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Press Pass | Allen: "We're young, talented and we're ready to learn." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: What before you've done since Uh many campbods now all
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Speaker 1: those stuff you know. Uh, I'm sorry where you go
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Speaker 1: in London days von von uh Man. This all season
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Speaker 1: was a great offense for me. Man. Uh I got
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Speaker 1: to be around a lot of players, a lot of
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Speaker 1: different players, a lot of legends, a lot of guys
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Speaker 1: I could just pick their brains and just learn from. Uh.
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Speaker 1: So I feel like for me, man, I'm at the
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Speaker 1: stage now. I was just you know, I just need
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Speaker 1: to prep and prepare and then get my mind right,
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Speaker 1: to get my schedule, to get my routine and uh
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Speaker 1: work it every day and learn a lot of stuff
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Speaker 1: from a lot of different guys. I can take away
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Speaker 1: here that I continue to still do. And it's just
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Speaker 1: about the things that you do over and over and
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Speaker 1: over and over again. And that was the main message
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Speaker 1: that I got from all those guys, and uh, I
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Speaker 1: appreciate all them and I can't wait to show it
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Speaker 1: on some days deal work. Uh. You know, I've been
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Speaker 1: wanting to work with Rob since, you know, since I
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Speaker 1: got out of college. My positional coach, Coach White when
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Speaker 1: he got to college, when he got to Kentucky, came
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Speaker 1: from Indie and I was the first person he mentioned. Um,
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Speaker 1: so he's like, man, whenever you get out of here, man,
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Speaker 1: Gil Rob So they're out there. My rookieyear I played
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Speaker 1: against him, he came to the game, and uh we
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Speaker 1: chopped it up for just a little bit. And to
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Speaker 1: that day. Man, it was then Covid hit, and then
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Speaker 1: last year hit, and then we still don't work. And
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Speaker 1: then I was about to help go out there to
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Speaker 1: the Kentucky Um. But then you know, I'm saying, I
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Speaker 1: just thought about the grand scheme of things, the biggest
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Speaker 1: scheme to get let me get my dogs right. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, We don't know. We've got a
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Speaker 1: lot of players in Jacksonville. You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: invest the money to bring him up here. Because if
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Speaker 1: we learned one two things from him and we could
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Speaker 1: take it walk, we just made our money back. So uh,
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Speaker 1: we got great work, great conversations. Uh, in great preparation
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Speaker 1: from your back right now, right now, helpful. Something's gonna happen. Man,
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Speaker 1: I'm ready to play some football. That speaks for herself. Dougs.
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Speaker 1: Main message to you guys when you got when you
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Speaker 1: reported for training camp, is there anything that especially resonated
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Speaker 1: with you that that he said, Uh, stay disciplined. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, be detailed on what you do and be
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Speaker 1: on time you do those things will be a successful team.
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Speaker 1: The last year you're talking about consistency is a little bit.
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Speaker 1: How much of a focus point is that for you
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Speaker 1: wounded to the year four, obviously had a year two years.
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Speaker 1: The injuries you know, messed around with here. Um, but
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Speaker 1: is that a focused concentration every Sunday. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: just you know, I start that right now. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, start that preparation right now is to
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Speaker 1: attack each day and every day and get better each day. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, I gotta rely on my technique every day, uh,
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Speaker 1: and really honing on all those little small details, and
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Speaker 1: then that's what's gonna give me. Because my physical attributes,
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Speaker 1: I feel like I can give me to where I
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Speaker 1: need to be, But it's the mental part that's gonna
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Speaker 1: take me to where I am going to be in
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Speaker 1: the next level. So it is honing in those little
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Speaker 1: things and just being detailed and being consistent on those
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Speaker 1: and then that can give me to eventually the Sundays
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Speaker 1: and then get better and better. Plus the team around me. Man,
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Speaker 1: it's just phenomenal. So uh, we all will be making
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Speaker 1: plays where I will be fine around, but it's just
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Speaker 1: one player at a time, and I'm excited to get going.
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Speaker 1: You did you help the younger guys as much as
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Speaker 1: you appear to be doing right here? Man? I led
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Speaker 1: by example. Man. Uh, you know I led when nobody
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Speaker 1: was here and they saw it, so it would made
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Speaker 1: it so much easier to when we did get all
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Speaker 1: together that I was gonna be working and everybody's gonna
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Speaker 1: come along. I did enforced nobody. Everybody chose to. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, to work. And that's the same
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Speaker 1: thing here, you know, saying all of us getting that
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Speaker 1: extra work, my dvs back there getting a working man. Uh,
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Speaker 1: we just all lead by example and work hard. You
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Speaker 1: know the goods gonna follow that. What do you like
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Speaker 1: about what you guys are gonna put out their scheme life?
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Speaker 1: I mean three or four defense? You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: my outside linebacker, I do it all, um, not even
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Speaker 1: just me. I'm excited about Trayvon, looks all about Van.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I'm sorry about Jamir. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I feel like we have a
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Speaker 1: really good outside linebacker group. We're young, we're talented, and
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Speaker 1: we're ready to learn and were ready to be great.
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Speaker 1: We have a great outside linebacker coach that's helping us
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Speaker 1: prepare the right way and that's teaching us the game detail.
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Speaker 1: Um so I'm really excited about that. And yeah, brought
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Speaker 1: in like, I mean, he played the game. I mean
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's you know, nothing's really different in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. You just change terminologies and you do it different.
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Speaker 1: But with him, man, he's played the game. So like,
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Speaker 1: you know, if we see something and it's something that
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Speaker 1: we don't feel like we like that, we can do.
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Speaker 1: We can I can go and having a conversation with
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Speaker 1: and learn and grow understand what he's talking about, understanding
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Speaker 1: player can't understand why we're calling it. And then so
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Speaker 1: that makes it a lot different, That makes it a
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Speaker 1: lot better this syear so far versus I know you
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Speaker 1: guys were watching the tape, A lot of guys were
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Speaker 1: quietly something for him. What did you see, you know,
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Speaker 1: Versus when he was in Georgia versus what you're seeing
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Speaker 1: now here these first few days. Man, I ain't watched
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Speaker 1: that boy in Georgia, you know Kentucky. You know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, where we should have won that game. But
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Speaker 1: now from what I see here now, man, he's he
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Speaker 1: wants to be great, you know what I'm saying. So
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Speaker 1: he attacks every day like it's his last day. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he's ready to learn. He's like he's a sponge. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like I said, he was mentality wise,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying that the way I came in.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, he wants to be around
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Speaker 1: greatness because he wants to be great. And you know,
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Speaker 1: you get some guys like that around in the locker room,
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Speaker 1: you know we're gonna be a great team. You often
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Speaker 1: hear a lot of not often you don't always hear bets,
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Speaker 1: you know, put their arm around the guys and praise
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Speaker 1: the guy. Like Tray Bond. How would you describe your
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Speaker 1: bond with him and how it's grown so quickly. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I just like I said, man, I just try to
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Speaker 1: lead by example. I try to do what I can do.
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Speaker 1: I want to be the best player in national football
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Speaker 1: lead this year, and I prepare like that, and I'm
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Speaker 1: going to continue to pay like that. If he wants
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Speaker 1: to be you know what I'm saying, the best player,
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Speaker 1: the best rookie in the school draft class, which I
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Speaker 1: think he is him or Devon Um or Chad or
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Speaker 1: Luke uh you know, come follow me. You know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. We can all get ready, we can all work.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna learn, and we canna grow from each other.
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Speaker 1: And that's what I'm really excited about him. And it's
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Speaker 1: old rookie class and I really do think this rookie
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Speaker 1: class can be something special. And I'm excited to see
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Speaker 1: him work. They fly around like it's no other and
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Speaker 1: like g that's like I said, Man, I can't wait.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see him work this year, grinding
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Speaker 1: the show fire and just get Man, it feels good
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Speaker 1: to be to be a part, you know, just to
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Speaker 1: be a part of professional locker room. Not only in
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Speaker 1: the locker room, but when you talk to the coaches.
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Speaker 1: It's a professional setting. You know what I'm saying. It's
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Speaker 1: you gotta hone onto the details. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: If you're not listening to details, you know, it's not
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Speaker 1: getting on you. It's telling him what's right and what's wrong.
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Speaker 1: And you know as guys, as growing man, we need
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Speaker 1: to understand that. And he's putting away we can understand
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Speaker 1: it and grow. He's not getting on us. He's let
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Speaker 1: us know what's real and he's talking to us like
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Speaker 1: grown man. And you know what I'm saying with that,
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Speaker 1: none but respect. We want to grow, we want to
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Speaker 1: be great. And plus he has the respect, uh and
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Speaker 1: in his in his resume, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: So we want to get We want to be an
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Speaker 1: organization to where we can get to that point one day.
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Speaker 1: And you know what I'm saying, if we do things
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Speaker 1: right and we listen, I feel like we can get
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Speaker 1: to the point and we are the changes that need
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Speaker 1: to be made. Yeah, we're getting there. Man. Uh. It's
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Speaker 1: the first second day account, third day account, second day
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Speaker 1: of being out here on the field. It's a long process.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. The end goal is the
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Speaker 1: one to super boat. But you know what he's teaching
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Speaker 1: us and what we all know, it's a process to
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Speaker 1: It is just one process that this is one step
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Speaker 1: to get to what we need to be. Uh. And
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Speaker 1: we know that and we're taking it like that. So
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Speaker 1: so I'm excited about to share. I'm excited for him.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited for all the coaches that he put around us,
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Speaker 1: and I'm ready to grow and I'm ready to win.
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Speaker 1: Last year, Sorry, it's the best you felt going into
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Speaker 1: a seat. Yeah, yeah, I feel like, man, it's all season.
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Speaker 1: I prepare. I worked my butt off, I learned, I grew,
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Speaker 1: I got physically stronger, got mentally stronger. Um, and I
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Speaker 1: feel like no can nobody stopped me. I feel that
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the best defensive player in that football
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Speaker 1: league and I'm gonna work like that every day and
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Speaker 1: that's my mentality. And they helped me stay with stay
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Speaker 1: with that mentality. And like I said, man, I got
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of guys that's ready to work, that's hungry.
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Speaker 1: And you know what I'm saying. When that mentality, when
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Speaker 1: I attitudes around the locker room, everybody gets hungry, and
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Speaker 1: I would just want to work even harder and harder
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Speaker 1: and harder. So I'm excited about these camp days. I'm
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Speaker 1: e scorry to compete against the offense. And I had
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Speaker 1: conversations with Trevor. Trevor is super excited. I'm super excited
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Speaker 1: for him, super excited for this offense. Man, I think
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Speaker 1: they did a really good job with brtain pieces around him.
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Speaker 1: That's gonna benefit him, it's gonna benefit this team, and
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Speaker 1: uh I'm excited for it. To find yourself a few
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Speaker 1: months ago and what you just said there is pretty
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Speaker 1: pretty strong words. Is there any one thing pin point
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Speaker 1: is getting you from the end of last season where
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Speaker 1: you're at right now? Say that again. You talked to
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Speaker 1: it a few months ago about about the struggles of
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Speaker 1: last season and you need to go find yourself to
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Speaker 1: figures two things out. And now you're saying things like,
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Speaker 1: you know, being the best defense player in National League,
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Speaker 1: that's a pretty big jump. Is there one thing that
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Speaker 1: you can pend point that maybe it got you from
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Speaker 1: where you were where you're right now? The work I
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Speaker 1: put in, Like I know, you know I work. I
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Speaker 1: know the work I put in, and I know the
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Speaker 1: sacrifice and I know the discipline that I put in
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Speaker 1: each day they get to that level. And uh so
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Speaker 1: you know, it's really up to me and I really
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Speaker 1: do believe that, and I'm going to continue to believe
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Speaker 1: that to the end of the season in the postseason,
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna work like that every day. Do you
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Speaker 1: send them as energy. The thing is energy, guys, as
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Speaker 1: you are about you know Peterson, that the first last
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Speaker 1: year just kind of the great things for long. I
10:06
Speaker 1: mean yeah, um yeah, you know you can obviously tell
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. The attitude different. I feel
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Speaker 1: like we always had a great locker room, like the
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Speaker 1: guys that were there and the guys I came back
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Speaker 1: this year, man, like we wanted to win each week.
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Speaker 1: You know, I know the results in the dinner result
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Speaker 1: of the winds, but we took each day. We didn't
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Speaker 1: take each day for granted. We came together as a whole,
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Speaker 1: as a defense man, as an offense. We talked it out,
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Speaker 1: we learned, we grew and from last year, man, we
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Speaker 1: just grew from that. And now we know what that
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Speaker 1: feels like. You know what I'm saying. We know what
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Speaker 1: we need to do different, We know what we needed
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Speaker 1: to have to be different, and now we have that.
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Speaker 1: So now it's up to us to put that extra level.
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Speaker 1: And you know, everybody's excited. I'm excited to be with everybody, man,
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Speaker 1: And I'm excited, Like I said, man, I'm excited to
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Speaker 1: grow and I'm excited to compete with each other and
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Speaker 1: ready to get back into his to these camp days.
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Speaker 1: Man hot I stay I stay safe, man, stay hydrated.
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Speaker 1: Earlier about the pieces that were around Yeah, we talked
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Speaker 1: about the pieces that they put around you, the mill
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Speaker 1: portions with the portions defense. I think Williams not even
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Speaker 1: that we got players, like the additions that we that
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Speaker 1: we had that we just got. It's the depth that
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Speaker 1: we have in each position that I'm most excited about. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, Man, when you go to the ones,
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Speaker 1: ones gonna were gonna be out there flying. And then
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Speaker 1: when you go to the twos, there's no drop off,
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Speaker 1: and everybody's out there wants to start, and everybody can
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Speaker 1: start on his defense. And so now when you have
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Speaker 1: the competition in each group and you have people competing
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Speaker 1: for that one spot's gonna bring the best out of everybody.
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Speaker 1: And that's what I say that you know what we
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Speaker 1: got better in this shiew We got better depth at
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Speaker 1: each level. Uh. You know, like I said, Shack and
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Speaker 1: Tyson still out there. We just we just added some
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Speaker 1: We just add some pizza in the back end. That's
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Speaker 1: gonna make them compete. It's gonna get them better. Uh.
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Speaker 1: In the middle, you know, we got you know we
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Speaker 1: we bought Folly, you know, we got shot and then
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Speaker 1: we bought Chad and Devon. That's competition. Only two can
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Speaker 1: play and all of them can start. So that's competition
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Speaker 1: that's gonna bring up the best in each one of them.
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Speaker 1: End and up front. Man, oh my goodness, we got
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Speaker 1: some big boys. It's ready to play, and I'm excited
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Speaker 1: for them. Man, they're gonna take up some blocks. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna make everybody else free. They're gonna make our job
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Speaker 1: a lot easier. And I'm excited about that job. Said,
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Speaker 1: hasn't flown around like any type you've seen before. You know, Um,
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Speaker 1: what can we expect to see from Trayvon on Sunday?
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Speaker 1: How excited are you to see those pads on for
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Speaker 1: the first time? And man, he got it, he got it.
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Speaker 1: I know I'm not gonna talk for him in that sense.
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Speaker 1: I know he's gonna be ready, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: That's why I say. I can see how he texts
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Speaker 1: each day out here. That's how I know he's gonna
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Speaker 1: be ready on Sundays. But like I said, he's still
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Speaker 1: a rookie, he's still grown, he's still learning. But on
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Speaker 1: Sundays when when the season starts, he's gonna be ready
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Speaker 1: to play some part. He's gonna be a physical freak
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Speaker 1: and he's gonna dominate the game and we're gonna see.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, guys, stay hydrated.