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Ask An Eagle On Patreon: Todd Herremans Talks Eagles, His Career As Versatile OL · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 2: So, hey, great to see you, Todd. You as most
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  Speaker 2: of our our viewers here know who you are, of course,
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  Speaker 2: Eagles right tackle Todd Harriman's great tackle tackle guard played
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  Speaker 2: on every position but center for Andy Reid. So no
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  Speaker 2: instruction necessarily there, Todd. These are our great Patreon members.
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  Speaker 2: They ask awesome question. You're gonna love the caliber of
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  Speaker 2: question that they ask.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, DoD, I remember watching you for many years. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you for.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty much for doing this. My pleasure, my pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: Two questions, one football one other. I noticed when we
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  Speaker 3: were watched the game and you had Melatta and Dickerson
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  Speaker 3: Enstein talking about communication. Okay, I know you all will
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  Speaker 3: make calls at the line. But I'm curious to communication
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  Speaker 3: when you adjust.
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  Speaker 4: I'll answer this the best way I can.
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  Speaker 5: I talked to a couple of guys after the game
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  Speaker 5: last week, and when they were trying to run the
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  Speaker 5: hurry up, you know, it was hard to distinguish what
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  Speaker 5: was being said.
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  Speaker 4: And some plays sound very similar.
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  Speaker 5: And so when you have plays that sounds similar, you know,
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  Speaker 5: when you're trying to hurry up and get things done
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  Speaker 5: and the defense is screaming and everything like that, you know,
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  Speaker 5: once I could hear something different than the other side.
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  Speaker 5: And so if you guys aren't all five of you
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  Speaker 5: moving on the same beat, then there's gonna be breakdowns
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  Speaker 5: and protection. There's gonna be breakdowns and run schemes and
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  Speaker 5: lanes and stuff like that. So that's just, you know,
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  Speaker 5: an example of how important communication is.
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  Speaker 4: So I believe it's a chain of commitments.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, and I know that Landon being very
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  Speaker 5: experienced on the on the offense and also just having
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  Speaker 5: a pretty good football mind. I think he makes or
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  Speaker 5: at least he helps out with a lot of calls
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  Speaker 5: out there.
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  Speaker 6: I had a kind of question about, like with offensive lines,
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  Speaker 6: I know, what are conversations like behind.
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  Speaker 3: Like with coaches say we need you in thisitue eight,
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  Speaker 3: then you're not at that way, to.
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  Speaker 4: Be honest, So.
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  Speaker 5: It all depends on the coach, you know, Like Andy
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  Speaker 5: Reid was never really I don't think he ever find
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  Speaker 5: anybody for their weight. Like I don't know, like some
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  Speaker 5: coaches are pretty strict about it and like give you
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  Speaker 5: a window and you got to stay there. But I
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  Speaker 5: do know certain certain position coaches, you know, have a
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  Speaker 5: preference like Juan Castillo, he just wanted big dudes. And
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  Speaker 5: so I remember when I got moved from tackle to
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  Speaker 5: guard my second year. You know, in the meetings, Want
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  Speaker 5: always would have this like he'd be drawn stuff on
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  Speaker 5: the board and he had this equation that he'd like
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  Speaker 5: he would put up and he'd be like mask kicks ass.
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  Speaker 4: Todd, thanks for doing this.
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  Speaker 3: Who was the toughest defensive lineman that you played against?
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  Speaker 5: I always get this question, and it's not who you
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  Speaker 5: would think, you know. I feel like as a tall guard,
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  Speaker 5: I got used to playing guys that were shorter than
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  Speaker 5: me a lot of time, so.
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  Speaker 4: That was like the average. I just got used to
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  Speaker 4: that and I got good against that.
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  Speaker 5: But every now and then, especially you know, I would
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  Speaker 5: get a tall guy that would come and it would
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  Speaker 5: just be a little different, like different visualization of it.
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  Speaker 5: I would fall for some stupid stuff that I normally
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't for somebody that was shorter, and I just never
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  Speaker 5: understood why. But the guy that comes to mind that
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  Speaker 5: used to give me fits and he was he was
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  Speaker 5: a solid player, but I mean he wasn't like a
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  Speaker 5: world beater or anything, but Chris Canty. He was like
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  Speaker 5: a six eight b lineman. He had a crazy face mask.
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  Speaker 5: He played for shoot I think he played for Dallas,
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  Speaker 5: he played for the Giants, didn't play for Washington. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: we just played against each other so much in the division,
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  Speaker 5: and I just remember like beat me with some like
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  Speaker 5: so silly moves sometimes and like Trey looking at me
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  Speaker 5: and being like you.
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  Speaker 4: Are right man, I'm just like, yeah, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what's going on. That's funny. What's up Chris? So you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure you watched the game.
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  Speaker 5: It seemed like the interior of the line just wasn't
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  Speaker 5: played up to their own standard.
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  Speaker 4: I just think that there was nothing stood out in particular.
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  Speaker 5: I mean they obviously the defense is focusing on stopping
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  Speaker 5: the run, you know, jamming the box up and they
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  Speaker 5: wanted to make sure that they could try to stop Saquon,
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  Speaker 5: and I think that was like their number one thing
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  Speaker 5: that they wanted to do, you know, which always makes
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  Speaker 5: it tough, and you really need to as an offensive line,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you can only block so many people, so
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  Speaker 5: you know, you you really need to wait for the
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  Speaker 5: play calls to change and stuff at that point. Also,
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  Speaker 5: you know, communications tough sometimes, you know, communication gets screwed
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  Speaker 5: up in a game, especially, I know that they were
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  Speaker 5: trying to do a little like no huddle type stuff
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  Speaker 5: early on, you know, to get some tempo and a
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  Speaker 5: little bit of urgency going, and that can also screw
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  Speaker 5: up with some things, you know, when you're when you're
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  Speaker 5: trying to rush and get some calls out and then
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  Speaker 5: get the ball out. You know, it's just it's a
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  Speaker 5: tough quick chain to make everything happen, especially when you're
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  Speaker 5: used to taking your trot up from the huddle, you know,
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  Speaker 5: getting in your stance, looking around, you know, listening for
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  Speaker 5: the call, echoing the call. You know, when you got
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  Speaker 5: the whole play clock with you and you're not trying
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  Speaker 5: to press it, it's a big difference.
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  Speaker 7: You mentioned something when you started on here because you
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  Speaker 7: were a guard at a tackle, and we're seeing kind
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  Speaker 7: of with the offensive line right now. The specialization I
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  Speaker 7: would see of a left tackle right tackle seems like
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  Speaker 7: Scenbury specialized and somebody like you that could do multiple
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  Speaker 7: things is less common. How would you impair yourself your
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  Speaker 7: body to play the left the guard or would you
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  Speaker 7: be able to do it? Because what I understand, you
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  Speaker 7: really have to have a different strength side to play
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  Speaker 7: both sides of the line.
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  Speaker 4: How did you do that for me?
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  Speaker 5: When I got to the league and then I was
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  Speaker 5: backing up Tray at left tackle, and Wan liked to
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  Speaker 5: keep a certain amount of guys and he wanted really
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  Speaker 5: one guy to be a swing tackle, and since I
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  Speaker 5: was playing left tackle, working that all through camp, and
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  Speaker 5: then he saw me.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think I was second.
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  Speaker 5: String left tackle, third string right tackle, and so I
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  Speaker 5: was getting the reps on both sides and kind of
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  Speaker 5: able to keep it fresh and not really lose the
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  Speaker 5: right side technique like I had before. And then so then,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I think it really depends on what you
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  Speaker 5: have as your backups, what you have available. So like
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  Speaker 5: I my personal experience like gave me the background to
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  Speaker 5: be able to be pretty flexible in my stance and
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  Speaker 5: play both sides. Some guys play left side all through college,
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  Speaker 5: all through high school, get to the NFL, can't get
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  Speaker 5: in the right handed stance or vice versa.
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  Speaker 6: You get to twenty fifteen and you get released and
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  Speaker 6: you you signed immediately with Colts, Right, how does that
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  Speaker 6: affect your just your your feelings about football, your career,
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  Speaker 6: who you are, Like, how do you move past understand
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  Speaker 6: the end of kind of your career.
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  Speaker 4: It's a thoughtful question.
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  Speaker 5: So that's actually really tough because you know, I have
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  Speaker 5: all these loyalties the Eagles organization. You know, if I
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  Speaker 5: ended up in a different scenario, hard to say that
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  Speaker 5: I last ten years. You know, I felt like it
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  Speaker 5: was the perfect storm for me with you know, Andy
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  Speaker 5: and his staff and Wan, you know, one I felt
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  Speaker 5: like really bought into me because I was a Division
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  Speaker 5: two guy. He was a Division two guy. I was
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  Speaker 5: like his personal project.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: It was really just the perfect scenario for me. And
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  Speaker 5: then living in a city like Philly for ten years,
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  Speaker 5: I knew it was going to come to an end
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  Speaker 5: at some point. I was hoping that I could play
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  Speaker 5: my whole career here and then just you know, retire
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  Speaker 5: be in the area. And I really think that, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I do think that there was a possibility of that
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  Speaker 5: happening maybe if how he hadn't lost control, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and Chip didn't kind of.
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  Speaker 4: Clear out that that year.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I probably didn't feel like I was justified
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  Speaker 5: to be as mad as Lashawn or Dishawn, you know,
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  Speaker 5: because I was getting older. I was I was higher
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  Speaker 5: on the pay scale probably than what they wanted to
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  Speaker 5: give me. I was more upset that, you know. I
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  Speaker 5: talked to Chip after the season. I went up there.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, Yo, what's going on? What do I
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  Speaker 5: gotta do working on this year? You know, and he
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  Speaker 5: just like looked at me in the eye and was like,
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  Speaker 5: you just keep being Utah and you're doing great.
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  Speaker 2: Two parts, so two patches, two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 7: Did you have the best hands on the old line?
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  Speaker 4: And do you have a favorite touchdown? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: So best hands on the offensive line, I think. So,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I think that maybe Sean Andrews had pretty
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  Speaker 5: good hands as well, But yeah, I would I would
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  Speaker 5: claim that that Peter's had pretty good hands. So maybe
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  Speaker 5: when Peter showed up, he might have taken that role.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, I would say I'm up there for sure,
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  Speaker 5: definitely in the conversation. My favorite touchdown was the Seattle one,
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  Speaker 5: the first one, just because just the whole circumstance of
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  Speaker 5: it all. You know, they call this package, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the heavy package, constantly, and I know that they're always
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  Speaker 5: just coming out and we're calling a run play and
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  Speaker 5: I'm just an extra tackle out there, you know. And
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  Speaker 5: so I just remember, and dude, I had dislocated my
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  Speaker 5: finger already this game, you know, so I was like
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  Speaker 5: taped up when I could have. I had my hand
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  Speaker 5: was like taped in a minton basically. And and so
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  Speaker 5: when the play call came into the huddle, I like
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  Speaker 5: I thought I would like misheard it, and so I
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  Speaker 5: was like what And then I was like, oh shit,
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  Speaker 5: that's mine, that's me, okay, okay. And then I'm also
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  Speaker 5: kind of thinking to my myself, like, there's no way.
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  Speaker 4: Donald's going to throw it to me. You know, He's
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  Speaker 4: gonna go for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody else is going to be open, so he's going
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  Speaker 5: to go for like the sure thing, you know. But
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  Speaker 5: I mean I caught it every time in practice. I've
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  Speaker 5: never given him a reason to not think that I
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  Speaker 5: would complete it. After I caught it, you know, I'm excited,
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  Speaker 5: and I spiked the ball, but just to see you
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  Speaker 5: can see it in the picture, like right before I
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  Speaker 5: spike it, all the linemen on the ground behind me,
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  Speaker 5: and they're all like all just faces of just jubilee
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  Speaker 5: and like their hands are in the air. And then
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  Speaker 5: they all came and just attacked me and it was
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  Speaker 5: a mob scene. Like dude, that was the one of
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  Speaker 5: the best memories I'll ever have.