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Quandre Diggs: "We Want To Be Physical" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So you tweeted you were trying to be a Frank
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  Speaker 1: Clark here in the off season.
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  Speaker 2: I'm decided, are you to to have a part of
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  Speaker 2: this defense now?
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's dope, you know what I mean. You
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  Speaker 3: could a opportunity to get a you know, a guy
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  Speaker 3: who's been playing a game at a high level for
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  Speaker 3: a long time, somebody that's been in this building before,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: You know how things goes around here.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I'm sure he'll say, I'm sure a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people say, you know that year he had
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  Speaker 3: before he.
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  Speaker 2: Was traded to to to the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was probably one of the best years
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  Speaker 3: of d Liman's ever had here. So for him just
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  Speaker 3: to let him come back and hear do his thing,
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  Speaker 3: let him be hisself, you know what I mean, That's
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  Speaker 3: that's what this place is all about. So I'm excited
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  Speaker 3: about it, you know what i mean. So hopefully, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he goes out there, he continues to make the impact
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  Speaker 3: that he's made his whole career here, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I look like another great recruiter. Again, how'd you guys
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  Speaker 3: uh get to know each other?
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  Speaker 2: Cause you didn't overlap year at Chalele did you?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, were the same draft class, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: we all been around each other before. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: not like the sixties where guys don't hang out and
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  Speaker 3: see each other in the off season and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: Like we always, you know, see each other. Everybody has
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  Speaker 3: mutual friends and you know, you respect each other's game,
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  Speaker 3: and you know what I mean. I think Frank's a
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  Speaker 3: three time pro bowler and.
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  Speaker 2: So am I. So you know, great players respect great players.
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  Speaker 1: How close was it that they were gonna sign him?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think how close? What did it get close?
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  Speaker 2: You said you wanted him here before the season. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I'm not in there, you know, I just
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  Speaker 2: give my opinions, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: So if you gotta access to John and tell John,
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  Speaker 3: let me in the in the off season meeting rooms
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  Speaker 3: and just let me know what wells Walter, John's in
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  Speaker 3: JJ Watt both tea today if they want the Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: to relax, to be permanent, What's what are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I love 'em, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Why n why not? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: I just remember feel like for me growing up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: for me of course, you know Walter Jones, those guys.
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  Speaker 3: But like for me, I just remember Ricky Waters, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean, in that uniform and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's a dope uniform, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: He had the nasal strip and and and all that,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just like you see it. And I think
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  Speaker 3: I seen the uniforms two years ago. I was able
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  Speaker 3: to go out there and I got to see him
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  Speaker 3: two years ago, and I've just been telling e, k Now,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just like, hopefully I can just be around to
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  Speaker 3: playing those and I'm I'm excited about it. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if they become full time, cool, If not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with whatever.
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  Speaker 3: I don't make those decisions, but if they ask me,
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  Speaker 3: I sure, you know, put my input in.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to Cleveland, they certainly lean heavily on
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  Speaker 1: their one game. But what do you know to be
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  Speaker 1: true about how the utilized wide receivers and and that
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  Speaker 1: passing game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, those guys, uh, they could throw the ball too. Now,
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  Speaker 3: don't don't get it twisted. H You know they've had
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  Speaker 3: you know, of course, you know a couple backup quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: that plays a.
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  Speaker 2: Couple of games.
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  Speaker 3: They had a rainy game, so, uh, those guys definitely
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  Speaker 3: they can make the players.
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  Speaker 2: They can definitely do those things.
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  Speaker 3: Cooper has always been one of the best receivers in
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  Speaker 3: the league. You know, they got a lodgah More and
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  Speaker 3: you know Donovan people Jones and and and keys, so
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  Speaker 3: they had a weapons. You can't forget about the jok
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  Speaker 3: Wu's you know, he's one of the highest paid tight
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  Speaker 3: ends in the league.
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  Speaker 2: So those guys have weapons to get it done.
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  Speaker 3: The in the past game too, but they've been, you know,
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  Speaker 3: relying on the run game, and luckily for us, that's
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  Speaker 3: what we've been good at.
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  Speaker 1: Their isn't very high though, but you've obviously watched more
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  Speaker 1: film than I have. Is it more of just the
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  Speaker 1: circumstances you mentioned the rain game and and some other things.
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  Speaker 2: I think, so you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: I think they still have big plays in and out
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  Speaker 3: of the game, and it might not be your normal
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  Speaker 3: you know, past games, but I think those guys can
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  Speaker 3: you know, get yards after the catch, they get screens
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  Speaker 3: and you know those type of things too. But they
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  Speaker 3: take their shots here and there and there. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the meticular, it's no way on the way they go
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  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 1: There's a defensive back who likes to be physical with
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  Speaker 1: Maybe isn't the biggest guy.
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  Speaker 2: How much do you respect boy? Spoon goes out and
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  Speaker 2: discuss I love it, you know what I mean. I
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  Speaker 2: love it. I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 3: Think it might have been like his second or third
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  Speaker 3: game here and when he was playing Nickel and my
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  Speaker 3: mom called me.
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  Speaker 2: After the game and she was like, he played. He
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  Speaker 2: played kind of like how you play.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm just like I could see that because you know,
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  Speaker 3: I played Nickel and stuff like that, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: she just kind of puts two and two together.
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  Speaker 2: But he's doing that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he says he's one eighty, but he's doing
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  Speaker 3: that one hundred and seventy five pounds soaking wet.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's impressive. I love it.
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  Speaker 3: It brings energy, it brings juice, and it's just a
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  Speaker 3: competition factor between you know, me, him and Mall and
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  Speaker 3: you know even Jay Love and you know now Trey
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  Speaker 3: Brown he wants to get into it. So it's just
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  Speaker 3: one of those things where like guys are really going
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  Speaker 3: out there, you know, and just trying to go out
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  Speaker 3: there and be as physical as possible and put that
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  Speaker 3: on tape and Spoon was saying that the whole game.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, Nah, you and mall getting it. I
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  Speaker 3: want to get I want to get in on that.
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  Speaker 3: He made it, He made it known. He got in
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  Speaker 3: on that real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Like what kind of mentality does it take for a
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  Speaker 1: Nickel to be that willing to go stick your head
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  Speaker 1: and a run play, run in the backfield, get into
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  Speaker 1: the mess, the t throwing the scrimmage, and be as
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  Speaker 1: willing as he seems to be at doing that part
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  Speaker 1: of the game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you have to at Nickel, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: You are sam linebacker that can cover, so you have
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  Speaker 3: to be I mean, if you didn't have that mindset,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think you could play Nickel. So, not taking
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  Speaker 3: away anything from Spoon, it's just that's what that position is.
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  Speaker 3: That position is you have to cover, you gotta no
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  Speaker 3: run gaps, you gotta be smart, you gotta make calls.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just one of those positions where, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think for me, I would say it's probably the
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  Speaker 3: hardest position on the defensive on the defensive side of
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  Speaker 3: the ball to me, you know what I mean, I've
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  Speaker 3: seen you know, elite corners try to go inside and
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  Speaker 3: they like, oh, Nah, I can't do this, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean, it's too much space, so to been
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  Speaker 3: able to cover all that space, be physical, make tackles,
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  Speaker 3: no run gaps, you know what I mean. It's specially
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  Speaker 3: what he's doing as a rookie that missed a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time doing training camp. Do you that's some undervalued
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  Speaker 3: position or under regarded position.
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  Speaker 2: No question about it.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I'll go to the grave about that
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  Speaker 3: all the time. You know, it's it's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: guys that play that nickel position that should have been
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  Speaker 3: Pro bowlers before, maybe all pro guys, But you don't
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  Speaker 3: get the interceptions that you know corners get.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you don't get all those ops, but you
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  Speaker 2: know you do.
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  Speaker 3: Get fumbles and fumble recoveries and tackle for losses and
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  Speaker 3: those things to count up. And you know, maybe one
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  Speaker 3: day they'll have ah all Pro ballot for a nickel
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  Speaker 3: or Pro Bowl ballot.
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  Speaker 2: For a nickel to get in there. And what they
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  Speaker 2: not just looked at it as another corner. What do
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  Speaker 2: you know?
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  Speaker 1: Was just certainly he's got the instincts, but is there
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  Speaker 1: something exceptional about the technique that allows him to deliver
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  Speaker 1: those hits?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's been doing it since college, So I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's nothing that we taught him here, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean, I think he just brought another
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  Speaker 3: mentality of that's who he is, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: He showed who he was in college and he continues
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  Speaker 3: to do it. So you know, my thing is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: for him just to be smart and know that you know,
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  Speaker 3: you take your shots when you have your shots, and
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  Speaker 3: you you know, you be a sure tackler other p
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  Speaker 3: other moments in the game. So I mean, I'm just
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited about him. I've been excited about him since
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  Speaker 3: we drafted him. So the scholars and limit for the kid,
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  Speaker 3: for sure, but just his.
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  Speaker 2: Dedication to be the best A and B. His willingness
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  Speaker 2: to do anything for the team. I mean, that's just
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  Speaker 2: his competitive nature. I mean, I'm sure you.
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  Speaker 3: Guys have seen him around him multiple times, like that's
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  Speaker 3: his competitive nature. He thinks he's the best, and he
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  Speaker 3: wants to be the best, and in his mind he
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  Speaker 3: is the best. So you know, he just vibs out
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  Speaker 3: to his own world. He is hisself. He you know,
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't make excuses for who he is, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean, I think he's come to a perfect
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  Speaker 3: place that lets him be himself.
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  Speaker 2: So the competitive nature.
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  Speaker 3: The juice to you know, whatever he has, he has
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  Speaker 3: that it factor and it it's been dope for me
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  Speaker 3: to see it. And you know what I mean, when
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  Speaker 3: these guys come in as rookies, I tell him to
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  Speaker 3: be theirselves. Just beat them, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 3: We'll we'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm a guy. I've been around a long.
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  Speaker 3: Time, so I can I can deal with pretty much
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  Speaker 3: any type of person as long as you're willing to
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  Speaker 3: love football and go out and dedicate yourself to it.
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  Speaker 2: He was saying.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday that when he looks at you know, what you
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  Speaker 1: guys have been doing on defense last month or so,
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  Speaker 1: what what jumps out first is just how physical you
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  Speaker 1: guys are.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the whole unit front to back.
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  Speaker 1: Did Does it feel different this year than pastors?
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  Speaker 2: Just the overall physicality of this group?
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  Speaker 3: I think so, you know what I mean, I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think we just kind of taking that
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  Speaker 3: you know, mentality of you know, seeing you know, the
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  Speaker 3: old videos and seeing all that stuff where you know
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  Speaker 3: we wanna be physical. I mean we've not that, we
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  Speaker 3: haven't tried to be physical but I feel like this year,
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  Speaker 3: people see on tape see us flying around, they seeing
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  Speaker 3: guys get hit, and you know what I mean that
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  Speaker 3: you know that team see that, they see that the
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  Speaker 3: week of preparation, they like, Okay, these guys are they
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  Speaker 3: thugging up?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: You got jb, you got Bobby, you got all our
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  Speaker 3: d linemen. You got us in the back end that
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  Speaker 3: you gotta deal with. So for us, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: just try to take these ops to to just go
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  Speaker 3: play the game.
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  Speaker 2: We love. Be blessed we're healthy enough to do it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's just one of those things. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you see one guy do it, you want to go
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  Speaker 3: compete and you want to go be the most physical
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  Speaker 3: player out there.
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  Speaker 2: On videos you mean like old like I mean, man,
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  Speaker 2: we've seen all of that, but I mean it's other videos.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a bro. I'm a football like historian, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: So for me, I watch all those stuff, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean. You see you know Ron Clark, it
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  Speaker 3: is like a mentor for me. So like you see
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  Speaker 3: our seed and you see you know, all those different videos.
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  Speaker 3: So for me, I might just watch a video Like
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  Speaker 3: last year, I told you I watched the video a
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  Speaker 3: d on the night before a game and I got
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  Speaker 3: a pick and I held the ball up.
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  Speaker 2: It's just you.
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's the respects that you show to those people.
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  Speaker 3: And when you make a big hit and you you know,
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  Speaker 3: you get Cam Chancellor to text you after the game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think you you know, you doing something,
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  Speaker 3: so you always want that kind of support from your peers,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that's what's been.
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  Speaker 2: Cool about it. Yeah, what hip was? Hey man, you
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  Speaker 2: knows you man quite down? You feel me?
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  Speaker 3: Just no, yah, That's what it is though. It's it's
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  Speaker 3: one of those things where you want that respect and
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  Speaker 3: you know you wanna get on Twitter after the game
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  Speaker 3: and you see people like okay, like these guys are physical.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I've I've heard the whole deal.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you know, people talking about us as a
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  Speaker 3: defense early in the season, and you know people talking
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  Speaker 3: about it. You know, you don't wanna tackle and this
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  Speaker 3: and that. So you know, we hear that stuff. So
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  Speaker 3: we just go, we go mind our business and you know,
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  Speaker 3: we let people do that talking.
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  Speaker 2: Then you know, don't flip flop when we started playing good.
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  Speaker 2: When you speaking of Jordan, there a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You can make an argument he wouldn't have even been
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  Speaker 1: back by this point, and you're given the injury he
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  Speaker 1: had us late in the year as he had it
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  Speaker 1: to have the year he has Ha Ha has had
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  Speaker 1: the six games that he's got.
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  Speaker 2: Unders about the way he's played. How impressed her you
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  Speaker 2: with all of that. I mean, it's phenomenal.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, to think about a guy that probably had
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  Speaker 3: surgery what in January, and it's October, nine months you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean, He's out there playing and you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's playing at a high level, and you could just
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  Speaker 3: tell how locked end he is. His mentality is totally
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  Speaker 3: different this year than it's been any other year in
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  Speaker 3: the past. And I don't know exactly what I can
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  Speaker 3: what we can attest to that, but I just think
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  Speaker 3: he's comfortable in with who he is, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean. I think he's seeing things clear and he's
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  Speaker 3: just playing fast. And when you do those type of things,
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  Speaker 3: good things happen to you. And I mean, I'm excited
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  Speaker 3: for him, you know what I mean. He's really I
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  Speaker 3: feel like he's come out of his shell and he's
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  Speaker 3: being goofy. He's running around, he's talking trash, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean, He's doing those certain things and even
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  Speaker 3: doing walk through you can see him like run full
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  Speaker 3: speed and the walk through rep and simulate that he's
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  Speaker 3: in the game.
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  Speaker 2: Mean you like that.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen him do that in the game, so he
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  Speaker 3: probably is gonna do that. But it's been impressive to
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  Speaker 3: see and I'm I'm excited for him.
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  Speaker 2: To keep going on defense in a wild as well.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna go for the trick questions, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean, because soon as I say that we
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  Speaker 3: go have give a bad play, y'all be killing us
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  Speaker 3: next week. So I'm just gonna thug it out and
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  Speaker 3: you know, we gonna do our thing. We just gonna
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  Speaker 3: enjoy being around each other, enjoy the the brotherhood, the
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  Speaker 3: camaraderie that we have, and you know, we just keep
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  Speaker 3: proving our daughters wrong every week.
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  Speaker 2: What if you've had as a defense disppriends that you do.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is the most fun I've had as
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  Speaker 3: a defense probably since twenty nineteen, where you know, I
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  Speaker 3: got here. We just had guys on defense, but we
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  Speaker 3: felt like, you know, we were gonna go and play
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  Speaker 3: a good game. And we didn't always play great, but
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  Speaker 3: it was that camaraderie of you know, we all rock
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  Speaker 3: with each other, and hey, this is what it is,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, it's gonna be on us
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  Speaker 3: and it's on us to go play great. So we
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  Speaker 3: definitely having fun. I mean you can see it on
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  Speaker 3: the film. We having a lot of fun. We enjoy
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  Speaker 3: being around each other. So let's just keep it up.
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  Speaker 2: Do you get it? You for that uh seamball? Did
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  Speaker 2: tom all get that? And you guys have today? Don't
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  Speaker 2: you gets that? I don't know, but they said they
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  Speaker 2: gave it to me.
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  Speaker 3: But I also didn't get my one in the first
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  Speaker 3: quarter when I hit uh Rondell Moore, So I don't know, bruh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think everybody out to get me.
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  Speaker 3: So if I would, I I would have caught it
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  Speaker 3: if it'd been a good throw.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I gotta say everybody's out to get me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna keep doing my thing. And what could
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  Speaker 2: I say?
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  Speaker 3: Pick two hundred Draft twenty fifteen Three time Pro Bowl
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  Speaker 3: are still going