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O-Zone Podcast: Jawaan Taylor · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast presented by by Star Credit
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Speaker 1: Union with Jaguars senior writer John Osan this week's guest.
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Speaker 1: He was a guest last year on the ozone Podcast
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Speaker 1: during the season, which is a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: different time. You talk more football during the season. I
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Speaker 1: want to talk to our guest today about some off
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Speaker 1: field stuff because to me, he's one of the most
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Speaker 1: fascinating players on this team when it comes to off
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Speaker 1: field stuff. I'm talking about Jaguars right tackle Joan Taylor. Joan,
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Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. Now, guess what, John, You're
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Speaker 1: going into year three. All right, Yeah, it's crazy. But
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Speaker 1: I was just saying that to my family the other day, like, wow,
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Speaker 1: as times just flying by and I'm going to year three,
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Speaker 1: So it's exciting, man. Any different Uh, it's obviously storylines,
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Speaker 1: Urban said, the tackles have to improve. This a lot
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Speaker 1: of stuff about the offensive line we'll talk about. But
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Speaker 1: any different perspective for you year three compared to year
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Speaker 1: two or two or one, anything that you're doing differently,
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Speaker 1: thinking about differently? Oh? Well, one man, Since we got
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Speaker 1: the new coaching staff and I just really was honed
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Speaker 1: in on making sure that I'm ready to go. Just healthy, Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, just training every day. I've been training about
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Speaker 1: two or three times a day. Um, so I've just
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Speaker 1: been on top of that, on top of my technique.
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Speaker 1: I went and um got some some coaching in Dallas.
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Speaker 1: Will do many weather, you know, just going out and
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Speaker 1: trying to learn more and and get out more with
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Speaker 1: my training and learn more from different coaches and stuff too.
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Speaker 1: So I had an opportunity to go out there and
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Speaker 1: be around other veteran players around the NFL just picked
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Speaker 1: their brain a little bit. So just doing different things
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Speaker 1: throughout all season to better my game. Overall, we're becoming
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Speaker 1: a better player. And tell me about your schedule. You
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Speaker 1: just said you've been training two or three times a day. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're talking to a guy who trains about too or
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Speaker 1: three times a month. So what do you do? What
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Speaker 1: does that entail when you talk about that? Yeah, So
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Speaker 1: when I was in Dallas, um, I was training with
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Speaker 1: do many weather than warning time. So any time where
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Speaker 1: he gave us a slot where it would be the
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Speaker 1: latest I'll be training, probably like eleven am. So usually
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Speaker 1: I'll go out and just um do some cardio and
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Speaker 1: in the evening time or I just find the field
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Speaker 1: like near my house or whatever, and um, just do
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Speaker 1: the line stuff just technique to so I've been doing that,
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Speaker 1: but I would in the O t A stuff. Um.
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Speaker 1: I usually when we have days off, I still just
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Speaker 1: go do some cardio just things just to stay in shape,
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Speaker 1: keep my wind up because at the end of the
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Speaker 1: day we back out in the sun, and you know,
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Speaker 1: you gotta be able to move around good. So I
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Speaker 1: just stay on top of that, just stand on the
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Speaker 1: trail of meal and stuff like that. Being from Florida,
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Speaker 1: I seen that you learned early on. You've got to
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Speaker 1: do that or you're in trouble and all. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: most definitely, most definitely. I know you're off season isn't
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Speaker 1: all working out. You like to do things away from
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Speaker 1: football a little bit too when you have a chance. Definitely,
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Speaker 1: so far this all season or guess before O t
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Speaker 1: A started, what was that? What was your off field stuff?
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Speaker 1: I know we got a big fish in your path,
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Speaker 1: right Yeah. Man, I'm really easy going guy out the field. Um,
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Speaker 1: usually it's just just football. If I'm not doing food
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Speaker 1: ball this fishing. Um that's really all I do. Other
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Speaker 1: than that, I'm hanging out around the house with my family. Now,
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Speaker 1: tell me about the one that made Instagram this year? Um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: so that was that was last off season. I was
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Speaker 1: out fishing um in Jupiter, Florida. Yeah, so I had
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Speaker 1: called that the live group. But I have been doing
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Speaker 1: a lot of fishing though this off season too. I
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Speaker 1: just haven't posted nothing because I haven't really did any
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Speaker 1: big stuff yet, like for big fish. So so me
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Speaker 1: and Lenda still haven't been out yet because Lenda ever
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Speaker 1: ever since he got a new boat. Yeah. Man, he
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Speaker 1: got a lot of friends and family that's been waiting
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Speaker 1: on this list to go with him. So I've just
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Speaker 1: been waiting my turn. But other than that, I usually
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Speaker 1: just go with our family friends and go with Charters
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Speaker 1: around Jacksonville. I got you. Yeah. I've been asking players
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Speaker 1: that I've talked to this offseason about the culture change here,
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Speaker 1: and there's obviously been one, but each guy sort of
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Speaker 1: has a different perspective on that. When you got back
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Speaker 1: and you started to get to know urban what was
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Speaker 1: going on here, your impressions of that, I guess it's been.
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Speaker 1: It's been great man, Um just coming in. He came
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Speaker 1: in and just let us know what he expected, and
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Speaker 1: I just feel like the whole team just bought into it, man,
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Speaker 1: and everybody's been loving it ever since. And you know,
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Speaker 1: he's just basically just teaching us how to win, how
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Speaker 1: to play together as a team. Um, and you know,
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Speaker 1: just every unit going out there on Sundays and just
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Speaker 1: playing the best. And you know we if our ten
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Speaker 1: units I played their teen units, then will win the game.
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Speaker 1: So just breaking it down and making it easier for
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Speaker 1: us to just teaching us how to win. And You've
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Speaker 1: always been a guy who is here in the off season.
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Speaker 1: I think after your rookie year for COVID Head, I
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Speaker 1: saw you probably second week of January walking around here.
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Speaker 1: That's just sort of how you are, isn't it. Yeah, yeah, man, me,
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Speaker 1: I'm just the type of person like when the season ends,
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Speaker 1: I don't really like to take too long. We're break.
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Speaker 1: I do want to take a break the rest of
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Speaker 1: my body. But at the end of the day, um,
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Speaker 1: you know when I if I sit around for too long,
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Speaker 1: I'll get out of shape. So like I like to
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Speaker 1: just stay either if I'm not doing you know, nothing crazy,
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Speaker 1: no like big heavy lifting, but I will stay on
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Speaker 1: the trailmill and then come in for treatment. So I
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Speaker 1: probably took like a week or two off after the season.
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Speaker 1: I was already back. We're cam out tell him about
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Speaker 1: the offensive line room a little bit. A guy who
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Speaker 1: doesn't talk to the media a whole lot is is
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Speaker 1: that your coach, George Warhotten? Uh, But when you talk
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Speaker 1: to players, there's a tremendous respect there, and there's a
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Speaker 1: tremendous uh uh understanding, And I guess respect for what
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Speaker 1: he does. Uh. What do you like about his approach?
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Speaker 1: What do you like about how you guys approach things
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Speaker 1: as as an offensive line? A very great approach man.
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Speaker 1: Just for one, we all have so much respect for
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Speaker 1: him because the experience he has coaching in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: He's been going into year twenty six or twenty seven
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Speaker 1: nothing now, So Um, he's coached a lot of great players, Um,
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Speaker 1: just a lot of the greatest offensive linement to play
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Speaker 1: the game. So you know, you can only have so
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Speaker 1: much respect for a person like that. It's it's amazing
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Speaker 1: man to see. So when he tells us something, we
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Speaker 1: definitely listen and we try to implement it into our
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Speaker 1: game and become better players. So um. And of course
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Speaker 1: he's a great guy off the field to a family guy,
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Speaker 1: you know, and we love that about him. So we
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Speaker 1: love having him here. He had said before last season,
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, one of the time he spoke
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Speaker 1: to the media that it takes a little while to
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Speaker 1: get what he's teaching. It's a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: different approach for offensive lineman his style. Why is that,
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Speaker 1: you think, and is this group? Is it the kind
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Speaker 1: of thing that you continually get better at the longer
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Speaker 1: year around him? Oh? Yeah, you definitely tend to get
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Speaker 1: better around him. There's no questions. As man like, he
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Speaker 1: stays on top of different things. If he sees something
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Speaker 1: that needs to be fixed, you know, he's gonna let
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Speaker 1: us know what what it is. And you know, he's
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Speaker 1: the type of coach you can call, you know, outside
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Speaker 1: of meetings or another day off the field, of day
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Speaker 1: off and just ask him about something. He's always going
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Speaker 1: to talk ball with you and um when we are
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Speaker 1: watching film at night. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, he's definitely in
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Speaker 1: tune with us, even you know, offseason, he's always calling,
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Speaker 1: checking on us and stuff. So, um, you know that's
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Speaker 1: why we we listened to everything he tells us to do,
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Speaker 1: because you know, at the end of the day, that's
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Speaker 1: the relationship we built with him, and that's the trust
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Speaker 1: we have in each other. So, um, you know it's
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Speaker 1: a great coach. You and Cam. A lot of focus
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Speaker 1: on you this offseason. Uh, are you guys close to
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Speaker 1: you talk about what you want to get done this season?
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Speaker 1: Sort of as a tantum? I mean people tend to
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Speaker 1: associate offensive tackle tandems together. Well, most definitely. That's crazy
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Speaker 1: you asked that because me and Cam were just in
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Speaker 1: the locker room today talking about like the upcoming season
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Speaker 1: and the different defence of ends we have to face
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Speaker 1: this year. Just you know, just having talked, just talking
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Speaker 1: about football and other than that, me and Camera are
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Speaker 1: really cool off the field. Um, you know another veteran
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Speaker 1: that I could look up to and ask questions and
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Speaker 1: stuff like that. What's going on with the backward jersey
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Speaker 1: with him? What? I think? Yeah, and invariably has his
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Speaker 1: jersey on backward Robinson and I think he's been doing
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Speaker 1: that since my rookie if I can remember correctly. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's just been his thing. Like when we are doing
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Speaker 1: any prices where's no pass involved, he always just wears
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Speaker 1: jersey backer is kind of like his thing. But um,
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Speaker 1: you know, nobody says nothing to him to let him
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Speaker 1: do what he does. He likes that fun. I remember
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Speaker 1: his rookie year, a coach telling me, this is a
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Speaker 1: guy that we need on the field because of his
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Speaker 1: passion plan and because of his passion for team. I
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Speaker 1: think that's something that people miss about him is how
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Speaker 1: much the guys around him rally around him if you will,
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Speaker 1: and he's that element. Do you see that out of
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Speaker 1: him as well? Oh? Most definitely. Yeah, Man, he's definitely
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Speaker 1: passionate love the game. You know, He's one of those
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Speaker 1: guys like me, you know, couldn't imagine itself not playing
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Speaker 1: the game, you know. So he's gonna give it this
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Speaker 1: all every day, practice, games, um, weight room, training room,
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Speaker 1: whatever it is to become the best he can be.
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Speaker 1: So um. You know, you can only look up at
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Speaker 1: somebody like that. So um. That's why I just love
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Speaker 1: the guys I came in with when I came in
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Speaker 1: my rookie year, you know, Cam a J Lender, Norwell,
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Speaker 1: Um Shatley. Just learning from those guys and see him that,
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Speaker 1: you know, how they go about there their days and
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Speaker 1: their schedule becoming a good pro. So that's all I do. Man. Um.
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Speaker 1: Still I feel like I'm still one of the younger guys,
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Speaker 1: so I still, you know, just learn different things and
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Speaker 1: try to make it myself a better pro. I always
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Speaker 1: thought and at a couple of offensive linemen tell me
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Speaker 1: it's a long long time ago. Uh. It's the only
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Speaker 1: position in football really where nothing good you ever do
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Speaker 1: gets noticed, but everything bad gets noticed. If you miss
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Speaker 1: one block and have seventy good ones, you had a
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Speaker 1: bad game. How do you always ask Lyneman, how do
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Speaker 1: you manage that? That's tough because I'm sure even you
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Speaker 1: as a player, you come off the field and you're
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Speaker 1: thinking about the one play that didn't happen. How do
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Speaker 1: you what's your approach to managing that? UM? I guess, well,
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Speaker 1: me myself, I'm a person that's always been hard on
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Speaker 1: myself and football on my critique myself very hard at
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Speaker 1: the games, you know, kind of beat myself up if
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Speaker 1: I have bad players whatever. Um. But you know, having
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Speaker 1: a coach like coach Warhopp and the teammates that have
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Speaker 1: around me, you know, we always uplift and support each other.
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Speaker 1: You know, we all make mistakes, nobody's perfect, but you know,
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we're trying to go
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Speaker 1: as hard as we can to win the game, and
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Speaker 1: you know, compete because that's what we are there to
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Speaker 1: do is win. Um. So at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: like you know, I just try to keep it, keep
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Speaker 1: my head on straight, don't really think too much about it,
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Speaker 1: and just try to go better whatever I did wrong
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Speaker 1: and watch the film and fix the mistakes. So you know,
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Speaker 1: and if it is anybody off the field, most people
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Speaker 1: that's off the field talking about it, you know, they
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Speaker 1: probably never played the position. And if they I've played
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Speaker 1: the position, then you know they probably know what they're
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Speaker 1: talking about. But sometimes you just can't listen to the
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Speaker 1: fans and stuff like that. You just gotta keep doing
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Speaker 1: what you know, speaking listening to the fans. No group
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Speaker 1: on any team is criticized more than the offensive line.
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Speaker 1: But you guys as a group, I'm looking at it, norwell,
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Speaker 1: third year around here or fourth year round here? You
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Speaker 1: third cam, fourth winder, eight? Can I think six? No
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Speaker 1: group on this team has been around each other as
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Speaker 1: long as you guys are. How important is that continuity
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Speaker 1: to you? And how much will it help you next year? Oh?
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Speaker 1: It's very important, man. You know. It's just crazy. It's
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Speaker 1: like even when I came in and just I've seen
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Speaker 1: the bond and everybody had in their relationships they had
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Speaker 1: and since I've been here, the relationship has grown even stronger.
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Speaker 1: So having a unit like that where everybody is just
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Speaker 1: so you know, jailed together and you know we all
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Speaker 1: played together play for one another is always amazing. And
10:51
Speaker 1: you know, as a year ago on, you know, just
10:52
Speaker 1: hoping all us still here and we keep playing together
10:54
Speaker 1: because that's a great group of guys, and you know,
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Speaker 1: we all fight for one another, we all hold each
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Speaker 1: other accountable. You know, we all want to win. So
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we're excited to play
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Speaker 1: with each other. Now, is this the case? And again
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Speaker 1: you mentioned people who haven't played offensive line, you can
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Speaker 1: look at me and tell I didn't play. Is this
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Speaker 1: the case where after two years playing next to a
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Speaker 1: j you don't have to think about where he's going
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Speaker 1: to be on a given play. Did he get to
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Speaker 1: that level of uh, I guess chemistry or definitely the
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Speaker 1: chemistry of the AJ is amazing. Man. Like, we can
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Speaker 1: come to the ball and you know, we already know
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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do, even if it's a pressure of bliques,
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Speaker 1: whatever we don't even really have to say anything. We
11:32
Speaker 1: could just point to each other. We're always cute in
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Speaker 1: um so yeah, me and A j that it's crazy chemistry.
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Speaker 1: It's good and you guys as a line, listen to
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Speaker 1: people when it's the criticism is always out there? Is
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Speaker 1: that A is that motivation? Is it something you don't
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Speaker 1: think about? How do you how would you define that?
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Speaker 1: Because I think, uh, somebody told me once every offensive
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Speaker 1: one on every team is always going to be the
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Speaker 1: most criticized unit. It's just the nature of the Beast
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Speaker 1: as a group. Do you think about that or is
12:09
Speaker 1: it just something where you see is what it is
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Speaker 1: and we know? Yeah, I mean, like I said, is
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Speaker 1: what it is. Usually Like me, I'm the type of
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Speaker 1: guy I'm always self motivated. I don't need you know,
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Speaker 1: the people around me or the fans whatever to motivate me.
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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, I'm out here to
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Speaker 1: do my job and play football. I love a game,
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Speaker 1: passionate about the game. So and I know a mot
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Speaker 1: of mistakes I make. Whatever the people see on TV
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Speaker 1: or see in the stands, you know, I know what
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Speaker 1: I did. So if it's something I need to fix,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna fix it. I'm motivated, you know, enough for
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Speaker 1: myself to want to go make it better, make myself
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Speaker 1: a better player. So how often you hear something where
12:39
Speaker 1: you're like that ain't how it is? Yeah, I mean, yeah,
12:42
Speaker 1: you have a lot of time. Man. It's crazy because
12:44
Speaker 1: you know, you get a lot of people out there,
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Speaker 1: the trolls and stuff on Twitter and you know, Instagram whatever.
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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, like you know,
12:51
Speaker 1: you can't feed into it. What are your thoughts about
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Speaker 1: this season overall? And is it just at this point
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Speaker 1: where you don't think about what the record might be
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Speaker 1: at said, You're just so focused on preparing and seeing
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Speaker 1: what this new thing is gonna look like. I guess
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Speaker 1: um me, man, I'm just the type of guy like
13:07
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, just every day chopping wood. Um.
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Speaker 1: I feel like our team were just like Urban All
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Speaker 1: this is stack in great days on top of great days.
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Speaker 1: So that's what we're on right now. Man. We're not
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Speaker 1: looking ahead. We're just trying to take it one day
13:18
Speaker 1: at a time, and then once we get to week one,
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Speaker 1: we're just gonna handle a week one week to him
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Speaker 1: the week two, We're gonna take it one game at
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Speaker 1: a time. So um, whatever the outcome is at the outcome.
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Speaker 1: So that's kind of like what he's teaching us right now.
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Speaker 1: We're not looking too far ahead, just focused on, you know,
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Speaker 1: stack stacking great days at the great day. What's your
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Speaker 1: off season look like after man camp? Um me, Man,
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Speaker 1: I'll probably be on the water a little bit. But me,
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Speaker 1: I'm still be in the gym in my in my
13:40
Speaker 1: playbook too, because you know, I don't don't do much
13:42
Speaker 1: off the field. We uh as you may remember, we
13:46
Speaker 1: close this every time what we call the ozone five
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Speaker 1: five sort of off the wall questions very quickly, Juan Taylor,
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Speaker 1: what is the best drum track out there? M hm,
14:02
Speaker 1: or the best drum solo could be? I'll probably say
14:06
Speaker 1: Eric Moore. You could find us on YouTube. Eric More,
14:08
Speaker 1: he was in the drum off for a Guitar Center
14:11
Speaker 1: drum off. You could watch that. It's like a five
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Speaker 1: six minute video just him just doing a crazy drum solo.
14:17
Speaker 1: How often watch oh Man? When I was in middle
14:20
Speaker 1: school when when that video came out when he won
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Speaker 1: that drum off, But it was crazy, man, I watched
14:26
Speaker 1: it a lot, and again I haven't watched in the
14:27
Speaker 1: line a little while, but it's a good video for
14:29
Speaker 1: fans who don't know. I think most people do that.
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Speaker 1: Who Father Jacks John Taylor, a very accomplished drummer. Best
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Speaker 1: drummer that you admire must who I got a lot
14:40
Speaker 1: of those, um, Tony Royster Jr. Um Like I said,
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Speaker 1: Eric Moore, Jerome Flood, Calvin Rogers. Um Man, it's so
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Speaker 1: many of them. Uh. And that's a new guy that
14:51
Speaker 1: actually plays for my girlfriends. And his name is Ted
14:53
Speaker 1: and Curtis. He's another upcoming drummer. Yeah, music you like
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Speaker 1: that would surprise people. I like country music. Yeah, I
15:02
Speaker 1: like country music a lot A lot of people that
15:04
Speaker 1: know that. Um Because like when I'm doing things like
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Speaker 1: fishing or just hanging around the house, I'm always playing
15:08
Speaker 1: country music. Got you thing you want to do that
15:13
Speaker 1: you've never tried? Para seiling? So I met my girlfriend
15:17
Speaker 1: went pair of seiling this offseason. Um. I was just
15:19
Speaker 1: there to watch, you know, I don't want to do nothing.
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Speaker 1: I was a little nervous, so um I told her
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Speaker 1: next time we planned on doing it on the tray.
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Speaker 1: And place you would like to go where you've never done? Um,
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Speaker 1: probably boord board. It's a place I want to want
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Speaker 1: to go to me. You know you're making NFL money
15:34
Speaker 1: now you can get a board board. Yeah, I do.
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Speaker 1: I just I don't know. I just never went in there.
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Speaker 1: COVID too, so I never playing it, said John Taylor.
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