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  Speaker 1: Free agency twenty twenty five here in Jacksonville has been busy,
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  Speaker 1: A very busy day today is nine new players are
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  Speaker 1: coming in and of course we can't forget you, Robert Hainsey.
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  Speaker 1: We're very excited to have you here. A ton of
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  Speaker 1: focus on the offensive line, and obviously you're familiar with
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  Speaker 1: new head coach Liam Cohen. How much of that was
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  Speaker 1: making it an easier decision knowing you have some familiarity there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think uh, I think it helped a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, first of all, I'm excited to be here too.
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  Speaker 2: This is a great, great place to be. Knowing Liam
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  Speaker 2: this past year has been awesome. It's been awesome to
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  Speaker 2: work with him. I'm very excited to work with him again.
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  Speaker 2: I think he does a great job and I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to growing in the system and being a part
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  Speaker 2: of it as much as I can.
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  Speaker 1: When you were looking for a new home, is it
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  Speaker 1: kind of exciting to be a part of something. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: we've had a ton of off season changes front office
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  Speaker 1: with Liam Cohen as the new coach, to kind of
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  Speaker 1: be a part of that as it builds up, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think so. I think you have to take you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you have those changes. You have to take the
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  Speaker 2: best things from the previous kind of regime and you
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  Speaker 2: have to add the the things that you think are
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  Speaker 2: gonna make it better and try to marry those two
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  Speaker 2: in the way that where you fit the culture, change
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  Speaker 2: the culture, whatever needs to be done to get to
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  Speaker 2: a spot where this team has the ability to have
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  Speaker 2: the success it can with the given given the talent
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  Speaker 2: on the roster, given the the people in the building like,
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  Speaker 2: it's a good it's a good place to be.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, you worked with Baker Mayfield obviously and Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady one of the greats. What did you feel like
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  Speaker 1: you learned out of that your first couple of years
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  Speaker 1: and kind of working with.
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  Speaker 2: Them, Yeah, great question. Playing with Tom, like my rookie
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  Speaker 2: year didn't play, my second year started with him. That
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  Speaker 2: was pretty cool, just because obviously he's Tom Brady. But
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  Speaker 2: he was awesome to me. He was awesome to work with.
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  Speaker 2: I learned a ton from him football wise, h a lot,
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  Speaker 2: how to be a professional, how to take care of
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  Speaker 2: yourself the way you're s supposed to operate at this level.
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  Speaker 2: Try to take those those positive experiences with me. Baker
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  Speaker 2: the same, I mean, he's the ultimate teammate. He's the
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  Speaker 2: ultimate competitor and I can't really say enough good things
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  Speaker 2: about him because it was a blast to work with him.
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  Speaker 2: So he's gonna he changed me. He changed my life
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  Speaker 2: a lot just because of the way he he operates.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, Okay, he's here to win, he's here to compete.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're all trying to do. But he brings
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  Speaker 2: it every day and just always a constant reminder of
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  Speaker 2: how what your mentality needs to be. Like when you're
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  Speaker 2: walking into this building, you're gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: Working with Trevor Lawrence snown protecting him. How does that
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  Speaker 1: work that relationship? Obviously as a center with your quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: is that kind of just time on task when you
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  Speaker 1: work together or just getting to know each other off
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  Speaker 1: the field, how do you kind of work on that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's a great player. I'm really excited
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  Speaker 2: to work with him, to get to know him. It's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of fun to grow together. It's
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  Speaker 2: a new system for him, it's same system for me.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that can be super helpful. Like you said,
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  Speaker 2: time on task, a ton of reps, a ton of snaps,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the film, just talking, just talking about
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  Speaker 2: like football when we can how we see it, getting
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  Speaker 2: to know each other personally, becoming good friends, because that's
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  Speaker 2: that means a lot too. And I just I met
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  Speaker 2: them briefly. He seems like an awesome dude. I'm really
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  Speaker 2: excited to get to work with him and everyone else
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  Speaker 2: here who I've met, cause, uh, so far it's been
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  Speaker 2: it's been a great first day.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. What can Jags fans expect to see from you
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  Speaker 1: on the field? What kind of player?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, they're just gonna I hope what they see is
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  Speaker 2: someone who cares. I hope that shows in my play.
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  Speaker 2: I think it does because I do. I care a lot,
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  Speaker 2: care about my teammates, I care about the team. Those
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  Speaker 2: are the things that I want to be evident in
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  Speaker 2: my play. They want to see a guy finishing all
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  Speaker 2: the way to the whistle, picking up his teammates first
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  Speaker 2: one there to give them. If I'm not doing that,
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  Speaker 2: text me, shoot me, tweet me, tell me I'm not
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  Speaker 2: doing it, because that's important. That stuff's important to me
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  Speaker 2: because so it's there's the that's the standard I hold
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  Speaker 2: myself to and the things I want to do. So
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  Speaker 2: I hope it's evident that I care about my teammates.
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  Speaker 2: It's evident that I care about the organization and that
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  Speaker 2: I wanna put the best thing on film every week.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely welcome. Did you ball drags? Fans get excited to
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  Speaker 1: see him.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.