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O-Zone Podcast: DE/OLB Josh Allen · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast presented by by Star Credit
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Speaker 1: Union with Jaguars senior writer John Osan. All Right, welcome
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Speaker 1: to this week's Ozone podcast presented by by Star and Uh.
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Speaker 1: I gotta admit I've been looking forward to this one
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Speaker 1: all season. As for Josh, a couple of times in
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Speaker 1: the covid era, sometimes tough to get a guy. UM
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Speaker 1: always enjoyed talking to Jaguars defensive end and outside linebacker
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Speaker 1: this year, Josh Allen, Josh, first of all, thank you
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Speaker 1: for doing this. I appreciate it, and welcome. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for having me on and and we talked
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Speaker 1: last year. So I'm not really going to get into
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Speaker 1: a whole lot of personal background stuff, but I know
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Speaker 1: fans listening to this, you are such a leader on
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Speaker 1: this team and such a voice in the community. And
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Speaker 1: to me, you're a guy who you know cares deeply
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Speaker 1: about this franchise in this city after only two years.
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Speaker 1: What do you want fans to know about this team,
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Speaker 1: about this process? Then maybe you haven't heard said to them.
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Speaker 1: If you know what I'm getting at, uh do uh man,
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Speaker 1: We're some fighters, jough. Uh. It's just you know, it
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Speaker 1: may not seem ideal. Right now, it may not seem
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Speaker 1: like the best, but you've got guys out here busting
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Speaker 1: the butt every play, you know what I'm saying. You
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Speaker 1: have guys want to get better every single day. You
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Speaker 1: have guys want to put on for the city, you
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Speaker 1: want to put on for themselves, wanna put on for
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Speaker 1: the team that's gonna give it there all every week.
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Speaker 1: And I know it may not seem like you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe just seem like bullcrap right now, you know listening,
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Speaker 1: but you know you definitely got We're gonna turn this
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Speaker 1: around and trust and believe my words, man's gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: Who knows when it's gonna happen. I wanted to happen now,
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Speaker 1: you know, because I'm tired of it. We're all tired
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Speaker 1: of it. And I know you guys tired of it. Uh,
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Speaker 1: But you know, by the end of the day, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna go out here. We're gonna bust our. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: bust our us every day, go out there and try
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Speaker 1: to get away. Man. And we love the city. We
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Speaker 1: love this organization, you know, and we're gonna do everything
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Speaker 1: we can for it. You know, I'm gonna put them
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Speaker 1: all in it give a hundred and ten percent, and
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Speaker 1: you know, just put my face, put the face in me,
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Speaker 1: put the face in, and try to put the face
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Speaker 1: in his team that we're gonna that we're gonna succeed.
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Speaker 1: You know. The one thing I've learned in doing this
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Speaker 1: for a while is time goes quick in this late
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Speaker 1: time goes quick when you're my age, Josh, time goes quick. Period.
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Speaker 1: You're two and a half years into this. Now, does
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Speaker 1: it seem like that's gone fast? Yeah, it's definitely, it's definitely. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it is definitely going fast. Just to be you know,
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Speaker 1: year three. Uh, it's definitely zoom by just looking back
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Speaker 1: like last year went by so fast. But this year, man,
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Speaker 1: it's definitely been a it's that. Yeah, it's definitely. I
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Speaker 1: can't even I don't even know what to really say. Man.
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Speaker 1: I feel like when we played in London, we blank
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Speaker 1: with three games in. You know what I mean, we
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Speaker 1: have to buy a weekend boom is right here and
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Speaker 1: then sooner or later, Uh, the last game gonna be
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, You're gonna look any black damn.
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Speaker 1: So Uh, this season definitely been going along and uh,
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Speaker 1: three years flew by to food by give you an
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Speaker 1: assessment on you. You're always under such a spotlight. H
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the numbers are, but it certainly
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Speaker 1: seems in the last couple of games. Uh, like you've
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Speaker 1: been coming on making more place. Do you feel like
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Speaker 1: you're improving, getting better opportunities or where are you at
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Speaker 1: right now in terms of where you want to be?
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Speaker 1: I felt like I'm still on that growing phase. Man.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm still you know, I feel like
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say I'm completely there. Uh, but I
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Speaker 1: am taking that next step forward in my game and
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Speaker 1: where I need to be. And as long as I
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Speaker 1: maintain and and and put you know, put the faith
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Speaker 1: in myself and put the faith in my teammates. Uh.
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Speaker 1: For like, man, the sky's delimits and uh So, I
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Speaker 1: feel like I'm at a good pace. And you know,
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Speaker 1: try to get better every day, you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: Take one day at a time and make new mistakes.
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Speaker 1: Don't make the same mistakes of me yesterday. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Do do something better than I didn't
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Speaker 1: do yesterday. Doing now, that's my mind set going to
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Speaker 1: every day, man. And I enjoyed being out here. I enjoyed,
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Speaker 1: I enjoyed stripping up, I enjoyed taking the field every play.
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Speaker 1: And I don't take no to those place for granted
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Speaker 1: because you never know what's gonna be last. And that's
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Speaker 1: my mindset, and you know, I just still want to
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Speaker 1: be the best, and that's how I'm gonna play. That's
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Speaker 1: how I'm for ever gonna play. Is that something? And
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Speaker 1: if you learned, but they kind of hit home last year.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not sure what your injury history was
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Speaker 1: in the past, but I know missing time can affect guys.
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Speaker 1: When you were out, were you thinking, hey, you know,
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Speaker 1: I need to take advantage of every snap because you
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Speaker 1: never know? Mm hmmm. And the last year was the
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Speaker 1: first time that I've ever dealt with the injury of
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Speaker 1: missing games, uh multiple games, So uh for me mentally,
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Speaker 1: that was was already you know what I'm saying, hitting
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Speaker 1: home and then you know, losing, you know, and the
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Speaker 1: way we did and that also at home and watching
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Speaker 1: those games on the tv. Uh, just not be able
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Speaker 1: to help my teammates out, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: So like it really hit and it really you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, put me in the spot to where
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Speaker 1: it's like, okay, they say, never gonna happen again, And
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm saying, I'm gonna do is everything I can.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna bust my butt, just try to stay healthy
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Speaker 1: to uh, you know, to stay on the field as
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Speaker 1: much as I can to help this team. And you know,
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Speaker 1: so far right now we're week I don't even know
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Speaker 1: we're week with, but we're we were pretty deep in it.
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Speaker 1: And I feel great, and I feel better than you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying that I've ever been. So I
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Speaker 1: got to maintain the course and keep going. I've always
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Speaker 1: thought that pass rusher is one of the cruelest positions
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Speaker 1: because you can do your job, you have a great game,
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Speaker 1: and if you don't get a sack, all the fans
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Speaker 1: are saying, what's wrong with Josh Outen so um. I
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Speaker 1: recovered Dwight Freeney for years. You know, these say some
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Speaker 1: of his best games came when he didn't have a sack,
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Speaker 1: and some of his worst games might come when he
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Speaker 1: had two sacks at the end. They were sort of
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Speaker 1: given to him. I do you relate to that at all?
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Speaker 1: And I guess the question is, I assume you don't
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Speaker 1: judge yourself based on sacks. You judge yourself based on
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Speaker 1: other things. Man. That's a great observation. You know, a
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Speaker 1: great point you just said, man, because it's true, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like, I feel like my best
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Speaker 1: game so far in my career on the edge was
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Speaker 1: the Miami game and I didn't get a sack, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But it's just the fact that
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Speaker 1: as a pass rusher, you know what I'm saying, you
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Speaker 1: want to win every rep, you know, So I go
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Speaker 1: out there and try to win every rep. And that's
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Speaker 1: a game that I feel like I want every rep,
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Speaker 1: but I didn't get home, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: And then I come back and you know, I'm battling
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Speaker 1: and battling and that Papa sack here or Poppa sack there.
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Speaker 1: And then that's when it's like, Okay, they see the numbers,
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Speaker 1: but they don't really see until you put that film,
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Speaker 1: when you can click, go back and forth, back and forth,
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Speaker 1: unless you study the game. Uh, the impact you can
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Speaker 1: put on the team, uh, because you never know. But
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Speaker 1: the pressure is the pressure. He's getting up all all quick,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, just the president just him
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Speaker 1: feeling your presence is getting out quicker for you know,
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Speaker 1: for the gods to put their hands as you get
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Speaker 1: passes deflected. So, uh, it's really a role thing as
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Speaker 1: a pass rusher. But I love every bit of it
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Speaker 1: and my mind set us to go out there and
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Speaker 1: win every one and one and affect this game not
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Speaker 1: only you know, visibly, but behind the scenes as well.
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Speaker 1: So do whatever it takes. Now, not every pass rusher,
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Speaker 1: every player that I've covered has been like this, but
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Speaker 1: it really strikes me that's sincerely you are more about
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Speaker 1: the team than getting sacks. And I don't know how
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Speaker 1: you uh, how you quantify that, but I've seen you
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Speaker 1: around You care about this thing you're talking to teammates. Um,
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Speaker 1: where did that come from? Why you like that? Uh?
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Speaker 1: Because I think that's real. Yeah, I mean I care
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Speaker 1: about my sex. You know too, But it's the first thing,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, I'm a big forso
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Speaker 1: feed I have a big philosophy. I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: think that's how you use it of you know, if
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Speaker 1: you're a great your team, if you're like, if you're good,
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Speaker 1: your team's great, you know what I'm saying. And if
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Speaker 1: your team is great, and then everybody gets paid, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. And so for me, if guys
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Speaker 1: give me as one of those guys that's gonna make
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Speaker 1: the play that you know, the rely on, don't make
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Speaker 1: the play now if I'm making that play, and that's
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Speaker 1: just open up for Smooth to make a play. That's
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Speaker 1: opening up for Roy as opening for Miles, that's up
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Speaker 1: for the back end shot. So now we're playing great
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Speaker 1: team defense. And yeah, I might not get the sack,
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Speaker 1: but we're playing great team defense. You know, Smooth getting president,
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Speaker 1: I'm getting president shots getting picked where he's getting picked,
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Speaker 1: you know, saying, never getting picked, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: So I'm a big you know team first. You know,
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Speaker 1: we all eat because they find I'm gonna regardless. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying in my mind's I'm gonna get mines.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I want you to get
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Speaker 1: choice too, And that's how we're all gonna eat. That's
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Speaker 1: how that's how we're gonna get on one mind. That's
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Speaker 1: how we're gonna play. And so I've been like that
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Speaker 1: since high school and I'm never going to continue to top.
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Speaker 1: It's just me, But I care about the Saxon I'm
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Speaker 1: competing every play, like with me and smooth me and
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Speaker 1: smooth every play. You know what I mean. Who's gonna
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Speaker 1: get there? Who gonna get there? You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Like I wanted to get here, but I damn want
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Speaker 1: me to get there first, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: He feels the same way. But that's just how we are.
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Speaker 1: We love each other. I love the smooth he loved me,
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Speaker 1: you know, on it. All the field, we're good, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But once we get out there,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to get it, but trust me, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: get that, you know what I mean. And so that's
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Speaker 1: just how we are, man, That's how we you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, That's how mindsets. So we're gonna continue
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Speaker 1: to play like that. I know you talked about it yesterday,
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Speaker 1: but I can't get this podcast asking about the other
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen. It's been such a weird thing. Um, you know,
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Speaker 1: anything that you didn't share already with the media, that's
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Speaker 1: weird about that too. Has there been a time you've
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Speaker 1: been watching TV and they said Josh Allen and you've
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Speaker 1: looked up and they're like, oh, it's the other guy. Man,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to get that man too much clause,
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Speaker 1: so I'm not you know, because they already I think
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Speaker 1: they already said, they already saying the real Josh Allen
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Speaker 1: coming to Jacksonville. So I kind of feel disrespected about that.
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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm tired. You know, he got the
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Speaker 1: upper hand right now. So I'm ready to play, and
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Speaker 1: I'm ready to you know what I'm saying, Put those
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Speaker 1: naysayers to go, and then I'll tell you the story
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Speaker 1: after fair enough, that makes sense. Hey, UM, I see
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Speaker 1: one thing. And I don't always ask guys when they
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Speaker 1: come in here about the community, but there seems to
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Speaker 1: be at a very young age for you, a connection
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Speaker 1: with Jacksonville. And uh, maybe it's because you're married, you're
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Speaker 1: more mature than a lot of guys coming in, you
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Speaker 1: have three kids. But there's a real connection for you
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Speaker 1: with this city, is there not? Uh? It is man like.
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Speaker 1: Uh you're talking about like deeper than I love this.
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Speaker 1: I love the state, I love I love Florida, I
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Speaker 1: love the state. I love Jacksonville. Uh. I feel like
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Speaker 1: it's you know what I'm saying. We've met a lot
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Speaker 1: of great people out here, a lot of great connections
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Speaker 1: for years and you know, maybe forever. And my wife
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Speaker 1: and I we just you know what I'm saying, We
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Speaker 1: feel like this is the city for us, and so
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Speaker 1: that makes me want to play for even more because
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Speaker 1: I'm a part of it. I live it, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like I'm not from it, but one
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Speaker 1: of my kids are from it. Two of my kids
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Speaker 1: from Jacksonville, you know what I'm saying. So not only
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Speaker 1: am I playing for myself and for this team, but
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Speaker 1: I'm playing for my family. You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: Like I want to give this give this city, uh
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Speaker 1: something to be proud about. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: I know we had a great year two thousand seventeen
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Speaker 1: which I wasn't part of, and they and I was
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Speaker 1: just telling the stories how the city was so alive
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Speaker 1: and any so I and that's what I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: bring back, you know what I mean. I know we
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Speaker 1: have a great fan base. I know they're talking about Jacksonville,
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Speaker 1: it's Jacksonville that but this fan base is unbelievable. Uh yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. We have the ones that
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Speaker 1: say this, say that, But when it's time to go
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Speaker 1: they're gonna go. You know what I'm saying when you
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Speaker 1: see them out of public there, You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: nothing but positivity. Nothing but we're gonna get We're gonna
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Speaker 1: get it. Some optimistic uh So. I love the city
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Speaker 1: and like I said, man, it makes me want to
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Speaker 1: play for it even more. I love Duval man, and
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Speaker 1: I'm of ball to the day I die. Hopefully, you know,
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Speaker 1: and hopefully the city you know knows that give me
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Speaker 1: one thing that I should be excited about about this team,
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Speaker 1: And maybe I don't know what do you like about
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Speaker 1: it right now? Going forward? Man, We're hungry. And I
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Speaker 1: told you from the beginning. Man, like every week, Man,
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Speaker 1: I know the outcome does not reflect the way you know,
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Speaker 1: it looks like we play, But we played freaking hard
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Speaker 1: and we played fast. We play physical, and we need
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Speaker 1: to play like that every play. We need to play
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Speaker 1: mistake free football. And as soon as we get mistake
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Speaker 1: free football, we are a dominant defense. And we need
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Speaker 1: to get takeaways. That's the only that's what we're missing.
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Speaker 1: We're missing takeaways and mistake free football. But when we
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Speaker 1: don't have mistake football, we are one. I feel like
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Speaker 1: we were one of the best defenses out there, and
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Speaker 1: when we get the takeaways, where we are going to
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Speaker 1: be the best defense out there. So, uh, we we
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Speaker 1: have a good, great opportunity this week and playing with
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, and we're excited about
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Speaker 1: it and we're not gonna shy away from it, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So uh do vo we're here, like, come, come,
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Speaker 1: come out. It's gonna be a good one. Okay. The
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Speaker 1: last thing we do a real fast the ozone five
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Speaker 1: five five. It's five quick questions. You have a little
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Speaker 1: fun with it. I asked you this last year, but
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Speaker 1: what was your last binge watch? Oh? I was. I
13:26
Speaker 1: was just in Uh, I was just what I've been
13:29
Speaker 1: in an anime lady, and I just got things watching Bleach.
13:31
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all really know about that. I
13:33
Speaker 1: just watched. My wife hates it. She hates when I
13:36
Speaker 1: bench watched, like go to the bathroom. I'm watching that,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So, like I gotta pick
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Speaker 1: and choose when I watch it. So but yeah, I
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Speaker 1: just got done watching that and I'm trying to find
13:46
Speaker 1: my next My next obsession fell into Blink, having three
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Speaker 1: kids has taught me blink who Uh no patience? Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's it. That's a good an. What's your go to
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Speaker 1: restaurant in town? What's the best restaurant you're jack Uh?
14:06
Speaker 1: Cooper Hawks. Let me put Cooper Hawks on real quick,
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Speaker 1: because everybody I talked to from Jacksonville doing a lot
14:13
Speaker 1: of people don't know about Cooper Hawks in the town center.
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Speaker 1: It's a great It's a I love the food, it's
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Speaker 1: a grade vibe. And my family, my kids love it
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Speaker 1: and I love it. Who's the defensive player you mosted? Not?
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Speaker 1: Who's the guy you most look at it? I definitely
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Speaker 1: studied uh yonned Yon Uh? You know that his crow
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Speaker 1: shop is. You know it's it can be unstoppable at times.
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Speaker 1: Uh Kali Mac you know Coul I like Kalil and
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Speaker 1: Chamla Jones man. You know. But there's so many guys
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying that that are out there
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Speaker 1: that I study. I'm I told you I studied the game.
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Speaker 1: But those three guys man are It's fun to watch
14:58
Speaker 1: final one and again I may have asked it, but
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Speaker 1: always love hearing guy's answer to this. Who's the person
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Speaker 1: most responsible for you being here in your life being here. Uh,
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Speaker 1: probably gonna have to say my uncle, my uncle, my
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Speaker 1: my mom's sister's husband. You know what I mean. I
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Speaker 1: lived with him in Alabama, and you know when I
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Speaker 1: wanted to give up a football, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: when I gave up you know what I'm saying. He
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Speaker 1: was the one that you know what I'm saying, I
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Speaker 1: always kept in that, always coming involved and always like,
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Speaker 1: come on, man, you can do what you can do it.
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Speaker 1: So you know, without him, I probably you know, we'll
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Speaker 1: probably be in an NBA right now. I like that.
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Speaker 1: Humble Josh. Hey Josh, you know, knowing you for a while,
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Speaker 1: I always appreciate I always enjoy spending time with you.
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Speaker 1: I know the fans do too as well. And it's
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Speaker 1: a busy time, so I appreciate you doing this and
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Speaker 1: we will catch up with you soon and good luck
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Appreciate it.