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Ep. 6: The mutual respect of career competitors Michael McCrary & Tony Boselli | Boselli: A Podcast Series · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The Hall of Fame, will would truly be the high
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  Speaker 1: speed of little arnor I can have as a as
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  Speaker 1: a football player. Welcome to a celebration of Jacksonville Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: left tackle Tony Baselli's induction in the National Football League
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fames. What makes it even more special for
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  Speaker 1: me is I want to represent this organization and this
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  Speaker 1: fan base because I know it's important to them as well.
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  Speaker 1: For them to care that much means a tonu to me.
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  Speaker 1: Join Jaguars dot Com senior writer John Hosier as he
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  Speaker 1: sits down with the people who know Tony both professionally
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  Speaker 1: and personally. Former defensive end Michael McCrary. It's no joke, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I was a reporter for the Florida Times
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  Speaker 1: Union back in the nighties. We talked about this a
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  Speaker 1: little bit off the air, um and out of all
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  Speaker 1: the people that I would interview Tony about back in
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  Speaker 1: the day, Bruce Smith, Jason Taylor, I would list defensive
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  Speaker 1: ends to him all the time. He always came back
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  Speaker 1: to you as the defensive lineman that he had the
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  Speaker 1: most respect for in the NFL. I'm wondering if the
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  Speaker 1: feeling was mutual. I assume it was absolutely mutual. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: What was it about those matchups that was so special?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, Tony shouldn't have been a defensive player. Um.
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  Speaker 1: What made it so special is he gave it every snap. UM,
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  Speaker 1: very very very challenging to get a sack on on Tony.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so you talked about the weapons that Jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: had back in those days where you had Fred Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Smith, mark for Now. Well, yes those were weapons,
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  Speaker 1: but those weapons would not have been able to have
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  Speaker 1: launched from the launching pads unless you had Tony in
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  Speaker 1: the equation. I mean he was. He was a phenomenal
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  Speaker 1: pass blocker to protect her now so he can get
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  Speaker 1: the ball over to to Jimmy Smith, phenomenal run blocker
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  Speaker 1: so he could create those lanes for Fred Taylor and
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  Speaker 1: get around the corner. Tony had excellent footwork, he had
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  Speaker 1: excellent technique. He was very cunning, smart player, patient player.
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  Speaker 1: Everything you would want an offensive lineman. And the rarest
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  Speaker 1: part to find is somebody that has all of those
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  Speaker 1: all of those assets, but it's also very aggressive, has
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  Speaker 1: a mindset, are very aggressive. I'm going to get it
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  Speaker 1: done no matter what it takes. He's going to get
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  Speaker 1: the job done, and he will break it down once
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  Speaker 1: and up at a time and and do whatever it
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  Speaker 1: takes to get that to execute that play no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: And to go up against somebody like that who can
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  Speaker 1: consistently challenge you play and the play out over and
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  Speaker 1: over again was very interesting to me because that was rare.
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  Speaker 1: You normally don't see that with offensive lineman. And I
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  Speaker 1: loved it because he only made me a better player.
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  Speaker 1: He you know, that was my challenge for the year, was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, most offensive lineman. I would put on my
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  Speaker 1: refrigerator before the start of the season, how many sacks
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to I'm gonna get on him average? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I always had like three beside all the offensive lineman,
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  Speaker 1: but Tony, I had to be realistic and true to myself.
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  Speaker 1: I knew there was there was a good chance that
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  Speaker 1: I might just get one. Of course, like I never
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  Speaker 1: say zero, but I mean I knew that I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to work. I was going to have to work,
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  Speaker 1: and he made me work like nobody else. People talk about, oh,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, you gotta go up against Tony Boselli this week,
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  Speaker 1: Well for me, it was it was I loved it
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  Speaker 1: because he was He was such a challenge to get
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  Speaker 1: around and defeat. UM. I knew I had my work
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  Speaker 1: cut out for me, and and it became an event
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  Speaker 1: that I looked forward to every year. I was up
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  Speaker 1: for the challenge and I knew that he was gonna
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  Speaker 1: be up for the challenge. And the respect was incredible.
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  Speaker 1: We never there was all the years we played against
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  Speaker 1: each other, and we were very physical towards one another.
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  Speaker 1: UM all the years we played against each other, we
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  Speaker 1: never talked smack to one another. There was always this
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  Speaker 1: element of respect. I respected him tremendously UM, and I
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  Speaker 1: assumed vice versa. He never talked an he smacked to me.
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  Speaker 1: There was no need to. It was we knew what
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  Speaker 1: we were trying to do. He was trying to stop
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  Speaker 1: me and I was trying to stop him from stopping me.
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  Speaker 1: And it was clear cut. And we didn't talk before
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  Speaker 1: the game. We didn't. I didn't even want to look
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  Speaker 1: at him, and I'm sure the same way he didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to look at me. We just want to get
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  Speaker 1: on the field and get this thing going. And after
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  Speaker 1: the game there was the utmost respect. And when we
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  Speaker 1: would come and shake hands, no matter who had the
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  Speaker 1: better hand that day. Um, if he destroyed me that day,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, I would show him that respect vice versa.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I started to lose a little faith in
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame because I'm saying to myself, how
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  Speaker 1: can Willie roth and Jonathan all did you know? There's
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  Speaker 1: one person who's missing out of that group, and that
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  Speaker 1: was Tony all day long and those you know, Allden
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  Speaker 1: and Willie Rove absolutely deserved to be in there, but
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  Speaker 1: Tony deserved to be in there with him. He was
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  Speaker 1: part of that the triangle. Those are only three offensive
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  Speaker 1: tackles I could ever that I can even remember. And
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  Speaker 1: obviously there was a reason why I remember those three
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  Speaker 1: offense tappers. They are very good there, outstanding, They stood up,
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  Speaker 1: stood out amongst all the other players. So there was
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  Speaker 1: no dialogue at all during the games. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 1: fascinated by that because I get it from everything I
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  Speaker 1: had heard about you. You were a smack guy and
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  Speaker 1: neither was he. But was there ever any interaction between plays,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. Yes, yes, as we got older and wiser,
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  Speaker 1: and this was I laughed when I when I when
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  Speaker 1: I think of Sally, I I remember remember one play. Clearly,
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  Speaker 1: this is towards the end of our careers, and Tony
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  Speaker 1: comes and lines up right before the ball is snapped.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of like does a quick like little lean
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  Speaker 1: to the inside as though he was about to go
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  Speaker 1: all sides, and he's telling me that he's gonna that
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  Speaker 1: he's going to block down. That's where he's trying to
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  Speaker 1: get me to believe. And when he did that, I
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  Speaker 1: just bust out laughing. I couldn't help it. It It was
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  Speaker 1: right for the snap. I bust out laughing. I said,
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  Speaker 1: do you really think I'm gonna fall for that? And
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  Speaker 1: he just bust out laughing. We're both laughing for the
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  Speaker 1: snap of the ball. I'm like, come on, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a rookie. You can't like trick me in to believe,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going down when you're gonna reach block me. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But I remember those type of situations, and those are
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  Speaker 1: special because there was like, you know, these are two
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  Speaker 1: individuals that were really going at each UND's throat, and
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  Speaker 1: but yet you have this moment in time where we're
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  Speaker 1: just laughing with one another. Because we had this respect
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  Speaker 1: for one another, they were able to laugh about it.
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  Speaker 1: But then literally milliseconds later. It is like alision and
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  Speaker 1: just battling, you know, whatever the play was, a pass
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  Speaker 1: or run, it was always a physical confrontation. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what I respected most about Tony. I remember, you know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times would do whatever it took to
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  Speaker 1: get to the quarterback, and sometimes I would I would
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  Speaker 1: live him throw me on the ground because I knew
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  Speaker 1: once he would literally be crawling in the air. When
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  Speaker 1: I hit the ground, I would start crawling and he
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  Speaker 1: would come jump on my back and he would pin
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  Speaker 1: me like a wrestler down on the ground, and obviously
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  Speaker 1: the referees would start throwing flags and he would jump
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  Speaker 1: up screaming, what am I supposed to do? Like what
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  Speaker 1: am I supposed to be? But he would do anything
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  Speaker 1: it took to prevent me from getting to that quarterback
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  Speaker 1: if it was I mean whatever, And that's what I
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  Speaker 1: respected and appreciate about appreciate it about to sell these
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  Speaker 1: play He was a he was a grinder. He was
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  Speaker 1: an old school physical offensive lineman. But on top of that,
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  Speaker 1: he was very very smart, very patient, very difficult to
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  Speaker 1: trick Tony into any type of plays or false reads.
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  Speaker 1: He was He was just a very smart player. It was,
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was just an incredible challenge overall because
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  Speaker 1: of all of those attributes he had. He was a
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  Speaker 1: perfect offensive tackle and he made everybody around him great.
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  Speaker 1: He made Fred Taylor you know all those rushing yards,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Tony's part of that, Jimmy Smith, all those
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  Speaker 1: receiving yards. Tony's part of that now and Bernell's left
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  Speaker 1: handed quarterback. I mean, they had a little scheme where
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  Speaker 1: Tony lit. You know, it was pretty obvious Tony will
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  Speaker 1: cover the outside a little more than the inside. When
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  Speaker 1: did you come inside? So Burnell, but run outside and
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  Speaker 1: it would just cut you, you know, but he was
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  Speaker 1: kind of feeding you, kind of luring you to the inside.
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  Speaker 1: He lured a lot of rookies into that and they
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  Speaker 1: got caught. But yeah, it was yeah, when you did
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  Speaker 1: get the best of him, how did you get him?
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  Speaker 1: Was there? I mean? I mean, I was there a
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  Speaker 1: kryptonite here? Or was it just a matter you had
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  Speaker 1: to grind? And and advantage of any grind? This is like, really,
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  Speaker 1: this is a situation where it's something times things happened,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Brunell, I don't know how me. I had to
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  Speaker 1: work my tail on every last one of those sacks.
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  Speaker 1: I had worked my tail off for him against him,
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  Speaker 1: and it was rare because most of I was pretty
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  Speaker 1: much double teamed on by pretty much most teams when
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  Speaker 1: it came to passing, and they would they would leave
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  Speaker 1: Baseli one on one with me sometimes, and I I
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  Speaker 1: felt a little offended they just left one guy on me.
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  Speaker 1: But he was able to do the job. So what
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  Speaker 1: can you do. Yeah, that's an attribute to him and
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  Speaker 1: his skills and the confidence of the team had to
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  Speaker 1: leave him alone one on one. I remember him and
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  Speaker 1: Ben Coleman. It had to have been I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if this was a ninety seven first Yeah, I remember
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  Speaker 1: been calmly clearly he they had they were up like
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  Speaker 1: forty to nothing and before halftime and Ben was like,
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  Speaker 1: havn't y'all had enough? Might as well just stay in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room. Yeah, then he could talk to actually
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  Speaker 1: get crushed by Jacksonville and then it got real competitive,
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  Speaker 1: real competitive. My first time going up against Tony was
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle out here. Yeah, that was the guy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he hadn't. He was the only one in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: who had never had a sack on him yet, right, right, right, right,
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  Speaker 1: he had he had no sacks. No one had gotten
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  Speaker 1: a sack on him yet. That was the introduction that
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  Speaker 1: you got him. That did for three all different moves,
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  Speaker 1: Ben move moves. He was furious. He was like, he
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  Speaker 1: was furious and so doing that to him, he knew
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  Speaker 1: that that was always something that could happen to him again,
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  Speaker 1: so he he would have made sure that never happened again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was probably when he started talking about you so much. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was It was good. That was a Sunday night
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: game out here in the stadium, right, that was down here.
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  Speaker 1: You guys try out across the country. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I had forgotten he had many but that's right. He
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  Speaker 1: came out of that. He was he always talked about
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  Speaker 1: you after that. I know that. Yeah, yeah, heah. He
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  Speaker 1: he let you. He let you go on the inside
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  Speaker 1: because Burnell was so dangerous. So that was that's what
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  Speaker 1: you know that that really made the challenging because he
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  Speaker 1: he knew he really just needed to protect the outside,
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  Speaker 1: his outside shoulder against the outside rush for Brunell because
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  Speaker 1: the inside, especially in the early before they started telling
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  Speaker 1: Burnell to slow down and stopped running the ball. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you go as soon as you come inside. Brunette was
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  Speaker 1: out long right around, right around you, so you had
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  Speaker 1: to rush. You had to rush the outside shoulder and
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  Speaker 1: you had to um. You had to hit his outside
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  Speaker 1: shoulder hard so he couldn't push you out and Burnell
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  Speaker 1: will come underneath of you. So to keep that pocket
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  Speaker 1: nice and tight, which was which was a challenge because
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  Speaker 1: he knew you just couldn't go inside. It was too
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  Speaker 1: dangerous to go inside. On the side, it was very
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  Speaker 1: difficult to execute an inside moved on Baselly with Burnell
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  Speaker 1: with the left hand quarterback who ran better than any
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  Speaker 1: other quarterback in the leadue. It was just it was
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  Speaker 1: almost like a non starter. You wouldn't even try. It
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  Speaker 1: was just too dangerous because Brunell was too dangerous. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as Burnell see you and Tony you did a
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  Speaker 1: good job to keeping you in once you came. Once
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  Speaker 1: he lured you in, it was over. Brnell would be
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  Speaker 1: outside of you. That'd be ten yards first down. Do
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  Speaker 1: you guys, I mean, do you guys know each other
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  Speaker 1: to this day? Do you ever speak to him at all?
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  Speaker 1: Or is it just one of those things where both
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  Speaker 1: of you sort of know that guy is out there
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  Speaker 1: and you'll be forever linked in that sense. I know
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  Speaker 1: he's out there. I called Tony a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: We spoke when he was UM, when he was up
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  Speaker 1: for the Hall of Fame and share with him. I
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  Speaker 1: felt my feelings about him and my respect for him.
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  Speaker 1: And this is before he was turned down. But I
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  Speaker 1: just was wishing him the best of luck, voting for him.
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  Speaker 1: UM still feel that way. Incredible player, best player I
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  Speaker 1: played up against. Uh yeah, my later years for sure. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and ton of again, tremendous respect, is ton of hard
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  Speaker 1: m and again that's that's the rare part. You don't
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  Speaker 1: see a lot with offensive tackles that aggressive every single
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  Speaker 1: snap is just impatient. You know, a lot of defense,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pass rushers, they're they're trying to get
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  Speaker 1: you to do one thing so that you can, you know,
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  Speaker 1: counter with another move. He wouldn't bite, very patient, smart
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  Speaker 1: and again very aggressive on the run. That was rare
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  Speaker 1: to that was very rare. That's what that's where he
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  Speaker 1: stood out. He was an exceptional pass protector, but he
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  Speaker 1: was a physical one blocker. This is what was This
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  Speaker 1: is what was intriguing to me because I had not
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  Speaker 1: seen that before. Usually there's you're good at one you know,
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  Speaker 1: either a great pass protector or you know he's a
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  Speaker 1: great run blocker. If you're a great run block, he
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  Speaker 1: was usually shorter, squattier. You get power because you have
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  Speaker 1: lowered your lower to the ground with Tony's height, and
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  Speaker 1: that's that's challenge me sometimes. But he was able to
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  Speaker 1: get really low. His technique was sound and would square
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  Speaker 1: you up. And I mean I think his I think
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  Speaker 1: Tony's impision was to take a defensive lineman dropt into
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  Speaker 1: the end zone because that's what it felt like. He
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  Speaker 1: was trying to do it to me every time he
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  Speaker 1: got ahold of me, So it was yeah, that was
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  Speaker 1: that was why he stood out because he was sound
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  Speaker 1: the past protection and he was sound on the run.
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  Speaker 1: And that's I mean. When I say sound, that means
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a threat. This is a guy
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  Speaker 1: who literally will and I've seen it pick defensive lineman up,
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  Speaker 1: driving back five yards back there with the linebackers and
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  Speaker 1: drop him to the ground. I like that. That's the
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  Speaker 1: old school nasty. And he was nasty too. Tony was nasty.
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  Speaker 1: He was very nasty. That's why I respected him. He
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  Speaker 1: was that's my phone with defensive lignment, he should have
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  Speaker 1: been a defensive line. But for all the nastiness, no
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  Speaker 1: extra stuff, you know, I mean, nasty to me is
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  Speaker 1: a is a good word. Um, not dirty, nasty meaning
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  Speaker 1: he would do whatever it took. He would just briant.
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  Speaker 1: I mean when when you just have that fire and
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  Speaker 1: intensity coming out of you and you just want to
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  Speaker 1: do whatever it takes, you want to throw this guy down,
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  Speaker 1: you know, which I was. Again, I've seen him throw
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  Speaker 1: got down, like literally throw him down the ground. And
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: but he wasn't dirty. He was just very physical and
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: that's what I appreciated about him. And he had a
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  Speaker 1: little nasty this and too. He was tough. You fight
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  Speaker 1: you too. If you're gonna go there, he go there?
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  Speaker 1: No problem? Did you guys both? There we go there?
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  Speaker 1: Or was that always? Not? Really? With all I mean,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there was probably a little back and forth.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I have to assume that, yeah, I mean didn't last long,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: you know, probably you know after the play stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: again next play, nothing but respect. I never ever felt
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: as though he was doing anything dirty to me. He
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  Speaker 1: was playing football the way it should be played. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I just wasn't used to running into that
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  Speaker 1: type of situation with any offensive lignement that that nasty mindset,
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  Speaker 1: excellent technique, calm, but again, can could dominate on the
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  Speaker 1: run and the pass, I mean on on and he
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  Speaker 1: was a threat on a reach block. I mean a
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  Speaker 1: lot of offensive tackles. They can't execute that reach block
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  Speaker 1: on an end who's outside of them to executed reach
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  Speaker 1: blox very difficult. Um. And he was, and he had
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  Speaker 1: his again his stance. You know, obviously I was. I
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  Speaker 1: was studying him every year, and I'm looking for any
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  Speaker 1: type of tell sign he was sound in that area
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  Speaker 1: as well. He couldn't. He wasn't gonna give me anything.
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  Speaker 1: I was looking for any little thing to get an
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  Speaker 1: advantage on him. I couldn't find it. He covered up,
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  Speaker 1: covered up all those areas well. That's pretty rare too.
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  Speaker 1: That's uh. When you hear and I've got a couple
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  Speaker 1: more for it. And I appreciate your time on this, um.
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  Speaker 1: When you hear and he said in publicly, so I'm
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: sure you heard it that you were the defensive lineman
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  Speaker 1: he most respected. I'm assuming that's a great compliment from
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: him for you, that's a great compliment from telling me, yes,
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  Speaker 1: of course, from the Hall of Famer. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: a lot to you. It does. I like, I believe
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  Speaker 1: I tried to play football the way that it was intended,
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  Speaker 1: and it's I think I think most players, the ones
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  Speaker 1: that really loved the game, what we really played for
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  Speaker 1: is respect for my peers. And coming from Tony, that
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: means a lot. That means a lot, that means more
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: than anything. Well, and it probably goes through that saying
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: that I imagine for you, it'll be a cool moment
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: when he goes in. I mean you'll be happy for him, obviously, absolutely,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I'll be cheering for him, and and and I'll be uh,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I'm sure I'll have a flashback of him chasing me
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to the running back and I knew that if he
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: got to me before I got to the running back
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and tapping him, that he was gonna tackle me. I
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: mean literally, I'm running to the running back four yards
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: down the field and southly right beside me. It's like
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: we're doing a sprint, but he's coming for me. Great memories,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: great great battles. Yeah, those are the kind of relationships
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: you alluded to it a couple of times. That's what
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: you play for, and it sounds like, more than anything,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: this is the kind of thing you take with you, right,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: these kind of memories, you know, we would we would
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: shake hands with Hug and talk about, you know, some
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: of the old times, and it would be great conversations.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: We would immediately connect. Michael McCarry, I can't thank you
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: enough for doing this. I was looking forward to it
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: because I had seen so many battles between you guys,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and I heard Tony's side of this story so often.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate to sharing yours with us, with the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Jaguars fans and uh, you know again, thank you very
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: much for sharing this today at Michael my pleasure and
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: it was my honor to absolutely Tony is well deserving
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: all fame. Finally we got there, so I'm I believe
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame again, Bowling h