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Zach Ertz on Signing With Commanders, loss to Packers, & TE University with Deebo | Cleats & Convos · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Cleaston. Convos presented by state form. Don't
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  Speaker 1: settlef with just any insurance unless it's state form.
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  Speaker 2: How we're doing is that.
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  Speaker 3: We're doing well, do bo. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna play a game called presser release. Press
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  Speaker 1: equals false, release equals true.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, press is false, Release is true. Gout, you like
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  Speaker 2: the curly blood hair more than a short buzz.
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  Speaker 3: Press is false, he said, press is false, release is true.
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  Speaker 3: So pressed, long curly hair is a terrible look. I
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  Speaker 3: had obviously horrible friends that didn't tell me it was
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  Speaker 3: a terrible look.
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  Speaker 2: What the picture looked like. Yeah, see this is terrible. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that is not. That's not.
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  Speaker 3: I was like fifteen years old. Adam Morrison. You probably
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  Speaker 3: don't even remember Adam Morrison. You're too young. He was
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  Speaker 3: an amazing basketball player for Gonzaga back in the day and
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  Speaker 3: had long hair, and so I thought I was a
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  Speaker 3: basketball player, and so I like the long hair. Look.
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  Speaker 2: It was terrible in hindsight, All.
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  Speaker 1: Right, press a release. Your wife Julie is more competitive
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  Speaker 1: than you.
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  Speaker 3: I would say released because that means true. Obviously, she's
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  Speaker 3: a she's a she's a competitor. Obviously, we don't compete
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  Speaker 3: as much in like the little things that we used to.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like we're running around the house changing diapers.
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  Speaker 3: Who could change diaper faster and whatnot. She's an amazing
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  Speaker 3: athlete and as a married man, your wife's better than
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  Speaker 3: you had everything.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm gonna go with that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, we got two more. You could have played
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  Speaker 1: college basketball if you want it. I like, I've seen
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  Speaker 1: you shoot in the locker room.
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  Speaker 3: Like I would say, that's released.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how high of a level I could
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  Speaker 3: have played. It's not like I was going D one
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  Speaker 3: like Major D one. But I think I could have
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  Speaker 3: played at some small schools, probably made a Cinderella run
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  Speaker 3: in March Madness be an icon for a release.
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  Speaker 2: Hoop Dreams for.
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  Speaker 1: Sure presser release, Last Morning presser release. You see Philly
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  Speaker 1: as your second home?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I love Philly.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's I mean, I love Virginia obviously,
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  Speaker 3: I love being here. Philly had amazing nine years there.
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  Speaker 3: It will always be a part of me, part of
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  Speaker 3: my family. Everyone knows I feel about the city. Our
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  Speaker 3: foundation is still doing work there. So yeah, we love it.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a little Commanders football. This is just
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  Speaker 1: second year with the Commanders. Why did you choose to
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  Speaker 1: sign here?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I've I've loved being here first and
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  Speaker 3: foremost since I got here. But a few years back,
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  Speaker 3: I was in Arizona. It was a tough end to
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  Speaker 3: my career in Arizona, and so I wanted to get
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  Speaker 3: back with Cliff when I saw he was the OC here.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't really know d Q at the time, didn't
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  Speaker 3: really know who the quarterback situation was. But I had
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  Speaker 3: love playing for Cliff when I was in Arizona. So
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  Speaker 3: when I had the opportunity to come here and play
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  Speaker 3: for him, someone that has believed in me wholeheartedly from
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  Speaker 3: the moment that I got with him, it was a
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  Speaker 3: no brainer.
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  Speaker 2: And then we drafted Jadeen.
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  Speaker 3: Being here with DQ is just far surpassed every expectation
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  Speaker 3: I had coming here, and I've loved every bit of
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  Speaker 3: it for sure.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 1: As you mentioned, you know you played with Cliff in Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: Did he recruit you here? And what does Cliff bring
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  Speaker 1: to this offense?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Cliff is the offense. So the offense is how
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  Speaker 3: he wants it. It's his system, it's his scheme. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like he has a lot of autonomy to kind
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  Speaker 3: of do what he wants. The Q isn't isn't micromanaging
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  Speaker 3: anyone in this building, which I'm sure the coaches love.
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  Speaker 3: And Yeah, he definitely recruited me here. We had some
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  Speaker 3: we had some success in Arizona together. He knew my
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  Speaker 3: skill set. He thought I could add value to this team,
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  Speaker 3: this organization. So yeah, he was a big part of
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  Speaker 3: the reason I came here, and we definitely had our
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  Speaker 3: conversations before I signed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, He's definitely the offense behind everything. So
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna play a game called Guest the Performance. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna show you a picture. I have three hints if
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  Speaker 1: you need a hint.
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  Speaker 2: We're looking like stats yards. We're going catches, yards, touchdown,
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  Speaker 2: catches yards, touchdowns. All right, So Guests the Performance. We
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  Speaker 2: got the picture showing on the screen right now. I
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  Speaker 2: have three hints.
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  Speaker 3: If you need one, I'm gonna go, Uh, this is
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  Speaker 3: Cardinals Seahawks. Obviously, I think it was like seven for
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  Speaker 3: seventy seven and two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: It was eight fordy eight eight Forrady eight two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: He was close. He was close.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we gotta put the second picture up please,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, this is the Falcons game last year. This was
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  Speaker 3: like five for seventy six and two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: You actually went six for seventy two and two touchdowns. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you close, You're close. You're knocking at the door. Last one,
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  Speaker 1: last picture.
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  Speaker 3: This is the playoff game against the Lions. It was
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  Speaker 3: I don't think the yards for catcher was that great.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was like five for thirty eight in
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  Speaker 3: a touchdown, five for twenty eight, five for twenty eight
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  Speaker 3: in a touchdown. Yards for catchers there, But we're working
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  Speaker 3: on that this year.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about that game. How was that game? What was
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the motivation going on to that game?
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  Speaker 1: You know, we played Detroit in the NFC Championship as well,
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  Speaker 1: and they about blew us out until we came back. So, like,
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  Speaker 1: how was it playing in Detroit because we ended up
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  Speaker 1: playing them at home.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. It was an awesome game obviously for
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  Speaker 3: us to be able to put it. They were the
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  Speaker 3: one seed. The stadium was rocking, and it was probably
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  Speaker 3: our most complete game as a team. Offense, defense, special
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  Speaker 3: teams really really played well. Jaden was unconscious, and so
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  Speaker 3: it was just an environment that we went into as
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  Speaker 3: a team that no one really picked us to have
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  Speaker 3: success against them because they were so good, so talented,
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  Speaker 3: and we just had a better day that day.
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  Speaker 1: You said, JD is the closest thing that Andrew. Look
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  Speaker 1: you've been around, what comparison you see in them both?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Well, I played with Andrew in college,
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  Speaker 3: played with Jaden obviously now currently, and they're probably the
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  Speaker 3: most talented players. I've played with Andrew in college obviously.
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  Speaker 3: In college was insane playing with him, but he he
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  Speaker 3: was so good, but it was never about him. He
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  Speaker 3: would never want any of the credit. If the TVs
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  Speaker 3: were showing him in the locker room, he go up
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  Speaker 3: to the television turn the TV off because he didn't
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  Speaker 3: want ever to be about him. And I feel like
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  Speaker 3: Jay is the similar in that regard. He's super, super talented,
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  Speaker 3: you don't get drafted number two overall when the Heisman
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  Speaker 3: without that, But he's just so humble, one of the
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  Speaker 3: guys and dog dog competitor, and so it's never about them,
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  Speaker 3: and they just want to be one of the guys.
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  Speaker 3: They care about people, and they exhaust themselves in the process.
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  Speaker 3: So I've loved playing for Jayden since the moment he got.
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  Speaker 2: Here for sure. Let's talk the loss about loss to
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  Speaker 2: the Packers. Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Does the team live up to the hype? I can
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  Speaker 1: kind of start off, you know, early on in the
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  Speaker 1: week d he was talking about how fast they defense was,
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  Speaker 1: like flying to the ball, like the past rush is
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  Speaker 1: that and the third I wouldn't say it's like kind
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  Speaker 1: of like live up to the hype. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: just like kind of like the standard Lafloord's trying to
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  Speaker 1: build over there. They came out flying, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: in in the offensive aspect, you like to get going early,
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  Speaker 1: like little dicks and dunks, just to you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, settle j down in my opinion just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, and just to get the flow of the
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  Speaker 1: game rolling of like how Cliff like to call the
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  Speaker 1: call the plays and how we liked to get rolling.
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  Speaker 1: But they I think their defense was pretty good. I
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  Speaker 1: thought the defense pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we they're obviously very talented, they've they're extremely
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  Speaker 3: well coached. I got a lot of respect for that
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  Speaker 3: decordinator and I talked about the prior to the game.
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  Speaker 3: The one thing you don't want to do is get
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  Speaker 3: behind to them early and become one dimensional because the
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  Speaker 3: pass rushers with Micah and the rest of the guys
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  Speaker 3: are just too too good, too talented to just live
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  Speaker 3: in that situation. And unfortunately, that's exactly what happened to us.
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  Speaker 3: We got down early and it became one dimensional, and
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  Speaker 3: so for us, we just had a bad day. I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't put too much stock into our performance. I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think anyone's over here in the panic button
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  Speaker 3: like what happened to us. It's a long season. We
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  Speaker 3: want to continue to improve as the season goes on.
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  Speaker 3: But they definitely were better team that night.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 1: We know we got the Raiders coming in this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of watched them a little bit last night.
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  Speaker 1: What challenges do you think they pose? And how do
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  Speaker 1: you feel about Brock Bowers and Aston Gent.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know a lot about Ashton Denty.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, I was asleep last night for that game when
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  Speaker 3: it comes on at ten pm, I'm gonna miss that one.
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  Speaker 3: But Brock is a phenomenal player. What he did last
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  Speaker 3: year was incredible. To come into the league as a
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  Speaker 3: hot hot obviously a high draft pick and put up
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  Speaker 3: the numbers he did was phenomenal. And the Raiders, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if Pete, they're gonna be extremely well coached. They're fast. Defensively,
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  Speaker 3: they fly around Max probably top two, top one, top
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  Speaker 3: three pass rushers in the league. Relentless effort. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he's always gonna fly around. He sets the tone for
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  Speaker 3: that whole building. And so, yeah, they're gonna be well coached.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna play fast, they're gonna play hard. It's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be it's gonna be a tough game for us, honestly
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  Speaker 3: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's signed for the don't settle segment brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by State Farm. For this, you're gonna choose the
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  Speaker 1: school that you think has a better tight end university.
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  Speaker 2: So we go Stanford or Oklahoma. I'm gonna say Stanford.
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  Speaker 1: We go Stanford or Notre Dame Stanford, Stanford or Miami, Uh, Stanford.
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  Speaker 2: Stanford of Iowa.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Man, shout out to my guys, George TJ. Noah,
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  Speaker 3: But I'm biased in this. This is You're not gonna
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  Speaker 3: get an unbiased answer out of me here. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna say Stanford.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So that kind of answers my next question like, why
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  Speaker 1: did you choose Stanford of all these schools? And I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at a good bit of these names, and there's
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  Speaker 1: some guys on here. Yeah, of course I'm not saying,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean, it's not gonna unbiased answer.
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  Speaker 3: I think I will currently probably tighten you. I think Stanford,
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  Speaker 3: if you're a tight end, I would love if I
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  Speaker 3: was getting recruited right now. I feel like Stanford is
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  Speaker 3: the school you and what you want, want to and
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  Speaker 3: should go to. Obviously I has a few first round
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  Speaker 3: draft picks recently, but I'm biased to Stanford. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like they developed the tight ends amazingly. Obviously I'm a
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  Speaker 3: product of it, so there's a lot of bias there.
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  Speaker 3: But in terms of the whole experience, I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: got a better experience than Stanford.
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  Speaker 1: So what makes a school tight end you? Is it
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  Speaker 1: the players in the league?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Or is the players in the Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 3: Oh well, I don't know. Stanford has a tight end
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  Speaker 3: in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we got one on the way, But I
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  Speaker 1: think probably tight en you would be drafted, Probably drafted
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  Speaker 1: because it's like your I wouldn't say maybe it's league success,
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  Speaker 1: it's probably drafted, so for that, maybe Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you, Zach appreciate you.
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  Speaker 1: This was another episode of clesing conos percented by state farm.
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