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Byron Murphy II: "I'm Blessed To Be Here" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Well, welcome everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome day, exciting day here at the vMac. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know Byron Murphy day. Uh, you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: an exciting deal, first round draft choice. So uh, everybody
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  Speaker 2: in the room the last seven months have been very
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  Speaker 2: excited about this day. Uh, the opportunity to the other
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  Speaker 2: night to be able to select Byron sixteenth pick.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It was quite stressful, I tell you, brother, but.
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you know how excited everybody is to
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  Speaker 2: have you here. So on behalf of Jody Allen, uh,
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  Speaker 2: every our family here in the building at the vMac
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  Speaker 2: and all its follows.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to welcome you and Mike again a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks. Yeah. Yeah, we're just really excited to have
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  Speaker 1: you man.
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  Speaker 4: And like John said, that was a it was an
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  Speaker 4: exciting night on Thursday, I told I told some folks
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  Speaker 4: it was kind of like a game of plank go
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  Speaker 4: on prices, right, you know, just trying to have everything
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  Speaker 4: kind of slot out, you know, to work our way.
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  Speaker 4: And when it became evident that Byron was going to
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  Speaker 4: be our guy, it was just real, really exciting in
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  Speaker 4: the room. And I want to thank all the people
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  Speaker 4: that into the process that put all the work in
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  Speaker 4: find the right guy and think Byron is the right
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  Speaker 4: right person for our team, and just really excited to
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  Speaker 4: get this thing kicked off.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 4: Just congratulations to you and your family and be a long, fruitful,
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  Speaker 4: fun relationship. Man. A lot a lot of great things
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  Speaker 4: in store.
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  Speaker 1: So congratulations. Go for it, buddy. Wherever you go, let
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  Speaker 1: you just use your family first. Man. So today, who
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  Speaker 1: I have with me?
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  Speaker 3: You know, in my in the corner right here, got
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  Speaker 3: my dad, Bayern Murphy Senior, got my my mom, and
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  Speaker 3: my queen Anissa Murphy, and my beautiful girlfriend future wife.
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  Speaker 3: So maya heard I saw my agent run slavery. So man, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm just right now taking it all in.
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  Speaker 3: Just very exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Man. Really just is blessed to be here, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you know, growing up you know, Seattle, you know,
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  Speaker 3: been my favorite team something.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Just to be a part of this team, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and this organization, man, it really means a lot, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Uh you know, uh, I'm going to give him everything
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  Speaker 3: I got, you know, each and every day, a.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred ten percent. You know. Uh. Man, I just wanna say, uh.
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  Speaker 3: Thank thanks to both of you guys, just for you know,
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  Speaker 3: just for trusting in me, you know, believing in me,
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  Speaker 3: and even you know, picking me to be you know,
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  Speaker 3: part of his team and everything. It really means a lot, man,
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  Speaker 3: And it's a it's a dream come true. Just blessed
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  Speaker 3: to be here.
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  Speaker 5: Well opened it up to question Byron just from take
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  Speaker 5: us from Thursday getting that phone called and outch what's
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  Speaker 5: the lastophy day's been.
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  Speaker 1: Like for you?
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  Speaker 3: Man? Uh, the last few days, you know, it's been crazy,
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  Speaker 3: you know, uh, even starting from Thursday, just getting that
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  Speaker 3: phone call. You know, man, it was just uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so overwhelming, man, just getting that call. You know, Man,
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  Speaker 3: it it was just you know, I can't really describe
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  Speaker 3: you know, it was like it was like a dream,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So uh but man, when I got the call, man,
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  Speaker 3: I was just so excited and happy, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: I was just able, you know, just really thankful, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to share that moment with my family and everything, cause
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's something we never experienced. So just to have,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just to experience that with my family and uh,
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  Speaker 3: just the church, them moments, man, really means a lot.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like being a Seahawks fan in Texas? Man?
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  Speaker 1: I know, it sounds a little funny, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I uh, you know, I get the question a lot,
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  Speaker 3: like why how come you don't like the Cowboys? But
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  Speaker 3: you know, in my household, you know, everybody just liked
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  Speaker 3: the Cowboys for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: But man, but uh, you know, being a Seahawks fan
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  Speaker 3: just growing up, I just first I just fell in
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  Speaker 3: love with, you know, the Legion of Boom God.
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  Speaker 1: Just the way they played on defense.
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  Speaker 3: You know, gods like Cam Chashler, you know, Bobby Wadding
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  Speaker 3: and Michael Benning, you know, all them guys, Man, Richard
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  Speaker 3: Sherman and uh Man, just see how these guys play
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  Speaker 3: on defense, the way they just set the tone and
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  Speaker 3: go out there, you know, just the way they play.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's something I wanted to be a part of,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And also too growing up, I was a
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  Speaker 3: huge fan of Russell Wilson. Like I love Russell Wilson
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  Speaker 3: growing up.
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  Speaker 1: As a kid.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: So watch them guys go out there, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: dominate their opponents, you know, and win the Super Bowl. Man,
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  Speaker 3: it was crazy. You know, that's that's one of my goals.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to win games and you know, bring a
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl here as well.
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  Speaker 1: How did you pick ninety one? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: I picked ninety one because you know, high school, I
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  Speaker 3: wore ten. So I was thinking, like I had you know,
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  Speaker 3: I had a few options, but I chose ninety one
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  Speaker 3: cause I was thinking like nine plus one eagles ten.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, man, So I just want to have that
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  Speaker 3: feeling again like when I was in high school, because
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  Speaker 3: in high school that's when I first started, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's when I transitioned to detail because I wasn't playing
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  Speaker 3: that at first. And when I first went down there,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I was on ten junior senior year.
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  Speaker 1: Why aren't it like walking in this building? Uh with
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  Speaker 1: your bom and your dad? This has been a dream
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  Speaker 1: of you since you've been a kid. And yeah, to
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  Speaker 1: kind of come in here and just see this place.
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  Speaker 1: What's what's what's today been like for you?
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  Speaker 6: Man?
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  Speaker 3: Today has been amazing, you know, And it's a great feeling,
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  Speaker 3: you know, having my parents with me, you know, cause
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  Speaker 3: you know they been with me since day one, So
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  Speaker 3: having them here with me, it really means a lot.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Again, you know, it's it's a blessing, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you know they pushed me, you know, each and
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  Speaker 3: every day, you know, U to get here. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they the reason why I'm here right now. They're the
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  Speaker 3: reason why I'm talking to you guys. You know, they
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  Speaker 3: the reason why all this, you know, happened. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: they kept my head on your head on straight. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they taught me, taught me right for wrong.
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  Speaker 1: They know they did. They did a great job, you know,
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  Speaker 1: take care of me. Man. I really appreciate them a lot,
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  Speaker 1: given the fact, given the fact you were a fan
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  Speaker 1: of this team.
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  Speaker 5: What was it like to to walk in the building
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  Speaker 5: here and get to see this place for the first time?
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  Speaker 3: Man, my first time walking in the building, man, it uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I was just you know, shocked, really, man,
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  Speaker 3: really shocked man, just to uh, you know, just to
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  Speaker 3: even come to Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this it was you know, this is my
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  Speaker 1: first time here.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't never been in Seattle, man, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: it's really you know, really nice, really pretty. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the water and everything I see, all the mountains, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the sun out, good little breeze.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's nothing like that Texas weather. Man.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you know, it takes it to get real hot.
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  Speaker 3: So man, I'm just happy to be away from that.
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  Speaker 1: So man. But yeah, man, it was. It was a
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  Speaker 1: great feeling, that maze, the feeling you walk in the building,
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  Speaker 1: you get that good feeling.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, put on this Sea Hawks stuff on for the
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  Speaker 5: walk field.
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  Speaker 1: What was that like when you stepped on and said, alright,
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  Speaker 1: it's game time. Bruh.
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  Speaker 3: See when I when I put the stuff on, that's
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  Speaker 3: when I I feel like, Okay, I'm officially like a Seahawk.
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  Speaker 3: Like I knew I when I got drafted. Of course
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  Speaker 3: I was the Seattle but when I got here then
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  Speaker 3: put the girl on. Man, It's just yeah, it feel like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I feel out a part of the team
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  Speaker 3: right away. You know, it feel like family right now.
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  Speaker 3: So man, it it's just you know, I'm just I'm
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  Speaker 3: just excited.
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  Speaker 6: Man, I'm just happy that rae.
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  Speaker 1: Bruh. I was like, yeah, let's go get that pen.
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  Speaker 5: What is it about the the high school you went
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  Speaker 5: to that prepares guys.
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  Speaker 7: For d in the NFL?
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  Speaker 1: MM?
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  Speaker 3: Man, So you know the subtle you know, our name
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  Speaker 3: is carled you know, we known as the Soto You
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  Speaker 3: you know university you know, and uh you know Clyde Mathis.
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  Speaker 1: You know his guys.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they run they program like you know, like
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  Speaker 3: college like a college program.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and uh, you know they uh they coach
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  Speaker 1: us very hard.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they on this very hard or you know,
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  Speaker 3: and don't treat us like any regular high school kids.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it's a standard at Desotto, you know. And in
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  Speaker 3: order to you know, to play or you know, or
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  Speaker 3: to be successful, you must must reach them standards, you know,
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  Speaker 3: no no matter what, uh, no matter what the case
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  Speaker 3: might be. And uh man, you know, uh, the Settle
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  Speaker 3: taught me a lot, you know, taught me a lot
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  Speaker 3: of just just about how to get through adversity, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the ups and downs they come with they come with football, man,
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  Speaker 3: So they taught me a lot, you know it Coach Matthew,
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  Speaker 3: you know, my d Lin coach, coach miller Man. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, I get my hats off to them.
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  Speaker 1: Guys. Did you overlap there at all with uh? Set again?
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  Speaker 1: Did you overlap there at De Soto with oh na
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  Speaker 1: man uh Lewiska. You know he was older than me.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I didn't get to you know, I went to
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  Speaker 3: high school when he was there, but I shall I
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  Speaker 3: remember him though a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Alright, what do you think the biggest challenges are for
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  Speaker 5: you personally? You know? Moving to the next level and
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  Speaker 5: your expectations.
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  Speaker 1: Coming out here going uh the biggest challenges. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I know the game gonna be much faster,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and I feel like, you know, with uh,
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  Speaker 3: with the with these coaches, you know, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna put me, you know, in the best position
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  Speaker 3: you know, in order to be successful. So and also too,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I feel like, you know, once the once
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  Speaker 3: the game slow down, you know, I feel like I
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  Speaker 3: can you know that I can be me.
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  Speaker 1: I can be the best player I can be.
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  Speaker 5: When you were a you're a linebacker before you moved
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  Speaker 5: to a D tackle, Were you at all linebackers maybe
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  Speaker 5: a little bit more of a glamorous position than than
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  Speaker 5: playing D tackle.
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  Speaker 1: Were you reluctant at all? Or were you like, how
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  Speaker 1: was that explained to you? Is like maybe that was
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  Speaker 1: your best path for it was to make that man.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened was the reason why I made the move.
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  Speaker 3: So, uh, it was like my ten grade year, I
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  Speaker 3: was playing middle linebacker and we had like a uh
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  Speaker 3: like a little a little play where I go to nose.
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  Speaker 3: So I ended up going to nose. I end up
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  Speaker 3: making a TfL in the backfield. So like The next day,
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  Speaker 3: my coach came up to me. He was like, every
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  Speaker 3: thought about moving to detac. I looked at him like
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  Speaker 3: he was crazy, cause I never see myself being a
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  Speaker 3: being a defensive tackle. You know, I'm telling I'm telling him, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm a skilled guy. I'm not finna play
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  Speaker 3: down there no tricks, but I ain't.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't. I ain't ready for that. But uh uh
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  Speaker 1: I end up. Uh I end what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh I for some reason, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: why I end what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Then when I tell my parents, Ah, man, my parents, Man,
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  Speaker 3: they went off on me.
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  Speaker 1: Man, they was mad and everything.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I was telling 'em, you know it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be okay. You know, I'm i'm'a do good at
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  Speaker 3: that position. And man, you know, I just you know,
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  Speaker 3: when I first started off, you know, obviously had to
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  Speaker 3: learn a lot, but I started learning like you know,
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  Speaker 3: I grasped it like fast, you know, quickly, so and
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  Speaker 3: uh man, as I was doing, you know, learning, I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 3: this stuff is, you know, really simple, and man, uh
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  Speaker 3: I got it down right away, you know, and it's
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  Speaker 3: it's been on ever since then.
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  Speaker 1: How much. Did you wait it at the time, at
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  Speaker 1: the time, I was Uh, when I was a linebacker,
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  Speaker 1: I was like two fifty. Yeah, like you see any
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  Speaker 1: linebacker trades or.
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  Speaker 4: Say the game, Uh, it's a two A two fifty
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  Speaker 4: linebacker's pretty impressive. There's not many of those walking through.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. What was the question of school? Yeah in high school?
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  Speaker 5: Did you see any linebacker trades in this game?
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  Speaker 1: As Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, just uh s uh, movement ability, working edges, things
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  Speaker 4: like that. Just has a natural feel for kind of
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  Speaker 4: playing blocks, working like s like soft part of the
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  Speaker 4: past of the past set, and yeah, you can see
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  Speaker 4: some wine backer ability in there.
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  Speaker 1: Alright. What is the game you think you need to improve?
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  Speaker 7: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I need to improve on, you know,
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  Speaker 3: pass rushing, you know, and finishing on the quarterback. You know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously I know I can pass rush, you know, very well.
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  Speaker 3: But I feel like, you know, there's something I need
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  Speaker 3: to get better at. And you know, just m my
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  Speaker 3: game period, you know, I feel like there's always room
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  Speaker 3: for improvement, you know, in every area, you know, every
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  Speaker 3: aspect of the game. And uh, but yeah, pass rushing,
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  Speaker 3: also finishing on finishing on the quarterback. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: had a lot of uh, a lot of missopts this year,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just getting back there. You know, I hit
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  Speaker 3: hit 'em with a great move, but I'll get back there.
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  Speaker 3: I slip a file, you know, reaching. So really just
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  Speaker 3: working on pass rushing, finishing on the quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: An a A lot of times first round picks come
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  Speaker 5: in and they're expecting to shoulder the load.
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  Speaker 1: How much of a blessing is it to.
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  Speaker 5: Come here with Letter Williams and Draymond Jones and Jared
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  Speaker 5: Reid And.
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  Speaker 3: If you had any communication yet with any of those guys, Oh, man,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a it's a great feeling knowing I'm playing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm playing with some dogs on the side
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  Speaker 3: of me, you know. And uh, man, being being able
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  Speaker 3: to play with these guys, you know, at a very
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  Speaker 3: young age, you know, I know they gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 3: teach me a lot, you know, you know, show me
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  Speaker 3: a lot, man, and uh and just teach me so
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  Speaker 3: many ways you know about the game. You know how
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  Speaker 3: to move on and off the field, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, they have Jaran Reed takes me, Lenna Wills,
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  Speaker 3: both of them guys hit me up.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: They just ready for me, you know, they ready for
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  Speaker 3: me to come down here, which I'm here right now,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, they ready to work. They're ready to
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  Speaker 3: work with me.
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  Speaker 1: What I remember when.
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  Speaker 2: You were like you started playing it, when when you
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  Speaker 2: were like six years old?
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  Speaker 5: From what I understand your like ninety ten year olds.
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  Speaker 1: What do you sort of remember about that? Man?
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  Speaker 3: I just remember really dominating. I just remember scoring three
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  Speaker 3: fun touchdowns a game. You know, uh, man, uh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but it was crazy, you know, seven years old, six
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  Speaker 3: seven years old going against nineteen year olds. You know,
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  Speaker 3: just being able to do that. You know, I knew
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  Speaker 3: I was especially you know, right away, right then and there.
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  Speaker 3: And also too, I knew when I first started playing this,
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  Speaker 3: this is what I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 5: John, you talked last week about staying away from him
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  Speaker 5: on purpose to not tip your hand.
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  Speaker 1: Does that harden your value player and you're interested in them?
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  Speaker 6: But you got to like, hey, I'm gonna just stay
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  Speaker 6: back in the shadows and let the rest of the
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  Speaker 6: guys need to work.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't.
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  Speaker 7: Uh, it wasn't really because uh uh we have a
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  Speaker 7: great We've always had a great relationship with his agent Ron,
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  Speaker 7: And then we had a lot of guys in the
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  Speaker 7: building that were like fighting for airtime, uh with Byron,
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  Speaker 7: like you know, Matt Berry and Ryan and Trent Kershners
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  Speaker 7: like they were all kind of arguing about like whose
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  Speaker 7: guy he was and that sort of thing. Right, it
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  Speaker 7: seems like six months ago, honestly, No, but we just
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  Speaker 7: had such a it was a really cool process. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: I really think from uh, you know, honestly, like the
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  Speaker 7: middle of the season, no matter what happened with you know,
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  Speaker 7: if you were able to sign Leonard back or whatever,
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  Speaker 7: he was always a guy that you know, having Draymond here,
• 13:03
  Speaker 7: like you said, Jay Reid, that whole that whole group
• 13:06
  Speaker 7: of guys was really cool, the two young guys with
• 13:09
  Speaker 7: Murph and Cam.
• 13:10
  Speaker 6: And like, it's a it's a it's a it's a
• 13:12
  Speaker 6: cool group.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: Miles in there.
• 13:15
  Speaker 6: I hate to be forgetting anybody, but uh, there's a
• 13:18
  Speaker 6: fun group of guys and it's a it's a talented group.
• 13:21
  Speaker 6: But he was always a guy like in the you
• 13:24
  Speaker 6: know throughout the season that we were always watching like
• 13:27
  Speaker 6: all right, well, you know, did we put ourselves in
• 13:30
  Speaker 6: a reinn a position where we'd be able to draft
• 13:32
  Speaker 6: him or not not having a separate second round draft pick. Really,
• 13:36
  Speaker 6: you know, inhibited our ability to move up to uh
• 13:40
  Speaker 6: to take him. But yeah, so we basically just uh
• 13:46
  Speaker 6: preyed on it and sweated it out. The other night.
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: You played running back previously just mentioned scoring three or
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: four touchdowns a game. But did you move away from
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: running back around the same time that you switched down
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: to defensive line?
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: And who would you compare your running style to?
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming two hundred and fifty.
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: Five running back, but yeah, man, so, uh, I played
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: running back all the way up to in ninth grade,
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: so that's I stopped playing. I stopped playing running back
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: at ninth grade. But uh, who I compare myself to
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: when I was playing running back? Like somebody like Adrian
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: Peterson and Marshall Owns. You know, I, you know, I
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: was a very physical runner. You know I wouldn't you know,
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: I run through people, you know, or I give you
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: a little shaking bake. You know.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: I feel like I had it all at running back.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: So yeah, Mike, how excited are you just kind of
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: to get this process and you know you kind of
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: have your team assembled for the most part, and that you.
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: Get these guys on the field this week and get
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: going with kind of OTAs and all that the next.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Couple of weeks.
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's been It's been awesome to be out
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: there actually doing football on the grass. So uh excited
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: about our process. You know, we're taking it slow, like
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: slow smooth smooth's fast. But now we'll get the rookies
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: as a part of the crew. You know, we'll have
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: the camp this week and then I think they're here
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: uh in two weeks, you know, for for good and
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: but yeah, just to get out there and do it
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: for real rather than all the theory on the board
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: and stuff is uh, it's always a a nice uh
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: nice uh breath of fresh air.
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: Like does Bryan Grove get any time with Byron.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: Or and we'll see right now, I don't think so.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Sorry, Buds, uh a little bit early.
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: You just got here. Uh, but you were a big
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: twelve dep defensive Player of the Year. Do you have
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: any goals that you know you have written down or
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: in your head or any brackpock kind of thing that
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: you're looking forward to this year?
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Uh, first, I w you know, I wanna win, you know,
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: that's my main goal, you know. And uh, secondly, you know,
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: hopefully you know, I uh I'll be able to win
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: defensive you know, Rookie of the year. You know, that's
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: one of my goals too. But the main goal right now,
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: what I'm focused I'm focused on coming in, just playing
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: my part, you know, just playing my road, doing what
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: they asked me to do, and uh win football games.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Alr.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Do you remember the first time you it was brought
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: to your attention that your perceived is too short cause
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: of defensive temple?
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Ah yeah, man, uh you said, do I remember? Yeah?
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Uh I remember in uh yeah, in high school.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, s right, you know, as soon as
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: I made the move, you know, coaches and everything, even
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: like s reporters saying I was too short, you know,
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: uh my arms ain't not as long you know to
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: play D line.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: But you know I took it. You know, I looked
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: at it at motivation. You know.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: It never tore me down. It just built me up,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: you know, and uh it just made me work harder.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: You know, it just made me try to prove everybody wrong,
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: you know, and uh I.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Feel like I did and I feel like I'm still
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: doing it, you know. So yeah, did did.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: You hear that or that come up in your draft
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: pre draft process as well?
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Or height?
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: The oh Yeah, yeah, it came up. But you know,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: I ain't pr I ain't worrying about that, you know. Uh,
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: you know I I you know, I believe in hard
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: over height, you know, and also too, you know that
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: don't matter when you're on the f when you're on
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: the field, you know that, no matter at all all.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Let go out the window. I y it. It's either
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: your dog or you not Like, Hey, what was it
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: like that playing for C. Sarky's your stuf is h Man?
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: It was, Uh, it was great playing for uh Sark.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: You know, uh, you know one Sark. You know I
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: got there when Sark got there, So you know, uh,
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: I was in this program for three years. You know,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: uh Sark. You know he taught He taught us a lot,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: you know, and uh he pushed.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Us a lot too. You know. He a coach.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: He's a you know, really hard coach, you know, very demanded,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: you know, Uh Man Sark.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: You know, just man was playing for him.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Man, he's, you know, a great coach, just the way
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: he was able to, you know, turn the program around,
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: you know with us, you know in him you.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Know, uh and I feel like, uh you know he
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: you know, he you know, he know what he's doing.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: He know how to put his you know, players in
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: the position you know, to be successful, you know, to
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: get to this you know, get to this point right here,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: you know, you know, in the win too.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: So yeah, Byron, I talked to coach Krakowski yesterday and
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: he was talking about you playing the nose tackle position,
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: and he said that the mental aspect really jumped out
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: with your ability to take on double teams things that nature.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: When you look at playing that spot, at being under
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: three hundred pounds, what do you think is more important there?
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Is it the physical tools? Or is that a position
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: where the mental game really plays?
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: You know, well you know the game to me, you know,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: it's ninety percent mental tempercent physical and uh you know
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: it's not all about you know, size, you know, and
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: everything really a strength, you know it It really all
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: about technique how you you know, how you play, you know, uh,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: you know, I believe in playing with with technique. You know,
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, in order to be successful,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: you must have technique to take mequ Technique must be right,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: you know, Technique gotta be great, you know, at all times,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: no matter where you line up at And uh, yeah, man,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: you know not you know, I love the noose positions.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Uh, I feel like I could play the those you
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: know in this league, you know, from zero, you know, three, two,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: you know whatever, you know, whatever they need me to.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Play, you know, I feel I can do it.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: But yeah, man, I feel like you know, it's uh,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: it's not. I it's not really about the physical part.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: It is, but it's not. But it's more mental and
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: more about technique.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: A humble beasts for the tattoo.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Uh man, No, that was my thing, you know.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Uh. I always been humble, you know, as a kid,
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: you know, growing up. You know, I never you know,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: never try to you know, look down on anybody or
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: never try to put myself above anybody. You know, I
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: believe in you know, you know, you treat people how
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: you want to be treated, you know. Uh So that's
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: what made me get the you know, the humble part,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: you know, just always being grateful for you know, for
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: every blessing or I received, you know, uh and the
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: beast you know, the beasts come from you know, just
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: me being on the field. You know, I feel like,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: uh I got a switch when I flipped that switch on,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: you know that when the beasts come out on the field, so.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you very much.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Thank you great y'all, thank you people,