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Etienne reflects on biggest lessons of his career so far | The O-Zone Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast, presented by by Star Credit
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Speaker 1: Union with Jaguars senior writer John Osan. All Right, welcome
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Speaker 1: to this week's Ozone Podcast. And we have a repeat
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Speaker 1: guest this week, but it's it's a repeat guest that
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Speaker 1: Merit's been a repeat guest to me. One of the
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Speaker 1: most amazing stories on this team, uh this year, one
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Speaker 1: of the best stories in this team this year, and
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Speaker 1: one of the most productive players, Travis c. Tian. I
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Speaker 1: appreciate you joining the Ozone Podcast again. Yes, so I
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Speaker 1: appreciate your having me again. Now. The first time we
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Speaker 1: talked was last offseason and O T A. S And
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Speaker 1: And the reason I wanted to get you back in
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Speaker 1: was because it feels like a lot has changed for you.
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Speaker 1: Uh that when we talked in the off season, you
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Speaker 1: sort of hoped and thought you were going to be
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Speaker 1: coming back strong, but have come back very, very strong.
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Speaker 1: I guess my first question is did you really believe
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Speaker 1: it in the off season? Were you hoping or where
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Speaker 1: is your confidence level now that you've shown yourself. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: I probably uh, I really believed. I probably had um
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Speaker 1: I was sticking much bigger for myself. Honestly, I feel
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Speaker 1: like I am back, I am healthy, I am doing
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Speaker 1: things that I love to see and just getting that
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Speaker 1: confidence back about myself. But I feel like I left
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Speaker 1: a lot of players out there in the field, and
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Speaker 1: I wish I could have those back. And uh as
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Speaker 1: I have a continue to just keep growing and keep
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Speaker 1: getting better weekend the week out. And that's always when
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Speaker 1: we're talking to the locker room after the games and
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Speaker 1: even during the week, that's usually the first thing you say.
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Speaker 1: Even after a hunter Yard game, you focus more on
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Speaker 1: the plays that could have been there. Uh. Has that
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Speaker 1: always been your approach? I guess yes, sir, I always
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Speaker 1: been my approach. Just I've been a competitor. I just
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Speaker 1: wanted to be the best player that I can be
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Speaker 1: each and every time I step on that field. So
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Speaker 1: I feel as if I'm always getting better. I'm always
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Speaker 1: up just critiquing my craft. Uh, I'm going to continue
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Speaker 1: to turning the right direction as a player. UM, tell
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Speaker 1: me about this team right now? In talking to people
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Speaker 1: I throughout the season, there's been such a confidence h
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Speaker 1: A tough loss last week. Where is the team mentally
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Speaker 1: as you go into Tennessee. I feel like we just
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Speaker 1: hit a reset. We just hit a hard factory reset,
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Speaker 1: and I feel like everybody's back on ground zero, and
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Speaker 1: now we just excited for opportunity to go out there
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Speaker 1: and show ourselves, just to show the world who we
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Speaker 1: really are. And uh, we feel like last week that
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Speaker 1: wasn't who we was. We wouldn't put out our best
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Speaker 1: cell phone film. We want to go out there and
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Speaker 1: try to fix that, and thankfully were having another opportunity.
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Speaker 1: We can't let that happen again. So I feel as
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Speaker 1: if everyone hit a factory reset, everyone's locked in on
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Speaker 1: this uh this moment, disapponent and I know that's just
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Speaker 1: a big the biggest game of our season. So when
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Speaker 1: the internet's down and that wheel spinning, you just hit
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Speaker 1: the reset button. That's what you guys did, Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
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Speaker 1: I feel as if when when my WiFi at home
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Speaker 1: not working and moving slow, I just turned it off
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Speaker 1: and turn it on and I was back moving fast again.
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Speaker 1: Got you just unplug it? So? Uh so where are
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Speaker 1: you at now? Mentally? I mean, you know, obviously I
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Speaker 1: believe strongly and now you've shown yourself what you can
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Speaker 1: be in the NFL. Uh does that help your confidence
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Speaker 1: going forward? Or? I guess you said you already had it,
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Speaker 1: but I did the stretch you had and your success.
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Speaker 1: Has that helped you going into games now? Uh? Yes, sir.
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Speaker 1: Uh definitely, the definitely set that help you definitely go
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Speaker 1: out there and uh you see it now instead of
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Speaker 1: just having that vision in your hair, and now you've
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Speaker 1: got something to rely you on. So I feel like
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Speaker 1: it definitely helps. But um, I feel like that your
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Speaker 1: confidence is never a problem, was it? No, sir, My
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Speaker 1: conference never was a problem. I've been playing football in
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Speaker 1: my whole life. I've kind of been good. Uh it
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Speaker 1: was as I started playing, and uh, I just feel
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Speaker 1: as I've always had the skill set up by myself
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Speaker 1: in the will to make it work. And uh have
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Speaker 1: great players around me, uh, the professionals, so they make
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Speaker 1: my job a lot easier and I feel like I
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Speaker 1: have the best of ease around me. So why wouldn't
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Speaker 1: I be good? Uh on the biggest stage. I was
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Speaker 1: getting to see about that because looking at your stats, Anger,
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Speaker 1: but they knows your college stats high school, I think
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Speaker 1: it was eight eight hundred yards, nine thousand yards, you know,
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Speaker 1: four or five thousand o'clock. I mean, you were used
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Speaker 1: to producing and it's what you do Uh does that
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Speaker 1: help as a runner too. I know that you've got
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Speaker 1: that and to have that experience even when you get
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Speaker 1: to the highest level, Yes, sir, because um, at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, it all falls back on, uh
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Speaker 1: just your fundamentals. Um how you were groom since you
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Speaker 1: were younger. Are just it's fall falls to the little things.
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Speaker 1: And I feel as if the coaches that have been
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Speaker 1: in placing it still that my life has really just
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Speaker 1: still good things in me and uh, good foundations for
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Speaker 1: me just to following and those tough times and now
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Speaker 1: at coach parm who's a really great coach who played
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Speaker 1: the position in the NFL, who knows who it looked like.
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Speaker 1: And and here's still a lot of stuff in us too.
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Speaker 1: So I feel like when things get hard or I'm
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Speaker 1: out there and I'm not getting those big runs and uh,
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Speaker 1: these are getting tough, I gotta stick to my plan,
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Speaker 1: trusting my teammates, and uh, I just know that it's
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Speaker 1: going to happen. Do not get down to yourself. This
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Speaker 1: is an off topic question, but did you always play
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Speaker 1: running back as a kid, like even in pee Wee.
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Speaker 1: I mean that was yesterday. I've been running about my
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Speaker 1: whole life ever since I was younger, I played the
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Speaker 1: running back position. I tried off for a quarterback, but um,
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Speaker 1: they just put me back and running back the first
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Speaker 1: year paying defense. How old were you first I started
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Speaker 1: playing and running back? I probably six years old. I
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Speaker 1: had an older cousin who was a really great running
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Speaker 1: back and I kind of just remeved fashions to him
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Speaker 1: when I was younger, and I was like, I want
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Speaker 1: to be like him, and I kind of took off
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Speaker 1: from there. Now you talk about fundamentals a bit, I assume,
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Speaker 1: and I guess the question I'm gonna ask you is,
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Speaker 1: do you remember your first long run, like even when
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Speaker 1: you were six or set mean? Or had they just
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Speaker 1: always been long runs? I mean, there's always been long runs,
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Speaker 1: but I could viviely remember one long run that I
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Speaker 1: had very early in my career, and uh, it was
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Speaker 1: like a pe game and it was a pee weee game.
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Speaker 1: So my Hammason, so a big guy. He hits me
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Speaker 1: like he smacks me, So I'm like, I'm not ever
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Speaker 1: getting hit by again. So after that, I think the
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Speaker 1: next play I took off for like an eighty yard
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Speaker 1: touchdow and in the pewee that kind of just having
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Speaker 1: like a playoff to playoff to play. And then I
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Speaker 1: remember my freshman year of high school. I was a
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Speaker 1: freshman and I would do amazing thing to practice all
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Speaker 1: year long, but they never put me in a varsity
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Speaker 1: So coach finally put me in and unfortunately my first
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Speaker 1: playoff fumbled, but he came back to me. Next player
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Speaker 1: was a touchdown, and I think, uh, that was my
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Speaker 1: first ever varsity football game. And I finished the game
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Speaker 1: with five rushes, with five carries, two touchdowns, and nine yards,
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Speaker 1: and uh, it kind of been just took off ever
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Speaker 1: since then, been through a lot in the NFL urban
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Speaker 1: injury success. Uh, what have you learned about the NFL
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Speaker 1: and a year and a half, it strikes me you've
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Speaker 1: with the injury and then coming back from it. I
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Speaker 1: would I would expect you don't feel like a rookie anymore,
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Speaker 1: is what I'm getting at, even though it's your first
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Speaker 1: year actually playing. Just so I definitely don't feel like
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Speaker 1: a rookie. The guy definitely don't treat me like a rookie.
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Speaker 1: And I feel like the biggest thing is I've learned
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Speaker 1: throughout this season is don't get too high, don't get
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Speaker 1: too low h. Just stay grounded and who you are
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Speaker 1: as a person, as a man, And I'm just blocked
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Speaker 1: out the outside noise because what is going great or
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Speaker 1: what is going bad? People are going to talk, and
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Speaker 1: now you have to lock it in with your teammates
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Speaker 1: and just just just become a brotherhood and just lean
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Speaker 1: on them and those tough times in and those good times.
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Speaker 1: And I feel like that's what I've probably just learned
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Speaker 1: the most about the NFL. Is the NFL did I
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Speaker 1: mean at this point? Uh again, don't si your rookie
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Speaker 1: said rookie wall question really isn't there for you. But
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Speaker 1: do you feel the length of the season at seventeen games?
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a long season period to what you've
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Speaker 1: been through, but playing for Clemson maybe not that much longer,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Remember Cleansing, I used to
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Speaker 1: play fifteen games. Now I have seventeen. But we also
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Speaker 1: have the preseason, which is a little different because you
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Speaker 1: have to get reps throughout there. But I feel as if, um,
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Speaker 1: you do have those games, but I feel like practices
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Speaker 1: are different to where in college you would have pads
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Speaker 1: on throughout the week. So in the NFL you don't
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Speaker 1: have those pads on, and then now I don't have
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Speaker 1: school anymore, so I mean, uh, that's that's that's great.
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Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about that aspect of things,
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Speaker 1: so I really have more time to focus on my craft,
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Speaker 1: my work, and it's something I enjoyed doing, something I
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Speaker 1: love doing. I mean, if I wasn't out here playing football,
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Speaker 1: I'll probably be at home board. So I'm kind of
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Speaker 1: just just just take it day by day, because if
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Speaker 1: you look too far in it, it gets way too long,
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Speaker 1: and if you don't take it for granted, you look
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Speaker 1: back on those moments in day I wish I could
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Speaker 1: have done more. So I just try to stand a
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Speaker 1: moment knowing that the all season doesn't want to come,
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Speaker 1: and when all season to come, I feel like I'd
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Speaker 1: be looking forward just to get to season. And I
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Speaker 1: feel like I'm just a on it because last year
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Speaker 1: I didn't play, I was away from the game, my
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Speaker 1: body wasn't beat up. I missed that I didn't have
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Speaker 1: those feelings. So I'm just kind of grateful it all
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Speaker 1: and know that it don't it won't last forever, so
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Speaker 1: enjoy why I have it. You mentioned that several times
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Speaker 1: in interviews that Hey, I'm not in school, so I've
9:18
Speaker 1: got time to focus on this. You like that, don't you.
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Speaker 1: And you like the game that much where it's fun
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Speaker 1: to be around it and you like working on it's
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Speaker 1: a big thing for you. I guess that's what I'm
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Speaker 1: getting at. Yes, sort definitely. I I remember just thinking
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Speaker 1: telling of my friends other day. I think I told him.
9:35
Speaker 1: I think I went to high school just to go
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Speaker 1: to football practice and go play the games when when
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Speaker 1: I was over like really just kind of lost all
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Speaker 1: interest and when I wasn't doing sports, and uh, but
9:46
Speaker 1: now I don't have to worry about the aspect of it.
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Speaker 1: I can focus on my craft and my attention on
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Speaker 1: my work, and that's something that I want to be
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Speaker 1: great at. You know, we don't play this game to
9:54
Speaker 1: be average. And that's a lot of great guys that
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Speaker 1: come before me and has set the standard, especially here
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. So I feel like it's up to me
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Speaker 1: to be the best version of myself that I can
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Speaker 1: be to live up to those guys. When you're out
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Speaker 1: do fantasy footballers ever approach you about your numbers, about
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Speaker 1: you being on the fantasy team, etcetera. Does that ever happen.
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Speaker 1: Is that weird when that happens? I mean, it's not weird.
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Speaker 1: It does happen. I mean it's not weird. It's not
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Speaker 1: weird because, uh, I'm kind of people coming up to
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Speaker 1: me and I'm talking about football, just being at Clemson,
10:29
Speaker 1: I've been in a Jenne's high school a small probably
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Speaker 1: don't mind, right, which not I don't mind. I mean
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Speaker 1: it does suck when I don't produce points and uh,
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Speaker 1: and let you know that aspect of it. I feel
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Speaker 1: like that sous. When you hear somebody win a game,
10:43
Speaker 1: it kind of feels good, but when uh, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: go right, it's kind of like like then you don't
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Speaker 1: think I wanted to win for my team, like you
10:51
Speaker 1: don't think I want to win for the Jaguars, Like
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Speaker 1: I can really care less about this fantasy team when
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Speaker 1: I'm out here playing for my team. But when it
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Speaker 1: goes good, everything is well. I guess you mentioned Jennings
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Speaker 1: a minute ago. Um, that's something I didn't ask you
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Speaker 1: when I talked to you before. How much does Jennings, uh,
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Speaker 1: your hometown, the people they are mean to you pretty
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Speaker 1: important to you, right, Yes, sir, I feel like it's
11:14
Speaker 1: very important. UHL. My mom always just told me never
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Speaker 1: forget where you come from. And I feel like this
11:20
Speaker 1: was a place where you were here, Like it takes
11:22
Speaker 1: a village to raise a kid. And I feel like
11:24
Speaker 1: I had all my friends around my neighborhood and we
11:26
Speaker 1: should always just hang out together and uh like their
11:31
Speaker 1: parents were like my parents. So um, I feel like
11:34
Speaker 1: everyone kind of still thinks of me. That lasted me
11:37
Speaker 1: a lifetime and I'm thankful for that and how I
11:39
Speaker 1: grew up. How did it shape you being in that environment.
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Speaker 1: I feel like it shaped me just to uh just
11:45
Speaker 1: to be true to who I am and uh just
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Speaker 1: to have faith. Uh never get away from the Bible,
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Speaker 1: and uh there is it's still a lot of great
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Speaker 1: things to me. So whenever I'm off inside off into
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Speaker 1: the world by myself, I don't get lost. I'm not
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Speaker 1: looking for valid that from people from the outside world
12:02
Speaker 1: of things like that. As part of that, I know
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Speaker 1: you're very still close to your family. Uh They're still
12:08
Speaker 1: very important to you. Tell me about how that has
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Speaker 1: shaped you and how important your family and now you
12:13
Speaker 1: and and how your support is. I thought out my
12:16
Speaker 1: family is. Uh, it's really my backbone. Uh, like whenever
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Speaker 1: I went through my injury. Uh, they were there. They've
12:23
Speaker 1: been there my whole life's kind of My mom and
12:24
Speaker 1: dad raised us just a very close knit family, and
12:28
Speaker 1: now it's it's just different because now everybody's older than that.
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Speaker 1: Everybody has their own looking they're doing their free time
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Speaker 1: and things going on. But uh, I remember, like for
12:37
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving everybody got together. It was able to be our
12:39
Speaker 1: incheddren again. And those thes just can't take that for granted.
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Speaker 1: And I feel like, uh, it's just really nice to
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Speaker 1: have that, have that, have them believe in you what
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Speaker 1: I'm a football player or not, because they know me
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Speaker 1: as t j as as to do that. There's noddy
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Speaker 1: those kids us to run around the house, um, and
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Speaker 1: I kind of love that because they seem a different
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Speaker 1: light than everybody else sees me. And uh like that
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Speaker 1: really keeps me grounded now. It is the story I
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Speaker 1: read true that your grandmother would hand you a football
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Speaker 1: when you were a kid because it would calm me
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Speaker 1: down getting there, Yes, sir, she just she tells me
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Speaker 1: the story. I don't remember, but she tells it to
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Speaker 1: me all the time. I was very young, and I
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Speaker 1: just caught behind my mom whenever she would leave and
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Speaker 1: she would just give me a football and I would
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Speaker 1: I would just go run and I just won't with
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Speaker 1: the football. Now your brother would follow you then, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: my brother he see I really didn't recognize it whenever
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Speaker 1: we were younger, but now I kind of see it.
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Speaker 1: Like he likes to do everything I'd like to do.
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Speaker 1: And I didn't think he was really paying attention when
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Speaker 1: we were younger, but he always spend attention. He was
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Speaker 1: always watching and he just kinda just done all the
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Speaker 1: Simpson that I've done throughout my life. Who's better at
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Speaker 1: that age? Meaning Trevor, now, were you better than he
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Speaker 1: was at that age? Do you guys debate about it
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Speaker 1: or how does that work? No, sir, it's not really
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Speaker 1: a debate. We definitely feel like, well, I definitely feel
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Speaker 1: like he's much better than Yan when I was at
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Speaker 1: that age. I just feel like he's he's much more developed.
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Speaker 1: He he's seen it firsthand, like um, he had me
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Speaker 1: to help him to where as I had to go
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Speaker 1: out there and find the information on my own. To
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Speaker 1: where I just bring the information right to him. He's
14:20
Speaker 1: much more developed. We work on things together and like
14:23
Speaker 1: you shoot in his game when he was see out
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Speaker 1: there playing, and uh, I feel like that's how it's
14:27
Speaker 1: supposed to be. I'm supposed to help him get above
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Speaker 1: that hump that I didn't have that person to show
14:32
Speaker 1: me because my dad. My dad didn't play football. My
14:36
Speaker 1: mom she loved basketball. She really wants out there getting
14:39
Speaker 1: hit and stuff like that. But um, and sisters or
14:43
Speaker 1: high school and were high school basketball players. To are
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Speaker 1: you the best athlete in the family, Trevor, Now, I'm
14:52
Speaker 1: the best athlete in the family. I feel like I
14:54
Speaker 1: was the best ball player. My sister was a really
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Speaker 1: great shooter, and she actually want to stay championship in basketball.
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Speaker 1: And uh, but I would say I probably. Uh. My brother,
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Speaker 1: he really loved baseball. He didn't like basketball. He ran
15:07
Speaker 1: like too much running. He thought there was too much conditioning.
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Speaker 1: So he he kind of gave one basketball, but he
15:13
Speaker 1: did baseball and football. Athletic royalty. Yeah, yeah, everyone's very
15:19
Speaker 1: athletic and everyone plays sports and we all very competitive.
15:23
Speaker 1: Final thing a onong these lines, I read big big
15:26
Speaker 1: Cajun food guys, that right, Yes, I mean there's your roots, right, yes, Uh,
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Speaker 1: that's just where I come from. That's just been in Louisiana,
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Speaker 1: and uh, I feel like that's what I missed the
15:37
Speaker 1: most about Louisiana is the food. And I remember in
15:40
Speaker 1: college when I had was in South Carolina. I remember
15:42
Speaker 1: my first time going home. I had went home and
15:46
Speaker 1: I came back to tim pounds every year and coaches
15:49
Speaker 1: kind of upset at you, right, Coaches kind of set
15:52
Speaker 1: because like you want to be on a way scale,
15:55
Speaker 1: you want to be the right way. But uh, I
15:57
Speaker 1: definitely missed that food, and uh it still happened. Can
16:01
Speaker 1: you cook at the same I mean I can cook, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: I can cook it. But it was much better than
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Speaker 1: my mom off. Feel like they just put like a
16:08
Speaker 1: little extra love in it, no doubt. The final thing
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Speaker 1: we do, Uh caught the ozone five. It's five quick
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Speaker 1: questions and we'll get you out of here. Travis TM,
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Speaker 1: what was your last binge watch? Oh, my last beinge wise,
16:26
Speaker 1: I thought it's a great question because, um, it's been
16:30
Speaker 1: a while, not so much during the season, it's definitely
16:32
Speaker 1: been a while. I mean I don't really have much
16:34
Speaker 1: time to bene anything right now, but thinking back to it, UH,
16:39
Speaker 1: favorite show of all time, favorite short time. These are
16:43
Speaker 1: very tough questions, But I would a favorite show of
16:45
Speaker 1: all time, I would probably say How to Get Away
16:47
Speaker 1: with Murder. I haven't watched that in a very long time,
16:51
Speaker 1: and that, um, it really grabbed my attention. Uh. I
16:55
Speaker 1: kind of thought I knew what was going on, and
16:57
Speaker 1: something tot of different what happened. And that's that's what
16:59
Speaker 1: I love the most about it. What's your pregame? Go
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Speaker 1: to song? Pregame? Go to a song? I A should
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Speaker 1: have a friend who's a rapper. Uh, here's my grew
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Speaker 1: up with me the next doing neighbor. He has a
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Speaker 1: song called Grateful and Dylon Troy and it's called Grateful
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Speaker 1: and I kind of just put that on because I
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Speaker 1: feel like it just reminds me of where I come
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Speaker 1: from and that I still have so much further to go.
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Speaker 1: And who's better to hear that mess with somebody that
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Speaker 1: I know. Person. You're taking the one when you were
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Speaker 1: six out of the equation. What's your best run of
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Speaker 1: all time? What's your favorite? My favorite run of all time?
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Speaker 1: Probably my college run. Uh, probably against Louisville that was
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Speaker 1: my freshman year. I think it's like maybe an eighty
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Speaker 1: one yarder and I think that's my favorite, because, um,
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Speaker 1: I feel like all week coach preach just go inside,
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Speaker 1: go inside, go inside, And I still took it outside,
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Speaker 1: just not following the rule and stuff like that, but
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Speaker 1: it worked out. So he really couldn't say nothing but
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Speaker 1: a great job. Sometimes you had to see what's I mean?
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Speaker 1: How you gotta go to what you see right? Definitely? Definitely.
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Speaker 1: I feel like, uh, sometimes you have it's all about
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Speaker 1: phil when you're doing the field and I feel like
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Speaker 1: Bernie talks Holly about it and like it's just something
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Speaker 1: you just can't teach you out there running and now
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Speaker 1: you kind of just feel like I overplaying something and
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Speaker 1: you know you gotta just get one more step and
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Speaker 1: you can take it backside and things like that. You
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Speaker 1: can't say all of them. But what's your mom's best
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Speaker 1: Cajun dish? Oh? I feel like if I'm just asking mom,
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Speaker 1: I'm to cook up something. I probably got red beans
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Speaker 1: and rice, red beans and rice with some fire pork
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Speaker 1: chops are fried chicken. Okay, I can see how you
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Speaker 1: gained ten pounds. Pretty person most responsible for you being
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Speaker 1: here being in the NFL. Uh. I kind of had
18:43
Speaker 1: to give both of my parents. I felt they both
18:45
Speaker 1: played a huge role in that because I feel like
18:48
Speaker 1: I definitely, definitely with times when I try to step
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Speaker 1: away from football because um, I feel it gets tough.
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Speaker 1: It gets tough at times. And then, uh, when I
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Speaker 1: was in high school, I'm my freshman year, I tried
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Speaker 1: to quit because, like I said, there wasn't putting me
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Speaker 1: in the game man, and I played football to play
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Speaker 1: with my friends. And my friends they was all freshman,
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Speaker 1: so they were playing freshman football and they they let
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Speaker 1: me play freshman football then with the varsity team, but
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Speaker 1: I wasn't getting in the game. So I'm like, I
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Speaker 1: don't not go play here. Then I can't play with them.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to. I'm gonna play basketball, right And
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Speaker 1: my mom she was like, no, I remever raised the quitter,
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Speaker 1: and uh, that's something you're not gonna do, is stef
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Speaker 1: away from the game. And especially in miss fashion, she said,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna finish it out and if you don't like it,
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Speaker 1: make sure you just don't play. But you're not going
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Speaker 1: to quit. And I feel like just what she told
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Speaker 1: me that it just it's meant more. It meant so
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Speaker 1: much more in that instance, because I feel like now
19:42
Speaker 1: anything I started have to finish, and I just kind
19:45
Speaker 1: of take that with me throughout my whole life. Powerful
19:47
Speaker 1: lessons at that age, no doubt. Gravis, I can't thank
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Speaker 1: you enough for doing this. I know it's it's busy
19:51
Speaker 1: during the season. It takes time to step away and
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Speaker 1: do this. Thank you very much for joining the ozone podcasts. Right, so,
19:56
Speaker 1: thank you for having me. And I think I remember
19:58
Speaker 1: the last thing I've been watched was New Girl. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's a good one. It is a good one. I
20:03
Speaker 1: think our business watched that one because the episodes aren't long,
20:06
Speaker 1: but they're entertaining, and uh, it's something I could put
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Speaker 1: on in the background. I don't have to focus as
20:11
Speaker 1: money attention on it. And I'm still a good great laughs.
20:14
Speaker 1: And my son for two years kept telling me Dad
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Speaker 1: watched New Girl on new ground like it's a key
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Speaker 1: it's a younger show. I thought it was fantastic. It
20:21
Speaker 1: was really good and I was really funny. Travis, Thank you,
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Speaker 1: thank you,