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The O-Zone Podcast | Brenton Strange on His Versatility & Being a Competitor · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Oh soon.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer John Osher.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, welcome to this week's Ozone podcast. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited about this week's guest, and I think a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people are. He's become a fan favorite because of
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  Speaker 2: his style and his important to the offense. Jaguars tight
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  Speaker 2: end Brenton Strange. Thanks for doing this on a important
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  Speaker 2: week for the franchise.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you having me on.
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  Speaker 2: Have some fun and tell me about before we get started,
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  Speaker 2: the mood of this team this week. I assume ultra
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  Speaker 2: focus knowing what's at hand.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think we're just a hungry team.
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  Speaker 3: Man. You know, every single opportunity that we have, we
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  Speaker 3: want to rise to the occasion and just go out
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  Speaker 3: there and just do what we do and be us.
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  Speaker 3: That's the most important thing, is just going out there
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  Speaker 3: and being who we are. And uh so, I just
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  Speaker 3: think it's another opportunity and we're just a hungry team.
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  Speaker 2: Is this a you get a sense for the Titans
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  Speaker 2: Jags rivalries? It becoming a thing? I mean, is it?
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  Speaker 2: There's some chippiness with this game. There's some chippiness whenever
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  Speaker 2: you play. Yes, so do Titans mean something.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think every game in the division
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  Speaker 3: means something, and it means a little bit more. You
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  Speaker 3: got to see them two times a year, so it's
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  Speaker 3: always going to be some chippiness within it. Football is
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  Speaker 3: an emotional game and we understand that, and just in
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  Speaker 3: these games that you see the team twice a year,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it just ends up being a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more emotional. But you know, it's just about going out
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  Speaker 3: there and being composed and playing our brand of football
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  Speaker 3: and doing what we do.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, I know you guys think week to
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  Speaker 2: week and day to day, but you're playing for the
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  Speaker 2: division Sunday. What a difference in a year and how
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  Speaker 2: this thing felt last year? Do you think about that
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  Speaker 2: at all? Just how far this team's come in a year.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say, personally for me and my journey, I just
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  Speaker 3: I think about my first year and what was in
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  Speaker 3: stake in that last game my first year when we
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  Speaker 3: played in Tennessee, and I think about that, I think
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  Speaker 3: about last year of how far this team has come,
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  Speaker 3: and just it's just about like just going out there
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  Speaker 3: and doing what we've been doing every single every single
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  Speaker 3: game this year, Like the last five games, I think
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  Speaker 3: we've been doing a good job of just playing our
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  Speaker 3: brand of football and doing what we do. So it's
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  Speaker 3: super exciting to have this type of opportunity and we
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  Speaker 3: want it. We want to be the champions of this division.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we work hard for and there's no there's
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  Speaker 3: no reason to be shy about it. That's what we
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  Speaker 3: work hard for and that's what we come in here
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  Speaker 3: every single day and just put our best foot forward.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just about the preparation leading up to the
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  Speaker 3: game and doing what we needed to do, and everything
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  Speaker 3: will take care of itself.
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  Speaker 2: You strike me as a guy and who does things right,
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  Speaker 2: always has done things right. Did you get a feel
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  Speaker 2: immediately when this regime came in that it was going
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  Speaker 2: to be different. Did you get a different vibe from it?
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  Speaker 2: Did you? And I guess how early did you feel
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  Speaker 2: positive with this?
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  Speaker 3: Not to speak on anybody else or anything in the past,
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  Speaker 3: but like you could just tell, like just from an energy.
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  Speaker 1: Standpoint in the building.
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  Speaker 3: And I've said it every single time somebody asked me
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  Speaker 3: a question about Liam James, Tony, like they just bring
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  Speaker 3: a different type of energy to the building and it
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  Speaker 3: just seems like we're all focused on one common goal,
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  Speaker 3: and that's just being the best that we can be
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  Speaker 3: and maximizing. So they bring great people into this building
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  Speaker 3: and they do a great job of what they do.
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  Speaker 3: But my favorite thing personally is just the energy that
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  Speaker 3: they bring because at the end of the day, it's
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  Speaker 3: all about your leadership and if the top's not right,
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  Speaker 3: then it's not going to be right anywhere else. So
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  Speaker 3: they do a great job of what they're doing. We're
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  Speaker 3: super thankful and blessed to have them.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to put words in your mouth, but
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  Speaker 2: it seems that this offense, that's the way this regime
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  Speaker 2: wants to approach, meaning be a physical team and couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have fit you better. Do you feel that way and
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  Speaker 2: is that a big reason for you? I guess everything
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  Speaker 2: came together for you to sort of start to ascend,
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  Speaker 2: But is the fit that much of a positive for you?
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  Speaker 3: It's very positive for me. I feel like my job
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  Speaker 3: on this team is to be a tone setter for
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  Speaker 3: the team, and whether that be in the run game,
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  Speaker 3: in the past game, whatever it is. I feel like I,
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  Speaker 3: you know, have to with my physicality, have to come
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  Speaker 3: out every single week and set the tone for for
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  Speaker 3: myself and the guys around me. So it's very positive
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  Speaker 3: for me because I pride myself on being a physical,
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  Speaker 3: versatile player and a lot of the stuff that they
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  Speaker 3: asked me to do. It asked me to be versatile.
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  Speaker 3: I asked me to do a lot. But that's the
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  Speaker 3: best thing about being a tight end is get you
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  Speaker 3: get to be a part of everybody. You get to
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  Speaker 3: have your hand in every part. So that's always been
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  Speaker 3: my my favorite part about being a tight end. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm just like I said, I'm blessed to be a
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  Speaker 3: part of this organization and what we have going on.
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  Speaker 2: So when they came in and said we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be physical, your reaction was, let's.
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  Speaker 1: Go, let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: Gotcha. I think we talked about that a little last
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  Speaker 2: year and year on. But what's fascinated me about you
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  Speaker 2: is a relatively tough start to your career, didn't maybe
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  Speaker 2: get the opportunities that you should have. But I never
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  Speaker 2: got a sense that you lost any confidence through that,
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  Speaker 2: And maybe that's why you were so ready this year.
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  Speaker 2: How did you maintain that sort of confidence? And am
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  Speaker 2: I reading that right?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I look back on it a lot too,
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  Speaker 3: because there was a lot of ways I could have
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  Speaker 3: handled it, But my just my mentality every single day
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  Speaker 3: was just to come in and just find ways to
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  Speaker 3: get better. What can I get better? What can I
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  Speaker 3: do better to earn some playing time on this team?
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  Speaker 3: What can I do to make an impact for this team?
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  Speaker 3: And in my first year, in the second year, it
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  Speaker 3: was mostly on special teams and maybe every once in
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  Speaker 3: a while I would go in for short yardage on offense.
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  Speaker 3: But I was just you know, I put my head
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  Speaker 3: down every single day and I just like to look
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  Speaker 3: at it like I was just working in the dark
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  Speaker 3: for so long, you know, And I knew when my
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  Speaker 3: opportunity came. And last year that happened to be the
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  Speaker 3: Cleveland game. I got the opportunity to start that like
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  Speaker 3: there was no hesitation. I knew that I just had
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  Speaker 3: to go out there and be me. This game it
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  Speaker 3: means a lot to me, And you know, I don't
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  Speaker 3: ever look at it more than when I was in
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  Speaker 3: playing pee wee football or when I was growing up
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  Speaker 3: playing football.
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  Speaker 1: I don't ever look at it anymore than that.
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  Speaker 3: So I just try to go out there and just
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  Speaker 3: be the best version of myself and I let the
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  Speaker 3: results be the results.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm reading this wrong, let me know, But I
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  Speaker 2: think you've said I've heard you say. I think you
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  Speaker 2: said it last year. Football is really what you did.
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  Speaker 2: There's not a whole lot else that you like doing.
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  Speaker 2: Is this sort of your hobby and your career? How
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  Speaker 2: close is that? And are you just football junkie?
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  Speaker 1: I am a football junkie.
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  Speaker 3: I I love football Without football, I mean, I still
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  Speaker 3: be back where I was, where I grew up at
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  Speaker 3: And uh, It's just it's given me so much. It's
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  Speaker 3: opened my eyes up to so much. It's given me
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity, you know, take care of my family. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's It's given me everything in my life. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: blessed a lot of hard work that comes with it.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I'm willing to do that. I'm willing
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  Speaker 3: to take that on and make those sacrifices. So this
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  Speaker 3: game it means everything to me.
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  Speaker 2: What's your second hobby after football?
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  Speaker 1: Is there one?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I like, yeah, I got time to figure
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  Speaker 3: it out, for sure, I like I like you said, like,
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  Speaker 3: it's just I've been so focused on this and trying
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  Speaker 3: to get to where I wanted to get for the
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  Speaker 3: past couple of years, and now I'm still trying to
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  Speaker 3: get to where I want to get, and that's maximizing
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  Speaker 3: and being the best player that I can be. So once,
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  Speaker 3: once I feel like that that has came and I've
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  Speaker 3: maximized and I've done everything that I want to acomplished
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  Speaker 3: in my career, then I'll start looking for some other hobbies.
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  Speaker 3: But right now it's football is the main thing, and
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  Speaker 3: I always keep the main thing the main thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'll put you to the test, what would you have
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  Speaker 2: done without?
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  Speaker 1: Without it?
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  Speaker 3: I'll probably be working on some construction crew or something
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  Speaker 3: like that, you know, sadly, I mean, just like where
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  Speaker 3: I grew up, there's not a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 3: of opportunities and a lot of a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 3: You know, people are oftentimes, you know, just stuck there.
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  Speaker 1: That's all they know.
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  Speaker 3: But I was blessed and I just want to be
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  Speaker 3: able to show those people and other people that you know,
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  Speaker 3: anything is possible you put your mind to it.
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  Speaker 2: Have you always talked as much on the field as
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  Speaker 2: you did? And do you like that?
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  Speaker 1: Is that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it seems like you're having fun.
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  Speaker 3: With it when you Yeah, Like I said, I want
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  Speaker 3: to treat it as just like when I was a
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  Speaker 3: kid playing, but I think now I probably talk a
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  Speaker 3: little less than I always have.
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  Speaker 1: That was something that.
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  Speaker 3: I like really did like growing up in college and
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  Speaker 3: when I first got here, Like, you know, it's just
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  Speaker 3: a way to get activated. It's it's a way to
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  Speaker 3: you know, see someone else's confidence on the other side
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  Speaker 3: of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: See what, see how how they're feeling today.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you can say something to somebody and that
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  Speaker 3: they could react and they could fold, or they could
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  Speaker 3: they could you know, uh, stick their chest out a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more, and it's like, all right, let's do this.
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  Speaker 3: Then we're going to compete for the whole entire game.
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  Speaker 3: So uh, it's it's just having fun with it, man,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And it's not any like hard feelings about
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  Speaker 3: it or anything, but it's just you know, going out
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  Speaker 3: there and having fun and playing the game.
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  Speaker 2: I've asked this before, but I always love the answer.
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  Speaker 2: I was asking tight ends this Prefer to block, prefer
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  Speaker 2: to catch?
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  Speaker 1: I mean what I answered last year, Well, you.
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  Speaker 2: Were a little younger, see may have been more guarded.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but uh.
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  Speaker 2: For you because you're good at both. But it seems
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  Speaker 2: like you really enjoy blocking, like taking the opponent out
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  Speaker 2: of a game.
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  Speaker 3: I just really doing the things to help my team
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  Speaker 3: win and putting my team in the best position to win.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a competitor at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 3: So at the end of the day, I just want
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  Speaker 3: to be able to win everything that I do out
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  Speaker 3: on the field, and that's whatever the coaches asked me
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  Speaker 3: to do. I want to be able to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that they can count on me, and my teammates can
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  Speaker 3: count on me, and that I can just do the
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  Speaker 3: job for them the right way.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just a competitor. Which one I would rather do?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's touchdowns are hard to come by, but
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  Speaker 3: putting somebody in the ground is a great feeling as well.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a hard question. It just it depends on
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  Speaker 3: the day.
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  Speaker 2: How much pride do you take. There are three or
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  Speaker 2: four runs this year where you really got out and
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  Speaker 2: clearly sprung atn for cold plays the other guys involved,
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  Speaker 2: I would assume for you, that's pretty close to a touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how I look at that. You know, obviously
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  Speaker 3: doesn't show up in the stock book, but they're the
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  Speaker 3: people that know know, and my coaches and my teammates
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  Speaker 3: they know. So that's the most important thing to me
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  Speaker 3: is just that my coaches and my teammates know and
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  Speaker 3: it is it's basically like a touchdown for me. Anytime
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  Speaker 3: that I can be able to go out there and
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  Speaker 3: spring a run or you know, make a little impact
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  Speaker 3: and somebody gets out the way, it's like a touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why it's so hard to you know, make
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  Speaker 3: that decision of scoring a touchdown or making that big
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  Speaker 3: impact block because essentially for me, that the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: How you haven't played for a lot of NFL coaches,
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not asking about last year's staff, but Liam
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  Speaker 2: really emphasizes blocking downfield from the tight ends and the receivers.
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  Speaker 2: How important is that emphasis. I think it's a group.
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  Speaker 2: I think with the wide receivers a little bit here,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like this group really embraces that. And that's
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  Speaker 2: not all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Now, that's not all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I think that speaks to the to the brotherhood that
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  Speaker 3: we have on this team and just how much we
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  Speaker 3: care for each other. You know, it can either be
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  Speaker 3: a twenty yard game or it can be a touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if somebody, if somebody's blocking down the field
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  Speaker 3: and they hit that right cut off of the block,
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  Speaker 3: it can be a touchdown. So I think that just
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  Speaker 3: speaks to what we have in this locker room and
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  Speaker 3: our brotherhood.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you hang with more of the receivers of
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  Speaker 2: the old?
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  Speaker 1: Uh See? I told you my hands in all the pots.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I don't really like, I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to hang with everybody bridge.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the bridge between everybody. We bring everybody together.
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  Speaker 2: I got you. It seems that you, uh like most
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  Speaker 2: players do, but it seems like you really embrace do
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  Speaker 2: all the fans you like being a part of this,
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  Speaker 2: of what's going on. Talk about that a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's super important to me. You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think that when I when I first came here,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't really know a lot about Duvall. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know too much about Jacksonville at all. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: now being here for three years, it's it's super important
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  Speaker 3: to me to embrace that, embrace the fans, and embrace
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  Speaker 3: the city. And it's all about, you know, going out
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  Speaker 3: and just trying to make the city proud of.
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  Speaker 1: What we do and what are you know, who we
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  Speaker 1: are each and every week.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I think that when once I kind
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  Speaker 3: of understood Duvall a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think Duvall is.
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  Speaker 3: Toughness, like honestly, you know, Uh, it's it's different than
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  Speaker 3: most cities in Florida, And uh.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I look at it.
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  Speaker 3: So why not be Why not be a tough football
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  Speaker 3: team for a city that's super tough.
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  Speaker 2: Is it cool to be a part of that sort
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  Speaker 2: of feeling the success. You're starting to feel like the
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  Speaker 2: town is getting it and embracing it and something's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of my favorite parts about this city.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they can say small market whatever it is,
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  Speaker 3: but you really truly feel a difference, like and that's
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  Speaker 3: why it's so important for us to go out there
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  Speaker 3: and do the best that we can and win for
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  Speaker 3: the city because you feel the difference.
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  Speaker 1: When we win and we're doing the right things.
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  Speaker 3: The city is you can go wherever, and it's just
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  Speaker 3: it's a different feeling out there.
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  Speaker 1: So I love that.
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  Speaker 3: I love being in Duval, And like I said, when
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  Speaker 3: I think of Duval, I think of toughness.
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  Speaker 1: So why not have a tough football team?
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  Speaker 2: Did you always as a kid growing up want to
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  Speaker 2: be a tight end? I?
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  Speaker 3: Actually no, Actually, growing up I played running back all
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  Speaker 3: the way until my sophomore year at high school, and
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  Speaker 3: I played I played everything on defense. I played safety,
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  Speaker 3: defensive end, inside, outside, linebacker, and I just all of
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  Speaker 3: that like has prepared me to be a tight end.
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  Speaker 3: The tight end you gotta be versatile, you gotta be
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  Speaker 3: asked to do everything. So, uh, just being being growing
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  Speaker 3: up like that has helped me a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how far back do you go watching tight ends
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  Speaker 2: in the history at all? Do you watch it?
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  Speaker 1: Or?
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  Speaker 3: You know, my my favorite guys like when I was
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  Speaker 3: growing up, I really enjoyed, Uh, it's not too far back,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Antonio Gates, I really enjoyed watching him play.
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  Speaker 3: I really enjoyed watching Vernon Davis play, Jordan Reed, and
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  Speaker 3: then guys like you know, like Whitting He's not that much,
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  Speaker 3: he's not that far out of it. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: Greg Olsen, all of these guys growing up, they definitely
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  Speaker 3: have had an impact on me and just how I
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: look at the game, and it's about like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: taking bits and pieces from each person's game, all right,
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  Speaker 3: Like I like how explosive Vernnon Davis is with the
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  Speaker 3: ball in his hand. After the place, I'm gonna watch
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  Speaker 3: him run the ball and after after the catchers yack.
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  Speaker 3: And I like the way that Jordan Reid runs routes,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm gonna watch Jordan Reid run routes. But it's
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  Speaker 3: it's it's very important to me as a football player
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  Speaker 3: of you know, just knowing who has came before me
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: and has set the foundation before me. So, uh, those
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: guys are great at what they do, and there's no
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: reason to not understand and watch them.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Because it's interesting. There's not a lot of guys that
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: have been falling for a long time, not a lot
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: of guys who do it both as well as you do. So,
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's uh, it became such a receiver orient
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: a position. You get feeling a lot of tight ends
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: would rather it's been wide receivers. Yeah, that's not your approach.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: No, definitely not.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's just it became a part
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: of my identity.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: It's just I've always been been a more physical player,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: no matter if I was playing tight end or not.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Like I always you know, football is about imposing your wills.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: So I've that's just that's just who I am, you know,
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: That's I just like I said, I want to go
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: out there and win everything that I do. And if
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: you're asking me to block a d N or trap
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: a three technique that I just want to win and
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: I just want to compete and be the best version
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: of myself.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Got you last thing we do caught the ozone five?
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Five quick fun questions?
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Brent?
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: What was your last binge watch? And you can't say tape.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I'm watching Good Live right now, so that's it's really good. Yeah.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: I just started up before the game on Saturday night,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: you know, and I fell asleep on it.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: But I'm looking forward to getting back on it.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: It's high end good. That's really good. Uh do you
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: have a pregame ritual? And Uh, if so, what is it?
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: My pre pregame ritual is just the you know, just
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: let every be calm. It's it's no different than going
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: out there and practicing. Obviously you got the fans and
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: a different type of environment. But I just like to,
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: you know, just be still and you know, just do
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: the same thing every day.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: This is what I do.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Got you your best sport than football?
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Basketball? The easy question? Good? Yeah, man, I'm great.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Ever talked to swears are the best player in the team.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I just quickly realized that football. You know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: I probably take that a lot farther.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: That's fair. Your go to athlete.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: My go to athlete, as in any sport, Like, yeah.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Guy that if you if you haven't seen him, you
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: want to see him, or I wish you'd seen him.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah I would.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: I would probably say Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, you know,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: just the mentality and you know they always talk about
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: their killer instinct and stuff like that.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: I started reading a book called Relentless, and it's just
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: talks about just the mindset of Kobe and Michael Jordan.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Tim Grover he wrote the book and he was.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Their trainer for a while, so's it's a great book,
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: and it just shows how much that they put into
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: the game in the sport and how they view things.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Gotcha, Yeah, I never saw Jordan and his prime and
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: saw Kobe and his prime and he lifted things. Your
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: go to show as a kid.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: My go to show as a kid. I would probably say, like,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know, honestly, why is this the hardest question?
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: I watched a lot of different things growing up, but
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I'll probably just say, you know, something on Disney Channel
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: on Nickelodeon, you know, just being a kid. But I
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: can't tell you off the top of my head. I
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: don't know why this is so hard.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: That's right now, all rights all Britton Strange. I appreciate
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: you doing this this week. Thank you for joining Luays
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: doing podcast. Always enjoy.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Appreciate you, sir,