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Press Pass | Etienne: "Hell yeah I want to play." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Now I feel great to be back out. There has
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of times I played football. Um god
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  Speaker 1: reminded quickly as a physical game. But that's all we played.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we love it. That's the first time you've
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  Speaker 1: been did like that since you're injury. Probably before that,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah before it's probably since um since my lives
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  Speaker 1: comes again. That's my first time been tacled. So I
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  Speaker 1: mean I feel I see why I feel love with
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  Speaker 1: the game. I feel like, uh I just loved that
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  Speaker 1: a dumal. I just love getting just like just love
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  Speaker 1: being physical. Like I said, quickly, I was reminded is
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  Speaker 1: a physical game. And uh, I just gotta get back
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  Speaker 1: to myself. Um grateful that I'm out here playing making plays.
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  Speaker 1: Uh that's allowed you got to get back to myself
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  Speaker 1: and uh step in the right progress popped up both
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  Speaker 1: times really quickly. Was you could have grown out of
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  Speaker 1: bounds on both of those two and avoided that contact.
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  Speaker 1: Was there a part of you mentally that wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get hit? No I need yeah, no, I need that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, I haven't played it so long,
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  Speaker 1: Like I want to get tacled. I need to get tacled,
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  Speaker 1: just to get back to get my body, my body
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  Speaker 1: back and made it with that. I just been at
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  Speaker 1: home working out, chilling on the couch, stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: so come out here to get left bumps and bruises.
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  Speaker 1: I missed that. I missed that contact. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: made sound crazy, but I missed kind of being those
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  Speaker 1: car crashes with a hit like that in any a
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  Speaker 1: C C game. Now, that would never happened. That would
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  Speaker 1: never happened in the game. Yeah, just get Yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: not now. I've seen it since code and I mean
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  Speaker 1: I've seen since going and and honestly, I could have
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  Speaker 1: came a little more of a boom, but like you said,
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  Speaker 1: I just needed that contact, just needed to see what
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  Speaker 1: it felt like that. I think that was the first player, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: So I was looking for contact and I got on
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  Speaker 1: the outside edge and uh got out real quick, and
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  Speaker 1: I was just trying to get my body. ACCLA made
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  Speaker 1: it so that way I went waiting a second player
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  Speaker 1: to get hit. You know, just get it out of
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  Speaker 1: the way. Proving it to yourself is one thing. Is
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  Speaker 1: there's something he said for proving it to everybody else
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  Speaker 1: that I'm back. Uh No, not really. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I don't play the game for everybody else. I'll play
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  Speaker 1: to be the best player that I can be. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like if I'd be my best self, my
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  Speaker 1: teams will see that. So I feel like it just
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  Speaker 1: works hand to hand. How do you see this offense
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  Speaker 1: coming together? And now that you guys have been together
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  Speaker 1: for a few weeks now, I felt we've got a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of great things going. I feel like we have offense,
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  Speaker 1: We've got a bunch of players that complement each other.
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  Speaker 1: We can do all kind of things, and I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's gonna be very exciting to see us play.
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  Speaker 1: You see the chemistry growing. I mean, obviously you and
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  Speaker 1: Trevor have already had that chemistry, but do you see
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  Speaker 1: it growing within all the rest of the team. Definitely, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that's what football is. And I feel
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  Speaker 1: like today was a really vital day for us because
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  Speaker 1: to go out damn babe, which is just have those
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  Speaker 1: life life reps with each other. We're definitely gonna gel
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  Speaker 1: stronger together, and I think that's uh, we don't gonna
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  Speaker 1: help us moving forward. Friday night, Yes, sir, I feel like, um,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I haven't played it forever and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like any chance I get to showcase my skill,
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  Speaker 1: UM always ready and I feel like, hell yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: want to play. If you've missed so much time, do
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  Speaker 1: you get jiggery or nervous about what that person like
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  Speaker 1: game record or a lot rougher Now I try to
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  Speaker 1: think about it. Honestly, I try to think about it.
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  Speaker 1: I try to just make it seem as dull as possible,
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  Speaker 1: so whenever it happens, I'm not too in my head
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  Speaker 1: about it, and it just happens. Where'd you come up with?
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  Speaker 1: I have to fall in love with the mundane uh
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  Speaker 1: Tony Elliott. Uh he was my college coach and uh
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  Speaker 1: just in college, the day to day, just day to day,
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  Speaker 1: it's just so crazy and just you have to fall
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  Speaker 1: in love with it to uh be great. And I
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  Speaker 1: feel like every day I wake up, I gotta get
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  Speaker 1: better at something. And if I keep stacking great, then
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  Speaker 1: on the top of each other's going to show. And
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  Speaker 1: that really was helpful the injury, because there was nothing more,
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  Speaker 1: nothing more month dan about that. I mean, I would
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  Speaker 1: wish that to my worst enemy. Just uh, just going
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  Speaker 1: through more pickups every damn day. I just might not
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  Speaker 1: people more available again. So Travis, what have you seen
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  Speaker 1: from a guy like Snoop from my shop? I like Snoop.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, uh, he has that grid to him,
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  Speaker 1: he has that fight to him, and he wants to learn,
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  Speaker 1: he wants to be better, and I feel like a
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  Speaker 1: guy like that pushes me to be the best player
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  Speaker 1: I can be. So I feel like we just kind
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  Speaker 1: of had that push and pull. And he's a very
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  Speaker 1: different runner than I am, but Destine's I can learn
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  Speaker 1: from him. He's a very physical runner. He gets behind
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  Speaker 1: his paths, and I like that about him a little
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  Speaker 1: feet But why do you keep taking Travis or Trevor's towel?
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  Speaker 1: He said, now, so so my tip would be like
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  Speaker 1: in the back of me, and uh, my towel like
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  Speaker 1: it's it's soaked, so it usually gets soaked. So I
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  Speaker 1: can't wipe my towel. I can't wipe my girls on
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  Speaker 1: my towel. He keeps his tie with frish and dry,
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  Speaker 1: so I just used his to dry my gloves. Good friend, right,
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  Speaker 1: great friend, great friend. He's there when I need him, Travis,
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  Speaker 1: how hard does honor exists? Go ahead? I mean I
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  Speaker 1: would say he's on my teammate. He hit hard, but
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  Speaker 1: I would say he is hard. He seems to find
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  Speaker 1: the ball though, and find the I mean Thursday he
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  Speaker 1: made a couple really nice place in the open field.
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  Speaker 1: Just what have you seen from him in terms of
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  Speaker 1: just running the ball and how he finds the ball.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, I feel like Cisco is a great
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  Speaker 1: open field tackle tackler. Um. I feel like like one
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  Speaker 1: of the last reps I had to where I was
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  Speaker 1: one and one with him and I wish I could
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  Speaker 1: have scored him up a little more, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: score him up, and uh, he kind of shot fast
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  Speaker 1: and I wasn't able to get my stiff for him
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  Speaker 1: off and he kind of got me. So I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I gotta get better in that aspect. And I
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  Speaker 1: feel like, but that's just him been a great open
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  Speaker 1: field tackler because you've seen, uh he had like a
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  Speaker 1: one one with Josh Jacobs kind of a similar look.
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  Speaker 1: He got him down. But I feel like for me,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta get past that. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: that's what makes me special and that's what I want
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  Speaker 1: to get back to, just being able to just stun him,
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  Speaker 1: throw that stiff for him and keep it moving. But
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  Speaker 1: Cisco is a great typing. It looks like you got
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  Speaker 1: the point on the field where you were like holding
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  Speaker 1: your leg maybe or traffic. Trevor looked at you and
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  Speaker 1: said something then came up to the sideline to kind
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  Speaker 1: of keep you off the field. Was that something that
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  Speaker 1: he talked about or did you want to come out
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  Speaker 1: or what was Oh? Well, I had kind of brought
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  Speaker 1: my knee on a previous play before, and uh they
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  Speaker 1: was like you're good. I was like, yeah, I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I want to play. I haven't played as
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  Speaker 1: life reps, so of course I'm trying to take those reps.
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  Speaker 1: And it was like not just be smart and uh
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  Speaker 1: as when trail sickle to get me out of there, No, no,
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  Speaker 1: nothing at all. I feel like I'll get some ice
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  Speaker 1: on it, be back out here tomorrow running. How hard
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  Speaker 1: is that balance where you know, hey, I'm gonna place.
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  Speaker 1: I need these live reps. But also I'm sure coaches
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  Speaker 1: and any teammates are saying, you know, take it back
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  Speaker 1: a couple of notches as well. I got Max. That's
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  Speaker 1: really hard to you to balance. Now. It is hard
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  Speaker 1: for me to balance because I feel like I feel
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  Speaker 1: like for me to just start feeling myself, I have
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  Speaker 1: to get those reps. And so these are my first
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  Speaker 1: life reps on forever, and I feel like the first
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  Speaker 1: couple of reps I really wasn't myself. Might have had
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  Speaker 1: great runs, but I feel like I wasn't as physical
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  Speaker 1: as I am and as I need to be. So
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, just for me, it's repetition just getting
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  Speaker 1: those reps over and over again. So I feel like
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  Speaker 1: in the game, I'm gonna be down, I'm gonna be hurt,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be fatigued, and I have to still get
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  Speaker 1: those reps. And I feel like when it gets to
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  Speaker 1: that point, it's all up. It's all mental. We're all hurting,
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  Speaker 1: we are they're tired, So it's just who can keep pushing? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: who could keep pushing through the mind? I felt football
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  Speaker 1: is in mind game at first, so if I can
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  Speaker 1: just like we're professionals, like you have to be at
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  Speaker 1: your best when you're hurting. So it's like That's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to work towards and just keep getting better at.
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  Speaker 1: You were trying with a few other NFL players over
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  Speaker 1: the summer, just working with guys in the off season.
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  Speaker 1: What is that like and what does that do for you. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: For me, Uh, it's like my first time ever doing
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  Speaker 1: that and I felt like I really did that. This
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  Speaker 1: year was for confidence, just to see how it stacked
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  Speaker 1: up against those guys, just see how they worked and
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  Speaker 1: how can I better my game? And now just saying
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  Speaker 1: guys like Zeke, just see him put in an extra
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  Speaker 1: work after all he did in his career and he's
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  Speaker 1: still working stuff like that was very invitab for me
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  Speaker 1: to see and I felt he gave me the confidence
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  Speaker 1: I needed to go in the season.