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Press Pass | Cisco: "I'm focused on attacking the ball." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, coach said live and don't hit the knees.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I heard. So it was first play um
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  Speaker 1: and he was on the sideline tiptoe. I know we
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  Speaker 1: made eye contact, so it wasn't cheap, but uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's good work getting getting that live work. I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was glad that coach uh said we don'ta go
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  Speaker 1: um and you know me and Travis good uh no beef. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I really didn't think I hit him that are. It
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  Speaker 1: was the reaction from like Ray Shawn and everything, like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was like I hit him like that. It was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you hit him like dad, so and I saw what
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling. It was. It was decent. I don't feel
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  Speaker 1: too bad though. You know, your your confidence growing day
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  Speaker 1: after day. It just seems like you're getting better out
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  Speaker 1: there every time we're out there. Yeah. Absolutely, it comes
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  Speaker 1: with reps, comes with tim um, just being around professionals
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  Speaker 1: and and letting my mentality grow um and then becoming
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  Speaker 1: the leaders, like it's what I'm striving for right now.
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  Speaker 1: So my confidence has been growing in that aspect um
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  Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to, you know, more growth you
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  Speaker 1: need before the season starts. I think you guys have
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  Speaker 1: another live practice next Monday. You just need a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of it to get ready. Or do you appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the contact that the coach gives you on the field
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  Speaker 1: here the practice, it's it's probably what you get the
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  Speaker 1: least when it comes to practicing football. So, UM, you
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  Speaker 1: know when you get these these practice to embrace that.
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  Speaker 1: And he says the song ago like everybody's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: on the same type of time. UM, I embrace that,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm glad that we get to do it because, UM, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would say you need a few times before the
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  Speaker 1: before the game just to know such a passes how
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  Speaker 1: they like to say it, and and so I agree,
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  Speaker 1: I think the same, you know, give them the circumstances
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  Speaker 1: under time adjustment to your first year, do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you're finally setting settling into the kind of football
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  Speaker 1: player you envision yourself to be in the NFL? Yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a good way to put it. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of just like becoming myself. Um. Coaches that allow
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  Speaker 1: you to be yourself, and you know they embrace, um,
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  Speaker 1: you just being yourself and your personality on the field. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and the guys are starting to understand type of person
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  Speaker 1: I am. You know, I like to have fun on
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  Speaker 1: the field, like the joke on the outlines, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: all about business at the end of the day. Said
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  Speaker 1: Andre takes a lot of calculated risks out there, but
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  Speaker 1: he's usually right. Would you say that Trevor's assessment in
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  Speaker 1: that regard is correct? I would, Um, so far, I've
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  Speaker 1: been fortunate at practice. Um, when I do take a
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  Speaker 1: risk that's like a little bit outside of what the
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  Speaker 1: coaches are teaching. Um, I'm able to put myself in
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  Speaker 1: a position to you know, play off my teammates and
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  Speaker 1: you know it all it all fits together, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what it's about. You don't want to play outside this
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  Speaker 1: game so far that you put other guys in bad positions. So, um, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've been working at and it's been it's been good.
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  Speaker 1: Was it frustrating last year not getting on as the
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  Speaker 1: field as much? In hindsight now you reflect that on
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  Speaker 1: it and not getting the reps? Maybe that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people wanted, uh, you to get absolutely mainly because
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm coming off a c L, so I
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  Speaker 1: miss the season prior. You know, you want to have
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  Speaker 1: your comeback season. That following season. So to come back
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  Speaker 1: and then not be had the opportunity, as I imagine,
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  Speaker 1: what's frustrating. But um, you know, it's all part of
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  Speaker 1: the process. We got you know, papers about a month
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  Speaker 1: ago in Charlotte and he was surprised you didn't play
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  Speaker 1: as much last year as well, but he said you
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  Speaker 1: were mentally one of the fastest players who's ever seen
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  Speaker 1: when he came to understanding responsibility and trusting your instincts.
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  Speaker 1: Just interested in your response to that. Yeah, um, shout
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  Speaker 1: out the coach, appreciate him, and um yeah, when I
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  Speaker 1: got to Syracuse, I came from a school that had
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  Speaker 1: m really advanced me in terms of like football knowledge
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  Speaker 1: that I am the academy, So um, I had the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to started a freshman, like my first day of
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  Speaker 1: springball as a starter. So um, you know, they put
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on me an aspect, and I
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  Speaker 1: was able to handle it. So yeah, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: to see it's gonna get a lot better. And then
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  Speaker 1: you guys, it's pretty good out here for two weeks,
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  Speaker 1: do you guys? Heal it in a lot of room
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  Speaker 1: on the bus wherever that you guys gotta came to
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  Speaker 1: be a pretty good defense. Absolutely, absolutely, that's the manset.
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  Speaker 1: The monset is to be your top defense. That's just
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  Speaker 1: that's how we've been caring ourselves. We've been talking about
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  Speaker 1: and that's the standard. So when we have a day
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  Speaker 1: that's not to our standard, we talked about it and
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  Speaker 1: we say it's not acceptable. And you know, like even
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  Speaker 1: these preseason games, we're looking to have a standard. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, wins and lawsons are on the biggest thing
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to preseason sometimes, but um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're approaching it as as like we gotta gotta look
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  Speaker 1: a certain way. I would top five rushing defense. Is
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  Speaker 1: that what you guys talk about. We talked about being
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  Speaker 1: in the top of the league. So you know whatever categories,
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  Speaker 1: um follow that. You know, that's that's what means some
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  Speaker 1: of us do for this defense. What does he mean for? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what I'm seeing from Arten is, um, he's a pass rusher. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And I've seen a lot of different types of moves
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  Speaker 1: and techniques from him. Like he seems like a guy
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  Speaker 1: that you know that's his specialty. So um, yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: he's looked really good, like in the locker room leadership wise,
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  Speaker 1: that yeah, good dude, me and him go back and
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  Speaker 1: forth and joke a lot. So he's a personality guy.
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  Speaker 1: Would I would say, um, someone that's been around the league,
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  Speaker 1: been on winning teams, and you know he'll express it
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  Speaker 1: out here. He'll bring us up from times and and
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  Speaker 1: be vocal and you appreciate that because you know he
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  Speaker 1: comes from UM winning background. You guys just make absolutely
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  Speaker 1: absolutely starting secondary to get those game reps as a
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  Speaker 1: unit out on the field very preseason. It's crucial. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I know for me, UM, I I still
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  Speaker 1: got things I'm working on, so UM, I'm focusing on
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  Speaker 1: that so that when when Game one comes, UM, you
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  Speaker 1: know it might not look be perfect, but I know
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  Speaker 1: I put my time into it. UM in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of situations because offseason and even practice you can only
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  Speaker 1: do so much. UM, So I appreciate these preseason games.
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  Speaker 1: I really do regularly hits that judgment team before or
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  Speaker 1: after practice. I mean, you're planning to get your hands
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  Speaker 1: on a couple of passes this year, you got a
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  Speaker 1: number of mine. UM, I know what number gets you
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  Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl? But UM, do do I have
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  Speaker 1: a specific number that I'll be mad about if I'm
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  Speaker 1: hitting though? UM? I know for me, I I'm focusing
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  Speaker 1: on attacking the ball when it's in the air. Make
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  Speaker 1: the players. Uh ye, gotta check last year city. I
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  Speaker 1: look recently, Um it's it's around. It's around there though, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: sixth round there you see that this team seven. You
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  Speaker 1: look at that and just kind of like shake your head.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah. I mean you have to because you know
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  Speaker 1: that's that's not what you want. You want seven and
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  Speaker 1: sevens for yourself, you know. I mean that's that's what
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  Speaker 1: every dB thinks and whatever dB wants. So, UM, we
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  Speaker 1: gotta do the right thing in the back end. That's
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  Speaker 1: more than just making the place when they come. You
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  Speaker 1: want to be able to be in positioned to like
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  Speaker 1: make a quarterback throw where he doesn't want to go. UM,
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  Speaker 1: do those types of things, and that's what we've been
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  Speaker 1: working on under I think people know you as a
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  Speaker 1: ball hawk, turnover god. But if we saw your tackle
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  Speaker 1: pretty well the other day, I mean most people label
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  Speaker 1: you as a good open field tackler. I guess you
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  Speaker 1: kind of have to be the last line of defense. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what people will label me as. I
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  Speaker 1: know what UM I aim to be, and that's a
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  Speaker 1: complete safety so that's something that I have to do
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  Speaker 1: as a complete safety. I gotta make those open field tackles. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I've been working on it so year. This year, UM
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  Speaker 1: me and Josh Man last year, I mean to as
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  Speaker 1: much Josh likes me more now though I appreciate Josh.
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  Speaker 1: Um No, Josh is a really good dude. UM Me
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  Speaker 1: and him been going back and forth about what it
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  Speaker 1: got to look like. Josh has a lot of faith
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  Speaker 1: in me, so I appreciate that. I actually rando to
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  Speaker 1: him in Times Square random day in the offseason, and
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  Speaker 1: that's how I knew it was meant to be. This year.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have a great time between us. Your friendship
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  Speaker 1: has been really instrumental to him and his growth. Can
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  Speaker 1: you just describe your friendship with him and how you've
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  Speaker 1: seen him grow from last year? Yeah, Tyson. Tyson was
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  Speaker 1: one of those guys that he just keeps his head
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  Speaker 1: down no matter what the result is. And so I've
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  Speaker 1: learned that I've learned from him in that aspect of
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  Speaker 1: me and him been good friends even from pre drive
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  Speaker 1: until now. Um. We pray together, We talked about a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff, and we we also locker buddy, so
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  Speaker 1: we joke, and that's my guy. You know, we come
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  Speaker 1: from the same drive class, a lot of things we
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  Speaker 1: have been common naturally, so we're able to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: go off that and we're really good friends that with