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Inside The Charge: Reggie Gilliam talks "Mr. Brightside," Preparing for AFC Championship, and more! · Inside the Charge

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  Speaker 1: What's up Bill's Mafia. Welcome into this week's episode of
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  Speaker 1: Inside the Charge. I'm Maddi Glabin. In this week's episode,
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  Speaker 1: we've got fullback Reggie Gilliam joining the show. Reggie talks
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  Speaker 1: about why fullbacks deserve all the respect. We get into
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  Speaker 1: the origin story of mister Brightside, what Reggie does when
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  Speaker 1: he hears mister Brightside at home games. He also talks
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that he's the first player ever from
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  Speaker 1: his high school to make it in the NFL, goes
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  Speaker 1: through his pregame routine, and why he believes this team
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  Speaker 1: is capable of making it a couple more weeks. Reggie,
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  Speaker 1: thanks so much for taking the time to sit down
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  Speaker 1: with me today. I appreciate it. You guys are so
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  Speaker 1: busy this week getting ready for a huge game. This
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  Speaker 1: team finishes the season out ten to zero at home.
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  Speaker 1: The AFC Championship is on deck. What has been most
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  Speaker 1: important to the team's success so far this season.
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  Speaker 2: Being true to ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: Think that goes a long way when you can believe
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  Speaker 3: in yourself and not listen to, you know, the outside media,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, Shawn's really big on ignoring the noise,
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  Speaker 3: So I think that just having the belief of everyone
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  Speaker 3: inside the building.
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  Speaker 2: That goes a long way.
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  Speaker 1: What does being true to yourselves mean? What's the version
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  Speaker 1: for this team?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I think the best example of it is Mac Collins.
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  Speaker 3: Just because he is who he is, It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 3: what anybody has to say or think about him, that
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  Speaker 3: he's going to continue being himself. And that just embodies
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  Speaker 3: what the Buffalo Bills are this year. Everyone has a
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  Speaker 3: lot of personality here and they aren't afraid to show it.
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  Speaker 3: And us being able to play free and play fast
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  Speaker 3: and be ourselves has really shown up a lot on film.
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  Speaker 1: You speak about Mac Hollins and what he does on
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  Speaker 1: and off the field, the no shoes, the personality, and
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  Speaker 1: then you've got Dion Dawkins who has his own language sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: and then you have quiet guys on the team as well.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you love this group?
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  Speaker 3: Because it's just like such a diverse group, just everybody
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  Speaker 3: has such different personalities and nobody is like, oh, that
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  Speaker 3: guy's kind of weird or we don't want to hang
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  Speaker 3: out with them, Like everyone just embraces each other for
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  Speaker 3: who they are.
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  Speaker 1: Who do you love getting to hang out with on
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  Speaker 1: the team, Who's who's your group.
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  Speaker 3: The tight End group of course, uh DAWs, Dalton, q Zach.
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  Speaker 3: Those are the guys we always hang out outside of
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  Speaker 3: the building and always joking around having a good time
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  Speaker 3: here too.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you brought up the tight Ends. I've got to
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  Speaker 1: ask you this. Dawson, k Ox and Dalon Kinkaid lose
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  Speaker 1: their minds when mister Bright's Side comes on in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter at home games. They really made it a
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  Speaker 1: scene this season. What are you doing when that's unfolding?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So this all started in the off season at
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  Speaker 3: Dawson's wedding. Okay, they played Mister Brightside at the reception
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  Speaker 3: and everybody was losing their minds. And I had no
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  Speaker 3: idea what the song was. Never heard it the day
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  Speaker 3: of my life. And everyone's like, oh, this is it,
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  Speaker 3: this is it, and and Dalton's like, oh, we gotta
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  Speaker 3: do it, we gotta do it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, do what what's going on?
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  Speaker 3: And Everybody's going crazy in the middle of the dance
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  Speaker 3: floor to this song, and I'm just like kind of
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  Speaker 3: standing there watching everybody because I've obviously never.
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  Speaker 2: Heard it before, and I'm just like, okay, like that
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  Speaker 2: was something.
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  Speaker 3: And then it started playing in the stadium, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if Dalton had something to do with that,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, if we're up in the fourth quarter, like
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  Speaker 3: midway through the fourth quarter, they'll they'll play it. And
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  Speaker 3: just this past weekend, we were playing the Ravens, uh
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  Speaker 3: because you know, it was the back and fourth game,
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  Speaker 3: pretty much all the way throughout the game, and they
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  Speaker 3: played Mister bright Side at.
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  Speaker 2: Like I don't know, like four minutes left in the
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  Speaker 2: fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 3: And Dalton comes up to me. He's like this, mister
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  Speaker 3: bright Side is about to hit.
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  Speaker 2: I was like what.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, They're about to play it right now,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like all right, And uh, there was
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  Speaker 3: there was one game earlier in the season where I
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  Speaker 3: was like kind of singing along to it. I was
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  Speaker 3: reading the words on the screen, just trying to act
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  Speaker 3: like I knew what was going on, but I still
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  Speaker 3: didn't really know. But yeah, it's it's.
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  Speaker 2: Become a tradition here and it's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you enjoy your teammates, your friends getting to
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  Speaker 1: have that type of moment.
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  Speaker 3: Because they're just so goofy all the time, and it's
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  Speaker 3: like we get that opportunity to really show how much
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  Speaker 3: we love each other and how much we have this
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  Speaker 3: this family style feeling in this building.
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  Speaker 1: You speak about loving each other. I think something like
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  Speaker 1: loving your teammates is expressed on the field. You plan
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  Speaker 1: special teams quite a bit. Yeah, and there was a
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  Speaker 1: huge hit that you had against the Ravens. It was
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  Speaker 1: their second drive of the game. You back them up
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  Speaker 1: on the two yard line. What is the art of
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  Speaker 1: a Reggie Gilliam hit?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I'm just like a heat seeking missile when I'm
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  Speaker 3: running down on kickoff or really any special teams, a
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  Speaker 3: cover unit.
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  Speaker 2: That I'm thinking that I gotta get to the ball.
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes you'll see on film there's a couple times
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  Speaker 3: where I'm moving so fast I miss because I'm just
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  Speaker 3: trying to absolutely lay into the guy.
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  Speaker 2: And when I connect, it's pretty loud.
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  Speaker 1: When you connect, it's loud. You have the nickname of Sledge.
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  Speaker 1: Where does that come from?
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  Speaker 3: That originates from Western High School? My high school in Galloway, Ohio,
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  Speaker 3: a suburb of Columbus. My coach Kyle Gebel told me
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  Speaker 3: that I hit like a sledgehammer, and so that's where
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  Speaker 3: I started coming from, calling me Regis Sledge. So I
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  Speaker 3: carried that through college and then I eventually just dropped
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  Speaker 3: the redge the part and just went with sledge.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something you're born with or something that you learn?
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  Speaker 1: Hitting that hard?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I think it's something that you're born with. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you can't really teach the tenacity that comes with it.
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  Speaker 3: It's just kind of like, you know, I'm two hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty pounds, I'm a heavy dude, and I can
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  Speaker 3: move decently well, so you know, just the laws of physics,
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  Speaker 3: you know, or mass moving at a certain speed is
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  Speaker 3: going to be a collision.
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  Speaker 1: So I watch practices and during the Special Teams unit portion,
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  Speaker 1: when you guys are on the field practicing together, it
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  Speaker 1: seems like there's a lot of pride in playing on
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  Speaker 1: special teams and within that you see guys fighting to
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  Speaker 1: race down the field. He's going to get there first.
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  Speaker 1: And I know you're not tackling in practices, but how
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  Speaker 1: does that mindset help you in the games?
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  Speaker 3: It helps a ton, And I really think that starts
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  Speaker 3: at the top with Matthew Smiley. He's, you know, been
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  Speaker 3: here the whole time that I've been here, and he's
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  Speaker 3: been great, just you know, coaching guys up and getting
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  Speaker 3: guys to want to play hard for him because he's
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  Speaker 3: just that type of guy that you don't want to
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  Speaker 3: let down. So it's like he's made it fun, but
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  Speaker 3: he has also made it like the environment, the atmosphere
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  Speaker 3: that we play in is that this is how we are.
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  Speaker 3: We play with juice, we play fast, we play smart,
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  Speaker 3: and that's just how we all are.
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  Speaker 2: How do you.
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  Speaker 1: Believe that you guys can set the tone in a game?
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  Speaker 3: I think special teams goes a long way setting tones
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  Speaker 3: because you know, like you said the other last week,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a big hit can spark the defense and
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  Speaker 3: the field position battle that special teams is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's all complementary football. Like Sean always says that special
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  Speaker 3: teams is like that key that you know, people mostly
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  Speaker 3: most times overlook, but it could be the difference in
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  Speaker 3: a game.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Times you mentioned being from Ohio going to Westland High School.
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  Speaker 1: You're the first player from your high school to make
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  Speaker 1: it to the NFL. What does it take to go
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  Speaker 1: from that to now be in your fifth season with Buffalo?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't easy by any means, coming from a small school,
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  Speaker 3: well not even a small school, just not a.
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  Speaker 2: School that has been successful in the past.
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  Speaker 3: My entire college career, I only won seven games, or
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  Speaker 3: entire high school career only won seven games. I won
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  Speaker 3: a lot in college, but yeah, in high school, we
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  Speaker 3: didn't win a lot of games. So we didn't have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of scouts coming around.
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  Speaker 2: To see us.
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  Speaker 3: We we I think I had two scouts total come
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  Speaker 3: see me in high school. So it wasn't like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: these high schools now where you know, kids are, you know,
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  Speaker 3: transferring high schools to be seen like.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't any of that.
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  Speaker 3: I stayed in my high school because I wanted to
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  Speaker 3: be with my friends, and I knew I always knew
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to go to the NFL, but I knew
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  Speaker 3: it was going to be a challenge coming from Westland,
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  Speaker 3: where you know, people didn't really come looking for college players.
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  Speaker 2: But there was a game, like my third game of
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  Speaker 2: my senior year.
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  Speaker 3: The linebackers coach was like the Columbus recruiting area guy.
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  Speaker 3: He messaged me on Twitter after I had just had
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  Speaker 3: a big game and he said, like, I really liked
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  Speaker 3: your tape. I want you to come up for a game.
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  Speaker 3: They're like walk on weekend or whatever. So I came
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  Speaker 3: up to tell you the campus and fell in love within.
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  Speaker 2: The rest is history.
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  Speaker 1: Really, that's awesome that you got an opportunity like that
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  Speaker 1: and somebody saw your tape and saw the potential within you.
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  Speaker 1: But when you win only seven games throughout your high
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  Speaker 1: school career and you have goals to make it in
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  Speaker 1: college football and beyond, what does that do to your mentals?
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  Speaker 1: When when you're out of school and nothing on the school.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just it wasn't a good program.
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  Speaker 3: It just wasn't a place where, you know, colleges were
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  Speaker 3: coming to look and I had I had like Division
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  Speaker 3: three schools coming, but I was like, I'm already a
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  Speaker 3: small school high school guy. There's no way that I
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  Speaker 3: can go Division three and make it to the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: And even my coach Gogil that you know, gave me
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  Speaker 3: the Sledge nickname. He was telling me like, hey, you
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  Speaker 3: should try to go D two, you know, make a
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  Speaker 3: name for yourself and then maybe a transferred D one.
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  Speaker 3: And I told him like, look like I have to
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  Speaker 3: go D one or I'm not going to make it.
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  Speaker 3: So what I ended up doing was walking on at Toledo.
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  Speaker 3: Was a walk on there for two years. I got
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  Speaker 3: a scholarship my third year and became a two time
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  Speaker 3: captain there, had a great career on special teams and
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  Speaker 3: offensively blocking, and then another thing happened with COVID twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 3: I was at a pro day that got canceled, so
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  Speaker 3: it was just like another thing in my way. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, this is really it's really getting tough. But
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  Speaker 3: luckily Sean Sean McDermott calls me after the draft and
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  Speaker 3: tells me you want to give me a shot.
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  Speaker 2: So here I am.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you believe you fit here in Buffalo?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like Buffalo is like that blue collar work,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just put your head down and grind kind
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  Speaker 3: of thing and fit. I feel like that fits me
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  Speaker 3: perfectly because nothing was ever given to me.
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  Speaker 2: I had to you know, I came from a small school.
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  Speaker 3: I had to earn a scholarship, and then I essentially
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  Speaker 3: had to earn another spot I was. I walked on
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  Speaker 3: here again, you know, making it to the fifty three
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  Speaker 3: my rookie year.
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  Speaker 2: So it was just like, it's kind of what I do.
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  Speaker 3: It's what I do being a blue collar you know,
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  Speaker 3: head down, do what I'm told, get it done, kind
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  Speaker 3: of guy.
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  Speaker 1: Full Backs are a blue collar type of position. I
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  Speaker 1: would say, you're jumping in and out of tight ends meetings.
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  Speaker 1: Probably offensive line as well, running backs too. Why do
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  Speaker 1: full backs deserve more respect because.
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  Speaker 2: We play every position. Like you see Kyle Yuschek.
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  Speaker 3: He he's running wheel routes down the sideline, he's blocking,
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  Speaker 3: he's getting the handoff, he's a kick returner, holding the
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  Speaker 3: pat like he does everything.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like he really.
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  Speaker 3: Embodies what a fullback is because the fullback is like
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  Speaker 3: the Swiss Army knife of the offense. We can do
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  Speaker 3: whatever anything you may need, but the defense has to
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  Speaker 3: respect it still because they don't know what you're gonna do.
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  Speaker 3: So I feel like that it's a bit of a
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  Speaker 3: lost art. But people that understand, they know.
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  Speaker 1: How can we campaign for Reggie gilliam touchdown in the
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  Speaker 1: AFC Championship Game.
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  Speaker 2: You have to talk to Joe Brady and give you
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  Speaker 2: a number.
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  Speaker 1: I'll call up Joe and then say, hey, Joe, I
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  Speaker 1: think this would look really nice on tape.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Please.
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  Speaker 1: You get to be on the line sometimes with the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line, they've done a heck of a job this
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  Speaker 1: season protecting Josh Allen like his life is on the line.
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  Speaker 1: What's been the difference this year, Coach Cromer.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a really good rapport with the guys, and
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  Speaker 3: we all get along really well. The times that I
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  Speaker 3: have been in the room with them learning whatever run
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  Speaker 3: scheme it is, they all get along great. And it
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  Speaker 3: shows up on tape that everyone's on the same page
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  Speaker 3: all the time because of what Chromer teaches, and Kromer
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  Speaker 3: is one of the best teachers I've ever been around.
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  Speaker 1: When you hit a nice block, describe the feeling because
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  Speaker 1: on the outside looking and I mean there are some
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  Speaker 1: blocks that show up on tape where you're watching the
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  Speaker 1: game as a fan and you're like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: that looks in like pancake blocks. What Dion Dawkins does
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  Speaker 1: what seems like every other play, Yeah, what is that feeling?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 3: I even said this, I even said this back in
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  Speaker 3: college that I said that a good block feels better
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  Speaker 3: than the run itself, just because like, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: sprung the block. Or like if I'm say, if I'm
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  Speaker 3: at the point of attack on a block and I
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  Speaker 3: kick my guy out and I feel James run right
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  Speaker 3: behind me, I'm like, oh, thank goodness, like he's gone,
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  Speaker 3: because I know that if if I'm at the point
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  Speaker 3: of attack and I do my job, then that allows
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  Speaker 3: him to do his job and he looks great. And
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  Speaker 3: it's not like I need all the credit for it,
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  Speaker 3: but I just want him to know that, like I
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  Speaker 3: got his back.
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  Speaker 1: You spoke about James Cook. Sixteen rushing touchdowns in the
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  Speaker 1: regular season ties for the most in the league, But
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  Speaker 1: nobody's talking about James Cook. I've you could say that
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  Speaker 1: about a lot of players who have great seasons in Buffalo,
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  Speaker 1: the blue collar town being counted out, YadA, YadA. I
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  Speaker 1: could go on, how fun is it watching James this year?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's a ton just seeing from where he was
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  Speaker 3: his rookie year to where he is now is nine
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  Speaker 3: day difference.
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  Speaker 2: I knew when he first got.
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  Speaker 3: Here he's gonna be really special, just because of the
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  Speaker 3: way that he is able to run between the tackles
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  Speaker 3: but also run outside and catch passes. He's a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a fullback himself. He can do a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of everything. So James has really been awesome to have
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  Speaker 3: a round here.
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  Speaker 1: What does a pregame routine look like for Reggie Gilliam.
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  Speaker 3: I love a chill day getting in so I mean
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  Speaker 3: it's different depending on what time kickoff is, but most
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  Speaker 3: time kickoffs around one o'clock. But I like to wake
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  Speaker 3: up for like seven thirty eight o'clock and I just
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  Speaker 3: kind of take my time, eat breakfast, get to the stadium,
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  Speaker 3: and just relax, try to can serve as much energy
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  Speaker 3: and energy as I can, and just kind of think
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  Speaker 3: about and visualize what I'm going to do at kickoff.
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  Speaker 1: Is it easy to relax on a game day.
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  Speaker 2: I've mastered a lot a lot more now. When I
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  Speaker 2: was younger, it was like really really jittery, and.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I get in and I'm jittering. I think
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  Speaker 1: about you guys. I'm like, I can't imagine how well
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  Speaker 1: they think it's five hours before kickoff on this game
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  Speaker 1: needs to start in twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really tough.
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  Speaker 3: Well it was tough for me, but as I've gotten older,
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  Speaker 3: I've kind of just been able to kind of manage
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  Speaker 3: that better. Just kind of wait for your energy, wait
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  Speaker 3: to expel it. So I like to listen to you know,
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  Speaker 3: like R and B and like soft things before the
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  Speaker 3: game starts, because I know a lot of guys are
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  Speaker 3: like heavy metal wrap whatever.
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  Speaker 2: That's not me.
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  Speaker 3: I like to just kind of be zen before the
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  Speaker 3: game and then empty yes, and then once that first
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  Speaker 3: whistle blows, that's when you cut it loose.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you cut it loose when the first whistle blows.
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  Speaker 1: How do you get yourself to a place where you
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  Speaker 1: can cut it loose?
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  Speaker 2: It really starts for home games.
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  Speaker 3: I know it starts when we have like the legend
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  Speaker 3: of the game, go where else did you rather be?
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  Speaker 3: Like that's when I'm like, all right, here we go.
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  Speaker 3: Like I get juiced up off that and like I'm
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  Speaker 3: lining up for kickoff and I'm like, all right, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: So it starts.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: Well, it doesn't start there, but like that's when I
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: really flipped the switch. I'd say it at first initially
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: starts when we run out for the team. I always
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: do this thing when I run out. I turn around,
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: I look at everybody in the stands, and I'm like,
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: all these people are here to see you do what
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: you love.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: Dion had a clip that kind of went viral during
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: the Ravens game. He was miked up and he turned
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know who he was talking to, but he
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: turned around and he said, do you ever just look
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: at the fans and think how beautiful is this?
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And I thought it.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: Was a really cool moment to just sit there in
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: the middle of a game and take a beat and
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: just look up at Bill's mafia just going wild for
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: you guys.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's real, especially for me. In my rookie year.
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: There was no fans in the stands.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so my first however, many games until the playoffs,
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: because's when they started letting fans in. They let like
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: six thousand fans in or whatever. But my first seventeen
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: games or whatever were dead silent. You could hear everything
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: on the field. You hear what everybody's saying, so it
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: was really weird. It sounded like a practice. But once
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: my first game, I think it was a playoff game
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: against the Colts, I think it was the first time
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: we had fans in the stands. There was like only
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: like six thousand fans. But I remember running out because
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: I was like, that was the most people I'd ever
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: seen the stands. You know, I played at tiny school
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: in Westland and then you know, played in the mackets.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: You know, there was never I mean they would they
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: would fill the sands, action shows up decently, but for
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: six thousand fans to make it sound like it was
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: a full stadium. Was incredible, and then it's like the
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: next season, you see the whole stadium is full with
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: I don't even know seventy thousand people and they're all
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: screaming their heads off like it's it's a really cool feeling.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: And I like to think about last weekend when we
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: played the Ravens. They had a fourth, third or fourth down.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: It was coming up and I and I remember turning
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: around looking back like, wow, these people are really going crazy.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: So like I'm trying to hype them up even more,
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: like I'm getting rowdy with them, trying to get trying
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: to help the defense out, but I'm getting routy with them.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: And you know, you see people with their shirts off
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: and people going absolutely insane, and that there's just nothing
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: like it.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Is anybody better than Jordan Phillips trying to hype up the.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: C Yeah his signature of a drive. Yeah, his signature move.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: He's out there on the field doing it like before
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: the play, and I'm like, yeah, Jordan's great, It's amazing.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Let's go back to the tight ends. You said those
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: are your buddies, those are the guys you spend the
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: most time with who's the one cracking jokes in that
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: position group?
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Oh? Man, everybody's a comedian in that group.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: I think I think Dalton was probably the like comedian
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: that cracks jokes. But me and Q we got this
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: thing like if we make eye contact at the right time,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: we'll just bust out laughing. So it's a really good
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: group of guys. And you know Zach, he's he's like
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: the golden retriever of the group. He's got all the
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: energy and he acts like a middle school kid. So
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: it's a really good group of guys.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: What does Reggie bring to the tight Ends room?
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: They call me like the dad of the group, because
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Think Dawson would be the dad.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: We're both kind of like the dads of the group.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: We're kind of the more matured ones, and we're kind
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: of always like looking at them like why would you
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: do that? Why are you making that noise? Trying to
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: keep them in line, but it's like they're so funny
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: you can't help but laugh sometimes.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: How does Rob boris your tight Ends coach wrangle the group?
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Uh, some days are better than others. Some days you
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: could tell he gets a little annoyed with this.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Because I'm sick and tired of you guys.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: But no, he has a lot of love for us.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: He tells us all the time that we're his favorite group.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Of people he's coached.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: And he tries to act like you know, he's tough sometimes,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: but we get him to crack every now and then
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: he's awesome.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Reggie, you're speaking and I and I hear the love
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: that you have for your teammates inside of the tight
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Ends room and even the team at large. When you
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: look at this group, what they've put together this season,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: so many people doubted you. Why do you believe this
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: group is capable of winning a couple? More?
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Like what I said earlier, we all believe in each other.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what everybody's saying outside these doors, like
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: it's it's what's going on in here. They don't know
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: what's going on in here. And I remember hearing about
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: all the things before camp that you know, we're not talented,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: we're not this, we're not that, But none of that matters.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: We do what we do and we keep going.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I love it. Do what you do and keep going.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Can't wait for this week and beyond. It's gonna be
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun couple of weeks. I believe it.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe it.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Thanks Rege and dot bock Bod