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Inside the Charge: Jackson Hawes Talks Catan With Josh Allen, Art Of Blocking & More · Inside the Charge

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Inside the Charge. I've got
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  Speaker 1: running back Ray Davis with me, Maddie Glab. The two
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  Speaker 1: co-hosts this season, Ray, welcome back. You made it through
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  Speaker 1: week one. Here we are on week two. But really
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  Speaker 1: week one in football sense of things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it feels like week a thousand because you
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  Speaker 3: feel like you've been here since what we reported June 1st,
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  Speaker 3: June 2nd or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, even going back to April, you guys came
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  Speaker 1: back so early because the new head coach, I felt
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  Speaker 1: like the season ended, and it was like, oh, they're
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  Speaker 1: already back in the building.
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  Speaker 2: But you guys missed us, so it's okay. We missed
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  Speaker 2: you guys, too.
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  Speaker 4: It's really boring when players aren't in the building.
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  Speaker 2: We missed you.
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  Speaker 4: We get a break, and then you guys come back
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  Speaker 4: in the building. It's like, let's go. We got to
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  Speaker 4: create content.
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  Speaker 2: The boys are back.
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  Speaker 4: The boys are back. The boys are buzzing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the boys are buzzing.
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  Speaker 4: Because week one is here.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are playing against the Houston Texans this week.
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  Speaker 1: An exciting matchup. because the best defense in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: from last season going up against a top three offense
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  Speaker 1: in the Buffalo Bills from last season. You would assume
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it continues because Houston brought back a
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  Speaker 1: lot of big playmakers on defense, and you guys have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of familiar faces back on offense, and things
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  Speaker 1: can't go wrong with QB1 Josh Allen at the helm.
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  Speaker 2: When you got Josh Allen, there's always a chance. I
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  Speaker 2: tell people that always, always.
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  Speaker 3: There could be a minute on the clock, no timeout.
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  Speaker 3: If 17's walking on that field, the hope is still alive.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Since you said that, this is where my brain goes.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a moment in a game that you go
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  Speaker 1: back to when Josh Allen did Josh Allen things and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, this man is not real?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I got to start with the 49ers game,
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  Speaker 3: my rookie year snow game, throws a slant to Amari Cooper.
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  Speaker 4: That was sick.
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  Speaker 2: Famously throws it back to Josh, goes and scores.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously what he did against the Chiefs my rookie year too.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, to scramble out the pocket, get the touchdown,
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  Speaker 3: bring us back to where we need to be, and
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  Speaker 3: then continue to get the W for us was pretty big.
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  Speaker 3: So those are my moments where I watched them. But
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  Speaker 3: I've watched, what, 30 minutes of Josh Allen highlights that
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  Speaker 3: the NFL put out on YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: He's done some special things.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to Jamori Macklin during training camp, just
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  Speaker 1: asking him about, you know, life in the NFL as
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  Speaker 1: an undrafted rookie. What are some of the most notable things?
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  Speaker 1: And Jamori said, you know, I don't watch a lot
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  Speaker 1: of NFL, so I wasn't aware of Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 4: I knew of him.
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  Speaker 1: I knew what people said about him. But, like, seeing
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  Speaker 1: it in person, he said, this is insane.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how it was for me. Like, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: watch no Bill's. at all before I got drafted.
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  Speaker 3: And then when I got here, you know, Madden 24,
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  Speaker 3: he's on the cover.
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  Speaker 2: And then you're like, wait, that's, that's, that's him. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: he's for real. So that's how I felt.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We'll dive into week one game a little bit later,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to ask you about your last free
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  Speaker 1: weekend before the season began.
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  Speaker 4: How did you spend it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. A couple, a couple of my good friends, we
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  Speaker 3: went up to Toronto and we got to see Rufus DeSole,
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  Speaker 3: which was a pretty, pretty good, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Are they a band?
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  Speaker 4: It's like EDM and a band.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like, but it's house music. I kind of would say
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  Speaker 3: more house music, but love them. Love the experience. It's
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  Speaker 3: my first time ever seeing them. They are going on what?
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  Speaker 3: Almost a two year hiatus or taking a break from
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  Speaker 3: what they were saying. So if you didn't get to
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  Speaker 3: see them, maybe in a couple of years, you'll get
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  Speaker 3: to see them. But then we also have YouTube too.
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  Speaker 3: So go see them.
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  Speaker 5: Amazing.
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  Speaker 2: The performance was amazing. Songs are stuck in my head too.
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  Speaker 3: I loved a lot of them, but it was, it
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  Speaker 3: was a great weekend to just spend time with, family, friends,
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  Speaker 3: and just get off your feet a little bit and
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  Speaker 3: just enjoy life outside of all.
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  Speaker 1: So I went to Rufus Dussel, too, and I wake
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  Speaker 1: up on Sunday morning. I'm going through Instagram. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Ray's got an Instagram story.
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  Speaker 4: Let me look. I'm like, no way. Ray was at
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  Speaker 4: Rufus Dussel, too. He was on the floor. I was
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  Speaker 4: in the nosebleed.
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  Speaker 2: I had to get the full experience. You did. I'd
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  Speaker 2: never seen him, so I was like, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: got to be, like, in it. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: Was it your first time?
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  Speaker 4: Edm house music show.
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  Speaker 3: No i live i live in miami so like i'm
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  Speaker 3: used to the house music vibe that's true but the
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  Speaker 3: edm yes that was my first experience it wasn't a
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  Speaker 3: lot of headbanging it was just like it's.
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  Speaker 1: Like chill beats yeah i mean there's some of their
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  Speaker 1: songs there is like a harder drop but like you
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  Speaker 1: said it's interesting because you have somebody that's singing you
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  Speaker 1: have a drummer you have somebody on keyboard they had
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  Speaker 1: somebody playing a guitar at times so it's like A
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  Speaker 1: little bit of mix of everything, which is why I enjoy.
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  Speaker 4: Listening to them.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. Well, it was 1,000 out of 1,000.
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  Speaker 4: Any song that you were like, this is awesome?
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  Speaker 2: It's Inner Bloom, right? Inner Bloom.
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  Speaker 4: Inner Bloom was pretty good. They finished Inner Bloom.
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  Speaker 2: They finished with that. And then I'm going to have
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  Speaker 2: to sing the lyric.
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  Speaker 4: Sing it.
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  Speaker 2: It's listening to music with your friends together.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Listening to music. Music is better.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that one.
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  Speaker 4: When we're together. That one was top tier.
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  Speaker 2: That was top tier.
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  Speaker 4: That was the final song of the show, their encore.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: Great, great, great, great.
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  Speaker 5: All the way around.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad you liked it. So fun. So cool that
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  Speaker 4: you were there. I enjoyed it as well.
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  Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins also had his car snow this weekend. So
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  Speaker 1: many players were there. It was cool to see Josh
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  Speaker 1: Allen roll up.
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  Speaker 4: You were there.
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell Harrison was there. A lot of the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: was there. What was the best part about it this season?
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  Speaker 2: Man, it was fun.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't get the experience in my first year or
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  Speaker 3: last year, so I wanted to really get into it
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  Speaker 3: this year. And just seeing the amount of love that
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  Speaker 3: people have for Dion and obviously the Bills, just that
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  Speaker 3: place was crazy. But it was crazy in a good way.
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  Speaker 3: Watching drifting in real life is fun.
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  Speaker 2: It gives you a rush.
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  Speaker 3: It makes you feel like you could go do it.
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  Speaker 3: Then you realize you're not a professional, so then you
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  Speaker 3: let them do it. But it was one of those
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  Speaker 3: experiences where, again, No football involved. You got to build
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  Speaker 3: that chemistry. You got to really just love on your
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  Speaker 3: teammates and embrace them and go and support. Max got
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  Speaker 3: to sell out his Uno brand, which I've watched him
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  Speaker 3: start that from Kentucky to now. Ty brought out all
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  Speaker 3: three of his cars. CD brought out the old school.
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  Speaker 3: It was cool to just see some guys let loose
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  Speaker 3: and just enjoy it. So it was fun. Not only
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  Speaker 3: Deion had his car, you know. Dwayne Carter had his
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  Speaker 3: little wing fest. I got to go over there and
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  Speaker 3: support that. And my favorite wing... Got to go to Zane.
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  Speaker 2: Zane had the best sauce. Zane did. He did. Some
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  Speaker 2: people may not like that, but Zane had the best sauce. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Who made sauces?
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  Speaker 3: It was Zane, Ty, Saibo, TJ, Reed, and I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if DC made one, but those are the guys
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  Speaker 3: that I kind of remember from.
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  Speaker 4: What did you like about Zane's sauce?
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  Speaker 2: Zane had a little twang to it. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: was a little spice, but it wasn't too spicy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was... Yeah, it gave me like a lemon pepper
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  Speaker 2: kind of vibe.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a lemon pepper stepper guy.
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  Speaker 4: Dry rub or sauce?
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  Speaker 2: I'm a sauce guy.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It was sauce.
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  Speaker 4: It was sauce.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was good. I loved it. He was
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  Speaker 2: number one. Ty was two.
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  Speaker 3: He had a mango habanero sauce. And then the best
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  Speaker 3: cook in the world on this team, even though he
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  Speaker 3: didn't get my number one, Saibo. Saibo was three. Best
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  Speaker 3: cook on the team.
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  Speaker 4: He'll tell you that.
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  Speaker 1: I've had conversations with Saibo about cooking, and he has said,
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  Speaker 1: I want.
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  Speaker 4: To do a cookbook.
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  Speaker 1: So I really hope he does that while he's here
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  Speaker 1: because I feel like a lot of Bill's fans would
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  Speaker 1: enjoy that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But both of those guys had great, great events. Love,
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  Speaker 3: love being able to support DC, love being able to
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  Speaker 3: support Dion and just to continue to show them that
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  Speaker 3: I'm here for them and always going.
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  Speaker 2: To be there for them.
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  Speaker 4: It's so cool.
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  Speaker 1: Like Dion has his car show. DC has his, his
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  Speaker 1: wing event. You said Maxwell sold out his clothing brand
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  Speaker 1: that he's been working on called Uno. Ty brought cars
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  Speaker 1: to the, to Dion's car event. These are opportunities and
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  Speaker 1: moments where you get to learn about your teammates off
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  Speaker 1: the field and I feel like really grow connections.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you get to see what they're interested in outside
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  Speaker 3: of football. So that was pretty fun.
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  Speaker 4: That is so cool.
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  Speaker 1: This is the official start of the season. Week one
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  Speaker 1: is here. I know you've been in the building for
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  Speaker 1: a while. We talked about that, but this week you
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  Speaker 1: really start to ramp up. The meetings are about the
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  Speaker 1: opponent that you're playing. You're on the field doing walkthroughs,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got a scout team that is acting like
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  Speaker 1: the opponent you're about to play. How does Ray Davis
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  Speaker 1: mentally ramp up for the season to be here?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think just, I think like the way of
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  Speaker 3: ramping up in a way is calming down, right? Like
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  Speaker 3: you've gone against your own defense for a while, and
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  Speaker 3: you've seen different fronts and different formations and things of
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  Speaker 3: that nature. So now it's about resetting and refocusing for myself.
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  Speaker 3: And then now starting it from step one of watching
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  Speaker 3: film and dissecting their opponent and trying to find little
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  Speaker 3: tendencies in their defensive game. And then also trying to
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  Speaker 3: figure out how can you get better, right? What are
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  Speaker 3: the things you need to get good at? So where
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  Speaker 3: if you need that first down, like what did I
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  Speaker 3: do last year not to get that first down that
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  Speaker 3: I can get it this year, right? Or how can
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  Speaker 3: I run this route a little bit better than I
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  Speaker 3: did previously before? So It's about just slowing things down,
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  Speaker 3: really understanding what you got to do as a player,
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  Speaker 3: and then putting it all together as time goes on.
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  Speaker 1: Do you get the jitters, the nerves before the first game,
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  Speaker 1: like as it all begins again?
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  Speaker 2: I think I get an excitement. I wouldn't say jitter.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just being excited because.
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  Speaker 3: This is a game I played when I was young.
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  Speaker 3: I was throwing the ball up in the air and
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  Speaker 3: running against air and doing all these moves, and then
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  Speaker 3: I look back at it and I'm going, I'm in
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  Speaker 3: the best place and the best position.
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  Speaker 2: So I just think about the excitement of it.
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  Speaker 1: You also talked about self-scouting, talking about what you did
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  Speaker 1: last year, how you want to be different this season.
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  Speaker 1: I know last week we talked about the kick return
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  Speaker 1: ability that you have, but looking at running back and
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  Speaker 1: looking at just the season and your body of work
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  Speaker 1: as a whole, what are you keying in on this year?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: As a running back, just being able to be the
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  Speaker 3: best compliment to Jimbo and Ty, right? Like, you know, however,
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  Speaker 3: however the rotation shakes out, it's probably just being able
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  Speaker 3: to go out there and do my part for them
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  Speaker 3: so they can continue to succeed. You know, again, being
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  Speaker 3: that compliment, James is a very speedy back and, you know,
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: he's a home run hitter, right? So, Maybe I got
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: to go in and hit a double, maybe hit a triple,
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  Speaker 3: maybe hit a single. And Ty comes in and brings
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  Speaker 3: me home, right? So it's about all of us just
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  Speaker 3: doing our job and embracing our jobs.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people have had a fun training camp,
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: a fun preseason to watch. We cut the roster to
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  Speaker 1: 53 a week ago. So many players on this roster
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  Speaker 1: and on practice squad have great stories about how they
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: got to the Bills, what their goals are here. Is
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  Speaker 1: there a player that you've really enjoyed watching this training
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  Speaker 1: camp and this preseason?
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  Speaker 2: There's two players. I'll make them quick. Don't worry. Two players.
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  Speaker 2: I got to start with Dwayne Carter.
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  Speaker 3: Coming off the injury last year, tearing his Achilles, and
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  Speaker 3: just seeing the work he's put in.
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  Speaker 2: I watched the work.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't just watch the finished product of the preseason
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  Speaker 3: games and making the roster. I watched the real work
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  Speaker 3: of him coming in each and every day, realizing that
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  Speaker 3: it sucks to be hurt, but how do I find
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  Speaker 3: the joy of coming back and proving everybody wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And he's just been monstrous. I love him.
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  Speaker 3: I love the, the, the dedication that he's had. Um,
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  Speaker 3: so that's a big, big one for me to be
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  Speaker 3: able to just see a guy like that come off
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  Speaker 3: an injury and then want to continue to dominate and
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  Speaker 3: still have a presence felt. And then I got to
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: go my, my rookie, my rookie roommate, we were roommates.
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  Speaker 3: And when we first came out, I got to go Trav,
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: got to go Trav because Trav, Had to go from,
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  Speaker 3: you know, playing offensive line for his first two years
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  Speaker 3: and understanding that and getting comfortable with that. And then
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  Speaker 3: making that transition to defense. It's not easy, you know,
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  Speaker 3: having to really everything you took on offense. You got
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  Speaker 3: to just throw it away. Now you got to be
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  Speaker 3: able to take everything on defense. So just seeing that
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  Speaker 3: he's embraced that role.
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  Speaker 2: He's enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 3: There's no no power in like he gets a chance
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  Speaker 3: to play ball and. and figure out who he is
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  Speaker 3: as a player. So those have been two guys who
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  Speaker 3: I've enjoyed.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Dwayne Carter. New defense for Carter as well
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  Speaker 1: as the rest of the Bills defense. He moves from
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: 4-3 to 3-4, which really impacts defensive line. Why will
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne Carter be better fit as a nose tackle and
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  Speaker 1: interior defensive lineman?
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  Speaker 3: I think when you're playing nose, right, it's like nine
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  Speaker 3: times out of ten, in my opinion, it's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of one-on-ones, right?
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  Speaker 2: It's you in the center one-on-one. How do you go
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  Speaker 2: and defeat this opponent? I think D.C. has that motor.
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  Speaker 2: He has that intensity.
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  Speaker 3: He has that fire in him that if we're stepping
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  Speaker 3: into an arena and it's one-on-one, I'm taking D.C. every
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  Speaker 3: time because he's going to show you why he was
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  Speaker 3: a strong force in college, why he was a strong
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  Speaker 3: force our rookie season as he was starting to get going,
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  Speaker 3: and why he's going to continue to be a strong
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  Speaker 3: force this third season. And you look at all the
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  Speaker 3: guys who are playing that nose, right? No one's blocking
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  Speaker 3: Ed one-on-one.
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  Speaker 5: Ed.
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  Speaker 3: His feet is just crazy. He looks like a skill
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  Speaker 3: player out there. Same thing with Deion. You're not blocking
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  Speaker 3: these guys one-on-one. So to see that all three of
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  Speaker 3: them have high motors and they're going to continue to
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  Speaker 3: push each other, that's been exciting. But I think DC
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  Speaker 3: is going to succeed very, very well.
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  Speaker 4: I want to ask you about another player.
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  Speaker 1: We have Jackson Hawes on the podcast this week.
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  Speaker 4: Got to speak to him. Incredible interview.
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  Speaker 1: What's a fun story you've got about Jackson Hawes?
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  Speaker 2: Hawes is a very, most people don't understand. He's funny.
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  Speaker 3: Like he's actually really funny. He's quiet in the beginning,
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  Speaker 3: but once you get to talk to him a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: he could crack a couple of jokes. I don't have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of stories about him in the sense of
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  Speaker 3: we kind of keep those between us, but I will
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  Speaker 3: say just seeing how he's embraced his role. Again, being
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  Speaker 3: in that room with Leckie and DK and Dawson and
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  Speaker 3: just seeing that he's come in and, Actually, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: I'll take that back. I have a story.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: My running back coach.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: Called me when I was in college, Norv, and when
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: we drafted Halls, he goes, that person could block. He
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: didn't say person, but he said that person can block.
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: I think I know what he said.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: And no one's going to stop him. Once he gets
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: his hands on him, it's over with. And then I
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: saw his rookie year, and I called my running back coach.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, you was right. That person can block.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: So just seeing the aggressiveness from him has been pretty fun, too.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: What is it like as, I mean, you see players
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: at the top of the NFL. You've got guys who
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: are some of the best in the league in this building.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: But it seems like with Jackson Hawes, people are taken
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: aback by his ability to block.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: Why is that?
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, when you think about tight ends, and I
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: think even when you think about this offense, right, like
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: you've got to be two-dimensional.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: But most people always assume the hands are the first thing, right?
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: Like can he catch? Can he run routes? That's the
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: first thought as a tight end. Look at our tight ends.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: DK is really a receiver. Dawson's a receiver too because
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: they have some really, really good hands. But what can
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: you do for us in terms of the run blocking?
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: And Halls takes pride in that. If you watch a
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: lot of his tape, he's gone against all pro DNs,
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: like pro bowler DNs, like guys who made names for themselves.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: He don't back down. We watched a clip earlier today.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: He had Will Anderson 101 last year. didn't complain, won
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: his job, and he continues to do that. So when
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: you look at a guy like that who doesn't complain,
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: it's going to be like, who is it? Who's the
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: DN today? Who's the linebacker today? So he's embraced it.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Enjoy that interview with Jackson Hawes. We'll be back for
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: more after. Jackson, thanks for joining us on Inside the Charge.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Happy to have you on after a hot and sweaty
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: practice out there.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: Yes, it was very hot and very sweaty.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Jackson you are not a rookie anymore in your second
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: year as an NFL player what in your game are
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: you retooling this season that you want to be better
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: this year than last year?
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: I think the biggest thing for me would just be
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: mindset and confidence and you know I kind of have
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: a solid foundation I feel like with how I played
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: last year and kind of just building on the things
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: that I'm already good at and kind of getting better
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: at the things that.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: I struggle with.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: What in your mindset are you changing?
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: Just the belief, you know, I feel like last year
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: you kind of go out there and you're a little
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: bit unsure if some of these new techniques that you're
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: being taught like in the last couple of months are
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: going to work and you see them work and kind
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: of build that through the reps. And so I think
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: just flipping that switch and going like, yeah, I got this.
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: It makes a big difference and it's really been helping
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: me kind of throughout camp and the preseason.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Was there something in technique that you learned this past
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: season that at first it was like, I don't know
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: how I feel about this, but once you tried it
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: in a game, it really stuck for you?
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: So I've kind of been, Dawson's got this little chop
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: down where we'll go against like a DN that's standing up.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: So there's a little bit more space. They're kind of
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: in a more agile position. And so he kind of
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: gets them leaning and then he's such a vet. He's
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: a lot better at doing it than me, obviously, but
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: it'll just kind of chop them down, chop their arms down.
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: And I've kind of been trying it out there. It's
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: been a little successful at times, but you know, I've
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: got some work to do on it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Your head coach, Joe Brady called you a brilliant human
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: earlier this off season.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: He said.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: They put a ton on your plate in your rookie season.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: What was that ton on your plate?
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: You know, I think that, um, You know, Chrome and
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: Boris and Joe just dialing up the run plan like
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: every week and sitting in those meetings, there's a ton
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: of detail and we kind of run the same stuff,
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: but we just dress it up differently each time. And
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: I think that's a big reason, you know, obviously we've
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: got great offensive line, great receivers that block, Josh getting
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: the right checks and, you know, Jimbo and Ray and
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: Ty are just all really fast.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: And, you know, of course the tight end room.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: Is not too bad either, but like, you know, I
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: think it's just everyone coming together and these coaches giving
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: us a great great plan that really kind of caters
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: to each guy's strengths. You know, we've got guys that
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: are good, better on the front side, guys that are
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: better on the backside, you know, zone and, you know,
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: downhill runs.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: So yeah, I think it's been, it's been good.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: When you talk to veterans or offensive linemen on the team,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: they say, we've learned something from Jackson Hawes and the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: way that he blocks. Blocking is not easy. It's about
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: hand placement and your feet. What is the art of
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: blocking from a master like yourself?
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: Um, I can't give away too many secrets, right? You know,
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: I've got to say the master. I think for me,
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: if you kind of just... I've thought about this a lot.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: I have.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Keep you up at night?
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Honestly, it really does sometimes, yeah. I think the biggest
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: thing is.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: Just like kind of... This sounds so nerdy and weird.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: It's kind of like physics and just putting your body between...
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: the bad guys and the good guys that's really all
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: it is and just how can I get my body
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: in this guy's way how is this guy trying to
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: move me out of the way how can I make
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: sure he doesn't move me out of the way I
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: think that kind of breaking it down simply like that
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: it kind of sounds a little silly but there's definitely
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: levels into it and I think different players are good
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: at different things and You kind of go into a
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: week knowing that and kind of how do I beat that?
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Okay, we have physics. We have nerdy. We have physicality.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Dawson Knox has already called you an Ivy League meathead.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: You went to Yale. People say opposites attract. Why does
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Yale and the physicality of the game mix together for you?
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: That's a great question. I feel like this game, you
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: have to be really intelligent to play it. You can
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: be like a really good athlete. You can be one
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: of the strongest, fastest guys out there. They can, you know,
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: jump really high and catch the ball really well. I
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: think if you don't have the mental tools to know
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: your strengths and when to use them, you can't play
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: as fast. And the guys that are really good, you know,
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: are able to kind of marry up the two. You know,
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: they have a really good mindset. They're really smart and they,
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: you know, have the physical tools to do it. So
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: I think that's what attracts me.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: You love smash mouth football, knowing when to use your strengths.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: What goes on in your brain when you're out on
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the field, Ben?
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: You kind of just create like little checklists, you know,
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: with each play. And I think the most important thing
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: is just like seeing the coaches like prepare us during
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: the week and kind of just, I don't know, going
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: through like when I'm playing video games or something or like, again,
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: when I'm in the bed late and I kind of
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: just getting those mental reps and kind of seeing, how
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: it's going to look on Sunday or whenever we're playing beforehand.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: And so, you know, you only get one time, you
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: only get 60 minutes to go against the guys you're
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: going against. You go against the scout team, but it's
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: not really the same, obviously. And so it's really the
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: mental reps, I think, that stack up and help you out.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: When are you doing these mental reps? You said at
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: night before you go to sleep?
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Just random times.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, just random times during the day, kind of just
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: thinking about the game, you know. Obviously, like if I'm,
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: you know, chilling, playing. I guess I lied when I
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: said video games. If I'm playing video games, I'm really
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: locked into that.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: But you know, if I'm going for a walk or, um,
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: just in like the training room or just even out here,
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: like between reps, kind of just thinking about what it's
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: going to be like, uh, kind of those instances.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: What video games do you love to play?
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: Uh, lately I've been getting into Black Ops 2 Zombies.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: Um, a couple of the guys have been playing that,
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: which has been really fun. Um, really excited for the
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: new GTA.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: I've been playing the battlefield six with some friends back home.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: So just kind of all the fun ones.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Kaleke Latu made the roster this year. He was on
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the practice squad last year.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I know you guys are tight.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: He talked to me about wanting to be a better
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: blocker this season. And he said, I went to Jackson
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: for insight. And Jackson told me, you just have to
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: be an ogre out there.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: That's fair.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Why does that work for you, Jackson?
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: I mean, I think that like, You know, when you
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: think of, like, an ogre, like, it's kind of, like, it's, like, stinky. Like,
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: I kind of think of, like, someone annoying, like, being, like,
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: a nuisance, you know? And so I think that, like,
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: the more the defenders can think about us, you know,
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: the less they think about James or Josh or whoever
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: has the ball. And so you want them to just
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: think about you as much as you can.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Second year in the league, what would be a success
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: in your eyes when you look back at your second year.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: In the league?
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: It's kind of a great question um super bowl.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Uh nothing else really matters honestly individually though.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: Um just not losing a lot of plays just winning
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: every play i know that's not realistic i don't i
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: don't know um that I had fun and connected with
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: my teammates.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: That's an A plus answer right there from the teacher
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: grading your homework.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: Honestly.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: You are such a physical player out there. It's obvious
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: to see with the way that you play the game.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: What do you tell yourself before a game to get
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: you into that headspace?
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Um, you know, I used to really get myself riled
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: up with like hype music. I, I'm kind of just chill,
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: like just being in the moment, you know, I kind of,
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: I have this little routine I go through. You know,
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: I'm just kind of talking to guys, just keeping the
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: vibes chill. I don't know. I've recently started watching kind
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: of like Animal Planet videos.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: So like before the Carolina preseason game, I was like
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: watching this pack of wolves like hunt a bison, which
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: was kind of cool.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: It wasn't a buffalo. It was a bison. I would
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: have turned it off if that was the case. But no, yeah.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Channeling your inner animal.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: So that that works kind of cool yeah I mean
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: football you know we're going out there doing crazy stuff
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: running into each other like yeah.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: How has your relationship grown with guys in the tight
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: end room like Dawson Knox and Dalton Kincaid just in
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: a year of being here it's.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: Been awesome yeah I think like me specifically when I
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: came in as a rookie like I just really wanted
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: to do my job really well so much to the
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: point where I kind of would neglect connecting with a
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: lot of guys. I'd just be kind of head down
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: in the facility. I'm going to just say the right
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: thing or not say anything at all. And I do
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: kind of regret that from the standpoint that I think
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: I could have learned the playbook and still, you know,
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: had a little bit of a better experience connecting with guys.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: But I think that the off season and camp was
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: just so fun. Like we have a really, really fun team.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: Everyone's personalities just shine. And like, I, I hate to
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: be biased, but I feel like it's not that way
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: in other places. Like you go into that locker room,
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: people are chatting, like hanging out with each other. Tight
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: ends specifically like DOS, DAL, LEC, like we have a
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: great room and we all like bring a lot of
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: different strengths to the table. And I think we mesh really,
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: really well. Like those tight end meetings and just when
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: we hang out outside, like it's.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: It's fun.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: That's awesome to hear. You said training camp was fun. Well,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen calls you the.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Lord of Catan.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Dawson Knox said Jackson Hawes won the World Catan Championships
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: at training camp.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: What was your winning strategy?
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: That's where that came from.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Because I heard someone said I came from someone said
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: I was the world champion. Like I compete in like tournaments.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I went to Scotland to compete in
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the Catan World Championship.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: I should tell people that. Is it actually in Scotland?
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm just making it up. That'd be cool.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Is there a Catan World Championship? We have to check.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: Probably.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: We'll check the tapes.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: We'll check.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: No, I actually was doing very poorly. I was the
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: only one that didn't win anything. We kind of had
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: the preliminary rounds where we'd all play each other for seeding.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: I probably lost like five or six games. So I
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: was the eighth seed.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I just kind of came in and just shut
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: them up, you know?
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: No way. Just dominated.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: I can't remember how I did it. I probably had
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: a longest road in there. I'm more of a longest
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: road over largest army guy for you Catan knowers.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: Ball knowers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was fun.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: And it just worked for you.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: And then Dawson is the prince. Dalt is the knight.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: and kyle is the the jester okay so we kind
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: of have our our tears.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Man way to go congratulations on winning the world championship.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: Spence is the um executioner as well okay i forgot.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: To mention all right let's go rapid fire to finish
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: off what's one thing on your bucket list.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: Probably antarctica with the fam oh.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: That would be fun uh what's the weirdest weirdest part
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: of your game day routine.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: Weirdest part? Probably the Animal Planet videos. It's kind of weird.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: That's good. Who's the funniest person in the Tide End room?
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: Adult's pretty funny.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: What's your go-to TV show?
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: Lately, it's been House of Dragons.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: What's your pump-up song?
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: I don't really have a specific one. It kind of varies.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Any artist in particular?
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: It's really random. Varies. Very random. All right.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: What's one thing you won't miss about your rookie season?
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: Hmm. Being the young guy on the team.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: He's no longer the young guy.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Appreciate the time, Jackson. Appreciate it.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: All right, Ray, we asked some fans if they had
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: any questions for you. We got a good one from
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Cooper Talks Ball. He wanted to know, is there a
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: difference between Joe Brady, the offensive coordinator, and Joe Brady,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the head coach?
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: There's no difference.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Joe is the same guy when he walks through this
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: building every day. Whether he has a head coach hat
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: on or whether he has an OC hat on, he's
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: a guy who's going to give you the same energy
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: same enthusiasm in a good way. And that's something that
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: you love as a coach, right? Like there's never no
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: highs and lows. And if there is, he doesn't really
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: show it. And I think that's pretty good too. So
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Joe is Joe whiteboard with motion.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: All the time.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: The energy that players talk about that he has off of,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: you know, his own natural energy and then the caffeine
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: that he ingests throughout the day. where does Joe Brady
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: energy show up most? And what does that look like?
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: On the field? Definitely. You know, it shows up a
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: lot on the field. Um, you know, when he's calling
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: plays and we're doing our team, team situations and things
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: like that, like he's a competitor.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: He, he's a big, big competitor. So seeing that side
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: where he's always like, put the ball down. I don't
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: care who it is, where it is. We're going to play.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: You have to play us. And we're going to show
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: you why we're the Buffalo bills. And that's the, that's
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: the energy that you need. It's like, it's, it's, It's
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: just so nice.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: So many players have also said that he just does
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: a fantastic job relating to other players. He comes off
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: as a real human being with feelings.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: And emotions. How does he relate to players? Why is
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: he good at that?
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: I think you just look at his journey, right?
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Like he has a player's journey, in my opinion, where
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: you've been to a couple of places over your career.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: You know, you may not have had the best winning record, right?
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: But you know what struggle is like, you know, being
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: on the back end of something. to where he can, again,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: relate to us.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Guys go through a lot of cuts, releases, things of
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: that nature where he's able to kind of be like, hey,
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: I've been there. I know what it feels like to
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: be the last guy in and last guy out. I
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: know what it feels like to be the last person
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: to get a job, like things of that nature. So
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: just understanding that he's been in our shoes, maybe not
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: on the field, but more in life with some of
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: the situations that you have to sacrifice to be able
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: to get what you want.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: So being able to know that It's somebody that's been
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: there and done it. You feel a little bit better
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: talking to that individual.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: You guys came back in the building in April to
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: begin workouts. You then had OTAs. You had mandatory mini camp,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: training camp, and a whole preseason.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Here we are. What is firing you up for this season?
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Bill's Mafia. Like, you know, it's pretty cut and dry.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: We want to get it done for them, right? And
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: That's the motivation that we all have. We want to
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: get it done for this fan base, for this city.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: We're the only football team in New York, so this state,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: we want to get it done. And that's the motivation
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: that I have. That's the fire that I'm going in with.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Do what I can do, control what I can control,
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: and let God take the will.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Houston Texans, awesome opponent to draw week one because why
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: not jump right into the thick of it, playing against
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: a great defense. They've got some playmakers on offense as well.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: As a player, why is it better to just jump
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: in the deep end?
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: You knock it out. You know, it's like when I
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: was young and I couldn't swim, my dad would go,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: all right, I'm going to teach you how to swim.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: And what did he do?
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Throw me in the deep end and I had to
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: survive and swim out of it, right? So it's kind
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: of this game and this situation, right? Let's go in
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: the deep end. Let's go swim. Let's go have fun
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: and enjoy it. So that's the mindset and, hey, you know,
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Let's get a W.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: Let's get a W.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: We're going to end it there. Let's get a W
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: for week one. So excited to watch you guys work.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It's been an off season of fun, but I'm ready
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: for it. I cannot wait. I can't wait to have
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: things to talk about related to the season. And I
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: also can't wait to watch this new defense.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: We've been talking about it.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Let's see.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Let's see it.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: See if they can get another Ray Day big plays.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Ray Day big plays.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: We're coming back with more because we'll have a game
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: to talk about.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Can't wait to see. What you think, you know, are
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: some good plays.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah. All right.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Appreciate it, Ray.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: No problem. Thank you.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: Of course.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: We got more coming your way. Make sure you stay
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: locked on Inside the Charge.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: Inside the Charge.