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  Speaker 1: Be like and how different in any ways it ended
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  Speaker 1: up betting.
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  Speaker 2: You know, really just for me, it was really just
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  Speaker 2: about getting better, progressing and putting my you know, my
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  Speaker 2: front foot forward and continuing to grow. So for that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's kind of exactly what I what I
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  Speaker 2: expected to do. I feel like, you know, uls you
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  Speaker 2: prepare me for what what what was to come in
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  Speaker 2: his in his next level. So just being able to
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  Speaker 2: put everything learned past and you know, getting all the
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  Speaker 2: things that I've learned from the vest and coaches and
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  Speaker 2: every everybody in the room. I think it's a bit
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  Speaker 2: it's been very very good for me, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: very good transition. I feel like, you know, it's always
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  Speaker 2: room for improvement, but you know, just putting my best
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  Speaker 2: foot forward and continue what what do you think that's putting?
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  Speaker 2: Have you found to be the toughest thing about camps?
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  Speaker 2: You know, really just consistency, you know, coming into coming
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  Speaker 2: into the next level. You know, that's something that I
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  Speaker 2: really wanted to focus on, you know, just not being
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  Speaker 2: up and down and you know, not having a great
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  Speaker 2: game and then coming back in and having a great game.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just you know, more about being more consistent
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  Speaker 2: and I I I think that still applies to this day. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just being able to stay at a high
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  Speaker 2: playing at a high level each and every game, each
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  Speaker 2: and ever practice. You know, you gotta bring it every
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  Speaker 2: day in this league. So just being able to do
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  Speaker 2: that and continue to grow in that aspect already.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel that you're ready to perform?
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  Speaker 2: At me? You know, I feel like I'm ready to
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  Speaker 2: perform just you know, like I said, taking the advice
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  Speaker 2: from the older guys, taking the go the advice from
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  Speaker 2: the coaches, and just continue to grow. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: have I have no doubt on my capabilities on the field.
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  Speaker 2: So just being able to continue to grow and continue
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  Speaker 2: to get better. How has Josh helped you? Really? Just
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  Speaker 2: from uh a mental aspect, you know, just being able
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  Speaker 2: to you know, just know that you that guy and
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  Speaker 2: continue to grow and push and you know he's always
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  Speaker 2: told me really just to you know, don't wait, you
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  Speaker 2: know you gotta go attack it now? Is there for
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  Speaker 2: me now? So you know, just being able to go
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  Speaker 2: and fully commit to doing everything that I'm supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be doing.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see when you watch him on the field?
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  Speaker 2: You know, he just demands respect, you know, and as
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  Speaker 2: a leader that he is, you know it, it's always
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  Speaker 2: great to have somebody like him in the room. Keep
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys, especially you know, young guys like
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  Speaker 2: myself and good spirits and continue growing and growing. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, he he in a sense, he's really just
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of other people. You know, even though
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  Speaker 2: having having seventeen to have sex lest year, he still
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  Speaker 2: knows that he has room for improvement. So he's continuing
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  Speaker 2: to grow and continuing to get better each and every day.
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  Speaker 2: And man, you know, when somebody at that stature, you
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  Speaker 2: know that that demands that much respect, you see them
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  Speaker 2: continuing to grow and continue to work hard and progress
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  Speaker 2: every day, you know, it's only gonna make you do
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  Speaker 2: the same.
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  Speaker 1: You think he'll be a guy you'll rely on once
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  Speaker 1: you get into the weekly grind.
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  Speaker 2: Of the season. Definitely him and some other guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just for you know, for your rookie years, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of unknowns. It's kind of like your freshman year of college.
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  Speaker 2: So just being able to you know, put a lot
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  Speaker 2: of those answers to some of those questions I'll have definitely,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'll definitely ask him about some of those things,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, when the going gets tough. You know
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  Speaker 2: how he got through his hard time as his rookie year,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, because everything not gonna be perfect. So
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  Speaker 2: just continuing to.
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  Speaker 1: Grow and yeah, health wise physically emotionally where you were
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  Speaker 1: your last month on the field at LSU Versus now?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I definitely feel like I'm I'm I'm
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  Speaker 2: in the best shape of my life right now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: post post injury. I feel like the last couple of games, uh,
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  Speaker 2: my college career, I felt like it was pretty it
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  Speaker 2: was pretty good. So you know, just coming into the
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  Speaker 2: next this next level, I just wanted to continue on that,
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  Speaker 2: to continue to go in the right direction. But health wise,
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  Speaker 2: I feel great. I'm a little bit heavy right now.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta lose a couple of pounds, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: I felt great, and you know, like I said, it's
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  Speaker 2: the best I felt since, you know, having my knee injury.
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  Speaker 1: Describe your friendship with Cam Little. When did that start?
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  Speaker 1: Debscribe that friendship?
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  Speaker 2: You know, actually I never I never met Cam until
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  Speaker 2: we got here. But you know, they beat us my
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  Speaker 2: freshman year and Cam had like a walk off kick
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  Speaker 2: and he hit the gritty after they won. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: just looking back on that, the first thing that he
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  Speaker 2: told me when we got here together was that, But
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  Speaker 2: you know, Cam's my guy, man, and you know, me
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  Speaker 2: and him are the two youngest on the team, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, just just having him around and you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's a great player, a great guy. We go golf
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  Speaker 2: together all the time, so you know, just having them
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  Speaker 2: arounds being great and that's my guy. How much of
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  Speaker 2: the heart for you, Yeah, you know, coming into this,
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  Speaker 2: coming into this and to this level of football, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's he was actually one of the guys that I
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  Speaker 2: kind of followed after, you know, just being a bigger
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  Speaker 2: body defensive lineman, being able to play the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the big nd spot to the three tech to the
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  Speaker 2: you know, the nose spot. He's very versatile. So looking
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  Speaker 2: at myself and you know, I see a lot of
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  Speaker 2: myself or I see you know, I see myself in
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  Speaker 2: some of him. So, you know, just taking the things
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  Speaker 2: like today in past rush, you know, working moves, different
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  Speaker 2: types of those things that he that works for him
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  Speaker 2: could also work for me, just because the statue wise,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're kind of similar. But he's been giving
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  Speaker 2: me a lot of great tips, you know for somebody
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  Speaker 2: that has done it at a high level for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. And you know that's someone someone something that
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  Speaker 2: I'm you know, aspiring to do. You know, I I
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  Speaker 2: definitely get a lot of feedback and everything from him
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  Speaker 2: as much as I can.
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  Speaker 1: How about your time you find yourself spending watching film.
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  Speaker 2: With Jordan's Okay? You know so coach Drake uh uh
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  Speaker 2: five time Pro Bowl a twelve year offensive alignment center
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  Speaker 2: playing for Dallas. Uh Cause Drake told me something when
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  Speaker 2: he first got here, and it was about extra time.
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  Speaker 2: He was like, if you put in forty five minutes
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  Speaker 2: each and every day to watching film, whether it's film
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  Speaker 2: or anything football related, you'll be that much of ahead
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  Speaker 2: of your opponent. So we tend to spend forty five
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  Speaker 2: minutes a day just watching film and doing other things
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  Speaker 2: like that, you know, just getting the adjustments needed and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just get the off the opponent's offenses down,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Uh, and everything like that backsets everything like that.
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  Speaker 2: So just knowing my opponent better and you know, being
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  Speaker 2: critical and being critical and what I'm doing on the field.
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  Speaker 2: You know, everything not gonna be perfect, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, you try to make it as perfect
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  Speaker 2: as you can. So you know in the game it
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  Speaker 2: comes easier