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Tyler Lockett: "I Want Us To Be The Last One Standing" · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: What up appreciate it two years ago as a guy,
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Speaker 1: and then you kind of have to be in that
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Speaker 1: both of leadership rope.
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Speaker 2: I mean last year was different. Obviously it was my
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Speaker 2: first time just being able to have that opportunity to
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Speaker 2: be a captain. But I mean, I think the biggest
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Speaker 2: thing was just being able to continuously learn how to
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Speaker 2: be able to talk to people. It wasn't just being
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Speaker 2: able to talk to him about football, but just being
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Speaker 2: able to talk to him about life, having a relationship
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Speaker 2: outside of football, because those are the things that can
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Speaker 2: also be able to get people going. When you understand
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Speaker 2: their why, when you understand some of the things that
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Speaker 2: they're dealing with, when you understand their hobbies, things that
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Speaker 2: they like to do outside of football. You know, you
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Speaker 2: just don't want to be a captain just on a team,
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Speaker 2: but you want to be a captain off the field
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 1: And so it had its.
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Speaker 2: Pros and cons, you know, just like I think anybody
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Speaker 2: will say if they're a captain, But you know the
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Speaker 2: biggest thing is that they voted for you. They depend
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Speaker 2: on you to be able to be the person to
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Speaker 2: hold everything together if things seem like it's gonna break loose,
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Speaker 2: and last year it had a lot of great moments too,
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Speaker 2: because you got to see a lot of rookie step up,
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Speaker 2: a lot of rookies turned into vets, and you just
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Speaker 2: had to be able to not only hold everybody else accountable,
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Speaker 2: but we also had to make sure that we were
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Speaker 2: able to hold ourselves accountable as well, because sometimes leaders
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Speaker 2: need other leaders to be able to be there for
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Speaker 2: each other too.
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Speaker 1: You know, said, he says, you.
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Speaker 2: Guys have made strides in some of the situations on
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Speaker 2: stuff ret zone, third down.
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Speaker 1: What have you seen from the offense in those situations?
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Speaker 2: So funny, Well, the biggest thing I've seen just within
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Speaker 2: our offense is this is like our third year being
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Speaker 2: able to run it. So, you know, we're more decisive.
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Speaker 2: We understand the type of looks that we're gonna be
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Speaker 2: able to get. We understand how we want to attack
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Speaker 2: certain defenses. We understand kind of like how much time
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Speaker 2: we have to be able to make certain moves or
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Speaker 2: if it's on step foot timing. So I think for us,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's just being able to understand how we're
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Speaker 2: trying to approach every game and how are we trying
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Speaker 2: to approach every single drive not every drive.
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Speaker 1: Is going to be the same.
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Speaker 2: There's going to be times where we need to get
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Speaker 2: a couple first downs, we might want to hold the
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Speaker 2: ball for a little bit, you know, kind of treated
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Speaker 2: like a four minute offense type of scenario. Might be
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Speaker 2: other times we're trying to be aggressive and we're going
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Speaker 2: to go for it. But learning how to be able
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Speaker 2: to be great in each and every decision, whether we're
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Speaker 2: being aggressive or whether we're being conservative. I think that's
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Speaker 2: what creates a super Bowl team.
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Speaker 1: Heller, how important is it to you to be consistent?
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Speaker 1: And you have prolific red zone numbers, but I know
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Speaker 1: you try and be consistent to down the field. How
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Speaker 1: import is consistent important?
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Speaker 2: I think consistency is I mean very important to me.
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Speaker 2: You know, we play in the league. Where is what
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Speaker 2: have you done for me lately? So if you're not consistent,
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Speaker 2: you're out the door. And so I think for us,
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Speaker 2: are asking me as an individual or as a team.
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Speaker 1: Just one thing? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean for me, I think I ain't consistency
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Speaker 2: is key because you know, if I'm not consistent at
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Speaker 2: running my routes, if I'm not consistent of getting open
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Speaker 2: or even catching the ball, then you know, Geno might
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Speaker 2: not look my way a lot, and so you want
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Speaker 2: to be able to make sure that you're doing your
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Speaker 2: part every single play, even if you're not getting the ball.
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Speaker 2: You want to be able to showcase that you're getting open.
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Speaker 2: You want to showcase that you're still being able to
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Speaker 2: make plays. And so for me, there's different things that
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Speaker 2: I do to be able to get myself ready.
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Speaker 1: But you also got to be able to just challenge.
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Speaker 2: Yourself every single day because every day it's a championship day,
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Speaker 2: but we don't always treat it like that, and so
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Speaker 2: we have to be able to figure out how to
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Speaker 2: mentally challenge ourselves to be able to make sure that
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Speaker 2: we take this approach of today's a championship day, and
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna make a championship type of performance. And even
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Speaker 2: if it isn't the high level performance that I'm used to,
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Speaker 2: I'm still gonna be able to learn how to play
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Speaker 2: at a high level regardless of whatever comes up.
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Speaker 1: If I get stopped.
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Speaker 2: One time, I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna play
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Speaker 2: another play at a championship level.
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Speaker 1: And so I just think it never stops you for healing.
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Speaker 1: For the team to see Uh.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean I think for me, when it comes
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Speaker 2: to the expectations for the team, I just think the
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Speaker 2: biggest thing, man is just taking one day at a
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Speaker 2: time and not overlooking anybody, not thinking that we're better
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Speaker 2: than anybody, but being able to go out there and
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Speaker 2: earn our own respect.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: I think that sometimes you know, you go out there
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Speaker 2: and you might think teams are gonna lay down, But
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Speaker 2: it's like, at the end of the day, regardless if
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Speaker 2: a team lays down or if a team is trying
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Speaker 2: to bring that championship type of performance, I want us
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Speaker 2: to be the I want us to be the last
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Speaker 2: one standing. And in order for us to be able
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Speaker 2: to do that, we got to be able to take
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Speaker 2: every day seriously, whether it's on the field, whether it's
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Speaker 2: in the classrooms, whether it's through the communications, so we
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Speaker 2: could be more decisive out there. It's like, we all
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Speaker 2: got to be able to be on the same page.
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Speaker 2: And as you know, this game is not an individual game.
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Speaker 2: It's more of a team game. And so if an
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Speaker 2: individual wins one day, then a team doesn't win, you
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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So like we all got to
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Speaker 2: make sure that we're all winning because one person can't
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Speaker 2: win by itself, if that's basketball, or that's tennis, that's
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Speaker 2: you know, golf. As far as me with individual goals,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I never really had goals. I think I've
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Speaker 2: always said that a little bit. But for me, I
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Speaker 2: think I've come to a place in my life I
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Speaker 2: kind of relay it to you know, when you're using
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Speaker 2: condiments like for me, I like barbecue sauce, so you know,
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Speaker 2: when you're you're squeezing it out, and it's like it's
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Speaker 2: easy to squeeze everything out, but then you got a
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Speaker 2: lot that's still in there, but you got to be
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Speaker 2: able to shake it.
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Speaker 1: You got to be able to squeeze it.
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Speaker 2: You got to like that's where I am in the
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Speaker 2: course of my career, where I can still I have
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Speaker 2: a lot more in the tank. I still got a
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Speaker 2: lot more left, but you gotta be able to squeeze
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Speaker 2: it out of you. Because it's easy to just say
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go get another one, just like I can
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Speaker 2: go do another career. No, I still got a lot
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Speaker 2: more left, but it's gonna take a lot of work
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Speaker 2: for me to be able to bring it out because
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Speaker 2: I still want to see how far I could be
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Speaker 2: able to take this game and how far I could
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Speaker 2: be able to go. And if it's just this year,
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Speaker 2: then it's just this year. And if I still got
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Speaker 2: next year, then I'm gonna take care of next year
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Speaker 2: when I get there. But right now I'm trying to
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Speaker 2: squeeze everything out that I got left in me.
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Speaker 1: Right now, what you're fighting is the key to squeezing
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Speaker 1: that out, to getting it out of the joke.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's overload. Sometimes it's taking a break. Sometimes it's
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Speaker 2: doing more stuff on the field. Sometimes it's watching more film.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's just you know, being able to study your opponent.
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Speaker 1: It really just varies. It's not like it's one specific
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Speaker 1: thing that I do.
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Speaker 2: But the one thing that I do realize is that
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Speaker 2: if my standards are higher than the team standards for
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Speaker 2: me as an individual, then I know that I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: be more tough on myself. And so if it's like
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Speaker 2: it's one thing for me to win, but if I
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Speaker 2: don't win the way that I want to win, and
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Speaker 2: I lost, and so if you make the wins harder
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Speaker 2: than what the wins look like, like, oh we won
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Speaker 2: the game, yeah, but I just don't want to win
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Speaker 2: the game.
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Speaker 1: I want to win it like this, or I want
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Speaker 1: to win it by this.
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Speaker 2: It takes your mindset to another level. How oppress it
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Speaker 2: have seeing Jackson come back as quickly as then his presence.
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Speaker 1: How much do you think that can help you with
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Speaker 1: DK this year?
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Speaker 2: Man, I think Jackson has been amazing just this whole
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Speaker 2: entire camp. It was unfortunate, you know that he had
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Speaker 2: to go get surgery and stuff. But just like you
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Speaker 2: guys are able to see at the start of practice, like, man,
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Speaker 2: he's out there and you know, he's still making plays,
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Speaker 2: he's still being able to get open and like, this
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Speaker 2: is the type of receiving corps. You know, we heard
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Speaker 2: it from DK yesterday where we're all learning from each
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Speaker 2: other because there's so many things that make each person
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Speaker 2: special and we can be able to take some of
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Speaker 2: those pieces to be able to learn how to add
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Speaker 2: into our own game. And so it's really cool just
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Speaker 2: to be able to watch the type of receiver room
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Speaker 2: that we have this year. You know, I still think
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Speaker 2: that we're a close unit, and I think that it's
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Speaker 2: fun when we go out there. It's not just practice.
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Speaker 2: You know, sometimes it's like, ah, it's practice, but it's
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Speaker 2: like when we're going out there and it's one on one.
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Speaker 2: It's like we're watching like it's not I'm just focused
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Speaker 2: on my rep. It's like I want to see how
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Speaker 2: Jackson does this. I want to see how DK does this.
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Speaker 2: I want to see how you know Bobo does this,
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Speaker 2: or you know, Cody Thompson does this. It's really amazing
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Speaker 2: just to be able to watch. And I think it's
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Speaker 2: really cool because it brings out the best in us
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Speaker 2: because when we're watching film, we're.
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Speaker 1: Like, bro, what made you do that? Like why did
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Speaker 1: you think this?
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Speaker 2: And so I just think it's pretty cool because now
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Speaker 2: you're not looking at work.
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Speaker 1: It's work, but you're looking at it more.
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Speaker 2: It's fun, entertainment, you know, stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to go there.
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Speaker 2: I just I know that every receiver room is different,
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Speaker 2: and I enjoy every receiver room as much as I
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Speaker 2: possibly can. It comes with different personalities, it comes with
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Speaker 2: new friends, it comes with like you know, long lasting relationships.
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Speaker 2: But the biggest thing is I just don't want to
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Speaker 2: compare rooms. But you know, as I'm getting older and
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Speaker 2: I'm going into year nine, I'm more appreciative as I'm
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Speaker 2: going into this room, because, like Kawandre said, we understand
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Speaker 2: that we don't know how much time we got left
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Speaker 2: to be able to play this game, but relationships is
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Speaker 2: really what makes this game go. And so for me,
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Speaker 2: I want to enjoy each and every person that we have,
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Speaker 2: whether it's a receiver, a tight end, a quarterback, running back, lineman,
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Speaker 2: or even everybody on the defensive end, as well as coaches.
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Speaker 2: You know, like coaches, Man, we retire. One day, Pete
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Speaker 2: might call me and be like, hey, man, I want
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Speaker 2: you to coach for me. Like you just never know,
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Speaker 2: and so you want to be able to just keep
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Speaker 2: those relationships just in hand because you never know what
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Speaker 2: those relationships can create when you're done.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if y'all want me to come take y'all job,
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Speaker 1: I'll be a part of what y'all got going. I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna take nobody job. What's the challenge and facing
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Speaker 1: that you want.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he had the Rams had turnover, but at
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Speaker 2: the end of the day, man, it's still the Rams.
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Speaker 2: And then I think I saw something that said, you know,
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Speaker 2: we've like through every game, it's it's been like super
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Speaker 2: super close. So it's not like it's been blowouts and
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Speaker 2: stuff like that you know what it's like when you're
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Speaker 2: facing you know, a divisional game, it's like a rivalry opponent.
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Speaker 2: We know it's gonna be physical, we know it's gonna
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Speaker 2: be violent out there, and so you know, the biggest
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Speaker 2: thing is, like it doesn't matter. You can't take this
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Speaker 2: team lightly because this team came to play. They came
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Speaker 2: to play last year when Stafford didn't play. You know,
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Speaker 2: they played last year when Cup didn't play, and they
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Speaker 2: gave us a run for our money every single time.
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Speaker 2: They almost got it to where we didn't go to
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Speaker 2: the playoffs. So I mean, you can't just look at
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Speaker 2: it and say, oh, well they lost certain guys or
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Speaker 2: certain guys.
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Speaker 1: Aren't playing, like we're gonna be okay.
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Speaker 2: No, like you still got to be able to go
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Speaker 2: play because you can look at it as this is
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Speaker 2: the type of team that we were last year where
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Speaker 2: we still got a lot to prove, where people are
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Speaker 2: looking down on you, people don't think you're gonna have
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Speaker 2: a great team, and.
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Speaker 1: Then look how we turned out.
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Speaker 2: So you got to be able to take every single
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Speaker 2: team seriously because even though they might not have Jalen,
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Speaker 2: you got dbs over there that's trying to make the
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Speaker 2: name for themselves. They're trying to prove who they are,
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Speaker 2: that they deserve to be in this league, and so
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Speaker 2: you got to come with it. What has it been
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Speaker 2: like to see the journey that Trey Brown's been on
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Speaker 2: from the injury to now. Man, it's fun just watching
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Speaker 2: Trey Brown because, like you said, like he's from my hometown,
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Speaker 2: so it's fun to be able to watch that. Obviously
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Speaker 2: we didn't go to the same school. He should have
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Speaker 2: went to the Book of t but just being able
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Speaker 2: to watch him, like we saw what he could do
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Speaker 2: his first year, unfortunate events happened. Then he has to
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Speaker 2: get surgery and he's kind of like trying to get
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Speaker 2: back into, you know, the Trey Brown that we all
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Speaker 2: saw his first year. But being able to come back
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Speaker 2: with a fresh start going into year three, being able
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Speaker 2: to have a chance to fight for a starting role.
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Speaker 1: I think we were able to get to see that.
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Speaker 2: That Trey Brown that everybody knew from the beginning, the
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Speaker 2: reason why we drafted on how physical he is, how
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Speaker 2: smart he is, and how he comes to play every
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Speaker 2: single day. And so I'm excited for him, man, because
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Speaker 2: you know, he's worked for this and I know it's
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Speaker 2: frustrated coming back from just crucial injuries like that. But
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Speaker 2: the biggest thing is, like, that's how you win the
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl because you.
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Speaker 1: Win coming back from injuries.
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Speaker 2: You win coming back from the things that a lot
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Speaker 2: of people don't even know what it's like to get hurt,
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Speaker 2: get surgery, learn.
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Speaker 1: How to walk again, learn how to jog again, learn
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Speaker 1: how to cut it. Then you got.
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Speaker 2: To learn how to play at a high level against
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Speaker 2: other professional athletes. It takes a lot of energy and
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Speaker 2: it also comes with a lot of bad days as well.
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Speaker 2: So just being able to see his mindset and see
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Speaker 2: what he's overcome, you can understand how excited a person
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Speaker 2: can be just being able to watch him as he
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Speaker 2: gets ready for this game this weekend. What does Bobo
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Speaker 2: do to get open and make plays despite not being
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Speaker 2: the fastest receiver.
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Speaker 1: And we're still trying to figure that out ourselves.
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Speaker 2: I mean, whatever he does, it works, and it is
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Speaker 2: amazing to be able to see. And you know, out
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Speaker 2: of I will say all the rookies that I've probably
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Speaker 2: seen just in the course of my career, he is
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Speaker 2: probably number one or number two, But I would probably
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Speaker 2: say right now number one. At you would think he
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Speaker 2: was a vet. The way that he approaches the game,
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Speaker 2: the way he approaches coming in like dude is literally
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Speaker 2: one of the last ones to leave. Dude's literally the
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Speaker 2: last one to leave on the football field. It's literally
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Speaker 2: everything that he does, he's getting himself right. He's in
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Speaker 2: the weight room longer than everybody else. He's in the
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Speaker 2: treatment room taking care of his body. You wouldn't think
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Speaker 2: that somebody who just got out of college coming to
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Speaker 2: the NFL would do nearly all the things that he's
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Speaker 2: doing just to be able to prepare himself to be
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Speaker 2: able to make the team and now being able to
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Speaker 2: play for US on Sundays. Should see him or DK,
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Speaker 2: one of them two you have on.
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Speaker 1: DK yesterday he said you went to K's film festivals
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Speaker 1: that are commercial for the NFL.
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Speaker 2: He's trying to work on being a better communicative public
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Speaker 2: speaker and opening up.
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Speaker 1: Have you seen that in him? Yeah? I saw him
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Speaker 1: in a movie.
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Speaker 2: I saw the preview he's I thought he did pretty good.
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Speaker 2: Now he's been doing he's been doing really well and
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Speaker 2: speaking up. You know when he talks, people listens, and
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Speaker 2: the best part about it is, you know when he
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Speaker 2: talks people also see they see the personality side of
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Speaker 2: him where he has fun and they're able to be like,
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Speaker 2: oh hey, okay, and then when he's serious, it's like, okay,
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Speaker 2: I'm a listen because I know what he's saying has
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Speaker 2: some type of value and a lot of meaning behind it.
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Speaker 2: And so I do think it's pretty cool just for
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Speaker 2: everybody to be able to see that within our room, because,
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Speaker 2: like I said, when you have relationships with one another,
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Speaker 2: and you'll be surprised what people will do for you,
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Speaker 2: Like people will go over and beyond for you if
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Speaker 2: you just have a relationship with him. And it's not
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Speaker 2: just football.
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Speaker 1: And the time between running out of the tunnel on
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Speaker 1: game day and like the kickoff, like in between all
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Speaker 1: that stuff, what's that moment away for It varies. It's
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Speaker 1: all depending on how I feel. A lot of times
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Speaker 1: I'm by myself.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes you know, I'm around DK, sometimes I'm around other players.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, for me, it's just being able to
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Speaker 2: get your mindset ready because like the way I've always
14:49
Speaker 2: looked at me playing football, it's like, you know, I
14:51
Speaker 2: play for my faith in God, and so like when
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Speaker 2: I'm out there, it's like this is this is this
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Speaker 2: is what I call church. You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 2: Like how passes get to go preach? Like this is
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Speaker 2: this is my platform. This is what it's like for
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Speaker 2: me to be able to go out there and to
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Speaker 2: be able to play for God and try to play
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Speaker 2: at a high level. And so like that's just kind
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Speaker 2: of the mindset that I take. So it's like I
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Speaker 2: try not to take it lightly. I try to go
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Speaker 2: out there and I know sometimes I'm gonna have fun
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Speaker 2: when I'm playing it. Sometimes I'm gonna be serious. But
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Speaker 2: at the same time, it's like, yeah, this.
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Speaker 1: Is my job.
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Speaker 2: Yeah this is my career, but this is also what
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Speaker 2: my platform looks like right now. And so because this
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Speaker 2: is something that's been given to me, it's like I
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Speaker 2: want to make sure that I'm doing whatever is necessary
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Speaker 2: and whatever it takes to be able to glorify God.
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Speaker 2: And what I do quickly, Tyler just toothpaste, you squeeze
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Speaker 2: from the bottom of the top based off her of barbecue.
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Speaker 1: Sauce is staying.
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Speaker 2: I squeeze from the bottom of the top. I started
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Speaker 2: at the bottom and work it all the way to
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Speaker 2: the top. Because we're talking about the ones that you
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Speaker 2: got to be able to get out instead of go to.
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Speaker 1: The new ones. Yeah, but if it was just new
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Speaker 1: to the top. Thank good Hide