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Jamal Adams: "The Sky Is The Limit" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Thinking about this moment for a long time, but couldn't
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  Speaker 1: have come in a better.
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  Speaker 2: Stage, on a better field. Y, you know, that's just
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  Speaker 2: all God, you know, I, Uh, throughout the whole process,
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  Speaker 2: I already kind of knew this was kind of my
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  Speaker 2: mindset and my goal was to get back to week
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  Speaker 2: four obviously, you know. It's it's a special place for me,
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  Speaker 2: uh being back in New York and uh being back home.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to the challenge.
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  Speaker 2: What of the lost mots of the money, It's been
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  Speaker 2: a roller coaster, man, real life happened, you know. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I can go into details about everything, but I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my focus is mainly you know, this Monday night,
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  Speaker 2: Uh looking forward to being out there with my teammates
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  Speaker 2: and uh competing again. Man, I'm just grateful to be
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  Speaker 2: back out there.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything you have to remind yourself of taking
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  Speaker 1: the field, whether it's the fact that your life's okay,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe to keep the emotions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously I'm not tryna make it, you know, bigger
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  Speaker 2: than what it is. I'm just tryna stay focused and
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  Speaker 2: uh just have a uh even killed mindset obviously, I know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with the opportunity, uh present how it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: present itself, uh when I get out there. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: just staying focused, Uh, keeping my head down and just
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  Speaker 2: gonna grind.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel physically, world? Yeah, I feel good.
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  Speaker 2: You're gob say, very passionate about the sports.
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  Speaker 1: How Uh it's been hard. Man, love a game like
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  Speaker 1: no other.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you lose something, uh y, you know
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  Speaker 2: that you really really love. Uh takes a toll on you.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously mentally had to get over that. I had
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  Speaker 2: to adjust and you know that was just life. But
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  Speaker 2: did you get over this through the love and support?
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  Speaker 2: But you know, not only that, Uh just had to
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  Speaker 2: you know, talk to myself. Uh mentally, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: going through it every day. Uh, being able to sit
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  Speaker 2: down and think about a little bit of everything as
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  Speaker 2: I'm you know at home watching games on you know television, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: hearing all the talk, all the chit chatter. Really just
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  Speaker 2: you know, just geting my mindset. I've been I've been
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  Speaker 2: preparing for so long. He's the whole thirteen months I've
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  Speaker 2: been preparing for this moment, and uh here we are.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. Uh Man, Jordan was great.
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  Speaker 2: Man, he was just you know, it was almost like
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  Speaker 2: having another teammate out there just uh prepping and you know,
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  Speaker 2: uh going through the same type of deal as far
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  Speaker 2: as the injury, and obviously you know he towards ACL
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  Speaker 2: and I tore my quad two different injuries. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: we were just feeding off each other energy wise. When
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  Speaker 2: he was down, I was picking him up. When I
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  Speaker 2: was down, he was picking me up. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we got through it together. Just to see him
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  Speaker 2: back out there, Uh, it's a phenomenal thing. And I
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  Speaker 2: know he he's worked his tail off to get back
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  Speaker 2: out there and to see him making plays, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's it's not new, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: He was preparing for it.
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  Speaker 2: That the challenges that was different this time around.
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  Speaker 1: For Yeah, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you tell your quad, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you get a lot of you know, built up scar
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  Speaker 2: tissue into your knee. So I was in a straight
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  Speaker 2: cast for probably about twenty plus weeks. I couldn't shit
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  Speaker 2: by myself. I couldn't do anything by myself. I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: be independent, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know what I mean. Uh couldn't get out the bed,
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  Speaker 1: couldn't shower by myself. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, you talk about being up here and
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  Speaker 2: then just coming down, uh, being in a wheelchair.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a different ball game.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So mentally, I'm a lot stronger uh than when
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  Speaker 2: I was, uh you know last season before I hurt myself.
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  Speaker 2: But you know this injury, you know you talk about
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  Speaker 2: scar tissue and breaking up. You know that type of
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  Speaker 2: piece and that type of uh you know that that
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  Speaker 2: magnitude is. It's it's different.
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  Speaker 1: Man. I I got I took videos.
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  Speaker 2: On my phone just to see how painful and what
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  Speaker 2: I was going through. It's something I'll never forget. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: twenty plus weeks.
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  Speaker 1: What what was?
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  Speaker 2: What was it like? Sh exciting? Just you know, opportunity
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  Speaker 2: of a lifetime. Man, I don't take it for granted.
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  Speaker 2: I don't take days for granted. You know, this injury,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't just teach me a more about the game
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  Speaker 2: of football, taught me a lot about life, Uh, what.
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  Speaker 1: My purpose is and just how I go about my business.
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  Speaker 2: Why. You just knew it was the right opportunity. I
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  Speaker 2: just knew that. You know, I was gonna miss training camp.
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  Speaker 2: You know training camp is three weeks, so I knew
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  Speaker 2: that missing that I wasn't gonna get the repetition and
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna be in shape, so I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: give myself three weeks uh after that, just to get
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  Speaker 2: in shape and get some reps and continue to you know,
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  Speaker 2: battle and compete. And obviously I knew Week four was
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a special moment. Uh, just being back in
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  Speaker 2: Met life special Nah nah nah nah, not really.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously my pops played there, Ben a fan my whole life,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just growing up.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: But no, it's just another game, man, Uh, because it's
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  Speaker 2: it's the next one. Obviously it's a it's a it's
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  Speaker 2: a huge opportunity. It is on Monday night. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: the the ultimate goal is is to go out there
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  Speaker 2: and you know, compete and get after it. How do
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  Speaker 2: you feel.
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  Speaker 1: Like, what's you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: I think the sky is a limit, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we just continue to get better, continue to you know,
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  Speaker 2: switch up looks, uh, feed off one another. Energy is contagious,
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  Speaker 2: and go out there and just have fun.
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  Speaker 1: Of what your potentially last year anticipating is gonna be similar.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: That was like.
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  Speaker 1: Together, yup, phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, It's crazy that I'm saying that there they're the
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  Speaker 2: young guys. You know, the time has flew. Uh so
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  Speaker 2: me being one of the older guys in the room. Uh, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: just seeing you know how much they love the game,
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  Speaker 2: how special they are ball players. Uh can make a
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  Speaker 2: lot of players in the back end. And as you
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  Speaker 2: see Spoon, he brings that energy. So he's a different
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  Speaker 2: ball game, different beast reeks gonna do the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we have two shut down corners on both sides,
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  Speaker 2: and just looking forward to the challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Really, it's true.
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  Speaker 2: He's a very smart player, uh for where he is
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  Speaker 2: as a rookie right now, one of them the smartest
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  Speaker 2: rookies I've been around. Bran been around excuse me. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he knows the game of football. He play he plays
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  Speaker 2: it at a certain speed and he's gonna let you
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  Speaker 2: know about it when he does make those plays. The
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  Speaker 2: moment you do everything physically, Uh yeah, I mean obviously
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  Speaker 2: just coming back just the process of you know, starting
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  Speaker 2: to run.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I remember when.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's saying that I I they don't know, you know
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  Speaker 2: where I am and you know uh what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 2: Uh shoot, I would say by June I was fully running.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't perfect, but I was definitely, you know, doing
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  Speaker 2: my normal routine running bleachers at my high school and
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  Speaker 2: you know, working out with JB as well, and uh
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  Speaker 2: just doing sprints.
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  Speaker 1: And working on my mechanics again.
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  Speaker 2: And because I mean I had to reach, I had
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  Speaker 2: to start over, man, you know what I mean. That's
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  Speaker 2: why I call it the rebuild. Like just this whole time,
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  Speaker 2: I had to rebuild, start from the ground up and
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  Speaker 2: work my way up. And I'm still you know, continuing
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  Speaker 2: to grow. I'm continuing to work on my rehab. And
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  Speaker 2: you know it's not gonna stop, It's just gonna can
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  Speaker 2: you so.
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  Speaker 1: Yep?
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  Speaker 2: When you saw that, I mean it was devastating man.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I mean just to go down.
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  Speaker 2: I obviously you know when I did get hurt, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't wanna get carted off. I was kind of like
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  Speaker 2: just in denial, Uh, just like why did it happen?
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  Speaker 1: How did it happen?
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  Speaker 2: Just obviously just coming of off of Blitz and I
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  Speaker 2: planned it wrong. My foot was going left, I was
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  Speaker 2: going right. At the speed I was going obviously rush
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  Speaker 2: rush ducked a little bit and it kind of I
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  Speaker 2: tooked my body a little bit and it snapped on me.
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  Speaker 2: And just getting up and knowing that it's not attached. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it was devastating, and obviously I walked off I where
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  Speaker 2: I tried to run off as best I could, but
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  Speaker 2: I knew something was wrong. When I got to the sideline,
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  Speaker 2: I see my knee cap to the right of my
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  Speaker 2: my knee, and obviously, you know, they told me the news.
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  Speaker 1: So that was hard. That was hard. That was that
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  Speaker 1: was a low moment for me.
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  Speaker 2: Manas in New York. Uh, I think it's just trial, trial, trialing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, error, man, you know, just trials and tribulations.
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  Speaker 2: It's just part of my story, something that I cannot control.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Athletes cannot control injuries a lot of times freak injuries,
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  Speaker 2: should we say, When you you know pool hammis and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that, you know that that goes down with
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  Speaker 2: hydration and whatnot. But when you're tearing you know, acls,
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  Speaker 2: you tearing the quad or whatever case may be, achilles,
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  Speaker 2: some things just happen, man. Uh, it's out of our control.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, when you just gotta control what you
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  Speaker 2: can control. Obviously it's not my go to, it's not
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  Speaker 2: it's not what I like to have on my name
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  Speaker 2: as far as injuries, but it is what it is,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, it's it's more so just the next day
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  Speaker 2: moving on.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I don't hold on to the past.
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  Speaker 2: I just move on and I look forward to the
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  Speaker 2: future still ahead for you, like not knowing how it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be, getting back into a game where you're.
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  Speaker 1: At a couple weeks of practice behind you, Like.
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  Speaker 2: Wh wh where are you thinking.
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  Speaker 1: Making plays? That's my mindset as someone who went through
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  Speaker 1: this process with seeing didn't get die.
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  Speaker 2: What he did yup, I mean amazing obviously, but his
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  Speaker 2: mindset was right throughout the process. We not only physically
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  Speaker 2: got ready, we mentally prepared, and we talked about a
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  Speaker 2: lot of hard things, and we talked about things that
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  Speaker 2: could potentially happen down the future, down the line, or
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  Speaker 2: whatever the case may be. We was just being real
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  Speaker 2: with each other man and just keeping each other up,
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  Speaker 2: making sure our focus is there. You know, anytime we
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  Speaker 2: show up, it's it's not a lazy day.
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  Speaker 1: We're working. Uh, we're here to get back.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, everybody else was going through off season programs and
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  Speaker 2: conditioning and whatnot. While we're s We're trying to work
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  Speaker 2: on our legs and you know, get it back. So
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  Speaker 2: it's been a process. But where he's at right now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm definitely happy for him. What what's a fright game
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  Speaker 2: like at the stadium? Well, uh, I only had probably
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  Speaker 2: two prime time games, uh so, and that's not a
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  Speaker 2: shot you gonna get the Jet.
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  Speaker 1: Fans mad at me? Man So, uh yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're they're exciting and obviously met Life is
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  Speaker 2: a special place, you know what I mean, It's just
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  Speaker 2: where the stars are born. I'm looking forward to going
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  Speaker 2: back out there and an and being out there. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: being on the other side is gonna be a little weird,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: Did you mom just take that?
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  Speaker 2: Why was it important for you to have to be
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  Speaker 2: part it out? I think for me, man it you
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  Speaker 2: know how I was raised through my father and my mother.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just being on the football field, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're not hurt, get up, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: And and that was always my mindset, like try to
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  Speaker 2: get off the field, try to get off the field.
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  Speaker 2: But again I was, I was in denial. It just
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  Speaker 2: happened so quick so soon. Wasn't prepared for it, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: was you know, going through my other injuries of of
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  Speaker 2: you know, the fingers and the shoulders and whatnot. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when I did tear it, it was just I had
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  Speaker 2: to figure out a way to get off the field.
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  Speaker 2: I managed to do it just based off adrenaline, but
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  Speaker 2: it was more so just denial.
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  Speaker 1: Man. I didn't wanna get on that car. I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't wanna see.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody, you know, just stopping and clapping for me as
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  Speaker 2: I go off, And I didn't want that. I just
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  Speaker 2: wanted the game to continue. And you know, obviously I
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  Speaker 2: knew what time it was as far as myself and
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: you know, going back into the locker room, that would
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  Speaker 2: seeing my family, that's where you know.
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  Speaker 1: It was a tough time. Absolutely, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I would say, you know, when my p you know,
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  Speaker 2: when my family came down and obviously getting the news,
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  Speaker 2: Pete came in there and everybody came in and had time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm balling, and you know, it was tough.
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  Speaker 2: It was tough, it it it was uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't I thought about retiring. I thought about a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things, you know what I mean, It's just
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  Speaker 2: gonna be it for me.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know, but.
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  Speaker 2: I knew eventually after I got that MRI, I told
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  Speaker 2: myself I'm gonna be back, and I didn't know when
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  Speaker 2: or how, but I was gonna figure it out. And
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  Speaker 2: I knew that if I kept my faith and I
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  Speaker 2: kept the ones around me that really love and support.
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  Speaker 1: Me, I knew I could make it out what was returned.
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  Speaker 2: Just been through so much, man, just a lot going
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  Speaker 2: on as far as you know, mentally, you know, going
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  Speaker 2: through these injuries, not understanding why these things are happening
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  Speaker 2: to me, What am I doing wrong that it's causing me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whatever the case may be. I I was
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  Speaker 2: having all types of thoughts running through my mind. But
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  Speaker 2: at the time when I did tell my knee, that
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  Speaker 2: was definitely something that I was I was considering.
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  Speaker 1: I was considering everything. At the moment. I was in
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  Speaker 1: a dark place.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know anything suicidal, uh, but definitely in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of dark times as far
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  Speaker 2: as you know, just you know, uh, getting away from
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  Speaker 2: the game of football, getting away from people.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know at the time.
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  Speaker 2: You know, wasn't really talking to many people, wasn't answering
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  Speaker 2: my phone, you know. So you go through you know,
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  Speaker 2: real life situations in this game of football, uh, football teachers,
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  Speaker 2: you life, and you know, everybody's human. Le le, Let's
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  Speaker 2: make that clear. Everybody is human, and everybody makes mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, obviously adversely hit me, hit me real quick,
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  Speaker 2: and hit me soon. And I've learned to attack it.
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  Speaker 2: I've learned to embrace it and just you know, take
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  Speaker 2: my take my losses under the chin an an and
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  Speaker 2: and rise up.
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  Speaker 1: To the next occasion.
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  Speaker 2: All that that play where.
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  Speaker 1: You got hurt, I think it was the one player
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  Speaker 1: you got last year. How excited are you about what? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm super excited.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, the sky's the limit.
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  Speaker 2: We have a lot of talented guys on this team,
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  Speaker 2: definitely on the defense that can make a lot of plays.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We have a lot of speed, a lot of power,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of swagger, a lot of juice. So like
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  Speaker 2: I said, I'm I'm I'm looking forward to It's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be really special. I mean for me, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: I I'm never out to try to prove anybody wrong,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, all all the you know, the articles
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  Speaker 2: and whatnot and what people say.
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  Speaker 1: I I really have no time for it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm uh, I'm really just focused on what the task
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  Speaker 2: is at hand. Our goal as a team is to
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  Speaker 2: get to the super Bowl and win it. That's that's
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  Speaker 2: been the goal since I've been here, right, So for me,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not out.
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  Speaker 1: To prove anybody wrong. I'm just more so to prove
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  Speaker 1: myself right. What you what's that first place? It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like for me when I come back?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Hm, you know, man, I haven't hit anybody in
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  Speaker 2: a long time, so I'm looking forward to it. Man,
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  Speaker 2: I can I can tell you that I I I
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  Speaker 2: won't take a play for granted. I won't take a
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  Speaker 2: moment or a second for granted. Just to be able to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, fly on a plane with my teammates.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be big for me just to be able
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  Speaker 1: to come up here and speak.
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  Speaker 2: It's big for me. Just to be able to sit
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  Speaker 2: down in the seats when Pete up here in team
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  Speaker 2: meetings is big for me. I wasn't able to sit
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  Speaker 2: down in a seat for twenty plus weeks. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a real humbling experience that I went through. My
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  Speaker 2: mindset is a lot sharper. The the details of what.
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  Speaker 1: I've went through.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody could honestly understand unless you've been through it. It's
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  Speaker 2: definitely something that I don't wish on anybody, but I
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  Speaker 2: made it out and I'm just looking forward to the
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  Speaker 2: journey and I'm looking forward to the season.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to be back. Appreciate you