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O-Zone Podcast: Andre Cisco · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast presented by by Star Credit
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  Speaker 1: with Jaguars senior writer John Osan. All right, welcome in.
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  Speaker 1: This week's Ozone podcast is done about by Star and
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  Speaker 1: this is one's guest. I think Jaguars fans are gonna
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  Speaker 1: be excited about They've been talking about him all year,
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  Speaker 1: sort of waiting to see him. Uh. He's been a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a mystery on defense until recently, and
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  Speaker 1: now he's getting his opportunity. I know he's excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, Andre Cisco, I appreciate you joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. John, I appreciate you guys. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully a lot of Jaguars fans tune in gets get
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  Speaker 1: to know me a little bit. Yeah, it's been a
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  Speaker 1: long year for all Jaguars players, all fans. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's a tough year you didn't expect. I've got to
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  Speaker 1: thank for you being a rookie going through everything you
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  Speaker 1: went through in the off season to get back. Are
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  Speaker 1: you not a little tired? Uh? Yeah, tired is is
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  Speaker 1: definitely a good word. Close exhausted at this point. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's obviously a long schedule of long days
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  Speaker 1: and things like that. But every time you get on
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  Speaker 1: the field, you kind of just feel refreshed. But it's
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  Speaker 1: been a long year, uh, the long journey from surgery
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  Speaker 1: to rehab to the draft to now. But it's been
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  Speaker 1: rewarding so um, you know, as as tough as some
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  Speaker 1: parts have been, I've learned a lot and I've met
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  Speaker 1: a lot of great people. You're not maybe the biggest
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  Speaker 1: thing you've learned. I mean I talked to rookies over
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  Speaker 1: the years, and they will take away something from that
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  Speaker 1: rookie year. Uh. I know you'll have time to reflect once.
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  Speaker 1: The officer to me, I went to seasons over with.
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  Speaker 1: But right now, I guess maybe what's the biggest thing
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  Speaker 1: you've learned. Yeah, I think just mental mental fortitude and
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  Speaker 1: just keeping it even kill mine, um, throughout good and bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's huge to make it through um some
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  Speaker 1: of the things that could happen in the NFL. You
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  Speaker 1: just have to you know, have trusting God and trusting
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  Speaker 1: your beliefs and who you are and just you know,
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  Speaker 1: stay even killed at that point. That's I think that's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing I'll lear And had a you know college,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get too high and get too low and Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're a little bit more immature, so you
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  Speaker 1: can get through. But I learned that the best way
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  Speaker 1: to do is just stay even I've got to think
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  Speaker 1: you're craving after your last year ended the way it did,
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  Speaker 1: meaning a Syracuse and then this year just sort of being,
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  Speaker 1: uh a long rookie year. You've got to be looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to getting an off season and then a training
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  Speaker 1: camp and sort of getting back to some sense of
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  Speaker 1: of I guess normalcy. Am I reading that right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Most definitely. Um yeah, it's been a while since I
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  Speaker 1: was able to just you know, spend my off season
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  Speaker 1: actually training and come into camp, you know, fresh with
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  Speaker 1: with a mind like you know, I know exactly what
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  Speaker 1: I worked on this off season. Um, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm back to who I am. So you know, last
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  Speaker 1: year I got cleared like basically the day before training camp,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I just had to have my mom
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  Speaker 1: set on being a star in the NFL and help
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  Speaker 1: my team win. So now you know, the vision is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be much more clear going in the next season,
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  Speaker 1: and so yeah, I'm very excited about that. Oh is
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I currently for a while, I've talked
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  Speaker 1: to and covered a lot of guys who've had a
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  Speaker 1: c l S and they always say it takes a
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  Speaker 1: little while more to get back to where you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you as opposed to just being cleared. H do
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  Speaker 1: you still feel yourself working towards that? And I guess
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  Speaker 1: how much are you looking forward to that year too,
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  Speaker 1: which is where they say it really comes back for
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  Speaker 1: a guy. Yeah, Actually, these recent weeks have probably been
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  Speaker 1: the best at its felt. Um, I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know necessarily why, but yet so over time it gets better.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, so a lot of people say that second
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  Speaker 1: year is the best, and I'm looking forward to that because, um,
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  Speaker 1: some people said they feel even better than they did
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  Speaker 1: before surgery out in that second year. So that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to. But I guess see what they
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  Speaker 1: what they're saying, because mine has gotten better a lot
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  Speaker 1: over time. I got it. It's good to hear you
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  Speaker 1: are such a guy we have at a chance to
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  Speaker 1: see a play a whole lot. But you watching your
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  Speaker 1: clips from Syracuse and reading about you, you're a very
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  Speaker 1: instinctive player. You don't get the number of interceptions that
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  Speaker 1: you've gotten without that, Uh have you always had that
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  Speaker 1: ability on the ball? Is that something you were just
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  Speaker 1: kind of sort of born with or where does that
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  Speaker 1: come from. Yeah, the instincts have always been there since
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  Speaker 1: a kid, just whether I was playing running back, quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: just I was one of those kids. And then, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I transitioned to defense in high school. So
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't automatic I did. I wasn't just you know,
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  Speaker 1: interception machine right from freshman year. But as um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: transferred from high school to college and then got my
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  Speaker 1: starting job at Syracuse. That's kind of when when you
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  Speaker 1: started to come together for me, and I started to understand,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what it takes makes plays on the ball,
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  Speaker 1: and type of confidence and things you gotta do to
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  Speaker 1: make those plays. So I take pride in being a
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  Speaker 1: risk taker and a gambler on the field, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just hope it pays off. Most of them. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me about Andre Cisco, the quarterback I was. I was
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  Speaker 1: a sprint out, rollout type of guy. Just needed you know,
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  Speaker 1: some three level concepts and this it all from there.
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  Speaker 1: Just better than anybody else in the field for a while. Yeah, okay, No,
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  Speaker 1: I mean when you're you know same. That was junior high,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even a little bit before that. It was like
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  Speaker 1: you have a quarterback day year and it was like,
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  Speaker 1: lets put the running back your quarterback then. So my
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  Speaker 1: arm wasn't but I was an athlete. You're not pitching
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  Speaker 1: for any reps behind Trevor. No, they don't want me
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  Speaker 1: back there. They don't want me back there. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: about the second year jump. I know you've heard a
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  Speaker 1: lot about that. I I mean second year of players,
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  Speaker 1: even without the injury. You often see guys with that
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  Speaker 1: second year of experience is getting calmed down in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL making that jump. Can you see why that's true
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  Speaker 1: in terms of what you learn as a rookie and
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  Speaker 1: then being able to apply it. Yeah, it's it's um
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  Speaker 1: You know you come in UM well for me, right,
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  Speaker 1: I came in you know, thinking it was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: one thing, right, but it's the NFL is just it's
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  Speaker 1: different for everybody, right, So you know you can hear
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  Speaker 1: so like I talked to older guys, talked to guys
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  Speaker 1: like my agent who I trust, and they tell me
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  Speaker 1: about what the NFL should be. But you know, you
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you get there. So like once you
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  Speaker 1: were able to get your own perspective of what it
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  Speaker 1: takes to UM, you know, to succeed and be at
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  Speaker 1: the top of your your your class or your position,
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  Speaker 1: that's when I think you can take that next step.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I see, uh for one year one
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  Speaker 1: player a year two, I can see that being the
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  Speaker 1: biggest difference. How tough has this season? Then? Obviously you
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  Speaker 1: wanted more opportunity on the field. Has it been a
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  Speaker 1: a tough year to wait in that sense? Or you
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  Speaker 1: try to take advantage of it or I guess how
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  Speaker 1: have you approached that? Yeah, I had to take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of it. Um. It wasn't what I anticipated going in. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: every rookie has her mind I'm starting right, so when
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't happen, it's like you know what now? So uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I had to take advantage of its the best of
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  Speaker 1: my ability and you know, learn from behind. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the guys that was in front of me, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: just just learned ball. I think that's that it was
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  Speaker 1: an advantage um in a sense not having a you know,
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  Speaker 1: kill your body. You know, you could look at it
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  Speaker 1: any type of way. So for me, I learned what
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  Speaker 1: I what I needed to and you know, now I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna feel so I plan on it you know, being
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  Speaker 1: up from here. Who's helped you the most around here
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  Speaker 1: so far? Just my room in general, we had a
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  Speaker 1: road type room with with Dewey, Ray, Shawan and DT
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  Speaker 1: for most of the year, that's what the room was,
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  Speaker 1: and we grew real close and um, no matter what
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  Speaker 1: it was was on the field, off the field stuff
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  Speaker 1: kind of just help each other through through through things.
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  Speaker 1: And I was able to look up to them as
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  Speaker 1: guys that are real pros and handle their business. Have
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  Speaker 1: you gotten enough reps enough time to sort of show
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  Speaker 1: yourself you can do it in this league? Meaning until
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  Speaker 1: you get out there and do it, there's always a
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  Speaker 1: party of that dead end up. Have you shown yourself that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: most definitely. I'm getting to the point where, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just when you know, when the coaches give you the
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  Speaker 1: keys to make the calls and do and do the
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  Speaker 1: things that you need to do in the field, that's
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  Speaker 1: when you you know, you feel like you can get
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  Speaker 1: loosen and do what you gotta do. And I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I'm getting to that point where you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: on the field now that the calls are on me,
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  Speaker 1: certain certain players gotta get made. So um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: once I feel like you know I got that green light.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's when it I feel I'll take that next step,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's coming soon any moment. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: last week of the season. So looking ahead a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want to work on in the off season.
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  Speaker 1: What's your goal or is it just to sort of
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  Speaker 1: get act and be ready for O, T A S
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  Speaker 1: and be healthy during that time. Yeah, I really just
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  Speaker 1: want to you know, my non off season regiment, which
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  Speaker 1: is just you know, doing things at full speed, um,
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  Speaker 1: staying you know, staying in the training room, doing things
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  Speaker 1: to even my body back out and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Just really be a protest offseason. UM, talk to guys
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  Speaker 1: that that do with the right way in the off
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  Speaker 1: season because I know, um, from just talking to guys
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  Speaker 1: in the past that I would work with when I
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  Speaker 1: was in college, you could tell they had a much
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  Speaker 1: more not laid back, but they knew exactly how much
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  Speaker 1: workload they wanted or didn't you know, didn't want to do. So, UM,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this season is really really um it's hot,
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  Speaker 1: very hot workload that you I didn't realize what the
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  Speaker 1: NFL really was like, so I went through it and
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  Speaker 1: it's a long season. So it's a lot different. I
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  Speaker 1: guess the approach in the off season, so I must
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  Speaker 1: want to get insight and do it the right way.
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  Speaker 1: It's a marathon, right, definitely. Yeah. Hey, uh, the final
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  Speaker 1: thing we do here Andre Uh. We call it the
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  Speaker 1: ozone five. So it's just five quick questions, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun to answer. However, you want to, uh, what
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  Speaker 1: is your last binge watch? If you have one? I
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  Speaker 1: believe was Money Heights. How was that? That was great?
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  Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan. Um. I know it's a bigger
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  Speaker 1: show in Europe, but I love that show. It was.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of my best best watches for sure.
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  Speaker 1: What's that on? Just on Netflix? I think it's a Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: The last song you listened to in the car on
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  Speaker 1: the way end this morning? Um, God favored me Gospels,
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  Speaker 1: so I got you. You're so well known for your
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  Speaker 1: picks in college. What was the best one? What's the
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  Speaker 1: best memory on that front? I want to say either
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  Speaker 1: I want to see my last one. I think that
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  Speaker 1: was that was one of my better ones, just coming
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  Speaker 1: up the middle of the field. And now I have
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  Speaker 1: one of my sophomore year which was just like one
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  Speaker 1: of those picks where I think that nobody else would
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  Speaker 1: have made that play except me. Yeah so um yeah
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  Speaker 1: one of those two if you remember them all right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: your go to breakfast food every morning. I eat Ego
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  Speaker 1: waffles and picking Fluffy with me. Tell on it. Everyone,
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  Speaker 1: who's the person or person's most responsible for you being
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  Speaker 1: where you are? My mom, by far Uh, she just
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  Speaker 1: from day one when I knew I wanted foot football,
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  Speaker 1: it was like no matter what training, what team, what trainer,
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  Speaker 1: not anything like well kleat. She made sure I was
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  Speaker 1: take care of and had what I needed. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: she's the reason I'm here. At one point, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know if I wanted to take it as far
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  Speaker 1: as the NFL, and she was like, why wouldn't you?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? So um by far and
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  Speaker 1: away my mom. Fantastic, Andre Cisco. I know it's been
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  Speaker 1: a long season, still a busy week, so I can't
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  Speaker 1: thank you enough for doing this. I look forward to
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  Speaker 1: meet me and talking to you and working with you
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  Speaker 1: in real life. But I appreciate you joining the ozone podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jo. Appreciate your h