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Rookie Diary With Eagles Mac McWilliams: "If Football Wasn't My Go-To, Lacrosse Would Definitely Be It" · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We spoke last week about the experience of the Lake,
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  So you finally got to experience the regular season atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: What were takeaways?
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  Speaker 3: Man, it was crazy, but I loved to think about it.
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  Speaker 2: Or Philly got some great fans.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they came out supporting the team, and it
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  was big for you know, we came I came home
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  with the with the dove. So that's the That's the
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  main thing about it. But I say the fans, they
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  was really into it and I loved to think about it.
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  Speaker 1: What was your pre which what is your pregame routine personally?
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  Speaker 2: Like, what do you have anything that you go through?
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  Speaker 4: Well, when I first get there, like I just go
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  in the field and just sit there for like ten
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  to fifteen minute, you know, just getting my mind right,
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  listen to my music and things like that. And once
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  I get back in the locker room, you know it's
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  go time.
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  Speaker 2: I get my little stretches and things like that.
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  Speaker 4: I get them in and then once I go out
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  on the feel like give me a little dynamic warm
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  up and things like that, you know, just to get
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  ready for the game.
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  Speaker 1: How many hours before the game do you get out there?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I'll say about two or three.
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  Speaker 1: Now do you d Have you ever experienced anything like
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  the lightning delay?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Yes, I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have plenty of while I was at my
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  old school UC.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we were in Florida, so you know, we
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  were right there by the water and things, so it
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  was a lot of uh.
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  Speaker 2: Lightning delays and things like that.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, just making sure that I'm staying hereoky
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  and making sure I still keep my body right, that's
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  the way you're ordering.
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  Speaker 1: What's the longest delay that you've had time wise?
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  Speaker 4: I'll say when I was at UC, who played that was?
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  Matter of fact, I think it was Pyu.
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  Speaker 2: Uh we had a like a two hour and thirty wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So for this one, what did you do to
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  to stay loose and stay engaged? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Get during that? I think it was like an hour
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  and three legs.
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  Speaker 4: Like I was saying, mom once you once you get
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  that moment, you kN it's really unexpected. So once you
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  get into that moment, once you really put it in
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  your head, like you got to be sitting here for
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  a long time, you it just makes you do something.
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  You know, just can keep your body on, get your
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  freenses in, get the air gun and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he any family come out to the game.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yes, Uh, I had a lot of family, My
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  mom and dad, my granny and my grandpa on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: They all came up.
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  Speaker 3: It was work fun where it was fish uh fih Nah.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't come out to that, he had work. Uh,
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  but he'll definitely be here the next home game.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So what were your impressions having that weekend to watch football?
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  Speaker 3: Ah?
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  Speaker 2: It was great, man.
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  Speaker 4: Now that I'm here in the NFL, you know, watching
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  other teams play and you know, just I'll say, just
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  keeping the right mindset and going out there and just
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  being the best that you can be. You know, it's
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  a lot of great cats out here, and you know,
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  just uh me recognizing that game and applying it to minds,
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  that's the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 1: So it set the scene for me last year February.
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  How did you watch Super Bowl fifty nine?
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  Speaker 4: I actually I've watched a little bit of it, but
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  I really couldn't lock in cause once I once I
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  seen it go twenty one zero, I turned it out.
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  Speaker 2: I knew it was over after that.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a little What was your immediate takeaways
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  without obviously knowing that these would be your.
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  Speaker 3: Teammates defense win championships.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever did you see anything that you were like, yeah,
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  I can play in that defense or I would love
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  to be in the defensive.
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  Speaker 2: Always.
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  Speaker 4: You know, once you see, once you see guys doing
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  the right things, you know, you always wander like could
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  that be me?
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  Speaker 2: Or I want I wanna be that one day?
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  Speaker 4: So you know, I just watching them guys go out
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  there and fight to the whistleblow, fight to the last man.
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  Speaker 2: I loved everything about it.
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  Speaker 1: Have you had a chance to score Phildelphia yet?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I know I haven't.
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  Speaker 4: I'm I'm not i'm r. I'm really not that outside
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  type of guy like realing home. But uh, sooner or later,
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  I w I'll go outside.
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  Speaker 1: It even restaurants, chief steaks, anything.
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  Speaker 2: Like none of the Nah, i'm'a do that? This guy? Uh,
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  how I got you? I got you?
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  Speaker 1: So I understand you're also a video game fan. What's
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  uh what's your video game of choice? And do you
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  get after it with your teammates online?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Well, me and Drew we we played a we played
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  a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: But i'm'a really like a ain C double a callor
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  due the type guy, especially when the first drop.
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  Speaker 2: When I was in the game. Uh, I would do.
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  Speaker 4: AINC double A like constantly, so I'll just say it's
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  double a, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, call of duty, Well, call of duty is really
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  my favorite though.
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  Speaker 1: Did you give yourself a boost the ninety nine?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Facts, I did do that. Uh definitely. That was
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  the first thing I did once I got on there.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, put all my ratings up, everything up, and I
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  was ninety nine.
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  Speaker 1: I know that if football wasn't your profession, you would
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  like to play lacrosse.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so what drew you to that sport?
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  Speaker 4: Just the physicality and it's really something gotta love something
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  to do with football.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, like if football was it my my
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  go to, lacrosse will.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely be it.
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  Speaker 4: It's not as big as a football you know, but
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  you know, just being physical and playing with your teammate, that's.
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  Speaker 3: The main thing about it.
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  Speaker 2: I love everything about my teammates.
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  Speaker 4: I do anything for him, so, you know, just having
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  that mindset of just you know, I'm a team guy.
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  Speaker 2: I want this team first settlement.
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  Speaker 1: What I found interesting about you is that you see
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  you like the general manager aspect of the job and
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  that's something that you have an interest in. What is
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  it about that, profess like, y are you a good evaluator?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: What is it about the job that really er drawn to?
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  Speaker 4: I'll just say, m making a cause, you know, making
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  a making a making a right cause.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, uh, gems, you know they it takes a
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  lot for them, you know, just to boil down and
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  just soak in and just really think about what goes
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  on in the processes and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm really I would I like to think a
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  little deeper.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why I said I'd get to the manager.
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  Speaker 1: So I assume you take your job doing when you're
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  doing NCAA very seriously. When you're being a g yeah,
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  definitely what what in your mind makes a good GM?
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  Speaker 2: Accountability? You know, and love.
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  Speaker 4: I'll definitely say, uh if you if you guys don't
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  love you, then it's gonna be a a sad sight.
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  Speaker 1: Defensive back George Christian Parker is somebody that I've talked
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  to quite a bit over the past couple of years,
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  and he's made a good impression on a lot of
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  younger defensive backs. How has he helped your game?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? He he he Didne helped it a lot, you know,
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  just me coming in being a rooker that I am, uh,
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  getting with him early before meetings and early before practice
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  and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: It really helped with game, uh to a to a t.
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  Speaker 4: You know, well, I'm still learning a lot of things,
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  but you know, just getting with him and you know,
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  learning the basis. That's the That's the main thing about it.
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  Cause once I get the basis, everything it's just football.
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  Then it once I get everything slowed down, feel like
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  I could play with my fastest.
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  Speaker 1: What are those sessions like when you guys have the
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  one on one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it it's great. Man.
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  Speaker 4: We take a lot of time, We take a lot
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  of deep thinking. It really don't mainly it be about football,
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  cause you know that's what we're here for. But you
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  know it's about He talks to me about life too,
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  and just just having that guy, having that coach on
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  y on your side, knowing that he's here for you.
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  Speaker 3: Owning off the field, that's the most important thing.
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  Speaker 1: What's your dynamic when you're on the sideline, Jerry, are
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  you giving feedback to quen Yon the dory what you're
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  seeing out there?
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  Speaker 2: How does that work? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Always anything that I can do to help the guys.
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  You know, I remember out there and do it and
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  it's the vice versas for them.
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  Speaker 1: What stands out to you about the Kansas City offense?
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  Speaker 2: Pat Mahmes, that's all. H How are you how will
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  you be spending the uh the flight? Watch him watching?
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  What's on your pregame playlist? A lot of Young Boy
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  and a lot of Kodac. What's any particular song I
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  probably go to, no flocking or strilling? All right?
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  Speaker 1: And lastly, what's one thing you're looking to improve on
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  this week?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I'll just say my focus.
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  Speaker 4: I'm very locked in, but I feel like I'll be
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  getting out of placement sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my mom my mind likes to wonder.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit, so, you know, just having that same
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  focus and just staying the course.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I know it's a hard question, but how do
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  you how do you help that?
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  Speaker 2: Like, how do you impact your focus? How do you
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  what can you do?
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  Speaker 4: Really just locking into myself, watching film, you know, getting
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  my keys and things of the day.
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  Speaker 2: All right, man, I appreciate Thank you. Y