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Inside The Charge: O'Cyrus Torrence talks Unique Pregame Rituals, Anime, His Love of Cats, and more! · Inside the Charge

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into this week's episode of Inside the Charge. Right
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  Speaker 1: guard Osigris Torrence joins us. Torrens talks about year two
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL and why he's better prepared for the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs this time around, how the offensive line as a
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  Speaker 1: whole is playing out of their minds this season. We
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  Speaker 1: also get into the fact that Cybo bought a huge
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  Speaker 1: property this offseason with a lot of acres, what he
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  Speaker 1: plans to do with that space, why he loves fishing,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about cooking, and maybe a cookbook on
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  Speaker 1: the way. All this and more in today's episode. You
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  Speaker 1: don't want to miss it. Cybo, thanks so much for
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  Speaker 1: taking the time to sit down with us. As we
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  Speaker 1: move into the final weeks the season. The playoffs are here.
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  Speaker 1: You played in the postseason in your first year, your
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  Speaker 1: rookie season. What makes you better prepared for the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: in year two.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like just intensity of the playoffs. I gotta
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  Speaker 2: feel for it now after last year, and I just
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  Speaker 2: know a little bit more what to expect. Last year,
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  Speaker 2: I said, it's kind of just going into it expecting
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  Speaker 2: it to be like another game, another intense game, but
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a little bit more than like it's more
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  Speaker 2: energy and more emotions, so it's just more of a
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  Speaker 2: high caliber game. And then each round it just builds up.
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  Speaker 2: So the second round was more since then the first round,
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  Speaker 2: and I pinty is gonna get even more intense as
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  Speaker 2: we go deeper. So it's just give me the experience.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's just the best type of progression
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  Speaker 2: you can get just having a raw experience.
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  Speaker 1: You explain the energy, the emotion surrounding a playoff game.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything that you have to do to manage
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  Speaker 1: that ahead of a game.
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  Speaker 2: I like to keep it the same thing, like to
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  Speaker 2: prepare the same way, set the moment, don't get too big.
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  Speaker 2: But I also like let the emotions like take over
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  Speaker 2: and do what they gotta do or let them flow
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  Speaker 2: through about it that I think about in good situations,
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  Speaker 2: thinking about the best situation. I just let everything happen
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  Speaker 2: in my mind and I just be okay with it.
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  Speaker 2: Toward when I go out there, I can still play
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  Speaker 2: as well as I've been all season, or even better.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like it's definitely more intense and a
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  Speaker 2: lot more to think about, but I try to let
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  Speaker 2: it get to me because it is just another game,
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  Speaker 2: even though the the what you call it, the rewards
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  Speaker 2: a bit bigger, but it's still like the regular game.
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  Speaker 2: So I keep my routine the same, but most of
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  Speaker 2: the stuff a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: More up there.
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  Speaker 1: What does a pregame routine look like for O Cyrus Torments?
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  Speaker 2: Like if it's an away game, I get in like
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  Speaker 2: the second to second to last bus, and I just
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  Speaker 2: get in and I go straight and I walk around
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  Speaker 2: the locker room a little bit. My little fit on,
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  Speaker 2: so I still, you know, kind of feel good a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. I go so well and Jason, they've been
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  Speaker 2: there stretching. I like to set up my little game
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  Speaker 2: they fit every now and then just sew my little range.
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  Speaker 2: But after I do that, I kind of go sit
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  Speaker 2: in my locker organize everything. Everything is the outlready there
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  Speaker 2: organized by like that, like organize a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: I put my gloves and my shoes and socks in
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  Speaker 2: one corner, make somewhere right there for my stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Then I put on right now the out of the corner.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of just kind of just set my mind before,
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  Speaker 2: like what's what's gonna happen. Then after I take my
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  Speaker 2: clothes off, kind of put mother stuff on stretch a
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  Speaker 2: living myself, go down and get stretched by Will and
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  Speaker 2: Jason again. Then kind of just make my way kind
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  Speaker 2: of starts slowly, start to like just it's a locky in,
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  Speaker 2: if that makes sense. Like I don't do too much.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like to overwarm up because then it's like
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  Speaker 2: I get to the game and I burn out a
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  Speaker 2: little bit faster as somebody had to learn from last year,
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  Speaker 2: Like I don't want to go out there and be
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  Speaker 2: sweating and tired my warm mouth and I was like
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  Speaker 2: I got cool down, then I got one back up. Then
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  Speaker 2: it's like my body is like up and down a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. So I kind of keep in mind focused
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  Speaker 2: and just play the game out of my head, play
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  Speaker 2: a few players out, you know, walkind, listen to music
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  Speaker 2: and kind of keep it simple. But once it's that
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  Speaker 2: twenty minutes for the game, kind of go out there
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  Speaker 2: before we go out there as a team. That's why
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  Speaker 2: I like really like lock In and like kind of
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  Speaker 2: you know, flip the switch.
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  Speaker 1: You do something before the game that I think is incredible.
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  Speaker 1: You stop washing your hands a few hours before. Why
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  Speaker 1: do you do that?
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  Speaker 2: Because my freshman year in college, I had to I
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  Speaker 2: was late coming out. I had time because I had
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  Speaker 2: to use the bathroom and I had gloves on, and
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  Speaker 2: then it just IM trying to wash my hands. So
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  Speaker 2: I kind of just went out there with the trainings
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  Speaker 2: who waited on me. Then I ended up having a
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  Speaker 2: good game, Like I finished the rest of the game
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  Speaker 2: of like three or four pancakes. I'm like, hold up,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's something like I keep my hands dirty. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: I play a little bit better. I play a little
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  Speaker 2: bit dirty and it'll grind here. So they ended up
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  Speaker 2: turning into just a mentality of like playing dirty, like
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  Speaker 2: playing grinding, like the type of job I have, what front,
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  Speaker 2: and like you gotta get your hands dirty technically, like
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  Speaker 2: not saying I'm playing like a dirty player or playing
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  Speaker 2: as a like greedy like type of game. So and
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  Speaker 2: then ended up turning into me just not wash my hands,
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  Speaker 2: and then I kind of just started telling a few people.
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  Speaker 2: Then it got out. But now it's like if it's
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  Speaker 2: a home game and it's in the morning, we played
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  Speaker 2: at twelve, I wake up at like eight. I was
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  Speaker 2: showered and won't do everything then, but after that, once
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  Speaker 2: I get to the stadium, I stopped washing my hands.
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  Speaker 3: I'm done.
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  Speaker 2: Like if it's a game a night or something like that,
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  Speaker 2: like a few like a hour before I get on
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  Speaker 2: the bus, I might stop, but if I have to,
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  Speaker 2: I would. But once I get on the bus and
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  Speaker 2: get to the stadium, it's no more of that.
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  Speaker 3: No more.
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  Speaker 2: They clean pretty stuff, likes time.
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  Speaker 3: To get there. They're like, it's this one. I'm here
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  Speaker 3: for us, so I love it.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the pregame fits you have been putting it
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  Speaker 1: on this season sidebo I love the outfits. Is there
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  Speaker 1: one in your mind that you think just hit way
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  Speaker 1: more than the rest? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Probably I had We gon talk about it later. But
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  Speaker 2: I had Animal Dragonmaw's e jackets like a denim jacket,
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  Speaker 2: and I had Ward for the Chiefs game. I believe
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  Speaker 2: it was either that one or like a venom jacket,
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  Speaker 2: but either one, it's like as just a comic book,
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  Speaker 2: like I just liked that, and I like those cause
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  Speaker 2: of material, and then like you don't see them too,
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  Speaker 2: like I don't see nobody within. Its probably either one
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  Speaker 2: of those or the one I wore last week. We
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  Speaker 2: played the pages the first time, the sleeveless one because
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  Speaker 2: it was like almost negative one outside. But I'm here,
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  Speaker 2: no sleeves on like a true buffalo person acting like
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  Speaker 2: I'm not cold, but I'm freezing. But I looked the
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  Speaker 2: good in the pig, so I mean it was worth it.
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  Speaker 2: But probably those two, the one I was a one
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  Speaker 2: e Jaco or the one I will sleep is all
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  Speaker 2: of those two.
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  Speaker 3: My favorite.
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  Speaker 1: What are you listening to? Pregame? What do you have
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  Speaker 1: in the pods?
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  Speaker 2: It ranged from a lot of stuff because something to
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  Speaker 2: a rap, R and B country, little rock and roll,
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  Speaker 2: some little like just electrical music, instruments and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Every now and then anime music might come on. So
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  Speaker 2: it all depends on what I feel when I'm feeling
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  Speaker 2: when I hop in a truck on my way to
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  Speaker 2: the stadium, moll when I get on the bus, it's
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  Speaker 2: all like for me, I don't force the songs. I
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  Speaker 2: just let my body like tell me what they want
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  Speaker 2: to listen today. Who knows what it's gonna pick, but
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  Speaker 2: usually it always gets me ready.
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  Speaker 1: What can we expect for the outfits for the playoffs?
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  Speaker 1: You got some stuff in mind already?
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  Speaker 3: I do. I ain't glad I do. I got. I got.
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  Speaker 3: I got a nice little a.
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  Speaker 2: Little blue, a little blue jean jacket type fit I
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  Speaker 2: got for the first home game. Then after that it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of up in the air. But I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: try to try to look nice to the first playout game.
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  Speaker 2: So put a little something long and not nothing too major.
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  Speaker 3: Though.
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  Speaker 1: Who are some guys who do it up well on
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line when we're talking about game day outfits.
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  Speaker 2: Off of a line, yeah, I'll say, not telling myself,
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  Speaker 2: I say, Alex, I like nice little jit. I like
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  Speaker 2: his little style because it ain't nothing crazy. But if
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  Speaker 2: it's him and it's like, it's just it's nice, it's
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  Speaker 2: like you just you can look tell us somebody know
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  Speaker 2: how to like dress today to what they like, and
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  Speaker 2: that's all I like to try to do when I
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  Speaker 2: fit put my fists on. So see somebody that's doing
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  Speaker 2: all I respected him at Just you never know what
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  Speaker 2: he gonna come in wearing, so it's always something wow,
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  Speaker 2: I thinking.
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  Speaker 1: Or not wearing. I should say, maybe we'll see a
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  Speaker 1: shirtless dion.
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  Speaker 2: For the plan you might wear. Might just wear a
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  Speaker 2: skin for your shirt. You never know so, or you
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  Speaker 2: might wear it. You have to snow Motorsports one fit.
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  Speaker 2: I like that with the with the race car helm
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  Speaker 2: and stuff. I like that way you or so I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you never know what young.
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  Speaker 1: So it's our interestent you guys as a group, the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line has been playing out of their minds this season.
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  Speaker 1: You have allowed fourteen sacks on Josh Allen. That is
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  Speaker 1: a league low. Last year, you guys had a league
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  Speaker 1: glow twenty four sacks. You allow ten less this season.
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  Speaker 1: How have you been able to play at such a
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  Speaker 1: high level this year?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I I I know it's from just our communication
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  Speaker 2: and how we approached it. They one and OTAs, Like
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  Speaker 2: just from how we started communicating, how much better it
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  Speaker 2: got it. Like I feel like us coming in knowing
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  Speaker 2: like deals gonna be just started, like Dave, and like
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  Speaker 2: just coming in knowing who's the starting like group was,
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  Speaker 2: it was easy for us to be able to come
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  Speaker 2: in and not worry about that part of the season.
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  Speaker 2: We could like, oh, who's gonna start and world that
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  Speaker 2: we just knew, like we just go stay to communicating,
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  Speaker 2: like straight to the part we wanna fix on. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like that's what was able to do this year.
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  Speaker 2: We came in we already knew what our problems was
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  Speaker 2: last year, was able to just get straight to fixing
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  Speaker 2: on the other than trying to find our new pieces
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  Speaker 2: to put in a puzzle. So I felt like that
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  Speaker 2: part like into us getting a fall camp and pricing
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  Speaker 2: against the defense, like how a good our defense it.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like that's definitely a big part like D
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  Speaker 2: line we go against for me, like the type of
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  Speaker 2: style D line play. I don't like to play that style,
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  Speaker 2: like the fast jetting of feel quick type guys. It's
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  Speaker 2: not I prefer playing more bigger, stronger type guys because
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  Speaker 2: that's just more like that's what I like to block personally,
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  Speaker 2: So going to exact that type of defense definitely feel
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  Speaker 2: like help me get better personally, like in my sense
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  Speaker 2: of coming off the ball. And I feel like they
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  Speaker 2: helped us like as a whole, like communicate well because
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  Speaker 2: coaching and holes in the back and for all camp,
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  Speaker 2: calling certain lists and stuff like that that you want.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like that part definitely helped us out.
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  Speaker 2: And once we get on the feel, it's like we
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  Speaker 2: know how Josh play from playing with him for so
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  Speaker 2: long after two years, so you just kind of get
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  Speaker 2: a feel for how to block the guy in front
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  Speaker 2: of you.
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  Speaker 3: For a quarter back's able to move in any.
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  Speaker 1: Moment, Communicating well has been a big part of the
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  Speaker 1: play on the season this year, what has that communication
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  Speaker 1: looked like?
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  Speaker 2: It's like Connor talking to Joss, Josh talking to us.
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  Speaker 2: We letting Josh know what we see, and it's just
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  Speaker 2: like a whole like oorchrustrated, like like operation if if
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  Speaker 2: that makes sense, Like we're talking to the tight ends,
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  Speaker 2: tightens talking to us. So like everybody communicating. You see
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  Speaker 2: the receivers doing the hand size even though they're not
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  Speaker 2: able to verbally communicate this year, signaling the sizes, running positions,
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  Speaker 2: and then it just makes everything go smoother. And once
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  Speaker 2: everybody's on the same page, I feel like the only
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  Speaker 2: person that can.
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  Speaker 3: Stop is us.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to keeping the pocket completely clean for your
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in Josh Allen, you guys have done a great
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  Speaker 1: job of opening up the holes for the running backs.
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  Speaker 1: James Cook leads the NFL in rushing touchdowns. Right now
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  Speaker 1: we're down the street. Was that the running backs started
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  Speaker 1: to go into offensive line meetings this season and that
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  Speaker 1: has been a big part of why this rushing offense
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  Speaker 1: has come alive. Why did the running backs and why
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  Speaker 1: did you guys want that to come together into one meeting.
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  Speaker 2: Because we're running back O line like this a position,
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  Speaker 2: like we depend on each other, like as good as
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  Speaker 2: he do make we gotta be doing good. And as
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  Speaker 2: good as we're doing it, you gotta.
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  Speaker 3: Be doing good.
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  Speaker 2: So when when our old line coast talked us, like
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  Speaker 2: when he's telling us stuff, and it was more so
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  Speaker 2: like we realized, like, all right, if we fix this
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  Speaker 2: and a running back don't know we fixed it, is
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  Speaker 2: it really fixed? Like the running back can make it
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  Speaker 2: right cut, but because I missed my block, he thinks
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  Speaker 2: right cut, but it's not because I missed our block.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like being on the same page is something
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  Speaker 2: that we needed to do. So that's kind of where
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  Speaker 2: it started at. Because a lot of places you will
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  Speaker 2: see like the running back or cut the ball to
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  Speaker 2: Earlan and it's a good cut, but he's not supposed
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  Speaker 2: to do it because I got beat. But he only
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: did it because I got beat. So we need to
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: let him know, like you did it right there, but
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  Speaker 2: the whole supposed to be out here. So it's just
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  Speaker 2: us letting each other know. Our me being on the
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  Speaker 2: block and he make the tackle, but it's like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: runner back, we're supposed to go there. He's supposed to
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  Speaker 2: take one step there, cut here. It's a small, small
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  Speaker 2: like critique, little things that that like can make a
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  Speaker 2: break a good run game. I honestly believe so. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like when we had games where we rushed a
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  Speaker 2: lot and had good games, we met as a as
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  Speaker 2: a group. Games we didn't rush our best. I noticed,
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  Speaker 2: like we didn't meet like that week. So it's like
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  Speaker 2: it happed like twice, two or three times this year
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  Speaker 2: we didn't meet and we may have won a game,
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  Speaker 2: but our rushing wasn't it's good, and it's like, what's
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  Speaker 2: going on the coast, Like we didn't beat this offense.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking, like it can't be just that. But as
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  Speaker 2: the season going, we met with them, we keep meeting
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  Speaker 2: when we have good games up to meeting with him
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  Speaker 2: is like maybe it's we just got to keep staying
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  Speaker 2: on the same page. And it's honestly just a something.
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  Speaker 1: The playoffs are here Week eighteen, the final week of
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  Speaker 1: the season. Nobody sidebo is playing at one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: right now. It's just it doesn't happen in the league
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  Speaker 1: when it's this long of a season. How are you
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  Speaker 1: guys healthy and playing your best right now?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's because of like the coaches and
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  Speaker 2: like the people we have here, Like coach understands the
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  Speaker 2: part of the season we in, so I feel like
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  Speaker 2: he been kind of helping us with practice, Like this
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  Speaker 2: week practice wasn't too bad and we don't hit as much.
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  Speaker 2: Like we learn how to practice with each other, even
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  Speaker 2: though like some days last week we have passed but
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  Speaker 2: as most so we have passed on they ended in
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  Speaker 2: one team period that we take them off our like
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  Speaker 2: we keep passing on to our full time. But we're
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  Speaker 2: pacing with each other. We're not hitting too hard, and
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  Speaker 2: I feel like us offensive line wise, Coach Crone talk
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  Speaker 2: about yesterday, like we know how to play with each other,
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  Speaker 2: so we don't finish guys on each other's ankles and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that. We place smart, like you play for
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  Speaker 2: your teammates and it's like kind of not playing Selvis
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  Speaker 2: because it is offense on line. You want to pancake somebody,
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  Speaker 2: but a lot of times that can cost the teammates
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  Speaker 2: ain't gole honestly, So you see stuff like that in
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  Speaker 2: that game, we just kind of learned how to play
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  Speaker 2: with each other. I feel like that's definitely helped us
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  Speaker 2: stay like kind of healthy for the most part. And
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  Speaker 2: just also like I feel like everybody here takes seriously
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  Speaker 2: like the extra time we get, like letting off practices,
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  Speaker 2: we go home and like we like recover, we sleep,
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like that's been showing because we have
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  Speaker 2: been more healthy I think this year than last year.
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  Speaker 2: But it's also have a like working hand with how
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  Speaker 2: many PPC on training after practice, Like I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 2: it still guys in that right now working out after
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  Speaker 2: we've been done with practice.
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  Speaker 3: Almost an hour.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like that part of it has definitely
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  Speaker 2: like shown with us being able to stay like had
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: not too many crazy bat isgers.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: How many hours of sleep are you trying to get
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: every night?
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: I try to.
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: Get at least eight nice I get like six or seven, Yeah,
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: but when I get eight, I'd be feeling like I
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: always get eight. On game days like night for the game,
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: especially if it's a twelve flock game, have to get
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: at least eight because I know, like offind of burnt
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: out the energy real fast. So I try to get
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: eight on those days, but for the most time, I
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: get six or seven.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: You spoke about the offensive line working together, and in
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: working together, you have to know what is everybody's strengths.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Your strength is that you're six ' five, you're three
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: point thirty. You're a big offensive lineman, but you have
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: such light feet, you move so quickly. How have you
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: been able to grow in your second year in this league?
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: I feel like I have to learn how to I
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: want to say, switch it up, but get out of
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: you said, get out of runt ruts when I get
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: in on Like happened after the bye week World, it
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: was like, just take some of the past, so you
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: do the same thing some of the times, you get
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: so used to it you stop taking the details of
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: it seriously and to start throwing off a little bit.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: And for me, it's more so like being able to
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: refocus when I notice my set stuff kind of fall
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: off a little bit after two games, I'm not sitting
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: as good as I would four games before. So to
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: kind of refocus, I just look at some old fem
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: and kind of just like to myself again and kind
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: of go back to the basics so I can't That's
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: something I learned to do this year because last year
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: I kind of just kind of just kept my head
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: down and kept pushing, even though I hitting the riky
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: wall back to Batten just trying to go out there
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: and play the best I can.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: On Saturday, I had Mitch, I had these older guys.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: I'm playing around, sticking us to everybody switches like I'm
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: just trying to drown. But more so now it's like
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: I can just relax and focus and keep the main
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: thing the main thing mentally, because physically, like everybody, but
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: I didn't gonna feel the same.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: I think mentally as well.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: You separate yourself in this part of the season, So mentally,
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm definitely like in a better area
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: of space than was last year.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Is there a game you like to go back to
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: when you like to watch tape of yourself.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Getting the cheese game and the cheese game the Lions
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: in Houston.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: You guys played so well in those games. I mean,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: those were two huge games. This team is the first
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: team in NFL history to beat two fourteen win teams
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: in the in the season. You beat the fifth teen
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: to one Chiefs, you beat the fourteen and two Lions,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: And the rushing offense looks great, the passing offense looks great.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: A lot of that is because if you guys working
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: together as a unit, why does your quarterback Josh Allen
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: deserve to be this year's MVP.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: I feel like we've been hunted since like week week eight,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: week nine, something like that. After before our bye week,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: he was breaking our record every week, Like every time
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: I get on Instagram, it's like, oh, Josh had the
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: first q BE to do this in the last forty years.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: He did the first few BE to do this in
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: the last NFL start since the Super Bowl era. So
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: it's like I understand, like there's a bunch of great
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: guys around the league, but I mean, I'm definitely gonna
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: be buyas towards my guy. But also just looking at
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: the stats and looking at the teams we played and
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: walking in I noticed like our winning right, like we
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: loved the Besides the two games we lost, it's like
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: one other game we only scored less than thirty points.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Other games we scored at least thirty points, like all
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: our games. And it's like we're not just throwing it,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: just throwing about like you're running it quarterback running it.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Like everything's moving in most I like Yo's at the
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: center of audit and I feel like somebody putting up
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: mon numbers like that. You can't help but to help yourself,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: but to argue to your last breath about why he
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: used to be at VP. And that's why I think
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: you should be, because I mean, josh All is like QBN,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: he's just playing at a high level. Since the season
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: started this.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Year, this unit has been playing at such a high level.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: But last year the offensive line also played so well.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: And if you try to connect the dots, a lot
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: of the dots go to your position. Coach and Aaron Kromer,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: what makes him so capable of elevating the play of
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: so many young men because I feel like he's.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: The best coach all these one of the best coaches
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I've been around to figure a player out so fast
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: and then let them play to their strength and just
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: coach them up off there. And not to knock anyway
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: any other coach coach, but that way I feel like
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: just resonates better with a lot of guys, especially now
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: in the league towards you got so many different egos,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: like some guys here with kids, some guys not, some
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: guys been at the top of the league, Guys being
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: like kind of low, being hurt and like being don
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: and out. So it's like being able to figure a
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: player out and see what's the best way to get
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: through to him and let them block how he wants
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: to block. I think it's definitely like a confidence thing
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: that the coach give to the player. They help them
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: go out there and play your best. Because if you're
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: going out there, you're playing for your coaches, that's playing
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: for you. You definitely gona play way you're harder. And
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I think that's that's like some of the success to
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: me because I don't go out there, I don't just
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: play for myself, laving the guys on the side of
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: me and my coach, my coaches. So I feel like
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: when you get somebody like that you playing for, it's
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: gonna make you elevent or game to a level that
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: you probably don't think you know. So I think there's
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: definitely a reason why he's one of the best coaches
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: that have been around.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's been so fun to watch this group this season.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I want to move into something that you would love
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: to do in your free time. It's watching anime. Do
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: you have a favorite show right now? Are there any
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: shows that you always go back to?
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I got two shows I'm always putting on to like
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: one I put on to go to sleep at night
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: time and when I have to walk around is called
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Bleach and Hunter Hunter. I watched Bleach a night just
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: to go to see because like the the music and
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: the show just kind of relaxing, and so then it's
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: just a nice little show. And Honahn is just one
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: of my It's one of the shows I started watching
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: outside like the main like anime shows that I grew
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: up with, like Dragon, bon Z, le Nato, and I
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: was like one of the first shows that I branched
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: out into that open me up to like, oh, it's
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: all the good shows here too, it's not just the
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: same ones that I knew. So I think those two
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: of my favorite, and I mean I'm just into watching
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: all different types of them now. Honestly, I've been watching
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: them since middle school.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: So wow, who else on the team can match your
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: level of love for anime?
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: I definitely think probably Greg Russo, He's definitely one of them. Honestly,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: it's a lot of d linens that watch it, the
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: defensive guys in you, but I know it's more D
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: linemen than watching the offensive linement, Like there's no I
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: think maybe one of the offensive linement that watch it
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: with me.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: I think Big Mike. Yeah, and that's it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: So it's like it's more of a thing for defensive players.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: It's crazy to me, but I think more less a
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: lot of the guys on defense that like it. But
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I definitely think greg Or Big Mike probably be one
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: of the guys that know I love it just as
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: much as I do.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Probably You've got a beautiful house on fourteen acres. This
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: is something you bought in the off season last year.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: What are you gonna do with fourteen acres?
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna just sit out there and watch the sunset everything. Oh,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I got a pun out there, like the fishing, and
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: it's just relaxing just being out there. And whether people
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: know it or not, Buffalo and the springing in the
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: summer is perfect, Like it's not too hot, it's not humid,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: the wind's blowing. It's like I could sit out there
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: and just take a nap in the sun and I
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: wake up sweating ring a pile of ate up by
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: mosquitos like I would be back home.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: So I definitely enjoyed.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: And later on in the year, I'm gonna try to
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: start these get a four or something so I can
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: start riding around aufter to be able to see some
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: of the more laying I got. But I mean, right now,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I'm just enjoying a view and or now snow if
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: we're so that looks even that looks good too, So
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. Is c see your cat fishing with
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you in this pond?
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: No, no, she don't.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I took a let her go outside a little bit,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: and she's stand around and just run around and just
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: look at me like, wow, I'm out here.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: So I just leave it inside the doorcast she's in.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: She'll go outside, but she too, she too jumping to
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: stay out there too long, so she just like staying sidewhich.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I don't, man, that's less stuff I gotta clean up.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: So you love cats so much, you've got fourteen fifteen acres,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I think maybe this needs to become like a sanctuary
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: for cats who need to be adopted, or just straight catside.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I definitely stop putting out bows of food in my
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: front yard, just straight casts to come out there. And
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I think if I do that, it'll be more deer
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: and stuff going to eat the food right now and
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: cast But that is a good idea. Just buy a
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: few catses put them outside have them like outside the house,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: having like outside cats.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: I mean I wouldn't.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I'm looking down the road and I'm just thinking, like,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you're gonna you've got this pond, you got some cats outside?
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you get some chickens like cyba on a farm.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: That's a good I definite right there down I do
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: what I did, like grew up around like forematas and
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: stuff like that. So having like chickens like cow something
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: like that on land, I always miss something kind of
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: look you wanted to do. It's just all about getting
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: it started.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: But we got the space.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: I got the space. Now I just gotta get it
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: in motion.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Why not?
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: You also love to cook? Have we tried out any
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: new recipes this season?
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Any new recipes?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Mmm?
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Nothing?
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: You just perfecting the stuff. I already know how to make,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: like already how to make gumbo. But I made something
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: for Thanksgiving and made it better than I had before.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I made some Raban's rice for Christmas.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: What's the secret ingredients here? Why are they better than
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: you've ever made them before? I can't reveal.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: It's the process, and is it not said that it's
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: not necessarily what I put in. It is how I
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: put it together that makes sense, so I can explain it,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: but it's still might go over.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Your head, so probably will go over mine.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Not necessarily just anybody in general, because they won't get it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: You gotta you gotta prep the food instead of just
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: make it a real self understand But yeah.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I understand that. Well I'm not a real chef, so
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: maybe I don't fully understand that. But I know, I
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: know what you're saying.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so I mean, but I love can just
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: look up different recipes. But like it's like when I
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: get to this part of the season, I just go
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: ahead cook what I know that's good instead of just freestyling.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: But whenever it als is coming around, I get time,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: and oh see, I'm definitely gonna open back up towards
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: just freestyling, making stuff, trying stuff out, adding new stuff
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: to my recipes because.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: I want to.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to make a small little cookbook for
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: next Christmas and it try to get it printed out
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: and then and like pass around the guys up in
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: here just to see what they're want to do, Like
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: make it like what ten to fifteen pages of like
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: stuff I cook like every week, the simple meals and
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: then see how it does and then trying to go
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: from there.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: But I love Yeah, just some cookbook. Everybody would love it. Yeah, okay,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: one last question for you. This team is at a
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: great point right now, this group that has come together
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. You talk to players and
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: they say, the locker room is tight, we're having a
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: great time, We're having a lot of fun. It's just
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: different this season. What do you think this group is
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: capable of as we head into the playoffs.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Sidebo, I think we're capable of doing anything, and we
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: all collectively want to do and put our mind to,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: whether that's being making it all the way and winning
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: it or doing this. And then then some I feel
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: like no matter what it is, and I think we
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: all know what it is we want. Yeah, so we
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: all just kind of one mind, one go focus on
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: going to that and can't not to stop us with us.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: We're ch heering for you. We can't wait. It's gonna
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: be so fun to watch y'all as the postseason begins.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: I'm glad hey y'all for having me on.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Of course, of course, all right, stay tuned for another
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: episode of Inside the Charge coming soon.