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Julian Love On His Walter Payton NFL Man Of The Year Nomination & Returning To Practice · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Long time. No see how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Do love You're seven? Uh yeah, it's obviously just what
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  Speaker 1: does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a really big honor you obviously with the
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  Speaker 2: name attested to it, you know, Walter Paide, I'm from Chicago,
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  Speaker 2: it just it hits real close to home, just kind
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  Speaker 2: of the impact he had on on the city. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I was growing up in on and off the field,
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  Speaker 2: and so anything with his name test to it is
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  Speaker 2: is incredibly special, and you know it's an award, but
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  Speaker 2: it's it's just cool.
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  Speaker 1: Just uh, I don't know, be able to make an
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  Speaker 1: impact in the community. The way your team informed you,
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  Speaker 1: how do you how much did you appreciate I did
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  Speaker 1: not appreciate that. Uh yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Walking to that room and I see Aria, I'm like, okay, A,
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  Speaker 2: she's kind of asking a few questions. I see like
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  Speaker 2: the three other crew members. I'm there's way too many
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  Speaker 2: people for a little spot read. I'm reading, I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: the thing U and Chinna comes around. It just all
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  Speaker 2: kind of hit at once, especially for you know, my
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  Speaker 2: first day back on the field. It was an emotional
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  Speaker 2: day and so they definitely they definitely got it good.
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  Speaker 2: What does it need to get that nomination in the
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  Speaker 2: context of just what's going on in the season with
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  Speaker 2: the injury that you battle through. Yeah, I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, the plans I kind of have been making,
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  Speaker 2: you know, has been years in the making in terms
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  Speaker 2: of a kind of the impact and the service I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do in the community.
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  Speaker 1: There was off season things. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think everything is kind of aligned. Obviously, it's been
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  Speaker 2: tough being off the field for so long, but it's
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  Speaker 2: allowed me to gain some appreciation and get into the
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  Speaker 2: community more, and so it's all kind of aligned for me.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I'm grateful for what my wife for
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  Speaker 2: helping me find some resources, finding some causes that we
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  Speaker 2: believe in that we're passionate about, and so yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of it filled.
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  Speaker 1: That void of not playing this season for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Reading the list of all the things you kind of
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  Speaker 3: do there as a pretty long list.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything anything specific that really stands out to
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  Speaker 1: is like super important.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a few years ago, my wife when I kind
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  Speaker 2: of sat down and we had a talk about how
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  Speaker 2: we want to be more of service and kind of
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  Speaker 2: just the buckets that were important to us that we're
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  Speaker 2: passionate about. And the first is motherhood, especially postpartum. You
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  Speaker 2: guys are all very present when we had ours, and
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  Speaker 2: we didn't, you know, with all the resources in the world,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't expect it would be as difficult as it
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  Speaker 2: was after the.
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  Speaker 1: Baby was here.
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  Speaker 2: And so with us, with all the resources, we couldn't
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  Speaker 2: even imagine people without any of the resources we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's one of the buckets motherhood, and then kids,
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  Speaker 2: babies through teenager years. I have my youth camps, all
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  Speaker 2: the things. More than just kind of giving resources and
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  Speaker 2: giving money out, I think it's important that I'm present.
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  Speaker 2: As a kid, I looked up to, you know, Peanut
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  Speaker 2: Tilleman or Lacker, all those guys who are out in
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  Speaker 2: the community, they were superheroesed to me, and so I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I just have to give something back, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's asking and answering questions, just having a conversation with kids,
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  Speaker 2: it's important to me. And the third bucket is food
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  Speaker 2: and so, like you know, food and excuses a serious deal,
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  Speaker 2: especially right now, and so being able to eat healthy
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  Speaker 2: food and have access to it shouldn't be a luxury.
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  Speaker 2: And that's kind of like our three main buckets that
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  Speaker 2: we try to focus. Then we've done event a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of events kind of following those three kind of guidelines.
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  Speaker 3: Is that something that you grew up with where you
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  Speaker 3: saw other people you know, giving backs, talked about the players,
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  Speaker 3: but family members or friends or where'd you kind of
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  Speaker 3: learn it from?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I would say my dad. My dad was
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  Speaker 1: just he worked super hard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of rose in the ranks kind of in Chicago,
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  Speaker 2: and he was always willing to kind of go to
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  Speaker 2: the extra mount for the people next to him, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, kids my age that didn't have the
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  Speaker 2: best upbringing, there were always around. He just he painted
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  Speaker 2: a good picture of how you're supposed to act.
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  Speaker 1: And he always just tell me act like you've been
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  Speaker 1: there before.
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  Speaker 2: Whether it's I'm scoring a touchdown, whether I'm you know,
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  Speaker 2: out and about in high school hanging out with my friends.
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  Speaker 2: It's like there's a way to kind of go about
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  Speaker 2: living life. And especially as you as I've climbed in
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  Speaker 2: the ranks, he's kind of hammering home that point of
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's bigger than you. And so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I give a lot of credits to my dad.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of like male role models. Now, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's like football players supposed to be tough, but you're
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  Speaker 3: also talking.
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  Speaker 1: About being kind and being generous.
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  Speaker 3: How do you kind of square the circle circle?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's not so the tough football players.
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  Speaker 1: That was my dad.
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  Speaker 2: The passion has to be the mom, and so my
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  Speaker 2: mom she was the compassion of our crew, and thankfully
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  Speaker 2: she was just okay with me being me. I was
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  Speaker 2: never kind of that prototypical football player and it was
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  Speaker 2: okay and in some households is not, uh, and so
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  Speaker 2: thankfully for that. And then you know, I met my
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  Speaker 2: wife young and same things. She kind of knew me
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  Speaker 2: as a well rounded person before the football player, and
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  Speaker 2: so I don't know, it's just I had a good
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  Speaker 2: circle of people who appreciate me for me and outside
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  Speaker 2: of family, even in the building, like everyone lets me
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  Speaker 2: be myself, which is hard. It's it's tough to find
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  Speaker 2: a group to surround yourself with that allows you to
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  Speaker 2: kind of just be your full self. You mentioned how
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  Speaker 2: emotional was just getting back on the football field. What
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  Speaker 2: did you have to regulate their emotion wise or maybe
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  Speaker 2: it just like physicality was Yeah, I mean there's so
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  Speaker 2: many things I feel like you kind of have to
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  Speaker 2: have a there's a bit of a chip on my shoulder,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a kind of an f you to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, anybody making comments to me about when I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to be back.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: Even if I'm making mistakes out there, I'm like happy
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  Speaker 2: about it just because I have the chance to make
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  Speaker 2: a mistake. And so it was a lot of that,
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  Speaker 2: and it's i mean, just like with anything with injuries,
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  Speaker 2: this is a lot of internal conversations. Like every day
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  Speaker 2: I'm like over analyzing how my body feels, how that
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  Speaker 2: run actually went. Can I go like what's the what's
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  Speaker 2: the situation? And so it's hard not to get out
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  Speaker 2: of that. But as soon as I you know, get
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  Speaker 2: into that huddle and everyone kind of agrees to me,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, all right, I.
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  Speaker 1: Do this, Like this is kind of this is I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I'm a.
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  Speaker 2: Loo football player, and so it was this overall, I'm
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  Speaker 2: happy to be back.
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  Speaker 3: Must have been tough what happened?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was tough.
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  Speaker 2: There's basically we were training here, uh, and it was
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  Speaker 2: a moment.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of before the bye week. Uh, it
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  Speaker 1: was on the practice field and.
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  Speaker 2: Just the hamstrings got worse, and it was a setback
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  Speaker 2: none of us wanted, and it definitely had a lasting effect.
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  Speaker 2: This is I don't know, It's it's been weird because
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  Speaker 2: before this season, like I've never missed a game of
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  Speaker 2: my life for injury, like high school, college, the league
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  Speaker 2: seven years, and so like navigating that, I've always played
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  Speaker 2: through stuff, and so I was trying to get back,
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  Speaker 2: not rushing it, following the plan, and then he sat
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  Speaker 2: back kind of right before that bye week was his
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  Speaker 2: killers by were supposed to be a week of relaxation
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  Speaker 2: and destressing, and that was not.
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  Speaker 1: The case for me. I was I was pretty fired up.
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  Speaker 1: It's just, yeah, it's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted you obviously wanted to be out there, But
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  Speaker 4: what's been like watching to get this opportunity to do it.
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  Speaker 1: It's been special, thankfully.
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  Speaker 2: I've said from the jump, like this guy's a ballplayer.
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  Speaker 2: It just took for him to play and get an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for people to see that. I don't think anybody's
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  Speaker 2: more proud of the work he's put in, he will
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  Speaker 2: continue to put in.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's proved the right to be on the field.
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  Speaker 2: I think, and it just goes I mean it's been
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  Speaker 2: years of peace squad like fighting, working every day, battling
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  Speaker 2: through stuff for him and to see him kind of
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  Speaker 2: shine is pretty exciting. Uh, Like a thing back to
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  Speaker 2: early in my career where I just an opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: people to see who I was. I think Tye has
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  Speaker 2: has gotten the great opportunity to do that.
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  Speaker 4: We hear Mike and John both talk all the time
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  Speaker 4: about like it takes all seventy guys and the death
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  Speaker 4: is being important. We've seen that on this defense over
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  Speaker 4: and over this year. What what about the way they
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  Speaker 4: do things? You think allows all these guys, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: you know, Josh fiel Blast, You're kotta Patrick O'Connell, all
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  Speaker 4: these guys to step up and play the way they do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a mixture of kind of guys in
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  Speaker 2: the buildings being close and understanding like, Okay, everyone's different.
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  Speaker 1: Tie is not me. I'm not tie.
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  Speaker 2: You know when people go down, like everyone has their
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  Speaker 2: own skill set and we just trust each other. It's
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  Speaker 2: like whatever you have, just bring the full amount of
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  Speaker 2: what you have to the table. And that's you know, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: you know the whole seventy conversation is that pretty much
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  Speaker 2: whatever you are, be your best self today. And it's
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  Speaker 2: been great for us because then you could guess of
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  Speaker 2: and celebrate and see people shine that you might not
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  Speaker 2: have be might not have seen shine if everything was
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  Speaker 2: smooth and easy for us.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's been pretty cool playing in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: Tod there's a plan. I don't know if I can
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  Speaker 2: say that, but there's a plan in place for me
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  Speaker 2: to get kind of ramped up.
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  Speaker 4: What specifically did you see about time before maybe anyone else?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's easy to kind of be put in
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  Speaker 2: buckets of like he's a speed guy, he's a power guy,
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  Speaker 2: he's a he's a ball hawk. Ties is a football player.
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  Speaker 2: I think I kind of see myself in that. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: here's a football player. You go out there, tell him
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  Speaker 2: what to do. He's going to go and do it.
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  Speaker 2: He has all the tools to be successful. He's incredibly smart,
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  Speaker 2: he communicates, he's one hundred percent himself. He's not trying
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  Speaker 2: to be anybody else but Tie, And he's just a ballplayer.
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  Speaker 1: Like I need to be a category.
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  Speaker 2: In in assessing you know, recruits coming out or whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is, prospects just a ballplayer category. And that's tied
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  Speaker 2: to the fullest, and so it's it's easy. We've seen
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  Speaker 2: it all practice for years, camps, all that stuff. Now
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  Speaker 2: you can see him actually in action and he's he's
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  Speaker 2: done an incredible job.
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  Speaker 1: The interception in Washington. I know you had to like
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  Speaker 1: the coming out of college at the crazy vertical joke,
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  Speaker 1: But what'd you think of that play? That was really good.
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  Speaker 2: Uh had the wherewithal in that moment to the ball
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  Speaker 2: kind of be floating to then get your feet down.
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  Speaker 1: That was. That was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole song was gassed up for him and
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  Speaker 2: tie when he gets into that zone, he kind of
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  Speaker 2: blacking out like on the sideline, and so he gets
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  Speaker 2: back after the pick and he's like kind of bounced
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  Speaker 2: off the wall, asking about like punt and like what's
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  Speaker 2: next in the series, and we're all like, Tye, enjoy
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  Speaker 2: your interception right now for twenty seconds. So that was
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  Speaker 2: that was a pre mic thing. I think he just
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  Speaker 2: was making plays in practice, and so of course our
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  Speaker 2: ignorant team like I see you ty like literally right
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  Speaker 2: now in the team meeting, he makes a play on tape, I.
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  Speaker 1: See you Tyrone.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think it was a peate thing where
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  Speaker 2: Pete played the theme song ericabadou uh Tyrone, and so
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  Speaker 2: that they still play He's just one some award, like
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: an internal team award and they play his theme song Tyron.
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  Speaker 2: I think the year ago in Atlanta was Kobe's first star.
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  Speaker 2: You were an advocate for him playing and even prior
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  Speaker 2: to that, what have you liked about what you've seen
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  Speaker 2: from him?
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  Speaker 1: You know, as the starter at safety since.
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  Speaker 2: Then, I mean, the dude's balling. Uh, he's he's a
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  Speaker 2: he's a ballplayer. It's it's crazy. It's really cool as
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  Speaker 2: we're watching film of you know, some last year stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that year Job's first game playing with us, Kobe's
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  Speaker 2: first start. I think miighty was getting in for a
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  Speaker 2: significant time Animaya like it's cool.
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  Speaker 1: To see that journey of what a year can be.
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  Speaker 2: And Cob, I mean he's as the leader, like everyone
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  Speaker 2: in that room loves him because he's speaking up more
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  Speaker 2: like he's he's ernest.
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  Speaker 1: As our leader for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But Cob has to be like right there, number two
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  Speaker 2: I think does when he talks to people listen, and
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  Speaker 2: so it's cool to see him make plays be who
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  Speaker 2: he is, ka chip on the shoulder that he always has.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I think he's it's only the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: For Kobe kind of in this league, and so I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited just for everything he's been able to accomplish.
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  Speaker 4: Some clips to him, like you're telling the DBS like
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  Speaker 4: lean on me, you know, follow follow my lead.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think guys follow Kobe?
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  Speaker 2: I mean some people are back of the pack people,
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  Speaker 2: middle of the pack people, or alpha's and Kobe's in
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  Speaker 2: Alpha simply put, I think you know, he feeds off
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  Speaker 2: that energy.
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  Speaker 1: He likes that competition, he likes.
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  Speaker 2: That that swagger, that that ego that the greats have
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  Speaker 2: had that the other Kobe Bryant has, Like that's who
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  Speaker 2: this Kobe has as well. And so yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's who he gets. It's not something it's
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  Speaker 2: it's inauthentic when somebody tries to say all that stuff
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  Speaker 2: and not really be it.
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  Speaker 1: Kobe lives at like every single day is someone that's
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  Speaker 1: played multiple positions.
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  Speaker 4: Yourself, when you see what Nick's doing kind of doing
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  Speaker 4: the defensive line stuff into what do you kind of
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  Speaker 4: make of that?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Hard that is for Rookie to kind of handle all
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  Speaker 1: that as well as he's done it.
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  Speaker 2: It's tough, first of all, let me say Nick can
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  Speaker 2: be the best of all of us. Obviously we're not
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  Speaker 2: six three, can run and jump all this stuff, can
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  Speaker 2: bend and from the jump. I think Mike did a
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  Speaker 2: great job of just introducing him to like small concepts
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  Speaker 2: at once, Like he's not trying to make him learn
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  Speaker 2: all these things.
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  Speaker 1: He's I learned this, rep it, now you can learn this,
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  Speaker 1: thro this and this.
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  Speaker 2: So now even if he's not perfect on the field,
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  Speaker 2: he just flies around and can make plays just because
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  Speaker 2: he's he's a special player and it's.
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  Speaker 1: Been cool to be part of just be a vet
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  Speaker 1: for him. I just try to keep it.
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  Speaker 2: The main thing, the main thing with him. He's his
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  Speaker 2: category of young players in this league are different nowadays.
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  Speaker 1: He's a nil baby.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you gotta talked to him a different way,
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  Speaker 2: and so we all really appreciate him and he's fitting
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  Speaker 2: perfectly along with the defense.
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  Speaker 3: You said that you haven't missed any time before. You know,
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  Speaker 3: what have you learned about the game, and what have
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  Speaker 3: you kind of learned that you missed?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's like there was a lot of ebbs
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  Speaker 2: and flows. I don't like it is the first I
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  Speaker 2: don't know football season. I meant to be playing football,
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  Speaker 2: and so it's tough to not be out there.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, at times.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm pretty much feel like a you know,
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  Speaker 2: a cheerleader or a coach like something else, sideline, Like
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  Speaker 2: I don't know kind of where I fit in. But
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  Speaker 2: then like I had to just chill out and tell myself,
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  Speaker 2: like you, these people don't appreciate you just because of
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  Speaker 2: the plays you're making. It's about who you are. It's
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  Speaker 2: about the coaching points you have, how you communicate as
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  Speaker 2: half of my job. And so I just gotta do
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  Speaker 2: that half. I gotta be out there if I see something,
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling Tay Kobe something, the D line, linebackers, I'm
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  Speaker 2: calling everybody down.
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of like a glue guy in that in that.
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  Speaker 2: Regard, and so I just had to lean into those things.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a process. I mean, missing so many games.
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  Speaker 2: It's I can't tell you every day every game felt
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  Speaker 2: fun for me to be doing that, but I just
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is my mentality team, and so I
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  Speaker 2: got to do my part.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's appreciated.