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Inside the Charge: Connor McGovern Talks Rushing Offense, Thanksgiving And More ! · Inside the Charge

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into another episode of Inside the Charge. I'm Maddie
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  Speaker 1: glab and I'm joined by quarterback Trae Davius White, who's
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  Speaker 1: you know. Just back every week and we love it.
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  Speaker 1: We love you being here with us.
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  Speaker 2: Trey, what we missed last week? Do the people know that?
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  Speaker 2: They do know that?
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  Speaker 1: He released an episode for the Hallmark movie and we
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  Speaker 1: taped that like the first week of the season, so
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  Speaker 1: we aired that. But Trey's back. He's happy to be back.
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  Speaker 1: He was bummed to miss.
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  Speaker 2: Week this Week four three Week.
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  Speaker 1: Three Week three with me, We're back.
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  Speaker 2: How can I miss?
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  Speaker 1: Come on now, Trey, you had a nice long weekend.
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  Speaker 1: What'd you do?
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  Speaker 2: Sleep? Sleep? More sleep? We got back from uh you
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  Speaker 2: guys got back from Houston. Yeah, it was like five o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't go to sleep till like six thirty.
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  Speaker 1: And by that time your kids are probably already awake, yea.
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  Speaker 2: Getting ready for school. Well seven thirty, so I had
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  Speaker 2: another hour.
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  Speaker 1: Before they So you had an hour sleep and then
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  Speaker 1: you were up with the kiddos.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, trying trying to help assist a little bit, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: getting to get them out the door. But after that
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  Speaker 2: I stepped a little bit for like probably maybe an
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  Speaker 2: hour after that had to be here workouts, team meeting, meetings,
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, are you.
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  Speaker 1: A coffee guy? When you need some caffeine or when
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  Speaker 1: you need some energy or just you just operate off
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  Speaker 1: of chocolate chip cookies to get you.
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  Speaker 2: Through for sure, most definitely chocolate chip cookies. No coffee.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a big coffee guy. When when I first
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  Speaker 2: got into the league, like a lot of people told,
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  Speaker 2: like Kyle, he was the first one. He was like,
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  Speaker 2: you drink coffee.
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  Speaker 1: He's like I was like, no, He's like, son, let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you about coffee.
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  Speaker 2: Come on now with Christmas, Christmas senagalue, you know, Christmas
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  Speaker 2: coming up, So Santa Claus beer he had. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he was telling me about year two or three that
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  Speaker 2: I was going to be a big coffee guy. But
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  Speaker 2: still to this day, year nine, no coffee. I'm more
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  Speaker 2: of a uh to get up in the morning. You
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  Speaker 2: know orange juice? Nice, I get that every morning, freshly
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  Speaker 2: squeezed orange juice. You know some some good stuff that
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  Speaker 2: we have here. But no coffee, No coffee, no coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Did you do anything fun?
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  Speaker 2: Hhmm? Did I you know what took the kids? We
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  Speaker 2: went to We went to Walmart. It was like, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, since you guys was good while I was
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  Speaker 2: away on the on the way trip, let's just let's
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  Speaker 2: let's let's go down this tyle. Let's let's see what
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  Speaker 2: we can get.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're just inviting chaos.
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  Speaker 2: You know. So we were down here Walmart off Southwestern,
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  Speaker 2: down here in Hamburg, and we we had a great time.
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  Speaker 2: What they get, uh, I can tell you that skateboard
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  Speaker 2: we had. We got a puzzle, a thousand piece puzzle.
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  Speaker 2: Then we're gonna put together as a family. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: do that. Tried to work on that last night. Didn't
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  Speaker 2: go somewhere. That was the tip one. We got a skateboard.
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  Speaker 2: What else did we get? We got bouncy balls every
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  Speaker 2: time we go in the store. We got to get
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  Speaker 2: a basketball and the football for sure. Got that. T
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  Speaker 2: Davis just wanted the He wanted the tennis racket. Cool,
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  Speaker 2: but we're gonna save that so for when we get
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  Speaker 2: when we get back to the offseason. We can't do
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  Speaker 2: tennis right now inside kickball. We got a couple more
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  Speaker 2: other things, but I told them that they can get
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  Speaker 2: two tours per kid, so that's six if I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: my math correct, but I'm pretty sure you know, we
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  Speaker 2: left with more than that. Yeah, so we had a
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  Speaker 2: good time. We got home. Oh, we got a trampoline
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  Speaker 2: for a little guy. So we got to indoor trampoline
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  Speaker 2: for him that he's been enjoy I actually got on it,
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  Speaker 2: but it's one hundred and seventy five pounds weight minimum
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  Speaker 2: on it. But I got up there. I was able
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  Speaker 2: to jump a couple. I jumped around a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but I was able. But it comes down to me
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  Speaker 2: Dad setting everything up. So that was the part that
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  Speaker 2: I didn't Yeah, that was part of it. So now
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  Speaker 2: I'm for it because I hear all type of toys
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  Speaker 2: and action figures going off right now. But anything for
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  Speaker 2: the kids, anything for the kids.
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  Speaker 1: Trey against Houston, you guys were fantastic in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: You wow, twenty points in the first half, just three
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  Speaker 1: in the second half, forced four punts in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to the second half adjustments, what was
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  Speaker 1: the process to making those that week?
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  Speaker 2: I just think that, you know, we just we just
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  Speaker 2: honed in, we executed the plan. Not to say that
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  Speaker 2: we didn't do that in the first half. You know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you know, offenses make plays those guys are good too.
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  Speaker 2: But I just feel like we honed in a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more. We just had you know, more urgency, I
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  Speaker 2: would say, but you know, we just played team defense.
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  Speaker 2: And then whenever you do that, you know the all
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  Speaker 2: chemra is good and you know, and watching the film,
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  Speaker 2: like we hustled to the ball, leven hats to the ball,
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't a lot of tape that players that you
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  Speaker 2: see that was finished where you know you didn't have nine, ten,
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  Speaker 2: eleven hats around the ball. So that's always a good
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  Speaker 2: sign when you're when you see your defense hustling, all
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  Speaker 2: good things always happen. So I feel like that we
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  Speaker 2: did that a little bit more in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: But I just feel like, you know, we can press
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  Speaker 2: a little more, press the gas a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: to you know, squeeze that thing out to help help
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  Speaker 2: our team out.
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  Speaker 1: For you as an individual on the field, when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the second half and making those adjustments, what
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  Speaker 1: switches in your brain to hone in and play more aggressively.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, I I think that whenever you're a
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  Speaker 2: smart player, you just try to see what the offense
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  Speaker 2: attacking you at and then you just go in the
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  Speaker 2: second half, you see the same formation, or you see
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  Speaker 2: the way the offense is lined up, you just know
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  Speaker 2: that you know they're not really gonna deviate too much
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  Speaker 2: from what they've done in the first half. They may
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  Speaker 2: throw a cute few wrinkles in there, but for the
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  Speaker 2: most part, they're gonna come back to successful plays. And
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, as a defensive back for myself,
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  Speaker 2: if I see a guy you know, maybe got me
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  Speaker 2: on the route in the quarterback didn't see him, I
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  Speaker 2: just make sure, like if I see that formation again,
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  Speaker 2: then I'm pretty much tighter on my coverage or do
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  Speaker 2: a little something different than my technique to where I
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  Speaker 2: could be successful and finish the play in a successful manner.
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  Speaker 2: But it's so tough as a defensive back because you know,
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  Speaker 2: at any given time, you know the offense can run
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  Speaker 2: a double move off the play that you've seen, so
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  Speaker 2: you sort of always want to be I mean, be
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  Speaker 2: smart in situations to know like when you can take
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  Speaker 2: chances or like in this coverage, I can pretty much
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  Speaker 2: take a chance I know my safety got me over
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  Speaker 2: the top, or I don't have a safety this play.
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  Speaker 2: I may got to be more a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: conservative and play top down, to not give up the
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  Speaker 2: double move because I know I don't have help. So
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  Speaker 2: it's just all those scenarios as a defensive back when
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  Speaker 2: I go in in the second half, to always be
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  Speaker 2: out on high alert, but also always try to play
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  Speaker 2: aggressive to make a play too.
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  Speaker 1: You said the Bills defense has a veteran led defense.
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  Speaker 1: There's also some rookies who are playing meaningful snaps on
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  Speaker 1: defense and learning about what it's like to make second
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  Speaker 1: half adjustments in an NFL game. What is your communication
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  Speaker 1: like with Maxwell harriston what its making changes.
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  Speaker 2: I just, you know, I don't want to be in
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  Speaker 2: this area so much. But it's all about Max getting
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  Speaker 2: out there and getting the reps and getting out there
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  Speaker 2: and just being able to see things from what from
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  Speaker 2: his skill set because I can tell him, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 2: go out there when he hit this point, that's when
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  Speaker 2: you open up and break. But my body's different from his,
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  Speaker 2: and you you just gotta as like I always said,
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  Speaker 2: like cornerback is such so much of a like a
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  Speaker 2: feel position to where it's like nobody can really like
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  Speaker 2: tell you exactly what movements to make in a certain
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  Speaker 2: situation because everybody's body is different. Also, he may can
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  Speaker 2: get to this point quicker than I can get to
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  Speaker 2: this point. Or this receiver gets to this point at
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  Speaker 2: a certain certain distance, but this receiver don't. But I
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  Speaker 2: played against him before you have. You know, it's just
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  Speaker 2: so many situations that goes into like playing defensive back
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  Speaker 2: at a high level, it's all about angles. It's about
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  Speaker 2: you know, being balanced, having a strong lore about it,
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  Speaker 2: all the things that he has, but you know, just
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  Speaker 2: putting it all together. And also it's the mind thing,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, getting beat on the route, but then
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  Speaker 2: coming back to the next play, having the confidence to
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  Speaker 2: have the same technique and do it over again, just
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  Speaker 2: knowing like it's not you. It's just sometimes it just happens.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you line up consistently each and every time
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  Speaker 2: and do it the same way each and every time
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  Speaker 2: with confidence and poise, like you're gonna win more than
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  Speaker 2: you lose. So in this position, that's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 2: And keeping that confidence which he has. So he's been
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  Speaker 2: doing a great job. You know, just in front of
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  Speaker 2: Miami game getting in you know, Jenny Wildam making an
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  Speaker 2: incredible catch, but he coming back in the second half
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  Speaker 2: and making a big time interception on a similar play
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  Speaker 2: where the quarterback through the ball and on a deep
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  Speaker 2: ball and he was like and he was in great position.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just like with cornerback, that's all of this.
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  Speaker 2: You can go out there and cover a guy sixty
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  Speaker 2: plays the best and then on the sixty first play
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  Speaker 2: you're not at your best. But that's just the world
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  Speaker 2: that we live in. Like, so you just got to have,
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  Speaker 2: like I always say that on my dealer skin, to
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  Speaker 2: be able to just shake off anything and go back
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  Speaker 2: out there and just give it your best effort each
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  Speaker 2: and every time. So that's all the cornerbacks the ball.
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  Speaker 2: It's as I say, it's like hand to hand combat.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you can't go over up there against a
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  Speaker 2: good receiver and give them the same look each and
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  Speaker 2: every time. You got to switch it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta have a great foundation. You got to have
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  Speaker 2: a good change up. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: if you have that that fastball, that consistent fastball, you've
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  Speaker 2: had so many reps at doing it this way and
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  Speaker 2: it works and you consistent and you confident in it,
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  Speaker 2: like you're going to be good. So like if you
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  Speaker 2: have that mindset playing this position like which he has
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be great in this league for a
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  Speaker 2: long time.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's important to have thick skin in the league,
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  Speaker 1: especially at cornerback, like you say, because you could allow
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  Speaker 1: a pass on one play and or catch on one play,
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  Speaker 1: and then the next play you have to clear your
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  Speaker 1: mind and be ready to go in attack mode. Again,
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  Speaker 1: where did you learn to have that pick skin trialing error?
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, I mean, I wasn't. I wasn't always
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  Speaker 2: like this, you know, just growing up, just being a competitor,
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  Speaker 2: like you always want to be at your best no
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  Speaker 2: matter what and no matter who you're playing against. But
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  Speaker 2: you gotta go into this thing knowing, like all your
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  Speaker 2: whole hard work, you know at some point it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: play off, but it may not be where you want
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  Speaker 2: it to, but it's gonna come. But saying that to
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  Speaker 2: say this, like at cornerback, it's just one of those
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  Speaker 2: positions to where it's like you constantly gotta redefine yourself
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  Speaker 2: in try to find new ways to get better, because
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  Speaker 2: you know this league is moving at a rapid pace
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  Speaker 2: and the guys that you know hone in on the
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  Speaker 2: fundamentals are the best ones like great eyes, great hands,
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  Speaker 2: great feet, like those are the things it takes to
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  Speaker 2: be great. But I just feel like for me praying
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  Speaker 2: this position and playing it at a high level, having
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  Speaker 2: games and stretches where I'm not my best, in having
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  Speaker 2: games and stretches where I am my best, like the best,
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  Speaker 2: the best advice is just never be too high, never
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  Speaker 2: be too low, because like this game has a great
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  Speaker 2: way of humbling those who think they haven't figured out
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  Speaker 2: any given sunday, like anybody cannot be at their best
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  Speaker 2: like any player, any team, like any coach, like it
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  Speaker 2: don't matter who, any trainer, like you can have those days.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just like playing this position, like you gotta
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  Speaker 2: go in into it with the mindset is like I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna work extremely hard and I'm gonna have days even
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  Speaker 2: though I worked extremely hell at my craft, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: have days when I'm not my best, And you gotta
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  Speaker 2: be okay with that. And like you gotta be okay
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  Speaker 2: with preparing to be like perfect but knowing like you'll
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  Speaker 2: never be perfect. You have to be okay with that.
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  Speaker 2: And that's something that I battled with early on in
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  Speaker 2: my career. Just now me being an older guy, being
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  Speaker 2: a guy that played the game for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: like I learned. I know that, So no matter what
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  Speaker 2: the outcome of a play or a series or a
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  Speaker 2: game or a couple of games, like, my confidence will
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  Speaker 2: never wait because I know, like this is what I
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  Speaker 2: signed up for, this is what it is. I can
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  Speaker 2: work extremely hard and it not go my way, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm still gonna come back and work extremely hard because
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  Speaker 2: I know at some point it's gonna go my way.
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  Speaker 2: So you got to have that in anything, in football
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  Speaker 2: and life and anything, but just for for this position.
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  Speaker 2: Like the best ones know that and understand that, so
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  Speaker 2: they okay with the outcome of a play and not
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  Speaker 2: letting that dictate who they who they are as a
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  Speaker 2: as a player like or they or their attitude towards
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  Speaker 2: themselves as who How can I explain this. Don't let
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  Speaker 2: like a temporary like outcome of a of a play
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  Speaker 2: or or a series dictate who you are as a
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  Speaker 2: player like because that don't like take the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the game. Know that too, But like the longevity, all
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  Speaker 2: the work that you put in like that can't be
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  Speaker 2: to be racist. So that's that's the beauty of the
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  Speaker 2: game too, because you got it. Like I said, you
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  Speaker 2: gotta constantly find ways to get better because like this
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  Speaker 2: league is moving and it's gonna continue to. So that's
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  Speaker 2: that's the beauty of by like being a competitor, being
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  Speaker 2: someone that you know plays the game and plays disposition,
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  Speaker 2: and also just being someone that loves to compete, like
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  Speaker 2: just know, like they got guys that love to compete
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  Speaker 2: just like you. So it's going to be another end
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  Speaker 2: and battle of ups and downs. But the best ones
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  Speaker 2: that can deal with that physically and mentally, all these
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  Speaker 2: great ones.
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  Speaker 1: Some great words of wisdom for me right there?
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  Speaker 2: Too much right now?
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  Speaker 1: No, I like it, Let's do it? Who cares? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: But nah, But like once I get when I get
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  Speaker 2: to talking about you know, disposition, because I just love
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  Speaker 2: it so much about it, I like I like to
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  Speaker 2: like give insight on it because you know, I lived
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  Speaker 2: it and I'm living it in real time and I
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  Speaker 2: just know how it could be mentally and physically on
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  Speaker 2: people like each and every day even practice, like you
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  Speaker 2: grand your confidence from practice, but like it'd be times
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  Speaker 2: where you don't have you be a been said at
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  Speaker 2: practicing you get to like, hold on, am I not
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  Speaker 2: that good? Like it's just it's never ending battle. So
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  Speaker 2: like the ones that could like breast it off to
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  Speaker 2: the side and just hone in on that moment and
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  Speaker 2: continue to get better no matter the outcome of a
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  Speaker 2: play or a series like those are the ones that
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  Speaker 2: last long and play well, play well football, and I
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  Speaker 2: mean play good football and make big time players.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of guys inside this building who are
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  Speaker 1: really hard workers and do things that none of us
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  Speaker 1: see because it's in the meetings, it's during practices, it's
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  Speaker 1: in the weight room. We are starting something called Dog
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  Speaker 1: of the Week where Trey White is gonna give us
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  Speaker 1: his dog of the week. This could be from the game,
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  Speaker 1: this could be what he's seeing in the facility that
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  Speaker 1: we don't get to see. Trey, who is your first
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  Speaker 1: dog of the week?
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  Speaker 2: I wish we could could have been giving this out man.
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  Speaker 2: He like, I know, we got so many dogs. Let's
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  Speaker 2: first of all, let's say that we got so many
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  Speaker 2: people that's deserving it. But this is a person that
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  Speaker 2: I get to see more more than I get to
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  Speaker 2: see a little bit more of my teammates because he's
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  Speaker 2: in my room. But you know, I got to pass
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  Speaker 2: it out to the DB's first, Like for the.
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  Speaker 1: First one makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: This guy here, like just like just to see the
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  Speaker 2: growth because I wasn't here his first year and just
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  Speaker 2: me coming in and just seeing the way that this
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  Speaker 2: guy worked, like and his attention to detail, the way
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  Speaker 2: he overcome like a little bit of adversity he may have,
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  Speaker 2: or just like just his confidence and approach of like
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  Speaker 2: making calls on the field, being confident in what he's
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  Speaker 2: saying and going out there and exhilarating that but also
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  Speaker 2: making plays and big time moments for all team. This
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  Speaker 2: guy Cold Bishop, it is a dog.
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  Speaker 1: I was wondering if this guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's a dog like dog, dog like dog like not
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  Speaker 2: at your wild wide dog.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely he looks like a dog on the field dog.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: How awesome has it been to watch his transformation? I
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: know you weren't here for transformation you've seen from the
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: beginning of the season to where we're at now.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Just me coming in as you know, when I came
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: into OTAs, when we were just doing workouts, just because
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: I was able to work out with him, so I
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: was in a group with him. It was Taylor rapp
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Uh myself in cole So they put us in a
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: group together, and you know, I like to lift a
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: little bit like I like to, but these guys, like
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: you know, these guys lift like lift like for real lyft.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: But I could just see like the Honger and you
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: know a lot of I've I've been like working out
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: and like being in groups for a long time. And
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: you know, high school, you know, you see, you know
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: what what the work could do. But then when you
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: get to college, when everybody is competing to get to
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: that level that we also want to get to the NFL,
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: you see like people start to separate themselves, like and
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: the amount of work they do, and like when they're
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: in a group saying how they do it. But and
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: I've seen some of the best athletes. I've been around,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: the Oldell Beckhams, I've been around the Leonard four Nets,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: the whoever you want, like Collins, the Neil Hunters. I've
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: been around these guys. I know what they do in
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: the weight room and how much work it takes. But
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: like coming here and then coming to the NFL and
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: seeing it too and see like how the work off
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: the field, you know, translate to on the field. But
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I was able to see it early, like I could
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: tell that he had something that he wanted to prove
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: coming into this year even though I wasn't here it
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: last year, but I didn't know what was feeding at hunger, like,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: but I could just see the confidence just like build
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: and build and build and build. And I'm just watching
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: like as me because I'm you know, I'm I'm new
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: in a sense to who he is. But like obviously,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: you know, he knew who I was because we you know,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: we pretty much talked a little bit like as we
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: were working out and stuff, but but just meet and
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: then fast forward to OTA's going out to the practices
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: and then coming back going to training camp, and then
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: once we got to the games and we got a
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: couple under his belt, and then once he made that
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: player against the Saints, I was like okay, And then
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: a couple more weeks he the ball continued to find him.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: It's always something that we always say, like takeaways coming
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: bunches when you get that first one, like they just
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: start to come. But this guy's he's a ball magnet.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: He's making players on the ball. He's making you know,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: t for l's. But like that's just the end result
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: of like what he put in before. Like that's a
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: real testament of like real hard work. It does pay off.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Like so it was like so great to see, like
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: we got so many more examples, but like this is
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: just me coming in as somebody wasn't here last year
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: and seeing a guy like that wants it like that
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: legit wants it. But ultimately like it's a talented as
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: football Like a legit player like that can play at
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: a hot level, like can run jump. He has like
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: so much knowledge of the game, like he knows what's
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: what's coming, Like so much knowledge of the defense too,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: like reading formations, like seeing plays before they happen, like
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: making checks before they happen. So it's like all those
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: all those things in the second year players in this
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: defense for safety and it's not it's not it's not
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: the easiest.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Us all the time.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: It's a lot like a lot of communication, a lot
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: of what is we have so many calls and checks
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: to be on the same page and for him to
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: be able to do that, dinogs to play the formations,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: put itself in position, make calls to the corners to
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: make sure we're on the same page and then look
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: at the look at the offense and see where he
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: can make a play and go out there and do
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: that in the midst of you only have fit really
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: thirty twenty seconds, yeah, to be able to get the
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: call line up, make some adjustments if the offense motional shift,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: which we know they're gone because eighty ninety percent the
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: offense emotional shift, they're not gonna show you the same picture.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: And he's able to do that, diagnose all defense, know
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: where he's supposed to be, and then put hisself in position,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: communicate with the corners and the linebackers, and be able
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: to make the play in the midst of like that twenties,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Like you don't understand how hard that is. That's so tough,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: and to be physical too in that manner too, Like
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I have so much respect for like the things that
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: the safeties do in the defense, like for all our players,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: but like just to be a young guy to come
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: on and be a starter, to play in this defense
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: as a safety, to make all the checks and go
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: in and make the plays while the bullets are flying,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Like that's so hard, Like so that's that's a dog
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: like a dog like but it's up here too, like
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: to where it's like man like he's seeing it before
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: he comes. Like you could just see a player like
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: starting to see and like I'm just speaking from the
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: work that I've seen like over the last with how
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I've been seven eight months, But this got a dog
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: man like But it started like from like little habits
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: of a way, you know, just little stuff like that,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: But like this guy is a dog and I enjoyed
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: playing with him because like as somebody just watching him
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: players because I remember when I like I came in
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: as a young guy and just going to the second
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: year thirty like just seeing like guys that's you know,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: a little bit older, just seeing how you know they
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: like man like respect you man like you start to
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: earn it, and like that becomes something that your teammates
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: expect too, because like they started to expect you to
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: make those big tastes. But as a as a competitor
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: and as a as a as a ball player, like
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: that's what you want, Like that's what you want, like
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: in the midst of it's nothing like in a fourth quarter,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: like your teammates like you going out there and your
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: teammates looking at you like I know, like I know
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: he's about to make up play for the team to
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: get us the ball back, like like you don't know
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: how many times, like I've been in there in my career.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: It's like, man like I swear, it's like it's been
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: like four or five times. Jit Well, I told somebody,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I was like, Nook, I'm about to get the ball,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: like I'm about to bring the ball back, and I
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: brought the ball back. This guy is bringing the ball back,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Daddy like he's bringing the ball back. But he ain't
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: saying he's bringing the ball back. He's just going out
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: there and.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Doing that quite confidence.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Dog though.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Phils Mafia is going to love to hear
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: this answer because it's been so awesome to see Cole
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Bishup come onto the scene and you can see that
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: he's playing faster, not thinking as much, playing confidently, and
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: it's resulting in takeaways and passes, defense, and a lot
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: more in the future. We cannot wait for cold Bishup
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: to continue to grow up in this Bill's defense. We're
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: going to pitch to our interview now. It's with center
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Connor McGovern, so enjoy it and we'll be back for
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: more after. Connor, thanks for coming on and hanging out,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: talking a little ball and talking.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Some thanksgiving perfect. Thank you for having me.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Food and football your two favorite things.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Right, exactly easy enough.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: You're in your second year playing center with the Bills.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: How have you found a new home at this position?
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Connor, Well, it's just kind of been I've been away
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: from my home. Like it just feels good to be
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: back in my natural position now second year, even more
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: comfortable with it. And it's just something in my entire
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: career I've been just trying to get back to.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Why have you been trying to get back to it?
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: I just what my natural position is.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Played a couple of years of guard and like very comfortable,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: had a lot of fun and guard, but just always
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: been a center at heart, Always.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Been a center at heart. It's a position that you
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: have to do a lot of different things, and I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: mean you are making sure your quarterback's okay, you are
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: snapping the football, You're communicating with your guards. Why is
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: a natural fit for you there?
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: I've always just liked that role, just making sure everyone's
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: on the same page, just taking control of commands like that,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: and just I've just found that natural to me.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Well, you have to have a great communication with your
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: quarterback Josh Allen, A great relationship with Josh Allen when
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: it comes to playing center at that position. How has
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: your relationship grown with him specific to that really specific
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: to that position, I would.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Say just the trust that we have in each other anytime,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Like I'll make the calls if he makes calls. Like
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: last year when I first took a position, like he
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: was always double checking with me. Now it's whatever I
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: call he's comfortable with. Of course, he always has the
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: final say if he sees something differently and like last year,
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: my question a little bit, but no, if he wants
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: to change it, we're full into that and he's comfortable
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: with me. Like just the open dialogue. I'm not afraid
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: to tell him though, he's not afraid to tell me no,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: and it just makes it better.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, what's the communication between
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: you two pre snap and once the ball is snapped?
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: So pre snap, there's a lot of something that they
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: come to the line.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: I'm giving thumbs up thumbs down someplays, just telling them
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: to instantly get out. We don't like it, tell him
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: if we you like to play. He's always double checking
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: in like because sometimes he can't tell where guys are
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: aligned on the the D line.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: So it's just we're always in constant communication before.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: The snap, after snap, not so much like we'll have
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: a couple of times if one of us we'll end
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: up making wrong call or something. Both of us know.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: We instantly just look at each other and we know
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: we could either we point to ourselves or we kind
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: of give a look at each other.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: So we're always constantly communicating with.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Each other pre snap, and once the ball snapped, there's
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: ten seconds about that goes that goes by. It is
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: so quick that you are communicating these things and then
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the play is unfolding. When you're in those few moments
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: before the ball snapped, or you're doing your most communication,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: does it feel like time goes by slow, feel like
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: you have half a second and you need to get
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: ten words out.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: It is going fast. But I live by the motto
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: and one we all live by is if we're all wrong,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: then we're right. Like if five of us up front
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: are wrong together, then doing it right thing. And so
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: it's make a call, stick with it, don't just like
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: stumbling over and try to get the perfect look. Sometimes
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: the defense is gonna have a better call in you.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: So long as we're all in the same page.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: You can't be beat beyond your quarterback. You've got you know,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: four other teammates on the line with you in terms
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: of offensive linemen, your guards, and your tackles, how do
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: you communicate with them before the snap?
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: So a lot of it, they can't hear me all
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: the way out there, so either they see where I'm pointing,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: or most of the time that the guards are relaying
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: stuff to tackle and tackles relaying outside the tight ends.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: And then when we're in third and long, like Ty Johnson,
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: he can't hear me when I'm making a call, especially
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: on the road, so he's falling where I'm pointing, like,
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: and then Josh is communicating to make sure so if
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: like say he's motioned out, it's gone back in. He
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: didn't know where I point at first, so Josh sees
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: where we're going, or maybe he changed the calls. He's
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: consecmuning tie, so we're all just it's just everyone's communicating
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: with each other.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: It is amazing what happens in those moments, and just
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: simple pointing if you can't hear what you're saying, or
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: just a few simple words to orchestrate what unfolds in
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the next six seconds.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not like we're having like open ended dialogue
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: going back for it. Sometimes it's literally just tap hat
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: pointing or just like come out, thumbs down, thumbs up,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: stuff like that.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: It's good enough.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Your rushing offense, the Bill's rushing offense has been dominant
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: this season, best in the league. You as an offensive
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: lineman and your teammates have been so good at opening
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: up rushing lines for the running backs. How long does
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: it take for something like this to happen.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, something like that.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: It's been years in the process, like you saw, like
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: the past two years we've been good and getting better
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: and better and better, and then this year it's gone
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: off to the whole nother level. And a lot of
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: that to do with just the running backs in our
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: meetings and just seeing how like they think about hitting,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: like hitting the hole, and then they see how we're
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: setting up the blocks. And it could be as simple
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: as like if they don't cut back too soon, like
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: they set up the blocks for us, if they just
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: really press it before they cut back. Just stuff like that,
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Like you think it's like, oh, it's so easy, just
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: get the ball and run. They just find out little
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: tiny things that we can make better, like say like
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: I can have my head outside more like that gets
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: defensive flow over like the lineback to flow over the
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: top more and that sets a James cook for the
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: cut back.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Just little things like that, just placement.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: So we're comfortable with each other and it's really shown
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: how much elevated even this year.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: You spoke about James cook and the running backs being
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: in offensive line meetings together.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Why has that been a big part of the success
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: on the field.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Just because they know we're doing what we're thinking about,
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: and then we know what they're thinking about. So like
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: when we have mid zone, say James Cooker really thinks
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: he's like, all right, this week, I really want to
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: press it and I'm thinking about coming back. How defense
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: flows over top. Or it could be simil as like
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: when we're playing in Carolina, like we're thinking about getting
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: in balld outside now because they have bigger guys up front,
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: so we want to get them running. So just being
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: in meetings and just knowing what each other like and
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: what we're seeing just helps everything out.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Cook has great vision, he believes, patient for the holes
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to open up. One of the best running backs in
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the league this year. What's shocked you the most about
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: his development?
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: His development, just how he reads a defense and like
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: he the good job he does setting up the blocks
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: for us, Like he doesn't get up and he's not
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: cutting or making moves too far evance, like, so we
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: can't get up to the linebackers.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: He's pressing.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Press depressing allows us to get on linebackers and then
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: he's making a move, so it makes our job much
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: easier when he's doing a lead job back there.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: When it comes to a running back like James Cook,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: you look back to his time at Georgia, he was
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: not a big time starter. He wasn't their number one
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: running back. He grew into a role with Georgia, and
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: watch what he's done with the Bills in just four
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: seasons is amazing.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's completely great to watch and like it's just
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: so much fun too, just seeing the enjoyment he gets it,
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: like you know, like he gets to that first level,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: he's gone, like he can make anything happen, like make
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: guy miss here, miss there.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: He gets to the smallest holes. It's just a lot
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: of fun watching him go.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: When do you have a feel for, Oh, James Cook,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: He's gonna go off in this game.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: It's not really feeling because you know it's gonna happen
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: because like you give him a chance. You just need
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: to give him a small chance and he can take
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: it to the house at any time.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: When you look at type of player that James Cook
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: is off the field, we'll say the man a few words.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: How has he opened up more to you guys as
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: an offensive line.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Like he jokes around with us. It's a lot more
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: fun like he's definitely I would say over the past
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: two years with him, he's definitely opened up a lot
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: more Like he's not that Joschelle just walking around by himself,
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: very quiet reserve. Like now he's saying with the jokes,
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: he's talking to all of us like he's just he's
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: a lot more comfortable around this, I would say.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: And why is his success just as much your success?
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: I would just say, just like always o line and
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: running back or just intertwined with whatever we do. If
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: we fail our blocks, he he's got to make multiple
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: guys miss. But just when we know we give him
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: a chance, he's there's no one better than him.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: You spoke about his elite vision. You see the field
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: very well as an offensive lineman. From a football player's perspective,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: what does elite vision mean to you.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: As an O lineman or as a running back? Just
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: leave vision for him like he could see it, like
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: coming to like say, if I don't my head front
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: side of a block and he sees too much, go outside.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: He's saying, all right, I'm just gonna press this and
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: then I'm going to cut back and make this guy
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: miss or he might see me. I've already covered up
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: front side, all right, I can easily get outside now
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: and just seeing little things and then he sees, like
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: past that, how a linebacker's fitting where he needs to
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: make a hole. And then sometimes if there's not a hole,
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna lower shoulder and get two or three
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: yards out of this and just make something out of nothing.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Similar to the offensive lineman, things happen over such a
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: short period of time for running backs, and the way
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: that he's able to I think anticipate things that are
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: about to happen and then see it and whether it's
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: grab a first down or whether it's score a touchdown
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: for the team. It's been awesome to watch. Oh, it's
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: been so much for another person that's a part of
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the offensive line room. That is a secret weapon. I
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: think to what you guys do is your offensive line
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: coach Aaron Kromer, Yes. What is so unique about the
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: way that he coaches?
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: I would say the best thing he does Like he
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: looks at everyone different, Like he knows me and Dion
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: aren't built same, Like we're not gonna block someone the
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: same way.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Like he goes all five of us.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: He finds our strengths in our weaknesses, and he builds
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: upon those weaknesses, and he just elevates us up even
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: more like a lot of I've been around a lot
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: of coaches that just teach all five guys the same way.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: It's we're not all built the same way. He does
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: a great job, but just find everyone's shrink and just
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: building up on that.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Why is it important to individualize what players are doing
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: and teach based off of that, Because.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: No two guys are the same, and no two positions
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: are the same. Like Dave and Cibo, they're completely different players.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: How they act.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Cyba's absolute freak of nature and Dave's a technician throw
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: and through. Like It's just they need to be taught differently,
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: and like they see the game differently too. It's like
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: how me and Dave are very visual learning like we
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: walked through we were asked a question when we're very
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: involved with everything going on, and other guys are just
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: like they need to go out and walk through things.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: And just like we're all different learners, we're all just
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: different speaking. Chrome does a great job teaching everyone differently.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Chromer also gives off the vibe that he's just like
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: dad energy, just like nice sky energy. Why is he
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: a part of family here?
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Oh it's just great. Like so he got mad at
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: mean back in the spring. When I call him, he's
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: like the Miss Rachel of the offensive line.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Yes, so he keeps us all in check, keeps us
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: all online. So it's kind of like he's running the
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: daycare sometimes, make sure we're all in check. But then
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: he's also teaching us and be simple as the thing,
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: like we're learning like three by one formations two by
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: two back in the spring, doing like simple insulid day one,
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: and just like when someone gets right, he's like good, good,
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: like literally just sounding it out for us, just taking
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: over step by step.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: And it's a lot of fun. And now he's miss
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Rachel for us.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, if he's Miss Rachel, who are the cast of
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: characters on the offensive line.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: I really don't know. I couldn't tell you that we
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: have a lot of characters up front outside.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: It changes day to day to day very much. That
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: everyone has their own unique personality.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, well every position group is also unique to the
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: team when it comes to the offensive line meeting room.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: What is something that's in the offensive line meeting room
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: that is in other position meeting rooms? As in, what
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: do you mean, like object food? The room is laid out.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So a lot of times we don't meet in
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: our own room. We meet in the team room just
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: because we're all very large human beings and it's very
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: tight for us to fit in the line room, so
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: we like having space. So we'll go in the team
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: meeting room and just literally just spread out over there
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: so we can all fit in the big chairs. So
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of the other guys coming
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: on the team and like they'll try to walk through
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: them and gott to yell and get off of our TV,
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: even though we're not really supposed to be in there,
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: but we take it over because it's more comfortable. When
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: we're in our actual meeting room. It's a tight little room,
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: but it's cozy for us, we always have the most snacks.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: I would say our rookies always do a great child
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: decorating the rooms, even if that's for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: We decorate for everything.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: So it's always a competition between us tight ends quarter
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: whoever has the rookies, and we got to make sure
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: our rookies decorate the room the best.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: What did the room look like for Halloween?
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: It literally just looked like someone came in and just
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: threw up Halloween all over the place. We had, like, oh,
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: fantastic job. Chased it a wonderful job. He had buckets,
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: candy everywhere, tables, rat Uh had lights, we had skeletons,
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: we had you name it.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: We had in the room.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Who's the most interesting person in the offensive
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: line room?
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't even have to say why easily.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Who's somebody that keeps you on your toes in the
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: offensive line room?
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Keeps me on my toes in which way? That keep
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: me on toes?
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Whether it's uh, you can go either way anyway with this.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, whether it's I don't know what I'm going
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: to expect from this person day to day, or keeps
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: you on your toes in he's got funny one liners
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: coming out the wazoo.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: I would say it was Cyrus probably keeps you on
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: toes because you don't know what's going to come out
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: of his mouth, because like he's quiet most of the time.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Then all of a sudden, he'll just like sneakily say
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: something and it's usually only enough for me or Spencer
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: right next to him to hear it, and we'll start laughing,
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: and then he'll play off like he didn't say anything.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: So it's just like subtle little things he'll do like
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: that you're not you're not expecting it, then, i'ld say.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: On the other end that keeps you on the toes
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: is Dave like because he's always questioned things just how
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: we always see the game, Like we see the game
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: the same way, but we're always talking and how we
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: want to hit things, who we're gonna like just talking defense,
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: So like he's always keeping my toes. On the opposite
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: side of that, who's.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Got the most energy in the mornings in.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: The room, Deon's a ball of energy all the time.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I feel like you're also a ball of energy.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say that in the mornings no, I'm a
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: morning person also, but like Deon's a whole nother. I
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: don't think he sleeps. He's always doing something going on.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: He always has energy.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: You're right, Okay, you guys have five to ten minutes
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: a free time before an offensive line meeting starts. What
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: is the group doing?
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Well, half the guys are probably in the bathroom first off,
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: so that's right there. Everyone else is just relaxing, going on,
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: just talking about random things. Usually Chromer's in there early
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: with us, so we'll be talking about different things. Either
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: where guys want to eat recently, or we're plants like
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: they were on the road. So grim always a hexsascus
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: where we're going to dinner because some guys go out
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: to eat, some don't. Or it be Friday morning after
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: Thursday night we go off for all and dinner and
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: ask a question about that.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: So most of the time it revolves around food.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I would say it's good, it's good. It's typical. But
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: so many people love food, and so many people talk
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: about food, and you guys know good food. You make
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: some really great food. Connor, Thanksgiving is coming up. What
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: is happening in a McGovern household during Thanksgiving?
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: There's gonna be a lot of food, a lot. So
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: most of the guys that don't have family in town,
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: I always come over our house.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: We do my wife.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: I would say, my wife doesn't most of the work
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: just because we're here all the time, so she's doing
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: a lot of the prepping. Get in the house ready,
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: so we have big spread. We always do. Obviously got
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: to do turkey, do ham. They'll kibosa also, so those
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: are our main meats and you just do all the size.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: So that's something I grew up like my family always
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: did for every holiday. I had a kasa, so I
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: can continue that tradition. Now some will do different appetizers, sides,
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: and just desserts pun desserts, so we always have a
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: huge spread.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: You love Thanksgiving? Where is a rank amongst other holidays?
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: I know I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: It's one of the best, if not the best holiday
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: for me.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Number one, Are you confident putting it there?
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: It's honestly tied for Christmas in my heart, just everything
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: about Thanksgiving, the food, the fellowship, everything, just I'm a
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: fall guy through and through, Like I much rather fall
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: over the winter, and I think everything kind of adds up,
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: like obviously, yeah, Christmas is Christmas, Like it's hard to
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: be but just something about thanks gaveon just always just
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: resonates with me.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: What's your favorite dish for Thanksgiving?
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: So?
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: I like just making like a gobbler sandwich, like literally
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: it's all get whatever type of bread we have usually
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: some type of sweet Hawaiian roller or anything or whatever
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: role we have basically turkey stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: on it, poor little and then close it up then
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: dip it in gravy.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like my go to.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: What's your most underrated dish for Thanksgiving? I think doesn't
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: get enough love, but is good stuff.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: I feel like people not the corn bread stuff and
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: like true stuff, and I feel like no one gives
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: it time of today and you love it, love it,
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: love it.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: What's something you can do without on Thanksgiving?
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: I do know everything I have is like I'm not
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: putting out anything bad. Everything I've literally so like people
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: are like, oh, like I don't do green big cash.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: I don't like, like I'm not gonna put something out
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: in my house that I'm not gonna eat myself.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: You know it makes sense. You love to cook. What
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: are you most proud of that you've cooked on Thanksgiving?
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Most? Like?
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: The thing I enjoy the most and most proud of
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: is so my grandmother had her own recipe for how
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: she did her holiday ham. It's like a sweeter style.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to tell you that the family secret
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: how we make it. That's probably my favorite thing to make.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: And then I will say that's probably one thing my
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: oldest brother he makes and he makes it better than that.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: So I'm still trying to put it so no one truly.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: He's the only one that learned from her how to
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: make it, so he makes it the best. But I'm
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: slowly learning too.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: How do you make your turkey?
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: I'm just as simple. Just roast it.
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: I've done it before, I've smoked it Friday. I'm just classic,
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: just roasted and.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Through and that tastes the best to you.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Still moist, so good, it's still very good, always moist.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: That's like some people I don't know, line, I won't
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: name names that don't like Thanksgiving.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: They know who they are. Always say turkey's dry.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: I'm like, then you're making it wrong, Like it's not
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: my fault that you make your turkey dry and you
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: think it's overrating.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: I make it every time. It's moist. It's delicious.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: I like Thanksgiving in Turkey so much that my wife
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: gives me allotted shit for this. And at least once
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: a month I'll make like a Thanksgiving meal.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, once a month.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: At least once a month, Yeah, I'll go get a
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: tury giant turkey breast, roast it, make all the sides,
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: and then for all about three or four days I'm making.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: What work does that take to do once a month?
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: It's honestly not that bad.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: Like I'll do it like a Sunday or Monday, like
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: out of the season, usually Sunday during the season Monday,
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: and it's just a couple of hours to roast turkey.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: And then you just make the side. It's really not
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: the hard.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: You must be a speed cooker, because I think if
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: I tried to do that it would take me twelve hours.
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: It doesn't take that much. Like it obviously you're making
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: the morning. It's ready in the afternoon. But like I
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: just it's one of those comfort.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Meals for me.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving so much that you have Thanksgiving once.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: A month and then it's my wife and daughter hate it. Well,
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: it's just say they don't really tolerate it as once.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: So I'm the only one eating, so i eat it
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: for three or four days, and then I'll give my
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: dog's tricky too on top of it. So it's me
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: and my two dogs eating Thanksgiving me or at least
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: once a month. A happy house exactly.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, the food coma hits. What are you doing?
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: Eating more?
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Eating more?
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I double down. I don't even care if we
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: weigh in on Fridays. If I have to, I mean
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: so much that they sin. But luckily so we do
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: our whole feast downstairs. So we do a whole tables,
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: everything out in the basement, spread out and lucky I
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: got a gigantic couch on there. So as many but
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: I think last year we had like six people sleeping
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: on it's six offensive line and sleeping on the couch
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: at once.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Everyone was just out cooholed.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: That is amazing. Well, Connor, I'm so happy that your
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: favorite holiday is right around the corner and you get
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: to celebrate it and make all the great food excited.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: Can't wait.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks for coming. We hope you enjoyed that interview with
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Connor McGovern he loves Thanksgiving so much. Instances Thanksgiving week,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: We're going to continue the conversation about Thanksgiving, Trey. What's
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving like in the White household we eat.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you that we get some food, some food,
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: get ate Thanksgiving the Thanksgiving table. Hate to see us coming.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: We have so many dishes like on a table that
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: that we you know, spread out each and every year.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: And you say it's not a traditional Thanksgiving.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: It's never what makes it unique? Well, obviously you know
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: it's not never. It's never going to be traditional, you know,
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: being with the schedule that I have, so we try
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: to make it, make it work. But when we do,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: it goes down. We got a lot that's on the table.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: But I'm gonna I'm gonna name three baked mac and cheese.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Who's making the baked mac and cheese?
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: It just depends on where we are. Where we are,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: like who who do we have coming up that time?
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Stuffed bell peppers?
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Where are they stuff.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Me rice? However, you want to top it off like
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: this is this is the thing, like this is what
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: we do. And then the gumbo, I know, like traditionally,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: like people don't put gumbo on a on a Thanksgiving spread.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: But from Louisiana, We're gonna have the gungo so this year.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah so we yeah kids, Mom's coming this year. So
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: and expect me to be probably about five or six
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: or seven pounds a little heavy this week because I'm
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: anticipating that. Oh for sure. I'm definitely gonna do the
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: way in before I'm gonna do the way in before
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk to him left, see, because I'm gonna
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: stuff myself a little bit. But so those are the
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: main three dishes.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Where the cookies no.
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: No, no, this this sweet potato this sweet potato pot
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: that's sweeper. Yes, okay, sweet potato pie. Well we have
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: carrot cake. What have we got lemon cake? We can
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: do peanut butter cake.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Wow, like those the you know chocolate chip kikies are
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: off limits. Like when when Thanksgiving coming, we got other things.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: We got other things going on, like you know, Grandma's pie,
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: you know pie, sweet potato pie, peanut butter cake like
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: stuff like that. But no, we're on it.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: That sounds awesome. I wish I was in attendance. I
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: can't wait to hear about all the food eating the
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Bills have played on Thanksgiving a few times. You've been
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: a part of those games. I want to go back
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: to twenty nineteen Thanksgiving game against the Dallas Cowboys. It
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: was like Josh Allen's coming out party. He completed seventy
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: nine percent of his passes, had two touchdowns. What do
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: you remember about the early days when Josh Allen was
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: proving who he was to the world.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, like that was what year was there for him?
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: That was his second year a year okay, but like.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: The okay, so like and November second year we.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Were playing some men for football too. We was like
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: nine and three ninety four. We were at a good spot,
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: but like, yeah, you could tell like we were sending
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: as a team. Then playoffs for sure. Twenty nineteen, Oh,
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: Josh was he was a dog that day, wasn't he.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Well it's not many days that he's not a dog.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Like this was a game where it was on a
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: national stage, so you have everybody sat for Thanksgiving and
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: he's a young quarterback. You guys know he's a dog yet,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: But the whole world didn't really find that out until
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: we had watched the entire twenty nineteen season and to
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: see what he put on tape and to see it
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving, it was like, oh dang, this guy's I
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: guess the almost eighty percent of his passes again.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: That's hard to do. That's hard to do. Like eighty
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: percent of your past is seventy nine percent, Like that's
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: eight out of Like that's.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Passing and rushing touchdown. He flexed his muscle on the
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: ground to I.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Mean, and then to do that, I guess the Cowboys
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: on Thanksgiving, Like that's everybody's watching too. I mean, like
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: that's just a bigger audience for everybody to see what
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: we already knew though, Like for his first year, I
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: seen him hurd of the guy, like standing straight up
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: like hurdle him. Like so it's like it's not much
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: that we haven't seen him done do, But we can't
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: take that for granted. He was a dog then, I mean,
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: still the dog now, but like twenty nineteen, like I know,
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: after the game, I like took a bite of the turkey.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: That was a big time window because that was on
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: a Thursday night. We just came off. I believe we
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: played the Broncos. Yes you did, we played the Broncos.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: You're crazy that you can remember that.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, like the mine like it's certain certain
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: things that.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: I just looked up that game, so I remember that
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: was that was.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: A defensive sluck like that was one of the like
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: that was I gotta pick that game. That's probably why that.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Year you had six pecks.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: I think it was giving them out. They was giving
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: them out like they was giving them out. Like that's
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. It was one of those insers.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: You're all Pro season twenty nineteen.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: They was giving them out. You were getting that. It
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: was giving them out. They coming bunches. Like I said,
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: I started hot. I got two in one game, and
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: then yeah, that's all it takes. Let's let's let's come
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: on over here. What we got six six more games.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: There's no reason I can't get a pick of game.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Let's go come on it.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Speaking existence right now, I need to.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Put myself on one of these dogs of a week weeks. Yeah,
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: that'd be great, that would be great. But we was
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: talking about things giving enough about me. But yeah, no,
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: that game was great. I mean that was one of
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: the great seasons. Like as a defense, and as you know,
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: like you said, Josh coming along, I mean he was
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: just displaying what we already knew and for a national
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: national artists to see against the Cowboys Jerry's world, like
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: you know America's team, Like that was it lined up perfect?
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: But you know we enjoyed. It was a great ride back.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: We had a great time on a short week. That's
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: the thing, Like those short weeks are so tough because
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: you can't get a much study that you want to
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: because you it's just a bad imagine what it's a
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: baddance of trying to get the body back, study, film,
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: get risk.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Part of part of what you signed up for. Right
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: for Sursday night games happened. It happened to the good
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: teams because you want to be in the primetime window
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: for everybody to see. All right, Trey, we hope you
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: enjoy your Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Happy Thanksgiving? To YouTube? What's going on over you know what?
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: You was all in my being like what's going on
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: over there? Like how do you what's the Thanksgiving spread
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: over there at your house? My house?
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Well, Tray, it's it's just me and my husband dog
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: dog dog. You know, it's it's nice because it's just
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: a day off of work in the middle of the
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: season when it's starting to get crazy around here because
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: it's the end of November, December, and January. Football is
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: coming when it really really matters. So it's nice just
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: to like relax for a day in the middle of
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: the week. My fa family's in Chicago, my husband's families
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: in Florida. I'll travel for Christmas, but we just stay
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: in Buffalo. So we're we're not gonna do traditional either.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: We're gonna make some short ribs, open a nice bottle
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: of wine, and make some mashed potatoes.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna make.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: You cooking this girl, I cook, imagine I'm good. I'm
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: pretty good.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, is this like cook book by the book cooking?
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: Or is this like.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: It's half and half? I'll do like a recipe, but
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: then I'll put my own things in. I look at
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: it for reference, and then I don't like to measure things.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: I just like to you know, you measure on love.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's what That's what That's what I thought.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: So but I'm gonna start my cooking journey. I could
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: I could do enough to survive. Not saying that I
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: can tear it down, but I could do enough.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: What's your what's your expertise dish. What's your famous dish?
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't have a famous dish, but I could,
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: you know, I could scramble like this stuff, Like if
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: I'm along in the house for like a month, I
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: could survive like like I could scramble. I scrambled eggs.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: I can make pancakes. I could do script like I
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: can make spaghetti. I can fry chicken like their froy
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: the air fry have saved like those things are life saying. Man,
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: I'm not even going not to get off subject, but
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: the air fry.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Like I don't have an air fryer. And somebody called
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: into One Bill's Live when I was on the radio
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: show one day and they were like, Maddie, you need
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: to get an air fryer, like it is life changing.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe they'll do.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: It air fry product. Man, I'm telling you think I
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: could be on one of those cooking shows. It gives
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: me that much confidence, you know, I could see you know,
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: over the over the break, I did some steak. I
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: got a grill at my house, so I did steak.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: I did like what else I did shrimp like shrimp on.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: I did some stuff chicken like I did some chicken
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: like on the grill, just trying, just trialing error that
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: just expanding because I'm just usually like doing simple stuff.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: But I can survive and I'm proud of that though, Like,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: come into the league, I don't think I probably could
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: have survived. But night now you know, nine years later,
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: I can survive.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you I can survive pancakes and fried chicken.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: That's that's extenct. I can make more than just microwave.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Like I could roaming like stuff
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: like that, quick fixed stuff. I can make some mashed potatoes.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: I can make macic like. I could survive like and
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: I'm proud to say that because coming into the league,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you when my first year, man, I did
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: it have door back in twenty seventeen, I guarantee you
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: I probably been a gold star memory what's the hotest
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: you can get on that?
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: Like that?
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: It would have been bad, It would have been really bad.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: But now I can survive. Yeah, we love it and
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: we can't hear. We can't wait to hear more about
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: your cooking journey as we go on in the season.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, happy Thanksgiving guys, to see you next week,