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Best of the Bus: CJ Stroud On His Early Success In The NFL · Bussin' With The Boys

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  Speaker 1: Fellas.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to another Best of the Bust episode, where we
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  Speaker 2: drop an episode every Saturday recapping some of our best
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  Speaker 2: of episodes and interviews back in the day. CJ Stroud
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  Speaker 2: hopped on a zoom call with the boys back in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three and we talked about his early success
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  Speaker 2: in Houston, took some playful shots at his Ohio state
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  Speaker 2: dates because of course, you know, go blue Taylor's a
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  Speaker 2: Michigan boy, and wrapped it up with his worst rookie
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  Speaker 2: moment in a spooptober Tier talk.
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  Speaker 1: This is one for the books.
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  Speaker 2: CJ's one of the boys and we got to get
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  Speaker 2: him on the bus next offseason.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy this one. Big hugs, tiny kisses, CJ.
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  Speaker 3: What's up man?
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  Speaker 1: What's up? Brow doing? Good man? How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good man, blessed.
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  Speaker 4: I love that we are we rolling.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's three people on this busn No, let's give
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  Speaker 5: a round of a plus for cjs drug best quarterback
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  Speaker 5: of Ohio state history, already proven best quarterback of all time. Brother,
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  Speaker 5: listen getting drafted by the Houston Texas. I know you're
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  Speaker 5: sitting there and the PR guys are sitting right behind
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  Speaker 5: the computer right now, trying to tell you what to
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  Speaker 5: say and not to say when you get drafted by Houston.
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  Speaker 5: People were saying the franchise, like, franchise might be dead,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of issues. You've come in and have truly
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  Speaker 5: played incredible. Yes, really, what was what was the vibe
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  Speaker 5: when you got drafts where people like, oh, Houston, or
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  Speaker 5: were they like fired up for you?
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  Speaker 3: I know my inner circle like and including me, I
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  Speaker 3: was excited.
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  Speaker 6: I've always loved challenges and loved new things to work
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  Speaker 6: on and to be better at. And I haven't been
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  Speaker 6: anywhere where we've been bad, so it was kind of
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  Speaker 6: new and just being honest with myself the situation I saw.
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  Speaker 6: I knew there's a lot of work was gonna be
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  Speaker 6: how to be made so and I was inducting from that.
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  Speaker 6: And so me and my family we were really excited, man,
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  Speaker 6: because not only was it a new opportunity to flip
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  Speaker 6: something around, but Houston is a great city and I.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't want to live in the middle of nowhere anymore.
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  Speaker 6: So, which Columbus isn't. But I didn't want to live
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  Speaker 6: in the Midwest no more. So it was good to
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  Speaker 6: be to a city that was kind of they were
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  Speaker 6: proud of being who they were, and I was just
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  Speaker 6: ready for them to rep detections at that point. So
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  Speaker 6: that's what my goal was. And I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 6: compting that a little bit. We got a lot more
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  Speaker 6: to go in the tank.
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  Speaker 2: So, dude, you really have You've had a You've had
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  Speaker 2: an incredible year thus far as a rookie. And I
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  Speaker 2: just use the word surprising in like an impressed way,
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  Speaker 2: like it's been very impressive to see you play and
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  Speaker 2: how everything is unfolded for you when you got drafted
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  Speaker 2: to Houston. I know you haven't played anywhere else in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL, But what do you feel like the organization
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  Speaker 2: and the staff and the culture has kind of done
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  Speaker 2: to transition you into the NFL? Because you hear you
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  Speaker 2: hear it every year when rookie quarterbacks they play right away,
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  Speaker 2: they struggle, they do this, it's almost like doing them
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  Speaker 2: a disservice to play them right away. What do you
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  Speaker 2: feel like that organization and staff has done to help
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  Speaker 2: you transition so well to the to the NFL.
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  Speaker 6: I really believe that they had a plan for me
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  Speaker 6: when I got in here, not only just myself, but
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  Speaker 6: just like the scheme that we run Bobby Slogroc has
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  Speaker 6: done a great job. He coming from the forty nine
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  Speaker 6: ers with Kyle Shanahan, so we run the West Coast offense,
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  Speaker 6: and he.
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  Speaker 3: Did a great job of putting pieces together that.
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  Speaker 6: Kind of fit my playing style on top of the
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  Speaker 6: offensive scheme. And then coach did really well along with
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  Speaker 6: our receiver coach Ben and Draw Johnson, our quarterback coach
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  Speaker 6: or try to coach Jake morland O, Lion coach, coach Strawson.
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  Speaker 6: We've all kind of bought into this new scheme. Uh
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  Speaker 6: So that was kind of testament to what he's done
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  Speaker 6: over with Kyle and Kyle Chinahan with the Niners and
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  Speaker 6: brought it here and kind of did his own twist
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  Speaker 6: to it, which has been great. But man, I really
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  Speaker 6: believe that, Man, you don't. I don't believe that you
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  Speaker 6: kind of lose talent once you become.
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  Speaker 3: To the league.
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  Speaker 6: I think either you work hard or you're just in
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  Speaker 6: the You're you either don't work hard or you just
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  Speaker 6: go into a bad situation. So I really don't think
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  Speaker 6: it's a it's in between. So for me, no matter
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  Speaker 6: what the situation was, it was never gonna be on me.
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  Speaker 6: I was just gonna work really hard to make sure
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  Speaker 6: that this thing went the right way.
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  Speaker 5: When you think leadership, when you think about the quarterback
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  Speaker 5: position as an automatic leader, you're basically guaranteed to see
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  Speaker 5: on your chest. And you're walking into coming from a
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  Speaker 5: college locker room where everyone's hanging out the boys. You
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  Speaker 5: guys are all kind of going out on the weekends
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  Speaker 5: doing your thing. Now you're in the NFL where you know,
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  Speaker 5: nine ten year vets are married, they got multiple kids
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  Speaker 5: and stuff like that. How did you approach the process
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  Speaker 5: of becoming a leader in that locker room.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, for me, I wanted to let it be known
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  Speaker 6: when I first got drafted, like I don't want anything
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  Speaker 6: to be given to me on earn everything. And for
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  Speaker 6: me coming from a place like a house state, like
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  Speaker 6: that's how it was there, and that's why I feel
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  Speaker 6: like I was able to grip that locker room and
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  Speaker 6: to fall in love with me and understanding that I
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  Speaker 6: was a natural born leader, not just somebody who was
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  Speaker 6: just a quarterback. So I was kind of like the
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  Speaker 6: same thought process here where I was gonna come here
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  Speaker 6: and try to not just win guys over, but make
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  Speaker 6: them trust me not only on the field, but off,
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  Speaker 6: So just spending time with guys, a building core relationships
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  Speaker 6: and not just the small conversations on just man, how
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  Speaker 6: how this doing, and not really caring and not talking
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  Speaker 6: about it every again, but really just having de conversation
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  Speaker 6: with guys and just being myself.
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  Speaker 3: I think that I've done a decent job.
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  Speaker 6: Along well with Will. Will is also captain. But something
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  Speaker 6: that we could admit to is man, we weren't giving it.
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  Speaker 6: We earned that, and we brought a new swagen and
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  Speaker 6: new type of mindsetting and.
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  Speaker 3: To this culture.
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  Speaker 6: And I think Demico also has that, and that's why
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  Speaker 6: he gave us that see on our chest to represent
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  Speaker 6: the Texans like we do.
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  Speaker 2: So you come from Ohio State, you come from a
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  Speaker 2: conference that's the toughest, most competitive conference in the country.
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  Speaker 2: You play against some of the best defenses you'll ever see,
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  Speaker 2: like the ones in Nebraska. Is the NFL That is
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  Speaker 2: the NFL as big as as big of a jump
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  Speaker 2: as you thought it'd be, or is it a little
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  Speaker 2: easier than you thought it'd be.
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  Speaker 6: I would say it's like in between. I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 6: it's easy nor like super hard. I feel like football
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  Speaker 6: is football, and of course the players get better the
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  Speaker 6: windows are smaller, throwers are. You got to be more efficient,
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  Speaker 6: a lot more accurate. But I mean, I feel like
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  Speaker 6: that's the that's the fun part of the game. That's
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  Speaker 6: what I enjoy. That's what I love, just the grind
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  Speaker 6: of like how detailed you got to be to execute
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  Speaker 6: your job every play and just go want to know play.
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  Speaker 6: And I think sometimes as a young player, you can
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  Speaker 6: try to do so much on one player really just
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  Speaker 6: you you think that you're superman when you come out
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  Speaker 6: of college. But for me, I knew that man, I
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  Speaker 6: had to grow and I to learn, and I knew
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  Speaker 6: that if I put into work, not only would I
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  Speaker 6: be good, but I would hopefully be great and leave
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  Speaker 6: my guys to victory and leave my guys to be better.
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  Speaker 6: And then that's kind of like the mindset I've had
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  Speaker 6: was just want to know each play and not trying
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  Speaker 6: to put too much.
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  Speaker 3: On my plate, control the controllables.
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  Speaker 6: And I know it's easy to say, it's harder to do,
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  Speaker 6: but I really try hard to just get on my
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  Speaker 6: routine and make sure that I was simplifying every thing
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  Speaker 6: so I can just play fast on Sundays. And of
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  Speaker 6: course my team around me has done a great job.
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  Speaker 6: I have a great marketing team, a great agent, a
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  Speaker 6: great manager assistant. I have a great team around me
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  Speaker 6: that kind of filter out a lot of stuff so
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  Speaker 6: I can just focus on ball, which is a super
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  Speaker 6: good thing for me and a blessing.
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  Speaker 5: When you came from college, you you came from a
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  Speaker 5: system that you look to the sideline and you see
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  Speaker 5: a cool you know, hardboard, and you look at a
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  Speaker 5: couple of pictures and then you know what the play is.
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  Speaker 5: What was the process like for you to learn the
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  Speaker 5: verbiage and bring it into a huddle and be able
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  Speaker 5: to be confident and spew it and not only spew it,
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  Speaker 5: but know it as well.
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  Speaker 4: Was that a difficult thing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? It was.
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  Speaker 6: It was tough, man, because everything, like you said, in
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  Speaker 6: college is all signals, so uh it was. It was
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  Speaker 6: even harder learning those signals when I first out to college.
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  Speaker 6: And then when you get to lead, you got to
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  Speaker 6: throw it out the way and get used to that
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  Speaker 6: headset and the ear piece that's in your your helmet,
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  Speaker 6: which is isn't always the most clear thing ever, So it.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of just got to get you to like the.
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  Speaker 6: I would say, the accent in there, like it sounds
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  Speaker 6: like gibbers sometimes, So you got to really know your
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  Speaker 6: plays so you can piece it together. And really, you
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  Speaker 6: want to tell a story right you're in there. You
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  Speaker 6: don't want to just ram through the play and make
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  Speaker 6: it seem like it can sound like something else. You
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  Speaker 6: want to like tell a story and give it really
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  Speaker 6: detailed so guys know exactly what's going on. So that
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  Speaker 6: was a really big jump coming from that. And of
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  Speaker 6: course in the Big Ten there was a lot of
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  Speaker 6: defenses that were like NFL styles, so that kind of
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  Speaker 6: helped me as well, kind of going back to your
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  Speaker 6: question from the last question, so it was kind of
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  Speaker 6: a little bit of both though.
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  Speaker 3: I was learning the new.
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  Speaker 6: Idea of listening to in the headset to going out
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  Speaker 6: there and then looking at the defense from a huddle
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  Speaker 6: and not like being out there the whole time and
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  Speaker 6: be able to see as you're getting to play.
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  Speaker 4: Can I just say something before you ask the next question?
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead?
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  Speaker 5: I want to give a shout out to your PR team.
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  Speaker 5: They have done in a phenomenal job up of Hey,
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  Speaker 5: this is what you say, this is what you don't say.
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  Speaker 5: You seem like you you're doing a great job of
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  Speaker 5: being a pro in this moment and kind of trying
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  Speaker 5: to decipher that what the show is all about, and
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  Speaker 5: you kind of just coming and think, hey, answer it.
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  Speaker 5: Don't give him too much, too much BULLETI material or anything.
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  Speaker 2: Like that him like you know, maybe maybe he maybe
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  Speaker 2: he needs more credit.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but he plays plays with too much swack, plays
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  Speaker 5: with too much he you know, and you can tell
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  Speaker 5: he's meticulous. He's trying to make sure that he doesn't
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  Speaker 5: say anything wrong right now. And I love that. Ye,
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  Speaker 5: that's the thing you should do.
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  Speaker 2: I think what I love hearing is when he talks
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  Speaker 2: about doing the you know, because I've played on defense,
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  Speaker 2: like I've you know, whether or not wearing the green
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  Speaker 2: dot and telling a story. Like as he's talking about
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  Speaker 2: the plays, delivering the plays and like you kind of
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  Speaker 2: got to tell a story.
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  Speaker 1: It's like when he's sitting there, he's.
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  Speaker 2: On a knee, talking to his huddle and like giving
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  Speaker 2: the energy throughout the play on like we're kind of
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  Speaker 2: in this situation some guys, you know, whether you're sticking
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  Speaker 2: up your arm here, you're like, you're kind of telling
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  Speaker 2: a story.
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  Speaker 1: What I want to go back to is you talk about.
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  Speaker 2: This one and O mentality and You're like, it's easier
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  Speaker 2: said than done. Do you have any you know, pro
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  Speaker 2: process or something you lean on or something you've picked
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  Speaker 2: up and learned that you really try and lean into
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  Speaker 2: during this, because you're right, it is really hard to
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  Speaker 2: go want to know every play, it's hard to forget
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  Speaker 2: about a failure you might have had just to play before. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: is there anything there or you feel like you've just
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  Speaker 2: kind of cultivated this naturally.
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  Speaker 3: I would say a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 6: I would be lying if I said I've always been
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  Speaker 6: kind of cool, calm, like let stuff go, like just
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  Speaker 6: being young and amateur. Like probably even before college and
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  Speaker 6: going into college, I was very, very like fiery and
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  Speaker 6: I didn't take no bs like I just was was.
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  Speaker 3: That's just who I was, and I still am that way.
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  Speaker 6: But I know how to kind of put that to
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  Speaker 6: the side when it's not necessary, which is important especially
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  Speaker 6: as a quarterback. Everybody's looking at you when stuff hits
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  Speaker 6: the fans. So for me, I mean, I always lean
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  Speaker 6: on my faith and I try to pray through things
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  Speaker 6: and just have like some breathing exercises that I do.
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  Speaker 3: But when those things, I mean, those things usually work.
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  Speaker 6: But I also kind of just understand man like thinking
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  Speaker 6: about the last play, like what benefit does that do me?
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  Speaker 6: What is that going to help in the long run
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  Speaker 6: in the future, So you might as well just throw
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  Speaker 6: it away and go to the next play, because I'm
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  Speaker 6: king of like man like man after the game rewatching
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  Speaker 6: a bad clip ten times, like man, I should have
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  Speaker 6: did that, I should do this. I mean, when you're
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  Speaker 6: moving out the speed of light, man, And you know
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  Speaker 6: how y'all both played in the league for a long
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  Speaker 6: time at a high level, you're moving so fast. Sometimes
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  Speaker 6: your body and your mind just does things. So you
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  Speaker 6: gotta play with your instincts at the same time and
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  Speaker 6: give yourself a little bit of credit even when you
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  Speaker 6: do make a mistake, because I think as players we
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  Speaker 6: can be our biggest critic and that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 6: But sometime you got to build yourself up just like
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  Speaker 6: you break yourself down when you know you have to
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  Speaker 6: keep yourself accountable. So I try to do both, but
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  Speaker 6: more so in anything, I try to make sure that
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  Speaker 6: I have a playing face that I'm saving, even keel
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  Speaker 6: about the whole game, because I know that just how
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  Speaker 6: your next play could have been, your last play could
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  Speaker 6: have been bad, It could have been good too, so
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  Speaker 6: you gotta let that go as well.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 1: That's man, that's that's that's really well said.
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  Speaker 2: It was there. There was there a moment, not I
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  Speaker 2: know that's like a combination of moments, right, But was
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  Speaker 2: there a time where you were losing your cool and
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  Speaker 2: maybe you had a conversation kind of made you rethink.
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  Speaker 1: About it in zoom out You're like, oh, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of see this.
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  Speaker 2: Was it observing somebody like because you said, like I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't always like this, like sometimes I wouldn't let shit go.
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  Speaker 2: But like, was there was there a loss that you had,
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  Speaker 2: like at a game in college or was there a
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  Speaker 2: sequence of plays to kind of make you rethink.
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  Speaker 3: That, Yeah, it was all the way back in college.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: I actually was just in Columbus this.
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  Speaker 6: Past weekend and I was talking to my running back
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  Speaker 6: coach Tony Alford, and at the time, like, you know,
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  Speaker 6: you see your buddies on the other side of the
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  Speaker 6: country who stay home, or like you see some guys
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  Speaker 6: that you felt better than playing well and like the
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  Speaker 6: time I was a plan as a freshman and like
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  Speaker 6: being myself, Like, man, I feel like like I know
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  Speaker 6: I wasn't a playoff for Justin, but like, I feel like, man,
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  Speaker 6: we were up a lot, like I should have got
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  Speaker 6: in and stuff like that, and I was like, man,
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  Speaker 6: I'm ready to go home, Like I'm tired of Columbus.
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  Speaker 6: I want to I want to leave, Like I want
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  Speaker 6: to do this, I want to do that. You know,
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  Speaker 6: you're just talking. I remember I sat down for like
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  Speaker 6: three hours with my running back coach after practice in
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  Speaker 6: the freezing code and we were just talking, man, just
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  Speaker 6: about everything. And so like, I go back to that
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  Speaker 6: moment and I was kind of like a really big
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  Speaker 6: moment for me to just to mature as a man.
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  Speaker 6: And he was just being honest with me that whole time,
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  Speaker 6: and he really was just saying, man, comparison is a
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  Speaker 6: thief for joy. My dad used to always tell me
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  Speaker 6: that as a kid, like comparing yourself to somebody on
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  Speaker 6: social media, especially in the social media day and age
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  Speaker 6: where everybody's posting their wings and victories and a lot
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  Speaker 6: of his fate. Like back then, when my dad was
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  Speaker 6: telling me, it wasn't so alarming to me because I
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  Speaker 6: was just a kid at the time. But when my
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  Speaker 6: coach said that, it made me think about when my
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  Speaker 6: dad used to tell me, and man, you compare yourself
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  Speaker 6: to others, Man.
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  Speaker 3: You don't really get to love your life.
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  Speaker 6: I love what you're going through, and you have to
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  Speaker 6: go through some type of struggle to be.
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  Speaker 3: Great, I mean anything.
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  Speaker 6: So that was a moment where like, man, it was
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  Speaker 6: like all made since and then I can't. I started
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  Speaker 6: getting a lot more mature, a lot more. I started
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  Speaker 6: calming down more.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: That is incredible. You talk about your relationship with your
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  Speaker 5: running back coach in high school. Have you been able
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  Speaker 5: to find a similar type of relationship in the NFL
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  Speaker 5: with one of your coaches now that you're able to
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  Speaker 5: lean on from an emotional standpoint when things don't go well,
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: when you have a three and out or you make
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: a bad pass or something like that. Is there any
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: time or any coach on that staff that you're like, hey,
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: I just give me a second kind of vent and
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: talk a little bit.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: I mean our quarterback coach, Rod Johnson, he's always right there.
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: Me's somebody that I've known since high school. I mean
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: he was my leader loving coach when I was in
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: high school.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: I was like sixteen.
• 14:42
  Speaker 6: So for it to come full circle, is kind of crazy.
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: So he's always right there. I got Davis and case Keenum,
• 14:51
  Speaker 6: They're always right there to talk about a play or
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: to tell me, man, like you couldn't you can do
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: anything right there, like you got to just get rid
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: of it whatever, Like bad are good.
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: They always try to get be honest with me, which
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: I really appreciate.
• 15:03
  Speaker 6: And for me even bigger like off the field, I
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: have a lot of support, uh because sometimes man, you know,
• 15:09
  Speaker 6: y'all played this game at a high level, so you know,
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: when you get home, sometimes you don't want to talk
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: about ball.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: You want to talk about anything else.
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: And so I have a good friend of mine who
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: helps me just talk about certain things that I need
• 15:20
  Speaker 6: to get off my chest and things like that. So
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: that's some advice for you guys out there who are
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: coming into this league man for next year, or if
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: you haven't done that yet, just have somebody that you
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: convent to, because this world will tell you how bad
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: you are and you'll start listening. And if you don't,
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: if you don't have something to kind of get out
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: of that way. So for me, I mean, those are
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: being some big pieces for me to be successful.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: To this point.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: You brought up a home before you do, before you
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: do that segment you brought up being back in Columbus
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: this past weekend obviously a big win against the Nitney Allons.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: What is uh?
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: What's your expectation going into the third week of November
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: this year? What's your expectation for Ohio State this year?
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: A big expectations, man, just like every year. Man for us,
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: it's natty or nothing.
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: Man. I know you being a team up North guy,
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: you have your own opinion and I respect I respect it,
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: and yeah, I can't.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Talk too much. I didn't beat y'all.
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: So high respect for those guys over there. I don't
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: like y'all, but it's respect, and I think that team
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: over there. Talking to the DC Mike who's with the
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: Ravens now my first time actually talking to him and
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: since we played him in twenty twenty one, and he
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: had a lot of respect for me seeing a JOBU.
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: I got to see Hutchinson and it's all respect after
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: you after you're done playing in that game, because we
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: know how hard that game is if you've played in there.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: So it's not from respect for me.
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: I'm still a little bitter, a little bitter from it,
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: just being honest. But this year, I hope we get
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: you guys and we get to go to the big
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: Championship and win Natty Man.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: So that's to go for us every year. But that's
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: the big game every year.
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: So I'm excited to see what happens this year.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: C J.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: We got a segment presented by Dude Wives. It's the
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: It's there we go. Dry butttholes are a thing of
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: the past. It's all over with Dude Wives cleaning up
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: at the end of your shit. What has been your
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: shittiest moment of your rookie year so far?
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: M that's a that's a great that's a great, great
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: question for me. I've had a couple, you know, you
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: always get a couple, but I would say maybe that
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: my preseason game against the Patriots that first my first drive,
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: it was like third and twenty six and like me
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: being as hungry and aggressive eye, I'm like, man, I'm
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: gonna get the first down, and my got meals from
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: the Patriots out to him, great great player.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: They were in like.
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: This one one plug look or really one lurk whether
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: the guy was robbing my eyes and he was guarding
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: our tight end and our tight end block, so he
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: freed up and I didn't notice, and he jump right
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: in front of it and picked it off. So that
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: was a good learning point for me. It's just thirty
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: twenty six. Sometimes you got to just lick your wounds
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: to take the check down. So that was good learning
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: for me. So that was probably one of the worst
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: moments I had. I'm trying to think of a funny
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: one that I've had, Like off the field.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Did did you get any rookie hazing anything with a veteran?
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Not that it's like a shitty I'm pissed off moment,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: but like, yeah, like you got got by one of
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: the boys.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: I've gotten fined a lot for like for being on TV.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: I don't know, likeways on TV get fine. Yeah, rookies
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: on TV. I guess as a no no. So I
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: got fined this weekend from being on game Day. I
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: get fine after every win that we get for being.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: On on with the.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: Reporter after the game, pulling them in on certain things.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: So it's kind of funny to me, but a lot
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: of money right now.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: If you if you show up on TV, what is
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: what's that fine?
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Like five hundred's it's a thousand?
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, they see nothing but.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Jemmy mainstream media show. Watching this show right now. Stop
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: putting CJ. Stroud on the on the TV. Save my
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: man some money.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he can come to our podcast.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Let's talk about Let's talk the spirit in the holiday
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: of Spooktober. If you don't know what Spootober it is,
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: it's funny a word for October, which is Halloween.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Dude.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: The fall has hit, the leaves are falling, the weather
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: is breaking into a beautiful time, especially in Houston.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Where it's a little swampy down there.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Let's talk. Let's take it back to when you're a
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: little kid. We're going to do a thing, a segment
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: called Tier Talk, and it is going to be your
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: top three favorite Halloween candies. We like to start from
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: the bottom three and go up to one, and once
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: you finish, everybody on the bus will give a one
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: word answer describing how we feel about your picks.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Are you ready for that?
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: You want?
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: You want us to go first?
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Us?
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: You want to go first?
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Go ahead?
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: Okay, My Tier three is going to go to when
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: you're hungry, you're a little you're a little aggressive, you're
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: a little bit angry, and what do you pop in there.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: You pop into Snickers I think as Snickers, and especially
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: the fun size. For whatever reason, it's a nice little snack.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: You just pop it in your mouth real quick. It's
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: a it's a fun, delicious treat everybody can enjoy. My
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Tier two is gonna go to uh uh sour Skittles,
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: preferably the little tiny bag. And I know the quantity
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: of them is only like six or seven. However, I
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: think if you have a bunch of those little sour Skittles,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: you start doing the big a little quick. If you
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: want to say policy, you're more than welcome to again
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: on that. I think you have that, and then all
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: of a sudden it turns into a sweet little treat
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: as well, and down the gullet it goes. And my
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Tier one, not sure why, it might be the branding
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: they've done since the nineties two thousands, they've done an
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: amazing job of it, is gonna go to uh the
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Res's pieces. I'm not a chocolate guy. I'm more of
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: a gummy guy than I am a chocolate guy. But
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: the Res's always did a phenomenal job of taking the
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: bite out, making a spooky commercial and really making you
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: feel like the Reese's Peanut butter Cup is the staple
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: the franchise player of Halloween. I'm sorry Reese's Peanut butter Cup,
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: not Reese's PC. Reese's Peanut butter Cup. Thank you for okay.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: That is a big clarification change. Yeah, that's a big change.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: CJ.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Do you want to give one word to describe how
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: you feel about my picks?
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: I would say solid. That's solid.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: It's a keyword in this bus.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Good. Oh good. I'll go with good. Mitch. What's your word?
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Um veteran, I have been doing a long time, thirty
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: two years old, Willie. Let's hear what you got?
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: My Tier three and I don't think they get enough love.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I think it's uh could potentially been an unpopular opinion,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: but I want to give them their flowers because I
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: enjoy a nice handful of candy corn. I'm a candy
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: corn guy. I love the candy corn. I love the shapes,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: I love the colors. Like give me the candy corn.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I see that face, EJ. That's okay, my tier too.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Peanut m and MS. I love peanut eminems. And when
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: you get them in that little fun sized back against
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: like another, it's like another fistful no pause, peanut ms.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: My Tier one is in the res the Reese's Family.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: But it's a fast break, dude, getting fast breaks. They
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: are the fucking best. That's my top Halloween candy of
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: all time. It's the fast Break And that concludes my
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: tier talk c.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: J yuck.
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: Average Okay, Mitch almost it's the candy corn for years,
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: are you guys?
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: The candy corn?
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: The fast breaking fast break might be the best candy
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: of all time.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Another fast you know what that is?
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, fast break is well, yeah, you gotta get you one, brother, Okay,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: all right, whenever you're ready, brother.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Okay, I'm just clarification. I'm not a big candy guy. Like,
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: I don't like candy. I really, I was a born kid,
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: it I guess.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Uh. But if you're a.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Protein bar guy, I hope he just names all protein bars. Yeah.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: If I had to pick, I'm gonna go Jolly Ranchers,
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: Blue Raspberry and great those are my top two water
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: number two. I'm gonna go Starburst. Pink is my favorite,
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: pink and red. You can't go wrong with good Starbursts.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: And then I was an angry kid. I was kidding,
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: but uh, I'm gonna go with Snickers to be my number.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: One hyphenated not hyphenated rainbow.
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: I'll say, okay, Mitch, okay, yeah, sure, taking a shot
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: your own guy.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: And Mitch is one of our producers. He's Ohio steak
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: guy as well.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: All right, Mitch, Yeah, all right? Manwit Hey, CJ.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Strad the best quarterback in the Hot state history?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Do you have a question like you? Do you have
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a question for CJ?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: I know you are an Ohio State fan, but you
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: got something fired up for him.
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: I guess a question I would have for you it
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: would be stepping back to you Ohio State days. What
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: was it like being in that wide receiver room with
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: Gary Wilson Olive and Jake budd Well, Marvin Harrison like
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: all those guys.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: Nah, of course, of man, it was a blessing, bro like,
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: not only did did they helped me a lot? I
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: feel like I helped them and we were kind of
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: like ying and yang, like we just worked together really well.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: I had a natural connection in chemistry right when I
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: stepped on campus with them, and I definitely appreciate like
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: the grind that they taught me to put in to
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: be great in his game, especially Marv. Like Marv Man,
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: he's the epitome of just a workaholic.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: And then Garrett like he's just naturally just super great
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: at everything in basketball, baseball, table tennis, like you name it, Yeah, you.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Get him a ball, he's gonna he's gonna make it happen.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: And Chris he's silk man, silky smooth, smooth the other
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: side of the pillow.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: And he's just.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: That type of swag that you just like you feel
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: comfort around because you know he's gonna make a play.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: And then Jackson, Uh, he's just a dog like, he's
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: somebody who just loves football and he does. I've never
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: seen him get guard one on one like and get
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: locked up ever in my life. Like, I don't think
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: I've ever seen him not make a play up in
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: a game. And excited to see what he does in Seattle. So, man,
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: I missed him boys, And it was a blessing to
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: be in such a talented room. At the time, Man,
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: we were just young kids figuring it out and and
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: now we're all in the league now, so it's it's
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: pretty cool. And Marvin's Marvel's next. So excited to see
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: the future for everybody.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: I don't know how many questions you have left to
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: have two questions.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm solid man. Yeah, Marvin Harrison Jr. Let's say
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: you guys don't make the playoffs. Would you want if
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: if Marvin Harrison Jr. Is available when your team picks
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: next year, is that the number one guy you'd like
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: on your team out of everybody in the draft?
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: I'm playing GM Uh Yeah, man, of course I got
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: to say my guy Marv, and I wouldn't just even
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: if he was in my teammate. You turn on the film,
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: you hear the word of mouth of everybody on how
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: hard he works, what type of guy is, And I
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: know for him, like everybody always talks about his family
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: and like his pops, and he gets it from that.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: If I'll be honest, I would say his dad set
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: the foundation and he let him go. And Marvin loves
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: this game for himself and for me, that kind of
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: that kind of opens the eyes, like, man, this dude's
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: gonna be great because you hear like stories from guys
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: from great players. Kids, they want to be great because
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: they want to be better than their dad or whatever
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: the kiss may be. Marv wants to be great because
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: he wants to be great. So man, if I had
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: to pick, I definitely pick Marvin for sure. He's a
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: top three pick. In my opinion, he should be the
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: first God drafted. But that's not for me to decide.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: My last question is going to be about an AFC
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: seuth divisional opponent.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be about the Tennessee Titans.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: This week they're wearing the throwback oiler uniforms. Where is
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: your stance on who should be able to wear the Oilers' uniforms?
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: I would say it would have to be us. I mean,
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: I mean, we're we're Houston, so I don't really know
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: too much about the rivalry or too much about like
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: the color situation.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: I know that we were they were here and.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: Then moved to Tennessee and then Mischig ganaer Pick picked
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: up the team, So I would say, just like whoever
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: started in that home city. And I think those colors
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: are dope, Like baby lou is my favorite color. So
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: if you're listening to mister, let's go back to baby blue.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: But nah, man, I.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: Would say to us, but uh man thon today, man,
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: their colors like, let's play ball.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: I love that and Letten.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: I have a one hundred percent disagree with you, but
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: we can get into that at a different.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Time because we'd have them on the bus and the.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: We'll have him the bus in the offseason. Dude, we
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: are I'm fired up for you. I really am. I
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: know I went to Michigan and all that, and I
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: have these dumb jokes about Ohio State quarterbacks being a bus.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: You are really playing at a level that all of Houston, Texas,
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: all Houston Texans can be happy about and be proud
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: about know that their franchise is on the right on
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: the right path.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Man, happy for you.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate that a lot. Man, Thank you, CJ.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Thanks for coming on man like legit. I'm a fan.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I'm a fan of yours. I'm gonna be room for
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: you the rest of the year. And I think the
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: story that you gave when you were a freshman in
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: college and you had a three hour conversation with your
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: running backs coach and where your mental was, I think
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: can relate to any good freshman player that is struggling
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: with wrapping their mind around, patience and waiting on their moment.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: And I think that is incredible And I am I'm
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: a fan of yours, so I'm excited.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Appreciate that.
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: Man A fan of y'all is man in the fami
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: of you off for a long time, so I appreciate
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: you all lot.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: You'll be on here in the offseason, bro, I can't wait.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't wait. All right, I'll be blessed.