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Travis Etienne Jr. On Leveling Up in Year 3, Legacy in the League | The O-Zone Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Soon.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer John Oser.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, welcome to this week's Ozone podcast, and now
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  Speaker 3: we are joined by Jaguars running back Travis etn Junior.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta say I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Excited about this because his story is fascinating. The way
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  Speaker 3: he came into the league, what he went through early
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  Speaker 3: in his career, and where he is now. It's a
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  Speaker 3: pretty remarkable ascension, fulfilling of his potential, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: Travis, we appreciate you join us.
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  Speaker 1: I just so I appreciate you having me.
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  Speaker 3: And you heard what I just said, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's interesting. Does it feel like year three to you?
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  Speaker 2: In a way?
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  Speaker 3: It feels like you've been around for a while and
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  Speaker 3: yet not playing the rookie year?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not? I mean, how does it feel? Do you
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  Speaker 2: feel like a year three? Vet?
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  Speaker 1: Ah?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, so just Mo definitely, I feel like a year
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  Speaker 4: three for me just coming in with Trevor, uh, just
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  Speaker 4: kind of seeing them growing pains that we had here
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  Speaker 4: throughout Jackson, just seeing things develop.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely feeling like year three.
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  Speaker 3: What does that mean to you to have been when
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  Speaker 3: you came in? Everybody talks about being a part of
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  Speaker 3: something special and growing. What does it mean to you
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  Speaker 3: to be sort of fulfilling that goal if you will?
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  Speaker 4: I just mean how to just to keep the main
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  Speaker 4: thing the main thing? And uh, just keep just stay
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  Speaker 4: focused on the right things because what we're doing is
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  Speaker 4: clearly been working, and don't change who we are. Just
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  Speaker 4: keep keep working, keep pushing, and keep striving for greatness
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  Speaker 4: and then good things are going to come from that. Now.
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  Speaker 3: I got to ask you when you mentioned Trevor, one
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  Speaker 3: of the things I was thinking and uh, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: preparing for this interview. You came in and it seemed
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  Speaker 3: like the first time anybody talked to you, first question
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  Speaker 3: is always about Trevor his first round draft pick.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was the number one draft.
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  Speaker 3: Pick, but that never seemed to bother you in terms
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  Speaker 3: of always being asked about him. Uh, I guess did
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  Speaker 3: it everybody? And if not?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 4: I like to fight under the radar and I feel
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  Speaker 4: like Trevor gives me that, He gives me the ability
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  Speaker 4: to fight under the radar and just kind of stayed
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  Speaker 4: in myself. I feel like I'm like just a very cool,
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  Speaker 4: conflicted guy just staying myself for you, just coming here,
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  Speaker 4: and all about business end of the day, and I
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  Speaker 4: feel like I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: To play football.
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  Speaker 4: All the media and all the other stuff that just
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  Speaker 4: comes to me being a great player, and I understand that.
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  Speaker 4: But if I can throw something on Trevor the in
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  Speaker 4: the day and let him do it, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a real thing.
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  Speaker 3: I get the impression I talked to you in the
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  Speaker 3: locker room a lot, as the media do done it here,
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  Speaker 3: but doing this kind of a thing, you do it
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  Speaker 3: because you know the fans sort of want to get
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  Speaker 3: to know you a little bit. But you could do
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  Speaker 3: without it in the end, couldn't you?
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  Speaker 1: Most definitely?
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  Speaker 4: Most definitely, I'm just here to play football and I
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  Speaker 4: win football games and do my job and go home
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  Speaker 4: and do with my family.
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  Speaker 3: How often in Jacksonville now after being here a while,
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  Speaker 3: do you get approached a lot? Uh your relationship with fans?
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  Speaker 3: How do you handle that? Because that can sometimes not
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  Speaker 3: be easy.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, just honestly, we're used to that. Just coming
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  Speaker 4: from Clemson, we won national championship. We were just winning
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  Speaker 4: all the time. So I feel like there it was
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  Speaker 4: crazy because of the fan base, because of all the
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  Speaker 4: one that we have been doing. But just hearing Jack
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  Speaker 4: just us changing the culture. It's kind of becoming the same.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, it's kind of becoming a norm like we're
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  Speaker 4: used to that. We used to get people talking on us,
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  Speaker 4: want to take pictures and everything, and that's kind of
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  Speaker 4: getting back to that the more we win.
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  Speaker 3: Plus in college, you got to go to class and
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  Speaker 3: people see you all the time, you know, So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's harder. I would assume it's harder to get the
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  Speaker 3: privacy even on the days you want it in college.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and college was it was definitely the most.
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  Speaker 4: It was harder because, like you said, I gotta go
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  Speaker 4: to class, I gotta be outside. But now I'm here
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  Speaker 4: with the team and the facility, and now when I
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  Speaker 4: get out of here, I pretty much as go home.
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  Speaker 4: I don't really much go outside. Uh it's like a
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  Speaker 4: grocery shopping and stuff like that. And then I'll get approached,
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  Speaker 4: but there's nothing, nothing too major.
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  Speaker 2: I got you.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's looking back a little bit, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: wondering if with perspective. A year and a half later,
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  Speaker 3: I asked about this last time you were on it,
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  Speaker 3: how difficult was that rookie season to get through? Now
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  Speaker 3: that you look back, on it, because that's a brutal
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  Speaker 3: thing to have to go through for people. I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: missing your rookie season with a foot injury. Any perspective
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  Speaker 3: on how that maybe helped you looking back on it
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  Speaker 3: a year and a half later.
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  Speaker 4: I want to say it helped me just by understanding
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  Speaker 4: how how the game can be taken away from you
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  Speaker 4: and how that we don't have like this is the
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  Speaker 4: this is the end. This is it for me at
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  Speaker 4: the NFL, is like you reached the way you wanted
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  Speaker 4: to reach and what you've always wanted, y was always
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  Speaker 4: wanted and just knowing that this is the last step
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  Speaker 4: and I just understand that it can be taken away
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  Speaker 4: from you. So now I understand that I have to
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  Speaker 4: just be grateful every opportunity I have on that field,
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  Speaker 4: because at the end of the day, andy can injury
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  Speaker 4: can happen, sure, and I've been through that, and I
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  Speaker 4: feel like the thing that hurt me the most of
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  Speaker 4: my rookie season with just not been on the field,
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  Speaker 4: just having to come here and watch them play and
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  Speaker 4: me knowing that I can be able to help them
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  Speaker 4: win football games. I feel like that was the hardest
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  Speaker 4: thing for me, just having to sit back and just
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  Speaker 4: watch because there's nothing gonna do right, no, right, but.
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  Speaker 2: Separate from it.
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  Speaker 3: Right, That's always difficult because you're not quite in that
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  Speaker 3: camaraderie that you used to.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, but I was here every day at
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  Speaker 4: the facility. I had to come in here for treatments
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  Speaker 4: and everything. So it was like I know, I said,
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  Speaker 4: like one time, it was like having a birthday party
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  Speaker 4: and not being able to enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: The birthday cake. So just like I was here every day.
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  Speaker 4: Doing everything with him and not being able to play
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  Speaker 4: in the games.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, which was tough for me. No carred at the end.
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  Speaker 3: So that's it. That's brutal. Talk to me about this season.
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  Speaker 3: Are you a Are you a different runner now than
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  Speaker 3: you were when you came into the league.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly know Okay, honestly no, I'm really not. I'm really
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  Speaker 4: this same guy I've been. It's just I feel like
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  Speaker 4: I just have a better understanding that the scheme and
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  Speaker 4: I have a better understanding of the NFL, understanding that
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going.
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  Speaker 1: To be every guy to the sideline.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Now you can watch like my high school clips,
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  Speaker 4: my college clips, where just I could be anybody to
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  Speaker 4: where now it's really about leverage and understanding that everyone's fast,
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  Speaker 4: uh and just and just like I would say standing
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  Speaker 4: between the tackles, being more vertical.
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  Speaker 1: I can't say I've.
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  Speaker 4: Got much better this year, been a more vertical runner
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  Speaker 4: to where in college I'm looking for that home run
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  Speaker 4: every time. Sure to right now, I understand the first
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  Speaker 4: down is important. I understand that their four yards are
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  Speaker 4: very important. And for me that was the biggest thing,
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  Speaker 4: understanding that four yards is a good run. I feel
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  Speaker 4: like I struggled with that for a long time. This
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  Speaker 4: is last season. I just couldn't kind of ingrain it
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  Speaker 4: in my head that four yards is a great run,
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  Speaker 4: but just understanding that four yards is a good run
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  Speaker 4: to keep the change moving and just wear the defense
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  Speaker 4: down and things are going to work out for you.
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  Speaker 2: How do you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, I've obviously never played running back. How do you
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  Speaker 3: incorporate that kind of thinking into your game? And I
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  Speaker 3: guess what I'm getting at is everything happens so fast,
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  Speaker 3: meaning you can say in August that I want to
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  Speaker 3: run a certain way, and then when it's live, I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure instincts take over. Was it difficult to sort of
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  Speaker 3: get that of Okay, I've got to do this.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to try it.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to have this be what my instinct is.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, I hear what you're saying.
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  Speaker 4: But I just feel it was very easy for me
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  Speaker 4: because I can running back all my life, and I
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  Speaker 4: feel like I was very I'm very blessed with the
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  Speaker 4: skills that I have to be able to run a
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  Speaker 4: ball very well. And for me, it was just uh,
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  Speaker 4: just repetition, just practice, just I fel like for me,
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  Speaker 4: it was like the smallest thing, Like it was just
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  Speaker 4: my steps, like my initial stuff I used to like
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  Speaker 4: instead of instead of having my shoulder square, my shows
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  Speaker 4: will be turned. So it was forced me not to
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  Speaker 4: be able to see the whole field. It was just
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  Speaker 4: forcing me to be able to see the right side
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  Speaker 4: of the field. So now with my show the square,
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  Speaker 4: I'm able.
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  Speaker 2: To see easier to cut back because you can easier,
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  Speaker 2: I can.
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  Speaker 4: See the whole field, I can see the a gape,
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  Speaker 4: I can see the cut back and see everything. So
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  Speaker 4: for me, it was just getting the show the square,
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  Speaker 4: and now the defender don't have a tip on where
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go with either, so now it's for me,
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  Speaker 4: I still to get better at pressing a line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 4: like just keeping the defender the air for a second.
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  Speaker 4: And but other than that, it was really just the
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  Speaker 4: smallest thing was my steps.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, My guess is you're selling yourself short. You probably
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  Speaker 3: had to work harder at that.
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  Speaker 2: Then you're letting on.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean it was really just, honestly, just coach
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  Speaker 4: prominently made me do steps every day. Was here voluntaris,
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  Speaker 4: he was steps. It was steps, step steps, And even
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  Speaker 4: when I'll go home, I was just in a marriage
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  Speaker 4: is working on the steps so that way, like you said,
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  Speaker 4: when now I'm in the game, like it is second
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  Speaker 4: nature because I did those steps so many now I'm
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  Speaker 4: not reverting back.
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  Speaker 2: To got you.
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  Speaker 4: My old stells are what I become accustomed to in
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  Speaker 4: the past. Now like I done so much repetition on
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  Speaker 4: it now that is what I'm used to.
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  Speaker 3: Right. It's not always an easy thing to do, accepting
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  Speaker 3: that you need to do something because what got you here,
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  Speaker 3: it's not going to keep me here?
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  Speaker 2: Right, got you in the NFL?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I understand, Like my rookie season I have
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  Speaker 4: when I'm a rookad season, my second year I had
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  Speaker 4: twelve hundred yards, but just me knowing me, I know
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  Speaker 4: I left four hundred and five hundred yards out there
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  Speaker 4: just because of me not having my shoulder square or
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  Speaker 4: me predetermined things.
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  Speaker 3: Right. There's been so much talk and it was interesting
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  Speaker 3: to hear you talk about a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: There's been so much talk about the wear and tear,
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  Speaker 3: the carries, et cetera. And your quote was hilarious. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: that's why I play football, meaning you want the opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a tough thing to balance knowing that you
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  Speaker 3: know you don't want to get X number of carries,
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  Speaker 3: but you want the opportunities as well.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, nah, not for me. I just feel like
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  Speaker 4: I'm ready anytime my number is called. And I also
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  Speaker 4: understand that that football. I'm probably doing football around twenty eight,
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  Speaker 4: twenty nine, Like, okay, right, I don't have much of
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  Speaker 4: a life in the life in football. I feel like,
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  Speaker 4: like I said earlier, I got to the point in
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  Speaker 4: my career where I wanted to be all my life.
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  Speaker 4: So why would I try to hold myself back?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 2: I got you.
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  Speaker 4: So it's like I want to go out there and
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: be my best stuff that I can be put great
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  Speaker 4: film each and every week so that one day maybe
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: talk about me like they talk about Fred Taylor, Maurice Jones,
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  Speaker 4: Drew those guys just guys you never thought about, Warning
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  Speaker 4: tear like old school running backs who was just out
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  Speaker 4: there playing to win football games and just be the
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  Speaker 4: best way that they can be. And when it's all
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  Speaker 4: said and done, let the chips fall away.
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  Speaker 2: They may do you Ever are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: You?
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  Speaker 2: Talk to Fred about this? Sometimes?
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  Speaker 3: Ever surprise yourself, like when you're watching film, you God,
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  Speaker 3: I like, it's such an instinctive position. Had there been
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  Speaker 3: plays like that where you were like, man, that was
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't have thought that I had to just do it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh No, not really, not really.
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  Speaker 4: I mean because I've been watching film with myself my
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  Speaker 4: whole my whole life, I do. I think it is
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  Speaker 4: like just a really giving me comfort to see that
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing the same things I've done all.
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  Speaker 1: My gotch all my life.
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  Speaker 4: That it translates because it translates to the next level,
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  Speaker 4: and that gives me confidence to understand I'm hitting the
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  Speaker 4: right direction, and that's just so much more for me
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  Speaker 4: to tap into. So I have to stay focused, keep
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  Speaker 4: working A week in the week out to get better
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  Speaker 4: because at the end of the day, it's just football,
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  Speaker 4: and like you said, it's very instinct the position, and
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  Speaker 4: I just have to keep building my tub box so
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  Speaker 4: whenever I'm in positions that I'm able to react with
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  Speaker 4: my best move at that time.
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  Speaker 3: Gotcha got a quoto and to ask you about And
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  Speaker 3: it was last week before the bye when you were
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  Speaker 3: talking to media, you said you never really understood the
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  Speaker 3: instinct to play defense because that was never what you
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  Speaker 3: wanted to do. You always wanted to be the guys score.
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  Speaker 3: I used to talk about that a little bit. You
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  Speaker 3: never played defense growing up, never had any desire to
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  Speaker 3: do it now.
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  Speaker 1: So I actually played defense.
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  Speaker 4: I played free safety, but I was the guy you'll
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  Speaker 4: put in like thirty long, Okay, I just want to
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  Speaker 4: go in there and pick the ball, like just kind
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: of be a ball. I had like two picks in
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  Speaker 4: high school. I had my first ever playing in high
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  Speaker 4: school was a pick six.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, gotta pick six. So but the first touchdown in
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: high school was a pick six. No, no, not first touchdown, okay,
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  Speaker 3: the first because I wasn't a lot of touchdowns before that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I wasn't going on defense if I had to
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  Speaker 4: go in there and just try to like fiel An
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  Speaker 4: eight guy, I don't understand that.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 4: I do understand it for some guys, but for me,
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  Speaker 4: I just always kind of I just always knew I
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  Speaker 4: was specially with the ball in my hands. I just
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: love running away from guys. And I feel like just
• 12:41
  Speaker 4: as a little kid growing up, we used to play
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: football on the field, like like throw them up, bust
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  Speaker 4: him up. It's just one man versus everybody. And I
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  Speaker 4: feel like that really kind of shaped my running style
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  Speaker 4: and just what I want to do.
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  Speaker 1: And the guys was always bigger than me. I never
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  Speaker 1: really been like a huge guy.
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  Speaker 4: So I was always good at running away from people
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  Speaker 4: and I just kind of stuck with that and got.
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  Speaker 2: Me this far in the seventies.
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  Speaker 3: Believe it or not, they call that tackle loco. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know why I played it and unsurprised it was
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: not very good at it. So and the final question,
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  Speaker 3: I think the story is right last year when you
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: had some fumbling issues, did your mom actually talk to
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  Speaker 3: you about that? No?
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  Speaker 4: Not so my mom she told me. She told me
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  Speaker 4: she say, don't need to come out there and hold
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  Speaker 4: the ball for you. Did I not teach you how
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  Speaker 4: to fight.
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  Speaker 2: I got you.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it wasn't really funny. The problem. It
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  Speaker 1: was just me just trying to do too much. Not like.
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  Speaker 4: We got a fifteen ways and I'm in the middle
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  Speaker 4: of three guys and trying to use a stiff form
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: or a big defensive tackle.
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  Speaker 2: Which again, remember you're in the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, like in college, I can do that and get
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: away with that, but here in the league, like those
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: guys worked too hard to their job. They they focused
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: on punching ball away. So just kind of understanding that,
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: like just put two hands on your ball and he's
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: going to hit you, but you might bounce forward for
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: three more yards. Just understanding that the ball is the
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  Speaker 4: most important thing. Got you and you don't.
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  Speaker 1: Get the ball away, that they can't win.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The turnover the turnover.
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  Speaker 4: Margins here in the league is very different and we
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: have to use that to our advantage.
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  Speaker 3: So his mom uh a constant source of I guess
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: advice and motivation on that front.
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  Speaker 4: Most definitely, I feel like last year she really played
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: a big role for me, just uh, just for me
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: it being that first year back from the list. Frank,
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: I feel like she kind of just because she's been
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: watching me playing my whole life, So she kind of
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: knew when I got back to myself to feeling see.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: It, she can see it.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: And she just uh and she was talking about every
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: game and be like, just trusted a little more. Just
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: just you're getting back there. You made a great cut,
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: but continues are just trusting it and uh pushed forward
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: and uh and if and if she sees me slacking,
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: she's definitely going to give me something for it.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: She's definite gonna let me know.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: So Bernie has a partner on that front. Got you
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: When did she know you were back player a game?
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: It was a Giants game, okay, when I think I
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: actually had squarter touchdowns. Then I came back in red zone,
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: I mean fumbled the ball away unfortunately.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: Over all the game.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but then I came back in that second half
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: and was the first play we got a sweep and
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: I kind of ran to the side and made it
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: cut back inside. And when she knew, she was like,
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: she was like, you looking like yourself again. Just keep
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: trusting and just keep going.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: And when she said that, then you knew.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, when she when she told me that, I kind
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: of because I was feeling I was getting more confidence
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: and that cult I made it right there. That's probably
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: could I probably want have tried two weeks ago.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: You're thinking about it right.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: So and then now just this year me and I
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: think about my foot at all. Just kind of helped
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: me just be able to focus on so much other things.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: So it's hard to I'm sure it's hard to play
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: the position if you're thinking about something else. So the
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: last thing that we do here is the Ozone five.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: Your last binge.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Watch, my last binge watch.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure you're a big TV guy, So I
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Game of Thrones.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Honestly, I'm actually binge watching it right now because my
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: last watching Insecure just came on Netflix.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: And I kind of I finished that quickly, like thirty minutes.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: Show that can take because I'm on season two right
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: now and it's a hip.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: And my son and my wife watched a couple of
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: summers back. I'm not a Game of Thrones version, but
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: it seemed like it took them forever to get through it,
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: and a lot of it's an emotionally taxing show. It
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: really is really, Uh, last song you heard this morning
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: on the way.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Oh last song I heard this morning. I should know that.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: I feel like I was listening to. I want to
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: say it's a song designer. The artist is Graham Graham.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, got you best Cajun food and Jack's.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: If there is any best caging food and you can't
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: say your mom, but.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: This is one spot I went to actually, like right
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: around the corner. I think it's sold food. I don't
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: think I had these Cajun food out here. I tried
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: any food Cajn food.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: But but your moms sad, right, Yeah, my mom gotcha.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: She could have all the time she could have.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Yesterday I had one over there and ate Okay, but I.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Think the spot it's called mom was. I think right
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: around the corner.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Gotcha favorite runner growing up?
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: If you had one La Damien Thomason period period, Yeah, and.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Your best run that you know, its proud.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Of my best run.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: I would say the one in uh the Bills, the
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Bills in London.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I kind of like both of.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Those, honestly, thirty six yard, the thirds, Yeah.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: I feel like the first one because I feel like
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: the first one it was just me just trusting my
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: instincts and just kind of like just getting out of
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: my head I like the third six yard because it
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: was me trusting in my team, trusting in the scheme,
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: the block and scheme, and just like like understanding, like
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: understanding the block and scheme.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Hard work pay off.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like last year.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: That's probably a run that I wouldn't have made because
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: I probably wanted to trust to get back there with
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: everything so muddied up. But this year, I just trusted it,
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: just understood the game, playing the assignment, was able to
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: squeeze through the whole and uh finished the finished a
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: great run.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Do you remember your first touchdown life?
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Uh? Yeah, it was Uh it was actually it so
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: my first every game in life. I had got the ball,
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: big depense in he like smacked me. He smacked me,
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: And that's when I knew that I didn't want to
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: get tipled ever again because I really didn't like getting hit.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: I was, like my grandma asked me in high school,
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: like while you run so fast, like I'm trying to
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: keep my jersey clean. So but now so it was
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: the second play they gave it to me around around the.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: H got hit on the first.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: I got hit on the first one. So they gave
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: it to me around and I just took off. I
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: just took off, and I think I scored probably every
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: time I touched the ball.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: And people after that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Hell I had to be but you were smart nothing.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: You didn't want to get hit.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I was smart of them though.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I can outrun these guys, Travis. I always enjoy talking
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: to you like this. I appreciate you joining us, and
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: it's a busy week. Thanks for joining the Oazon podcast
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: once again.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: All right, just so I appreciate you