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SEC Insider Hit: Drew Brees Hall of Fame acceptance speech. · Out of Bounds with Bo Bounds

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  Speaker 1: If we went the dogs were taking the ball. We've
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  Speaker 1: got to go down the field score.
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  Speaker 2: You gonna show me the money who out of bounds?
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  Speaker 2: One o five nine The Zone, ESPN. We continue to
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  Speaker 2: celebrate Drew Brees, number nine, the Goat. Sean Payton was
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  Speaker 2: the presenter over the weekend. Boom Boom did the introduction. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Chris Berman, Boom, mister Brown. Yeah, ivy leaguer Drew Brees
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  Speaker 2: into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. We are about
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  Speaker 2: to drop the speed well a chunk of the Drew
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  Speaker 2: Brees speech Canton, Ohio where he thanked so many people
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  Speaker 2: and he did his speech was amazing, It was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: This is ESPN one oh five nine The Zone. ESPN
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  Speaker 2: one oh five nine The Zone.
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  Speaker 1: We went to talks. We've taken the ball.
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  Speaker 2: We've plann to go down the feeling scoring and don't
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  Speaker 2: forget that. Ed Ozeron is doing your next cameo for
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  Speaker 2: your birthday, your kid's birthday, or your anniversary. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: of course your wife wants a an anniversary congratulations from Edio.
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  Speaker 1: Right, we went to talks, We've taken the ball, We've
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  Speaker 1: plann to go down the feeling store.
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  Speaker 2: Eddio doing cameos now, God bless America and capitalism and
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  Speaker 2: all the crazy stuff that you can do today to
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  Speaker 2: generate money. And I love it, love every bit of it.
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  Speaker 2: We're we're Jackson's thinking about this. We're thinking about asking
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  Speaker 2: Eddio to do a cameo for us for the show's
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  Speaker 2: anniversary October one.
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  Speaker 1: We went to talks. We've taken the ball, we've went
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  Speaker 1: going on score.
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  Speaker 2: There's some good ones on here. Oh yeah, there's some
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  Speaker 2: good ones from him or just other people.
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  Speaker 3: There's a there's a list of folks. Okay, I mean
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  Speaker 3: you know anywhere from John Gruden, Oh, which would be
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  Speaker 3: pretty good. Yeah, it's expensive, but he's there.
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  Speaker 2: I bet he is. He is rather expensive, about four
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  Speaker 2: fifty okay, four hundred and fifty for about I think
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  Speaker 2: sixty seconds.
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  Speaker 3: You got, I mean anywhere from you got the uh
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  Speaker 3: Caliendo guy that that that is Jay John Gruden.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't we have Caliendo on a long time ago? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: It was right, Yeah, Oh, I know we had Larry
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  Speaker 2: the cable guy and his other buddy Billings from or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: and then but didn't we have CALLI Yeah, yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: dude from Hattiesburg. Yeah, right, didn't he put us in
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  Speaker 2: with Calliando.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, when he did a show down there,
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  Speaker 3: yeah the singer. Yeah, that's right. Shooter McGavin's on this list,
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  Speaker 3: Shooter mccabin. Uh, dude, that Twitter account.
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  Speaker 2: It's great. Yeah, that's a good one. It's good.
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  Speaker 3: John Daly's on here, John Daily.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Rockers on here, John Rocker from the Atlanta I
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  Speaker 2: haven't heard that name in twenty years. Oh that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: He's only sixty five bucks. So rock is very very affordable,
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  Speaker 2: very affordable. Okay, all right, I mean got it.
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  Speaker 3: Rick Flair is on here, obviously he'll do them, and
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  Speaker 3: it's five hundred plus.
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  Speaker 2: Emmitt Smith's on here. Michael Irvin? How much is Emmitt? Emmitt? Seven?
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  Speaker 2: Twenty five? That doesn't surprise me for one minute? Okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so that's some pretty good ROI right here here. I
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  Speaker 2: just need you to talk for fifty seconds to sixty
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  Speaker 2: seconds to make seven hundred and fifty bucks.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, because because you once the cameo is man, you
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  Speaker 3: own it, right, I can do what I want with absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: That's mine, I mean my that's my assumption. Yeah, man,
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  Speaker 2: what was Michael Urban? How much is he?
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  Speaker 1: Irvin?
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  Speaker 3: Five hundred is the base. All these are the base numbers.
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  Speaker 3: You can ob get these packages. Look, I mean you
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  Speaker 3: can do vip this video thirty five Irvin. Okay, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what that business video would consist of, but
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  Speaker 3: I think it's I mean, it's gonna be a lot
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  Speaker 3: longer in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Got it? Wow? Ed ozeron doing cameos? Okay, who's who's
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  Speaker 2: can you? You know Mike Leach did cameos and but
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  Speaker 2: can you imagine or retired Mike Leach doing cameos? Oh
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  Speaker 2: my god? Oh wow, these are ten minutes because I
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  Speaker 2: think Mike would be on the higher I mean I
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  Speaker 2: think Mike could get two to four hundred bucks just
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  Speaker 2: because he's such a eclectic. Yeah, just what's he gonna say? Right?
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  Speaker 2: What's the can of course? Mike only going sixty seconds?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right? You know, I just all the times that
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  Speaker 2: I talked to him on the phone, I mean, one
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  Speaker 2: on one was fantastic, and we we would tape him
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  Speaker 2: because he you just didn't know. He couldn't do a segment.
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  Speaker 2: And what I mean by that to our listeners is
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  Speaker 2: you didn't know what direction was you were going to go,
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  Speaker 2: and so you couldn't try to couldn't play one. No,
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  Speaker 2: you couldn't drop Mike in a nine minute segment, Mike Leech,
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  Speaker 2: Eddie Oh, doing cameos. That's incredible, it really and and
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  Speaker 2: Leech was doing it when he was at Washington State.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if he was set up to get paid.
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  Speaker 2: I assume he was. I just can remember the picture
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  Speaker 2: before he took the Mississippi State job. I guess it
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  Speaker 2: was the year they went eleven and two at Gardner
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  Speaker 2: Minshew and he did some He did a cameo for
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  Speaker 2: somebody and maybe it got sticky on on social or something. Anyway, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: that was cool.
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  Speaker 4: You pick.
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  Speaker 2: So you pulled up EMMITTT. Smith, Michael Urban, John Rocker,
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  Speaker 2: Eddie Oh, and there's a million other.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a chunk.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, they got him up to, you know, Mike l
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  Speaker 2: Ever to do you a ten minute video. So then
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  Speaker 2: you're getting in the five thousand plus right, Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: all right, Well, I mean that's some good that's some
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  Speaker 2: good side hustle money. I mean, if you can make
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  Speaker 2: ten to fifteen thousand dollars a month doing cameos plus
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  Speaker 2: all the other things that these guys do all day.
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  Speaker 2: As far as announcing, and you know they get paid
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  Speaker 2: to show up to golf events and they endorse this
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  Speaker 2: and that. That's pretty damn good. I mean, do you
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  Speaker 2: go there, do you go to like Dolly Parton? What's Dolly?
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  Speaker 2: How much is she price? I would think she's pretty expensive.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, let me guess, hold on, she's gotta be
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  Speaker 2: more expensive than it. I'm gonna say yes, but let's
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  Speaker 2: see because I know you had him it at seven
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  Speaker 2: twenty five ish, and so I'm gonna go, she's more
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  Speaker 2: expensive three five? Oh, she's not. Okay. I wonder if
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  Speaker 2: she would have been in her heyday if we actually
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  Speaker 2: had iPhones in nineteen eighty one. I don't know, something
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  Speaker 2: to think about. Maybe right Island's in the stream her
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  Speaker 2: and Kenny Rogers, who knows we are the out of
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  Speaker 2: Bounds Show, ESPN one oh five nine The Zone. Let's
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  Speaker 2: drop the Drew Brees. Some of the Drew Brees press
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  Speaker 2: at the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: To the Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 5: I cannot have asked for a better class of men, players,
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  Speaker 5: and contributors to the great game of football. It is
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  Speaker 5: an absolute honor to join this elite fraternity with you,
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  Speaker 5: and we are now.
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  Speaker 4: Bonded for life. To all the Hall of Famers.
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  Speaker 5: You've inspired generations, You've passed it forward, and we will
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  Speaker 5: do the same. It is impossible to properly articulate or
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  Speaker 5: encapsulate all the feelings, emotions and appreciation that comes along
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  Speaker 5: with a twenty year and AFL career in the time
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  Speaker 5: that we have, but I will do my best to
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  Speaker 5: entertain and enlighten you with the stories, the places and
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  Speaker 5: people who shape my mindset, directed my trajectory, and defined
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  Speaker 5: my career. We may laugh, we may cry. Chance I
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  Speaker 5: make it through this without crying is zero. But most
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  Speaker 5: of all, I hope we leave with a greater love, respect,
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  Speaker 5: and reverence for the virtues of this game. I've always
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  Speaker 5: relished the opportunity to play sports and be a part
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  Speaker 5: of the team I came from a very athletic and
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  Speaker 5: competitive family. In fact, this story best sums up how
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  Speaker 5: important sports was to our family growing up. My uncle
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  Speaker 5: Marty Akins was an All American quarterback at the University
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  Speaker 5: of Texas, running the wishbone offense with future Pro Football
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  Speaker 5: Hall of Famer Earl Campbell. When Marty was in elementary school,
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  Speaker 5: he was called in the principal's office with my grandfather,
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  Speaker 5: Ray Aikins, who is a legendary high school football coach
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  Speaker 5: in the state of Texas.
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  Speaker 4: The principal went on to say that she.
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  Speaker 5: Had some concerns about what young Marty was being taught
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  Speaker 5: at home. Apparently in class that day, Marty had been
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  Speaker 5: asked to stand up and name before seasons. Instead of
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  Speaker 5: saying summer, fall, winter, and spring, Marty instead said football, basketball, baseball,
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  Speaker 5: and track. I'd like to thank all of the members
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  Speaker 5: of my family for hardwiring this competitive desire and spirit
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  Speaker 5: into my system at a.
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  Speaker 4: Very early age.
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  Speaker 5: To my father, Chip, thank you that the answer to
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  Speaker 5: me whenever I would ask to play catch, to pitch
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  Speaker 5: to me, shoot hoops with me, or drop me off of.
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  Speaker 4: The field was always yes.
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  Speaker 5: My mother, Mina Ruth Akins was the most competitive person
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  Speaker 5: I've ever known. She passed away seventeen years ago yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: So much of her lives inside of me, and I
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  Speaker 5: know how proud she would be of me, but even
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  Speaker 5: more so of her grandchildren. My brother Reid, whether you're
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  Speaker 5: catching crawfish and shoal creek, riding our bikes at the
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  Speaker 5: baseball card shop, or putting dents in our parents' garage
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  Speaker 5: pitching to each other, you were the best brother I
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  Speaker 5: could ever ask for.
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  Speaker 4: And my sister.
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  Speaker 5: Audrey, I'm so proud of your accomplishments and the woman
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  Speaker 5: you've become. I don't take for granted that I got
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  Speaker 5: to play the most coveted position in all the sports.
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  Speaker 5: From as far back as I can remember, I wanted
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  Speaker 5: to play quarterback. I never saw the position as one
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  Speaker 5: of pressure, but rather one of great responsibility. Bill Parcells
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  Speaker 5: described it as the steady hand that steers the ship.
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  Speaker 5: Marty Schottenheim would say there is no position on the
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  Speaker 5: field whose performance has greater impact on those around him.
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  Speaker 5: Bill walshoff and emphasized the great quarterback play is about
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  Speaker 5: making the correct decisions repeatedly. The quarterback is the distributor
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  Speaker 5: of hope and confidence a master of probability, the ultimate
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  Speaker 5: problem solver. I've always seen the game of football in
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  Speaker 5: the quarterback position as a true art form, like a.
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  Speaker 4: Song or a dance. The key to the art form
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  Speaker 4: was controlling the rhythm of the game.
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  Speaker 5: Everything had a rhythm, from the articulation of the play
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  Speaker 5: in the huddle, to the pre snap cues and communication,
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  Speaker 5: to the cadence and the snap of the ball to
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  Speaker 5: your feet dropping back, the timing and flow of your
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  Speaker 5: hitch or your gather, to the point three seconds between
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  Speaker 5: your front foot hit and the ground that set off
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  Speaker 5: a combustion of energy from the ground force all the
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  Speaker 5: way from your toes to your fingertips as it translates
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  Speaker 5: power to the pronation and the spin of the ball
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  Speaker 5: as it releases into the atmosphere. That feeling is what
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  Speaker 5: I live for. I wish I could say it we're
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  Speaker 5: stress free. Quite the contrary, the amount of heads face
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  Speaker 5: this occupied in a given week was all consuming. How
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  Speaker 5: can I visualize every eventuality, every possible scenario. What if
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  Speaker 5: the defense does this, What if it does that? If
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  Speaker 5: they decide to take this player away, what if they
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  Speaker 5: bring that exotic pressure in that crucial situation? Luke Keighley,
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  Speaker 5: but I love the chess match. It was a complex
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  Speaker 5: puzzle to solve. Each drive represented a section of that puzzle.
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  Speaker 5: If you failed with one, you could log away that
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  Speaker 5: information and come back to it later with a different
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  Speaker 5: perspective or a different confidence. And to solve it was
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  Speaker 5: euphoric because through the process you saw something take place.
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  Speaker 5: You saw a masterpiece come together, with every teammate and
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  Speaker 5: position playing an integral role in the final outcome. And
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  Speaker 5: that feeling began in high school to this day. One
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  Speaker 5: of the proudest accomplishments in my career was winning a
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  Speaker 5: Texas five A state championship for west Lake High School
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  Speaker 5: in Austin, Texas. Youth sports, and especially high school football,
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  Speaker 5: should always be about character and leadership, development, teamwork, and
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  Speaker 5: positive affiliation.
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  Speaker 4: May we never forget that.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you to Ron Schrader and all of our coaches
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  Speaker 5: at Westlake who built a program that we all strive
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  Speaker 5: to be a part of, one that prioritized discipline, accountability,
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  Speaker 5: and camaraderie. Thank you to Karmick Kiara, the mentor and
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  Speaker 5: motivator for our entire team as we suffered through summer
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  Speaker 5: conditioning at Heartbreak Hill in East Austin on Pernal Street,
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  Speaker 5: end of the class in nineteen ninety seven, who led
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  Speaker 5: with incredible passion and purpose, becoming the measuring stick for
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  Speaker 5: every team that followed. But one of the most life
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  Speaker 5: changing events occurred my junior year of high school. After
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  Speaker 5: suffering a major an injury which put my athletic career
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  Speaker 5: in jeopardy. My identity was challenged. Up until that point,
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  Speaker 5: sports had defined me and I wasn't sure who I
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  Speaker 5: was without it. Sitting in church on my seventeenth birthday,
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  Speaker 5: Christ came into my heart and changed me forever. I
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  Speaker 5: felt protected, connected and directed towards the path that God
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  Speaker 5: had for me. He would equit me for the journey
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  Speaker 5: which led me to places I never could have expected.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you to Pastor Shaan Mitchell, Miles McPherson, Rob Wilton,
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  Speaker 5: and Troy Martin for your Christian mentorship in my life.
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  Speaker 4: Purdue University.
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  Speaker 5: I still don't know how you got this Texas kid
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  Speaker 5: up to West Lofeyett, Indiana, but it was certainly one
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  Speaker 5: of the best decisions I ever made. Sorry Boom. I
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  Speaker 5: chose Perdue because of its academic reputation and the opportunity
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  Speaker 5: to play in the Big Ten Conference. Little did I
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  Speaker 5: know I would leave four years later with the one
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  Speaker 5: of the most respective degrees in the country, a Big
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  Speaker 5: Ten championship, the love of my life, and an opportunity
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  Speaker 5: to live out my childhood dream being a professional athlete.
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  Speaker 5: It is an absolute honor to join Purdue Grace, Bob Greasy,
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  Speaker 5: Lynn Dawson, Rod Woodson, and legendary coach Hate Shram as
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  Speaker 5: boiler Makers in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Thank
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  Speaker 5: you to Tim Pepplopano, wide receiver coach at Purdue and
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  Speaker 5: the one who claims to have stood on the table
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  Speaker 5: to recruit this six foot hundred and seventy pound kid
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  Speaker 5: out of Central Texas. To coaches Jim Cheney and Greg Olsen,
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  Speaker 5: thank you for pushing me, for preparing me, for testing me,
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  Speaker 5: and always holding me accountable. To our late head coach
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  Speaker 5: Joe Tiller, thank you for creating an environment where we
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  Speaker 5: always had to prove it. You always had that look
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  Speaker 5: in your eye like you knew something we didn't. You
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  Speaker 5: knew how hard to push us, and that was well
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  Speaker 5: past our perceived limits. We trusted your plan, as you said,
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  Speaker 5: a new standard that developed grit, toughness and put a
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  Speaker 5: massive chip on our shoulders.
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  Speaker 4: We carried that everywhere we went.
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  Speaker 5: Two of my best friends in the world were part
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  Speaker 5: of that class of Purdue, Ben Smith and Jason Larzel.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for your friendship, your loyalty, your unwavering support,
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  Speaker 5: and being there for me during some of.
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  Speaker 4: My toughest moments.
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  Speaker 5: As great as it was to be your teammates and
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  Speaker 5: lifelong friends, what's even better is watching our children grow
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  Speaker 5: up together. So many emotions travel through you during the
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  Speaker 5: NFL draft process. With one pick, your life and circumstances
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  Speaker 5: can change forever. You just hope that you end up
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  Speaker 5: in the right place at the right time, with the
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  Speaker 5: right team, with the right coach in the right system.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you to the Spannos family.
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  Speaker 5: General manager John Butler and coach Norv Turner, who had
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  Speaker 5: everything to do with drafting me to the San Diego
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  Speaker 5: Chargers in the second round of the two thousand and
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  Speaker 5: one NFL Draft. This was exactly where I was supposed
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  Speaker 5: to be, and what made it even sweeter I was
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  Speaker 5: joining the guy they drafted in the first round. Hall
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  Speaker 5: of famer and one of the greatest running backs in history,
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  Speaker 5: Danian Thomlinson. How many people know as LT and I
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  Speaker 5: grew two hours from each other and played on the
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  Speaker 5: South Texas All Star team together in nineteen ninety seven.
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  Speaker 5: We found our way back together four years later as
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  Speaker 5: Heisman Trophy finalists. At the Heisman presentation, we both made
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  Speaker 5: a statement, wouldn't it be something if we ended up
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  Speaker 5: on the same team?
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  Speaker 4: Lt.
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  Speaker 5: I always felt a strong kinship with you. We had
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  Speaker 5: so much in common. Drafted the same year, married the
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  Speaker 5: same year, won the Walter Peate Man of the Year
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  Speaker 5: the same year. We grew up together quickly in this league.
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  Speaker 5: I credited so many things in my career to the
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  Speaker 5: five years I spent with the Chargers. From the first
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  Speaker 5: moment I walked into the facility, there was no question
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  Speaker 5: who the leaders were, Junior Seau and Rodney Harrison.
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  Speaker 2: We're listening to the Drew Brees speech over the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: can't Ohio and it was a great, each unbelievable weekend.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to continue on with it. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: forget we're so Saints driven, but you forget the impact
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  Speaker 2: that the Chargers had on him and that he won
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  Speaker 2: a high school state championship, a Big Ten championship at Purdue.
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  Speaker 2: Who's the worst or second worst football program in the
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten. I guess they're the worst now because Indiana
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  Speaker 2: comes out of nowhere and wins the national championship last year.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what the new Purdue ad was doing
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  Speaker 2: last week when he referenced Indiana and not winning championships.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe no one had told him that Indiana is they
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  Speaker 2: are the national champs going in to this season. But
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  Speaker 2: I thought I thought the Breeze speech was great. Our
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  Speaker 2: RPT trucks live here. This is Breeze and your best leaders.
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  Speaker 5: And that standard was clear with June Bug and hot Rod.
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  Speaker 5: Another one of the great influences early in my career
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  Speaker 5: was Doug Flutie.
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  Speaker 4: Doug, you were ahead of your time.
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  Speaker 5: I saw you throwing backshoulder throws, nowheck passes and manipulating
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  Speaker 5: arm angles long before it became a revolutionary thing. I
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  Speaker 5: modeled so much of my game after you, and I'm
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  Speaker 5: not sure if there was anyone more competitive. Thank you
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  Speaker 5: for being supportive of me throughout my entire career. Well,
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  Speaker 5: Lorenzo O'Neil, one of the greatest fullbacks ever played the game.
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  Speaker 4: They don't make them like you anymore. Low lo'neil used
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  Speaker 4: to call me Peb as a young player was PBPB.
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  Speaker 4: One day, loneil said, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Why I call you peb man? It means pro bowler,
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  Speaker 5: because that's who you are. But you gotta believe it. Lo.
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  Speaker 4: You just don't know how much that meant to me
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  Speaker 4: at the time. I love you, Peeb.
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  Speaker 5: Antonio Gates, one of the greatest tight ends to ever
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  Speaker 5: played the game.
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  Speaker 4: I just wish we had more time together.
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  Speaker 5: Marty Schenheim are one of the greatest coaches and motivators
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  Speaker 5: to ever coach this game, and who belongs here in Canton.
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  Speaker 5: Marty was my biggest fan. He would tell me that
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  Speaker 5: all the time, even as he benched me three times.
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  Speaker 5: It made me fight for my job every year with
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  Speaker 5: two greats, Doug Flutie and Philip Rivers.
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  Speaker 4: The first two.
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  Speaker 1: Times I got.
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  Speaker 4: Finished, I deserved it.
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  Speaker 5: The third time I still don't think I deserved it coach,
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  Speaker 5: but nonetheless it lit more than a fire. It forced
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  Speaker 5: me to access a place in my mind and my
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  Speaker 5: heart that I had not yet been. The adversity was
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  Speaker 5: not expected, but very necessary. I would never had reached
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  Speaker 5: the heights I did without it. I knew I needed
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  Speaker 5: to play better, but more importantly, I knew that he
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  Speaker 5: believed I would play better. Thank you to coach Cam
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  Speaker 5: Cameron and Brian Schottenheimer, offensive coordinator and quarterback coach for
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  Speaker 5: the Chargers. Never Forget a film session in two thousand
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  Speaker 5: and three. I was coming off a tough game, and
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  Speaker 5: as we watched the tape together, they asked me the question, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: why didn't you throw to this receiver He was wide open,
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  Speaker 5: to which my response was I couldn't see him. The
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  Speaker 5: tape paused, there was a moment of silence. They glared
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  Speaker 5: at me and said, it's your job to see you
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: reach a point in your career when you stop making excuses.
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  Speaker 5: It's usually a moment or an event where you flip
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  Speaker 5: a switch or make a very conscious decision and it becomes.
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  Speaker 4: Part of your being.
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  Speaker 5: They were right, and never again would those words or
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  Speaker 5: thoughts come out of my mouth. I would need to
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  Speaker 5: find a way to play the game a little bit different,
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  Speaker 5: even if it was in a way that had not
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  Speaker 5: been done before, it would shape me for what came
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  Speaker 5: next New Orleans. When we bought our home in the
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  Speaker 5: hard uptown New Orleans, bride and I could not have
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  Speaker 5: been more excited and scared to embark on this new
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  Speaker 5: journey and chapter in our lives. As we were moving in,
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  Speaker 5: containers of housewarming gifts began to show up at the
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  Speaker 5: front door. As I opened the lid to the first container,
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  Speaker 5: expecting to see brownies or perhaps chocolate chip cookies, it
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  Speaker 5: was rather the smell of butter and onions and Cajun
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  Speaker 5: seasoning and a dark ru that made up crawfish at tufe.
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  Speaker 4: The next day it was jumbalaya. The next day was gumbo.
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  Speaker 4: And we're not talking a small container.
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  Speaker 5: We're talking a big vat of the best home cook
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  Speaker 5: Louisiana flavors.
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  Speaker 4: You could imagine.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome to New Orleans, but nothing compares to what we
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  Speaker 5: experienced every Monday night during my career in New Orleans
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  Speaker 5: for fifteen years straight.
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  Speaker 4: And this is no exaggeration.
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  Speaker 5: Our neighbors, step and Kathy Price would make our family
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  Speaker 5: red beans and rice and cornbread. Whether it was their house,
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  Speaker 5: our house, or with great friends like Trombone Shorty.
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  Speaker 4: It was what we all looked forward to together