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Inside The Charge: Tre'Davious White Talks DB Dinners, Energy, Mentoring Young Players And More! · Inside the Charge

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the latest edition of the Inside the Charge podcast.
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Speaker 1: I'm Maddi Glab. Today we are joined by veteran cornerback
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Speaker 1: Tredevius White. It's a great episode. Trey dives into the
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Speaker 1: dB Dinners, the origin story of that who pays for
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Speaker 1: these dinners, and the brotherhood that's created by having these dinners.
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Speaker 1: Trey said, actually the defense shifted gears because of these dinners.
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Speaker 1: A great answer from him there. We also dive into
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Speaker 1: how maybe he'll want to do podcasting or on air
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Speaker 1: stuff after he's done with football. Trey also talks about
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Speaker 1: how his injuries have helped Maxwell Harriston along the way,
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Speaker 1: and we discuss Trey's energy in this twenty twenty five season.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to miss it. Trey, thanks for coming
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Speaker 1: and hanging out with me. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, anytime you asked me to do this, Maddie. Look,
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Speaker 2: I'm glad to be on with you. It's been a
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Speaker 2: few years. I know it's been I'm back. We can
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Speaker 2: make this thing official and we can get this thing rolling.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm exciting.
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Speaker 1: Maybe the first of many. I don't know, Trey, Oh
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Speaker 1: for sure.
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Speaker 2: For sure, we definitely got something that works. We should
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Speaker 2: have something that work. I saw what you did with
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Speaker 2: my old teammate.
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Speaker 3: So maybe time to step in for sure. I got
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Speaker 3: to ask them for my blessing.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well ask them first. Well, Trey practice ends today
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Speaker 1: and I peek outside and it's all the young kids,
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Speaker 1: and then it's Trey White still at practice. Why are
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Speaker 1: you out there for so long?
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I still have my routine that I
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Speaker 2: that I always been doing for years, that that I
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Speaker 2: like to do after practice that you know, pretty much
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Speaker 2: give me the confidence knowing that I kind of checked
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Speaker 2: every box to what I need to do and the
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Speaker 2: things that I need to cross out as far as mentally,
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Speaker 2: so I can know that I put a lot of
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Speaker 2: work in.
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Speaker 3: So but when I'm.
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Speaker 2: Out there after practice, like the young guys, like we
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Speaker 2: just talking about everything but football. But you know, we
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Speaker 2: do cover some football, but it's it's those are the
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Speaker 2: times that we that I cherish the most, Yeah, to
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Speaker 2: be able to talk to the young guys about something
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Speaker 2: other than football.
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Speaker 3: Life's outside of football and things like that.
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Speaker 2: So that's our little abundant time that we get after practice,
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Speaker 2: you know, because we've just been out there for so
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Speaker 2: long and everything was ball ball ball, and we're also serious,
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Speaker 2: so it's always good to find good time to you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean, check on the person. Yeah, and
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Speaker 2: those young guys been keeping me young, you know, the
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Speaker 2: questions that they ask, the questions that I ask them
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Speaker 2: because I don't pretty much know what's going on in
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Speaker 2: the young guys young guys world is today, so you know,
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Speaker 2: they keep me updated on everything like new artists, new
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Speaker 2: music that's coming out, you know, because I don't really
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Speaker 2: pay attention to the artists that they listen to nowadays.
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Speaker 2: So when we're in the locker room and I hear
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Speaker 2: a song like I go to my phone, try to
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Speaker 2: go to Shazam and try to put it up here.
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Speaker 3: Probably like I never heard of that. Yeah, they probably
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Speaker 3: like you still use that.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, cause I don't know what you guys
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Speaker 2: listen to. If I hear a song that I like,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to get it. So yeah, but yeah, no,
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Speaker 2: it's been fun anytime. You know, after practice, we always
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Speaker 2: talking and always you know, joking. So and then on Thursdays,
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Speaker 2: on Thursdays, we have our dB dinner out each and
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Speaker 2: every week and we find somewhere around around buffalo around
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Speaker 2: or to park to go and uh, just fellowship and
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Speaker 2: break bread and that those are the things that you know,
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Speaker 2: that I cherish the most because you know, that's where
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Speaker 2: the team is built, that's where the camaraderie is built,
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Speaker 2: that's where the brotherhood is built.
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Speaker 3: When we spend our.
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Speaker 2: Time outside of the field and talking about things that's
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Speaker 2: bigger than bolved. So those those those times I really cherish,
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Speaker 2: and uh, those are the things that a lot of
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Speaker 2: guys miss when they when they're done with the league too.
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Speaker 2: So I just try to each and every time, just
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Speaker 2: try to really just be present and also give those
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Speaker 2: guys my under detention.
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Speaker 3: For sure.
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Speaker 1: When you came back to the team, the word on
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Speaker 1: the street was Trey White has to pay for the
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Speaker 1: dB dinner because he's back in the room. He's an
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Speaker 1: NFL veteran. Now this is all coming from Terran. Did
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Speaker 1: they make you pay for a dinner?
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Speaker 2: No? So usually how we do it We played Carlett,
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Speaker 2: So we played Carl Roulette. And that makes the dinner
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Speaker 2: so much fun because it's like, you know, we come in,
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Speaker 2: we joke a love, we eat real good food, and
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Speaker 2: we just keep ordering good food and good food stuff
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Speaker 2: to go.
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Speaker 3: But at the end it's the anticipation of who has
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Speaker 3: to pay for this food. So that's where the fun
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Speaker 3: come in.
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Speaker 2: So you know, they try to you know, the young
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Speaker 2: guys they always you know, we get here, they.
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Speaker 3: Be like, no, Trey White, you're gonna play this week.
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Speaker 3: You know what I mean, Big vet, you know what
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Speaker 3: I mean.
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Speaker 2: The older you know what, I'll be like, Look, we
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Speaker 2: gotta stand. We have a tradition here and we're gonna
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Speaker 2: stick with it. But uh, you know, if a young
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Speaker 2: guy gets hit with a bill, that's just extreme. I
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Speaker 2: just try to like throw him a couple hundred bucks
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Speaker 2: to try to you know, lighting the load. But everybody
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Speaker 2: had to go through it. So in Terran and Terran
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Speaker 2: to tell your funny story. So I believe Terren's second
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Speaker 2: or third year, he got his car got picked like
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Speaker 2: three times straight.
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, three straight weeks his car got picked.
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Speaker 2: So now we have the rule that you know, if
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Speaker 2: your car get picked one week, the next week, your
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Speaker 2: car don't go.
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Speaker 3: Your car don't.
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Speaker 2: Well we made the room because of him because he
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Speaker 2: got hit three straight time. But also if you're late,
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Speaker 2: if you're late, you get a ten minutes grace period.
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Speaker 2: So we usually meet like six thirty or six forty five.
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Speaker 2: So we got ten minutes, and if you are late
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Speaker 2: those ten minutes, like you gotta pay half.
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Speaker 3: Oh but your card still goes in the thing.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so you could end up playing half full, but
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Speaker 2: for sure you're playing half. So I make sure that
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Speaker 2: I'm not giving up no freebies. Man, it's like I'm.
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Speaker 3: On time, I'm attentive. I'm gonna make sure I have
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Speaker 3: my card because if you don't have your card too.
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Speaker 2: The next time, you gotta pay. So a lot of
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Speaker 2: guys try to leave a call and use their idea.
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Speaker 2: They try to use that No, you gotta use your
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Speaker 2: debit card. But those times are the best times, like
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Speaker 2: because we just sit and chill and just relax. We
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Speaker 2: get to watch the Thursday Night Game, a little bit
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Speaker 2: of Thursday Night Game. We just just break bread and
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Speaker 2: just have fun and just in chat. And those are
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Speaker 2: the times that I chairs. I just love the DB's
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Speaker 2: Dinners on Thursday.
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Speaker 1: The dB Dinners have been going on for a long time.
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Speaker 1: Started that.
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Speaker 2: Michael Hyde and Jordan Poorter, those guys must be twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Then we didn't start that year. I think the first
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Speaker 2: year we started had to be twenty nineteen, twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 2: probably my third year, and it's been going on since then,
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Speaker 2: and man like I feel like that's when our defense
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Speaker 2: turned the page. Like I just feel like that twenty
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Speaker 2: nineteen year where you know, where we.
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Speaker 3: Made it a standard each and every Thursday, like we.
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Speaker 2: Set time aside no matter how long we're in this building,
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Speaker 2: Like we're still gonna set aside to hang out outside
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Speaker 2: of the field.
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Speaker 3: Even though we've been here together all day.
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Speaker 2: But those those Thursday nights are just like they're just
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Speaker 2: essential to like what we do as a team, how
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Speaker 2: we connect as a team, how we you know, care
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Speaker 2: about each other, and just how authentically like the conversations go,
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Speaker 2: and just how like just the love that we share
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Speaker 2: to each with each other, Like it just makes it
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Speaker 2: even more like because of a brotherhood. Because anytime, like
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Speaker 2: you don't just break bread with anybody, like allow anybody
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Speaker 2: just you into your home, yeah, in your home or
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Speaker 2: just because sometimes we had a few people's home before,
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Speaker 2: so like you don't just let break bread with anybody.
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Speaker 2: So like when you allow somebody in your home, or
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Speaker 2: you go break bread with somebody and have dinner with
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Speaker 2: them for extensively point of time. I think that you know,
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Speaker 2: those are important people, and then you try to cherish
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Speaker 2: the moment.
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Speaker 1: How did breaking bread off the field shift the defensive
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Speaker 1: mindset on the field to become this lockdown defense that
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Speaker 1: since twenty nineteen you guys rank top ten and a
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Speaker 1: lot of figures.
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Speaker 2: I just think that anytime you know, first of all,
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Speaker 2: the job that we have is hard, and so first
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Speaker 2: thing you got to do is acknowledge that. But then
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Speaker 2: you know, when you care about the people that you know,
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Speaker 2: you go to work. I always say this, it just
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Speaker 2: means a lot more, Like you care more. You you
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Speaker 2: don't want to let the guy next to you down,
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Speaker 2: so you know, come in. You know, Michael and Jordan
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Speaker 2: tarn tremain ed miss twenty nineteen, Matt malan or we
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Speaker 2: could just go on and on, like even Matt used
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Speaker 2: to join us in the DB's DV Donner. Sometimes it's
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Speaker 2: just that connectivity that we have and it's the standard
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Speaker 2: that we have here in Buffalo that those guys started
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Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen. But now that Michael has shifted on
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Speaker 2: to other things, we still have po here.
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Speaker 3: But the standard is still the standard.
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Speaker 2: And that's why I just feel like this group and
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Speaker 2: this team has always been successful because the standard that
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Speaker 2: we have no matter.
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Speaker 3: Who's here, plug and play, it's still always there.
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Speaker 2: And we're still going to continue to do those tradition
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Speaker 2: with the DV dinners and just hanging out outside of
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Speaker 2: the field, because I think that when you.
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Speaker 3: Do that, it just makes on the field so much
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Speaker 3: more easier.
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Speaker 2: The communication factor, just knowing what each others are thinking too,
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Speaker 2: and just how you see a play, how you see ball,
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Speaker 2: how you see this quarterback, how you see us playing
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Speaker 2: our coverage in these certain situations of the game. And
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Speaker 2: I just think that when you have that connectivity off
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Speaker 2: the field, they just make the things that's on the field.
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Speaker 3: So much more easier.
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Speaker 1: You got the bucket hot on, We're chilling, You're giving
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Speaker 1: me calm, cool, collected energy. Why are you bringing that
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Speaker 1: into this year?
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Speaker 2: I mean, I just feel like I be my best
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Speaker 2: when I'm myself, I play my best ball and I'm
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Speaker 2: just having fun and just letting my person out of
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Speaker 2: the show. And I just feel like when me coming
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Speaker 2: back and just a lot of people heard about that,
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Speaker 2: and you know, I just want to show that and
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Speaker 2: I just know how long the season can get, how
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Speaker 2: just repetitive it can get each and every week.
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Speaker 3: But I just feel like with me being myself and
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Speaker 3: just lighting up the room.
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Speaker 2: Man, you know, we got a lot of young guys
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Speaker 2: on the team, so they don't know how this NFL
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Speaker 2: ground is. After week twelve, No, you still have a
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Speaker 2: whole nother month of football left, well two months probably,
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Speaker 2: you know, with the playoffs, super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: So like I just.
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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna take that on myself to like, you know,
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Speaker 2: lighting the load, come in, just try to help the
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Speaker 2: young guys out, you know, because this thing is a marathon.
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Speaker 2: You know, you don't want to be peaking playing your
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Speaker 2: basketball Exeptember October. You know, you want to be peaking
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Speaker 2: in the right time around November, Thanksgiving time, Christmas, December football.
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Speaker 2: Because so you know, we got a lot of guys
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Speaker 2: in the locker room that know that. Yeah, so that
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Speaker 2: message is something that you know that we reiterate to
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Speaker 2: the young guys.
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Speaker 3: Knowing like, oh you're tired now, like you know, we
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Speaker 3: got young, this is young.
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Speaker 2: Like we're still in the first month of the season,
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Speaker 2: so we got a lot of ball left. But I
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Speaker 2: just think that when I have guys like myself just
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Speaker 2: being ourself, Dion Mad you know j Poe tearing these
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Speaker 2: guys uh keon.
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Speaker 3: Even though he's a young guy, he brings a lot
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Speaker 3: of energy to our team too.
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Speaker 2: So when we have guys like that and just lighting
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Speaker 2: a load, because you got to have the healthy balance
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Speaker 2: of serious and also a little you got to have
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Speaker 2: a little personality in it too to just have it
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Speaker 2: to mess to. You don't have one without the other,
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Speaker 2: because it could be very very very depressive if you
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Speaker 2: approach the season like that, or you know, the approach
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Speaker 2: your day like that, or.
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Speaker 3: Like oh I have to do this.
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Speaker 2: No, like we get we get to do is we
10:41
Speaker 2: get to be here, We get to enjoy this and
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Speaker 2: we get to enjoy this thing that we call football.
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Speaker 3: And I just I'm excited to be back. I love
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Speaker 3: it here.
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Speaker 2: So you can just tell you know, it's a bressive
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Speaker 2: fresh air. I'm enjoying being back with my teammates. A
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Speaker 2: lot of guys that I've seen like grow into different roles,
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Speaker 2: a lot of guys I've seen uh excel their play,
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Speaker 2: come from practice squad and continue to get better and better.
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Speaker 2: And it's just a beautiful thing to see when you
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Speaker 2: can see like how they develop players, really developed them
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Speaker 2: and put them on a feeling and that development works.
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Speaker 3: So the machine and the system we have here is
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Speaker 3: next to no trey.
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Speaker 1: You talked about the balance that you need to have
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Speaker 1: in the defensive room. I'm thinking cornerbacks right now. You
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Speaker 1: bring the energy, Christian Benford brings the seriousness. There is
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Speaker 1: a yin and yang to you too. How does that work?
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, you don't want to have too much salt.
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Speaker 2: You got to have salt and pepper to balance it out.
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Speaker 2: But I just think that, you know, Cebe's a guy
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Speaker 2: that you know, he jokes around too. A lot of
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Speaker 2: a lot of people just think that this guy, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's just this altered serious guy, but he gives off
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Speaker 2: this very serious demeanor, but he jokes around.
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Speaker 3: He has fun too. But I just think he does
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Speaker 3: a great job of bolling.
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Speaker 2: Then when it's time to go on the field, he
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Speaker 2: get does a great job of just leaving that in
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Speaker 2: in the locker room and on the field. He's That's
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Speaker 2: why he's this this this great player at this great
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Speaker 2: cornerback because you know the way his attention to detail,
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Speaker 2: the way each and every day he approaches the game,
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Speaker 2: his attitude towards the game, and just the mindset that
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Speaker 2: he has each and every day.
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Speaker 3: That's that's why he's who he is. So I just
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Speaker 3: think that.
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Speaker 2: He needed me to come in to bring a little
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Speaker 2: bit out, you know, and I'm gonna bring it out.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring it. It's there for sure. But you know,
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Speaker 2: I bring it out because you know, I've been here.
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Speaker 2: I watched him get drafted. I watch him, you know,
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Speaker 2: develop and continue to get better and better. But you know,
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Speaker 2: when he came in as a rookie, like we already
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Speaker 2: knew this guy was about business. He was well beyond
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Speaker 2: his years as far as football. I Q, having a
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Speaker 2: field for the game, understanding formations like understanding coverage, just read,
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Speaker 2: known how to eliminate things on the run.
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Speaker 3: Like the guy was beyond his years as far as football.
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Speaker 2: So it was just that that point of just this
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Speaker 2: guy is really gonna open his mouth on the field.
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Speaker 2: Let you we gotta tryin to hear see we gotta
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Speaker 2: say Chinese just can't point and.
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Speaker 3: Just go and do your job. You got to say something.
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Speaker 2: But uh, the guy he talks, I mean, but he's
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Speaker 2: he's I just love to go go to battle with
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Speaker 2: him because he gives me confidence too, because he talked
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Speaker 2: to me between the teen series.
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Speaker 1: But here he's the guys who fires other guys.
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Speaker 3: He's for sure, you know, because I wasn't. You know.
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Speaker 3: I joke around and I'm light hard and I joke
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Speaker 3: around a lot.
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Speaker 2: But when it comes to like getting the huddle up, like,
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Speaker 2: that's not me, I don't really, that's CB, that's Taylor
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Speaker 2: Rabb that's tearing.
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Speaker 3: Those guys have.
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Speaker 2: The speeches to get you fired up to run through
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Speaker 2: a while, but me, I probably just have everybody just laughing.
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Speaker 1: Would they huddle with Tavius hight be like before.
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Speaker 2: The game, Maddie, I can't even tell you because you
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Speaker 2: know what I know it'll be a lot of joking around,
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Speaker 2: you know, just lighthearted moments, but you know, in the
13:51
Speaker 2: midst of a game and trying to get serious and
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Speaker 2: trying to get into their mode. That's why we know.
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Speaker 2: We got to know our teammates. My team, though not
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Speaker 2: with Trey White in the middle of the huddle, because
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Speaker 2: it's not going to go yeah, So they know the
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Speaker 2: guys that they need to put in there, so I
14:07
Speaker 2: just stand to the side there. But when you know,
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Speaker 2: we get to the locker room and I'm sitting next
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Speaker 2: to CBO. We're gonna tell all the jokes then. But
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Speaker 2: those guys do a great job of getting us pumped up,
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Speaker 2: and that's what I need to But no, I'm not
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Speaker 2: doing any breaking down of the dB group because that's
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Speaker 2: just not.
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Speaker 3: The way that I do every day. That's that's not
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Speaker 3: my strong suit. I would say.
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Speaker 1: I think sometimes people wonder, like why am I here?
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Speaker 1: What is my purpose? What is the reason you come
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Speaker 1: back to this team? You've been through your injuries, the
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Speaker 1: acl achilles. The Bills draft a rookie cornerback in Maxwell Harriston.
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Speaker 1: He goes down with an injury during training camp. A
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Speaker 1: little bit of purpose there as to what you can
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Speaker 1: tell the rookie. What did you say to Maxwell Harriston
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Speaker 1: during that time?
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Speaker 2: Just, man, it's okay to feel the emotions of being
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Speaker 2: angry being mad about the situation, but I mean I
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Speaker 2: always I just told him, like, there's nothing you could
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Speaker 2: do about it right now, But the only thing you
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Speaker 2: could do is just take it one day a time,
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Speaker 2: like bo, bottle this up, understand it, like process it,
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Speaker 2: you know, to gather all the information that you need
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Speaker 2: to get yourself right so you could be the best
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Speaker 2: best version of yourself when you get back. But take
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Speaker 2: this time to mentally sharpen yourself, get into the playbook more,
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Speaker 2: go into the details of the defense, go into why
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Speaker 2: why Bobby Babe just calling this defense?
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Speaker 3: And what personnel, what situation of the game.
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Speaker 2: So once you come back, like you could just know like, Okay,
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Speaker 2: it's first second down, second second and second seventh plus is.
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Speaker 3: Get back on trackground? What Bobby gonna call here?
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Speaker 2: I'm talking about things like that because I just know,
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Speaker 2: like I told him, like I've been through this, been
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Speaker 2: through this more extensively than what you. The blessing for
15:46
Speaker 2: you is you can come back and play, but I
15:48
Speaker 2: have to sit out the whole year twice, so you know,
15:52
Speaker 2: just giving them all the little nuggas that I can
15:54
Speaker 2: give him in that moment, but just knowing that he's
15:57
Speaker 2: gonna handle it the way that he want to handle it,
15:59
Speaker 2: but also just telling him that you have a great
16:03
Speaker 2: support system here as far as the rehab for your
16:07
Speaker 2: mental too, and also just as far as guys upstairs.
16:11
Speaker 2: You can get as much family as you need, like
16:13
Speaker 2: what you can get as many.
16:15
Speaker 3: Breakdown as as you need, however you want it.
16:17
Speaker 2: Broke it down in your iPad so it could be
16:20
Speaker 2: personable to you, so you can study film and watch
16:23
Speaker 2: film the way you want to do it and understand
16:25
Speaker 2: it the way you.
16:25
Speaker 3: You would like to do.
16:26
Speaker 2: But you know, it's it's still it's anover never anything
16:30
Speaker 2: with me too, of talking to him, because I see
16:32
Speaker 2: him working, See how you come in each and every
16:34
Speaker 2: day early to get his treatment, get his running in
16:37
Speaker 2: a pool, doing things like that.
16:38
Speaker 3: I actually seen him out here working out a little
16:40
Speaker 3: bit earlier.
16:41
Speaker 2: Too, so just to see the way he's he's come,
16:44
Speaker 2: just from training camp when he was on crutches to
16:47
Speaker 2: putting the knee brace on the walking running to doing
16:50
Speaker 2: some little running. I got his on my phone, I told,
16:54
Speaker 2: because this is what I always deal with my rehabs,
16:57
Speaker 2: you know, just random videos of things that's going on
17:00
Speaker 2: when I'm doing So I got a video off my
17:02
Speaker 2: phone of like Matt Malono getting treatment on the table.
17:04
Speaker 2: But then I turned the camera it's Max and doing
17:07
Speaker 2: his first time running.
17:08
Speaker 3: In the pool. Oh wow, so I have that on
17:10
Speaker 3: my phone. Yeah, that's why I told.
17:12
Speaker 2: I was like, bro, like these type of these moments
17:14
Speaker 2: like this, like you're gonna look back at it. You
17:15
Speaker 2: can be like man like and this day like this
17:18
Speaker 2: is what I was doing, but now I'm out here.
17:20
Speaker 3: Catch an interception like so it's like it's a process
17:23
Speaker 3: to it.
17:23
Speaker 2: So then I just try to be there for him
17:25
Speaker 2: and lighting the moment too, because I know how extensive
17:28
Speaker 2: the rehab could be, and how repetitive it can be,
17:31
Speaker 2: and how aggravating it could be coming in every day
17:33
Speaker 2: doing the same thing. But you just got to know,
17:35
Speaker 2: like at the end of the the end of the day,
17:37
Speaker 2: like that light is at the end of the tunny
17:39
Speaker 2: this is just a little step to you getting to
17:41
Speaker 2: back to where you want to be. So and he's
17:43
Speaker 2: been doing great of just you know, receiving all the
17:46
Speaker 2: information from everybody around him, but also taking that and
17:50
Speaker 2: actually doing it and putting it into his rehab and
17:53
Speaker 2: also just coming with a great attitude each.
17:55
Speaker 3: And every day.
17:56
Speaker 1: You have such a great mindset. You want to help
17:59
Speaker 1: your teammate. You want to leave this place better than
18:02
Speaker 1: how you found it. How did you get to that
18:04
Speaker 1: place as a player?
18:06
Speaker 2: You know when you when you accomplished it a lot, Maddie,
18:09
Speaker 2: like so early in your career, especially for me, so
18:12
Speaker 2: early in my career going up Pro Bowls, being an
18:14
Speaker 2: All Pro things like that, It's just like you try
18:18
Speaker 2: to find other ways to, you know, to get that thrill,
18:23
Speaker 2: you know, because you know, individually, like you can do
18:27
Speaker 2: a lot. But like I said this like probably four
18:30
Speaker 2: or five years ago, like it was back in twenty
18:32
Speaker 2: twenty one, I did it. It was just like now
18:34
Speaker 2: it's like, how can I pass that torch? How can
18:37
Speaker 2: I give little gems to the guys behind me? So,
18:40
Speaker 2: like I told Max and de Strongness, I was like,
18:43
Speaker 2: when I'm done here and I'm watching you guys on
18:46
Speaker 2: the field, like it's gonna be my responsibility, Like if
18:49
Speaker 2: you guys are out there looking good, like I'm gonna
18:50
Speaker 2: feel great that I was able to like give you
18:53
Speaker 2: guys some little nuggets and I'm on my couch watching
18:56
Speaker 2: you guys make plays.
18:56
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, I had a little hand in that,
18:59
Speaker 3: you know.
19:00
Speaker 2: But if I leave here and you guys are not
19:02
Speaker 2: performing well, I'm gonna take that to heart because I'm
19:04
Speaker 2: gonna feel like I failed you guys as far as
19:06
Speaker 2: a vet of giving you the game that you know,
19:09
Speaker 2: Vince that I had, Like I had this, you know,
19:11
Speaker 2: even though it not in the corner back room.
19:12
Speaker 3: You know. I had Ronald Darby for like a few months,
19:15
Speaker 3: great resource.
19:15
Speaker 2: Then I had Vante Davis, Philip games Leave, like all
19:19
Speaker 2: these guys like we had at safety Kirk Coleman my
19:23
Speaker 2: third year or two, so a lot of guys that
19:25
Speaker 2: played a lot of great football that helped me.
19:28
Speaker 3: Along when I was a young guy of like, man,
19:30
Speaker 3: this is the process. This is how you do it.
19:32
Speaker 2: Like you had a good game, okay, so what like
19:34
Speaker 2: this is how you approached the next week? Oh, you
19:36
Speaker 2: had a bad game, so what like this is how
19:38
Speaker 2: you attack the questions with the media gonna ask you like,
19:42
Speaker 2: this is this is how you do it. I remember
19:44
Speaker 2: having a bad game my rookie year against A. J. Green,
19:46
Speaker 2: and I kind of just like after the game, I
19:48
Speaker 2: carry up, got out the locker room, and Rizzo Lorenzo
19:51
Speaker 2: Alexander got on the bus. He was like like that
19:54
Speaker 2: ain't how you do it, like young but like, okay,
19:57
Speaker 2: you had you had a rough one, but two two
20:00
Speaker 2: weeks straight before you had great ones and you handed
20:03
Speaker 2: it different. So Na, no, this is the time where
20:05
Speaker 2: you stand up and just show who you are as
20:07
Speaker 2: a person that stuck with me, like that still sticks
20:10
Speaker 2: with me, like getting on that bus, like Lorenzo coming
20:13
Speaker 2: and sit with me and like talking to me, like
20:14
Speaker 2: telling me, like, nah, this is not how you do it,
20:16
Speaker 2: like do it a different way. And ever since that day,
20:19
Speaker 2: like it stuck with me. But like my respect for
20:23
Speaker 2: Lorenzo like here, like because like that was real, that
20:28
Speaker 2: was real. A lot of guys probably thought about telling it,
20:30
Speaker 2: but he actually came to me and said it to me.
20:33
Speaker 3: And I was able to take that even though I
20:35
Speaker 3: was mad.
20:36
Speaker 2: I mean I took that bottle that up and like
20:38
Speaker 2: knowing that he's telling me that out of love and
20:40
Speaker 2: for the betterment of me for the future. And you know,
20:44
Speaker 2: so that's you know when guys like me being younger,
20:48
Speaker 2: like I didn't understand those things in the moment, but
20:51
Speaker 2: like sitting here now.
20:53
Speaker 3: Like I get it. And for me, like I got
20:56
Speaker 3: to pass that along. Yeah, because he did that for me.
20:58
Speaker 2: Guys like cow we too did that for me, So
21:01
Speaker 2: like I got to pass that alone. And I just
21:03
Speaker 2: feel like when you approach it with that type of mindset,
21:06
Speaker 2: like you get blessed too in the midst of everything
21:09
Speaker 2: of that too. So yeah, that's that's what it's all
21:12
Speaker 2: about like I just care about like the art of
21:14
Speaker 2: cornerback first, and then I have teammates that you know,
21:17
Speaker 2: younger than me that watch me and watch the things
21:20
Speaker 2: that I do.
21:20
Speaker 3: So I just try to pay for it. Training.
21:23
Speaker 1: You got to get going because you got other stuff
21:24
Speaker 1: to do before meetings begin. You're pretty good in front
21:28
Speaker 1: of this, Mike. I think you got a future here.
21:31
Speaker 1: You know, valedictorian in high school, you had a what
21:34
Speaker 1: was your gpa? Four point three?
21:36
Speaker 3: Like three? Shoot? Yeah.
21:40
Speaker 2: A lot of people, you know, ask me about doing
21:43
Speaker 2: that because I was just actually doing an interview with
21:45
Speaker 2: Adam Scheff the Darta yesterday and I was just she
21:47
Speaker 2: was asking me some questions and the way I was
21:50
Speaker 2: explaining everything.
21:51
Speaker 3: Into details, like down to the t. She's like, yeah,
21:55
Speaker 3: that was like probably the best answers. Like I've been
21:58
Speaker 3: doing this for five years, and like her dad got.
22:01
Speaker 2: On, her mom got on, and she was like the
22:03
Speaker 2: mom was like, she's been doing this for five years
22:06
Speaker 2: and I never got on a camera when she interviewed
22:08
Speaker 2: the player like this the first time ever, because like
22:10
Speaker 2: you were just so great, like just the way you
22:13
Speaker 2: just talked in articulated yourself and did everything.
22:16
Speaker 3: But I don't know, Maddie. It could be something.
22:21
Speaker 2: It could be something, but I just think, well, like
22:24
Speaker 2: I when I get to talking, I just like to
22:27
Speaker 2: explain it to details, especially if we can go on
22:29
Speaker 2: to talk about ball, going to talk about cornerback specifically
22:32
Speaker 2: in the mindset, and just like reading routes things like that,
22:36
Speaker 2: like the little exit and os like I like to
22:38
Speaker 2: explain those type of things.
22:39
Speaker 3: So and I'd like to talk to a little bit.
22:43
Speaker 3: I like, you know, once you get back and forth,
22:44
Speaker 3: I get comfortable. I like to talk a little bit.
22:46
Speaker 3: So who knows, we might can get something going.
22:49
Speaker 2: We might I might have a future in this. And
22:51
Speaker 2: I like to set up you know, the microphone got
22:54
Speaker 2: to be like this, I could.
22:55
Speaker 3: Just sit back like sure, So I tryal to come
22:58
Speaker 3: up a little podcast or something.
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Speaker 1: Well, we appreciate the time. Maybe we'll see you again.
23:02
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure, looking forward to it. Thank you for
23:05
Speaker 2: you know, inviting me on. You know, like I said,
23:07
Speaker 2: your fav man forward to this one, you know, because
23:11
Speaker 2: you know, over the years, like you've been here since
23:14
Speaker 2: what y're.
23:14
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty nineteen, twenty nineteen.
23:16
Speaker 2: So yeah, so we became familiar with each other over
23:19
Speaker 2: the years, so you know, feel comfortable talking to you
23:22
Speaker 2: for sure. You've always been so nice to me and
23:24
Speaker 2: so polite. So and then you know some of my
23:27
Speaker 2: people from Zoo too. Yeah, yeah, we got that connection
23:31
Speaker 2: for sure.
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Speaker 1: All right, thank you man, appreciate it, you know what.
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