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Conference Call: Josh Allen · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Man, it means, it means a lot. Man. I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to go to the organization that you know that that
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  Speaker 1: that really strives to stack the quarterback. You know that
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  Speaker 1: that's what I love to do. I just want to
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  Speaker 1: thank Mr Cohn, Mr Mr Tomlins, Mr Carl Roll, Mr Marone.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to take all the guys up there.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanta thing Coach Walsh for believing in me.
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  Speaker 1: I want think all those guys for taking the trust
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  Speaker 1: and believing in me. And they know they know the
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  Speaker 1: type of player in the beginning, and that's the type
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  Speaker 1: of player I know I'm gonna be. So I can't
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  Speaker 1: wait to get started. And I love it. Stood up
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Kentucky. How do you envision yourself fitting
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  Speaker 1: into a fourth three defensive? That's sort of how they
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  Speaker 1: want to use you. Man. They go after, they get
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  Speaker 1: after the quarterback. That's all I need to hear. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I went there on my visit. They said beyond we
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  Speaker 1: get out to the quarterback. That's all I had to hear.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care about the defense. They can run a
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  Speaker 1: five twelve, I don't care. They said, they get out
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  Speaker 1: of quise back. That's what I do best. I love
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  Speaker 1: agatting at the quarterback Josh. After last season, did you
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  Speaker 1: even for a second of a thought to coming out early? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I did? I actually did. H If I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: my son, I probably would have came out early. But
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  Speaker 1: the birth of my son came. My son was born
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  Speaker 1: where we because you know, we had him, and you
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  Speaker 1: know I had to come back. I had to become
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  Speaker 1: a better person, to become a better man, uh football
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  Speaker 1: player on top of that. So man, I'm so glad
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  Speaker 1: he came. He's a blessing, uh blessing in disguise, man,
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  Speaker 1: and I thank him every day. What is your son's
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  Speaker 1: name and when when exactly was he born? His name
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  Speaker 1: is Wesley Allen. He was born January third, eighteen. Do
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  Speaker 1: you remember about your visit here? What stood out to you? Man? Everybody?
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was cool. All the players, every player that I
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  Speaker 1: meant was awesome, Like like everybody I met an organization
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  Speaker 1: coach I mean Mr Carl and Mr car Mr Coughlin,
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  Speaker 1: Mr Carl Rolle, Mr Marone. Everybody was good. And I
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  Speaker 1: know Coach wash was. He was animated. Man. I loved it,
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  Speaker 1: you know I loved it. He shold me how they
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  Speaker 1: could use me, and it was just it was is unbelievable, man, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait, Josh, I went through your mind when
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  Speaker 1: you got the phone call. Man, I had my son
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  Speaker 1: on me and I couldn't jump up and share, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. So he was watching the movie,
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  Speaker 1: so I had to play it cool. But man, I
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  Speaker 1: was just happy. Man, I'm happy to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of the organization that works. And plus I saw it
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  Speaker 1: was Jacksonville. Man. Man, oh, Man, Hey, I'm ready, Josh?
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  Speaker 1: What movie was just done? Watching what you say he's watching?
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  Speaker 1: Watching watching Monsters University? Josh, was anybody in your inner
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  Speaker 1: circle last year who tried to maybe nudge you or
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  Speaker 1: even push you directly into coming out early last you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was all up to me. Man. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: was in my corner. Everybody supported me, and whatever the
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  Speaker 1: decision I made, it was going to back me up.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I just made it in best investing
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  Speaker 1: interest for myself to come back another year. Was there
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  Speaker 1: any point, maybe between the time you made that decision
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  Speaker 1: and maybe the start of Kentucky's last season where you
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  Speaker 1: just thought to yourself, you know how much relieved you
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  Speaker 1: were that you decided to come back man, I do it.
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  Speaker 1: I think about it every day, man Like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I would have never been in this situation last year,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And and I decided, I'm glad I came back.
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  Speaker 1: Uh the further my the further, you know, the further
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  Speaker 1: myself as a person and as a uh another player
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  Speaker 1: as well. So uh, I was just really thankful that
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  Speaker 1: I came back. And think everybody that helped me, uh
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  Speaker 1: during this process, and you know, telling about forever grateful
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  Speaker 1: were you? Are you one of those guys that you
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  Speaker 1: know uses the fact that you didn't get a ton
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  Speaker 1: of scholarship offers to kind of fuel you a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: of course? Man, I was then. I knew I let
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  Speaker 1: the State of Sacks my senior first time playing defense,
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  Speaker 1: and I was two star recruit committed the moments, I
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  Speaker 1: was the only golfer I had, so I knew, I
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  Speaker 1: knew I was worth better than that. Uh, but uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know I would have played. I was playing with
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  Speaker 1: the tip of my shoulders then and I'm playing with
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  Speaker 1: the tip of my shoulder now. I played with that
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  Speaker 1: throughout college. Everybody slept on me. I feel like they
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  Speaker 1: still do. And you know, I'm glad. I'm glad Kentucky
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  Speaker 1: take a chance for me, and I'm glad do I
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  Speaker 1: take a chance for me? Josh, did you go through
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  Speaker 1: the process of what led to going from Mama to
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  Speaker 1: to Kentucky? What what happened was that a phone call
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  Speaker 1: from somebody? What Kentucky? So Katuck I was committed to
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  Speaker 1: moment at the time, Ni Kentucky came to my school
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  Speaker 1: one day out of nowhere and just offered me a scholarship.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't talk to you nobody. I had
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  Speaker 1: a letter from him. They just they just gave me
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  Speaker 1: a call. I mean, they just took call my coach
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  Speaker 1: the day before it came to my school gave me
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  Speaker 1: a scholarship next time, like a couple of hours later.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on my plane. Uh they kul tuke it on
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  Speaker 1: official visit. Who was the coach that offered you that scholarship?
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  Speaker 1: You remember Coach Ansley? Derek Ansley. So why didn't you
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  Speaker 1: play defense until your senior year in high school? Because
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  Speaker 1: I was a state receiver in Alabama. I just you know,
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  Speaker 1: that was just me. I was just an all state receiver.
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  Speaker 1: I was a receiver at hard and then I moved
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  Speaker 1: to moved back home to Jersey, and you know, you
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  Speaker 1: asked me if I wanted to play defense. I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you you know, whatever you need me,
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  Speaker 1: I play, And he put me on defense and I
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  Speaker 1: never looked back since. So you don't miss that receiver
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  Speaker 1: stuff at all, or didn't at all. Uh yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: still play receiver where I had ten touchdowns my senior year,
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  Speaker 1: but our defense, but I had twenty plus tacks, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so I enjoyed that more. Josh, you're turning twenty two
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of months. Uh, y'all even got light here,
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  Speaker 1: just turned twenty four. I mean, how sort of interesting
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  Speaker 1: and intriguing is it to potentially be alongside the guy
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  Speaker 1: for the next decade who you know also has a
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  Speaker 1: ton of sack thrill in his career. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: we're young, we can grow together. We got veterans in
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  Speaker 1: the inside who got young guys in the back end,
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  Speaker 1: plus veterans, and plus me and him, I can get Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to learn from him because he had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of success in the NFL, and I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: pick his brain. Uh so, and I feel like we
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  Speaker 1: can help each other out. He brings them to the game.
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  Speaker 1: When they block him, you know that that frees me.
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  Speaker 1: And when when they can't block me, I mean they're
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  Speaker 1: blocking me, they could just eat that. He could just eat.
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  Speaker 1: So I feel like me here could work hand to
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  Speaker 1: hand together and we can make a lot of plays
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  Speaker 1: and we can make some special in Jacksons. Though, Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Ramsey tweeted at a screenshot of his Twitter DMS with
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  Speaker 1: you about how he told you that you're the best
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  Speaker 1: player in this draft. What does that mean to you
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  Speaker 1: to for him to reach out to you before? Man,
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy because I remember I watched Damian Ramsey throughout college,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I was a fan
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  Speaker 1: of him. Uh, and then when I got there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to to message him or him mesage me,
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  Speaker 1: like it was like a dream from tru you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. I looked up to this dude. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's like I'm his teammate. So now it's just putting
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  Speaker 1: more few to my fire. Now I gotta I gotta
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  Speaker 1: pro proven why I'm the best player in this draft.
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  Speaker 1: Uh the place. I gotta earn a respect of him.
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  Speaker 1: So now I'm coming in here, ready to work, ready
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  Speaker 1: to change well, we're ready to keep the coach of going. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: That that's the type of m I'm bringing and earn
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  Speaker 1: a respect to my peers. Josh, how much weight did
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  Speaker 1: you put on junior to senior year and how much
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  Speaker 1: did that help you go and speed the power? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Probably like fifteen twenty U And it helped me out
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  Speaker 1: a lot. I felt comfortable, I feel more durable that
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  Speaker 1: I can do it, and uh, man, I would just
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  Speaker 1: I just have fun doing it. Josh, was that your
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  Speaker 1: idea of somebody else's with that all the weight? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was my idea. I had the game weight I knew.
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  Speaker 1: I knew I had I knew I had to gain weight. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: That was one thing I was really prideful of my
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  Speaker 1: you know, go to my senior year to do and
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  Speaker 1: when I did it, I couldn't be more happy. And
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  Speaker 1: now I got the way. Now you gotta add the
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  Speaker 1: technique was unique one of the guys that you met
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  Speaker 1: with when you were up here. No, I never met him.
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  Speaker 1: I never met I've been following him on Instagram, like
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  Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a huge fan of him. I've been
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  Speaker 1: watching him every since, uh ever since Maryland. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: a real fan. I'm a big fan, but now I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to be a big teammate to him. So she
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  Speaker 1: was young, young, was a third round pick, sort of
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  Speaker 1: has the place with a chip on his shoulder. Carried
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  Speaker 1: the chip on his shoulder to feel like you guys
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  Speaker 1: have sort of cut from the same blast in that way. Yes, sir, man,
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  Speaker 1: I played the chip. I played this tip on my
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  Speaker 1: shorter every day. But even even him and I played football,
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  Speaker 1: I walked, I walked, walked. I walked the world with
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  Speaker 1: a chip of my shoulder. Man, because you never know when,
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  Speaker 1: you never know when somebody's gonna try your something. So
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  Speaker 1: you know I fail for him, and but looked we're
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  Speaker 1: here now we're trying to win super Bowls. I know
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  Speaker 1: he is. I know I am. So I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: be great. Hey, Johns, you in the NFL right now?
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  Speaker 1: Do you model your game after I'm one of my
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  Speaker 1: game after a lot of guys. Uh. Now, I don't
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  Speaker 1: try to. I'll try to mind my game after myself.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of take I take like techniques from
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  Speaker 1: other people, so they say so, like I like killer
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  Speaker 1: max speed, the power, I like v Millers get off.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll try to idolize my own game and try
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  Speaker 1: to make myself uh stand out pass rusher as well.
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  Speaker 1: So I try to use my own stuff, but I
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  Speaker 1: do watch film of theirs and uh numerous other guys
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  Speaker 1: in NFL. Josh, can you Coughlin talked about he praised
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  Speaker 1: you being you can be gag and drop back and
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  Speaker 1: coverage dripped the ball. Can you talk about the things
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  Speaker 1: you do outside the pass rushing? I mean, how much
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  Speaker 1: to do you like playing a linebacker and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I could do it all. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna and that's why I live. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm going to a great situation. Uh. And I
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  Speaker 1: get the rush the pastor a lot. I get the
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  Speaker 1: also drop of coverage so they can utilize that. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm comfortable enough to drop into coverage and
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  Speaker 1: play man on tight ends. And and I know how
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  Speaker 1: to read offenses to see