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O-Zone Podcast: TE Tyler Eifert · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone podcast presented by by Star Credit Union,
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  Speaker 1: featuring Jaguars senior writer John Oser and executive producer Dave
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  Speaker 1: de Candice. I think some Jaguars scans have an idea
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  Speaker 1: about this guy based teen at and hardcore football fans
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  Speaker 1: know about you know a lot about his history. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that all Jaguars scans know as much about
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  Speaker 1: him as they're going to find out this week. Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: tight end Tyler Eiffort Video Zone Podcast. Tyler, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you doing this. I'll get right to it.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me about your year personally on the field. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and it's an injuries and stuff like that, but overall,
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  Speaker 1: just tell me about that year. Obviously, it hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: what anybody has wanted on the team or what we expected. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's not fun losing in the NFL after
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  Speaker 1: we won that first game in at home against Indie.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just remind you how much fun it is
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  Speaker 1: to win in the NFL. So definitely not what we've
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  Speaker 1: we've wanted. And for me personally, you know, I never
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  Speaker 1: set goals as far as catches and yards and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. I just try to control what I can control,
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  Speaker 1: and that's you know, making sure I know where I'm
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be. I know the offense, I'm working hard
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  Speaker 1: to stay in shape and um and then now that
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  Speaker 1: I'm later in my career, just trying to help some
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  Speaker 1: of the younger guys and pass on some of the
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  Speaker 1: things that I've learned throughout the years. I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: ask you about that in terms that you mentioned being
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  Speaker 1: later in your career or more advanced in your career. Um,
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  Speaker 1: is this sort of a season in terms of how
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  Speaker 1: to approach the day to day? Meaning when you're losing
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  Speaker 1: like this, you can sort of lean on your professionalism.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it would have been harder to deal with
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  Speaker 1: this kind of a season as a rookie when you
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  Speaker 1: didn't know how to approach the day to day. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think for me personally, always just tried to be
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  Speaker 1: the same guy throughout the season, every day coming to work.
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  Speaker 1: You know, never get too high, never get too low,
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  Speaker 1: whether we're winning a bunch of games, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: be consistent. And you know I try to as far
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  Speaker 1: as me being a leader, I try to be a
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  Speaker 1: leader in that way. Is you know I'm not I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a guy you're gonna have to worry about. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get the same guy every day no matter what's
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  Speaker 1: going on. So just just keeping that mindset and and
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  Speaker 1: setting an example for for some of the other guys.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose you could ask this if any player this
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  Speaker 1: year with COVID, because it's been a year unlike any other,
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  Speaker 1: but your year personally, you leave a team and in
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  Speaker 1: an area that you were very close with to come
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  Speaker 1: to a new team during the pandemic, during all this, UM,
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  Speaker 1: I guess there's no way in nineteen that you could
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  Speaker 1: have ever dreamed what you would have been like, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, especially being in the same spot for for
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  Speaker 1: so long, you kind of feel like you're never gonna leave.
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  Speaker 1: And even though the reality of the NFL is that
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  Speaker 1: hardly anybody ends their career where they started. And and
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed Cincinnati. I really liked the city, the people there.
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  Speaker 1: Um lived out on some land, so that was enjoyable
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  Speaker 1: having some space. But I've even with the pandemic and
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  Speaker 1: everything's going on, you can't really go out as much
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  Speaker 1: or experience a lot that the city has to offer.
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  Speaker 1: I've I've really enjoyed my time, uh the short time
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  Speaker 1: that I've been down here only five five months now,
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  Speaker 1: and uh I'll tell you that this time of year,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's a little bit chilly today, the weather
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  Speaker 1: is nice. I think I've I think I've gotten. I
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  Speaker 1: think I've got a little bit soft. I mean growing
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  Speaker 1: up in Fort Wayne and going an utter dame. I
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  Speaker 1: mean playing some cold weather games and it used to
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  Speaker 1: be nothing enough. I'm like, Jesus, it's like thirty five degrees.
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  Speaker 1: I say, it's freezing out. I was gonna say, Witte,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking on Wednesday, and everybody knows the temperature on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me you didn't bundle up this morning. I got
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  Speaker 1: my sweats of my uh my sweat shirlot, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have the big jacket. That's I always think
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  Speaker 1: that's funny being in Florida. When it gets blow like
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  Speaker 1: fifty or sixty degrees, every big puts on like a
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  Speaker 1: big north face jacket. I'm like, that's I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a little excessive. Yeah, I've got a ben I've done that.
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  Speaker 1: I lived in Indy for ten years, but it only
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  Speaker 1: took me about a year being back before I was
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  Speaker 1: bundling up, so it didn't last long. So, um, you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned a little bit at the top the team and
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  Speaker 1: obviously disappointing. Nobody wants to be one in ten. But
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  Speaker 1: everybody I've talked to, all the players, say it's pretty
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  Speaker 1: remarkable how this team has held together. Uh do you
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  Speaker 1: see that? And I guess in that sense, is that
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  Speaker 1: in couraging in any way? Or you know, is there
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  Speaker 1: a point of pride to the way you guys are
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  Speaker 1: holding together during this Yeah, I think you know, you can.
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  Speaker 1: Some people could from the outside read it one of
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  Speaker 1: two ways. Maybe maybe guys just don't care and so
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  Speaker 1: there's not there's no infighting, or you know, some people say,
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  Speaker 1: well people are raising their voice and calling people up
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  Speaker 1: and that means they care or whatever. But I think
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  Speaker 1: we just we really do, um like trust each other.
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  Speaker 1: We know, like people work hard at practice every day,
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  Speaker 1: and I think guys truly believe that that good things
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  Speaker 1: are gonna are gonna happen, and we're we're just we're
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  Speaker 1: not that far off. I mean, just that's the nature
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL is it comes down to a couple
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  Speaker 1: of plays here and there, or a couple of plays
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the game to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: And I think guys really believing each other that if
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  Speaker 1: we just we just keep playing hard, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: entire game, which I don't think anyone could question that,
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  Speaker 1: that we're gonna end up end up winning some games
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  Speaker 1: here to finish the season, and that would be something
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  Speaker 1: to build on for next year. Got you now, I
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  Speaker 1: know in Cincinnati when you played um Andy Dalton pretty
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  Speaker 1: reliable usually there you're now on your third quarterback of
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  Speaker 1: the season. How does that affect you? Is that a
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  Speaker 1: strange thing or do you just play through it? Is
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  Speaker 1: there any impact on you with that at all? You
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  Speaker 1: just you just kind of play through it. Um. I
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  Speaker 1: think I think with Mike, you know, he's I think
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  Speaker 1: we're the same draft class, so he's been even playing
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  Speaker 1: for a while, and I think we see a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things the same way, and uh, just understanding coverages
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  Speaker 1: or you know, where guys are coming from and all,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just little things it you can't really you
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  Speaker 1: don't really talk about. You're just kind of on the
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  Speaker 1: same page. Um. And then I mean with the other
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  Speaker 1: with the other guys, I mean, there was no O
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  Speaker 1: T A. So there is really no getting a connection
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  Speaker 1: or getting some rapport or chemistry built with them. Before
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  Speaker 1: the season, so it's just kind of been on the fly,
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  Speaker 1: uh since camp. Now I see a couple of things personally,
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  Speaker 1: background stuff. I guess I didn't realize until I really
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  Speaker 1: started looking into it. Dad plays basketball, per dude, brother
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  Speaker 1: plays basketball, per dude. You're from Fort Wayne, wife football.
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  Speaker 1: How did that happen? Well? I played basketball, I am
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  Speaker 1: football growing up, and uh played au doing all the travel,
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  Speaker 1: playing all summer long and all those things. And I
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  Speaker 1: think I just I felt like I was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better at at football and had a better opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to to get a scholarship playing football. Um my dad
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  Speaker 1: never really pushed me one way or the other to
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  Speaker 1: play basketball, but uh, there's more spots on a football roster,
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  Speaker 1: and I felt like that was that was the way
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  Speaker 1: to go. But Notre Dame as a kid in four Wayne,
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  Speaker 1: I think people realize how big Notre Dame is in Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: That had to be a dream, right, Notre Dame football. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, Um, with my dad playing basketball, Purdue,
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  Speaker 1: we we would go down even on school nights to
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  Speaker 1: a Purdue basketball game and we'd sleep in the back
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  Speaker 1: and we drive home. I would be at school in
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  Speaker 1: the morning and two thousand, two thousand and two tho one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we went to almost every Produce football game.
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  Speaker 1: That's when Drew Brees was there. We went to the
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  Speaker 1: went to the Rose Bowl. Uh, they lost to Washington
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  Speaker 1: and so I was just I was a huge Purdue
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  Speaker 1: football fan growing up, and um, but not here. Dame
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  Speaker 1: just kind of sits at the top, like even if
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  Speaker 1: you're a Purdue or I you fan, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know who's who's actually the best. That's that's that's
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  Speaker 1: anotter Dame. So when that opportunity came along, I was
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  Speaker 1: it was all about it. So I experience in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL tells me just about every NFL player, I think
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  Speaker 1: they can play basketball. But it sounds like you really
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  Speaker 1: could play. I think back in the day. I mean
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  Speaker 1: I'm fifty or sixty pounds heavier than what I would
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  Speaker 1: play basketball at. So I don't know, but it was
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  Speaker 1: really Uh. I used to beat up on my brother
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  Speaker 1: that that just graduated a couple of years ago from
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  Speaker 1: Purdue and uh, this this offseason he was quarantining with
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  Speaker 1: me down in down in South Florida. We would play
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  Speaker 1: basketball every day and uh, I've I've lost, I've lost
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  Speaker 1: my game a little bit or because he could. Really
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  Speaker 1: he's well, that's what I think when you play, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for that's your job. I mean you go to school,
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  Speaker 1: but that's your job is played with basketball. He he
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  Speaker 1: got really good and was a really good player for them,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, he puts I can't really keep up with
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  Speaker 1: him anymore. And I want to ask you about that.
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  Speaker 1: When you're watching your younger brother playing, Um, are you
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  Speaker 1: more nervous for him then when you play? Is that
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  Speaker 1: like a father? I mean parents always say it's harder
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  Speaker 1: watching their kids. How was it watching him when he played?
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  Speaker 1: And for listeners who don't know, he was a really
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  Speaker 1: good player for yeah, he he walked on there and
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  Speaker 1: then got a scholarship and then was a starter and
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  Speaker 1: captain his senior year when they went to the lead
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  Speaker 1: eight and was seconds from going to the final four.
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  Speaker 1: But it's funny you asked that because my parents they
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  Speaker 1: talked about how nervous they are when they watch me play,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, why would you ever be nervous,
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  Speaker 1: Like you're not out there playing in front of eighty
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  Speaker 1: thou people are worried about getting hit or anything, and
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  Speaker 1: they're just like, you'll you know, when you have kids,
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  Speaker 1: you'll understand. But when I went to my brothers sweet
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  Speaker 1: the Sweet sixteam game, watching him play, I was way
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  Speaker 1: more nervous than when I play, And so I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I I can understand that. Now, Why they why they
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  Speaker 1: get so nervous? I think you you want them to
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  Speaker 1: do well so bad, and I don't know, you don't
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  Speaker 1: want them to mess up. You want them to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: make all the plays. And I think that's just part
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  Speaker 1: of why you get so nervous. Now, did he get
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  Speaker 1: nervous watching you play? It seems like that's probably an
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  Speaker 1: older brother thing. I'm not sure the younger brother really
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  Speaker 1: cares that much. They're excited, but I don't know they
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  Speaker 1: feel the emotion like that. Yeah, I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think as much. No, I think you're right. Um. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't really asked him, but talking to him after the game,
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  Speaker 1: they don't alright, guys, that's a good game, good catches whatever,
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  Speaker 1: blah blah. But yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think older the older you get, the more you know
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  Speaker 1: that they've only got one chance at it. So it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you get nervous on up front now talking
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  Speaker 1: to my boy Jeff Hobson, who's who's in my position
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  Speaker 1: with the Cincinnati Bengals as the same? I said, what
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  Speaker 1: do I ask Tyler Eiffort about? And he described you
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  Speaker 1: as a great golfer? Do you describe yourself as a
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  Speaker 1: great golfer? Are you in that level? Where's butch over plant? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I I'm pretty good at golf. I um,
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed it a lot of play a lot. After
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  Speaker 1: my third back surgery, I gave it up for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years, and I was so bored in the summers.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's what I would do in the summers after
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  Speaker 1: working out. And I'm like, if I if if I
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  Speaker 1: can't play golf because my back, then I probably shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be playing football. So I'm just gonna start playing golf again.
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  Speaker 1: And my back has been been fine, But yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: would like I would like to really work at golf
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  Speaker 1: at some point in my life and and see how
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  Speaker 1: see how good I could get. Your handicap is it
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  Speaker 1: was down to a plus one at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the summer. You're hiding a little bit. You're really good.
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  Speaker 1: I got you. I got I don't play, but I
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  Speaker 1: know enough to plus one is good. Um, so you
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  Speaker 1: must really like I mean, I know you're a hunter fisherman,
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  Speaker 1: this area must really appeal to you, must feel sort
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  Speaker 1: of at home here. Yeah, in the off season I
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  Speaker 1: will go to South Florida and fish and golf, and
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  Speaker 1: during the season I would hunt. Being in Ohio, you
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  Speaker 1: can hunt and in this area just hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: Linda and get to know him. He's got it all covered.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't golf, but he's got the he's got the
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  Speaker 1: fishing covered, he's got the hunting covered. Uh. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: in this area you can kind of can kind of
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  Speaker 1: do it all, which is pretty cool. What keeps you
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  Speaker 1: going in this I mean you've been through a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and I know you've you've had a good career. At
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  Speaker 1: some point you probably said, Okay, do I want to
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  Speaker 1: keep playing? Why keep playing? What motivates you to keep going? Well? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think after not every injury, especially the ones early
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  Speaker 1: in my career, was like, okay, we'll just get better.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, as they kept happening, and they were
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  Speaker 1: pretty pretty gruesome and and uh and not not ideal
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  Speaker 1: at all. Um, you always have that thought for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks or a month or so like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I if I should really keep doing this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's sure and uh, but once you the
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  Speaker 1: rehab is hard because for the first three months you
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  Speaker 1: can't really do anything, and so you're you're you've regressed physically,
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  Speaker 1: you've lost weight, you've lost muscle, and so you're not
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  Speaker 1: seeing much progress and it's just baby steps and baby steps.
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  Speaker 1: And then once you feel like you're starting to get
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  Speaker 1: better and that you can kind of see the light
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the tunnel that I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 1: all the way back to normal, that's when you get
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  Speaker 1: that that confidence again. And because sometimes you think, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I'll ever be able to do what
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  Speaker 1: I did before when you're early in the rehab process,
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  Speaker 1: but that that that confidence grows throughout it, and then
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  Speaker 1: then it's just about coming back and proven people that
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  Speaker 1: that you can that you can still do it, and
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  Speaker 1: that um, you can still be that same guy and
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  Speaker 1: you can make plays and you can help your team.
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  Speaker 1: Got to tell you the last thing we do with
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  Speaker 1: this we call it the ozone five. So I had
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  Speaker 1: to add your five quick questions. Uh answer however you want, Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: I what's your last binge watch. Actually in less than
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours, we've watched the Undoing. It's only six episodes,
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  Speaker 1: but that's strong. Yeah, it's good. It's suspenseful, keep you guessing.
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  Speaker 1: It's good. The best round of golf you ever? Like? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: any memories of it? Well, yeah, like any golfer, you're
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  Speaker 1: even though it's your best round, you still I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I could have shot sixt five if
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  Speaker 1: I just make a couple of a couple of ten
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  Speaker 1: foot pots, could have been could have been really good.
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  Speaker 1: But that's I feel like that's uh, that's the answer
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  Speaker 1: everybody has after a good round. Last song you listened
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  Speaker 1: to in your car on your phone, um song by Hardy.
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  Speaker 1: He's a little bit newer. It's called unapologetically country as
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  Speaker 1: hell sport And I think I know this one sport
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  Speaker 1: you would have played other than football, basketball obviously, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: basketball or golf? Golf. Okay, it sounds like you might
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  Speaker 1: have a future on the on the senior Tour when
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  Speaker 1: you get done. So, which dog is your favorite? You've
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  Speaker 1: got three, what's the best one. I'm actually pretty open
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  Speaker 1: about this. It's Tank. He's like he's like the thoroughbread
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  Speaker 1: I could trust him. I don't even need a leash.
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  Speaker 1: He listens to me. I can take him anywhere. But everybody,
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  Speaker 1: all the dogs are special in their own way. But
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  Speaker 1: thanks my thanks my favorite. Did the other ones know it?
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  Speaker 1: Uh no, but Rachel, my wife doesn't. Drives are crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough, Tyler Eifford, I can't thank you enough for
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  Speaker 1: joining us today. I know it's a busy time during
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  Speaker 1: the years. I appreciate you taking the time. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much for being on the Other Zone podcast. Yeah, anytime.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me And I say every week Wednesday's
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  Speaker 1: when we record these podcasts. Not the easiest day in
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  Speaker 1: the world that these guys take time to do it.
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  Speaker 1: It's also not easy for them to think about their
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  Speaker 1: answers in the way that I can tell. Tyler Eiford
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  Speaker 1: did so that's very appreciated. David. I think I learned
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  Speaker 1: a little something about Tyler Eiford. It's been funny this year.
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  Speaker 1: As we've talked about before on this not really much
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  Speaker 1: of a chance to get to know these guys in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room. Um. I knew a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: Tyler for my friend Jeff, but the Cincinnati who we mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: but good guy. I enjoyed talking to him, and I
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  Speaker 1: guess I was interested in at the game. He does
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  Speaker 1: have a favorite dog. Yeah, I know, that's that's stuff
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  Speaker 1: to do. Are tough, Tom out Loud. I thought his
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  Speaker 1: answer at the end was interesting, you know, one thing
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  Speaker 1: to let people know. I didn't really want to dig
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  Speaker 1: that deep in this with all of his injuries, because
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: when you go online and look at Tyler Eifford and
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I kind of looked, you know, trying to find things
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: to talk to him about a little bit, as you
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: always do, and every story in the world is about
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: his injuries. I think everybody gets it. He's had a
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: brutal career in terms of that probably would be an
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: elite tight end on the lines of the best guys
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: in football if he hadn't been so hurt. So I
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: wanted to stay away from that. But it was interesting
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: when he talked about at the end that you know
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: he does think about retiring after each of these injuries
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: because it's it's so brutal. But there's something in these
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: guys that keeps driving into play. You want to squeeze
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: every every ounce out of his career that you can. Yeah,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: because it's fleeting. I mean, you don't have much time
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: time to do it, you might as well get paid
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: really well to do it and do something that. I mean,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you know, it's a kid's game. It's fun, so you
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: might as well, um try to work as hard as
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: you can. Get back and try to right. Like you said, squeeze,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: squeeze as much as you can. Um. I thought it
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: was interesting of how good of a golfer he is
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: and kind of talked to him. He uh, we had
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: to shoot an interview for some sponsorship thing we did
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: with him, and we kind of talked briefly about his
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: golf game, and I mean he's he's serious, like I mean,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: you know, people in the jacks we'll talk about scope
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. I mean, he's once
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: he's done playing, I think he's gonna be doing that
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. But that Scobie does like playing those
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: you know, celebrity tournaments and all that kind of stuff.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: And you know, you never know. I mean there's been
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: a lot of pro athletes that have have gotten on
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the champions Store of the Senior Tour eventually, uh Rodan
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: right baseball picture, Yeah, it happens, had a decent career
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: on the in professional golf after he was done pitching.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: You're a golfer, right, David? Yeah, when was your last
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: sixty nine? Is that last year? Never that that that
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: that happened on a front nine a few times, but never. No,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: that's that's not that's not touchable for me and we'll
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: probably never be. But uh, that's pretty impressive. And that's
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the other thing too. I mean, he plays what six
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: months out of the year. Imagine if you played full time,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: you know. But yeah, it was fun to talk to
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: him me. And that's the other thing too. Again, Like
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: you said, I think we've kind of said this point
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a few times when we've done this, is it's like
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: we don't know especially the newer guys and the rookies
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and stuff. We don't know him all that well. Because
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: of the COVID situation, we're not allowed to be in
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the locker room and the time is so limited and
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: very structured, and it's just I think it's nice just
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: to kind of learn about some of these guys and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: you know, you're here the thoughts on stuff. And I
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: was impressed with Tyler that he he was very thought
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: out with all of his answers, doing as you said,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: and I always. I think the listeners probably get tired
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: of me saying it. But the thing I appreciate about
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: most of our guests this year, pretty much all of them.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: You know. In some of these cases, you know, usually
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: in the locker room there's fifteen or twenty guys that
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: you get to know during the course of the season.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: A lot of the guys who come through and I'll
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: have a cup of coffee, you don't get to know
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: that well. But usually somebody like Effort or you know,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: a number of players I would have had a chance
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: to talk to several times. I might have asked them
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: five weeks out, hey, at some point the season, would
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: love you have I'd love to have you on the podcast. Okay,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: great um, But usually wouldn't say great, They'd say, okay, whatever,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I'll do it. And then you might talk to him
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: about a subject, or you might go over and say, hey,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: when you're on, I wouldn't mind talking to you about this.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: In this case, with zero getting to know your time beforehand,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of these guys have been willing to kind
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: of open up, which is again doing it on a
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: zoom call. It's fairly impersonal and it I think I
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: think it speaks to the character a lot of these
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: guys that they're sort of willing to open up because
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: they're not doing it for me, to do it for
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the fans, and they sort of get it that people
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: want to know a little bit about him. And again,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: not every player I've dealt with over the years we
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: willing to do it. Most of these guys having it's appreciated.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: So talking a little shock Dave is what we're doing there.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: That's called talking shop and I think with that, I'll
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: thank Tyler again. It was interesting today to hear from him,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and I especially like the fact that plus one golfer
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I learned a little something to Dave. I wasn't sure
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: that that was good, but my understanding is that's very good.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I'll thank Dave the Candice for again making me look
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: better than I am and making me sound better than
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I am. Thank Joe Portnado for the same thing. Tyler
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Rifer was good. This one definitely didn't suck. And we'll
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: talk to you next week on the Ozone podcast. In