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Rookie Diary With Eagles Mac McWilliams: "I'm A Horror Movie-Type Guy" · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Sure, talk to me man.
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  Speaker 2: What was Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Well, first let's talk about the flight. How did you
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  spend the flight?
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  Speaker 3: You told me you were gonna, you know, focus in
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  on the playbook. But once you got on there, did
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  you get a chance to ship it up with teammates
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  and things like?
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  Speaker 2: Nah? Definitely. I went through my playbook a little bit
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  for about five or ten minutes, and I put me
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  on a Netflix show that I wanted to watch, call Untamed.
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  It's new okay, so yeah, put that on. Uh then
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  I fell asleep.
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  Speaker 1: So what's the review so far?
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  Speaker 2: On now? It's definitely great, man, I love it. It's
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  actually it's number one on Netflix right now.
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  Speaker 1: You don't strike me as someone who watches a lot
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  of TV.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you do. Yeah, I don't. But like, if it's
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  a good movie and I hear about things like that,
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  I'm definitely gonna watch it.
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  Speaker 1: So what's in your wheelhouse? Comedies? Action?
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  Speaker 2: Now? I'm a horror movie type of guy. Horror, Yeah,
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  I like horror movies. I watch him in the morning
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  time best, That's when I watch the best. I don't like.
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  I don't know why. Everybody common word for not like
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  not watching him at nighttime, But I feel like it's
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  better in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen Weapons?
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  Speaker 2: I never seen Weapons? Not not Now you just put
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  me on something. It's on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: It just came out. It's in the theater, so it's been.
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  Speaker 2: Out three weeks. All right, I've been I definitely gonna
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  what's again it's.
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  Speaker 1: Called Weapons, all right? But I saw a movie last
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  Saturday called The Long Walk. Yeah, I recommend that.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of it's kind of got like thriller.
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  Speaker 2: You know, keep you on the edge of you. Okay, okay,
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  I'm definitely gonna tune in thriller. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So what what was What do you make of the
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  atmosphere there? Era has stated it is everything that.
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  Speaker 2: You've heard about it definitely. In fact, it was everything
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  I have heard off. It was loud and Nazius fans
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  was crazy yelling at us the whole time on the sidelines.
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  But it was a great experience, man Or The guys
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  came out here and did what we expect expected to do,
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  and that was winning.
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  Speaker 3: Do you still keep your same pregame routine you get
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  out there a couple of hours early.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, always, you know, you gotta stay with your
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  daily habits. Man, If you go away for your daily habits,
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  then you're not gonna be the man that you wanna be.
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  Speaker 3: So how have you sort of been devoting your time
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  during the week, mostly focusing on special teams, mostly focusing
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  on Nickel.
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  Speaker 2: Outside Like, uh, it's a mixture of all of 'em.
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  Like I say, you got that daily routine. Some days
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  I focus on more special teams and then the other
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  days I focus more on nickel. But it's all together
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  one day. I do all of 'em in one day.
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  But it's mainly just focusing on one position on special teams.
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  And why I'm in a Nickel fe on, that's the
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  only thing I play so well. I play a little
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  bit of the corner as well, focusing on Nickels, the anything.
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  Speaker 3: Now, everyone's different, But how do you compartmentalize all those
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  different things that you're learning?
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  Speaker 2: It's really just about being to yourself. Uh. I. I
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  make sure I keep a no pay with me everywhere
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  I go. So and I got my little college where
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  I go one day for special team, one page special
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  team with one page for NIGGA.
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  Speaker 3: Now two games in your career, what what have you
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  learned about either the NFL or about yourself and.
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  Speaker 2: The process, taking taking everything one day at the time,
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  you know, uh, not getting too big, not getting too low,
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  you know, focusing on the main things. Uh. He got
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  a lot of group of guys out here, and uh,
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  I'm glad that I got guys uh on my team
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  that's very capable of you know, just coming into me
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  talking to me about how they go about their daily life.
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  So you know, like I said, I just take little
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  things from them, them guys, the older guys that's in
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  the room, and you know, just applied to my game.
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  Speaker 3: So he got a chance to see the Kansas City
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  offense and get to see your your fellow DB's out there.
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  Speaker 2: What was it.
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  Speaker 1: What were those conversations?
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  Speaker 3: Like, I know you said that you communicate with those
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  guys when when they're coming off the field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, mainly just telling them what I saw on the sideline.
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  You know, it's better because you know, them guys out
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  there playing so they're not seeing everything. So just when
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  they got to the sideline, you know, I was chopping
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  up with him about what I saw and things like that,
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  just the in and outs and.
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  Speaker 1: The fishers you set fishers coming after the games. Yeh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Has he ever been to flatoff?
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  Speaker 2: Nah? He never been, so you get them, have you?
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  Have you been talking to him? Nah, definitely. I talked
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  to him last week about it. Yeah, he said he
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  was definitely gonna. He said he was gonna try to
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  real I'm not putting out hopes, so I ain't gonna.
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  I ain't gonna say he he's guaranteed to come, cause
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  you know, he got his own thing going on right now.
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  But he definitely wants to come out, and I told
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  him that I got So are you straight? So just
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  come down here if you want to come. But if
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  you got something to do, you know, handle handle your business.
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  Speaker 1: Who else is coming out from your family?
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  Speaker 2: My mom, uh, my grandma and my granddad.
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  Speaker 3: Now I understand you were Quinton Lake thirty seven in
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  practice this week.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't hear you. Yeah, Quinton Lake. Yeah, So how
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  does that?
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  Speaker 1: How does that work?
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  Speaker 3: You spend time watching film on that particular player, like
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  what's the what's the process?
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  Speaker 2: Like, No, I don't because he's a defensive guy. So
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  I'm focusing, if anything, I'm gonna focus on more what
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  I got to do, you know, instead of focusing on
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  what he does, because you know, they play away to
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  entire defense than we play, so just putting on the
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  just putting on the D and just do them with
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  a cases.
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  Speaker 3: So I didn't know if you had to pick up
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  on either tendency and try to give them a different
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  little for everything.
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  Speaker 1: So what what uh? What stands out to you about
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  what the rams do.
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  Speaker 2: Off the quarterback? That's the main thing, you know, Like
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  Speaker 3: How about from a from a passing game perspective, Yeah,
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  there's a lot of effective there's a lot of play action.
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  Speaker 2: Now they do you know they get the linebackers going
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  up one way and you know they tied to slip
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  it backside or you know, try to get them in
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  media rocks come across the middle just because they got
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  the linebacker up on boot game with something like that.
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  So I'll just say that's my name.
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  Speaker 1: As a defense back.
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  Speaker 3: Do you like going against offenses like that just because
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  of the challenges it could potentially.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, I'm with whatever it's time, I'm going out there,
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  so uh yeah, I'm up.
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  Speaker 3: For I don't think I ever asked you about this,
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  But do you have a celebration in mind for when
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  you get the first NFL?
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  Speaker 2: I don't right now, but eventually I have it, but
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  really probably just come up, come up in my head.
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  Whenever I do, do it, come on the flock.
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  Speaker 1: So you're you're obviously used.
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  Speaker 2: To play a lot in your career, you've been.
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  Speaker 3: How have you gone about, I guess processing or adapting
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  to taking a little bit of a different.
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  Speaker 2: Type of roles so far. Yeah, like I said, just
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  letting the main thing do the main thing, you know. Uh,
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  whenever my time has come, I'm gonna do what do what?
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  Do what I need to do, you know, try to
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  impress the coaches to let me stab do anything, you know.
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  So I'm just taking everything one day at a time
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  right now.
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  Speaker 1: Where is that patience come from?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? From when I was little? You know, I've always
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  been a patient type guy. I never was just so
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  eager to go up, you know, make sure everything to patient.
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  Almost once you get that patience, you know, everything's gonna
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  fall into place.
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  Speaker 3: Last one for you, what's one thing you're working on
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  this week that you're hoping to you know, carry over
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  to Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: One thing I'll like, I I probably say, you know,
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  just getting it, getting all the getting all the them
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  as out. You know, I got I'd be having like
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  a little miscues whenever I'm trying to like focus on
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  you wanna play one caller or another call like that,
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  So you know, just focusing on the main thing and
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  getting the calls right and making sure I play the
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  right technique.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I got another one for you. You talk
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  about them as but obviously a big thing about being
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  a successful profensive back. It's a short memory.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something that you've mastered or do you have
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  to kind of constantly preach that?
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  Speaker 2: Nah, definitely, like you gotta master that. As a dB.
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  You know, Uh, they get paid just like we do.
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  So you know, things gonna happen. It ain't gonna go
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  a go as it as you want to. Out of time,
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  Like I say, just keep it in the same mindset
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  and just letting everything come to you. Appreciate it back,
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  Thank you, projective, thank you coming the m H