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Inside The Charge - EP 10: DaQuan Jones Talks Family Vacations, D-Line Group And More! · Inside the Charge

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into another episode of Inside the Charge Matti Lab
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  Speaker 1: alongside of defensive tackle day Kwon Jones, who's with us today.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk cornhole, We're.
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  Speaker 1: Going to talk football, We're going to talk travel and
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  Speaker 1: cover it also, daik One, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: being on today.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into it, dayk One. You guys
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  Speaker 1: are in OTAs right now. Lots of new faces on
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  Speaker 1: this roster, especially on the defensive side of the football.
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  Speaker 1: You've been added a few weeks with these guys, so
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  Speaker 1: you're starting to get to know the new faces a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. What do you think has been your biggest
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  Speaker 1: takeaway from this new look Bills.
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  Speaker 4: At the defense side of the ball. I can just
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  Speaker 4: say the eagerness to learn. I feel like everyone's uh
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  Speaker 4: just trying to like understand what they have to do
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  Speaker 4: so they don't fall it too far behind. We got
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  Speaker 4: a lot of new faces, a lot of new young guys,
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  Speaker 4: especially on the D line, So the eagerness.
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  Speaker 3: Every day in that meetroom, everyone's trying to learn.
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  Speaker 4: And I like it because you know, in our room,
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  Speaker 4: everyone asking me questions every day, which wasn't really a
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  Speaker 4: thing we did in the last couple of years. So
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  Speaker 4: just having a better understanding for the defense and what
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  Speaker 4: they want and how we want to execute it.
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  Speaker 3: It goes a long way, and I really enjoy that part.
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  Speaker 2: You're an ultravat.
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  Speaker 1: You've been in this league ten plus years now, So
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to these newer guys asking questions, do
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  Speaker 1: you chuckle at all to yourself just remembering what it
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  Speaker 1: used to be like being a rookie or someone who
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  Speaker 1: was in a new defense.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think back to my first time in
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  Speaker 4: Tennessee when I got drafted and it was like a
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  Speaker 4: field book. I mean, no one really trying to talk
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  Speaker 4: with your technique or really anything because it was such
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  Speaker 4: a grammy business back then. Everyone want to like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you're trying to fight for another man's job. But the
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  Speaker 4: open is here to kind of how you know, we
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  Speaker 4: want everyone to be better. We know what the end
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  Speaker 4: goal is. We want want a championship, and we can
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  Speaker 4: only do that when everyone is on the same page
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  Speaker 4: and we know what to do. And right now we
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  Speaker 4: don't know with who or what those pieces are going
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  Speaker 4: to be in the fall or turning camp, So make
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  Speaker 4: sure everyone knows what they have to do is critical
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  Speaker 4: and just thinking back in Tennessee, I don't really have
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  Speaker 4: that luxury and had to go out there and kind
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  Speaker 4: of you earn it the hard way, But eventually I
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  Speaker 4: had to some of the older guys thinking under the wing.
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  Speaker 4: After that, you know, that's all I can do. But
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  Speaker 4: hear from the get go, I think everyone's here to
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  Speaker 4: share knowledge and make sure they're on the same page.
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  Speaker 3: Then go out there to a high level.
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  Speaker 2: That's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: I mean walking into an environment where newer faces and
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  Speaker 1: younger players can feel like I'm not walking into somewhere
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  Speaker 1: that's hostile. I'm not walking into somewhere where I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I really have to prove myself. Yes, I want
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  Speaker 1: to work hard, but I also can ask questions and
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  Speaker 1: be open and honest with the guys in the rooms.
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  Speaker 1: That has to start somewhere, and it probably starts with
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  Speaker 1: the older players.
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  Speaker 2: How have you?
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  Speaker 1: And and maybe Vaughn and some other guys in the defensive
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  Speaker 1: line room really set that up to where these guys
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  Speaker 1: walk in and they're feeling like, oh, this guy wants
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  Speaker 1: wants me to play my best here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I really just talking to him in the meeting.
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  Speaker 4: If the coach is going over a detail, going to
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  Speaker 4: play and you know, if I see something that you know,
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  Speaker 4: one of the young guys can do, I'll I'll like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, go over to the seat and tell them
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  Speaker 4: what I see and and kind of go back and
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  Speaker 4: just trying to feed them low information as much as
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  Speaker 4: I can in the meet and do what the meeting
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  Speaker 4: for what I see, even like today, you know, just
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  Speaker 4: telling the guys, you know, just take the time. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know they're gonna get you know, the
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  Speaker 4: coach is gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Be under butt about, you know, doing the small things
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  Speaker 3: and running around and I'm like, just take take a
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  Speaker 3: deep breath.
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  Speaker 4: Understand it's part of the part of the job of
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  Speaker 4: being a young guy. But at the same time, just
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  Speaker 4: we have enough time from now to training camp to
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  Speaker 4: kind of along you gotta learn and you kind of
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  Speaker 4: you can learn at your own pace and kind of
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  Speaker 4: just take a deep breath and let it come to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's also nice when there's not several cuts throughout the
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  Speaker 1: off season. These guys can actually learn the playbook, play
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  Speaker 1: the preseason games and then figure out, Okay, am I
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  Speaker 1: on the roster or am I not on the roster?
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  Speaker 1: You also re signed with the Bills this off season
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  Speaker 1: on a two year deal. Why did you want to
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  Speaker 1: stay in Buffalo?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I just loved it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean when I signed here and I, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: got the kind of taste of the scheme and what
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  Speaker 4: we do.
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  Speaker 3: I just fell in love with that.
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  Speaker 4: And the you know, the icing on the cake is
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  Speaker 4: the fan the fan base, and you know what what
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  Speaker 4: this team means the Buffalo and vice versa. It's hard
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  Speaker 4: to match that anywhere else. And I'm comfortable here.
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  Speaker 3: I have a relationship with all.
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  Speaker 4: The coaches and players, and it would just start all
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  Speaker 4: that backup and getting.
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  Speaker 3: Going somewhere else. I mean, it didn't make sense to me.
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  Speaker 4: So when they came came knock and it was it
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  Speaker 4: was an easy decision.
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  Speaker 1: Austin Johnson is now a part of the defensive line room.
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  Speaker 1: He it was somebody that you played with when you
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  Speaker 1: were in Tennessee for I want to say four seasons
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  Speaker 1: together and when he when it was announced that he
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  Speaker 1: was going to become a Buffalo Bill, we saw that
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  Speaker 1: you celebrated that signing. Seemed like you had a little
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  Speaker 1: played a little part in getting him to Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: What is Austin Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: What is that relationship like with him and how did
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  Speaker 1: you convince him, Hey, hey man, you got to be here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, that's like a little brother
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  Speaker 3: to me.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we both had Penn State together, and when
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  Speaker 4: he came in there, I hosted him on his official
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  Speaker 4: and you know, kind of since then, we've kind of
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  Speaker 4: been hitting it off, and you know, we remained close
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  Speaker 4: over the years. Like you said, got drafted at his
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  Speaker 4: draft party and Jersey, I was there when he had
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  Speaker 4: to call from Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: So that that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: And just for him to call me and tell me
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  Speaker 4: that he had two options and he's leading towards Buffalo
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  Speaker 4: and be able to tell him my part and why
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  Speaker 4: why I chose Buffalo and why I thought Buffalo would
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  Speaker 4: be a good fit for him, and he told me
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  Speaker 4: to think about it, and I think by the end
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  Speaker 4: of that day he called me back and told me
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna sign with Buffalo. So I was very excited
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  Speaker 4: with that. I'm happy he's here. I think he'd be
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  Speaker 4: a great addition on the d line for us. And
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  Speaker 4: I can't say not enything bad about that guy.
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  Speaker 2: One of the reasons why people love playing here.
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  Speaker 1: White players want to re sign here is because of
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  Speaker 1: the culture and a lot of that happens inside the
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  Speaker 1: locker room. Well, when you walk into the locker room here,
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  Speaker 1: you see guys playing ping pong, you see guys playing cornhole,
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  Speaker 1: and you are somebody who is playing cornhole in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room. When did you start playing that game?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't start how I got here really, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Dion Dawkins put me on and I've been hooked ever
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  Speaker 4: since he showed me the game. They yeah there, okay,
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  Speaker 4: my first year here and I fell in love with it,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, we play all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Now did it come easy to you or was it
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  Speaker 1: something you had to work at? I myself played cornhole
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  Speaker 1: for fun, like in the summer at a party, but
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  Speaker 1: I am terrible. I feel like as an NFL athlete,
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  Speaker 1: you're just good at sports.
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  Speaker 2: Was it easy for you? Didn't it take some time?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: I I got pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Dion, it was hard trying to understand the
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  Speaker 4: game and understand just tossing the bag like it's different,
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  Speaker 4: it's different.
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  Speaker 3: Like this cornhole.
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  Speaker 2: I just want this thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, did the different type of game and just how
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  Speaker 4: to you know, throw the bag and understand the slide
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  Speaker 4: and pushing all the different rules of cornhole. And he
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  Speaker 4: taught me at all and and now I can I
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  Speaker 4: can hone my own with him. And you know, he
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  Speaker 4: invited me to you know, lose like a month ago
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  Speaker 4: to playing that tournament.
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  Speaker 3: I loved it, So I'm a I'm a huge advocate
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  Speaker 3: for it. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys were on ESPN playing in the Cornhole
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  Speaker 1: League tournament, the American Cornhole League tournament.
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  Speaker 2: What was that like?
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  Speaker 1: Turn on the TV and there are some NFL players
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  Speaker 1: participating in a cornhole tournament.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was kind of nerve wracking walk in there
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  Speaker 4: to a big gym and there's nothing but boards lined
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  Speaker 4: up in teams, you know, warming up and playing. They
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  Speaker 4: played before us, so they were playing all day. But
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  Speaker 4: I mean the amount of talent and that people have.
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  Speaker 3: Playing corn holes crazy.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the one thing I like about it and
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  Speaker 4: the untouched about it is like, you know, it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: matter how big or small, or or if you if
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  Speaker 4: you're handicapped, now you can still play this game.
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  Speaker 3: That's why it makes you so special.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, going out there and being able to
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  Speaker 4: play up there with with other peers, run the league
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  Speaker 4: and also be able to play against you know, the
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  Speaker 4: a CL's best you know players, was really cool experience.
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  Speaker 2: How did you guys do in the tournament?
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  Speaker 3: My team one?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, my team one h My partner was Blaine and
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  Speaker 4: it came down to me and Blaine for Dion and
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  Speaker 4: Adrian and we won.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. Okay, explain the throw?
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  Speaker 1: How do you do it? How do you toss it?
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's got their own spin to it. I'm sure what
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  Speaker 1: is what is the uh the key pieces of putting
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  Speaker 1: a toss together for you?
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  Speaker 4: For me, in my mind, I think like I'm going
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  Speaker 4: bowling like it's a little opposite, but you have to
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  Speaker 4: turn that way. But like if you're trying to go
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  Speaker 4: for like a corner pin, trying to like turn it out.
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  Speaker 4: So like for me, I just got like toss like
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  Speaker 4: I'm going for like the corner pin and for me,
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  Speaker 4: for me, it goes right out the middle and it
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  Speaker 4: works for me.
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  Speaker 2: Easy piece?
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  Speaker 3: Are you?
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  Speaker 1: Are you somebody who's hot at the start? Are you
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  Speaker 1: a closer? Are you consistent?
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  Speaker 3: I've think I'm a closer.
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  Speaker 4: When I start out, I'm okay, But when I get
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  Speaker 4: warmed up and I'm good, like I can I can
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  Speaker 4: get a four bagger.
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  Speaker 1: That's a who are the top five players in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room? Or are we learning since there are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of new guys on this team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure if any of the new guys play,
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  Speaker 4: but I would go I'll go in no particular order.
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  Speaker 4: I'll go Dion, AJ cam Lewis, myself. I mean, dirty
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  Speaker 4: Red Tyler he was he was.
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  Speaker 3: It was good too.
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  Speaker 2: But right now, maybe the fifth spot is open.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it might be open because we had a couple
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  Speaker 4: of guys who are not here no more that we're
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  Speaker 4: pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: I think that. I think the fifth spot is open.
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  Speaker 1: Is Dion at the top of the list or do people?
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  Speaker 1: Can people kind of compete with him in there?
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  Speaker 3: I think A J might be the most consistent.
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  Speaker 4: He always does it like down the middle, and I
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  Speaker 4: don't understand how he does it, but he's very consistent,
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  Speaker 4: and I will probably say he's.
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  Speaker 2: Never want to be right now, all right, that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: You've got your second anual Cornhole Classic coming up on
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  Speaker 1: June fifteenth and Binghamton, New York. I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. The proceeds go to athletes to athletes. Why
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  Speaker 1: did you want to have this event.
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  Speaker 4: I mean after I did so, when I got here
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  Speaker 4: and I played cornhole, I really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 3: And then Dion had an event here I think was
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  Speaker 3: last year.
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  Speaker 4: And I really enjoyed that, and I'm like, yo, I
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  Speaker 4: want you to do something like that back home a hometown.
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  Speaker 4: And so I went home, and I think three weeks
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  Speaker 4: before I did it, I found out there's like two
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  Speaker 4: corn hole leagues that you know, play back home on
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  Speaker 4: Thursday nights and it was pretty packed.
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  Speaker 3: Well we might as well try, and then we did it.
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  Speaker 3: Last year.
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  Speaker 4: We had a great turnout, A lot of people came
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  Speaker 4: did we raised like three thousand dollars for athlete athletes.
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  Speaker 4: And you know this year we have like sixty four
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  Speaker 4: teams already signed up wow to play, so somebody a
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  Speaker 4: long night. It was gonna be a fun night. And
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  Speaker 4: I'm just excited to kind of go out there and
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  Speaker 4: play cornhole.
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  Speaker 1: Going back to the locker room setting, having games in there.
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  Speaker 1: When you have so many new players being introduced to
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  Speaker 1: a locker room, a team, an offense, a defense, new system,
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  Speaker 1: trying to learn things. How does playing cornhole or playing
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  Speaker 1: ping pong help bring this group together?
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  Speaker 2: And also how is it unique to Buffalo.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it kind of just it sparks that
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  Speaker 4: that conversation and it just helps you kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 4: get to know your team agy more. I mean, as
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  Speaker 4: you're throwing, you can sit there and have a conversation
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  Speaker 4: about you know, whatever you're going to through, about life,
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  Speaker 4: a but your family, whatever, whatever the case may be.
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  Speaker 3: You got to sit there and talk about it.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, even like today, I mean they were
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  Speaker 4: competing like crazy over that that ping pong and just
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  Speaker 4: one game. I can't play, but you know they're over
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  Speaker 4: there competing and stuff, and just just another way to
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  Speaker 4: kind of drive that competitive edge. And at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day, I think it makes makes his team
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  Speaker 4: better and it makes the you know, the team going long.
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  Speaker 2: We're in the off season right now.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are coming back and forth here for OTA's
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  Speaker 1: mandatory mini camp is coming up and then you guys
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  Speaker 1: have a big break before training camp.
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  Speaker 2: What have you went up to this off season?
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  Speaker 4: Dayclon, I mean, I've been I've been traveling. I want
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  Speaker 4: two big vacations. I went on a icon of the
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  Speaker 4: seas the cruise line, and that was that was crazy.
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  Speaker 2: He's a cruise guy too.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't go with him, but I tried to recruit
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  Speaker 4: him to go on go on the trip last minute notice,
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I went on there and it was it
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  Speaker 4: was pretty pretty cool. And then just last week I
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  Speaker 4: went on my dream vacation to so.
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  Speaker 1: Dream vacation because if you go onto your bio, it
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  Speaker 1: says dream vacation spot Bora, Bora, And you made this
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  Speaker 1: happen this off season.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you want to go there? And what was
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  Speaker 2: the best part about that trip?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it was really my my wife dream vacation,
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  Speaker 4: and she told me years ago she wanted to go,
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  Speaker 4: and we tried to go.
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  Speaker 3: I tried to surprise her.
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  Speaker 4: Actually the Coked year, I tried to book a surprise,
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  Speaker 4: but then we shut down, so we had to keep
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  Speaker 4: pushing it off.
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  Speaker 3: And then.
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  Speaker 4: You know, this year with hold, with the whole, the
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  Speaker 4: whole the contract stuff, I kind of book up vacations
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  Speaker 4: now and.
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  Speaker 3: So we can kind of know we gotta go. And
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  Speaker 3: I just looked down line, I'm like, you know.
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  Speaker 4: The heck was surprised they were bar Bora and went
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  Speaker 4: out there, and honestly, I think the best part I've
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  Speaker 4: been out there was actually walking into your to your
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  Speaker 4: to your room, the hut.
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  Speaker 1: The hut was was it like an over the water
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  Speaker 1: hut type of thing over.
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  Speaker 3: The water and have like a pool in it.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not really an ocean guy, so I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I was happy we had a pool and then I
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  Speaker 4: can just kind of wash the water. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: think the rooms were the best, the best thing about
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  Speaker 4: the whole island.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's amazing. Not an ocean guy because of sharks,
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  Speaker 1: because of what's.
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  Speaker 2: In the ocean.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm not I'm not a little fish guy.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I was trying to tell that as a kid, long
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  Speaker 4: story story I had. I had a fish stuck on
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  Speaker 4: my shirt and it was just flopping around.
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  Speaker 3: And it kind of just trying to tell me a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. So I don't really like the water.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like the fish, and uh, you know we
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  Speaker 4: were over there, we saw you know, turtles and steam rays.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it just made me even more harshly about
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  Speaker 3: going in the water. But I really did enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: That's I totally understand that.
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  Speaker 1: And having an overwater bungalow sounds incredible.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: You also said you went on a cruise. Was it
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: your first cruise?
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: Second?
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: One second?
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: One second?
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: One yep, And I became a fan of those and
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: I want to do them yearly and make it like
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: a family thing, like.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: By all my my brothers and my and.
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: My my nieces and nephews and try to set that
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: up so so next year we're trying to do going
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: the Iconic game, but bring off our families.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Cruise people have things that they want to do, things
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: that they love to do on cruises. If you're if
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: you've been on a cruise more than once, you know
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: the lay of the land. What are what are a
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: few things you have to do when you're on a cruise.
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, I would say the icon they had They had
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: a little pop up ice cream shops that were amazing
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: and like I probably found myself there with my kids,
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: like every day. I was blaming on my kids wanting
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: to go there, but it really me. And if I
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: would say the food or like it's actually really good.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: You can like the food packages and you kind of
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: kind of eat whatever. I think the highlight Highlight that
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: have it like a little pizza shop, I forget the
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: name of it, and it's like twenty oh you can
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: eatia little little thin slices and I mean it's dangerous now.
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: And my first one, I went out, I took my dad,
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: and my dad was there like all night, like we
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: actually call him one night, like coming down at one
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: o'clock in the morning.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: I got yeah. Yeah, So, I mean it's addicting for sure.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: In the off season, are you someone who, Hey, I'm
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: on the defensive line.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to bulk up.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: And then when I get back here, I had a
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: training camp, but I'm I'm going to work on my body.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Is that Are you able to do something like that
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: so you can hit the pizza shop and the ice
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: cream shops as much as you want.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I trained very hard and the off sudden
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: back home with my trainer, Kevin, and we we kind
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: of get after that, and my wife did a great
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: job with just helping me stay focused on my diet
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: and and you know, trying to you know, make sure
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: we're putting the stuff in my body. So I like
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: to send my back and then like try to cut,
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: like in this whole month and a half going to camp,
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: but right now I'm kind of in the cutting phase
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: and just trying to make sure my body's in the
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: best shape. You know, every year you got make sure
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: you do something even better for your body, you know,
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: going to year eleven. So I'm just trying to, like,
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: you know, just stay on top of all, you know,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: my health and when it comes to my diet, and yeah,
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: it's take one step further.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: What are some new things you are doing, whether it's diet,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: whether it's physique wise, whether it's in the weight room
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: as you approach your eleventh NFL season, because you hear
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: rookies become you know, second, third, fourth year players and
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: what they start to say is I'm learning about my body.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I'm learning about treatment.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: But then once you get into the double digit years,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: you have to double down on that even more.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's tough because I go to speak
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: to myself when I first came in. It's hard when
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: you have you know, the stream coaches they meet you
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: and they only see you for a couple of months,
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: but they're trying to.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Tell you what what your body should be at whatever
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: And it takes a while for you to learn your
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: body in this game and understand like your body kind
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: of reacts in situations.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: So for me, just making sure I'm really make sure.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: I eat it's clean as like as I can in
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: all season could hit to build that habit.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: And then when I come here when I'm i'm training
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: or I'm stretching.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Like working more on like the like the little stuff
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: more like ankle molds and making sure you get that
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: inflection in your in your your ankles, get your bend
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: and the way you move all starts theres so make sure,
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: like you know, those all primed up and ready to go.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: And in the weight room just we're lifting moderate, but
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: also making sure the details all there and I'm really
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: working on my form and make sure my overall body's
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: throwing on.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Just certain parts.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: What does eating clean look like to you? What's on
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: your plate in the off season? What do you have
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: to avoid?
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know so actually I have like a gluten analogies.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: I just away from like bread as much as I can.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: So easy.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: No, it's not that I love. My favorite food is
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: a burger. I could eat a burger.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Every day of the week.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: I could much diner.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can everything I could.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: And so for me, like in the morning, I do
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: like four eggs and some avocado and bacon, and bunches
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: are lunches it for me are kind of tough.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: So I kind of try to do like falt.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: A chicken and I can see the salad, and then
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: for dinner we do like just ground ground beef and riots.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: They keep it real simple and kind of like change
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: your flavors up every other day and kind.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Of keep it going.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Are you cooking? Is your wife cooking? Do you guys
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: have somebody that helps you.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: To teach me to kind of do it myself, But
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: she does majority of the of the cooking. I'm trying
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: to do it myself, but she don't come up here
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: in Ogs, so when I go home, is me doing it,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: so just you know, she kind of coached me do
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: like you know stuff I like how to cook it.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you have kids at home, you got a
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: wife at home. I hear you also have lots of dogs.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Is that correct? What's the number there?
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: So?
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: I have four massive four massive four massive as two
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: they're all presic canarios. Two right now currently live with me.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Two of them right now living with my dog trainer.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Just because of behavior issues, I'm not home, so but
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: you know, we still take care of them, still love
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: aut them. So we have two right now living with us,
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: but we have four at one point.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: How big are these dogs about? Like, oh my gosh, yeah,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: the big baby that's more than me. That's crazy. Did
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: you always love those types of dogs?
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Is?
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Did you always want big dogs in your life?
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Because there's people who are small dog people big dog people.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I had a pipoll my first people passed away last
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: year and I my first dog I had, and I
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: loved them, and AWAYS wanted like a you know, kind
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: of a bigger dog.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: And when I picked up these puppies back in.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Eighteen, like I wanted the two boys, but then the
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: female was like attached to the other ones, so like I'm.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Like, God, got to take of that.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: I bought the three puppies at one time, and you know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I had a an older master at the time that
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: bought when I was still in Tennessee, and they all
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: got along great. And then obviously when the whole dynamic
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: if you're leaving the house and it's on the compete,
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: but you know, they kind of got out of hand.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: But we still keep on all four of them and
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: make sure they're all in good health. But you have
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: two live with now and doing good.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: So the two that live with you, now, how much
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: attention do two huge dogs need not allowed.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: They're very they're very docile, They're very Yeah, they're very uh,
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: very lazy dogs that they sit there and they kind
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: of lay around all day, but you know they go
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: outside and run around and have a have a blast
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: and all that.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Now that they're very easy going dogs, that's pretty cool.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I also want to talk about some things that you
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: have going back on at home, because you have this
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Cornhole Classic coming up, but you also have a place
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: called the Legacy Lounge back in Bantam.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Why did you want to open up something like that?
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, just one of them drinks again, like
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: I always have these uh you know, like popcorn brain.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: I think about what I want and all from an
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: early age, I there was like a couple of things
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: that I had to crawl off my bucket list and
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: it was like, you know, dogs, nice house, acreage, and
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: you know, I wanted to own like my own like
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: liquor lone one day and the opportunity came and presented
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: itself to me a couple of years ago, and I
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: jumped on it. And we've opened now for like two
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: and a half years and it's been a huge learning
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: curve for me. But I truly do love and enjoy
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: and I's wanting to get back to my community. I
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: mean we have Irish pub, which is then an Irish pub,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: but that's all we had back home.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: You wanted to bring a different type of uh you know,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: nightlife out there.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: So it's a hit so far.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we we we.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: The first year was was great, obviously, learning through the
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: whole employee phase and growing through that, and but we're
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: doing good.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: We're on track to have a positive year this year,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: so I really can't complaining.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: You also have a podcast and a lifestyle vlog.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, you have things going on in your life
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: outside of playing for the Buffalo Bills, which a lot
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: of players, especially vets like yourself, start to focus on,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: all right, what else do I have going on for myself?
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Why do you feel like it's important to have a
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: legacy lounge, to to have a podcast and a lifestyle vlog,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to have other things happening at the.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Same time, Uh, to kind of learn yourself. I mean,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: you don't know what you what you like, and you
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: know we talk about every day that we you know,
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: we're not just football players out here, We're human beings,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: and you know, the NFL's things for one thing not
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: for long, and you have to figure out what you're
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: going to do after. So when my time comes, when
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: I hang up the cleats, I want to be able
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: to have a different type of avenue that can go
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: down and stuff that I enjoy that kind of keep
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: me entertained that can do at the football.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: So I'm just trying to figure.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Out, like what I like to do, and if I
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: do like it, keep in my back pocket and kind
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: of keep building over the time.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: So when I do say, you know, goodbye to the game,
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: I have something to roll into.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Is there anything that's at the top of your list
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: right now that you've you've kind of dipped your toe
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: into and you're like, hey, this this would be really
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: cool to pursue Whenever I hang up the.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Cleats, I really do like the podcasting and lifestyle. I
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: think I want to get my story out there more often.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to trying to be more vulnerable and open up.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Never been a fan of the camera or the microphone,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: but I'm trying to do a great job. I'm trying
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: to push myself and kind of just growing with a
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: person in that area. And I think last year when
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: when I first did, I really enjoyed it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: I learned a lot.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: And then this year we're working on a lot of
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: good stuff and just trying to keep on pursuing that.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Where can people find that stuff?
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so my lifestyle page, podcast page, you see why legacy,
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: it's on that, on I G and on YouTube.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: I think you follow me there. It's tagged my bio
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: on my personal page.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: So yeah, you said, uh, you're checking off these boxes
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: of you know, the dogs, the kids, the house, the acreage,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the lounge.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: What else is what else is on that list that
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: you're going to check off?
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: One of my one my biggest goals is to you know,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: double double the amount of money I made they're in
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: football outside of football, just to prove to myself that,
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: you know, I can, I can continue to be successful
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: and make the amount of money I would be playing
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: football outside.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: So my next goal is to.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Find ways to generate you know, income for me and
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: my family, to telling myself to make it much I
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: did play in the league.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: That's awesome and I think that's so smart that so
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: many players nowadays are focusing on It's not taking away
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: from the game, but they're also focusing on life outside
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: of football to set themselves and their families up for
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: success for the rest of their lives. I want to
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: finish off by some rapid fire questions about the defensive
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: line room, because there's a lot of new faces that
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: we're all trying to learn right now. And I'm sure
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: you guys are too. You know them way better than
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I do. But I know you guys are building those
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: relationships right now. So who is the funniest guy in
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: the defensive line room?
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Hmmm? Probably me? I get that.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll go, I'll go me, And then like funny
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: but not trying to be funny is like, he's not
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: like trying to be funny.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: But he's just like what is what does he do
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: that's not funny? But it is?
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: He just I don't like to say it's just uh,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I can say it.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say it because for me, he just
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: looks like, you know, gentle giant, the nicest guy. He's tall,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: he's big, he's a defensive line and.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: He just goes about his life.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: And I don't know a good way to put it's
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: in the anime. He's just like very I don't know
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: a good word for it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: He just you wouldn't get that vibe that he's like
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: a funny guy or like the jokes, but it's how
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: he how he comes back from like a joke on
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: back or something like that, Like it's just how he
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: says it.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: And then like in minnerism, it's just it's funny.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: So I would say Greg second, well, we love Greg
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: over here, so that's hilarious. You also mentioned yourself, are
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: you the are you cracking jokes? What are you doing
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: that people are saying, Q, You're funny?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I am, I'm cracking jokes.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: And then like I don't like my thing is that
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: don't mess up because like the tension in the room
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: can be kind of high, which is like okay the
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: camp like nobody wants to totally yeah, but if you
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: mess up, like.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna give you a look,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: or I'm.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Gonna make a comment and I'm gonna say something put
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: in a joke away to kind of lighten up like
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: light in the room because we get just too worked
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: up over that stuff. And so like I kind of
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: just fire off on people all the time, and people
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: thought like a guy here, like, I'm quiet, I don't talk.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I'm like I I'm a jokester.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you got guys who
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: are fighting for their jobs in that room, and sometimes
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: you need somebody to throw a joke in there once
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: in a while because it can get I'm sure it
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: can get very serious sometimes.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: I mean because just like you know, if someone gets
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: dumped in the ground, you look at them as like, buddy,
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: you know you can't, you can't.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Do that, and like it just kind of lightens the
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: mood of the room and everyone's so it's just it's
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: a good time.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Who's the most serious guy on the defensive line? Is
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: there somebody who is not cracking jokes?
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: No?
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: I mean I feel like the actual other people they
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: might say me as well, but like I feel like, uh,
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: I thought we all meshed pretty well together. No one's
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: kind of no one's kind of not cracking jokes.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I mean no, I think everyone. I think everyone kind
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: of by then and we all we all do it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Who's the most interesting player on the defensive line?
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: I'll say probably it.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Because he's posting videos on the first going twenty two
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: miles per hour.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, he's a you never know you're gonna
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: get with him. You know, he's he's he's a character,
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: but he's a great guy. But you never know what's
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: gonna come buy of his mouth or or what are
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: you thinking.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: So I would say, for sure, it's always a surprise
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: with Ed. Yeah, you don't know you're gonna get You
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: gotta have somebody like that, that's amazing.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: What are three words to describe the vibe in the
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: defensive line room?
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Okay, funny, the vie, funny, relaxed, and brotherhood. I feel like,
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, we're just we're all so close, even though
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: the new guy's getting here, like we we just we
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: brought them in and and really it feels like none
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: really changing that.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Room other than we're teaching and developing. But yeah, I
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: think brotherhood. Uh, funny, we're all just very you know,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: relaxed and laying back at the end of the day.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Who's somebody that you you saw them play last year
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  Speaker 1: and didn't have to be on the team. That's not
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  Speaker 1: a rookie that you're excited to see this season. Defensive
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  Speaker 1: line room.
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  Speaker 3: I play not on the team.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have to be on the team.
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  Speaker 1: They can be on the team, somebody who played in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL last year, that's a part of the defensive
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  Speaker 1: line that you're excited to watch them.
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  Speaker 4: First, when I comes to my mind, I would stay AJ,
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  Speaker 4: and I've been. I've been, feel like guy, I've been
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  Speaker 4: a huge advocate for AJ. I think last year he
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  Speaker 4: took some great stride and I think, you know, watching
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  Speaker 4: them at ot is how he's moving now, the game's
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  Speaker 4: kind of coming to him. Like you know, you can't
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  Speaker 4: speak for another man in this league, but I feel
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  Speaker 4: like he's going to have a pretty.
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  Speaker 3: Damn good year.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited that he's back. I'm so excited to
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  Speaker 1: watch him this season. It was amazing to see what
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  Speaker 1: he did last year with the team, and it's so
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  Speaker 1: great that he has teammates like you who pour into
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  Speaker 1: him and really believe in his abilities on the field.
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  Speaker 1: One more question for you. Give me a few words
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  Speaker 1: to describe Dwayne Carter. We've got a new defensive lineman
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  Speaker 1: that was drafted by Brandon Bean and company, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited that he's here.
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  Speaker 2: He comes from Duke. What is this guy like?
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  Speaker 4: He's a smart He's a smart kid, first of all,
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  Speaker 4: and I love his approach to the game. He's he's, uh,
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  Speaker 4: he's going to put someone in that serious column. It
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: might be him right now, but I mean he's very,
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  Speaker 4: very intentative to details. Every every day in the meeting room,
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  Speaker 4: he's he's taking notes, and you know, he go out there,
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  Speaker 4: he's trying to apply what he's learning.
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  Speaker 3: It's not easy, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you come in, you had to kind of
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  Speaker 4: destruct your mind on what you learned in college and
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  Speaker 4: kind of you know, get us to the terminology and
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: be able to then apply it. I think he's doing
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  Speaker 4: a great job so far of come my air and
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  Speaker 4: compete and and and buying into the process.
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  Speaker 2: Take one.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what this group looks like this season.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see you in it, a healthy season,
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. We know last season was cut a
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  Speaker 1: little bit short. You came back, but this defensive line
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  Speaker 1: is better with you in it. So thanks for taking
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  Speaker 1: the time to talk with us today. Appreciate it all right,
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  Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more episodes of Inside the Charge.