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Patrick Harper and Rylan Williams Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We got two more last but definitely not least players
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  Speaker 1: here Northwest frankl but one highlight today Patrick Harper. He
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  Speaker 1: is a corner for the Cougars. Also, Rylan Williams will
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  Speaker 1: get to him and just a bit offensive line defensive line.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick will come in.
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  Speaker 3: Brother, how you doing Yeah, I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 1: So you said you've been here for quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, as I always say, when coaches give
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  Speaker 1: you the microphone. They obviously trusting you this is your
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  Speaker 1: senior year, kind of take us through what it's been
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  Speaker 1: like to play for coach Cooper and play for the Cougars.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a really amazing journey, you know, starting from
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  Speaker 3: middle school, you know, you know, just getting knowing your teammates,
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  Speaker 3: knowing getting really knowing football, and now all the way
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  Speaker 3: to my senior year has just been a very very good,
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  Speaker 3: progressive journey, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And with everything, how's how's the camp been so far
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  Speaker 1: for you guys, It's been good.
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  Speaker 3: Adkins has been very good.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: We've been getting you know, feating out some mall mistakes,
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  Speaker 3: getting everything going and getting ready for this game on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: And of course Terry coming in and then you guys
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  Speaker 1: will travel to Germantown next week. Corner man, it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's a tough position to play. And I say that
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  Speaker 1: because I never played it. I watch it a lot,
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  Speaker 1: And of course I said, I'm talking to coaches as
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  Speaker 1: coaches all the time, I say, hey, what's the hardest
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  Speaker 1: position to coach? Now, it's the corner is because we
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  Speaker 1: know it's an offensive game, right, you can't really put
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  Speaker 1: your hands on a guy talk about you know, how
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  Speaker 1: hard or maybe not it's not to play corner in
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  Speaker 1: Missisippi high school fotball.
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  Speaker 3: It's definitely a challenge, you know, with some of much
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  Speaker 3: rules and regulations around it, you know, not being able,
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  Speaker 3: like you said, not being able to test people as
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  Speaker 3: much and not being able to you know, do certain things.
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  Speaker 3: But it's just about being disciplined in just knowing the game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, once you can't kind of expeake stuff to happen.
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  Speaker 3: It's just everything flows to you this when you make
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  Speaker 3: a plan and get your name out there.
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  Speaker 1: So when you look at it play in a corner,
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  Speaker 1: do you would you rather pick a pass off or
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  Speaker 1: do you rather bake a big hit in the backfield?
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  Speaker 1: Like I mean, what kind?
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  Speaker 3: I mean?
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  Speaker 1: I know it's all fun, but what like is if
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  Speaker 1: you had one last play to make, what's it going
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  Speaker 1: to be?
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  Speaker 3: I probably say, intersition, it's probably more fun in the moment.
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  Speaker 1: And so when you talk about this year and you
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  Speaker 1: look at the schedule with Germantown coming up Terry on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: we know coach wants you to go, you know, game
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  Speaker 1: to game, but what game are you looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: the most?
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  Speaker 3: If you could pick one out of the hole schedule,
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  Speaker 3: the whole schedule. Definitely, definitely, Brandon, I definitely feel like
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  Speaker 3: we had a very good chance to win that game
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  Speaker 3: last year and I need this is our game, your
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  Speaker 3: rings game this year.
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  Speaker 1: Who's your favorite college team?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, Florida Florida Gators.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, Yeah, we don't get a whole lot of Florida,
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  Speaker 1: but you liked the Florida games. What about NFL forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers, man forty nine ers and pregame meal? We've
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  Speaker 1: been taking posts today. If you were in charge of
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  Speaker 1: the pregame meal and they said, Patrick, you get to
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  Speaker 1: pick it, what are you picking?
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  Speaker 3: I probably get a Chick fil a Chick fil A.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were joking there. Y'all. Had a teammate and
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  Speaker 1: I had somebody text me his name earlier year two
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  Speaker 1: over here we asked this question. He said he didn't
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  Speaker 1: eat pregame males, and I could not believe that.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't believe either. I.
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  Speaker 1: So, lastly, what are goals and expectations for you guys
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  Speaker 1: this year? In your mind? Our goals?
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  Speaker 3: One of our goals to be one of the hardest
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  Speaker 3: working teams you. No nobody wants to outplay us, No
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  Speaker 3: one to be like, we want to be the hardest
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  Speaker 3: working team when the team gets done and facing h
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  Speaker 3: that's what you want to know. Now, our goals to
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  Speaker 3: make it all the way. You know, we're tired of
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  Speaker 3: you know, sitting at the same spot we've been and
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  Speaker 3: continues to get into the same time. First round here year.
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  Speaker 3: We want to make a run and we want to
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  Speaker 3: make count this year.
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  Speaker 1: He's Patrick harpermn Patrick, thank you, brother, I appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: taking some time, and we're gonna switch it out real
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  Speaker 1: quick and get Rylan Williams in you can Texas six
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  Speaker 1: or one eight eight five three seven seven six. That
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  Speaker 1: is the couple of Maloney's text line Cable Maloney's thirteen
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  Speaker 1: locations around the state online at Cowboy Maloney's dot com.
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  Speaker 1: And now we got to Rylin Williams offensive line and
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  Speaker 1: defensive line. How are you, brother?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 1: Coach was teeing you up in the break and he said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he had to get you to buy in
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  Speaker 1: to pay you know, when you were younger to play
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  Speaker 1: in both offensive line and defensive line. You don't see
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  Speaker 1: guys at the seven eight level do that a whole lot.
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  Speaker 1: What made you buy into it?
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  Speaker 4: Years ago. Well, you know, one thing about it I
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  Speaker 4: will say is my coaches they kept telling me like, man,
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  Speaker 4: you know you're an athlete for alignment. You're a very athletic.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, one thing I will say is that
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  Speaker 4: the recruits they loved it. Like during the spring and stuff,
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  Speaker 4: when I was getting recruited and stuff, the coacher telled him,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he's playing both sides of the ball. He's
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  Speaker 4: a fas fast athletic guy, big guy, you know. So
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  Speaker 4: one thing I said was, you know, I'm gonna do
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  Speaker 4: what I need to do for my team, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: do what's needed.
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  Speaker 1: Take us through that a little bit, because again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: uh seven eight football and you guys play it. I
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  Speaker 1: mean you say it every week. You don't see a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys do that. So how do you mentally
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  Speaker 1: prepare for that? Because you know this, you're you're let's
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  Speaker 1: say you start out on defense tonight and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: four three, four, five, six snaps, she calls a punt then,
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  Speaker 1: but all of a sudden, you got to turn get
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  Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball. You're getting a
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  Speaker 1: fresh defensive line. You're always playing somebody fresh, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: which means you're you have to be an extra extra
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  Speaker 1: good shaw.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Yes, sir. You know one thing I will
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  Speaker 4: say I could. I made sure my mental game was
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  Speaker 4: up to day, you know, up to park, you know,
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  Speaker 4: because it's like I'm a big guy, I'm gonna get tired.
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  Speaker 4: But one thing I will say is I have a
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  Speaker 4: lot of motivation in me. You know, I'm very high headed.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I keep I keep things going straight with me,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So, yes, sir, I really
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  Speaker 4: think that my coaches they really did the right thing
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  Speaker 4: by putting me on both sides of the ball, because
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  Speaker 4: it shows me as a leader. It shows how hard
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  Speaker 4: I've worked, and you know, I'm ready to see what
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  Speaker 4: we do just for fun. You talk about recruiting.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the coaches you've talked to, do they project
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  Speaker 1: you more on the offensive side or defensive side of
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  Speaker 1: the next year?
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  Speaker 4: Offered me for both? This one thing I will say.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I asked one recruiting you know, I was like, coach,
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  Speaker 4: you know what did y'all offer me for a work
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  Speaker 4: side of the ball? He said both? And I was like, really,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they really they really they really told me
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  Speaker 4: something like they really believe in me. They really like
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  Speaker 4: what I'm doing, you know, so I really feel like,
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  Speaker 4: since they're doing that, I'm gonna get them something to
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  Speaker 4: look at. I'm gonna show them that, yes, I can
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  Speaker 4: do this, cause you know, they're all these coaches are
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  Speaker 4: iff you by all these recruiters are like, he's big.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, He's a big guy. And
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  Speaker 4: playing both sides of the ball on first team defense
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  Speaker 4: and first team offense. You know, being big parts of
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  Speaker 4: both sides of the ball. That's a lot. So I
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  Speaker 4: really have to I really made it, made it to
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  Speaker 4: myself to where I will approve a point. I will
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  Speaker 4: show them that I can do it.
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  Speaker 1: So what's it been like for you to play here
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  Speaker 1: at Northwest Ranking? And now as you kind of look
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  Speaker 1: out on that field knowing hate, you know this is
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  Speaker 1: this is it? This is the last season here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, one thing I will say is I've kind
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  Speaker 4: of learned since playing since playing as a freshman. You know,
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  Speaker 4: my after my ninth grade season, they moved me up
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  Speaker 4: to varsity and I played two three games with the
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  Speaker 4: starting office line at two hundred and fifteen pounds. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I really watched how guys, how to how the seniors
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  Speaker 4: of each year before my senior year, how they've treated me,
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  Speaker 4: how they how they carried theirselves, you know. And I
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  Speaker 4: really bought into that, and now that I'm doing it,
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  Speaker 4: if it's a crazy feeling, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's like now you get to give back and
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  Speaker 1: kind of take some young guys under your wing.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, all right.
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  Speaker 1: A couple more questions here with Vin though, with ray
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  Speaker 1: Line Williams offensive line, defensive line. Rare in seven eight
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  Speaker 1: that you see a young man go both sides, but
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  Speaker 1: he is doing that here at Northwest Ranking. When you
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  Speaker 1: look down that schedule, the one team you're circling this year,
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's Germantown. Germantown. I've gotten that. Let's see now,
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  Speaker 1: y'all four players. I've gotten that two or three times today.
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  Speaker 1: So is it because the first game or you got
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  Speaker 1: like you said, like, we don't like those guys.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like those guys. Now they've made it, they've
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  Speaker 4: made it a rivalry. You know, at first, you know
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  Speaker 4: it's Germantown, Okay, we just want to win. But now
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  Speaker 4: I really want to put put put the paws on
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  Speaker 4: the guy, put the piles on them, guys, and.
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  Speaker 1: That's next week, right, yes, yeah, this next week, next week.
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  Speaker 4: But Terry's first. There, you get out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Terry's first, got to get out of the way. But
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  Speaker 1: if you're if you're responsible for the pregame mail, what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Canes?
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  Speaker 1: Canes? I think I got two canes and what you said?
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  Speaker 1: Check he said Chick fil A, Chick fil A and knes.
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  Speaker 1: And I also got one of your teammates and said
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to do barbecue, macaroni and cheese.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah I heard that.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, favorite college team h L s U
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  Speaker 1: L s U and favorite NFL team Baltimore Ravens. I
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  Speaker 1: like that last question for you, goals and aspirations for
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  Speaker 1: you guys this year? What are you looking to do?
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  Speaker 4: One thing? I will say, of course I want to win,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, I want to see my young guys
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  Speaker 4: grow because of how much I've coached them up, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to help my other coaches motivate them and stuff. I
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  Speaker 4: want to see my young guys growing. I want to
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  Speaker 4: see them all out. But yeah, winning, winning is one
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  Speaker 4: of those. And you know what I'm saying, not going
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  Speaker 4: five to five again, not getting not being first round.
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  Speaker 3: Xes.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I want to go farther than that. And uh,
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  Speaker 4: I do have one more question. What's like to play
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  Speaker 4: here on Friday night? Oh, it's tremendous, tremendy. That's one
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  Speaker 4: thing I will say. I get chills every time I
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  Speaker 4: think about it. The night before the game, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just thinking about it. Oh my guy, he's a
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  Speaker 4: home game. I know I have people coming to watch me,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, people the kids in the school know
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  Speaker 4: about me. It's like man, once once we're running out
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  Speaker 4: the cougarhead, it's up. You know. It's a crazy feeling.
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  Speaker 4: One thing I will say, that's one thing I will
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  Speaker 4: miss about high school football.
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  Speaker 1: Throd doubt about it. He is Rayline Williams. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: so we appreciate Patrick Carper. Guys appreciate you so much.
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