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Speaker 1: Josh, could you talk a little bit about about the
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Speaker 1: timing of this deal, cause there's there was a lot
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Speaker 1: of talk out there about, hey, this deal could have
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Speaker 1: got done d you know last season, before last.
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Speaker 2: Year, middle of last year. Uh, were you uh just
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Speaker 2: sort of content? Were you at at all content to
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Speaker 2: just let let your performance ride but the chips fall
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Speaker 2: where they may or what I mean, good things come
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Speaker 2: to go to wait.
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Speaker 1: You know, for me, it was just to see, you know,
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Speaker 1: when the when that right opportunity was gonna come and
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Speaker 1: just maximize the value that I could bring and maximize
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Speaker 1: the value that I think I should. But you know,
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Speaker 1: we agreed on both parts. It was like this, we
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Speaker 1: could have went either way, but we we agreed this.
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Speaker 2: Is the timing, perfect timing for us. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Well, LTA's coming up, and you know, be there to
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Speaker 1: see and be around coach uh Ryan Nielsen and be
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Speaker 1: around the guys for a little bit before I take
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Speaker 1: off of my journey what got me to here. So
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Speaker 1: I really can't switch up, can't do anything different. I
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Speaker 1: you know, my wife, my wife, My wife's been s
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Speaker 1: so so helpful with me through this. So through this process, man,
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Speaker 1: and because it's you never know, every time is just
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Speaker 1: different every year, Like you want to keep doing the
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Speaker 1: same thing at the same time, the same schedule, but
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Speaker 1: you can't because life, life happens, and things changes. So
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Speaker 1: for me, it's like, Okay, what do I do next?
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Speaker 1: How do I handle it? How do I do this?
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Speaker 1: May was just like do the same thing, just extended
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Speaker 1: a couple of times, like, you know, so don't stress
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Speaker 1: about anything because you know, I go training in Arizona
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Speaker 1: and I feel like that process got me to perform
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Speaker 1: at a very high level, that got me mentally physically
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Speaker 1: ready to compete and to perform. And so for me,
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Speaker 1: I was like, well, I got to get out there.
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Speaker 1: I gotta do this, but not knowing what my contract
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Speaker 1: situation was gonna be like, so my wife was really
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Speaker 1: just like, Josh, take care of your body, trust the process,
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Speaker 1: and just stay the grind and when the time comes,
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Speaker 1: the time will come when you need to go out there.
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Speaker 1: So for me, it was just having the right mental
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Speaker 1: headspace and staying focused and staying committed to what I
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Speaker 1: do best, and you know, staying in shape.
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Speaker 2: So just to be clear, you weren't antsy at all,
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Speaker 2: no or anything like that.
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Speaker 1: You know, what I was told, man, you got into
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Speaker 1: July fifteenth or July twelfth or July thirteenth to that day.
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Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, I got plenty of time,
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Speaker 1: you know, but I also wanted to figure out what
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Speaker 1: my schedule was gonna be, like how I was gonna train,
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Speaker 1: when I was going train, you know. So glad we
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Speaker 1: got the deal done here before you know these you know,
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Speaker 1: these these classes start or OTA's or mini camp or
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Speaker 1: training camp mandatory. So you know, I'm happy. You know,
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Speaker 1: hopefully the organization's happy and the fan base is happy.
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Speaker 1: But I know myself and my family's extremely happy, and
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Speaker 1: you know, we ready.
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Speaker 2: To move on.
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Speaker 1: Would you be here for I would be here for
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Speaker 1: you know, the first couple of weeks. That's why I
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Speaker 1: was saying, like, you know, figure out what i'm'a do,
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Speaker 1: and you know, I've had this plan and I'm just
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Speaker 1: gonna stick to it.
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Speaker 2: I'm'a be here for the first couple of weeks. You know,
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Speaker 2: the to to to.
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Speaker 1: T to get in touch with the coaches, to know
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Speaker 1: what the scheme is about, uh, to get those basic
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Speaker 1: you know, installs, and then okay, this is what we're doing,
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Speaker 1: this is what they expect from me. This is what
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Speaker 1: they want from me. So now when I go train,
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Speaker 1: I can do what I need to do. You said
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Speaker 1: over and over you wanted to stay in jackson but
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Speaker 1: you wanted to be a Jaguar.
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Speaker 2: How does it feel now that this is done?
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Speaker 1: You know you're gonna be here in Jacksonville? Man, I'm
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm first of all, you know, I wanna
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Speaker 1: thank God, uh, first and foremost, you know, believing in
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Speaker 1: Him and trusting him. I got my babies in the back.
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Speaker 1: If y'all hear crying in the bag, it's okay. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not ashamed. Those are my babies and I love 'em.
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Speaker 1: I mean, niggad do what they need to do, cause
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Speaker 1: they're babies.
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Speaker 2: And I love 'em.
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Speaker 1: But you know, first and foremost, I want to thank
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Speaker 1: God for you know, blessing me with the talent, and
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Speaker 1: bless me with the dedication and the mindset, and putting
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Speaker 1: people in my circle to help lift me up when
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Speaker 1: I wasn't feeling you know, feeling feeling feeling feeling up
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Speaker 1: to up to the h So you know, I'm I'm blessed.
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Speaker 2: I'm humble. Uh, just too many words in my head
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Speaker 2: that's going on.
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Speaker 1: That I I wanna say, but can't really express it,
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Speaker 1: you know, right now, but you know when due time,
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Speaker 1: I will, you know, express how I really feel, and
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Speaker 1: cause I wanna cry, cause I'm so happy. I remember
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Speaker 1: going back to you know, going back to my college
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Speaker 1: days and figuring out if I wanna go back to
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Speaker 1: school or not. And I remember having talking to coach,
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Speaker 1: you know, coach uh Stoops at the time, and you
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Speaker 1: know he he is the first time I heard generation
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Speaker 1: of wealth and you know, not knowing what that word meant,
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Speaker 1: not knowing the value of it, to knowing that I
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Speaker 1: just had my son, you know, I wanna be with
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Speaker 1: my girlfriend at the time, my wife now for the
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Speaker 1: rest of our lives, and just knowing what that really meant.
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Speaker 1: And I took a bet on myself, gamble on myself,
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Speaker 1: and it paid out. Became a first round drift pick
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Speaker 1: seventh overall, uh fortunate to come here. And then you know,
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Speaker 1: seeing the things through and not knowing that it's not
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Speaker 1: the first contract, second contract, and knowing that, you know,
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Speaker 1: I reached that point and I'm maximized on being patient,
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Speaker 1: staying humble, staying on the grind, and staying dedicated to
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Speaker 1: what I do, and so I'm very emotional right now.
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Speaker 2: But you know, the job's not job. I'm not done yet,
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Speaker 2: you know.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I want to tell the fan base
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Speaker 1: like I'm extremely blessed and honored to to get this
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Speaker 1: paycheck or to get these checks. But I have to
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Speaker 1: you know, I I still set goals for myself. I
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Speaker 1: was Defensive Play of the Years. Is is my next goal?
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Speaker 1: Winning the Super Bowl? Being the MVP of it. My
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Speaker 1: I teld you I'm a legacy guy. I know I'm rambling.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ramble. Uh, I'm a legacy guy. And I
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Speaker 1: like I told myself a long time.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: And when I look back at my legacy, I look
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Speaker 1: at my family. You know, my sister has wanted a
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Speaker 1: professional championship, so she's up on me. I think about
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Speaker 1: this all the time. I know I'm super competitive. So
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Speaker 1: I gotta win a super Bowl and be the MVP,
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Speaker 1: and I could be up on and I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: stop until I get that.
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Speaker 2: So you know that's that's that's motivating me. That's bigger
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Speaker 2: than money, you know.
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Speaker 1: So for me, if I can do that and bring
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Speaker 1: the first one to Jacksonville, man, I will be you
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Speaker 1: know extremely in b MVP.
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Speaker 2: That's my goal. I'm not stopping to all get that.
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Speaker 2: Other than that kind of stuff, what do you have
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Speaker 2: to do to to to kind of live up to
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Speaker 2: this the pressure that comes with the steal?
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Speaker 1: Other than I mean again, like I said, doing what
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Speaker 1: I do that got me here in the first place.
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Speaker 1: And you know, yes, OTAs for me, I can't speak
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Speaker 1: for everybody, but for me, it's to value that that
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Speaker 1: individual time that I have, that I can maximize my
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Speaker 1: value and come back with a purpose and come back
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Speaker 1: physically in shape and mentally in shape. That you know,
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Speaker 1: I could go and perform at a very high level.
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Speaker 1: And it worked for me, And so for me, why
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Speaker 1: not do what got me in there in the first place.
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Speaker 1: I know it probably Oh he's not voluntary, he's not here.
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Speaker 1: My teammates know I love him, you know what I'm saying, Like,
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Speaker 1: they know I'll do anything for him. They know him
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Speaker 1: one phone call away. You know, my s my sons,
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Speaker 1: you know, are playing sports on the weekends. I would
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Speaker 1: fly back every week, you know, to see him. So,
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Speaker 1: you know, the dedication to not only myself my craft
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Speaker 1: is is very important, but my family and my and
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Speaker 1: my relationships are also very important as well. So if
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Speaker 1: I can value look my wife told me, staying to
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Speaker 1: the grind, staying focused and doing what got me there.
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Speaker 1: And cause I know, I believe that I'm the one
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Speaker 1: of the best, the best defensive player in the National
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Speaker 1: Football League. And if I can show it that year
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Speaker 1: last year, and if I can keep proving it and
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Speaker 1: doing what got me there, you know, if I can
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Speaker 1: stay confidence, stay healthy, you know, we and obviously we
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Speaker 1: keep getting better. You know, we just signed Trayvon. Trayvon
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Speaker 1: called me and he said he had the day off,
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Speaker 1: but he wanted to go work out, you know, cause
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Speaker 1: I motivated him, Like seeing what I got motivated him.
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Speaker 1: So it's like the f s, you know, the a
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Speaker 1: guy like Trayvon keep getting better and better and better
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Speaker 1: each year. So I think gonna make me want to
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Speaker 1: have to get better cause I gotta be the best
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Speaker 1: player on this team. So I'm always competing with him.
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Speaker 1: He knows that.
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Speaker 2: And uh.
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Speaker 1: And then we got added Eric Armstead, who I'm in
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Speaker 1: awe about. I'm excited for him, excited He's gonna be
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Speaker 1: a great asset to this team.
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Speaker 2: Can't wait to get to work with him.
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Speaker 1: Can't wait to ru rush against rush with him and
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Speaker 1: against him to.
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Speaker 2: Get to the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: And it's gonna push me to have that sense of urgency.
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Speaker 1: And uh, I'm excited for that.
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Speaker 2: How much do you know? Eric?
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Speaker 1: I think you guys have the same agent and just
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Speaker 1: you know what what will that dynamic be?
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Speaker 2: You know you Eric, Trayvon Roy, all these guys? How
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Speaker 2: much better are you? Guys? I want to deep it's
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Speaker 2: go on?
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Speaker 1: Uh, First and foremost, you got to see how you
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Speaker 1: know how the lineup's gonna be. Uh, I think that's
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Speaker 1: that's important.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: You know you brought him here to play a lot.
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Speaker 1: You just resigned me to play a lot. Trayvon just
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Speaker 1: come off for a ten SAX season. Who's only progressing? U?
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Speaker 2: You? Uh?
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Speaker 1: We have Roy, we have d Ham, we have Adam.
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Speaker 1: We just signed Jeremiah back. So you y you see
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Speaker 1: the tools and the pieces that we have. And so
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Speaker 1: it's just first of all, how we gonna rotate that,
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Speaker 1: you know, how we gonna do that?
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Speaker 2: What are we aksing everybody to do?
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Speaker 1: And then like going out then once we have that front, Oh,
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Speaker 1: this is this is where we're looking at.
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Speaker 2: And or I know coach Nielsen is a defensive line guy.
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Speaker 1: If you want your best player to rotate inside, you know,
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Speaker 1: I I I seown that I could play three tech
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Speaker 1: on a on a guard. That's you know, everybody's getting
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Speaker 1: that FOOTBA league. But you know what I mean, Trayvon
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Speaker 1: can go you know, Eric can go inside outside. Roy
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Speaker 1: had some outset stunt, so we can you know, rotate
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Speaker 1: and see where everybody best fits. I think that's important
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Speaker 1: and I think that's prior to number one. But then
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Speaker 1: also obviously rushing with the guys and knowing where everybody's
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Speaker 1: capable of it is very exciting and uh yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you walk us through the last twenty four hours, When
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Speaker 1: did you been all that could always done? And emotional
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Speaker 1: emotions for me, you know, obviously, Wen I was, you know,
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Speaker 1: every part of in the negotiating stages of this, so
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Speaker 1: I was kind of up to date with everything and
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Speaker 1: knowing that we were getting closer and closer a little
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Speaker 1: n you know, Nick knacks that we wanted to get,
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Speaker 1: they wanted to get, so just negotiating that part. But
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Speaker 1: it it got it got real, you know when I
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Speaker 1: don't know when it just it got real when we
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Speaker 1: was like we're we're we're there. You know, we're happy
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Speaker 1: it we're s We're never satisfied, but we're very happy
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Speaker 1: with with what we.
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Speaker 2: Have in front of us.
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Speaker 1: And and you know, I went through a lot of emotions.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm very emotional right now. I'm kind
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Speaker 1: of doing a good job and keeping my composure. I know,
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Speaker 1: once I start talking about my wife, I get it.
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Speaker 1: Just you don't like you don't know how much she's
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Speaker 1: helped me throughout my career.
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Speaker 2: I don't wanna. I can't get to that point right now.
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Speaker 1: But uh, it's very real, but very very like what
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Speaker 1: you said, how do you hold up to this expectations?
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Speaker 1: So for me, it's to get back in that lab,
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Speaker 1: you know, figure out what get back to doing what
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Speaker 1: I do, training with the purpose, training with the mindset
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Speaker 1: of that I am the best and if they want to,
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Speaker 1: they gonna We got a big target on our back.
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Speaker 1: We I think we've always have. Especially now you look
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Speaker 1: at our division. You know it's a lot more competitive,
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Speaker 1: which I love, which brings a lot more national media
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Speaker 1: to our division. We have a when you look at
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Speaker 1: every team, every team has a primier quarterback. Now you
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Speaker 1: look at these now you look at the receiving corps.
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Speaker 1: You look at the offensive lines, you look at the
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Speaker 1: running back rooms. You know, everybody's competing for the AFC
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Speaker 1: South And you know, I still believe we're todd dogs,
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Speaker 1: and you know, and I'm going to believe that. And
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Speaker 1: you know, the best in my mind, the best defensive
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Speaker 1: front is gonna win these games. And I feel like
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Speaker 1: we have a great opportunity to be the best defensive
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Speaker 1: front in our division, which is going to lead us
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Speaker 1: on to bigger and better things. So you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: excited to get the work. I decided to be around
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Speaker 1: the guys again, and uh know that this part is
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Speaker 1: done and over with and now it's to how can
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Speaker 1: we how can we win a Super Bowl? But how
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Speaker 1: can we compete?
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Speaker 2: I'm ready to compete. What does this contract and commitment
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Speaker 2: mean to your or means to your family? I mean
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Speaker 2: it's huge.
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Speaker 1: Uh we w this is our you know, we talked
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Speaker 1: a big about legacies and roots and not to my home,
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Speaker 1: but everywhere that I went, you know, I left I
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Speaker 1: left an impact, you know, and started back in high school,
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Speaker 1: you know, just living you know, starting off really slow
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Speaker 1: in high school and then you know, progressing to to
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Speaker 1: to being a two star recruit, you know, to feel
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Speaker 1: like I had a lot of doubters on my back.
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Speaker 1: And then going to my high school my senior year,
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Speaker 1: UH leading the state in sacks my first year playing defense,
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Speaker 1: knowing that I'm capable of playing at a very high level,
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Speaker 1: going into college as a two star recruit, like I said,
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Speaker 1: and then working building my way up to becoming you know,
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Speaker 1: the seventh pick in the over in the draft, being
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Speaker 1: winning every National Defensive Player Award, to always proving myself wrong,
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Speaker 1: and to now when I go back, it's it's home
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Speaker 1: when I get back, when I go back to Lexington,
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Speaker 1: so leaving that legacy there that will never be forgotten.
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Speaker 2: And then coming here to Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: You know, twenty seventeen was a year they almost went
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Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 2: Almost doesn't count.
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Speaker 1: They had a great team Saxonville, great defense, you know, offense,
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Speaker 1: I was progressing. And then you move on to eighteen,
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Speaker 1: they didn't have success. I came into nineteen, you know,
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Speaker 1: we six and ten, told myself, we can't get worse
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Speaker 1: than this, you know, not understanding NFL and then winning
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Speaker 1: three games the next two years.
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Speaker 2: And then goes Peter.
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Speaker 1: We go to the playoffs and just I mean this
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Speaker 1: is really you know, like this is this is these
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Speaker 1: are raw emotions and I'm giving you guys, and I'm
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Speaker 1: honest that like leaving, like what.
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Speaker 2: What can I do to leave an impact?
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Speaker 1: And you know last year was was me figuring everything out.
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Speaker 1: I know everybody talks about, oh it was a contract year.
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Speaker 1: He was extra motivated. For me, it was figuring figuring
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Speaker 1: out life. You know, when you get thrown all this money,
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Speaker 1: you get thrown, not thrown a family, but you build
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Speaker 1: a family at a very young young age.
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Speaker 2: Nobody teach you, nobody.
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Speaker 1: Gives you a guidebook and say, hell and this is life,
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Speaker 1: this is this is what you want to do. This
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Speaker 1: is how you handle it. When the kids get old enough,
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Speaker 1: you gotta take them to this school. You gotta gotta
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Speaker 1: pay these bills, you gotta do tax you gotta so
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Speaker 1: it becomes a lot. And the faster you can manage
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Speaker 1: and handle these so so you can just focus on football,
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Speaker 1: and it is the better. And I feel like, you know,
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Speaker 1: my wife and I we have grown, you know, we
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Speaker 1: have grew so much throughout these years, and you know,
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Speaker 1: we think each other every day that we didn't stay
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Speaker 1: where we were whatever year in the past, because we
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Speaker 1: still need to grow today. But you know, this is
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Speaker 1: something that we need to build for not only for us,
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Speaker 1: before our kids.
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Speaker 2: So it's just very special to leave a legacy again.
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Speaker 2: Let me get back to that. So last year breaking
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Speaker 2: the single season sack.
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Speaker 1: Record wasn't because as a contract year. Thankfully it was
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Speaker 1: a contract year. But if it was two three years ago,
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Speaker 1: I would have done it, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: But it's just figuring everything out and putting the pieces together,
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Speaker 1: you know, building that confidence back up that I feel
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Speaker 1: like I lost because I didn't live up to expectations
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Speaker 1: that I know I could, you know. So it was
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Speaker 1: investing in here, investing to your body a little bit
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Speaker 1: more than what you usually do, and being okay with
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Speaker 1: the results that come with it. So for me, it's
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Speaker 1: too all right, that worked for me, you know, let
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Speaker 1: me do it again. And so, you know, I found
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Speaker 1: out what works for me. I found out my plan,
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Speaker 1: I found out my schedule, and you know again, I
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Speaker 1: thank God every morning, every night, uh, and before I
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Speaker 1: eat uh that I'm thankful and I am a humble
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Speaker 1: servant under him, and my kids would be, my wife
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Speaker 1: is and my whole family is and you know, I
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Speaker 1: can't think of anymore. I was supportive of Jaguars fans,
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Speaker 1: been through this whole process.
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Speaker 2: Oh man, I gotta say one the job man.
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Speaker 1: Uh you know it, it's kind of hard to stay
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Speaker 1: off of social media, but I try to do my best,
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Speaker 1: you know. And uh so I'm not gonna say I
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Speaker 1: didn't read a lot of comments or concerns about what
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Speaker 1: we were doing.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean. It's definitely hard, you know,
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Speaker 2: negotiating it's ups and down. It's dang. They didn't feel
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Speaker 2: like there's, oh yeah, we're going there right there, like.
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Speaker 1: Dang, and it so it was a bit of emotional
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Speaker 1: roller coaster. And then seeing that the fans really wanted
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Speaker 1: me back. Uh, they knew what type of player I
16:55
Speaker 1: was on and off the field.
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Speaker 2: Man. So just having that local support behind me, I
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Speaker 2: thing helped. So shout out to all the duvall.
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Speaker 1: They know I love them, and they know even when
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Speaker 1: even when I remember sitting in one of the games
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Speaker 1: and somebody say, Josh, you're gonna do something.
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Speaker 2: A couple of years ago, you know, I ain't let
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Speaker 2: that homie back.
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Speaker 1: I want to use that for motivation, and it got
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Speaker 1: me where I am today, So thank you to whoever
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Speaker 1: that was. So you know, okay, Josh, the team shown
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Speaker 1: they're believing you, and Senior the guy the couple years ago,
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Speaker 1: they draft you today.
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Speaker 2: What does that mean to you? It's special?
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is my legacy, this is
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Speaker 1: this is something that I built. It's something I work
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Speaker 1: every day for, something I'm honored to be a part of.
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Speaker 1: You know, I told myself when I got drafted here,
17:45
Speaker 1: I had two instances. I told myself everywhere I told
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Speaker 1: myself of Kentucky, I wanted to coach stops. I want
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Speaker 1: to be the best player you ever coached. I remember
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Speaker 1: telling my rookie at two star recruit, didn't know what
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Speaker 1: a two point stands was, didn't know what a feeling
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Speaker 1: boundary was. But I knew what I wanted. And you know,
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Speaker 1: I can argue that that question, you know, with him,
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Speaker 1: I think I am, you know, but that's his opinion.
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Speaker 1: And then coming here getting drafted, I wanted to be
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Speaker 1: the best defensive player to ever come out of Jacksonville history.
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Speaker 1: And you know, my my, I got five more years
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Speaker 1: to keep stacking and stacking and stacking, and I'm excited
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Speaker 1: about that.
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Speaker 2: I'm excited for it.
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Speaker 1: And whoever tries to come get my record, it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be a very tall task and I'm gonna.
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Speaker 2: Make it very hard for them.
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Speaker 1: But I'm I'm I'm extremely blessed.
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Speaker 2: I'm tense.
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Speaker 1: I know I'm ten sacks away from leading franchise history
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Speaker 1: and total sacks, I think, and Toty Brackens, who who's
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Speaker 1: become a big mentor of minds throughout these years, and
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Speaker 1: just to know that, you know, I'm right on his heels, man,
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Speaker 1: It's it's a blessing.
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Speaker 2: And I passed class.
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Speaker 1: Who is another mentor of mine coming in so knowing
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Speaker 1: that I did that, you know, it was huge.
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Speaker 2: And then now it's Tony.
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Speaker 1: You know it's you know, I'm gonna get emotional again,
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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna say that to my wife and I thank.
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Speaker 2: Thank you guys for coming again. I appreciate all your
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Speaker 2: appreciate it.