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  Speaker 1: So you're coming those past in face?
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  Speaker 2: Does any pressure coming to get the space? You don't
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  Speaker 2: trust the process, you know, that's about it.
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  Speaker 3: You know pressure, you know, pressure is all, that's all
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  Speaker 3: what you put on it. You know I got pressure
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  Speaker 3: with my sure that I have to you know, set along.
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  Speaker 2: But so I'm ready to work and you glad to
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  Speaker 2: be back, You glad to be out to the younger
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  Speaker 2: guys and you know, giving my little ship.
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  Speaker 3: Just this is how we works because you know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying, Well, this an hour.
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  Speaker 2: If you wanna be while I'm at now we work
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  Speaker 2: at all. You don't want of pressure? Yeah, your love,
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  Speaker 2: you get the pap out. I don't need to pick it,
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  Speaker 2: no slack. I gotta y'all come with me, or y'all
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  Speaker 2: get past me. I want everybody to be extter to me.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: But like you know, if you don't know how to
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  Speaker 3: do it or if you figure out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is how I this is my process, This
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  Speaker 2: is how I go throughout, you know, trying to become
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  Speaker 2: a better player.
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  Speaker 3: And it worked.
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  Speaker 2: So if this is what you want or if that's
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  Speaker 2: what you want, come on. And if you know, if
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  Speaker 2: those guys want to be evolved and you don't want
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  Speaker 2: to take that next step.
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  Speaker 3: I'll show you the way I do it and we
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  Speaker 3: can go from there.
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  Speaker 1: I know you haven't had much time with the coach Nielsen.
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  Speaker 3: As your as your teammates have had.
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  Speaker 1: What have you been hearing from them on top of
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  Speaker 1: what you learned in your short time you were here before?
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  Speaker 1: About how about his approach to running a defense? How
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  Speaker 1: is it different from what you saw?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what I know from my experience is everybody's
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  Speaker 2: going to have their own experiences dealing with them. You
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  Speaker 2: know from from mine, man, it's you know, he loves ball.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about ball, and he wants me to pass us.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you. Obviously, he's brought a lot
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  Speaker 1: of his own people in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, great guys, great coaches, guys that play coaches or
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  Speaker 3: he coached with.
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  Speaker 1: How much of a a difference do you think, if
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  Speaker 1: at all, that can make to making helping a defense
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  Speaker 1: reach its potential?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean chemistry is everything. So if you had
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  Speaker 2: years together or if you know the guy, it's just
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  Speaker 2: like teammates. You know, the better we know each other,
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  Speaker 2: the more chemistry you can have, more we can push
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  Speaker 2: each other you know, just like coaches.
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  Speaker 3: I would I don't know, but I would assume it
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  Speaker 3: would be the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, It's it's more of a you know, everybody
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  Speaker 2: knows their role and everybody expects to do that role
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  Speaker 2: to that level.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously coach Ryan is the top dog, and then you
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  Speaker 2: have you know, the coaches under it that also has
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  Speaker 2: their roles, has their experience with him, knows how to
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  Speaker 2: deal with and knows how to talk to him, knows
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  Speaker 2: how to if you're not right, this is the way
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  Speaker 2: this is, you know what I'm saying, and come up
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  Speaker 2: to him as a man and man and I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what they do, but I will assume that's how
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  Speaker 2: it goes. And you know, I expect that to happen.
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  Speaker 2: I think communication so far has been you know great.
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  Speaker 2: I see the guys they're working you know, technique. Technique
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  Speaker 2: is like the main thing that they focus on here
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  Speaker 2: and uh, you know everything else you just play ball,
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  Speaker 2: like when we play snaps. You gotta play ball at
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  Speaker 2: that point. So you know, I'm I'm excited to be
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  Speaker 2: back to It was a good first day. Get to
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  Speaker 2: work with some of the young guys, you know, let
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  Speaker 2: them see you know, this is this.
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  Speaker 3: Is this is everybody is the real deal.
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  Speaker 2: But this is the real deal here And if you
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  Speaker 2: want to get to hear it, come on.
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  Speaker 3: You've talked a lot about legacy and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a big deal in your family s out
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  Speaker 1: with your sisters?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, man.
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  Speaker 2: My whole goal as an athlete is to beat my sister.
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  Speaker 2: Like all the goals, the football achievements is very cool,
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  Speaker 2: and I love going home and I love, you know,
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  Speaker 2: looking at the trophies and seeing the work that I
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  Speaker 2: put in, But that doesn't mean anything until I beat
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  Speaker 2: my sister. So when I say legacy, it's deeper than
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  Speaker 2: what I do out here.
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  Speaker 3: It's my sisters.
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  Speaker 2: You know, come from a competitive family, and my family
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  Speaker 2: is everything, like my legacy is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, my family.
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  Speaker 2: I grew up families of Haines Allen's, and it's like
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  Speaker 2: I grew up under that that status, and so for me,
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  Speaker 2: it was, you know, I had to live up to
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  Speaker 2: the expectations. My sisters was McDonald all Americans. My uncle
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  Speaker 2: was in the College Basketball Hall of Fame. I was
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  Speaker 2: young buck, a little Duncan you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: Little Haines. You know that's what I was known as.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, all right, my sister gets drafted.
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  Speaker 2: My sister goes to Louisville, one of my sisters, my Yasha,
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  Speaker 2: she's in the WNBA obviously, but she goes to she
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  Speaker 2: goes into the league. What's my step I have to go?
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  Speaker 2: You know, she goes Louisville. I'll go to Kentucky. She
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  Speaker 2: gets drafted. I remember that night. It was like, I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I had to get draft to hire her. Got dropped
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  Speaker 2: high in her cool Now I'm up on. And then
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  Speaker 2: then she wins a championship. I'm like, well, shit, I
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  Speaker 2: gotta win the championship in the MVP, you know, once
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  Speaker 2: we get to the super Bowl in the MVP. So
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  Speaker 2: like you know, so for me, man, that is as
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  Speaker 2: everything my uncle's in, Like I said, he's in the
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame, you know, you know, I want to
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  Speaker 2: be here one day as well. But right now, I
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  Speaker 2: gotta I gotta catch my sister. No, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: really me. I think I'm the problem. But it fused me.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's that one of those deep desires that I really
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  Speaker 2: want to achieve.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It was again going back to high school, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like I went to Abbeville High School, which is in Alabama. No,
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  Speaker 2: all my family graduated from uncle High School, so it
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  Speaker 2: was like for me in my senior coming, I have
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  Speaker 2: to graduate because I go to my grandfather's house.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody has their high.
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  Speaker 2: School flags up, you know, graduated this uncle's aunts, sister, brother, mom,
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  Speaker 2: not my dad, but my mom. And then so for me,
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  Speaker 2: as I'm looking there every day, I'm like, I can't
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  Speaker 2: be the odd one out, so I had to go back,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just something that drives me. When is the
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  Speaker 3: last time you and used to want to?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you some point.
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  Speaker 2: The last time I can remember it was a two
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  Speaker 2: on two is me and my brother versus heard excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: one of my older sisters and we beat them in
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  Speaker 2: the park.
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  Speaker 3: My mom was right there.
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  Speaker 2: My mom would get vouch for me, so we beat
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  Speaker 2: them there at one on one. I'm not messing with
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  Speaker 2: her now. Last year I went to a family night
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  Speaker 2: in DC. Took my kids with them. Excuse me, I
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  Speaker 2: took my kids and I'm just shooting around and like
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  Speaker 2: it just it. Text me about ten fifteen shots to
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  Speaker 2: make my first one. And then now I'm starting to
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  Speaker 2: feel at her. She she's just grabbing it just anywhere
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  Speaker 2: on the court, making everything. So for me, it was
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  Speaker 2: like basketball, she got it. She tried out for football.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't let her. I couldn't let her do that
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  Speaker 2: to me either. But but yeah, now I'm not playing
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  Speaker 2: my sister one because she will beat me.
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  Speaker 3: Clear, you're still trying to grow a lot. But after
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  Speaker 3: having a franchise here, what's something you've kind of changed
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  Speaker 3: or regusted or do you have a mantra to treat
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  Speaker 3: building off of the franchise, anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: I think that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean for me this year, man, it's it's very personal.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Last year, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Was I'm glad I figured out what works for me,
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  Speaker 2: And so for me it's okay. You know, I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: it was at the time where I needed to figure
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  Speaker 2: it out, you know, to benefit off of it. But
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  Speaker 2: now for me, it's like you did it because of that. No,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm gonna show you why I found out
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  Speaker 2: what works for me. I'm gonna double up get better
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  Speaker 2: from that and improve mentally, physically and emotionally, and now
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  Speaker 2: I can grow from there. So for right now, man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm more mentally strong at this point in my at
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  Speaker 2: this point of the season that you know, it's just.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna keep building from here.
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  Speaker 2: I get to be with the guys, I get to
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  Speaker 2: I get to tell them how I'm feeling, tell them
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  Speaker 2: where I've been, tell them where I'm going, and really
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  Speaker 2: encourage that. One of my goals is, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna win defensivelt of Year, you know, and for.
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  Speaker 3: Me, I have to be tier one.
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  Speaker 2: I have to be above tier one because there's guys
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  Speaker 2: already solidified themselves that they're looking at. So for me,
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  Speaker 2: I have to, Okay, this is what I want, bet.
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  Speaker 2: But then I'm talking to Tyson, it's the same way
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking to Devin.
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  Speaker 3: What do you want to do?
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  Speaker 2: I want to win defensive They heear, Well, you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to beat me, so you're gonna have to work,
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  Speaker 2: and so like it's that So now I know, like
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  Speaker 2: this is what you want to do, I'm gonna show you.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna show me if you slacking. Oh then you
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  Speaker 2: say you want people.
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  Speaker 3: We don't. People don't.
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  Speaker 2: People defferent players of years don't do that. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. They don't slack. So that's the accountability
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  Speaker 2: we can.
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  Speaker 3: Hold in ourselves. It is to see more guys buying
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  Speaker 3: to that bigger, bigger aspect, shoot to the top because
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  Speaker 3: you don't want to.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not I didn't play that shuar to be a
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  Speaker 2: pro bowler. I'm pissed about that, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: So that's something another fuel that I.
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  Speaker 3: Can really bank on.
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  Speaker 2: So, man, I got a lot of I got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuff in my bag that I can carry
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  Speaker 2: on and some a lot of things that fuel me
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  Speaker 2: going into this year. I'm excited about this year. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's gonna be a great year. We got a
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  Speaker 2: great team. I'm glad like the vet's not here. So
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  Speaker 2: the young guys know, oh dang, they was that good
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  Speaker 2: and I wasn't here. So now when I add that
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  Speaker 2: extra piece, Now, okay, we're about to be We're about
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  Speaker 2: to be humming and so and I'm gonna push everybody
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  Speaker 2: and I want everybody to push me. And can't wait
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  Speaker 2: to work with Tray. I gotta get get off with
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  Speaker 2: every day with Tray like that's mandatory. I'm already talking
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  Speaker 2: crap to thes now that you know, I'm sorry, y'all
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  Speaker 2: can't beat me, you know, y'all gotta work on that.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm also pushing him, like, come out here early,
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  Speaker 2: let's get some working. That's it ill. I didn't say
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  Speaker 2: one word to him, but come on, we're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: some We're gonna get some pre work. We already you know,
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  Speaker 2: change the schedule up for me a little bit. So
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  Speaker 2: for me, it's like, how can I get that extra work?
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  Speaker 2: If I'm gonna do it, y'all doing it with me.
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  Speaker 3: And that's how you that's how you get better. What's
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  Speaker 3: it been like getting another Eric? Great dude? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: All the character rixis all the characteristics that you want
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  Speaker 2: in a in a in a player, as a teammate,
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  Speaker 2: as a friend, as a leader.
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  Speaker 3: He has all of it.
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  Speaker 2: And first of all, he has the the eye, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the structure, so it's like, oh, he's a guy. And
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  Speaker 2: then when you have the conversation with him, he has
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  Speaker 2: the intellect. And then when you see the film, he
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  Speaker 2: has the film. So he has everything that you really
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  Speaker 2: want to need in a in a in a defensive tackle,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to play against him. Obviously, he played at
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  Speaker 2: a high level for so long out there in San France.
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  Speaker 2: He played with Nick, you know, so he's played with
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  Speaker 2: guys that played at a very high level.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: For me, I want him to show you know, I
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  Speaker 2: want to show him that I ain't no Nick, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm Josh and I'm and it's a bad boy. It's
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  Speaker 2: a bad boy right here. And I played the game
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  Speaker 2: my way, you know what I'm saying. And I want
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  Speaker 2: him to see that. And I wanted to know that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm when you get to the Super when
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: you get to Super Bowl, we're gonna win it.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: That was my goal for me and for him, like
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  Speaker 2: when we get there, we're going all the way, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So, and I told Hi'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: be the MVP of it too, so you know, so
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to get there.