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Josh Allen is Locked In, "I Want to Be Great" | O-Zone Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Oh soon.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer John Oser.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, welcome to this week's Ozone podcast. And this
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  Speaker 2: guest needs no introduction, not ever really, but especially not
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  Speaker 2: the year, not this year. Jaguar's outside linebacker Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Said, thank you, thank you for allowing me to be
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  Speaker 3: on the show and talk to the fans.
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  Speaker 2: Now tell me about I mean, I know you've talked
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  Speaker 2: about it, but this season, yeah, it's not over yet.
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  Speaker 2: I guess first, I've been fascinated this year by your
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  Speaker 2: continued every time you talk about this season, you don't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily talk about numbers, about results. You talk about your process.
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  Speaker 2: You talk about the focus that you have to have
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  Speaker 2: every week. That's not necessarily new, is it raised this year? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I think my main process is to stay healthy,
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  Speaker 3: you know, as healthy as I can be. Obviously, we
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  Speaker 3: don't plan to get hurt, but things happen, to get trouble,
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  Speaker 3: to take care of his body, shoot me well, and
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  Speaker 3: then things happen. But you know, how quick can you
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  Speaker 3: recover if things do happen? How will on top of
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  Speaker 3: it are you? And that's one thing that I've been
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  Speaker 3: really keen on because football, any you know, your source
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  Speaker 3: head at every game and that's and that's probably the
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  Speaker 3: least you deal with if you don't get hurt. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, staying healthy has been prior to number one
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  Speaker 3: this this year.
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  Speaker 2: And there's varying degrees of health, right like you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's feeling, there's being healthy able to play, and there's
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  Speaker 2: feeling like you can injured and her really go right.
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  Speaker 2: And so it sounds like you've been.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, high end, I've been.
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  Speaker 3: I was dinged up early in the season dealing with
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  Speaker 3: a shoulder, but you know, I think going into that
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  Speaker 3: London game really helped me.
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  Speaker 1: Prepare to get my body right. I have my staff
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  Speaker 1: out there.
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  Speaker 3: With me, you know, my my recovery staff, and so
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  Speaker 3: I was out there if I wasn't playing football practicing,
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  Speaker 3: I was getting treatment. So that kind of helped speed
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  Speaker 3: up my recovery process. And and so now I'm at
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  Speaker 3: a point where now I'm just maintaining the health of it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, make sure that you know, everything in my body.
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  Speaker 3: Is strong, is willing to withstand the game, and mentally,
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  Speaker 3: I think mentally is the biggest thing, you know, coming
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  Speaker 3: back from jury or come back from anything if you
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  Speaker 3: can mentally, you know, if your body is physically in shape,
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  Speaker 3: but then you know mentally that you're done everything that
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  Speaker 3: you can right. You know, to feel one hundred then
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  Speaker 3: you know, it gives me the conferences.
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  Speaker 1: I go out there and play out one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: And that's how I've basically been feeling and putting everything together.
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  Speaker 3: Just been an awesome process and you know, one that
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  Speaker 3: I want to continue to have.
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  Speaker 2: No. Obviously a fantastic season numbers wise, sometimes with your position,
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  Speaker 2: there's a difference in numbers and how you're really playing,
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  Speaker 2: because sacks can be a cruel mistress so to speak.
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  Speaker 2: Are you playing? Do you feel like you're playing as
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  Speaker 2: well as your numbers show?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's a testament to you know, to the
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  Speaker 3: positions that we put ourselves in right. You know, when
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  Speaker 3: you look at the scheme of the games and all that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, other than me making the two sacks the
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  Speaker 3: last couple of weeks or three shacks last couple of weeks, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, we have to earn the right to rush right.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, for me, I take very I take
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  Speaker 3: a lot of pride in that and and it means
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  Speaker 3: a lot, you know, to stop the run, and you
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  Speaker 3: know we're a team that that's that's one of the
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  Speaker 3: best defenses in stopping the run. Last week we had
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  Speaker 3: a little flaw in some areas and we couldn't really
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  Speaker 3: we couldn't really get to that point, so our rushing
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  Speaker 3: opportunities were kind of you know, screwed.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously you had thirty two, but.
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  Speaker 3: Third and short second, short different screens, much different situations
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  Speaker 3: your years back and now you can rely on like
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  Speaker 3: his first hitting out there, now we can come back.
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  Speaker 1: And fall into a second.
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  Speaker 3: So so understanding that, I think it's just been huge
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  Speaker 3: this year for me too.
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  Speaker 2: Is that the biggest thing that people don't get is
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  Speaker 2: all third downs aren't created.
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  Speaker 1: Equal all all downs.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just because you're rushing the past or doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean necessarily a good pass rust situation, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you have to adjust accordingly. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: if if a quarterback he got the ball out and
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  Speaker 3: lessen he got ball like two point three seconds, which
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  Speaker 3: is catch the ball, see it up, throw the ball, right.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean. So it's really a first man,
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  Speaker 1: first read thing.
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  Speaker 3: So that's as pass rushers, you can't really hit a
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  Speaker 3: move necessarily because that's going to take more than two seconds,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Less it's like a free
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  Speaker 3: running which I had and that was under two seconds.
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  Speaker 3: But those are rare and those are one of the
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  Speaker 3: hardest sacks to get in my book. But but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like going back to pass rushing, like you know, if
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  Speaker 3: you get a quarterback or you're in the flow of
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  Speaker 3: the game, where again ball throw the ball three yard passes,
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  Speaker 3: four yard passes, six yard passes, it's like, what move
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  Speaker 3: can you do besides run down the middle of somebody
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  Speaker 3: to affect the play, and then you have to earn
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  Speaker 3: the rights rush play first down, good keeping behind the
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  Speaker 3: six second long tendency to pass the ball, that's an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: They get four yards and then they move the ball up,
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  Speaker 3: so now it's third and short, third and four thirty
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  Speaker 3: three and that's a two down play. So they can
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  Speaker 3: run the ball, they can throw the ball quick. So
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  Speaker 3: so for us man, we have to we have to
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  Speaker 3: earn that right to get them to third and long
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  Speaker 3: so we can pin our ears back and rush. And
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  Speaker 3: we've been putting ourselves in that position all year and
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  Speaker 3: that allowed me, uh and all the other guys to
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  Speaker 3: find success on a Russian the passer and have and
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  Speaker 3: building that confidence in us because we are having those
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  Speaker 3: many opportunities to rush, so and coach call was giving us,
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  Speaker 3: giving us the freedom to all right, format, go get.
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  Speaker 1: Them, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: And and and we've been capitalizing a lot of opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, like we last week wasn't our best
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  Speaker 3: performance and we understand.
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  Speaker 1: That, we know that.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, we know this week it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a big, you know, run heavy team and we have
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  Speaker 3: to we have to dominate. We had to dominate in
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  Speaker 3: the trenches and we can do that. The opportunities to
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  Speaker 3: resurpass is going to be there.
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  Speaker 2: What is it about this team? It's been so good
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  Speaker 2: under Doug at tough situation, able to bounce back. Is
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  Speaker 2: that maturity, resilience, leadership.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little it's a little bit of everything.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you know, you can't really pinpoint what, but one
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  Speaker 3: thing it is because you know, everybody has there are
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  Speaker 3: different ways of getting ready or preparing themselves and and
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  Speaker 3: and so, but as long as everybody's finding out what
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  Speaker 3: they have to do to get better, then I'm cool
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  Speaker 3: with it. But just to learn how to respond, we
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  Speaker 3: hate being in a position to where we have to
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  Speaker 3: respond to this way.
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  Speaker 2: But but in this league, you're gonna face your stuff.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna go through stuff, and and and again. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I've been on a team where two years straight were
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  Speaker 3: I only won three games. So I am honored and
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  Speaker 3: blessed and to be in this positioncause at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, it's all about getting to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: and then it's all about going to the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: And we're still in a great position to do both
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  Speaker 3: of those things. Uh So for us, man, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: continued to put your head down and go to work,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and be the best person of yourself that
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  Speaker 3: you can be, and and and keep finding ways to win.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned being honored and blessed to be here. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think I've ever talked to you in this situation
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  Speaker 2: since it's sort of turned around last year. You've been
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  Speaker 2: a guy who's stood tall and some tough times around here.
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  Speaker 2: What does it mean for you is sort of big
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  Speaker 2: picture to be a part of having turned it around,
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  Speaker 2: to have I mean eight and four. You rather be better,
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  Speaker 2: but this is success. What does it meant for you
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  Speaker 2: to be part of that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's huge.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when I look at about myself, Man, I
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  Speaker 3: want to leave a legacy. I want to be a
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  Speaker 3: part of something. I want to be a part of
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  Speaker 3: a team that's done something that no team has done it,
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  Speaker 3: part of history.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I've done it in high school, I've done it in college,
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  Speaker 3: and I want to continue to do it in pros.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, thinking.
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  Speaker 3: About last year, man, it was like, Man, I went
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  Speaker 3: to the playoffs last year, you know, as as a
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  Speaker 3: team went to the playoffs, but I didn't play my
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  Speaker 3: best ball, got you and look how far we went.
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  Speaker 3: So for me, I took that ownership to myself to like,
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  Speaker 3: when I can better myself, how far can we become
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  Speaker 3: as a team, how far can we go? And when
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  Speaker 3: your best players playing their best ball? And so for me,
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  Speaker 3: I took that and and you know, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: was blessed to be able to put our team in
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  Speaker 3: the business, you know, put in a better position to win.
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  Speaker 3: And and that's all I can do. And uh, that's
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  Speaker 3: all we can do, any of us. And so we
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  Speaker 3: still have, you know, you know, continue to have that
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  Speaker 3: mindset all throughout. Uh, Like I said, Man, we're playing
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  Speaker 3: for something much bigger, and we have a great opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to get there.
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  Speaker 2: Now. I'm gonna ask this because I talked to you
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  Speaker 2: probably after the last two or three off seasons, and
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  Speaker 2: it always struck me that that your focus and your
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  Speaker 2: want to and your desire was as high as anybody
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  Speaker 2: I've been around. Uh So, when people look at your
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  Speaker 2: year this year and say, well, it's a contract year,
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  Speaker 2: to me, that implies that you weren't trying before. So
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  Speaker 2: and you know, what do you think when people say
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  Speaker 2: it's a contract year, To me, it's more just you are.
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  Speaker 2: It's working, but it's not like you're trying harder than
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  Speaker 2: Yeah before you follow.
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  Speaker 3: Me that, Yeah, I mean, I think that's a great question,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And and you that's you know, you hear
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  Speaker 3: people have you know, you hear people always say it's
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  Speaker 3: only like they're doing good because of the contract. You
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  Speaker 3: I've seen it throughout it a lot of people. Sure,
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  Speaker 3: And you know, for me, you know, I don't really
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  Speaker 3: you know, feed into that notion of oh am I
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  Speaker 3: doing No it's because I'm finally.
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  Speaker 1: Like I figured, I'm figuring, like I'm figuring out right.
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  Speaker 2: But you've really hard off season to figure things out,
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  Speaker 2: focused gone to Arizona started right after the season. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this has been something you've taken really seriously.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, And uh, you know, it's it's always magined
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  Speaker 3: the pieces, you know. For me, you know, I have
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  Speaker 3: a young family as well, So for me, it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: how well can I manage my time? And for me,
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  Speaker 3: I found a way that works, you know, and so
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  Speaker 3: that allows me to do more, you know, with doing
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  Speaker 3: less in a way. So for me is just finding
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  Speaker 3: out what's working. And I found out my process and
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  Speaker 3: I found out what works. If I could have did
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  Speaker 3: this last year, I would have done it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if I would have learned that this is what it takes,
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  Speaker 3: I would have done it.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I found my process and I found
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  Speaker 3: out what works. If it would happen last yearoul have
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  Speaker 3: haden last year, but next year would happen next year.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I'm at a time to where I
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  Speaker 3: found out what works and and I'm gonna continue this
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  Speaker 3: recipe for success and and I want to continue to
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  Speaker 3: grow because there's still rooms that I can improve on.
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  Speaker 3: And I watched the tape and I know I can approve.
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  Speaker 3: So for me, it's it's keeping up what I'm doing,
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  Speaker 3: but it's also improving to see what I can do better,
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  Speaker 3: and I know there's room from improvement and uh and
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Is it hard to believe here in year five? I
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  Speaker 2: can remember when you walked in here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, uh, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: At the same time, a lot, I've seen a lot,
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  Speaker 3: I experienced that I'd have seen a lot, unexperienced a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I don't wish a lot of days his goal keep
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  Speaker 3: going by. You know, I've experienced days to slow down,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, I haven't seen a lot, and that
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  Speaker 3: helps me with the experience, you know, dealing with different
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  Speaker 3: types of people in the locker room, coaching staff, knowing
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  Speaker 3: how to manage time, knowing how to you know, talk
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  Speaker 3: to and react to different players who have different personalities
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  Speaker 3: because I've seen it all, you know, I've seen people high,
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  Speaker 3: I'm seeing people low. And for me, people looked at
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  Speaker 3: me as a leader, so I had to lead lead
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  Speaker 3: the right way in a way. So for me, it's
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  Speaker 3: been a it's been a you know, a quick five years.
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  Speaker 3: And they always say it goes by fast, but until
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  Speaker 3: you get to year five, Like I'm year five and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like dang, like I mean, year five, but.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a fun ride. The build a palace in
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  Speaker 1: the here and that's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I told you, I told Sean mister Khan yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Like you know, I think him every time I see
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  Speaker 3: him for having us. You know, he thinks, you know, us,
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  Speaker 3: for what we're doing for this team. But you know
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  Speaker 3: we also have to thank him for giving us this opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: giving us this building. Uh to go out here and
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  Speaker 3: and enjoy it. So for us, man, as you know,
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  Speaker 3: giving back, and that's a way for us to get back.
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  Speaker 1: Is to win for him, and and.
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  Speaker 3: He gives us the respect, gives us the love of
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  Speaker 3: building this beautiful this beautiful facility, and uh, we want
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  Speaker 3: to continue to win.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned family a minute ago, and for a young player,
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  Speaker 2: it's always struck me. It means something to everybody, but
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  Speaker 2: maybe to you talking to you or the years three children?
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  Speaker 2: Young man, what is that? How does that motivate you?
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  Speaker 2: What does it mean to you? Aside from saying it
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  Speaker 2: means everything, because I'm sure it does.
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  Speaker 3: And a husband, yeah, husband, yeah, uh you know that's
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  Speaker 3: you know obviously, you know, dealing with the kids is
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  Speaker 3: one thing, but also being a great husband, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as a priority of mine because my wife goes to.
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  Speaker 1: A lot as well.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, you know when we talk about sacrificing time, my
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  Speaker 3: wife sacrifices a lot of time, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: away from me, you know, because I'm sacrificing time every
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  Speaker 3: day and so for me, you know, being there for
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  Speaker 3: her when she really needs me, you know, sacrificing Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I have something planning, but you know she really needs
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  Speaker 3: me sacrificing that time away and being comfortable and being
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  Speaker 3: able to do that so I can be there and
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  Speaker 3: support her do anything.
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  Speaker 1: Uh So that's been you know, a.
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  Speaker 3: Huge step in my huge step to show let her
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  Speaker 3: know that I care also about her and and that
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  Speaker 3: I'll put her first and with the kids.
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  Speaker 1: Just to see my.
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  Speaker 3: Kids grow in his football life is unbelievable. And but
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  Speaker 3: it's all about having help and and it takes a village.
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  Speaker 3: And right now, my wife's my wife. My wife is
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  Speaker 3: a village, and she's doing a.
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  Speaker 1: Hell of a job.
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  Speaker 3: And we have three wonderful kids who you know, who
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  Speaker 3: are smart, who are kind, who are loving, who are
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  Speaker 3: caring for others, and.
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  Speaker 2: The oldest the age where she sort of gets it right.
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  Speaker 1: Two boys, two boys and a girl.
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  Speaker 3: My oldest is a boy, and uh, he's uh, it's
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  Speaker 3: all good, but uh, he's starting to he's still five
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  Speaker 3: years old at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as much as we can say our kids.
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  Speaker 2: I started watching football, and I kind of have some memories,
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  Speaker 2: so he'll remember.
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  Speaker 1: Now, my kids know what I do.
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  Speaker 3: And they'll see a football player and and they'll be like, oh, daddy,
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  Speaker 3: let's work. They'll see a jaguar, they be like, daddy's work.
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  Speaker 3: So my kids, my kids understand. My kids know what
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  Speaker 3: I do. My wife under my wife explains it to him.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: There's only one day out of the week where you know,
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  Speaker 3: don't don't don't talk to dad, and that's uh, that's Sundays.
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  Speaker 3: You know, of home games. You know, I'll come home
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I'll get dressed or a new game.
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  Speaker 3: I'll come home, you know, kiss my family and then
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  Speaker 3: I'll start preparing, you know, for the game. And that's
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  Speaker 3: the only day my wife will will be all right,
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  Speaker 3: this is and that's and that's the only time. Friday, Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: Monday is family day.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: We we have family nights, we have ice cream nights,
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  Speaker 3: we have we've all these nights to make you know,
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  Speaker 3: my time, specially when we don't get out of here
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: till like eight o'clock, seven o'clock now, so you know,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: time is very precious and crucial and uh, you know,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: so so happy. So I've been I've been able to
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: to manage my time uh a lot better this year
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: as well, which allows me to manage what I can
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: do here and and we and to be great, you
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: have to put the time in and and I want
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: to be great, and you know, I want to take
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: care of my body as well and prepare the right way.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: So that takes time away from family. Uh that's why
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: I said, My wife is is she's done, and she's
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: doing a hecking for a job, and you know, and
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: Monday was her birthday related birthday baby, uh and so
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: so you know, she got to go to the game
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: and enjoy that with some friends.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: So you know, yeah, right now, the final question before
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: we sort of do you have a fun thing at
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: the end. I can't talk to you right now without
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: talking about the future a little bit. I find you're
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: your contract. How do you think of that?
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: What do you say when people ask you about that?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Just continue to play football? At the end of the day.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Uh, you know, my job is to go out there
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: and to be the best player I can be. And
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: if I can continue to do that each week, everything's
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: gonna play out the way it's supposed to. And you know,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: if I start thinking about the external stuff besides football.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: And and what do I need to do? Do you get ready?
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: I feel like, in my mind, I feel like my
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: play would decline because I'm worried about numbers. I'm worried
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: about this, you know, I'm worried about bringing the sack recker.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: That's the only number that I'm really worried about. Not worried.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: But I know my teammates know there, and and and
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: and they know what I need. And so for me,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I can go out there and just play play football.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: You know, and and just react. You know.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: I love talking too. That's like he's he's my that's
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: my partner. And beginning of the year, man, one thing
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: that he told me that I'm like that, I just
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: always just Josh, just go play football. Just don't because
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: we were talking about coverages. We're talking about this, We're
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: talking about that, we're talking about if you see this,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: you see this amazing he's like, Josh, just go play
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: football and don't worry about I don't worry about nothing,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: and just don't think.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Just go.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: And and what did you take when he told you that?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: I said, okay. And so now it's like, I'm going
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: to play football. And I told him that this. If
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: I see this, I'm gonna stick it. I'm gonna, you know,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: play the big I'm gonna play his guy. And he's like, well,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: all right, then well then I'll slow play it and
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: then I'll react off you. So but that's the trust
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: that we have to have in each other. And that's
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: the trust that we do have as a defense, you know,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: and we just want to play football. We don't want
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: to think. You know, I think the worst thing you
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: can do as a defensive or as a player is
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: to think, especially while you're in war.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Essentially sure, you know what I mean.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: So we can just let our natural abilities play for ourselves.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: And that will show.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: And you know, so far, I've just been you know,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: locked in and just ready to play football. You know,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: make the plays that come to me and and do
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: it and celebrate, and you know, we come up with
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: a with a celebration as.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: A team and and I want to do that right.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: And so like when we say this is what we're
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: going to do the world, I want to do everything
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: in the book to be able to do this. And
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: so let's have fun, Let's make our plays, and let's
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: go celebrate.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: You mentioned the Sack record. What what would it mean
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: to you?
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: It's a legacy. Uh.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: You know, like I said earlier, I want to leave
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: a legacy everywhere that I do, everywhere that I go.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: And that's just that comes back down to my family,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: and my family is it plays a huge role and
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: on the way I process things. Uh my family is
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: known for basketball, but everywhere they went, they had left
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: a mark and that's something that I just want to
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: continue as well.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Uh. You know, I talked Tony Boselli all the.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Time and and he's he's the guy that I really
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: take a lot of info from and just you know,
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: his opinion matters right. And and to be in the
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Hall of Fame, to be in the on the Jaguar
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Proude the Pride of the Jaguars, there's.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: No bigger legacy than that.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: So for me, you know, I have a great opportunity
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: to do things that haven't been done here in a
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: long time.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: So and that's just me doing me.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: That's just like I said, me not think me just
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: going out there and playing for one another, going out
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: there and just having fun and making the players that
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: come to me. And you know, I'm fortunate to be.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: And it's crazy because you know last year that was
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: my main goal was to break that record, and that's
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: I wrote it down. I've seen it every where I go.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: But I think I overplayed it. I think sometimes you
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: can overplay these things and you can get outside of
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: it because now everything that you're doing, you're trying to
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: do that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: But then this year it was just like it is
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: what it is, Like it will come. You know what
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I'm saying.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: If you're focusing on take care of your body, because
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: when you were at when I was at my best,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: each year I was healthy and and I didn't take
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: care of my body the way that I should have,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: or or it just can be a little thing off,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: and it's one or two people that I've added, you know, religiously,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: in my in my schedule to help me get to
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: our end of to day. So if I can do that,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: if I can prepare the right way, if I can
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: see my matchup and know, being confidently that I can
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: go out here and dominate this this matchup. And then
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: if I can you know, nutritiously nutriciously eat the right
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: food to maintain my body, maintain my health, maintain my strength,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: if I can work out and and and be the
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: way that I am, confidently I am, I feel like
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: can't nobody block me and can't nobody get in my way.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: So that allows me to see those numbers to go
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: off the success and it's still room to improve. But
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: you know, for me, man, if I continue to be
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: on this path, man, it's gonna be great here in Jacksonville.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: It's fun.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, and I said, find a question, but it's
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: fascinating talking to you. You're in a good place. I mean,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: this is here your focus, but it's also fun. I mean,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: you know you smiled throughout this, which you always do,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: but I mean, this is a good time to be
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Josh Alten.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, like I said, man, I've I've been
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: in this organization when we won three games in two years,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's a lot to be it's a
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: lot fortunate to be number one in our division. Obviously,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: you know we're one game behind. But that's that's the
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: division that we're in. You know, when people look in
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: the beginning of the year, they were like, all this
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: division is gonna be trash. Now we have won the
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: best divisions in right AFC, in all of football, sure,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: most competitive as of right now. Uh So for us Man,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: that is ah, that is something to be excited about.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Uh And for me man to go out there and
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: to know that we're number one in one of the
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: best divisions in the NFL.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: You know, we have to continue to win and we
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: have to continue to prepare.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: So for me, if I can continue to do what
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I do and continue to play with confidence, continue to
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: have confidence in my team, continue to have confidence in
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: the culture staff, continue to have confidence in the nutrition staff,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: the training staff.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Uh my family.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: But all you know, all above God himself, who's blessed us,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: who's blessed myself to be able to have confidence. The
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: skuyn disguy is the limit. And like I said, we're
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: playing to go to the playoffs and then go to
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: the super Bowl, and we're in a fine position to
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: do that. Uh So for us Man is to not
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: dwell on what happened, obviously grow from the previous weeks.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: But you know, after each win, we never was like, oh,
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: we're gonna go back and do the same thing.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: No, we have to grow.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: And even when we were winning, we have to grow.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: When we lose, we have to grow. And so for us, man,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: it's continua. How quick can we move on? How quick
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: can we get a let's play? How quick can we
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: respond to this and and go out there and dominate?
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: And so this week is a huge week for us,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: and you know we're you know, ready to dominate.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Final thing we do I call it the ozone five.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Five quick fun questions. If you have time with the family,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: what's your last binge watch?
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: I don't know whatever my wife has on my wife's watches. Uh,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: she just started I don't know, she just started watching.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know what if she watch, But whatever she watches,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I kind of sit there and watch until I fall asleep.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: That's basically that's basically what I do.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: So, Yeah, the last song that you heard in the
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: car this morning coming in?
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Uh? What's the lady name? Encore? Share it big?
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Just play most memorable play of your career, to play
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: you're most proud of it stands out?
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Uh, I would say what the Houston game got.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Uh, you know that last drive you know, to put
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: like I said, to put to put our team in
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: the in the position to win.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Uh. And then and then us winning that game. It
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: was huge.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: But like I said, every moment that I had wasn't
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: because of me.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: It was a collecting of all all eleven guys working hand.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: But I would say making the play that company that
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: that the final drive.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: What was your favorite movie when you were five or six?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: What's your kids movie?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Any Scooby Doo movie? Any Scooby Doo was like he was?
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: He was he was my my my goal to man
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: if I wanted to feel like like now, you know,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: you have moments where you play music or you play
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: these you know, you play videos that bring you back
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: to that time sure where you were just free and happy.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: I'll sit up here and watch Scooby Doo with my
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: kids just to just to you know, to bring me
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: back to a happy place.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: And uh and and so yeah, Scooby do you.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: What's that for football for you?
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I know it's a ways out, but.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Man, I do want to write a book. I want
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: to write a book one day.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: That's that's been one of my goals, well just after
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: this year. Uh So, I want to write a book.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: That's one thing I want to do. And you know,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: I told uh I told my my defensive coordinator back
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: in Kentucky.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: I was like, if he becomes the head coach, then
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: I will come help him. Uh if he's a coach,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: if he's at Kentucky, you know, because Brad White, he
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: becomes the head coach that uh I.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Was coaching in general, not something you take just.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I will come back and help him, you know.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: But other than that, you know, write a book, you know,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: and spend time with my family.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna be a young We're gonna be
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: a young parent. We're gonna be young parents still to
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: see our kids grow and.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: And and follow them and be there to support them
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: and be there to help them every step of the way,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: drop everything and go if need to be.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: That's the type of.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Parents that we want to be, we inspire to be.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Uh So, be able to do that, you know, and
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: then travel. I want to travel with my wife and I.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: You know, like I said, we've had kids young, so
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: our young our young times, we couldn't be able to
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: travel so you know, I want to also have time
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: to you know, put her first and put myself, put
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: our relationship first, and travel and if we still do
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: that here and there, but to take let's say, you.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Know what I mean.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: So so definitely do that. But you know I want
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: to You gotta the way we want to travel.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: You got to have a lot of money to do that.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Well, I thank you for this year that might not
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: be a problem, you know, God willing, fantastic, Josh. I
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: think I speak for anybody who's been around you when
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: I say I'm I'm thrilled for the success you're having.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: You've always been a classic since you've been here. It's
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: well deserved. And I appreciate you joining the ozone podcast.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you having me on.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Thanks Buddy for sure,