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Anton Harrison on Feeling Comfortable with the Jaguars | The O-Zone Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Soon.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer Sean Osher.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, welcome into this week's Ozone podcast. I'm joined
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  Speaker 2: this week by Jaguars rookie and first round pick Anton Harrison.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, anytime, I appreciate you doing this, oh problem,
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  Speaker 2: thank you having me. It's gonna be a chance to
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  Speaker 2: get you know, for fans to get to know you
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  Speaker 2: a little bit better. But first of all, ask or
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  Speaker 2: tell me what life has been like since the draft.
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  Speaker 2: I can imagine it was chaos leading up to it.
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  Speaker 2: Has the chaos stopped a.
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  Speaker 1: Little bit, things slowed down, finally getting back to what
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  Speaker 1: I love and that's playing football. So just getting here,
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  Speaker 1: being here, playing football, being around great guys, learning a
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  Speaker 1: game just better than myself. So it's been great. And
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  Speaker 1: then my family's been behind me this whole time. So
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  Speaker 1: just been loving it.
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  Speaker 2: And I was gonna ask you about that. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: get some questions behave like Jacksonville, but you mentioned it,
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  Speaker 2: so I'll ask. Family seems to be a big deal
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  Speaker 2: to you. What have they meant to your career? And
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  Speaker 2: how important are they to you in terms of your
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  Speaker 2: support system?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they're big, My family's been behind me my whole career.
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  Speaker 1: They the ones who got me into doing this. You know,
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  Speaker 1: growing up, I was that I was the basketball guy
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  Speaker 1: in the family. So I love playing basketball. I love
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  Speaker 1: football too. I was always watching football and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: But I said, my father he played football, old miss,
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  Speaker 1: so he started off for all of us. And then
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  Speaker 1: just watching him and watching how he did things. He
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  Speaker 1: always just pushed us growing up, me and my brothers,
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  Speaker 1: so just growing in love for the game and how
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  Speaker 1: we carry ourselves. So that family's big. We're a close family.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's supporting each other. So definitely a big part of
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  Speaker 1: where I am now.
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  Speaker 2: I got you and tell me your impressions of Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 2: You've been down here a little bit, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: home to you, I guess now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I say I love Jacksonville. It's say it's fitting
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  Speaker 1: for me. It's a good place to be, good weather,
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  Speaker 1: it's not too crazy, but if you want to get
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  Speaker 1: out a little bit, you get out like the beach
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  Speaker 1: and things like that. So I said, that's what I like. Dumb,
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  Speaker 1: a chill guy. So you got the good views and
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  Speaker 1: things like that. So definitely somewhere that I'm glad to be.
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  Speaker 2: What did you know about the Jaguars before and what
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  Speaker 2: are your impressions now?
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  Speaker 1: So I say, from watching them a lot last season,
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  Speaker 1: a young, exciting team, real explosive. I know that they're
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  Speaker 1: up and up. So me being drafted by Jacksonville, I
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  Speaker 1: was excited to get here, knowing that it's a young team,
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  Speaker 1: excited team growing, only getting better from here, great coaches.
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  Speaker 1: So I said, it was big when I seen that
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  Speaker 1: nine oh four area code called my phone, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just happy.
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Sheriff, I assume you guys are getting to know
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  Speaker 2: each other a little bit. Yeah, what or how important
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  Speaker 2: do you feel like it's going to be have a
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  Speaker 2: veteran of his leadership and his experience next to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's big, especially coming in wanting to prove myself early.
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  Speaker 1: So just leaning on a guy like that all pro
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  Speaker 1: pro bowler, guy that I watched growing up, being from DC,
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  Speaker 1: he was watching at first, so just watching up growing
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  Speaker 1: him great on line play, so playing beside him right
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  Speaker 1: now is great. Just leaning on him, ask him any questions.
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  Speaker 1: He always said, no questions with dumb questions, So he's
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  Speaker 1: always just helping me out with anything. Trying to have
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  Speaker 1: me out there playing freely and play my best.
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  Speaker 2: Have you been impressed by you know, I think you
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  Speaker 2: hear about NFL players and rookies come in the assistance
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  Speaker 2: that they give because they realize, hey, you got to
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  Speaker 2: play and you gotta be ready. What level of I
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  Speaker 2: guess teamwork? If you will? Have you felt him on
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  Speaker 2: the offensive lineman? So far?
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  Speaker 1: It's big. That group is great. That group is real close.
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  Speaker 1: It's like real family groups. So I can ask anybody
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  Speaker 1: in that group question. They willing to help me. So
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  Speaker 1: that's what I love about that group and just everybody's
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  Speaker 1: want want to see everybody's striving get better. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what I love. And we always pushing each other and
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  Speaker 1: just having fun with it, loving the game.
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  Speaker 2: Can't be sitting here talking to you or that asking
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  Speaker 2: about left tackle right tackle. Played mostly left in your life,
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  Speaker 2: but even during the draft a lot of people said,
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  Speaker 2: probably fits better in the NFL as a right tackle.
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  Speaker 2: What has the transition been like so far? How comfortable?
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  Speaker 1: I'd say for me personally, it's it's been real comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Something that I knew was a pretty smooth transition for me.
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  Speaker 1: So before the draft, like combine and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: I was telling guys that I can do both, so
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  Speaker 1: it wouldn't be a like a slow or a learning
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  Speaker 1: curve for me just moving from left to right. So
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  Speaker 1: I knew that coming in it was a big possibility.
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  Speaker 1: So I knew just being prepared for all possibilities.
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  Speaker 2: Your kid grew up in DC, right, Yes, So what
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  Speaker 2: took you to Oklahoma?
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  Speaker 1: I say, it's just that. Yeah it is, I say,
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  Speaker 1: prestigial school and then the coaching and the old lineman
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  Speaker 1: that they put in the league. I feel like it
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  Speaker 1: one of the best schools in college that put out
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  Speaker 1: great old linemen. So me knowing that I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of that group, uh and then be
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  Speaker 1: be coached by the best. So like coach b he
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  Speaker 1: pushed me every day and got me better.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: So he was a big part of where I am today.
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  Speaker 1: So that was like one of the main reasons I
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  Speaker 1: went there.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you mentioned that tackle tradition. When I was growing up,
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  Speaker 2: which is not as far back as you think it is.
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  Speaker 2: USC was sort of left tackle university, but it really
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  Speaker 2: has become Oklahoma. Was that How big a deal was
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  Speaker 2: that to you? And how much does that I guess
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  Speaker 2: pride in that tradition, motivate you if you will.
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  Speaker 1: It was big, I said. Growing up, one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite tackles to watch was Trent Williams, so he went
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  Speaker 1: to OU watching him when he was with the Redskins,
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  Speaker 1: and then just him now still playing how he is?
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  Speaker 1: That was big. And then got as like Lane Johnson
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  Speaker 1: and things like that was always up. Oh you just
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  Speaker 1: giving us knowledge and helping us out. So I feel
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  Speaker 1: like that was big and that tradition is just the
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  Speaker 1: O line you tradition that OU is just big and
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  Speaker 1: it's like a family. So me wanting to carry on
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  Speaker 1: that tradition and be a part of that list, it
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  Speaker 1: was a big motivator for me.
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  Speaker 2: As you get to know besella you guys can fight
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  Speaker 2: it out or whether sc or or left tackle you
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  Speaker 2: here has something to say about sci Ton Is that
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  Speaker 2: what they call you? Yeah? How did that come about?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know the name my first name, but
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  Speaker 2: when did that start? Uh? Maybe since before you can remember?
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So it really basically just because my name
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  Speaker 1: was Anton and a lot of people would get in
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  Speaker 1: me they say like Antoine or something, so you'd be like,
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  Speaker 1: you say Ton for short, so it'd be easier for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people just to remember and get it right.
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  Speaker 2: I got you U watching you in the time that
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  Speaker 2: I have physicality a big deal to you? Has that
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  Speaker 2: always been how you wanted to play tackle? And how
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  Speaker 2: big of an influence coaching at Oklahoma?
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: How much of an influence was that in terms of
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  Speaker 2: how you play.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say being in Oklahoma was a big influence to
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  Speaker 1: the physicality. Our mindset was we wanted to be the
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  Speaker 1: most physical people on a group on the field. We
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  Speaker 1: wanted to dominate because the game was one up front,
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  Speaker 1: so we carried that on our shoulders. So that was
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  Speaker 1: a big thing for us. And that's just how I
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  Speaker 1: really carried myself. I wanted to be the most physical
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  Speaker 1: player in the field. So just having that and then
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  Speaker 1: having the smarts and IQ in the field, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like that just made me a complete player and made
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  Speaker 1: me play my best on Saturdays.
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  Speaker 2: Is speed something you work on? I mean, watching you
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  Speaker 2: run at the combine, you can run, It's not just
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  Speaker 2: like you're fast in the ground. Something you worked on
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  Speaker 2: take pride in how did you stay fast being your size?
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  Speaker 1: So that was something that always came naturally, just like
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  Speaker 1: being the athletic guy the basketball background, just the feet
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  Speaker 1: work and just the quickness that always stayed with me,
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  Speaker 1: but always just trying to perfect my craft, never trying
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  Speaker 1: to lose a step. So they also helped just keep
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  Speaker 1: trying to get better at that aspect.
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  Speaker 2: Did you win any bets challenges linebackers d lineman at Oklahoma?
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  Speaker 2: That's gotta be lest people look at you, you think you're
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  Speaker 2: not that fast.
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  Speaker 1: I was that guy who was always talking trash and
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  Speaker 1: locker round like I'm fastening you. I'm probably fastening you.
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  Speaker 1: So it was we never really like try to set
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  Speaker 1: up no racis or anything like that, but it was, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just knew. I always talked trash and get under
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  Speaker 1: their skin a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I got you. The final thing we do with the
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  Speaker 2: rookies won't take as much time. It's gonna sound like
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  Speaker 2: the Ozone ten, just to give fans a chance to
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  Speaker 2: get to know you off the field a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: What was your last binge watch?
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  Speaker 1: Last binge watch is probably the last of us.
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  Speaker 2: The best binge watch you've ever seen, best show.
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  Speaker 1: Best bench was probably the last power the power ghosts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sport other than football, that your best.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say basketball.
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  Speaker 2: Got are you? I mean, every guy in every NFL
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  Speaker 2: locker room I've ever come across says they're a great
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  Speaker 2: basketball player. Tell yourself, how good were you?
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  Speaker 1: Uh So, if you know a little bit about basketball,
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  Speaker 1: I say I was like a Zach Randolph. I played
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  Speaker 1: like a Zach Randolph, a little face off four. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I could have played at some lower D
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  Speaker 1: one colleges if I want to play basketball. So I
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  Speaker 1: said I was pretty good myself.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever met a teammate he didn't think he
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  Speaker 2: was good basketball?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? You know, I owe you a lot A lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of teammates say they're good at basketball,
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  Speaker 1: so they just hated on you when they not good.
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  Speaker 1: But when we had our free time, we'd go to
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  Speaker 1: the rec and I approve it to him. So I
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  Speaker 1: was always open to prove it.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever I got you, what career might you have chosen
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  Speaker 2: have not been.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL, I'd probably say I always wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: a chef. Growing up. I like to cook. It was
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  Speaker 1: something I got from my grandmother and my mother, So
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  Speaker 1: just cooking, doing something with cooking got definitely.
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  Speaker 2: When did you know or who was the first one
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  Speaker 2: to tell you, hey, football might be an Avid I mean,
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  Speaker 2: everybody dreams about it, and then a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: say and then maybe not when did you first have
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  Speaker 2: the idea that it could be real?
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  Speaker 1: I'll say high school. My father, he was big, just
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  Speaker 1: really trying to give me the lock in on football
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  Speaker 1: because I played football, basketball, I did some shot put
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  Speaker 1: in dis years during high school. So he was really
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  Speaker 1: just trying to get it into my mind that especially
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  Speaker 1: like when I started to get offers that like this
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  Speaker 1: is really.
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  Speaker 2: Great because he had been to his perspective matter place YEP.
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  Speaker 1: So he was always big on me, always trying to
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  Speaker 1: push me to really just focus on that one sport
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  Speaker 1: that was football. So he was definitely big, and he
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  Speaker 1: really showed me that this is something I could really do.
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  Speaker 2: I got you when you're not trying to stay in shape.
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  Speaker 2: What's your go to meal?
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm uh my go to my I probably say
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  Speaker 1: like a rostapasta, like Jamaican jerk, little chicken off, chicken
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  Speaker 1: off spicy.
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  Speaker 2: So you know your stuck a little bit a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Your first football team.
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  Speaker 1: First football team, it was actually my high school team.
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  Speaker 2: You got for them? Was that too big to play? No?
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  Speaker 2: It was some guys go through that where they.
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  Speaker 1: Can't like they're waited and this stuff. So now it
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  Speaker 1: was actually I just started late. I was just playing
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  Speaker 1: au basketball and then started when I got to high school.
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  Speaker 2: Got you best player you've played with her against.
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  Speaker 1: I probably, says my teammate Ronnie Perkins. He was a
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  Speaker 1: guy like coming to my freshman year like that. D
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  Speaker 1: lint Ou had really that whole D line. Ronnie Perkins,
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  Speaker 1: pegn Winfrey, Nick Benito, those guys my freshman year old
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  Speaker 1: you was probably the best defends that.
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  Speaker 2: Face, best hair you were, Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to get at one of Trevor. I'mna
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  Speaker 1: have to get on with my hair done. I compete,
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  Speaker 1: but when I'm gonna have to get that to him.
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  Speaker 2: For now, the quarterback gets it. We'll see a person
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  Speaker 2: most responsible for you being here.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely say my mother, my mother and my father
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  Speaker 1: and my parents. Uh, just everything they sacrifice for me,
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  Speaker 1: just keeping me on the right path or the way
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  Speaker 1: they raised me. That says just that's the most I
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  Speaker 1: can ask for it. I appreciate of that.
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  Speaker 2: And Harrison, great job on this. I know it's a
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  Speaker 2: busy time for rookies coming in, so I appreciate you
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  Speaker 2: taking time I had to get to know the fans
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, and the fans to get to know you.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate your joining the ozone podcast and I look
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  Speaker 2: forward to working with you down the writer.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, appreciate it.