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Mason Taylor Talks About His Freshmen Year, Dealing With Internet Hate + Hopes For Next Season · Bussin' With The Boys

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Speaker 1: everyone for There we go. Let's get into Mason Taylor.
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Speaker 1: An absolute pleasure to have you on the podcast here.
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Speaker 1: How do we open him up? I feel like he's
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Speaker 1: a little yeah, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 3: You can feel it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can feel it a little bit, feel a
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Speaker 2: little I mean you're going to your sophomore year.
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Speaker 3: Right, yeah? How old?
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Speaker 4: Eighteen?
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Speaker 3: Wow? You're still eighteen? When's your birthday?
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Speaker 4: May?
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Speaker 3: Nice?
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Speaker 5: Bro?
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Speaker 4: So I'm pretty young.
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Speaker 2: Any big plans for your birthday coming up?
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Speaker 6: Fred's David Buster's probably probably David Busters, Yeah, busties, honest,
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Speaker 6: probably football, so we'll probably still be here.
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Speaker 1: Dude, talk about your first year like you were a
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Speaker 1: true freshman, you know, we can talk about how you
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Speaker 1: didn't get out of bounds right away in the Florida
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Speaker 1: State game. We can also talk about the two point
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Speaker 1: conversion it gets Bama to win the game.
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Speaker 5: I mean, or wherever you want.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, the whole the whole season was crazy. I mean,
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Speaker 6: coming from high school, it's one hundred percent different from
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Speaker 6: how you prepare. And then the games and basically the crowd.
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Speaker 6: That was the biggest thing to me.
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Speaker 4: I remember the first game going out out there, I
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Speaker 4: was like, what the hell is this?
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Speaker 6: Just like going on seeing eighty thousand people just watching
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Speaker 6: you and I that was again with the first wake
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Speaker 6: up call to college was probably after that game. I've
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Speaker 6: gotten so many hate comments and dms after that. My
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Speaker 6: phone was blowing up. I'm like, what is this? And
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Speaker 6: I had a buddy, Garrett Nessmayer telling me the shower.
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Speaker 6: He was like, he was like, welcome to college football.
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Speaker 6: Like your phone's gonna be ringing twenty four to seven.
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Speaker 6: So that was that was my big wake up call, basically,
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Speaker 6: welcome college football. A bunch of people out there talking
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Speaker 6: shit about you or whatever. But the whole the whole
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Speaker 6: season has been amazing. I mean, throw the ups and
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Speaker 6: downs bad games to your good games. I mean, like
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Speaker 6: you said, the Bama game was insane, After that it
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Speaker 6: was it was even more fun. But that whole, that whole,
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Speaker 6: the whole experience, the whole season has been been awesome
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Speaker 6: and it's a great ride.
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Speaker 4: And I'm looking forward to next year too. Brother.
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Speaker 2: It seems like you there was a lot of ups
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Speaker 2: and downs, but dealing with the haters of social media,
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Speaker 2: everyone's got a voice. Now, I'm curious, as young as
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Speaker 2: you are, how did you after that first game and
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Speaker 2: you're still getting all this hate mail and all this
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Speaker 2: different stuff, Like how did you handle that in your
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Speaker 2: head at going further into your your freshman year.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean at first it was like kind of
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Speaker 6: like you kind of trying to come up with excuse
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Speaker 6: and stuff like that.
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Speaker 4: But you kind of just gotta all all all your tough.
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Speaker 6: Like I would say, like you kind of try to
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Speaker 6: defend yourself like, oh it wasn't me and blah blah blah.
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Speaker 6: But you kind of half the people, or more than
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Speaker 6: half the people, don't even know what the fuck they're
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Speaker 6: talking about. So I think that's that's a big thing.
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Speaker 6: Just dial Yeah, and basically basically just looking at like
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Speaker 6: your support, like your teammates and coaches, like this is
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Speaker 6: the only people we need and the only people we have.
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Speaker 4: So in your family.
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Speaker 6: But other than that, I think after that first game,
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Speaker 6: all the other hate I came after that, I kind
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Speaker 6: of just brush it off your shoulders and keep playing.
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Speaker 6: And then it happens moments like like the Bamma game,
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Speaker 6: I had people telling me and my DMS, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 6: and I would scroll up and it was like if
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Speaker 6: you blah blah blah blah, and it's the same people
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Speaker 6: what I was saying a few week one.
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Speaker 4: So uh so, yeah, I just let to brush off
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Speaker 4: my shoulders.
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Speaker 6: Now I really don't mind it at all. But it's
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Speaker 6: definitely been.
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Speaker 2: Growing out yourself in a little bit of a hole there, thinking,
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Speaker 2: like you said, the excuses, which everyone does. Every someone
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Speaker 2: like points something out like oh like when I was
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Speaker 2: like you give up the sack and you be like, bro,
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Speaker 2: that wasn't me. But like getting away from the keyboard
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Speaker 2: is say like, because you don't have to fight, that
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Speaker 2: battle has got to be tough to do.
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Speaker 6: Definitely, the tough part is not trying to respond back,
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Speaker 6: because you respond and then it just so that I've
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Speaker 6: never respawned in one of those, and.
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Speaker 2: He did respond like once in a while though, like
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Speaker 2: sometimes you gotta let her. Let a fucker know, like, hey, listen, you.
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Speaker 1: Talked about that social social brand. Yeah, yeah, sure, because
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Speaker 1: it's something that's constant, Like it's not you handle it
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Speaker 1: when you're eighteen, so it never happened again. Like I
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Speaker 1: was still fighting the same demons at twenty seven in
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Speaker 1: the league, just thinking about like, you know, because you
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Speaker 1: take everything personal because you care so much.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you hear a lot and people don't see how
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Speaker 2: much you put into it.
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Speaker 4: Exactly, and you just want to be keyboard warriors.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and you and you're like, yeah, what the hell
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Speaker 6: is going on accounts that have one one follower? Yeah dude,
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Speaker 6: always him too, no profile pick. They made it up,
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Speaker 6: like damn yeah that day they made.
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Speaker 3: It the matter the most for whatever reason.
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Speaker 2: You'll see like nine comments are like all positive and
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Speaker 2: there's that tenth one. Yeah, that one's like you suck
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Speaker 2: something basic?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, bro, do I nerve?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. Working through that stuff and it's only
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Speaker 2: gonna get worse, honestly, Like the because you seem like
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Speaker 2: you're the from the beginning of the year to the
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Speaker 2: end of the year from MO everyone was telling us
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Speaker 2: about you is that you started to do this. So
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Speaker 2: you have a lot to look forward to, especially in
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Speaker 2: your college career, Like as you become more of a
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Speaker 2: nationally recognized player, there's gonna be more hate. Like some
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Speaker 2: dude in Philadelphia, does it come for you?
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Speaker 3: He doesn't even know yet. It's one game, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: That's what it is. What are your expectations going into
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Speaker 2: this sophomore year ending the way your freshman year did.
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Speaker 2: And also you didn't even early enroll, Like you just
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Speaker 2: showed up to campus and you're like, I'm just gonna
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Speaker 2: play for LSU immediately.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it definitely took a lot of work to get
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Speaker 6: back in the and really the playbook is the hardest thing.
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Speaker 6: I mean there's so many ins and outs, and you
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Speaker 6: can know the plays, but you can know that you
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Speaker 6: have to know the defenses and like what they do
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Speaker 6: and stuff and that.
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Speaker 4: So it was definitely a lot to handle.
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Speaker 6: So going into this season, I think I definitely have
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Speaker 6: high expectations and I'm looking forward to that. I mean,
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Speaker 6: that's why i came here and that's what I'm gonna do.
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Speaker 6: But yeah, I definitely have high expectations, but I think
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Speaker 6: I think I'm gonna have a great year and learn
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Speaker 6: from my mistakes from last year and watch the film
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Speaker 6: and get with the coaches and see how I can
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Speaker 6: exceed and keep getting better because I don't want to be, you.
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Speaker 4: Know, constant. It's like an average player.
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Speaker 6: You want to keep getting better and better until you
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Speaker 6: until you retire, until your time's come.
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Speaker 5: What made you want to come to LSU?
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Speaker 4: See that? I honestly don't know.
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Speaker 6: I mean I've had I have, I had twenty something offers,
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Speaker 6: but I would talk to Florida, Bama and here, and
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Speaker 6: I think, like, I think it was kind of God
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Speaker 6: because at first Alabama would kind of it was like
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Speaker 6: kind of like brushing me off their shoulders, like I
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Speaker 6: would hear less and less from them. Same with Florida.
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Speaker 6: I mean, Florida had a coaching change too, but I
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Speaker 6: feel like it worked out perfect because every school like
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Speaker 6: started talking to me less except for LSU. So I
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Speaker 6: think it was that was like the opening window, like
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Speaker 6: they actually care about me. So I'm gonna come here,
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Speaker 6: But first I wanted to start and uh, I mean
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Speaker 6: stay in Florida because I'm from for Lauderdale. So I
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Speaker 6: really liked UF, but they again they brushed me off
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Speaker 6: their shoulders, and I think it just everything was pointing
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Speaker 6: to LSU and I was like, but can I do that?
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Speaker 4: And then it was just pointing LSU. So I think
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Speaker 4: I just made it just in the.
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Speaker 5: Come here so that Bama game field sweet?
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Speaker 4: Then yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Like I kind of got brush up.
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Speaker 2: Then you can get made a mistake too. That could
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Speaker 2: have been a slam dunk. Yeah in your backyard.
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Speaker 6: My dad is really good friends with Saban because he
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Speaker 6: played for him at the Dolphins, So that was that
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Speaker 6: he I think I think he might have gave him
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Speaker 6: a call to that game. Savan gave my dad a
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Speaker 6: call and and talk ship or whatever, but it.
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Speaker 1: Was it was your dad wanting you to go to
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Speaker 1: BAM or play for saving or how is your old
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Speaker 1: man in this?
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Speaker 3: So then because obviously you come.
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Speaker 1: From a pedigree of Jason Taylor, I mean Zach Thomas
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Speaker 1: is in there too, Like how pivotal was your dad
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Speaker 1: in all this recruiting.
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Speaker 6: I mean he let me do make the right decisions
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Speaker 6: and make my decision like what I want to do,
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Speaker 6: But he definitely wanted me to go to a big program.
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Speaker 6: But he was he was fin He loves l s
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Speaker 6: U now, but he he loved Bama l s U.
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Speaker 6: He loved the top schools, he loved the SEC. He
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Speaker 6: didn't want me going to a CC or anywhere like that.
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Speaker 6: He wanted me to go to big time down.
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Speaker 2: He didn't look at the big ten. Michigan off for you.
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Speaker 4: Uh No, Michigan did not offer me.
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Speaker 3: What about Nebraska? The Nebraska shot.
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Speaker 4: They didn't offer me either.
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Speaker 6: But no, my mind was focused on the SEC too
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Speaker 6: at that point.
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Speaker 2: Damn bro, Yeah you got these boys brainwashing south bum Nah.
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Speaker 4: I think he was happy with my decision.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, when you got when you left Florida came to Louisiana, Like,
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Speaker 2: what was it like acclimating to this kind of culture
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Speaker 2: because it's a very unique culture, a lot of French influence.
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Speaker 2: Everyone here just rides with LSU always. It's gotta be fun.
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Speaker 2: But like, was there a difference for you between Florida?
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Speaker 4: There's not much except the food.
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Speaker 6: I mean the first first couple of weeks I got here,
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Speaker 6: I game maybe fifteen pounds, asked, yeah, yeah exactly. So
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Speaker 6: other than that the food, I mean, the culture is differently.
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Speaker 6: Oh of football here is like so important, and you
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Speaker 6: see fans everywhere at the airport screaming and are like,
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Speaker 6: I've been screaming out of the airport, amazing, like all
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Speaker 6: that stuff. So the fans are definitely fans are definitely crazy,
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Speaker 6: but they're kind of, I want to say, I want
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Speaker 6: to say this the nicest way I would say, bipolar.
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Speaker 6: I mean they kind of hate you one week, love it. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: hate you one week, love you the next. So I
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Speaker 6: mean it's definitely great, but at the same time, it
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Speaker 6: sucks kind of but they're they're great fans. I mean,
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Speaker 6: every every Saturday they're in, they're packing it out, screaming
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Speaker 6: on top of their lungs. So it's definitely definitely a
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Speaker 6: different culture, but I love it.
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Speaker 5: Eagles by the Philadelphia Eagles vibe.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Louisiana does have it.
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Speaker 1: They love it so much. So if you lose or whatever,
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Speaker 1: it just it literally ruins.
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Speaker 2: All of them have a clockie. When football season ends,
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Speaker 2: it's like, fuck, dude, there's this many days till next football. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: we're that excited about it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, what should we hear with them next? What?
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Speaker 2: What if you want?
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Speaker 5: What was the laugh?
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Speaker 2: I was just laughing at you?
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Speaker 1: What was I doing? My thinking face. Yeah, you gotta
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Speaker 1: think of where can you go with this?
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Speaker 5: Like?
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Speaker 1: Do we ask him more about his old man? Your
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Speaker 1: dad was a legend. What was it like growing up
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Speaker 1: under his roof?
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Speaker 3: Was it?
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Speaker 1: Did it suck at times? Was it like you all
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Speaker 1: want to carve my own lane about growing up in
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Speaker 1: that house?
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Speaker 6: I mean a lot of a lot of peop people
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Speaker 6: say like let them let him build his own path
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Speaker 6: or whatever, But I don't. I don't like when people say, oh,
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Speaker 6: Jason Teler song, I don't mind. It doesn't bother me
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Speaker 6: at all. I mean, uh, my dad did what he
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Speaker 6: did in the league. I mean, yeah, I'm trying to
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Speaker 6: create my own path too, But I don't mind when
10:14
Speaker 6: people say, oh, he's Jason Deeler's son. People Actually, some
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Speaker 6: people get mad and they're like they're like, oh, let
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Speaker 6: him have his own past.
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Speaker 4: I mentioned his dad, his uncle, blah blah blah.
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Speaker 6: Like I think, I think that's cool to be honest
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Speaker 6: with with them both playing football, on them being so
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Speaker 6: good at what they're at so But other than that, yeah,
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Speaker 6: I mean, it wasn't anything crazy. I feel like I
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Speaker 6: feel at a young age, I really didn't think of.
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Speaker 4: It like that. Yeah, I was like, my dad plays football,
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Speaker 4: blah blah blah.
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Speaker 6: But I didn't think he was like that good until
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Speaker 6: I grew up and saw like what he did and
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Speaker 6: actually as accomplished.
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Speaker 1: So what old were you when you start figuring out
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Speaker 1: like he was a savage and your uncle like Zach Thomas.
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Speaker 6: My teens, savage teens, I'd say, yeah, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
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Speaker 6: when you start getting the phone and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: But people come over to your house, you're like, holy shit, dude,
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Speaker 2: you know wreck dudes, right, yeah, dude, when when you
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Speaker 2: look towards the future NFL, would you grew up as
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Speaker 2: a fan of Dolphins?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you could say. I mean, I'm not really a
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Speaker 6: fan of any NFL team. I don't watch the NFL.
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Speaker 6: I think college is way more interesting to watch. But
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Speaker 6: I would say, yeah, the Dolphins with my dad and
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Speaker 6: uncle played for there. But what are you trying to say, Like, if.
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Speaker 2: We're looking, if you're thinking like the future, this is
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Speaker 2: where I would want to play.
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Speaker 6: I want to go to Miami if you want to
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Speaker 6: go to Miami, Yeah, not just because my dad was there,
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Speaker 6: but just the area. I mean, I don't want to
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Speaker 6: live in just Yeah, exactly somewhere breezing cold. Yeah, but
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Speaker 6: Miami out because living there and it's really nice and
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Speaker 6: stuff like that. I want to live where I grew up.
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Speaker 1: Who do you watch in the league and want to
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Speaker 1: mold your game after? Like who are tight ends you
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Speaker 1: watch weekend and week out?
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Speaker 4: Travis Kelcey, Travis Kelcey.
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Speaker 6: George Kittle is another good one, boy Andrews from Baltimore,
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Speaker 6: But yeah, mainly Travis kelce because I mean, blocking all around.
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Speaker 6: George kill is amazing, but I think I think Travis
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Speaker 6: kelce is route running opens up so many things Kan
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Speaker 6: City could do for them. So definitely watching him and
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Speaker 6: just his routes and stuff like that. He just knows
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Speaker 6: how to get open. I don't really know how to
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Speaker 6: explain it. I mean, he just knows where people are
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Speaker 6: gonna be and just goes in between him and stuff
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Speaker 6: like that. It's kind of if you really watch it,
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Speaker 6: it's really like nice to see. But that's why I
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Speaker 6: watch him probably the most out of everyone.
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Speaker 2: When you think about your personal development going from year
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Speaker 2: one to year two, what are the major things that
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Speaker 2: you think you should focus on to become a better
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Speaker 2: all around player?
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Speaker 4: Definitely gets stronger.
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Speaker 6: You know, I'm being eighteen years old in the SEC
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Speaker 6: is kind of hard putting your nose in there with
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Speaker 6: all those defensive ends that are six six two seventy
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Speaker 6: and stuff like that. So definitely gets stronger, stronger, faster,
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Speaker 6: definitely better blocking, catching too, I mean just like almost
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Speaker 6: like everything whatever.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, what do you feel like you lack?
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Speaker 6: Most probably pass protection because we we also as tight ends.
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Speaker 4: We block a lot in this program.
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Speaker 6: So if that's an inside zone, outside zone, and we'll
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Speaker 6: probably pass pro maybe ten times a game, yeah, and
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Speaker 6: we'll probably run block maybe thirty forty thirty five times,
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Speaker 6: maybe half the play is probably running. So definitely, yeah, blocking,
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Speaker 6: but I think past past probably definitely need to work on.
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Speaker 2: There's got to be a crazy level of anxiety you
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Speaker 2: get when a play action passes called on the back
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Speaker 2: end because you're you're going against their pass rusher.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're usually by.
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Speaker 2: Yourself because the other offense linemen are in combination. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's gotta be.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, And definitely when we're in a boundary or
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Speaker 6: something like that and we're going against their jack, their
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Speaker 6: their pass rusher, and yeah, you're putting me on their
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Speaker 6: pass rushers, Like.
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Speaker 2: It's a crazy concept.
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Speaker 6: But put her put our all American Will Campbell on them,
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Speaker 6: put Memry Jones on them.
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Speaker 4: Why do I have to block one on?
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Speaker 2: Implement stuff in your in your in those calls where
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Speaker 2: if like let's say the tackle on the garter in combination,
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Speaker 2: once he knows that their backers not coming, do they
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Speaker 2: tell him to look out to help you?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Some Yeah, there's some some plays like that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because you need that. And if I were you,
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Speaker 2: if I was, what's that? That's what I was gonna say.
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Speaker 2: I would I would sit a brother that backer doesn't come,
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Speaker 2: you get they.
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Speaker 3: Will, they will right away.
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Speaker 2: Look at this look at this guy, because it's like
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Speaker 2: you can be a great pass blocker as a tight end,
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Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, like you weigh
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Speaker 2: as much as the other individual and he is trained.
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Speaker 2: You're more so trained to right. You want to get
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Speaker 2: in front of the guy and die slow death. He's
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Speaker 2: trying to get to the quarterback and you want to
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Speaker 2: catch the ball. So it's like a way harder process.
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Speaker 2: Like when you go through that, it's like, hey, just
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Speaker 2: don't get beat inside.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but I try not to jump at him too much.
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Speaker 6: Trying to not do that, Yeah, because if they and
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Speaker 6: go right to the quarterback, that's on me. So I
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Speaker 6: try not to jump at him. I kind of try
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Speaker 6: to just stay patient. The main thing is I put
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Speaker 6: my hands outside a lot, and I bet you any
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Speaker 6: defense knows that was or tape. I put my hands outside,
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Speaker 6: So that's another thing I'll work on, is putting my
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Speaker 6: hands inside.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, other than that, pass protection, I definitely need
14:59
Speaker 4: to work on what's the of.
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Speaker 2: Stress in pass protection? When the guy's inside you or
15:03
Speaker 2: in like head up on you or outside you, what
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Speaker 2: are you like?
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Speaker 6: Man outside outside and outside you're by yourself. If he's inside,
15:09
Speaker 6: you can wash him into the tack.
15:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully put him into the legs or something.
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Speaker 6: Trip him up if he if he's outside of me,
15:15
Speaker 6: then I'm like, shit.
15:17
Speaker 2: You try to get that shitty passed that in like
15:18
Speaker 2: let me see what those boys been doing over there.
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Speaker 6: Then he's got inside outside through you to go through.
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Speaker 2: So do you ever think about living and dying by
15:26
Speaker 2: the sort of like, Hey, this is a play action,
15:28
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna run at this guy and make him
15:29
Speaker 2: hopefully hopefully he thinks he's a run run. Well, a
15:31
Speaker 2: lot of guys in the SEC are playing past first.
15:35
Speaker 4: I think they'll play pass first a little. Yeah. Yeah.
15:37
Speaker 2: If they're playing past first, you gotta and you also
15:39
Speaker 2: got to understand the sticks, right, yeah, exactly, second and
15:41
Speaker 2: ten if to get back on track play you need
15:43
Speaker 2: to get your exactly exactly.
15:46
Speaker 5: What what game are you looking forward to most this year?
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Speaker 6: Florida stated percent The way we lost last year is brutal,
15:54
Speaker 6: and I think we have a lot to prove this year.
15:56
Speaker 6: I mean it was our first time when we played them.
15:59
Speaker 6: Last years are first time to all together, new staff,
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Speaker 6: a bunch of new players, So definitely, definitely Florida State.
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Speaker 4: We got to get our link back for sure.
16:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, growing up because a lot of guys here are
16:11
Speaker 2: talking about how you from a situational standpoint, like you
16:14
Speaker 2: understand the game and you're in that two minute drive
16:17
Speaker 2: at the end of the game, were you thinking I
16:20
Speaker 2: got to get out of balance right now? And how
16:23
Speaker 2: much does coach Kelly preach like situational football four minute
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Speaker 2: two minutes?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: We yeah, for all these all these situations we do
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Speaker 6: in practice. I mean like yesterday or Tuesday, we had
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Speaker 6: four periods of two minutes like in our coaches and
16:39
Speaker 6: meetings spend fifteen minutes talking about about if you get
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Speaker 6: the first down, clock stops, if we have so many
16:45
Speaker 6: different calls and signals for like if we need to
16:48
Speaker 6: get the first down and take a knee like and
16:50
Speaker 6: get down on the ground, we need to save time.
16:53
Speaker 6: We I mean, they go through everything. So it's definitely
16:55
Speaker 6: really important. I think that's just one of those things
16:57
Speaker 6: that you're in that moment and the balls coming here,
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Speaker 6: and you know, like, yeah, I need to catch this ball,
17:02
Speaker 6: but I need to get my ass out of bounce,
17:03
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. So that was definitely what
17:05
Speaker 6: was going through my head right there, is like catch
17:07
Speaker 6: the ball if you could score or score, but don't
17:10
Speaker 6: be a here, don't be like trying to be a
17:11
Speaker 6: hero and get tackled on the one. We don't have
17:13
Speaker 6: any timeouts and the game's over, you know what I mean.
17:15
Speaker 6: So yeah, my ass was headed right to that pylon.
17:18
Speaker 6: If I can get it, if it clears up, I'm
17:20
Speaker 6: gonna go die for it. But if now I'm jumping
17:22
Speaker 6: out of bounds. And then I saw I saw there's
17:25
Speaker 6: a couple of dudes by the pilon, and I'm like, yeah,
17:27
Speaker 6: let me get my ass out of bounds.
17:29
Speaker 4: I'm just sprinting over there and just dove.
17:31
Speaker 6: I actually one dude try to swipe my feet on
17:34
Speaker 6: the way over there, and I jumped over him and
17:36
Speaker 6: you see it on the replay my ankle, like I
17:40
Speaker 6: fucked on my ankle really bad when I when I
17:42
Speaker 6: did that, and I landed like this, and that's why
17:44
Speaker 6: I was stumbling, and that's when I dove out of bounds. Said,
17:47
Speaker 6: I twisted my ankle really bad.
17:49
Speaker 2: But they said your knee was still in bounce or
17:51
Speaker 2: your was your elbow.
17:52
Speaker 4: I think I think it was my knee.
17:54
Speaker 3: My knee that would have been alive.
17:55
Speaker 5: Like if they would have called it would have been.
17:58
Speaker 6: Over since it was a down though the clock stopped
18:01
Speaker 6: and we got another play. If they called it right
18:03
Speaker 6: there down, then we would they would have spotted the ball.
18:05
Speaker 6: The ball would have been over.
18:07
Speaker 2: In those situational situations, what are you telling yourself going
18:11
Speaker 2: to the line, Like if you're in a two minute situation,
18:13
Speaker 2: there's like ten seconds left and you have to get
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Speaker 2: a field goal, Like for the guys that are watching
18:17
Speaker 2: this looking up to you already, Like one of the
18:20
Speaker 2: things you tell yourself in your mind.
18:22
Speaker 4: Just stick to what you're taught.
18:23
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, like you said, ten seconds left, you
18:26
Speaker 6: if you get the ball, get out of bounds. If
18:28
Speaker 6: you if you catch the ball in bounds and you
18:31
Speaker 6: get a certain amount of yards, if you get the
18:33
Speaker 6: first down, get down.
18:34
Speaker 4: If you get a certain amount.
18:35
Speaker 6: Of the yards and you get tackled, run the ball
18:37
Speaker 6: to the ref and there'd be a mad eight call
18:39
Speaker 6: on a a field goal team start running on. So
18:41
Speaker 6: you really just gotta you gotta really think, and you
18:43
Speaker 6: gotta be smart in those situations so you don't screw
18:46
Speaker 6: over your team.
18:46
Speaker 4: But there's definitely a lot of pressure.
18:48
Speaker 6: But once you once like we wrap it up in
18:51
Speaker 6: practice almost every day, and I think you just stick
18:54
Speaker 6: to the fundamentals and what you're coached, and you'll be
18:56
Speaker 6: prepared for those moments.
18:57
Speaker 1: And making sure your teammates are. You know, some times
19:00
Speaker 1: when you're getting late in the game to everybody is
19:01
Speaker 1: just exhausted and everybody's just yelling.
19:03
Speaker 4: You got to keep your team into the accountaboo, don't.
19:05
Speaker 3: Toss the ball doing run the ball doom you know, rable.
19:07
Speaker 2: You'll see the refs out there, Yes, look at bad body.
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Speaker 4: Ballers, Yeah, the ballers, Yeah, yeah, Nero hand one.
19:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of situations.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, what a tough way to go out to in
19:17
Speaker 5: that Florida State game. We keep bringing that up. But
19:19
Speaker 5: the field goal at the end, it's tough.
19:21
Speaker 2: The been fun.
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Speaker 5: This was solid.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, we really feel you've got a lot to
19:26
Speaker 1: look forward to you being on the squad as long
19:27
Speaker 1: as you stay healthy and I'm sure your old man
19:30
Speaker 1: will watch this. Hey brother, big fan. We would love
19:32
Speaker 1: to have you on the bus one day as well.
19:34
Speaker 1: I just want to get that in Zac Thomas, you know,
19:36
Speaker 1: white linebacker.
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Speaker 4: I'll hit them up.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Thanks a lot, though, Bro, this is awesome.
19:42
Speaker 4: We appreciate you, yep for sure.
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