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O-Zone Podcast: Sidney Jones IV · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: The Welcome to the Ozone podcast presented by by Star Credit,
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Speaker 1: featuring Jaguar senior writer John Osher and executive producer Dave
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Speaker 1: de Candice. All Right, Welcome into this week's Ozone podcast
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Speaker 1: presented by Vistar and this week's guests. I think Jaguars
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Speaker 1: fans are gonna like I'm excited about it. He hasn't
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Speaker 1: to me an unbelievable story. It's a story of a
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Speaker 1: guy who was on his way to being an absolute
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Speaker 1: lockdown top fifteen pick, with his future really ahead of him,
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Speaker 1: and sustains a brutal injury at the worst possible time.
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Speaker 1: We'll share more about that during the podcast, but the
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Speaker 1: astute Jaguar fan may know that I'm talking about new
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Speaker 1: Jaguars cornerback Sidney Jones, one of the quote surprise players
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Speaker 1: on the team. Will find out in a minute. He's
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Speaker 1: surprised himself. I would guests, not but Sydney first of all,
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Speaker 1: overnight success story, but not overnight right, Uh, def definitely
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Speaker 1: not overnight. But thank you for having me. Um. It's
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Speaker 1: been a it's been a long journey, Um, you know,
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Speaker 1: ups and downs in the in this business. For me. Um.
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Speaker 1: Start off with Bhilly Um obviously didn't work over there.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm here ready to make the most of this opportunity.
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Speaker 1: And UM, over there, it was a it was a
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Speaker 1: long journey, but I came in. I worked. I worked
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Speaker 1: so hard in the off season. UM had big goals,
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Speaker 1: big aspirations, and obviously it didn't it didn't work out there,
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Speaker 1: But those goals aspirations never changed for me. So coming
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Speaker 1: here having not having another opportunity, you know, comprove myself
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Speaker 1: and you know, make make something happen is UM has
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Speaker 1: been good. You know. Uh, I've never lost faith to myself.
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Speaker 1: I always blew to myself and I'm just ready to
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Speaker 1: work and continue to work. I want to get into
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Speaker 1: the details of your story and in a minute, I
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Speaker 1: know you've shared that story a lot, but what is
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Speaker 1: this season? The last month? What does it mean to you?
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Speaker 1: And and I will get into some of the details
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Speaker 1: of how hard you've worked to get here, But what
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Speaker 1: does this month mean to you? How much has it
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Speaker 1: maybe changed you or given confidence? Where yet in that regard? Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's it's I think it's been huge for me, you know, UM,
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Speaker 1: coming from coming from the situation I was in and
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Speaker 1: not having really too much consistency and success, whether that
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Speaker 1: was my play on the field or injury wise, or
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Speaker 1: whatever the case might be. It's it's been it's been
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Speaker 1: really nice to kind of be back to that normal
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Speaker 1: space of knowing, you know, having some success, having some
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Speaker 1: you know, building and stuff to build on, kind of
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Speaker 1: you know, playing football like like it was like we're
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Speaker 1: children again, like because it is a kid's game. Within
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Speaker 1: we started playing, so I was six years old, and
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Speaker 1: it kind of feels like the same, the same vibe
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Speaker 1: and teammates here, you know, we rather around each other.
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Speaker 1: We all have good energy and especially last game, that
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Speaker 1: was the funniest game I've probably been a part of
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Speaker 1: us since I've been in the NFL, and I know
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of other guys the same way. It
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Speaker 1: was just different energy. So having that is is huge.
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Speaker 1: Just playing football and loving loving what you do and
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Speaker 1: loving the energy on the field with with your brothers
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Speaker 1: is something really special. So um, just kind of it's
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Speaker 1: been amazing to really build off this this whole month,
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Speaker 1: whether that's you know, playing style or where I've been playing.
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Speaker 1: You know, it has been perfect on my end, but
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Speaker 1: it's it's progression. I'm playing. I'm in there. I'm I'm
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Speaker 1: seeing what I can do better I can I'm seeing
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Speaker 1: you know, corrections, and I can take that week by
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Speaker 1: week by week and build that progression. That's something I
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Speaker 1: create as a player. UM, as well as you know
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Speaker 1: I've dealt with I've been dealing with some injuries here,
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Speaker 1: but it's been also another you know, confidence boosts within
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Speaker 1: myself that I'm able to push through that those type
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Speaker 1: of injuries, you know, So it's been really good for me.
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Speaker 1: And not to bring up a horrible memory. But the
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Speaker 1: fans who don't know, I can't even imagine the timing
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Speaker 1: of this. For you. You're on your way to being
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Speaker 1: a top fifteen draft pick probably and you not only
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Speaker 1: get injured on your pro day, but you tear your achilles, which,
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Speaker 1: for fans who don't know, that might be worse than
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Speaker 1: an a c L. That might be the ultimate injury
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Speaker 1: for a player at your position. If you don't mind,
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Speaker 1: just kind of take me through the emotions of that
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Speaker 1: moment and how you sort of even get past that. Initially, Uh,
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Speaker 1: I think it was it was really tough, UM, just
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Speaker 1: kind of having some direction of you know, where you're
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Speaker 1: gonna go in the draft to having so much uncertainty
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Speaker 1: draft wise, but I knew, you know, I was determined
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Speaker 1: to come back and and get back to playing football,
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Speaker 1: but that that was the only thing that kind of
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Speaker 1: threw me off a little bit, and coming back from
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Speaker 1: the injury was probably even harder. Um I was. I
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Speaker 1: was positive throughout the whole thing, but kind of didn't.
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize that after effect it would have. Um,
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Speaker 1: I think it has some type of because that was
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Speaker 1: my first injury pretty much my whole football career. I
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Speaker 1: never had any surgery before that one, and I had
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Speaker 1: that one, and then it felt like a ripple effect
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Speaker 1: of other things came came into effects, so that I
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Speaker 1: think the after effect of that was more, you know,
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Speaker 1: more hurtful, you know, But that that injury itself is
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Speaker 1: it's pretty it's a pretty good one. Uh Yeah. The
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Speaker 1: phrasing ins me there because, like I said, it's it's
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Speaker 1: about is difficult for a player plays your position because
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Speaker 1: it's all quick twitch. And so he said, you never
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Speaker 1: really had any adversity before this. It had been pretty
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Speaker 1: much a straight shot. And I guess you were a
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Speaker 1: guy who rightfully assumed you were going to be in
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Speaker 1: the NFL and then you sort of hit this. What
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Speaker 1: was the key as you came back and just sort
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Speaker 1: of kept thrick? How did you deal with it once
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Speaker 1: you got to Philly and once you sort of had
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Speaker 1: to get past this injury? What kept you going? I
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Speaker 1: guess what I'm asking, Oh, what kind of going? Is
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Speaker 1: just football? Football itself? Knowing knowing this, it's the game
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Speaker 1: I love my whole my whole life, and the adversity within.
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Speaker 1: It's tough, but you gotta keep pushing. Um. I still
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Speaker 1: had bigger goals within myself. I had something to prove
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Speaker 1: within myself. I wanted to get back to play at
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Speaker 1: a high level, um as I already was wanting to
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Speaker 1: buy leading early and coming to the NFL, So those
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Speaker 1: those goals never changed. I wanted to, you know, keep
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Speaker 1: proving myself, keep proving myself to become the best player
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Speaker 1: that I can be. And I'm on that path right now.
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Speaker 1: How do you not lose confidence during that? Because I
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Speaker 1: know as an athlete, when you don't have what you
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Speaker 1: had before war, which is that gift for a while,
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Speaker 1: we haven't recovered from it, how do you not lose confidence?
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Speaker 1: And how do you sort of believe it's eventually going
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Speaker 1: to get to the point where you're at now. It's
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Speaker 1: very very tough question. Probably I don't know exactly when,
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Speaker 1: but I probably lost confidence at at some point, Like
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Speaker 1: being completely honest, UM, I don't think I've ever said
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Speaker 1: that out loud, but it's I'm in a different place,
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Speaker 1: a different mindset and mature reflecting UM kind of on
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Speaker 1: the past, and UH, probably lost lost some confidence within
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Speaker 1: I don't know what year, I don't know, but at
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Speaker 1: some point it was just kind of like just felt
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Speaker 1: over overwhelmed with uncertainty of the future of my body,
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Speaker 1: of pretty much everything in my life. But it was
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Speaker 1: a good learning experience knowing that I haven't been through
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Speaker 1: any diversity in my life really and this one had
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Speaker 1: just had so happened to be within my career. So UM,
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Speaker 1: I always going back to what you said, just staying faithful,
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Speaker 1: staying faithful, knowing, you know, knowing the place I still
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Speaker 1: want to get to, having a support system around me,
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Speaker 1: UM to keep me uplifted, UM, for my for my faith,
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Speaker 1: my faith UM really got me through it. It was
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that helped me pull through, UM,
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Speaker 1: but it was it was it was a journey for sure,
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Speaker 1: So you get to Jacksonville, were you a percent when
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Speaker 1: you I mean, did you feel like you were already
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Speaker 1: ready to make this jump coming into this season this
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Speaker 1: past year? So I told you all, worked worked my
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Speaker 1: butt office all season. Um, I had a big goals.
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Speaker 1: I had my goals to go to Pro Bowl and
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Speaker 1: all that. But I got got to Philly, Um and
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Speaker 1: I had hamstring that put me. It was a camp
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Speaker 1: put me out for a week and a half. So
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Speaker 1: I think camp was probably short this year, and there
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Speaker 1: was no preseason already, so Dirt like already had injury
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Speaker 1: history with them, and um, I guess that week and
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Speaker 1: a half, you know, other guys were getting their opportunity
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Speaker 1: and they they got that. So the way it worked
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Speaker 1: out is, you know they released me, but that was
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Speaker 1: that little hamstring put me out for a week was
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Speaker 1: nothing in my brain, you know what I'm saying. Like,
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Speaker 1: so compared to everything else, a week and a half
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Speaker 1: is not that much. So in my brain, I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I'm good. Like whatever happens after after Philly they released me,
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Speaker 1: I'll just go somewhere else fresh, start, change of scenery,
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Speaker 1: and you know, make the most of my opportunity and
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Speaker 1: somebody's gonna get a heck of a ball player because
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Speaker 1: I know my goals. My goal still never changed. And
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Speaker 1: so you're in an odd situation. We're even getting cut.
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Speaker 1: You didn't lose confidence because you knew you were back
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Speaker 1: to being you. Yeah, and it was a fresh start
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Speaker 1: and knowing everything I've been through right at you. So
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Speaker 1: you get your chance against Houston this year, you obviously
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Speaker 1: know before that game or you feel like playing times
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Speaker 1: about to come, you feel like you're about to get
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Speaker 1: that opportunity. Any nerves at that point or are you
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Speaker 1: that confidence you said, Hey, I know I'm back physically,
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Speaker 1: I know I can do this, and it's just pure
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Speaker 1: excitement or both probably, So I'll tell you a story.
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Speaker 1: So I'll just give you a rundown of every cheer.
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Speaker 1: It was I think maybe Cincinnati week or maybe a
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Speaker 1: week before, and I was like, because I was just sitting,
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Speaker 1: I was on special scenes. I was like, hey, coach Kat,
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Speaker 1: get a package to each other. Tack is kind of
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Speaker 1: jumping with him. He's like, yeah, uh, it's not it's
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Speaker 1: not up to me. I'll see what I can do.
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Speaker 1: I'll see that. So we're getting Cincinnati game and then
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Speaker 1: a couple of players go down, and then I played
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Speaker 1: like two snaps. I don't know how many, but I
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Speaker 1: assume in my brain. The next week, I was gonna
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Speaker 1: be getting a lot more playing time being up therese injuries,
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Speaker 1: and then I was coming. We had lost that game.
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Speaker 1: I was coming. I was running off into a locker
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Speaker 1: room talking to somebody. I was, I'm I'm gonna catch
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Speaker 1: two picks next week, watch this, And then I was
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Speaker 1: like what I'm speaking out there. I know I'm about
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Speaker 1: to play more something. I'm catching two picks. I need that.
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Speaker 1: So that was my mindset the whole week I was playing.
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Speaker 1: I was playing the game in my head. The whole week.
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Speaker 1: I'm matching myself catching two picks, just being being a
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Speaker 1: great players, imagine it, just because that's expect no less
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Speaker 1: for myself. So um getting the game. I got my
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Speaker 1: hands on the first one. I almost caught that one.
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Speaker 1: That would have been too, that have been too but
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Speaker 1: one you know one coming out party, just it's good,
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Speaker 1: um but just end up having a really good game
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Speaker 1: and good good starter game. You um, so I was.
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Speaker 1: I was really happy about that one, and then pretty
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Speaker 1: much from there, just carrying that same mindset and you know,
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Speaker 1: expecting nothing less to myself. I gotta think right now,
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Speaker 1: this is a feeling. I mean, and we'll talk about
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Speaker 1: the team in a moment, and I'm not trying to
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Speaker 1: imply that it's cool to be one and eight, but personally,
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Speaker 1: for you, it has to be just a tremendous feeling too,
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Speaker 1: after so long to be back, to have the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to be there, you've got to sort of feel like
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Speaker 1: at this point, almost like a rookie again. Now, yes,
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Speaker 1: it's That's how I've looked at it, honestly, because I've
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Speaker 1: never had anything to build off of, and I've never
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Speaker 1: had Stephanie Stones, and I feel like there's a young
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Speaker 1: group around around here, and I feel even though I'm
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm very experienced of you know, being
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Speaker 1: in the league for three years and having grateful black Q,
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Speaker 1: I feel still as a young guy being that I'm
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Speaker 1: in there and I'm I'm messing things up that I
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Speaker 1: know that I can fix, and it's like, that's the experience.
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Speaker 1: That's that's what I'm looking for. I know, as much
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Speaker 1: as I made plays, I've you know, ultimately kind of
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Speaker 1: giving up some things. But no one, Okay, that's that's
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Speaker 1: that's the NFL that they get paid too. But knowing
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Speaker 1: where I can be better, I feel like I can
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Speaker 1: be so much better than I than I am right now.
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Speaker 1: So that's that's one of my city is right now always,
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Speaker 1: you know, getting better, getting better. You said something that
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Speaker 1: was interesting. You feel like there's an energy about this
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Speaker 1: team right now, you know, and that sounds I had
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Speaker 1: to say at one and eight. But you mentioned at
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Speaker 1: the top there was an enthusiasm last week. Tell me
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Speaker 1: about that a little bit. How does that, Why is
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Speaker 1: there an energy and what are you guys feeling right now?
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Speaker 1: I don't I wouldn't say we necessarily have the same
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Speaker 1: energy any other any other game. Maybe maybe we had it,
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Speaker 1: uh we won during the court I was. I was
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Speaker 1: still on practice squad, so I wouldn't know. But in
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Speaker 1: terms of on the field and having fun, like I
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Speaker 1: wasn't the only one who felt it. Everybody, like I
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Speaker 1: know a whole bunch of other guys who said that
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Speaker 1: I was like, I was a fun game. They're like,
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Speaker 1: remember this feeling to remember how much fun we were having,
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Speaker 1: Remember remember this and all that stuff. So I don't.
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Speaker 1: It was just it was just a different energy that
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Speaker 1: I can't explain. I don't know if I don't know
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Speaker 1: what we did different, but we had to keep that
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Speaker 1: same energy because that's what makes it the game fun
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Speaker 1: and us play better. Now, you tell me you're turning
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Speaker 1: into a golfer. Where are you adding that? Can you
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Speaker 1: play yet? Tell me about Sidney Jones the golfer? Barely?
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you as much as I can. But I like,
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Speaker 1: I love top golf and I go and I don't
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Speaker 1: have any I don't have any technique. I don't have
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Speaker 1: any talent with that. I just know I can smack
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Speaker 1: the ball and I I love just hit the ball
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Speaker 1: as far as possible. Um. But I am going to
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Speaker 1: take golf and lessons um after the season. When when
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Speaker 1: that comes in, Jackson goes the place to do it.
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Speaker 1: It's avable golfing area for sure. And then I'm told
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Speaker 1: your fiance is a chef. Is that correct? Yes? Is
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Speaker 1: this something where you could take advantage of that in
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Speaker 1: terms of diet or is it a bad thing? Are
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Speaker 1: you eating too much? Oh? No, I'm a I'm a
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Speaker 1: slim guy, so I love I need the calories. But
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Speaker 1: she cooks amazing food. She's not a certified professional but
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Speaker 1: she's just she's from the South and she's just a
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Speaker 1: really good home home cook and she can bake, she
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Speaker 1: can cook, she can do pretty much anything, and the
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Speaker 1: food is like amazing. Like we always we always joking
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Speaker 1: and say like because we go to restaurants, we try
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Speaker 1: different things out and we're always joking like that you
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Speaker 1: can have your own restaurant if from one to one
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Speaker 1: if like like this is not it's not better than
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Speaker 1: we make at home. So a lot of times we'd
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Speaker 1: rather eat at home and go and go to somebody
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Speaker 1: else's restaurant and don't knocks on anybody else. But yeah, okay.
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Speaker 1: The last thing we do Sydney, we call it the
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Speaker 1: ozone five. It's five quick questions you can answer as
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Speaker 1: quick or as lengthy as you want. It's fun stuff.
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Speaker 1: Sidney Jones, what was your last binge watch? Last beinge
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Speaker 1: watch hasn't been that long. Let me come back and
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Speaker 1: come back to you on that one, asked me last
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Speaker 1: song if you listen to either in your car or
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Speaker 1: on your headphones, Humble by a little Bigger, Who's most
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Speaker 1: responsible aside from you for you being in the NFL?
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Speaker 1: I would say my mother for birthday Kum, she's she's
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Speaker 1: been there for through my whole journey. Um, I was.
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Speaker 1: I can't. I can't pinpoint one person. A lot of
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Speaker 1: you'd be surprised how many people, you know, gathered around
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Speaker 1: me to bring me to where I'm at today. Um,
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Speaker 1: but I would say my coach Jimmy Lake. Um, he's
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Speaker 1: my DV coach IF at Washington. He's now the head
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Speaker 1: coach there and he you know, technique wise for bi
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Speaker 1: Q and all that stuff. He just took me to
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Speaker 1: the next level. I just understood and understood his coaching
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Speaker 1: and grasped it, and I just went to that next
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Speaker 1: level through through him. What other sport would you have played?
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Speaker 1: They had main for football? I think if I would
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Speaker 1: have stuck with baseball would have been pretty decent. Okay,
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Speaker 1: big pressure here. Best dish the fiance makes. She makes
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Speaker 1: his chicken. I don't know what's in it. It's like
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Speaker 1: checking thoghs with mashed potatoes and uh and broccolini. That
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Speaker 1: It's just it's amazing. It's kind of has like a
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Speaker 1: a savory citrus type of gas and then like it
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Speaker 1: kind of kind of have some juice to it, so
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Speaker 1: that juice mixed with the mashed potatoes like it's really
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Speaker 1: good and then be carefulss. You're gonna eat your way
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Speaker 1: out of the league with her, right. Yeah, you gotta
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Speaker 1: binge watch for me. Jone watch Game of Thrones, the
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Speaker 1: best one Tacks got you. Yeah, I went through that one.
18:39
Speaker 1: I actually never watched, and my wife and son log
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Speaker 1: and I just couldn't get into it. Yeah, you gotta
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Speaker 1: keep that quiet because everybody lives Game of Thrones. But
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Speaker 1: Sidney Jones, I want to thank you very much for
18:49
Speaker 1: doing this on a Wednesday. Means a lot. I think
18:52
Speaker 1: fans learned a lot about you and I can't thank
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Speaker 1: you enough for sharing some of the things you shared
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Speaker 1: Today means a lot of times. It means like the
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Speaker 1: Jack Wars fans thank you again said thank you all
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Speaker 1: right as usual. I want to thank Sydney Jones for
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Speaker 1: doing us to say it every week, but these guys
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Speaker 1: are very busy during the season, and to give us
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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes and to give us fifteen to twenty minutes
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Speaker 1: where it's clearly thought out and some really heartfelt answers
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Speaker 1: from Sydney Jones, I really appreciate it. You know, not
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Speaker 1: always willing to do that, but I think he shared
19:22
Speaker 1: some things with Jaguars fans that I found fascinating and
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Speaker 1: Dave again, I said it at the top, I said
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Speaker 1: it during the interview. I don't know if if fans
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Speaker 1: everybody talks so much about a c l S and
19:34
Speaker 1: they stay in age and an cl is a brutal
19:38
Speaker 1: injury for a football player. Different positions, it a fixed
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Speaker 1: different ways, but anybody around it will tell you it's
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Speaker 1: nothing compared doing Achilles. Achilles takes guys down and there
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Speaker 1: are players who don't recover from it because it's it
19:52
Speaker 1: it It is your entire We talk about quick twitch,
19:57
Speaker 1: that's where it comes from. For some guys, just it
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Speaker 1: takes away their speed, theirs, their athleticism, their agility. It's
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Speaker 1: not necessarily surprising that it took Sydney that long to
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Speaker 1: make up ground and get back. And I thought it
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Speaker 1: was interesting what he said about his first time he
20:13
Speaker 1: ever dealt with in the university. For a young player
20:16
Speaker 1: who is physically gifted, as clearly that he was, all
20:19
Speaker 1: of a sudden, when your dream is at hand, and
20:22
Speaker 1: then to have that okay now instead of playing as
20:26
Speaker 1: a rookie, you gotta work and rehab and not feel
20:28
Speaker 1: part of it. I just find it a remarkable, remarkably
20:32
Speaker 1: difficult thing that he overcame. Yeah, it was pretty interesting
20:36
Speaker 1: for me because I really, I don't know, I didn't
20:39
Speaker 1: know much about him, and it was just kind of
20:41
Speaker 1: interesting to hear his his journey and what he had
20:44
Speaker 1: to do to you know, recover from that and how
20:46
Speaker 1: The most interesting part for me, I thought was when
20:49
Speaker 1: he said, like the game against Green Bay was the
20:52
Speaker 1: most fun he's had professionally in football, which to me,
20:56
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy played on the Eople's team that
20:59
Speaker 1: was a was a playoff was a playoff team and
21:01
Speaker 1: pretty good team the last over the last few years,
21:03
Speaker 1: and and you know, last week was the most Funny's had.
21:06
Speaker 1: Just kind of you kind of feel kind of the
21:08
Speaker 1: renewed sense and renewed spirit he has for the for
21:12
Speaker 1: the game and um and you seem and you know,
21:15
Speaker 1: it's kind of a guy you root for. I mean,
21:17
Speaker 1: you know, despite the record with the Jaguars and stuff,
21:19
Speaker 1: that's one of those stories is a cool kind of
21:21
Speaker 1: side story that's going on in the background that probably
21:24
Speaker 1: is not gonna get talked about because of the record
21:27
Speaker 1: and because of everything else that's going on, and it's
21:30
Speaker 1: just kind of cool, like on this format you can
21:32
Speaker 1: kind of highlight that and take some time and and
21:35
Speaker 1: and learn about it. And uh, you know, I was,
21:38
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny. It's you know, the way this
21:41
Speaker 1: world is, and with COVID and stuff, we're not around
21:44
Speaker 1: the players as much and we're not in the locker
21:46
Speaker 1: room and doing as much with players. This year, I
21:50
Speaker 1: really didn't even know what the sound of Sydney Jones's
21:53
Speaker 1: voice was, so that was kind of that was kind
21:56
Speaker 1: of interesting. I didn't even know really know what to
21:58
Speaker 1: expect when he when he started talking, and um, and
22:01
Speaker 1: you know, I thought, he just gives give us some
22:03
Speaker 1: really good insight on kind of the journeys he's had
22:08
Speaker 1: very early in his football career. And the other part
22:09
Speaker 1: is it's still twenty four years old. I mean, he
22:11
Speaker 1: still has the screw ahead of him, Um, despite everything
22:15
Speaker 1: that happened early on. And for fans who don't realize that,
22:17
Speaker 1: a lot of people who listen to his podcast probably
22:19
Speaker 1: do realize by now, we don't really get a chance
22:22
Speaker 1: to talk to the guys because everything's virtual. Usually on
22:26
Speaker 1: a podcast like this, even if I didn't know the
22:28
Speaker 1: player that well, I usually would have talked to him
22:31
Speaker 1: face to face, or at least try to go to
22:33
Speaker 1: him and say, hey, is there anything you want to
22:34
Speaker 1: talk about. So again, for Sidney to sort of open
22:38
Speaker 1: up about some things very appreciated. I thought the most
22:43
Speaker 1: interesting thing was when he said, look, there were times
22:45
Speaker 1: when I lost confidence, and when he was saying that,
22:48
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't want to interrupt him, but I'm thinking,
22:50
Speaker 1: how could you not? You know, you're you're at the
22:54
Speaker 1: highest level of football, and for a couple of years
22:59
Speaker 1: you aren't playing with your full deck. If you will,
23:03
Speaker 1: you know you don't have all of the skills that
23:06
Speaker 1: got you to that level. So fascinating for me, just
23:11
Speaker 1: like you, Dave, when he talked about having so much
23:14
Speaker 1: fun against Green Bay, it's got to be a pleasure
23:18
Speaker 1: for him at this point, for the first time in
23:21
Speaker 1: his career, a he's got a chance to start, so
23:24
Speaker 1: he's getting the reps to show what he can do.
23:27
Speaker 1: He's not worried about getting pulled. He doesn't have the
23:30
Speaker 1: pressure that there must have been on him in Philadelphia,
23:33
Speaker 1: where he's a number two picked is all these expectations
23:36
Speaker 1: and everything is getting picked apart. I would guess that
23:39
Speaker 1: right now he can play free and have fun for
23:42
Speaker 1: the first time, and it's sure shows what a story.
23:46
Speaker 1: He's a free agent this year, and I didn't ask
23:48
Speaker 1: him about that because he doesn't know yet what the
23:50
Speaker 1: next year is gonna bring. But if the jack Wards
23:53
Speaker 1: can resign him and get him to be a part
23:55
Speaker 1: of what's going on going forward, what a gift it
23:59
Speaker 1: would be to find a player that you didn't have
24:02
Speaker 1: to draft. All of a sudden, you've got c. J. Henderson,
24:06
Speaker 1: Sidney Jones, and Trey Herndon, who is a good nickel.
24:10
Speaker 1: Sidney Jones, to me, is the key piece where they
24:13
Speaker 1: might have found three of the five pieces necessary in
24:17
Speaker 1: the secondary. If he's not around, then all of a sudden,
24:21
Speaker 1: you're looking again for the piece that makes it all work.
24:26
Speaker 1: He's been an invest corner so far this year. With
24:29
Speaker 1: apologies uh I C. J. Henderson, but Sidney Jones has
24:32
Speaker 1: made more place. He's got nine pass breakups, he leads
24:35
Speaker 1: the team in p B US even though he's only
24:38
Speaker 1: been starting for five games. He's played really well. And
24:41
Speaker 1: you wondered after the Texans game, is that consistent? Well,
24:46
Speaker 1: he's been consistent, so credit to him. He he has
24:50
Speaker 1: turned himself in as I said, to an overnight success
24:54
Speaker 1: in no more than four years. Day only took him
24:56
Speaker 1: four years of being overnight success. I'm still trying and
24:59
Speaker 1: I'm thirty five years old. So well, guess and John
25:03
Speaker 1: John sorry bro, Yeah, well, after thirty three years, I
25:08
Speaker 1: realized I'm not gonna be at over night think death.
25:10
Speaker 1: I just want to go to sleep. So uh but again,
25:14
Speaker 1: thank you to Sydney Jones for doing this. And I
25:16
Speaker 1: say it every week, but these guys coming here on
25:19
Speaker 1: a Wednesday, when they're distracted, they sit down and they
25:23
Speaker 1: haven't been thinking about the context of this podcast, and
25:27
Speaker 1: yet they're still willing to sort of dig deep a
25:29
Speaker 1: little bit and share some things and then automatically turn
25:31
Speaker 1: it off and go back to work. So I appreciate that.
25:34
Speaker 1: I appreciate Dave for putting up with me. I appreciate
25:38
Speaker 1: Joe Fortunado for making a sound better than we actually are.
25:42
Speaker 1: Very very good OT Zone podcast today. I know this
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Speaker 1: one didn't start. I hope you'll learned something about Jaguars
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Speaker 1: cornerback Sydney Jones