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Rome Odunze Reacts to Bears Hiring Ben Johnson with Deebo Samuel | Cleats & Convos, Ep. 14 · Bleacher Report

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Speaker 1: What is up?
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Speaker 2: Everybody Live in the br app Welcome to another Cleats
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Speaker 2: and convos with Deevo Samuel. I'm liv Moods. That's Deebo Samuel. Deebo,
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Speaker 2: How you been since your season ended?
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Speaker 1: We haven't had an episode in a while. How you
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Speaker 1: been doing?
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Speaker 3: Be cool, Michilla, you know, just getting off season ready,
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Speaker 3: just got the Arizona's been working out little bit eggs.
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Speaker 3: So it's just here and there, you know, before you
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Speaker 3: really you know, get the time and uh, next week's
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Speaker 3: super Bowl, so you know, you know, it's what everybody
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Speaker 3: waiting on.
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Speaker 1: Mm hmm yep.
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Speaker 2: We we had some pretty interesting football games. We'll get
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Speaker 2: to that at the end of the show, but for now, Debo,
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Speaker 2: we actually have a very special guest.
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Speaker 1: Joining us today.
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Speaker 2: Do you want to do the honors and intro our
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Speaker 2: guest Today's show.
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Speaker 3: Lot Bro for show the one and only you know
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Speaker 3: Roma Doonsday Chicago Bears wide Out and I'm a fifteen.
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Speaker 4: Welcome to the show, Betta. Thank you appreciate you going with.
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Speaker 1: You.
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Speaker 5: Bro.
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Speaker 6: It's been good, Bro, it's been two good to me. Honestly, Uh,
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Speaker 6: it's my first time having a break and like you know,
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Speaker 6: how it is that college transitions straight to the first year.
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Speaker 6: I mean you your first year all went all the
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Speaker 6: way to so it's a it's a it's a long year.
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Speaker 6: So but no, it's been good man, just chilling and
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Speaker 6: enjoying family.
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Speaker 1: How did your season treat you?
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Speaker 2: Your your season with the Bears, and also did it
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Speaker 2: exceed your expectations playing in the NFL?
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Speaker 4: It was good. It was a good year.
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Speaker 6: I mean we had our struggles, you know, like with
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Speaker 6: the wins and losses in the record, but you know,
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Speaker 6: the experience of being in the NFL and playing ball
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Speaker 6: like definitely exweeding my expectations. The atmosphere of it, you know,
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Speaker 6: just being in the locker room with with legends and
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Speaker 6: and people who truly love the game, like it's a
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Speaker 6: it's a unique experience. So all the things like navigating
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Speaker 6: the locker room and you know, the aspect of an
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Speaker 6: NFL organized it's uh, it's it's a lot to kind
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Speaker 6: of go through, but it's it's it's it's it's a
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Speaker 6: dream come true.
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Speaker 4: So I can't complain.
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Speaker 3: Is it like the NFL fun as it looks like?
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Speaker 3: Going from college to the NFL, What was you kind
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Speaker 3: of expecting to be a little bit different than what
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Speaker 3: you thought, like wasn't gonna be expected.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it definitely is fun. It definitely is fun.
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Speaker 6: I think, you know, when we're winning games, it's gonna
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Speaker 6: be a little bit more fun. But uh, but you
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Speaker 6: know it's it's fun playing football for sure. You know,
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Speaker 6: it's a different kind of like locker room atmosphere, so
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Speaker 6: you know, I gotta gotta get used to that. Like
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Speaker 6: I was in the locker room with Mercedes bro He's
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Speaker 6: forty fam like doll like. But I just given an
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Speaker 6: example of like the locker rooms different rather than college
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Speaker 6: like you know, you with all your guys going to
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Speaker 6: class like and then playing ball like it's all the
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Speaker 6: same sort of group. When you're in the NFL, it's
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Speaker 6: a you know, a whole different aspect. But now it's
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Speaker 6: fun for sure. Not for sure, definitely ain't no more
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Speaker 6: class Like you ain't got to go home and get
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Speaker 6: ready for eight tests. You gotta tell you you.
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Speaker 3: Got one job now and you know, yeah, how did
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Speaker 3: you you know, like you just said, you know, dealing
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Speaker 3: with class and this and then the third like other
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Speaker 3: than the playbook, like how did you spend like your
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Speaker 3: dime downtime like gaming, chilling.
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Speaker 4: With your folks or you know how you give that. No,
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Speaker 4: for sure, I'm a big gamer, man, I'm a big gamer.
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Speaker 6: So I was on call of duty a good bit,
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Speaker 6: me and me and Keenan was on call leader me
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Speaker 6: and Caleb too. Just when that, when that had dropt,
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Speaker 6: we was on there a good bit. So and other
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Speaker 6: than that, just chilling watching Netflix. You know, I don't
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Speaker 6: do too much outside of football and just chilling. So
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Speaker 6: I was out there cribby, either on the on the
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Speaker 6: games or watching Netflix or chilling.
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Speaker 4: With my lady.
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Speaker 1: Love that, love that.
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Speaker 2: What was your What did you expect when you met
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Speaker 2: Caleb Williams versus what you actually got from him this season?
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Speaker 2: And have you guys built a pretty tight relationship over
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Speaker 2: the course of this season.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: When I met Caleb, like officially, it was when we
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Speaker 6: had we had worked out before the draft. You know,
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Speaker 6: they must have known the powers that be. I had
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Speaker 6: no clue where I was going, but you know, signicipating,
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Speaker 6: he talks what's going on. But so I had met
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Speaker 6: him and he was he was working hard. You know,
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Speaker 6: we had worked before and was trying to get that
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Speaker 6: chemistry down with me. Ke didn't and DJ you know,
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Speaker 6: even before I was drafted there. So my expectations was that,
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Speaker 6: you know, he has a hunger and he has a drive,
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Speaker 6: and I think that carry it over to the season.
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Speaker 6: You know, it was his rookie year, so you know,
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Speaker 6: it was a lot of different learning, uh and and
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Speaker 6: different things for all of us. But you know, he's
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Speaker 6: competitive and he's someone that you know puts, you know,
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Speaker 6: everything into it. So I'm excited for the future when
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Speaker 6: when we got someone like.
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Speaker 2: That to him, I have to ask really quick. I
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Speaker 2: know Caleb was a little polarizing in college because there
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Speaker 2: wasn't much to go off of besides what the media
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Speaker 2: would show you, Right, So did you have any feelings
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Speaker 2: before you met at him about maybe whether or not
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Speaker 2: you guys would or wouldn't get along. I mean, it
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Speaker 2: feels like he had a pretty good relationship with everybody
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Speaker 2: on the team, but he was kind of polarizing in college.
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Speaker 1: I mean I know that just from watching.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, how it is now I feel you. Yeah, No,
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Speaker 4: I didn't hate him because he painted his nails. I
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Speaker 4: was really I was. I was down for your thing.
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Speaker 6: You know, he got a lot of he got a
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Speaker 6: lot of hating stuff in college, but I was in
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Speaker 6: the bedbu and you know, I've seen the way, you know,
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Speaker 6: he led his team and the respect they had for him.
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Speaker 6: And I got to see him, you know, across the sideline,
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Speaker 6: so I had plenty of respect for his game. And
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Speaker 6: you know, I know the media always tries to tear
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Speaker 6: players apart for the most part, so you know, I
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Speaker 6: never was going to judge him off of that. But
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Speaker 6: you know, when I got to meet him and got
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Speaker 6: to got to know him, you know, he's fashionable. He
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Speaker 6: like he probably was a Paris Fashion Week or somewhere
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Speaker 6: doing his thing. But you know, that's Caleb. That's his personality.
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Speaker 6: But you know, when it comes to football and how
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Speaker 6: we treat others as his teammates, it's a one.
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Speaker 4: So for sure, I love that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're definitely a West Coast kid for sure. How
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Speaker 3: was it in Windy City? Windy City, bro, Bro?
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Speaker 4: It was different.
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Speaker 3: Bro.
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Speaker 4: I ain't never felt in a cold like that is
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Speaker 4: the last week it was colder than the Antarctica out there.
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Speaker 6: Bro. Oh my coach, Yeah, it was cold. It was
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Speaker 6: We had some pretty cold games this year, but it
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Speaker 6: wasn't anything crazy. But there was a couple of weeks
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Speaker 6: out there, like during the week where it was like
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Speaker 6: close to close to single digits. When I left it
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Speaker 6: was in the negative. So that's an adjustment for sure.
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Speaker 6: Like everywhere I've lived, I could walk outside with a
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Speaker 6: hoodie and like be all right, Like out there now
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Speaker 6: the hoodie, the hoodies, not you need the puffer, you
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Speaker 6: need some sort of insulation or you're gonna be raised down.
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Speaker 4: It's different, bro, it's different.
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Speaker 6: But when you play ball, you know they got everything
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Speaker 6: out there for you, whether the heated benches, everything.
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Speaker 4: So I'll do all right. But yeah, it's different. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You played with Michael Pennix for sure in college. You
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Speaker 3: know I used to watch you when I make you.
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Speaker 3: Probably like two years ago we did a little slide
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Speaker 3: out in Vegas. We talked a little bit, but what
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Speaker 3: was it like playing with him and what do you
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Speaker 3: see his future being in the.
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Speaker 6: Lemma oh man, playing with Penis it was dope. Man,
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Speaker 6: that's my guy, that's my brother for life. So you know,
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Speaker 6: he kind of came in from Indiana. His whole college
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Speaker 6: football football story in general was crazy.
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Speaker 4: With his injuries and everything.
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Speaker 6: So man, he's a leader of man and a talented
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Speaker 6: player and a talented, talented guy.
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Speaker 4: So, uh, the sky's the limit for for him.
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Speaker 6: You know when he finally got the starting job and
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Speaker 6: went out there and you know, let that drive. I
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Speaker 6: think it was against uh was against Washington. Yeah, where
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Speaker 6: they went to like the final second, he had the
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Speaker 6: fourth down pass and the end zone like a strike,
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Speaker 6: like you.
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Speaker 4: Know, that's Panics for you.
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Speaker 6: You know, he comes he comes up clutching the biggest moments,
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Speaker 6: and I'm excited for his future.
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Speaker 7: Man.
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Speaker 6: Hopefully, you know, they give him the keys and let
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Speaker 6: him have a whole season to develop and grow, and
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Speaker 6: I think he'll lead that team to great things.
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Speaker 4: Honestly, not show rookie dinner. You had one of those?
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Speaker 4: How did it go? I did have rookie dinner. I
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Speaker 4: did have rookie dinner. It went great, man, for what
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Speaker 4: I thought it was gonna be, honestly the best. Didn't
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Speaker 4: you expected?
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Speaker 7: Oh? Man?
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Speaker 6: I mean I was expecting to get hit over the head,
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Speaker 6: bro like with at least I had reserved already at
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Speaker 6: least like thirty forty because I was like, I don't
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Speaker 6: even like I'm gonna just make sure, like that's already
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Speaker 6: out of my mind. Like so but went straight. Man,
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Speaker 6: They ain't hit me for anything crazy at all.
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Speaker 4: It was a good time.
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Speaker 6: We got to chill, hang out with my brothers, so
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Speaker 6: it was a good time. Hit a little steakhouse spot,
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Speaker 6: so it was cool. But I've seen some of the
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Speaker 6: like like Byron Murphy at the Seahawks, like they faked
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Speaker 6: like that was od. Like they faked like they was
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Speaker 6: gonna give them one hundred and forty and then they.
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Speaker 4: Still hit them for like forty. I was like, it's crazy.
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Speaker 4: That's different, bro. But they must have invited all the
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Speaker 4: other position groups. It was leaving there with all types
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Speaker 4: of bottles. I don't know what is going on. Man,
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Speaker 4: Let me get a bottle. Let me get a bottle for.
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Speaker 3: Everybody, one for everybody. Right.
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Speaker 2: Well, speaking of crazy things, there's also some recent news
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Speaker 2: for you Rome where you have a new head coach
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Speaker 2: in Ben Johnson. Give us your immediate reactions. Uh, how
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Speaker 2: are you feeling about this and is this something that's
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Speaker 2: making you a little more excited about next season and
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Speaker 2: what you guys are capable of?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, definitely, you know, I think Ben uh is
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Speaker 6: a tremendous coach, a tremendous playfar certified you know, and
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Speaker 6: I think, you know, I got to meet him at
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Speaker 6: it at the presser and got to see, you know,
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Speaker 6: his response to some of the reporters questions and how
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Speaker 6: he commanded the room, and you know how he you know,
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Speaker 6: seems very driven, very motivated.
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Speaker 4: So I'm excited. You know, I got to see the Lions.
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Speaker 6: We watch a lot of their clips because they was
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Speaker 6: bawling all year, and you know, their offensive scheme was
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Speaker 6: was tearing it up with all the weapons and stuff
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Speaker 6: they got there along with Ben leading those guys. So yeah,
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Speaker 6: I know, we got a bunch of new additions with
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Speaker 6: a bunch of good coaches flowing in.
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Speaker 4: So I'm excited for sure.
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Speaker 3: Yay.
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Speaker 2: I feel like changes like that are always like exciting,
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Speaker 2: but there's obviously, of course, some question marks. But I
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Speaker 2: feel like with the season, you guys had you mentioned
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Speaker 2: things not really going the way you guys maybe anticipated
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Speaker 2: or hoped. What would you say to knowing you guys
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Speaker 2: now have a new head coach, What would you say
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Speaker 2: to Bears fans that are like feeling like, oh, are
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Speaker 2: we going to be able to do anything? I know,
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Speaker 2: you're on the team, you're in the locker room.
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Speaker 1: You guys know what you've got.
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Speaker 2: How would you get Bears fans excited besides just the
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Speaker 2: new coach of course.
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Speaker 4: Right, I don't have The Bears are tough. They you
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Speaker 4: know they won't win. They won't win. So I would
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Speaker 4: just say, man, hanging there with us.
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Speaker 6: You know, we we we got enough talent, you know,
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Speaker 6: we just need to put the pieces together. But every
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Speaker 6: everybody else where they need to be. And you know,
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Speaker 6: I have the right direction to follow and and minds
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Speaker 6: to put us in the position to make plays. And
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Speaker 6: I think I think we got a good a good
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Speaker 6: audition here for for for some special and hopefully you know,
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Speaker 6: years to come up of Bear success. So I appreciate
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Speaker 6: all the Bears fans out there hanging in with us, man,
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Speaker 6: But things gonna get better.
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Speaker 3: Yay.
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Speaker 1: I love that.
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Speaker 4: THEBA.
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Speaker 1: What's been your perspective of Ben Johnson.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, we played them well, I probably played them.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if he was there in twenty one,
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Speaker 3: but if he was there and twenty one, I played
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Speaker 3: against him like three times. But overall it's just like,
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Speaker 3: you know, just seeing him in the way he called
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Speaker 3: plays from our from our perspectives, like it's just like
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Speaker 3: a very explosive offense, up tempo, very decisive. You know,
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Speaker 3: I just say, just get ready for a big year two.
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Speaker 3: With the way he called plays, I know you'd like
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Speaker 3: to call trick plays for sure, So I know you,
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Speaker 3: I know you kind of get a little bit to
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Speaker 3: kind of see what's what's his story for you get
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Speaker 3: to throw a TV here in it. But I look
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Speaker 3: forward to a big year with him being a head
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Speaker 3: coach and when you call plays on office end.
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Speaker 6: For sure, for sure, I think I think it'll be
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Speaker 6: a good one too. I appreciate it, man, Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 2: You are you are you prepared and ready and excited
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Speaker 2: to potentially throw the ball in a couple of trick
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Speaker 2: plays drawn up.
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Speaker 6: I bet that's so funny, Like that's what everybody has
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Speaker 6: been talking to me about.
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Speaker 1: You.
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Speaker 6: Man, you better get that arm right like you better
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Speaker 6: on trying, bro. You know I got I got a
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Speaker 6: little arm. But you see you content about the little arm.
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Speaker 6: I'm not out here like, yeah, give me a trick
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Speaker 6: play past. I'm about to make it happen now. I
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Speaker 6: catch the I catch the rock. You know I'm receiving.
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Speaker 6: First off, I need to get the job done one hundred.
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Speaker 4: I'm ready for it.
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Speaker 1: So, now, have you ever thrown a touchdown pass? Just
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Speaker 1: be new in your career?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I played quarterback in the little league. I had
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Speaker 5: a couple. I had a couple of touchdown pa. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: so you're ready for it twenty years ago. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 5: been a meaning.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 4: I love sure things that you're taking from year one
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Speaker 4: to year two.
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Speaker 6: Oh man, you said about my game or like, yeah,
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Speaker 6: for your game, how you approach the game, Like how
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Speaker 6: you approach like the meetings, because I know, like being
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Speaker 6: a rookie, you just walking in there, You're like, all right,
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Speaker 6: let me cram all this in, like everything's just new.
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Speaker 3: Let me go out here and just not up. And
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Speaker 3: now you've got like a different perspective of it, like
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Speaker 3: all right, I know what to expect, I know what's
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Speaker 3: going on. Like what are you gonna have a different
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Speaker 3: approach or like how you're gonna you know, take things
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Speaker 3: you learned from one of your two.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure, bro, I think I think I kind
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Speaker 6: of like set the foundation this year honestly exactly like
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Speaker 6: you were saying, like learning so many different things and
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Speaker 6: learning how to navigate within you know, the locker room
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Speaker 6: and on the field, and you know.
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Speaker 4: Getting getting my job done.
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Speaker 6: So I think it's gonna be big for me just
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Speaker 6: to continue like the things that I found success with,
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Speaker 6: whether that's you know, in the treatment or keep my
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Speaker 6: body right, or you know, the way I went about
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Speaker 6: studying the offense because you know, I'm gonna have to
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Speaker 6: learn a new offense again, so you know, the things
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Speaker 6: that work for me was in that scheme, learning that scheme,
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Speaker 6: So I carry a lot of things with me as
14:18
Speaker 6: well as like you know, the different ways how to
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Speaker 6: navigate the locker room and how to navigate like you know,
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Speaker 6: the ups and downs of the season, you know, with
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Speaker 6: with with the.
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Speaker 4: Losses that we have, but and also like the mental.
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Speaker 6: Aspect to it as well, because you know, when you
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Speaker 6: start to lose games like that, you can feel it
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Speaker 6: like in the air, you know what I mean, like
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Speaker 6: the blob of it, trying to remain positive and trying
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Speaker 6: to you know, keep on your task and do what
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Speaker 6: you need to do to you know, for your teammates,
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Speaker 6: that discipline. But all those different things I think are
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Speaker 6: something I'm gonna carry for sure, and it's something I learned.
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Speaker 2: I love that last question on Ben Johnson, what was
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Speaker 2: your first conversation with him.
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Speaker 3: Like.
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Speaker 6: Oh, man, I think you know, he just shook my
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Speaker 6: hand and was like, man, you ready to go, You
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Speaker 6: ready to you know, make some plays. I was like, yeah,
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Speaker 6: let's do it, man, And that was just really brief.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 6: I had talked to him about, you know, his time
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Speaker 6: at the lines and said that I was a big
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Speaker 6: fan of the way you know, that organization was turned
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Speaker 6: around and how he was part of it, and you
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Speaker 6: know the different things that you know, I'm sure he
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Speaker 6: was involved in on that offensive side of things and
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Speaker 6: just the building as a whole. And then I talked
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Speaker 6: about him about his little video he had, you know,
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Speaker 6: introducing himself to all the Bears staff. I thought was funny.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, so I chopped it up him just really
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Speaker 6: real shortly.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, it seems like good dude, I love it.
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Speaker 7: Well.
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Speaker 2: It sounds like there's a lot of optimism and excitement
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Speaker 2: around the Bears right now, and of course, very excited
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Speaker 2: to see what you guys are able to do next season.
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Speaker 2: But let's talk a little bit with both of you
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Speaker 2: now about this season. We just had the NFC and
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Speaker 2: the AFC Championship games this most recent weekend. Some good
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Speaker 2: football being played right now. The Eagles got the ball
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Speaker 2: and Saquon Barkley got his first carry and then did this.
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Speaker 1: We actually have the video here. We're gonna watch a
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Speaker 1: little highlight.
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Speaker 2: Reel, if you will, of Saquon Barkley and what the
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Speaker 2: Eagles are doing right now. What was your guys' reaction
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Speaker 2: to watching this house call on the first carry in
16:19
Speaker 2: this game?
16:20
Speaker 3: Well? Mine was like, you know, yeah, as watching it,
16:24
Speaker 3: you like you're not just about to like you gotta
16:26
Speaker 3: wrap this guy up and like actually try to bring
16:28
Speaker 3: him down, like all these arm tackles and this, that
16:32
Speaker 3: and the third like he got so much like in him,
16:35
Speaker 3: like to go out here and just like, you know,
16:38
Speaker 3: he got out of respect in the world.
16:40
Speaker 4: But I think he got something on his shoulder. Was like,
16:42
Speaker 4: I feel like these folks should have never did nothing like.
16:45
Speaker 3: This, and it's just like everything in them just like
16:47
Speaker 3: let me just go make a play, let me just go.
16:49
Speaker 3: And I feel like every every chance that he didn't
16:52
Speaker 3: got like he didn't, he don't prove like why are
16:56
Speaker 3: you the guy?
16:56
Speaker 4: For real?
16:58
Speaker 3: Rom?
16:58
Speaker 1: What was your reaction, so, man?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, very similar. I like I watched the highlights.
17:03
Speaker 6: Is different when I feel like when you get to
17:05
Speaker 6: this level, I feel like I got a different appreciation
17:07
Speaker 6: for like ball carriers and people that just don't get
17:10
Speaker 6: tackled and make plays like that.
17:12
Speaker 4: It's hard to do. So you know, Debo is one
17:14
Speaker 4: of those guys too.
17:15
Speaker 6: So watching these highlights with us, like man like man,
17:17
Speaker 6: he's just out there playing ball like it's the most
17:20
Speaker 6: natural form, Like put the ball in their hands and
17:22
Speaker 6: watch them go play. And Saquon has been doing that
17:24
Speaker 6: all years. So I'm excited to see, you know, him,
17:27
Speaker 6: continue to do his thing and hopefully go crazy in
17:29
Speaker 6: the super Bowl.
17:31
Speaker 1: Yeah.
17:31
Speaker 2: So he's thirty yards away from most all time yards
17:35
Speaker 2: for running back ever in a season with a new
17:39
Speaker 2: team if the Eagles, right, I mean, if the Eagles
17:43
Speaker 2: win the Super Bowl, are you willing to call this
17:45
Speaker 2: the best season we've ever seen by a running back ever?
17:48
Speaker 1: Even thirty yards?
17:49
Speaker 6: Shy?
17:50
Speaker 3: Even if they win, he's gonna he probably go down
17:54
Speaker 3: as one of the best backs. Even if they lose,
17:56
Speaker 3: he still is not going to change. But yeah, like
18:00
Speaker 3: the man, just the man just had an outstanding season,
18:03
Speaker 3: like overall, Like if I feel like every time you
18:07
Speaker 3: look up here in his own.
18:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true, it's true, It's true.
18:14
Speaker 2: Rome, How are you feeling about is could we call
18:16
Speaker 2: this all time?
18:16
Speaker 1: If he again?
18:18
Speaker 2: Debo's kind of saying win or lose, you could probably
18:21
Speaker 2: call it all time. Do you feel the same way
18:22
Speaker 2: or do you want to see him solidify it with
18:25
Speaker 2: a with a Super Bowl championship?
18:28
Speaker 4: Yeah? No, I think I agree.
18:29
Speaker 6: I mean you always want to see him, you know,
18:31
Speaker 6: solidify it, put the put the cap on it. But
18:34
Speaker 6: the things he's done this year, like not only like
18:36
Speaker 6: the stats, but the highlight plays and the big moments,
18:39
Speaker 6: like the clutch plays he's.
18:41
Speaker 4: Made, it's just it's overwhelming.
18:43
Speaker 6: So I think, you know, he has to be up
18:45
Speaker 6: there in that conversation for one of the best seasons
18:48
Speaker 6: ever and hopefully, you know, his career will go this way,
18:50
Speaker 6: will be one of the best backs ever. So yeah,
18:52
Speaker 6: I think he I think he's definitely in the conversation
18:54
Speaker 6: for sure.
18:56
Speaker 2: Yeah. And fifty five points they scored in this championship game,
19:00
Speaker 2: the most ever in a championship game actually, and we
19:04
Speaker 2: know they've got some pretty tough competition in the Super
19:06
Speaker 2: Bowl this year. I know Divo doesn't like to talk
19:08
Speaker 2: about it. I as a Broncos fan, certainly don't like
19:10
Speaker 2: to talk about it, but we do have the other
19:13
Speaker 2: team in the Super Bowl, which is the Kansas City Chiefs.
19:15
Speaker 1: They took down the Bills yet again.
19:18
Speaker 2: It feels like the Bills just cannot get past this team.
19:22
Speaker 2: We've got some highlights here, of course, this is the
19:25
Speaker 2: final play that sent the Chiefs to New Orleans for
19:29
Speaker 2: another Super Bowl. What are your guys' reactions to this game?
19:33
Speaker 2: Rome will start with you this time. How are you
19:36
Speaker 2: feeling about the.
19:37
Speaker 1: Chiefs going back again?
19:39
Speaker 2: It makes my skin crawl, but we'll get your hopefully
19:42
Speaker 2: non biased opinion.
19:43
Speaker 1: How are you feeling about the Chiefs?
19:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I feel a little bit of that
19:47
Speaker 4: as well.
19:48
Speaker 6: You know, I was rooting for Josh Allen and the
19:50
Speaker 6: Bills honestly, just because you know, I'm a fan of
19:53
Speaker 6: their game and the season that they've had. But it's like,
19:57
Speaker 6: it's like I'm past the point where I can like
19:59
Speaker 6: even hate like all the Chiefs and games like man.
20:01
Speaker 2: They.
20:03
Speaker 4: Just keep beat me twice. It's like I got all the.
20:07
Speaker 7: Reason Yo's got other He's got strong feelings for a
20:16
Speaker 7: pretty good reason.
20:17
Speaker 8: So but yeah, I mean, I mean, yeah, Depo, you
20:26
Speaker 8: you've played this team in the Super Bowl, So so
20:30
Speaker 8: what what was that like?
20:31
Speaker 2: And then what do you think the Eagles need to
20:34
Speaker 2: make sure that they've got up their sleeves to hopefully
20:38
Speaker 2: win one?
20:40
Speaker 3: First of all, you know, I think on Philly, and
20:43
Speaker 3: it starts with the d line that they got the
20:45
Speaker 3: amazing players they got up front. As you can see,
20:48
Speaker 3: they've just been they've just been dogs all year long.
20:52
Speaker 3: Force you know, uh kind of recap of the Bills
20:56
Speaker 3: and and and the Chiefs game.
20:58
Speaker 4: It's just like every time Pat Home called him in
21:00
Speaker 4: man the Man.
21:01
Speaker 3: They were just running straight race routes and then like,
21:04
Speaker 3: I mean, you you're gonna get picked.
21:05
Speaker 4: I was just like Winter and there like gonna pop
21:07
Speaker 4: out in his own just that in the third. But
21:09
Speaker 4: it never happened.
21:09
Speaker 3: But you you always gotta you gotta tip your head
21:12
Speaker 3: off to the Chiefs for sure, always finding a way
21:13
Speaker 3: to win. So we got the Chiefs and the Eagles. No,
21:19
Speaker 3: I gotta love hate both, but you know, I got
21:21
Speaker 3: all love for my brother A. J. Brown over there,
21:24
Speaker 3: so I definitely want to see him win. I definitely
21:26
Speaker 3: don't want to see my home get the third one.
21:30
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm I'm rocking with Yeah, I'm rocking with
21:34
Speaker 3: A J and and and saq one with this one
21:37
Speaker 3: for sure. Okay, not gonna be too much in tune
21:41
Speaker 3: of the game, but I would like to see the
21:43
Speaker 3: outcome up for sure.
21:45
Speaker 2: Okay, Rome, who you got Who's winning the Super Bowl
21:48
Speaker 2: this year?
21:50
Speaker 6: I think I think the Eagle, Like I don't know,
21:53
Speaker 6: I don't even know I can say that, Like it's
21:55
Speaker 6: hard to count out.
21:56
Speaker 4: With Patrick Mahomes, but I think he was gonna win.
21:58
Speaker 6: I think they run game, and like you said, the
22:00
Speaker 6: tranches of the defense and the offense, offensive line, defensive line
22:04
Speaker 6: are just super impressive and been making plays all year.
22:07
Speaker 4: So i'mna have to go to the Eagles.
22:12
Speaker 2: Hey, I am with you guys, And this is actually
22:14
Speaker 2: I'm trying my best to remove my AFC west Hias.
22:19
Speaker 1: I'm trying not to be. But let me tell you something.
22:22
Speaker 2: I've been talking with our producer Ron, who's a big
22:26
Speaker 2: Eagles fan. I've been talking with him all season long. Then,
22:29
Speaker 2: I've had faith in the Eagles since the beginning, since
22:32
Speaker 2: they got Saquon. I was really excited about what they
22:34
Speaker 2: could do. So their defense getting better every game, and
22:37
Speaker 2: then of course Saquon Barkley Jaylor hurt.
22:39
Speaker 1: They've just got a lot of talents. Fly Eagles Fly.
22:44
Speaker 1: I do.
22:45
Speaker 2: Before we let Rome go, though, I do want to
22:47
Speaker 2: really quickly get your guys' reaction and give you the
22:50
Speaker 2: chance to give a little bit of praise to Jayden Daniels,
22:54
Speaker 2: who was able to compete in an NFC championship game
22:57
Speaker 2: as a rookie quarterback. He had an outstanding season, and
23:01
Speaker 2: I think there's just a lot of excitement around what
23:04
Speaker 2: the Commanders are doing, but mostly what Jaden Daniels is
23:07
Speaker 2: able to do in his first year. Rome starting with you,
23:09
Speaker 2: how impressed were you by Jaden Daniels this year?
23:12
Speaker 7: Oh?
23:13
Speaker 6: Man, Yeah, I mean being able to watch him on TV,
23:16
Speaker 6: watch him do his thing week in and week out
23:18
Speaker 6: was super impressive, just knowing, you know, he's in the
23:20
Speaker 6: same position as me.
23:21
Speaker 4: He's a rookie. You know, he's he's going.
23:23
Speaker 6: Through the same challenges and and uh, you know, learning,
23:26
Speaker 6: learning a whole new offense. He got more responsibilities than me,
23:29
Speaker 6: you know, being a quarterback, and he just did his thing.
23:32
Speaker 6: So you know, I got to see him through that
23:34
Speaker 6: hell Mary against us. It still hurts, uh, you know,
23:38
Speaker 6: I know it does. Continued to roll on so you know,
23:44
Speaker 6: the kid, he's doing his thing and I'm excited to
23:48
Speaker 6: see him continue to develop, and especially for a team
23:51
Speaker 6: you know, like the Commander's you know that hasn't had
23:53
Speaker 6: you know a lot of success in the past.
23:55
Speaker 4: Like for them to kind.
23:56
Speaker 6: Of get get rocking and do their thing, I think
24:00
Speaker 6: the fan base deserves it so and so to see
24:02
Speaker 6: with all the work he's put in.
24:04
Speaker 4: So for sure, I think.
24:06
Speaker 2: With rookies, a lot of their success in their first
24:08
Speaker 2: year also has to do with the veteran presence that
24:12
Speaker 2: they have on their teams.
24:13
Speaker 1: Rome. What was it like having Keenan Allen as your
24:15
Speaker 1: vet this year?
24:17
Speaker 4: Oh? It was awesome.
24:18
Speaker 6: You know with Keenan and DJ both both those guys
24:21
Speaker 6: are were just great bets.
24:22
Speaker 4: You know.
24:23
Speaker 6: Every time I had a question or or you know,
24:25
Speaker 6: needed to learn something or was messing up on something,
24:28
Speaker 6: you know, they would you know, let me know and
24:30
Speaker 6: help me correct it. You know that's on on and
24:33
Speaker 6: off the field. You know how I'm maneuvering myself. So
24:37
Speaker 6: it was a blessing. And you know, those are two
24:39
Speaker 6: guys who are hilarious in the locker rooms. Slave Keenan
24:42
Speaker 6: is a is a one of a kind characters, so
24:45
Speaker 6: it's DJ So you know they always keep spirits high
24:47
Speaker 6: in the wide receiver room, and you know I always
24:50
Speaker 6: got you know, things that cheer people love. So yeah,
24:52
Speaker 6: it was a blessing for sure.
24:55
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that.
24:56
Speaker 2: And then Deebo, final thoughts for you really quickly on
25:00
Speaker 2: Jade and Daniel's season.
25:00
Speaker 1: We didn't get your thoughts, and then we'll let Rome
25:02
Speaker 1: get out of here.
25:05
Speaker 3: Just watching the NFC Championship, I think, but he was
25:08
Speaker 3: the first repeat to make it to the NFC Championship
25:11
Speaker 3: as a quarterback.
25:11
Speaker 4: Or something like that.
25:13
Speaker 3: But just like just seeing like the moment wasn't like
25:15
Speaker 3: you watch him back there and just realize like he
25:18
Speaker 3: looked at the game, it's like the moment not too
25:19
Speaker 3: big for me. I feel like it looked like he's
25:21
Speaker 3: been there before, and just watching him from LSU to now,
25:25
Speaker 3: it just seemed like nothing is too much change. He'd
25:28
Speaker 3: always been consistent putting everything on the line for his team,
25:31
Speaker 3: So I mean, the Skuys are living for him and
25:33
Speaker 3: the guys over there in Washington, for sure.
25:36
Speaker 1: I love it.
25:37
Speaker 2: Well, Rome, thank you so much for joining us, and
25:39
Speaker 2: I am feeling very excited about your next season and
25:43
Speaker 2: all the excitement you guys have going on with your
25:45
Speaker 2: franchise and your team, and wishing you nothing but the best.
25:48
Speaker 1: Deebo, any final thoughts for Rome before we send him
25:50
Speaker 1: on his.
25:51
Speaker 4: Way, Nah, for sure.
25:52
Speaker 3: Just just attack this off season like you attacked, you know,
25:56
Speaker 3: being out there working out before you got drafts.
25:58
Speaker 4: Just keep the same mindset. But you know, the skuys
26:00
Speaker 4: I think we're a living brother.
26:02
Speaker 6: Yeah, appreciate you, man, Yeah, no, Dustja mushing U sus
26:05
Speaker 6: test too, man, keep doing anything.
26:06
Speaker 4: Appreciate it, Bro.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. We'll see you soon, Okay,
26:11
Speaker 2: Deebo really quickly. We have a little special announcement actually,
26:15
Speaker 2: oh yeah us before we wrap Debo, we want to
26:20
Speaker 2: let everybody tuning in right now know that we next week.
26:25
Speaker 2: The next time you see us actually for cleats and
26:28
Speaker 2: convos with Deebo Samuel will be next Wednesday at the
26:31
Speaker 2: Super Bowl Radio Row.
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Speaker 1: We will be going.
26:34
Speaker 2: Live and delivering you guys content, not just us, but
26:38
Speaker 2: Bleep your report. Actually every day leading up to the
26:41
Speaker 2: Super Bowl will have some type of content for you guys.
26:43
Speaker 2: But if you want to hear from myself and Debo,
26:46
Speaker 2: we will be hosting live cleats and convos right there
26:49
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl Radio Row in New Orleans twelve
26:52
Speaker 2: to two pm Eastern time. And we're gonna have some
26:56
Speaker 2: special guests, Yes, I said plural, guess with Ane there
27:01
Speaker 2: will be more than one. So we will see you
27:03
Speaker 2: guys next week. Diebo, what are you most excited for
27:07
Speaker 2: when you get on the plane and head to New Orleans?
27:09
Speaker 1: Besides hanging out with me?
27:10
Speaker 4: Of course? Oh?
27:13
Speaker 3: What exciting like it wont be our two guests on
27:16
Speaker 3: the show, just being at Radio Row, you know, hosting
27:19
Speaker 3: our own show, you know, just the first time.
27:21
Speaker 4: Just see how it goes. For sure, for.
27:23
Speaker 2: Sure it'll be super super fun. We are both rooting
27:28
Speaker 2: for the Eagles.
27:30
Speaker 1: Let's go. What'd you say?
27:32
Speaker 4: No basketball for you? No baskets?
27:35
Speaker 1: All right, that's all right. I don't need to talk
27:38
Speaker 1: basketball for its Super Bowl. I'll be super excited and
27:40
Speaker 1: we'll be rooting for Philly.
27:42
Speaker 5: Uh.
27:43
Speaker 2: You guys had to know that was coming, of course.
27:45
Speaker 2: Fly Eagles Fly as the Broncos fan and forty nine ers,
27:48
Speaker 2: you know, come.
27:49
Speaker 1: On, I'm dragging it. I'm dragging it fly hashtag Fly
27:52
Speaker 1: Eagles Fly.
27:53
Speaker 2: But we will see you guys next Wednesday, Live from
27:56
Speaker 2: Radio Row for another episode of Cleats and Convos with
27:58
Speaker 2: Deebo Samuel. I'm live moods, that of course is Deebo Samuel.
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Speaker 2: You guys know who that is. Thank you, guys so
28:04
Speaker 2: much for tuning in to another episode and we will
28:06
Speaker 2: catch you next week at the super Bowl Sea