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Andrew DiCecco's Eagles Rookie Diary With Micah Morris: "I Got The Power" · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Well, first go yesterday.
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: I have five spots for you. I wrote them down here.
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: I'll get them to you right after this. So let's
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: pick up where we left off.
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: You mentioned two goals.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: One, moving into your apartment. So we'll start there.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Yep. Literally, what was yesterday? Tuesday?
• 0:31
  Speaker 4: Yes, I just finished moving in. The mattress came in
• 0:33
  Speaker 4: yesterday and the rug for the living room. The recliner
• 0:36
  Speaker 4: and couch was already there. So, yeah, I moved in now,
• 0:39
  Speaker 4: out the hotel.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: It was kind of sad.
• 0:41
  Speaker 4: You know, I've been there for a minute now.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: Stress-free. Yeah, stress-free. It was good to sleep in my
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: own bed, you know, for the first time. So it
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: was nice.
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: And then the on-field portion, I believe you said you
• 0:50
  Speaker 3: were going to hone in on your footwork.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: How did that go for you?
• 0:53
  Speaker 4: Today, I felt like it did good. Obviously, it started
• 0:56
  Speaker 4: with Indy. It starts with Coach Koop. with my first
• 1:02
  Speaker 4: two steps, getting into the ground. That's really the start.
• 1:04
  Speaker 4: The first two steps sets.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: Up the whole game plan.
• 1:06
  Speaker 4: You get the first two steps in with power. Power
• 1:08
  Speaker 4: comes from the ground up. So just make sure those
• 1:11
  Speaker 4: first two steps are there by the time you make contact.
• 1:13
  Speaker 4: And then just after that, just do what I was taught,
• 1:16
  Speaker 4: hands inside, bring your feet, eyes up, be able to
• 1:17
  Speaker 4: see the backer. If you're working with the center or tackle,
• 1:21
  Speaker 4: depending on the combination, or if you've got yourself, catch
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: hand reach, just.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: Move them Sunday.
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: What were your impressions overall?
• 1:31
  Speaker 4: It was surreal. You know, just seeing it packed out,
• 1:34
  Speaker 4: seeing the fans go crazy. Obviously, the first touchdown and
• 1:39
  Speaker 4: then the stop at the end whenever.
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: Muro, the two-point conversion whenever Muro made the stop to
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: steal the game, essentially. It was awesome. It was fun.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: It was everything I could imagine the more, you know, actually.
• 1:50
  Speaker 4: Being there and just seeing the guys that I learned from,
• 1:53
  Speaker 4: all the older guys, all the starters and people that
• 1:55
  Speaker 4: were able to play and contribute to the team, just
• 1:57
  Speaker 4: seeing them go out there and make plays, you know,
• 1:58
  Speaker 4: it was just.
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: Happy, very happy.
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: Do you have a pregame routine?
• 2:04
  Speaker 4: I guess the day, well, I can start late. I
• 2:06
  Speaker 4: guess I really eat a light breakfast, maybe like eggs, grits.
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: Grits aren't really a big thing up here, but, you know,
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: in the South, grits are a big thing.
• 2:13
  Speaker 4: I love grits.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, good.
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: I've been grits, man.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, yeah.
• 2:16
  Speaker 4: So I do, like, a little grit bowl with, like,
• 2:19
  Speaker 4: eggs and usually chicken sauce with turkey bacon, one of
• 2:21
  Speaker 4: the two, and some spinach in there.
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: Got to try to get the greens when I can.
• 2:24
  Speaker 4: Then I have, like, a big pasta before. Then that
• 2:27
  Speaker 4: would be, like, the main pregame is pasta. I usually
• 2:29
  Speaker 4: go chicken, sausage, and shrimp with the Alfredo and meat
• 2:32
  Speaker 4: sauce mix. With either the bow tie or the whole
• 2:36
  Speaker 4: grain noodles, depending on how I'm feeling. I'm feeling a
• 2:38
  Speaker 4: little heavy. I'll get the whole grain to be a
• 2:40
  Speaker 4: little healthier. No, I'll just get the bow tie and
• 2:42
  Speaker 4: swag it up. Yeah, that's good.
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: Do you get out to the field at a certain point?
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: I go out there with the O-line.
• 2:49
  Speaker 4: It's about 40 minutes before the– sorry, an hour 40 before.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: I go out there.
• 2:54
  Speaker 4: I do my hip flexes first, then low back, ankle mobility, stance.
• 3:00
  Speaker 4: Just get comfortable sitting in my stance for about– 45
• 3:04
  Speaker 4: seconds at a time, you know, because that's the longest
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: a play, a shot clock can be, you know, 40.
• 3:08
  Speaker 4: So just sitting there, get comfortable in it, just let
• 3:10
  Speaker 4: the move around a little bit, just adjust a little bit,
• 3:12
  Speaker 4: just get comfortable. That's the position you got to be.
• 3:15
  Speaker 4: able to sit in there all day as long as
• 3:16
  Speaker 4: it takes. So get comfortable in that. Then I do
• 3:18
  Speaker 4: my kicks.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: Then I'll do kicks and kick and react, post and react.
• 3:23
  Speaker 4: Then I'll do my individual hand punch, double hand punch, slides, combos.
• 3:27
  Speaker 4: And then whenever the older guys come out, as they
• 3:29
  Speaker 4: come out, they need a look.
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: I try to get my work done before they come
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: out so.
• 3:32
  Speaker 4: I'm ready to aid them, whatever they need, roll the bag,
• 3:35
  Speaker 4: be a defender for them.
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: You got to see the game from a different perspective
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: on the sideline. What was your role?
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: Were you kind of talking to them about what you
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: were seeing? Were you kind of just letting them do
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: their thing, watching?
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: For the most part, I was letting them do their thing.
• 3:48
  Speaker 4: Obviously, I was watching while they were in, but if
• 3:51
  Speaker 4: they asked me a question or two, obviously, at the
• 3:52
  Speaker 4: end of the day, I was watching them. But just
• 3:54
  Speaker 4: letting them do their thing, trying to learn from them,
• 3:56
  Speaker 4: see how they react. I mean, it's kind of like
• 3:59
  Speaker 4: a George.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: They're smooth. The highs aren't too highs. The lows aren't
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: too lows. They're just consistent. That's one thing. They're all professionals, obviously,
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: but elite, elite, elite, elite, elite.
• 4:11
  Speaker 4: No matter what point in the game it was, they
• 4:13
  Speaker 4: were the same, I'll be honest with you.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: So it was good to see. It was respectable for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Tough news this week with Landon going on IR, but
• 8:46
  Speaker 3: what's the biggest lesson or something that you've learned from
• 8:49
  Speaker 3: him that you've been able to apply to your game?
• 8:52
  Speaker 4: I guess the biggest lesson is, you know, Be aware
• 8:57
  Speaker 4: of your own power, because that's one of the things
• 8:59
  Speaker 4: that he taught me about, you know, just seeing me
• 9:01
  Speaker 4: in the weight room and working out and stuff. Obviously,
• 9:04
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm powerful, but sometimes it's like I don't
• 9:06
  Speaker 4: realize how powerful I am. And then just honing it
• 9:09
  Speaker 4: on technique, kind of to go back to what we
• 9:10
  Speaker 4: talked about last week with Coach Coop, acknowledging the same thing,
• 9:13
  Speaker 4: just he understands the power that I have, like the strength.
• 9:19
  Speaker 4: good and great i could really be and just hearing
• 9:22
  Speaker 4: it from a player like that you know all.
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: Pro pro ball future hall of famer type player.
• 9:27
  Speaker 4: You know see that within me it's like very inspiring
• 9:30
  Speaker 4: and motivational it keeps me going because like i said
• 9:32
  Speaker 4: it's a it's a change for me you know i'm
• 9:34
  Speaker 4: so used to playing but just learning from them and
• 9:36
  Speaker 4: them being in a position they have they don't have
• 9:38
  Speaker 4: to pour into me or tell me these things because
• 9:40
  Speaker 4: they got it you know so just hearing that from
• 9:42
  Speaker 4: them is.
• 9:43
  Speaker 3: It's And I was talking to Willie last week about
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: the young offensive lineman and the camaraderie, kind of like
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: what we talked about. And he mentioned when he got
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: to you, he said, man, raw strength. He goes, when
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: he would punch during drills, he goes, he goes it
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: hurt i said you gotta stop uh so do you
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: agree with that and is that like what are some
• 10:04
  Speaker 3: of your uh your weightlifter numbers when it comes to
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: that uh.
• 10:09
  Speaker 4: I guess this is how to go back to I
• 10:12
  Speaker 4: don't have to stick on college too much, but at Georgia,
• 10:14
  Speaker 4: we had this thing called the Platinum Club, and you
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: got to do, like, I think 180s each arm on
• 10:19
  Speaker 4: dumbbell for, I think, four to five reps. You got
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: to do two sets of it, and I was the
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: first person to do it at 180, and then I
• 10:26
  Speaker 4: got my name on there, the first person ever to
• 10:29
  Speaker 4: join the club, and I think I did 190s this
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: past summer, so my name's on there twice for that,
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: so I was the first one and only person to
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: do it twice for that as far as power, but
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: I mean... At the same time, it's more so, like, just,
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: I've been doing it for so long, like, I would
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: come home from school, and my dad would be out
• 10:46
  Speaker 4: there in the garage, put your book bag down, just
• 10:49
  Speaker 4: doing curls, just doing push-ups, just working out at such
• 10:51
  Speaker 4: a young age, it's, like, second nature to me, like,
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: I just love working out in general.
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: Did you ever consider doing, like, powerlifting, like, like Jalen, or?
• 10:59
  Speaker 4: I probably want to do powerlifting. You know that raw
• 11:01
  Speaker 4: power they talk about? Sometimes it's just, it don't look
• 11:04
  Speaker 4: as pretty. So they might not count it on those
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: bench press numbers. I'm trying to get it up off me.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: I ain't going down slow.
• 11:08
  Speaker 4: I'm getting it on my chest and getting it off me.
• 11:11
  Speaker 3: The Eagles obviously really prioritize player development. I know it's early,
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: but what are some of those early returns that you've
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: noticed and how it's benefited you?
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: The main thing was my stance.
• 11:21
  Speaker 4: I felt like if you look at my film from
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: Georgia to the beginning of rookie minicamp slash.
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: I'm just more hunched over and a leaner and a
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: grabber now i feel like i'm more with the base
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: eyes i'll be able to see more and strike and
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: pass off twists and things of that nature.
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: How about the impact that connor and patrick have have
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: made uh on.
• 11:46
  Speaker 4: You and oh they've made they've made a huge impact
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: uh coach coach coach pay and coach connor have both
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: reported so much you know because they've they've been at
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: the top for so long and they know what it
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: looks like they know what it takes and they they
• 11:57
  Speaker 4: see the traits that i that i have and they
• 11:59
  Speaker 4: know what the result can.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: Be and.
• 12:03
  Speaker 4: Especially with the uh like i was speaking on you
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: know just the technical things because they know i got
• 12:07
  Speaker 4: the power they know i got the guy got the
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: ability to just bring it out of me and you
• 12:11
  Speaker 4: know correcting the the technique that'll produce i don't want
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: to say that uh correcting the technique that'll result in
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: a better.
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: Outcome for me there you go besides football what.
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: Are your off-field interests movies um we know i've got
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: i've got into uh Legos, actually. I got my second Batmobile.
• 12:30
  Speaker 4: The first one I did was from the Dark Knight Rises,
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: and then I got... I ordered one yesterday. Well, two
• 12:33
  Speaker 4: days ago on Amazon.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: I got it here yesterday. I'm gonna do that tonight.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: It's from the Batman vs.
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: Superman, and it comes with the bulky Batman Lego set.
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: So I'm looking forward to that one. So yeah, just
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: making Legos. And then the new Wolverine game just came
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: out yesterday, too, so.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: I'm only, like, level one of that. It's fun, though. But, yeah. So,
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: video games, movies, Legos.
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: Well, we'll get to movies because I watched one that
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: you recommended to me.
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: But we'll get to that.
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: But who are one or two individuals that you really
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: credit helping you get to where you are right now?
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: All time? Yeah.
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's not just one.
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: It would be my dad and my Uncle Kevin. We
• 13:06
  Speaker 4: had a saying when I was younger. There's no traffic
• 13:08
  Speaker 4: at 6 a.m. That was back when I was, I
• 13:10
  Speaker 4: kid you not, 10, 11 years old. We would go
• 13:12
  Speaker 4: to the rec. Now, mind you, my dad, before he
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: started working... On the naval base in Camden, he worked
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: security for the naval base, but he worked the night shift.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: So by the time he would get home, it would
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: be 5 a.m.
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  Speaker 4: He wouldn't go to sleep until he had worked me out,
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: took me to go work out, took me to go run,
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: just push-ups on the track, just.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: Run, do anything, just building that in me at such
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: a young age.
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: Getting up early, having a work ethic, that is from him,
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: that was a trait that was given to me and
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: passed on from him, and just the way he goes
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: about life, I've never heard my dad complain one time
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: about anything in my entire life, anytime I ask him
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: how's it going, he's never said he's had a bad day,
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: and I know he's had a bad day, I'm human,
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: I'm old enough now, I.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: Know he's had a bad day, but even to this day.
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: And I've talked about it before, even to this day,
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: he's something that would've liked to be a man, he
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: really has, and then Uncle Kevin, he was the first, like,
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: I guess like he was the old lineman in the
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: family growing up.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: He was, he was the bigger guy.
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: Uh, so definitely, you know, the old line part, uh,
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: definitely learned that from him. You know, he was the
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: first one out there holding the bags for me. Things
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: might have to start getting rid of my dad. He
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: would be, uh, setting up the drills for me then
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: with the bag work and kicking on the cones and
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: the footwork and things like that.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: So definitely.
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: Without them building that building that base the pyramid would
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: have never started so definitely those two.
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: And your father if i'm correct on this is the
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: one who got you into football at five years old.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: Absolutely five and six flag football yes sir oh wow
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: i was.
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: A quarterback back then now he's run triple option oh
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: okay i was all right.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: I was all right how often do you speak to
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: your father uh these days i know you're really busy
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: but i imagine with the relationship.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: That you have i talk to him every day uh
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: in the days i don't talk to him we uh
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: We like to send little funny memes on Instagram or
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: YouTube Shorts back and forth.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: So we communicate every day. Same as my mom. We
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: got a family group chat. We talk every day.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: I know you're from Camden County, Georgia.
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure football was really a primary.
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so what was it like growing up in Camden County, Georgia,
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: and how competitive was football as you were coming up?
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: It was amazing.
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  Speaker 4: When I was coming up, they went to state championship,
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: I think, five times before I got to high school
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: and won. They won in 03, and then they went
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: back-to-back in 08 and 09. So they've been there five times,
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: won three in my childhood growing up. So they set
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: the standard for great football, and even.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: To this day.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: You get near the high school, you see them blue
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: paw prints, and then you'll see a sign that says,
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: Respect All, Fear None, Welcome to Wildcat Country. To this day,
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: I was born, I'm sure. So, yeah, football's always been
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: a big part of my life, especially where I'm from
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: in Canada.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Football's real.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: You silently committed to Georgia, I believe, when you were
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: 15 years old.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: At what point in your formative years did it click
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: for you that playing professionally was going to be a reality?
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Might sound crazy. I don't know.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: Really, when I got drafted, because I was hearing things of,
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: just being honest, I was going to get picked earlier
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: than I did. So doubt crept in even then. But
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: once I got my foot in the door, all I
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: needed was an opportunity. And then I thought back to Georgia.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: Same thing I had the first time I met with
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: Coach Smart. I just needed an opportunity.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: I'm here to work. I'm committed to you. I'm not
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: going nowhere.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: And I stood on that, stood ten toes on that.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: But it worked out. It worked out for me.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Set the scene for me in the offensive line room.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Where do you sit?
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: Rooks sit up front. Me and Cale sit up front.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: The older guys sit in the back. Well, most of
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: the tour is in the back.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, whatever they want, really.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: But the rooks sit up front. And then we usually
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: got to tell a joke. So you got to have
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: a joke on you. Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: the thing. Coach is sitting up front with us, and
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: he goes over the presentation. It's like a normal meeting.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Nothing crazy.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Are you a heavy note-taker?
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to. I got to.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: I've ran through four notebooks, I think. They told me
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: to start working on a tablet, but I'm so used
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: to handwriting it.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I might have to switch. I've ran
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: through four notebooks.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: So have you gotten around to trying any of the
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: food spots in Philly?
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Well, you mentioned one.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I went to Del Frisco yesterday.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: They had, like, On Tuesdays, they had like the little
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: sample things.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Like 70 bucks.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: You get to try like three entrees, three appetizers.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: It's like little small pieces of it. So I tried that.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: It was good.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: It was good. I had Kobe steak for the first time.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: That was fire.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, Kobe steak's awesome.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: That was my first time having that. I get it now.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I get it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: I wasn't really a believer, and I was like, this
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: is going to taste normal. But no, it was crazy.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Every once in a while, I'll treat myself to something
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I got you.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: So some of the places that I have written down
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: here will have that.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: I got around to seeing By Any Means. I saw
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: it last Saturday.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: That was awesome. So what's next on your list?
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Probably Doomsday unless something catches my eye. Probably Doomsday. I've
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: been re-watching the Marvel movies too, getting ready for it.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: I'm back up to the newest Fantastic Four.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: So then I think I've just got to watch the
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: new Avengers again.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: And then I've.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Seen Spider-Man three times in the past two months. watch
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: the new Avengers again, then that's it. And then I
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: got to watch Loki season two because that has.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: To do with the time variance. So yeah, I'll do that.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: So for an alternate career path, it said that you
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: would do, you would own a bus or a trucking
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: company to help be more efficient with the traffic in
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Camden County.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: What makes it inefficient?
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: I would say inefficient is more so every, all the
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: charter buses from Jacksonville. So they have to go to
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Florida just to get a charter bus when We can
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: have one in Camden.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: All we need is two or three charter.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Buses, and we can have it and give money back
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: to our own community, hire drivers in our own community.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: The same people who drive our buses, our school buses
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: on the weekends when we go to games or after,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: they can drive those charter buses.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: In my eyes, it makes sense to me. I don't know.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: It's just more so a way to bring revenue into
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: the city. And I feel like, God willing, I have
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: a solid career. I'll be able to do that and
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: give back to the city and the youth specifically and
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: the athletes. Myself being an athlete, I feel like that's
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: the greatest gift I give them besides knowledge and wisdom
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: that I'll learn in my time. But just being able
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: to provide them with a system of transportation to where
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: it's less stressful. We don't have to worry about how
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: we're going to get there because we know we have
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: this such system from our alumni who did his thing
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: in college, made it to the NFL, and came back
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: to the city.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Be perfect for a candle.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Awesome.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: As I've gotten older, I've really tried to concentrate on
• 19:34
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• 19:38
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• 19:40
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  Speaker 5: Nobody loves grilling more than me. It could be 30
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  Speaker 2: Any family coming out to Nashville for the game this weekend?
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: I know my parents are coming. I think my auntie
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: and uncle are coming too.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Awesome. Last one for you.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: What's one or two things, could be football related, could
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: be off the field, that you're working to achieve this week?
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: This week?
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Continuing to get my second step down in the run
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: game because they're.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Stout defensive line. So my number's called. I've got to
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: be ready. They're elite defensive line.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: So I've got to focus on getting those first two
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: steps down in the pass game. And then outside of that,
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: I've got some end tables coming today.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: So setting that up.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: And then hopefully I'll have my Lego set done by
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: the next time I talk to you.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: And I'll take a picture of it.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, do that.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Awesome. I appreciate your time, Michael.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you.