker 3: just the experience, uh, you know, like in that visit? Like,
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  Speaker 3: what was it about USF and the Tampa Bay area
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  Speaker 3: where you were like, you know what, I want to
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  Speaker 3: finish my football career over here, my college football career here?
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  Speaker 2: So, first and foremost, before I even, like, came here, like,
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  Speaker 2: before I physically was here, obviously, you see the new
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  Speaker 2: coaches coming in. I see the names on there. Like, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: it starts with Coach Hart. And you know what they
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  Speaker 2: did at their old school. You know, like, their resume.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, oh, man, if I come here, it's
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  Speaker 2: a real deal. Like, I could be, what's the word
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking for? I can't even think of the word,
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  Speaker 2: but basically they can make me a better player, like
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  Speaker 2: a better player and a person. I know if I
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  Speaker 2: go here, the sky's the limit for the type of
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  Speaker 2: player and the type of person that I want to be. Also,
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  Speaker 2: when I did come here, just talking to all the coaches,
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  Speaker 2: all of them was real. It was all real. I
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  Speaker 2: love being around them. I love talking to them. It
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  Speaker 2: was never like no coach talk, no none of this,
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  Speaker 2: no none of that. You know how it could get sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: It was literally just real conversations with everybody from the
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  Speaker 2: head man all the way down to some of the
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  Speaker 2: trainers that worked here and stuff like that. And just, like,
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  Speaker 2: the visit, honestly, when it comes to the city of Tampa,
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  Speaker 2: I felt, I kid you not, on my visit here,
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  Speaker 2: I fell in love with everything. I fell in love
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  Speaker 2: with the school. I fell in love with the corner shop.
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  Speaker 2: I fell in love with the city of Tampa. The
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  Speaker 2: place where they took us, we had, we was, like, downtown. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know how beautiful downtown can be, especially at night.
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  Speaker 2: Seeing everything, it was just so, so, so beautiful. And
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  Speaker 2: it also helped that it wasn't too far from home.
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  Speaker 2: It was only, like, a four-hour drive from me. So, definitely,
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  Speaker 2: I fell in love with everything here. It was literally
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  Speaker 2: love at first sight. I remember walking.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say you're from Brunswick, right? Wasn't
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  Speaker 3: that like just north of Jacksonville?
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  Speaker 2: It's like 30 minutes, 45 minutes north of Jacksonville. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville's all right. I've lived there, you know, in the past,
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  Speaker 1: but Tampa's way, way better than Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Tampa's better than a lot of cities out there.
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  Speaker 2: I will say. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Tampa, Tampa's one of the best, man.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you saw what the world series, like I
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  Speaker 3: know a lot of people from Wisconsin came down here,
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  Speaker 3: but a lot of those people lived here already for
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  Speaker 3: a reason.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of some transplants I'm, I'm from
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  Speaker 1: the north as well.
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  Speaker 3: And, You know, I've moved around doing this radio thing for,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the last 20 years and I've been in
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  Speaker 3: Tampa longer than anywhere. I just remember getting here going,
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  Speaker 3: I don't ever want to move again.
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  Speaker 1: I love this place. It's a it's a great place
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  Speaker 1: to live.
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  Speaker 3: So I was told that after football, let me know
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  Speaker 3: if I got this right. After football, you want to
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  Speaker 3: do sports broadcasting. And I hear that correctly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to be a sports journalist. The end
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  Speaker 2: goal is my own sports show on ESPN, and I
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  Speaker 2: just say what I want on TV. That's the end goal.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. That's what's up, man.
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  Speaker 3: So what are you doing now to prepare for that?
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  Speaker 3: Did you take classes and stuff like that for journalism?
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  Speaker 3: Was that what the major is?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so last year I graduated with two majors, one
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  Speaker 2: in communication studies and the other in multimedia journalism with both. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: both of those classes feature a lot of writing, different
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  Speaker 2: types of writing. But the journalism classes that I took,
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  Speaker 2: I had several classes, obviously, with journalism, with writing stories,
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  Speaker 2: some working behind a camera, some working in front of
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  Speaker 2: a camera, some working in an actual news station-like area
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  Speaker 2: and creating our own broadcasts, creating our own packages, VOs,
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  Speaker 2: all that type stuff, creating our own videos and actually
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  Speaker 2: filming it just like it was something you would see
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  Speaker 2: in the morning news or something like that. So I
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  Speaker 2: do have experience doing stuff like that. Recently, I have
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  Speaker 2: been focused really on football, but I have been trying
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  Speaker 2: to make connections with people who work in the building. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I was at a different place last year. I've got
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  Speaker 2: connections there as well just in case like whenever it's
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  Speaker 2: all said and done, if I, whenever I want to
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  Speaker 2: get a job in the field, I got places where
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  Speaker 2: I could go or things that's already set up for me.
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  Speaker 2: Cause one of the most important things you can do
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  Speaker 2: is network, especially when you're trying to get a good job.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Hey man, we're going to have an opening for a
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  Speaker 3: morning show producer. So hit me up. Uh, if you
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  Speaker 3: want to, you want to do the radio thing. Um,
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  Speaker 3: but no, I always like to hear that when people
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  Speaker 3: want to do this. Um, it really is a fun
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  Speaker 3: career and, you playing you'll be able to give an
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  Speaker 3: interesting perspective that that not many can can can i
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  Speaker 3: get it can i request something since that's the route
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  Speaker 3: you want to go after the next game when you
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  Speaker 3: win sit in a brian hartline press conference and be
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  Speaker 3: somebody in there asking questions.
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  Speaker 2: Man if it's right after the game i don't know
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  Speaker 2: i tend to take a very all.
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  Speaker 1: Right maybe at a monday meeting monday meeting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah Maybe we can get something like that done. Hopefully
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  Speaker 2: I have a good enough game where the folks will
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  Speaker 2: be wanting to interview me and I'll already be in there.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll try to get that accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: That's fair.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so that's the goal for this weekend's game.
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  Speaker 3: Have a good enough game to where you're talking at
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  Speaker 3: the press conference and then afterwards you interview Harline. But, no,
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  Speaker 3: do those things, man. Those are things that you can
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  Speaker 3: put out there and show, hey, look, this is what
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  Speaker 3: I did. Not to mention it'd be funny when you
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  Speaker 3: do it because it's very rare that you see a
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  Speaker 3: player do it. And we've seen it before, and it
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  Speaker 3: always ends up going viral.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: What's one thing the offensive line does better now than
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  Speaker 3: maybe six weeks ago when you guys first got together
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  Speaker 3: as a unit? And kind of just take me through
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  Speaker 3: the process of the offensive line, because I know there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of transfers in the room. Like you guys
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  Speaker 3: have a ton of experience, including yourself. And that's something
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  Speaker 3: I've talked about a lot.
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  Speaker 1: On here on the show.
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  Speaker 3: But you don't have experience together until you guys became
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  Speaker 3: one unit. Obviously, this year, a lot of guys from
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  Speaker 3: the transfer portal. What's that whole process been like? And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, take me from week one to now and
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  Speaker 3: the progress you believe you guys have made.
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  Speaker 2: Well, honestly, even when we first got here, we was
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  Speaker 2: already a close, like, well-knit-together group. We would hang out
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  Speaker 2: outside of the facility, and I'm talking about around in
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  Speaker 2: January all the way through spring, summer, even until now.
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  Speaker 2: So when it comes to offensive line, obviously, like, that's
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  Speaker 2: the one group where the guys who are playing, you've
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  Speaker 2: got to be on the same string. Communication is extremely important,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a lot easier to fulfill your job if
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  Speaker 2: y'all are, like, if y'all love each other, if y'all
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  Speaker 2: real cool for each other, because obviously the more you, like,
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  Speaker 2: rock with the person you play with, the more you
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  Speaker 2: rock with your teammates, the harder you play for them.
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  Speaker 2: And I got love for everybody, and I know they
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  Speaker 2: got love for me, especially in that O-line room. Like,
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  Speaker 2: the whole team is a brotherhood, but when it comes
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  Speaker 2: in our specific room, it's like, it's really just like blood.
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  Speaker 2: It's deeper than a brotherhood. Because, like I said before, like,
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  Speaker 2: the communication, let's talk about that, communication at the line
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  Speaker 2: is extremely important. We all got to be on the
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  Speaker 2: same page, even if it's necessarily not, The thing that's
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  Speaker 2: supposed to happen, one of the things that you will
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  Speaker 2: probably hear if you're in the O-line meeting is if
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  Speaker 2: you're all wrong, you're all right. So that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the most important things. And just from week one to now,
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  Speaker 2: we have had some change in the lineup, but everybody
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  Speaker 2: who's in the lineup, been out of the lineup, everybody
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  Speaker 2: has done perfectly at their job. Everybody knows what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: They really want to do it. They have love in
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  Speaker 2: their playing style. And so it hasn't really been a drop-off,
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  Speaker 2: I'd say. I would say the thing that we do
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  Speaker 2: better now than we did then is obviously just mesh
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  Speaker 2: well together because the first game you play, it's a
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  Speaker 2: whole new offensive line. I'm trying to remember what was
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  Speaker 2: the starting lineup then, but obviously most of it was transfers.
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  Speaker 2: Most of it was guys who came from a different area,
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  Speaker 2: including myself. That's the main thing. We all just really
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  Speaker 2: started meshing well. Obviously, the more you play together, the
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  Speaker 2: easier that's going to be.
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  Speaker 3: How big of a like changes it in the middle
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: of the game when somebody goes out and all of
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: a sudden you got somebody new on the line is
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: that is that tough to kind of overcome does that
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: complicate things a little bit or is everybody just so
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: prepared that it's kind of a plug and play and you're.
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: Good honestly i wouldn't really say so everybody's so prepared
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: that if you got a plug and play you plug
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: and play and every like i honestly i'm gonna keep
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: saying it's like All the times during the season where
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: somebody new came in or somebody new was in the lineup,
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: they knew exactly what they were doing. They prepared for
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: that moment way before you even got there. So that's
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: kudos to a lot of the guys in our room
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: who just really study their behinds off. They are ready
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: for every moment because you don't know when it could come.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: What's happening at the line of scrimmage? Take us through
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: in the offensive line position. You get up to the
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: line of scrimmage, you get set. What What's going on
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: up front, the communication that the average person at home
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: has never heard about or doesn't see? Because, you know,
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: I'm always explaining to my wife, like, the offensive lineman, like,
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: you guys probably got to be more prepared than anybody, right? Like,
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: there's so many different things that you are looking out
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: for and you're listening.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Just kind of take me through the process.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: Like, when you break that huddle, what is it like
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: from the time you break the huddle to the time
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: that the ball is snapped?
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: Hmm. Well, honestly, obviously the first thing that you've got
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: to get is a play. You get a play from
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: the huddle, then boom, you break the huddle. You look
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: at the front. You've got to look at what the
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: front is, what can happen in the front. You've got
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: to make your calls, whether it's a double team with
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: this guy, double team with that guy, whether you're pulling
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: or who's ID. You've got to identify, stuff like that.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: So it is a lot of communication that gets there.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: And then at the end of the day, you can
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: have perfect communication, but the defense can always move. So
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: if the defense moves, you've got to make sure everybody's
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: on the same page. either while the ball is being snapped,
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: because that does happen a lot. Sometimes defenses really like
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: to try to time up their stems on the cadence
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: or on the ball being snapped. So you've got to
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: be on the same page then. Then after the ball,
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: you've just got to play ball, really. It's after the snap.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: You've just got to know who you've got, and then
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: you've got to actually execute. It's one thing to know
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: what you've got to do. It's a whole other thing
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: to actually do it. So those are the two things
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: that we have to do. We've got to know what
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: we've got to do, and we've got to do it.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: That's any athlete, anywhere, any sport.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: Would you say the offensive linemen are the smartest people
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: on the team? Cause they got to, you know, you
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: got so much stuff you guys got to remember and do.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Honestly, I would say, I would say it's us
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: and QB. QBs, I went college ball for as long
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: as I did. Like if you, if you haven't been
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: around a quarterback, like going through his calls or anything
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: like that, you have no idea how much they got
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: to know. And it is really crazy because I'll be
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: hearing our quarterbacks like, in meetings and practice and all
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: that stuff. And in my head, I'd be like, dang,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: you got to see all that. Yeah.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Like how long is, I don't understand how they memorize every,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: like you hear one play. Like I always see that
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: video of Sean McVay calling a play to Matthew Stafford
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: and Stafford's like, yeah, I got it.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: And he's yelling.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, how does he then recite everything he
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: hears back to you? Like, I can barely remember when
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: I meet five people and they tell me their name.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: By the time I've met all five, I go, I
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: don't remember anybody's name. Like, I'm really bad at that,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: which is something I've got to be better at. But,
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, the play calls, they just feel like they're
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: so long, and they've got to remember so much. Now,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: is there a difference when it's Luke or when it's
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Michael in the huddle, or is it pretty much the same,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: nothing kind of really changes there?
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: It's pretty much the same. Like, they both command the
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: offense every time they're out there. Like, there is no
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: difference between one calling the huddle and the other calling
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: the huddle.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: I was checking out your Instagram before we hopped on.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I see you got a love for cologne, it looks like.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: You got some love with cologne. And I bring it
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: up because somebody was doing interviews at the World Series
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: with the Tampa Bay Rays, and somehow Richie Palacios, the
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: second baseman, said something that if he wasn't playing baseball,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: he would start a podcast or something. It would be
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: a podcast about fragrance. So would you be his podcast host?
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Are you a big fragrance guy?
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I'd say I'm a decently big fragrance guy.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: So you're the best smelling guy on the team?
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I'm the best smelling guy in Florida. Yes, I'm the
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: best smelling guy. If you catch me outside of practice,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: outside of workouts, outside of all that, I'm the best
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: smelling guy in Florida. I truly don't think there's somebody
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: around me, unless you're obviously a professional athlete, you've got
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: all that bread. But you're probably not going to have
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: a better word, bigger cologne collection than me.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: How many bottles of cologne you got?
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Honestly, if I had to give you a number, I
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: would probably say like 65 to 70 now.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: So it's a decent collection.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I've had like the same one bottle for 10 years.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: I got to step my game up.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: No, the thing is, though, you really only need one.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: And then you really only need three. So honestly, as
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: long as you got a good three in rotation, one
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: for this, I'm off and I go on the whole
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Columbo thing.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, man.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: What are the different scenarios? What are the situations? What
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: do I need three for?
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: All right, so let's say you're really just trying to
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: make a small cologne collection for the rest of your life. Okay, boom. Obviously,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: we live in Florida. You've got to have at least
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: one that's a freshie. That's good in the heat because
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: it's going to be hot in Florida. It's 12 months
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: in a year. It's probably going to be hot like
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: 10 of those 12 months, honestly. You've got to have
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: a freshie. You've got to have a cold weather one.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: You've got to have a special occasion one. And then
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: the fourth one, I would say you've got to have
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: like a romantic one. Let's say, you know, yeah. You
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: got to have a romantic one if you want to
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: go out or if you want to spend some quality
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: time with your lady or your, yeah, you got to
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: have that one. And then for the fifth one, I
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: would say just a good little year-round one, the one
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: that you could literally just, like, just pull out, spray.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter where it is, where you are, what
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: occasion it is. It's going to fulfill the job every time.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Is that the one you're wearing right now?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, actually.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I sell myself a little par farm. It's just a.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: It's a real good one. YSL is my favorite designer
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: house when it comes to cologne. I think they're obviously
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: not Louis Vuitton, but I don't really count Louis Vuitton
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: as a designer. It is, but it's a very expensive niche.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: YSL is the more.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: So, game on Friday.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Have you ever had a– actually, before I get into
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: the game, have you ever been at the line of
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: scrimmage and a defensive lineman said, man, you smell kind
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: of good?
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: In practice, yes. The funny thing is I was in
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: there like in practice, guys. Like I'm, boom, hand in
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: the dirt. Like after the play, you know, you weirdly
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: like smell really good. I'm like, thank you.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: It wasn't a compliment. It was a major deal. I
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: like major, man. I spoke to him at Bulls Fest.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of major.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of major, too. It wasn't him, though.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: It wasn't him. But I love major, though.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Speaking of your defense, how about C.J. Hicks, man?
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Just turning into a monster the last couple of weeks.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Four sacks, and then he had one of the fumble recovery.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, you go up against those guys every single day.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: What are your overall thoughts on the defense, man?
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: They're good.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Well, when it comes to C.J. Hicks, thank God I'm
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: a guard, not a tackle.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Obviously, yeah, going against– I truly feel like we have
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: one of the best defenses in the nation. Going against
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: them all throughout the year, that has made us so
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: much better. Honestly, when you practice against them every single day,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: there's not a lot of stuff that you haven't seen
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: and there's not a lot of looks that you're going
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: to get. That's truly better. Honestly, our– going against that
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: has really made going against a lot of other defenses,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: like not simple, but I don't think anybody has a
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: defense like ours. So obviously we've been going against them
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: for months and months and months and going at it
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: and going at it and going at it and just
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: getting better and better. It's truly been an iron shop
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: in the iron world with us.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Do you guys go ahead? I didn't mean to cut
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: you off.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I was just going to say, man, it's obviously it
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: feels real good to have, that defense BR is not
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: going against us like that.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: So no, they're, they're fun to watch.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, he had four sacks, two of them, you know,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: led to touchdowns and Grayson pop Howard.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: He's, he's a dog.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Um, there's just guys that fly all around that defense, but, uh,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: for you guys on offense, you guys seem to be
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: really good when your backs are against the wall. I mean,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: if there's two minutes to go and then we're down seven,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: like I'll take you guys.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: You guys come through in those clutch moments.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: What is it that you guys are doing differently later
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: on in football games to where we kind of start
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: a little bit slow, but then at the end of
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: the game, it's like you make it look easy. And
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I'm like, where was this in the first half? Like,
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: what are you guys doing differently in the second half
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: to where it just seems like a whole different ball game?
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Like, you guys are completely different offense at times.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Honestly, we're not truly doing anything, like, different. I just
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: feel like when it gets to, like, nut-cutting time, that's
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: really when. Everybody focuses more than what we already have
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: because we're going to focus the whole game. We're trying
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: to execute. We're trying to do this. We're trying to
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: do that. But obviously when it gets to, okay, listen,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: you do this right now or you lose this game.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: You do this right now or you go home sad.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: That's when everybody just really reaches another level and really
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: just locks in and like we have to execute this
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: right here, right now.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: So you guys have a game on Friday night. So
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: what are you going to be doing on Saturday now
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: that you don't have a game on Saturday?
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: On Saturday? Yeah. Well, that all depends on Coach AT.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: You think he's going to give you guys the day off,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: or does that all kind of depend on how you
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: play on Friday?
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't know, but truly I'm just trying to
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: get to the game and execute there and win that game.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Whatever happens after that happens after that, but I'm not
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: looking past anything past that game.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I figured you were going to tell me you were
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: going to go home and watch ball all day on Saturday.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: I'm sure if you get the opportunity, is that what
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: you're going to do? Are you a guy that likes
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: to watch football, or would you rather do something else?
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: If I get that opportunity.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Did you?
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I'm a watch ball. I'm a watch ball.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Did you by chance watch? So you're from Georgia. Are
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: you a Falcons fan or are you a Bucs fan?
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I'm just asking. When I talked to Aiden, he was
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: a Falcons fan.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: That's different. Aiden Ajax from Atlanta. So that's different.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: You a Jax fan?
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I don't really– no, a lot of people back home
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: are Jags fans. Yeah, I think– Back home, either you're
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: a Jags fan or a Falcons fan. I don't really
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: have a team. I just like watching football, to be honest.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: That's fair. Did you catch the Bucs game at all
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: in that weather?
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: No, not that one. I think– yeah, I wasn't able
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: to catch that one.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you haven't heard about it.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Didn't they, like, win the game without completing the best? Yes.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: As a– Yeah, I– I was.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Going to say, as an offensive lineman, would you love
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: it if you could just run block more than pass block?
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Do you have a preference? If you guys could just
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: run it down someone's throat all game long like that,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: would you choose to do that?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: That's really a good question because I like doing both.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: I like run blocking and pass blocking. But I guess
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: run blocking is simpler because literally it's just, hey, man,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: just– so, yeah, I guess I would like that.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it was an interesting– I mean, he should
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: have completed one pass– Ted Hurst was wearing gloves in
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: the rain, and I thought that's what caused him to
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: drop it. And you went against– you played against Ted Hurst, right?
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Aiden said– I mean, I know he was on the
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: field against him, obviously.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: You guys are both on offense. But he said he
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: was a trash talker. What's that?
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, A.J. probably know more about
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: him than me. He was the one that probably had
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: to guard him. I was just– I was on the
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: whole other side of the ball.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're on the sidelines when he's out there.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Exactly.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Well, awesome, man. I really appreciate your time today.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: It's been a lot of fun and good luck in the,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: in the sports broadcasting, dude.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: It's, it's a fun thing. And if, you know, those
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: guys got my information up there.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: So if you ever need anything here to help you
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: in any way I can, whether it's radio, I mean,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: I don't have too many connections on the TV side,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: but I always think radio is more fun because you
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: don't have to dress up and you can wear whatever
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: the hell you want.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: But you know, feel free to connect on that, man.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Would love to help you in a way I can
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: and appreciate your time and good luck on a, on
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Friday night. My wife's out of town, so I got
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: football Friday, football Saturday, football Sunday. I'm kind of looking
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: excited to a bachelor weekend. So yeah, it's up for
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: you guys.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: It's up to you guys.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: No pressure to, to get my weekend started on a,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: on a really high note. So good luck on Friday, man.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: And we're rooting for you and appreciate your time today.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: And we'll talk again soon.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Hopefully. All right. Appreciate you, my man.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: We'll talk soon.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: See you, buddy. Adios.