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Inside the Charge: Khalil Shakir Talks NFL Growth, Josh Allen, Dogs And More! · Inside the Charge

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into this week's episode of Inside the Charge. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Maddi Glab. In this week's podcast, we have one of
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  Speaker 1: our wide receivers joining us, Khalil Shakir. Shakier talks all
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  Speaker 1: about what he's learned in his four years in the league.
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  Speaker 1: He dives into his incredible catch percentage, which leads the
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  Speaker 1: NFL since twenty twenty three, why he's so good at
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  Speaker 1: catching the football and staying up his contact balance. There's
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  Speaker 1: a funny story that goes along with that answer.
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  Speaker 2: Kilo.
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  Speaker 1: Shakir also talks about why he loves listening to musical
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  Speaker 1: soundtracks during his pregame warm ups and how that helps
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  Speaker 1: get him in the mood for Sundays. Shakir also dives
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  Speaker 1: into his love for dogs and how he's done some
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  Speaker 1: pet adoptions here with the Bills and why he would
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  Speaker 1: love to have fifteen dogs at home. We also talk
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  Speaker 1: about the wide receiver room all the personalities that are
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  Speaker 1: a part of it. It's a great episode. Cole also
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  Speaker 1: talks about his military background and how he moved all
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  Speaker 1: around as a kid and how that's helped him in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. You don't want to miss it. Enjoyed the episode.
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  Speaker 2: Khlil.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on to hang out and talk some
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  Speaker 1: ball with me.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: You're in your fourth NFL season. Where have you grown
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  Speaker 1: the most?
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  Speaker 2: I would just say we just learning the game.
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  Speaker 3: Like I think, when you first get into the league,
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  Speaker 3: you're adjusting to the speed of the game and just
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  Speaker 3: a higher level of thinking, you know. I think in
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  Speaker 3: Cadge you're in a eighteen to twenty two to twenty
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  Speaker 3: three range and you can go into the league and
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  Speaker 3: you know you're playing against grown men, you know. So
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  Speaker 3: I think at first that's the biggest adjust adjustment is
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  Speaker 3: not only growing physically but mentally as well. So I
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  Speaker 3: think that's where I've kind of grown as the years.
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  Speaker 1: Have went on, having a better understanding of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Is there an area of the game where you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you haven't mastered at this point in your career.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say I just just the feel for
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  Speaker 3: the game, I'd say, And that's something that I feel
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  Speaker 3: like only comes with, you know, getting the reps in
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  Speaker 3: every single day. So I think, like I said, over
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  Speaker 3: the years, just you know, figuring out the speed of
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  Speaker 3: the game and has allowed me to you know, help myself,
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  Speaker 3: you know, get open more with just overall feel.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of feel, you have incredible contact balance, Defenders try
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  Speaker 1: to take you down, you stay on your feet. Where
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  Speaker 1: does that come from?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the trainers would say I have short tibias. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I guess I'm a little I'm built a little funny.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I guess my my femurs, my femur is
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  Speaker 3: longer than my tibias, and I guess by a decent amount.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess they say somehow, maybe that that can
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  Speaker 3: help with that, But I always just say I grew
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  Speaker 3: up playing running back my whole life, Like I played
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  Speaker 3: running back up until leave my sophomore year of high school,
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  Speaker 3: and also with you know, footwork as well, huge on
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  Speaker 3: soccer growing up, and I just think kind of all
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  Speaker 3: those things you know, lead to now and being able
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  Speaker 3: to do what I do.
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  Speaker 1: So playing running back growing up, playing soccer as well,
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you just have a better feel for
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  Speaker 1: slipping through defenders and open zones to where you can
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  Speaker 1: get those yak yards that you're known for.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's I think all that helps. And
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  Speaker 3: then also I mean my dad was marine for twenty
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  Speaker 3: four years and just you know, the the daily He's
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  Speaker 3: my first coach, and growing up around Marines and being
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  Speaker 3: coached by Marines and the hardcore level of training at
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  Speaker 3: such a young age, and then seeing them do their
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  Speaker 3: thing and their training I think kind of just you know,
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  Speaker 3: helped me build a certain mentality as well.
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  Speaker 1: Your dad was a marine. What's the hardest core thing
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  Speaker 1: you had to do growing up?
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  Speaker 3: It's funny, the only the main thing I think of
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  Speaker 3: with punishment was wall sits, And I think, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: instead of I guess all around was when stuff didn't
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  Speaker 3: go well, whether school or you know, football, messed up
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  Speaker 3: on a drior whatever, he would have us do wall sits,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and I think that's something that's uh, that
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  Speaker 3: was definitely one of hardest. I mean now as I
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  Speaker 3: think I was like eight years old, nine years old,
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  Speaker 3: so then it's like, uh, one thirty second walls it
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  Speaker 3: may feel like, you know, twenty minutes, right, So I
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  Speaker 3: think I would hope that I would do a lot
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  Speaker 3: better at it now, But in the moment at a
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  Speaker 3: as a young kid, it was worse thing ever.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, is there a close secure wall
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  Speaker 1: sit record?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? No, No.
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  Speaker 3: Once once he stopped doing the wall sits as punishment,
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  Speaker 3: for whatever, I stopped doing them.
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  Speaker 2: So that was that was it.
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  Speaker 1: There. Don't ask close to do a wal sit never.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not going to do it. Unlocking memories.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of that military background, you moved a lot as
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  Speaker 1: a kid, so you had to adapt to different lifestyles,
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  Speaker 1: different environments. The NFL is all about adapting as well.
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  Speaker 1: Your role is different every single season. How does that
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  Speaker 1: military background and moving around help you in the NFL today?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, like you said, at a young age,
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  Speaker 3: I moved around. I was born in Virginia, moved to Hawaii,
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  Speaker 3: Hawaii to California, California to Japan, Japan, back to California.
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  Speaker 3: And doing that at such a young age and having
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  Speaker 3: to you know, be at a different schools and you know,
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  Speaker 3: make new friends and just adjusting that way in the moment,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't realize how much it would help me now
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  Speaker 3: with just like you mentioned, just the you know, different
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  Speaker 3: plays each week, playing in different cities each week, like whatever.
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  Speaker 3: It is, all those little things that you know, I
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  Speaker 3: kind of got to experience as a kid, I think
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  Speaker 3: just naturally helps me now.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a favorite place that you lived when you
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  Speaker 1: were growing up?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, probably Japan, Japan, was was really cool. I remember
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  Speaker 3: a decent amount of it.
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  Speaker 1: How many years were you there for?
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  Speaker 2: Five? Six? Yeah? Cool?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I was, I said, I was younger, so
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember like everything, but I just remember it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was so fun, such such a good time.
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  Speaker 1: What do you miss most about Japan?
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  Speaker 3: Probably I would say just the sporting events. Yeah, like
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  Speaker 3: for soccer we would go and you know, we play
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  Speaker 3: on our American basis, but then a lot of like
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  Speaker 3: the Japanese teams will come on base and we'll have
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  Speaker 3: like tournaments and stuff like that, and they were really good.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it was it was dope to experience that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to plan trip back to Japan at
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  Speaker 1: some point in your life?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Me and wife you are thinking about. We try and
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  Speaker 3: do a trip every year. I think we're gonna do
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  Speaker 3: Austria next because her family's there. But Japan was supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be this offseason and I don't know why we
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  Speaker 3: kind of put that one on the home, but I
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  Speaker 3: think that'll be at next next off season thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, going back to your role in this offense. Since
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, you lead the NFL with a seventy
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  Speaker 1: nine percent catch rate. What training has allowed you to
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  Speaker 1: have that type of level.
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  Speaker 3: I do well, I haven't done it as late, but
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  Speaker 3: I started probably a couple of years ago, doing like
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  Speaker 3: hundred catches a day with Sailor. With my wife, she
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  Speaker 3: would just throw me the ball, and I think that
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  Speaker 3: kind of that helped a lot. I do a lot
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  Speaker 3: of work with our one of our coaches, DJ before
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  Speaker 3: after practice.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just like the.
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  Speaker 3: Consistency of getting out there and doing the reps and
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  Speaker 3: the repetition of it all and you know, catching you
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  Speaker 3: know in different ways, different angles and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And like I said, repping that stuff over and over
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  Speaker 3: and over again. I definitely think that's helped me.
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  Speaker 1: Sailor is your quarterback house your arm?
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  Speaker 3: Oh it was that at first, but then she's gotten
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  Speaker 3: a lot better. She's got a lot better. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: she's she's doing better now. I mean now she's thirty
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  Speaker 3: one weeks pregnant, so she's we've kind of put that
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  Speaker 3: on hold a little bits of sason, yeah right right,
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  Speaker 3: But before she was, she was slinging around for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Repetition is something that is so simple, you can do
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  Speaker 1: it anywhere. Why has had such a big factor on
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  Speaker 1: your play in game.
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  Speaker 3: I just think the more you just just do things,
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  Speaker 3: Like I think it's hard to you know, the day
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  Speaker 3: of whether it's a game day or you know, whatever
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  Speaker 3: it is, and you try something that maybe you haven't
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  Speaker 3: done before, or think of something in the moment, like
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  Speaker 3: odds are probably against you in that matter. And I
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  Speaker 3: think the repetition of everything, like seeing the same things
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  Speaker 3: over and over and over again, doing the same things
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  Speaker 3: over and over and over again kind of like puts
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  Speaker 3: that image in your head to be ready for whatever
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  Speaker 3: when that moment comes. So, of course it's repetition, but
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  Speaker 3: it's how you do it as well. Yeah, So I
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  Speaker 3: think that's definitely something that I've tried to focus on
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  Speaker 3: over the past couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be mentally strong, though, to catch a
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  Speaker 1: hundred passes a day, that's something that it's easy to be, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel like doing this today. What has allowed
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  Speaker 1: you to be so mentally strong?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it hasn't been just on you know,
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  Speaker 2: an upward angle for me. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, like you said, there's days where you're just
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  Speaker 3: laying down and it's tough.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and I'm not perfect.
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  Speaker 3: There's days where, yeah, it's like, you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: gonna do it today, but I think when you think
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  Speaker 3: of your end goal and for me, like to be
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  Speaker 3: ready to roll on game day, I have to make
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  Speaker 3: sure I cover every single angle throughout the week. So
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  Speaker 3: it's you know, all those catches. If I, you know,
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  Speaker 3: do one less catch than normal, like maybe I don't
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  Speaker 3: feel as prepared come game day, you know, so I
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  Speaker 3: think of how I want to perform on game day
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  Speaker 3: and that kind of you know, light.
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  Speaker 1: Sapphire speaking of being ready for game day, I hear
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  Speaker 1: your show tunes guy, when it comes to what you
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  Speaker 1: have to listen.
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  Speaker 3: To, Yeah, a whole bunch of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's funny.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a there's not much rap music on it,
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  Speaker 3: and that usually blows people's minds. But yeah, I've had
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of Wicked, so.
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  Speaker 1: You're defying gravity.
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  Speaker 2: Ye, yeah, that's that's my favorite. Actually.
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  Speaker 3: Uh And then me and my wife watched I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if it's like the Live Lion King, if that's
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  Speaker 3: the car whatever, but yeah, the latest Lion King, Lion
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  Speaker 3: King or whatever. And there's a song on there. I
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  Speaker 3: got that on on there? What else is on there?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Matilda there's a.
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  Speaker 3: Couple of songs on there that I got on my playlist,
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  Speaker 3: and then a lot of house music as well, and
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  Speaker 3: then maybe three to four five rap songs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, listening to show tunes? How does that get you
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  Speaker 1: into the right mindset?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I think it's there's a I believe there's a
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  Speaker 3: thing as like being like almost too like locked in,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Like for me, I like to just feel
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  Speaker 3: like free, I'm having fun, like I'm not, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as crazy as it sounds like taking it too serious,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like and I think in those moments where
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  Speaker 3: you know, I really start to you know, think too much,
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  Speaker 3: you know, my heart gets going and you know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: a little jittery, and I think that type of music
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  Speaker 3: just kind of keeps me calm and keeps me at
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  Speaker 3: so and I just think of all the funny moments
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  Speaker 3: like Wicked would have never happened, if you know. Me
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  Speaker 3: and my wife went to New York City and she
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  Speaker 3: was like, let's go watch Wicked on Broadway and I
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  Speaker 3: was like no, and then she was like, come on,
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  Speaker 3: like let's go. And I was totally against it, and
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  Speaker 3: then went and I ended up I was locked in
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  Speaker 3: the whole time, and she was like, I actually ended
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  Speaker 3: up enjoying it. And I think the reason for having
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  Speaker 3: those tunes on my playlist, like there's a story to
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  Speaker 3: it as well that kind of unlocks a memory that
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  Speaker 3: makes me just relax in the moment.
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  Speaker 1: It's music like that that brings you back to a
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  Speaker 1: memory and reminds you that you're playing a kid's game
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  Speaker 1: and it should be a lot of fun out there.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the biggest thing is always remembering like
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  Speaker 3: this is a game that you know, most of us
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  Speaker 3: grew up playing and loved to play. And I remember
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  Speaker 3: backyard football as kids with your friends and you know,
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  Speaker 3: my siblings and how fun it was, and just reminding
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  Speaker 3: myself that no tab fun out there.
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  Speaker 1: Who's your favorite character in Wicked?
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  Speaker 3: Oh God, I'm blanking here.
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  Speaker 2: Probably the Witch? Which yeah, uh is that Elfie? Yeah? Probably? Yeah? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I just think it's Uh, did.
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  Speaker 1: You watch the movie when it came out?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Watched the movie, and then your thoughts really good. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't realize when it ended that they were gonna come
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  Speaker 3: out with a second one, because obviously when you watch it,
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  Speaker 3: when you watch it on Broadway, they have like different
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  Speaker 3: parts and they take breaks and stuff. So when it ended,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, well, where's the next part? And then
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  Speaker 3: almost like they're coming out. I think it's the next
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  Speaker 3: next month, they're coming out with it, so, uh, we're
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  Speaker 3: ready for that.
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  Speaker 1: The wide Receiver room is full personalities, Clill. You have
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  Speaker 1: Kean Coleman who doesn't stop talking. You have Josh Palmer
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  Speaker 1: who's a little bit quiet. Yeah, what are the personalities
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  Speaker 1: in that room?
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  Speaker 3: It's it's funny. I think it's it's such a fun environment.
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  Speaker 3: Like you said, we just have a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 3: different personalities that mess so well together.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Curtis, you know, loves to joke around and have fun.
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  Speaker 3: H Palmer's a little quiet, but he'll also get it
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  Speaker 3: on the conversation too.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You have e who's a very chill soul, like an
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  Speaker 3: old soul. And then obviously Gabe probably one of the
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  Speaker 3: funniest human beings I've ever been in my life, which
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  Speaker 3: just kind of brings that like just a laughter to
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  Speaker 3: the room. Steve very chill but also like a big
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  Speaker 3: conspiracy guy, you know. Like so it's just like you
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  Speaker 3: have all these different personalities that like each personality just
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  Speaker 3: brings a different element to the room in regards to
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  Speaker 3: just how everybody reveals life and none of us are
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is the right way and that's the
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  Speaker 3: right way. And I think that's why we all mess together.
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  Speaker 1: So well, where do you fit in.
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  Speaker 3: Laughing the whole time? Because I just it's funny, man,
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  Speaker 3: The guys are are hilarious. And also I think we
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  Speaker 3: the conspiracy stuff. I'm not big into. That's usually a
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  Speaker 3: main topic. That's you know, I'm just like mind blown
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  Speaker 3: by by it all. So yeah, most of the time
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  Speaker 3: I'm sitting back there, they're laughing, and uh that's probably
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  Speaker 3: you know, seventy eighty percent of the time.
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  Speaker 1: Who's cracking the most jokes Gabe for sure. Gabe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's he loves to joke around. It's funny though.
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  Speaker 3: It's like everybody loves to, you know, have that laughter
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  Speaker 3: in the mess around, but also knows you know, when
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  Speaker 3: to lock in. You know, it's all right, cool, we
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  Speaker 3: got to get through this and saw today, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: everybody locks in. And then once we're through and done
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  Speaker 3: that everybody has a full understanding of that, then it's
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  Speaker 3: like boom, right now we can you know, have fun
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  Speaker 3: with it, you know, and stuff like that. So there's
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  Speaker 3: a good balance in there.
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  Speaker 1: Who locks in the quickest?
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  Speaker 3: Uh be messed up if I said myself so.
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  Speaker 1: You could, I mean, I thought about you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm probably gonna say, uh, Palmer.
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  Speaker 1: Palmer lacks in the quickest. Who's leading the huddle? Who's
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  Speaker 1: the guy firing up the wide receiver?
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  Speaker 3: We do a little before the game, we have a
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  Speaker 3: little huddle and I usually just say a little little spiel,
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  Speaker 3: and then throughout the weekend practice lets go, Yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: kind of mixed up throughout the week though.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we huddle up before we do.
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  Speaker 3: Routes on earth the quarterbacks, and that's really open to
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  Speaker 3: anybody saying stuff. I'll usually say something, and after practice
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  Speaker 3: we huddle up again, and that's usually I like to
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  Speaker 3: base it off of, you know, who really bought out
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  Speaker 3: that day in practice, so everybody kind of gets a
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  Speaker 3: piece of that.
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  Speaker 1: This offseason, you talked about taking over a bigger leadership
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  Speaker 1: role because you're one of the guys who's been in
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  Speaker 1: that room for the longest. How has that come along
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's going well. I think I've I've been
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  Speaker 3: trying to be a bit more vocal. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: times I can kind of just you know, be you know,
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  Speaker 3: tunnel vision and trying to you know, do what I
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  Speaker 3: have to do to get myself ready. But I think
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  Speaker 3: a big step in that is becoming more vocal and
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  Speaker 3: you know, speaking up and you know, like we're just
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: talking about getting the guys fired up. So I've been
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: trying trying my best to you know, form what that
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: looks like, and so far, I think we're heading in
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: Did you look up to anybody when it came to
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: leadership and being more vocal, whether it be on this
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  Speaker 1: team or outside of the bills.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a whole bunch of guys. I mean that
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: list for me goes on and on. You have you
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  Speaker 3: have d Doc who's just like just a huge personality
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: and and and it's really you know, focused on getting
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: a job done every single day. You have Josh, who
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: is in my is probably the best leader I've ever
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: been around. You know, I've always said if if he
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: didn't give me an explanation for anything and said let's
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: go to war, I'd be no questions, as you know,
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's like to me as as as good
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  Speaker 3: as it gets, as far as leadership, and then even
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  Speaker 3: Gabe Davis, I think just the way he handles business,
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Like we're just talking about, He's he's able to have
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  Speaker 3: fun but also knows when it's time to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: lock in and and focus on what we got to
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  Speaker 3: get done. And I think that balance, the balance that
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: he's able to have within that has taught me a
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: lot as well. And you know, even Steph his competitiveness
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: and just how he handles his business. You know, I
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: look up to him as well. So, like I said,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: that list goes on and on and on.
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  Speaker 1: You spoke about your quarterback, Josh Allen, one of the
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: best arms in the NFL, whether it skill set wise
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  Speaker 1: or off the field. What are you most in awe of?
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: I think just just his ability to just have fun
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: every single day, like when you're you're in the MVP
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: of the league and in my is the best, the
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: best player in the league. I think the way he
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: comes in here with a smile on his face, I
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: think it's the coolest thing ever.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Like like I said, I feel like a lot of
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: times you can get caught up and just trying to
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: you know, be so like you know, on it every
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: single time, and when your leader comes in and has
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: understands that, yes, we're going to get the job done,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: but also reminds us, you know, to smile and have fun.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I think it's the coolest thing ever. So yeah, just
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: his ability to you know, keep us locked in when
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: we need to be, but also having fun.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Speaking of having fun, our social media team likes to
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: have fun with you, specifically care There's videos that go
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: out and they do you dirty and some of them,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: this is your floor to say whatever you want to
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: say about that, you know.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: I honestly feel like I kind of it's kind of
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: my fault a little bit. I would come into your guys'
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: office over there and say, are we working today or what?
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: And I feel like maybe that could have something to
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: do with it. But also I'm all and I think
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: it's all funny. Like a lot of times, like people
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: are like do they really do that? And I think
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: it's jokes. I mean, I'm somebody that's very comfortable who
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: I am, and I think it's the funniest thing ever
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: to see them having fun with it. And I never
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: take anything really too serious, so it's it's cool. I
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: deal with it. It's funny. I don't have any issues,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: you know, so, Yeah, I.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Think my favorite one was the Kalila Shakira.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the main that was I think that
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: was the one that started it, and that was I
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: got the most crap for.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: That, you guys coming up to you long.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, again, I thought it was hilarious. But what
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: I thought when I didn't like about it was the
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: fact that it was like, you know, when you post the.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Real you can like pick though, and they chose that.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so of course and you're scrolling early, what
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: is that? I'm like, you could have left that one
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: out just it being in the video is fine, but yeah,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: it's all funny games.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Do you have any ideas for them for future videos
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: how you would like to be portrayed in a different way?
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe one day instead of put me in a dress,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: like they can make me look like the whole car
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: like yeah, like come on, like, all right, cool, you
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: did that and I do this for me.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: It's literally the least you could ask.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll see. Though they're super creative.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I honestly have no idea how they do it every
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: single days.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: It's funny.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: It is funny. They cook up some hilarious stuff. Khalil,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: You have two pups, Penny and Missy. What can a
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: dog do that nobody else can?
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: The ability to just be happy every single day, every
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: single second, no matter if it's raining outside, no matter what.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: You know, I feel like a lot of times, you know, humans,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: we can be affected by the weather or whatever. It is,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: like dogs don't care, Like they don't care. Whenever I
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: walk into the house every single day, I'm greeted the
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: same exact way. They're running, barking, jumping, wagging their tails.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: First thing, I'm woking up every single morning by both
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: of them almost jumping on me. It's almost like I
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: don't really need an alarm clock and they're just happy.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: They're happy to see me every single day. And I
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: think it's the best thing ever. So not to say
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: some people can't do that, but I think dogs just
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: have that ability to just brighten up your day no
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: matter what.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Since you have two, is one like your dog, one
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: is Sailor's dogs is one like each person.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: More Yeah, I think Penny is definitely more connected to me,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: and then miss he's definitely more connected to Sailor, Which
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: is funny because I got Penny for sailor my rookiear
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: going into training camp because I was gonna be away,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: here's low buddy, And then she ended up whenever I
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: would leave the house, she would sit at the door
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: and just cry. And then so yeah, that became a
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: little buddy and she's great.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: You've held a bunch of pet adoptions. Every year you
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: have a big event. What inspired you to do something
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: like that?
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Missy?
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: When we got Missy from an adoption event randomly on
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: a random Saturday, we went because we saw a video
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: of Brandon Bean talking about this adoption event and we
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: were just like looked at a sailor and I was like,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: why not, Like let's just go stop by. Thing that
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I've learned now about going to adoption events and hosting
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: them as well, is you have to put into your
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: brain and say it to yourself a thousand times that
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: you're not going to get a dog if you go
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: in with the slightest bit of like maybe you're gunna
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: leave with a dog. So that day we didn't really
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: think anything of it. Walked in and Missy's just kind
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: of laying down in the corner and I picked her
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: up like three four times and kept putting her back
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: down and then looked at Sailor and was like.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Would you be mad?
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: And She's like, I wouldn't be mad, but you know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: we don't need another dog. Ended up leaving keeping Center
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: with her, like literally put her in the car there
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: and left, and man, she's been the biggest, one of
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: the biggest blessings ever. Like we Sailor only grew up
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: of golden retrievers. I had a boxer when I was young, young,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: and we've never the idea of rescuing, just we just
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: never really thought about it. And how sweet that dog is.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: It's almost like she's just like just grateful, you know,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: and like going to these events to the dogs, like
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: once you start petting them, like they're just like the
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: smile on.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Their faces and how happy they are. They just want
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: to be loved, you know.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: So I think in doing and seeing how Missy has,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: you know, just lit up our household, we just want
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: to create as many opportunities for families to have that
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: In a perfect world, how many dogs would you have?
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Me?
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Personally, I probably I picture this right, I picture in
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: ten years. I picture opening up my slide indoor and
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I just have a couplecres fenced in and there's like
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: at least ten to fifteen dogs.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Just running around.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Now when Sailor hears this, she's gonna say heck no,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: and doesn't like that idea. But it's just like a
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: weird image I've had in my head.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I love that dogs also have fun personalities. What are
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the weirdest things that your dogs do?
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Missy does this little scrunch face and it's usually one
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: before she has.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: To get in the bath.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: She hates the bathtub, so she'll go hide under my
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: clothes and if you find her, she's like scrunching her nose,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: ears peered back up, feel back. And then also when
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: she's when she does something she's not supposed to do,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: so like she'll go and chewoba sock and then she'll
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: come down and like tell on herself. Like she'll come
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: downstairs and she goes to the ground and she's like
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: wagging her tail, and I just think it's like a
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: weird scrunch face she does. She also I think she
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: tries to like talk, like she makes the weirdest sounds.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Ever when she's what weird does she come closest to I.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Don't know, but I I would assume it's probably not
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: a good word because it's usually when Penny is playing
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: with one of the toys and she wants the toy
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: and she'll just like start screaming at her.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: It's not a bark, it's literally like a scream.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: So that's that's definitely probably the weirdest thing.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: You have a baby on the way. What's the best
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: advice you've gotten so far from teammates, from friends?
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Get your sleep? Now? I've heard a lot. I heard
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: a lot of.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: And also it's you know, I think the best thing
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: is everybody is like not overbearing with advice as well,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Like everyone's like everybody's like journey is so different. You
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: can sit here and read all the books you want,
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: but everybody's journey is different.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Are you reading the books? No?
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: No, We're going to do it live.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I you know, I do read. I have started reading.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: But as far as reading books about parenting, I'm just
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: excited to just I think as we get closer, maybe
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: out I'll look at a few things. And Sailor has
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: me on this app with her that kind of tip
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: updates you and gives you tips and all that kind
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: of stuff. But Yeah, Like I said, I feel everybody's
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: journey is different, so I would say that's probably the
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: best advice I get is is it's the biggest blessing ever,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: So just take it all in.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: We're so excited for you and Sailor. I can't wait
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: to meet her.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Yeah, she'll be around here a
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: lot probably. I love that.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Thanks cool, appreciate the time.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Of course, Thanks for having me again.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of Inside the Charge.
• 25:23
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