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Inside The Charge - Dorian Williams Talks Country Lifestyle & Second Year As A Bill! · Inside the Charge

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Speaker 1: Welcome into this week's episode of Inside the Charge. We've
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Speaker 1: got linebacker Dorian Williams joining us. He talks about his
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Speaker 1: second year in the system and a lot more. It's
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Speaker 1: a good one, Dorian, Thanks for being on today's episode.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate you taking the time. I want to start with
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Speaker 1: the fact that you've been playing out of your mind
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Speaker 1: to start this season. Second year in this defense and
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Speaker 1: you are a starter. What's the difference between the first
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Speaker 1: year and the second year for you?
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Speaker 2: I would say, you know, having the playbook down, kind
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Speaker 2: of knowing what the officers are trying to do to us,
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Speaker 2: and by the informations just helping it, helping me play
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Speaker 2: a little bit faster.
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Speaker 3: For sure, having the defense down.
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Speaker 1: We've talked about this before in like a press conference setting,
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Speaker 1: but a Terrell Yards said for him, you know, my
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Speaker 1: second year is when this defense really clicked for me.
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Speaker 1: How has it clicked for you and that the light
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Speaker 1: comes on and you can start playing.
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Speaker 3: A lot faster.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 2: I think that's something all the guys kind of relate
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Speaker 2: to me my rookie year that kind of took them
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a year, you know, to come
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Speaker 2: in and learn the defense. And learn all the ins
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Speaker 2: and outs of the defense and the NFL offenses that
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Speaker 2: are ran at the end of this day.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, I just trusted that process, trusted our coaches.
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Speaker 2: And they did a great job of challenging me during
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Speaker 2: the dre in the spring and really helping me grow.
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Speaker 1: Defensive coordinator Bobby Babbage has said, you know, I was like,
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Speaker 1: it's probably hard for rookies to play in the system
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Speaker 1: because I try to make things stressful. I want to
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Speaker 1: stress them out so that once it comes time to play,
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Speaker 1: it's not as stressful. What type of stress did you
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Speaker 1: feel like your first year in practices just trying to
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Speaker 1: get everything down.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.
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Speaker 2: Very stressful, very stressful. Yeah, haras on fire. Head was
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Speaker 2: on fire, just thinking about all the different things, the
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Speaker 2: different leverages that we use, the different techniques, and all
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Speaker 2: the different names we have for all the different stuff.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, no, I would say, yeah, your heads on fire.
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Speaker 2: You're real really stressed. But it comes with a little
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Speaker 2: bit of learning curve and it helps you as a
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Speaker 2: player and as a.
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Speaker 4: Person for sure.
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Speaker 1: So this being your second year, I mean, let's go
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Speaker 1: back to training camp. You're in training camp and you're
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Speaker 1: probably thinking Okay, I get to learn under a healthy
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Speaker 1: Matt Milano this season and get to progress in my
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Speaker 1: career in this way learning from a linebacker like him. Well,
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Speaker 1: Milano goes out, and here's another opportunity for you to
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Speaker 1: take on a starting job. And you've definitely shown why
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Speaker 1: you deserve to be a starter so far this season.
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Speaker 1: What has allowed you to just unleash the beast within?
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Speaker 3: You're leading the team in tackles right now.
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Speaker 2: I would say, you know, Matt has helped me a
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Speaker 2: lot through all of it, just keys where my eye's
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Speaker 2: supposed to be, certain things that teams are trying to
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Speaker 2: do to make plays on me. And he's been a
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Speaker 2: great person to learn behind and still still learn from
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Speaker 2: him to the days and all our meetings, and he
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Speaker 2: just telling me a little stuff that he's looking at.
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Speaker 2: And Yeah, like my rookie year, I told the coaches,
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Speaker 2: you know, I'm gonna get to the ball wherever it is.
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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna get to the ball.
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Speaker 2: So having that and having the defense down and playing
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Speaker 2: alongside my assignment, I think all of it kind of comes.
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Speaker 4: Together for sure.
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Speaker 1: If you talk to other guys on this team, a
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Speaker 1: lot of them will say Dorian is a player that
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Speaker 1: you don't want to get hit by because it hurts
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Speaker 1: a lot. What's the feedback that you get from teammates
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Speaker 1: from opponents when you're hitting guys.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to do too much talking, you know,
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Speaker 2: in the act, unlesson somebody says something to me. But yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I think it's kind of starting to get known. That's
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Speaker 2: what I want to be kind of known for. I
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Speaker 2: kind of want our defense to be known for as
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Speaker 2: being very physical, violent defense, hitting guys, letting them know.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, you gotta make guys.
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Speaker 3: Feel you for sure for being hard hitter. At Tulane.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we kind of had a thing at Tulane just
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Speaker 2: it was like me and like five other guys just
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Speaker 2: going at it, trying to hit people as hard as
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Speaker 2: we can, you know, trying to kind of get that
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Speaker 2: crown of being the hardest hitter in our in our defense.
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Speaker 4: But I don't think any of us got crowned that yet.
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Speaker 1: How do you pack a lot in your punch? What's
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Speaker 1: the what's the secret sauce in doing that?
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Speaker 4: I think it's you know, I love it in the hips.
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Speaker 2: You know, I got wide shoulders, So I think all
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Speaker 2: of it kind of helps that I throw every bit
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Speaker 2: of a two twenty eight I got at them.
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Speaker 3: I love it.
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Speaker 1: You've got some great guys in the defensive room, I
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Speaker 1: should really say the linebackers room as well. How do
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Speaker 1: you fit into that room personality wise?
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Speaker 4: For sure?
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Speaker 2: I think the Bills they recruited a certain guy, you know,
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Speaker 2: a certain team guy, and a certain family or rented
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Speaker 2: guy here, and uh I love all our guys here.
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Speaker 2: We all you know, very close as a unit. And
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Speaker 2: I feel like that was very easy. That's something I
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Speaker 2: came from from tu Lane, so it was something easy
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Speaker 2: for me or just.
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Speaker 1: Too What type of personality are you bringing to that
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Speaker 1: linebacker room?
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Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know. I would say very care charis charastic, charismatic, charismatic.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 2: I like to stay on top of everything on everybody.
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Speaker 2: We all push each other to grow, We have a
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Speaker 2: good time. We all laugh and uh yeah, I'll I'll
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Speaker 2: be consistent as much as I can, you know, just
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Speaker 2: being the same person every day.
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Speaker 3: Who's the one that's cracking jokes in that room?
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Speaker 2: Probably Eddio Man. Eddio has has a good time and
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Speaker 2: uh yeah, we love him.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 1: What's it like having some other younger guys in that
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Speaker 1: room that you get to bring along, like Eddie.
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Speaker 2: It's great, you know him, Joe, there have been learning
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Speaker 2: a lot having Joke from Buffalo, me and him and
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Speaker 2: go to some of the UB games.
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Speaker 4: We always have a good time and just enjoying his
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Speaker 4: brotherhood while we have it.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so you've been to some UB games with Joey
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Speaker 3: and Reeson.
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Speaker 1: What is that like to uh, to head on over
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Speaker 1: to college down the road and get to take in
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Speaker 1: some college football.
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Speaker 2: It's great, you know, it's something we haven't got the
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Speaker 2: experiences being fans of you know, different colleges and be
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Speaker 2: able to go to the games and participate in that.
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Speaker 2: And uh, yeah, Joe's a you know, Joe's famous out
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Speaker 2: here in Buffalo, so it's kind of tough getting outside
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Speaker 2: with him.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, it's a great time.
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Speaker 1: Okay, what is what's the scene when when you're walking
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Speaker 1: with Joe at UB during the game.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's Joe and you know that's Joey and Dreson.
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Speaker 2: You know that he's a he's like the Josh Allen
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Speaker 2: if you be you know. So it's great, you know,
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Speaker 2: we love to have him.
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Speaker 4: Man, Yeah, I love Joe.
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Speaker 3: How cool of a story.
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Speaker 1: Is it for somebody like Joe to try out here,
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Speaker 1: sure earn a spot on the roster, Yeah, the training
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Speaker 1: camp roster, and then earn a spot on the final
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Speaker 1: fifty three.
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Speaker 3: I feel like you got to learn.
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Speaker 1: You got to work alongside him throughout training camp and
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Speaker 1: just probably got to.
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Speaker 3: Hear his story a little bit.
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Speaker 1: But when we found out the fifty three and he
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Speaker 1: was on it, what were your thoughts?
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Speaker 2: I thought you should have been on it. You know,
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Speaker 2: he'd been producing all camp. To me, he didn't look
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Speaker 2: like a rookie. I was like, man, you're like you understand,
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Speaker 2: like you're making more plays than me. When I was
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Speaker 2: like a rookie, I was coming in my head with spinning.
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Speaker 2: He grabs a d defense. He did a great job. Man,
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Speaker 2: I'm so proud of him.
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Speaker 1: Terrell Bernard is somebody who's still a younger guy, but
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Speaker 1: is the captain of this defense wearing the green dot
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Speaker 1: and communicating with a lot of people on the field.
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Speaker 1: How has he helped you grow as a football player?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 2: TV is just such an intelligent guy. He just knows
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Speaker 2: where the ball is going. He kind of has a
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Speaker 2: great feel for the game that he does have a
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Speaker 2: great feel for the game, and he's all over the
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Speaker 2: place as well. You know, he's all over the plays,
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Speaker 2: making tackles, TfL it's getting the ball out to him.
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Speaker 2: Being ball oriented. It definitely helps you, you know, kind
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Speaker 2: of grow and helps me become kind of a ball
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Speaker 2: oriented and guy calling out stuff, being more confident in
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Speaker 2: myself as well.
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Speaker 4: So, yeah, TV is great.
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Speaker 2: He gets everybody lined up and the defense runs to him.
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Speaker 1: When you watch this team play defense on any given play,
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Speaker 1: Terrell Bernard is using his body to fly across the field.
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Speaker 1: Taylor Rapp is also using his body to fly across
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Speaker 1: the field, and you are using your body to fly
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Speaker 1: across the field. How would you define the way that
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Speaker 1: you guys want to play defense?
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Speaker 4: Oh, we want to be physical.
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Speaker 2: We want to be fast, physical and violent, you know,
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Speaker 2: And that's something I feel like we built our defense around.
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Speaker 4: And we have some ballplayers for sure. You know.
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Speaker 2: Ballplayers all want to hit make big plays, and it's
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Speaker 2: a joy to be around those guys, especially when they
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Speaker 2: all are, you know, just as happy for you when
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Speaker 2: they're making plays and just as happy you know, for themselves.
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Speaker 4: Sore.
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Speaker 1: Is there ever a time where you guys watch tape
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Speaker 1: back from the past.
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Speaker 3: Game and you see somebody just like yeat.
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Speaker 1: Their body and get after an opposing offense and you're like,
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Speaker 1: what did I just watch here?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, it's plenty of times guys that we
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Speaker 2: call it eating the sandwich.
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Speaker 4: Taking on two blockers.
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Speaker 2: You may get thrown out of the club, but it's like, hey,
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Speaker 2: they're giving up their body for somebody else to make
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Speaker 2: the play, and that's that's always great to see, you know,
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Speaker 2: a selfish defense because that's what you got to be
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Speaker 2: in football. You have to be a selfish for your
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Speaker 2: team to win, and I think we have that here
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Speaker 2: for sure.
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Speaker 1: It's so fun to watch. What does Dorian Williams like
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Speaker 1: to do in his free time.
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Speaker 4: In Buffalo or where are we at? Where we at?
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Speaker 3: Let's say in Buffalo.
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Speaker 4: We're in Buffalo, Buffalo. I've been chilling, you know.
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Speaker 2: I like to kind of stay focused on our routine,
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Speaker 2: stay inside, so I'll be at the house, you know,
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Speaker 2: I'll be at the house. I'm watching TV, watching film,
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Speaker 2: chilling with some of the guys.
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Speaker 4: I think that's always a good time as well too.
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Speaker 1: What do you guys like to do outside of the
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Speaker 1: building as a group, whether it be defensive players, whether
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Speaker 1: it be linebackers, whether it just be guys from the
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Speaker 1: team eating.
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Speaker 2: I think that's some of the biggest days of me
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Speaker 2: and the Rooks, some of the linebackers. We all go
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Speaker 2: out and we go get food and just enjoy time
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Speaker 2: with each other.
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Speaker 4: I love that.
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Speaker 1: Any favorite food spots around here.
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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, we got a couple, you know, wing nuts.
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Speaker 2: I like to go up there and get some wings.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of places. There's a lot
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Speaker 2: of places out here.
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Speaker 3: I like there, definitely.
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Speaker 4: Sure.
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Speaker 3: You said you like to watch TV.
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Speaker 1: Do you have any favorite TV shows that you're currently watching.
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Speaker 4: I just finished Game of Thrones. I finished that during camp.
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Speaker 4: My camp.
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Speaker 2: It was great. It was great my camp show. It
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Speaker 2: was great. Had it on the projector you know. It
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Speaker 2: was a nice little vibe over there in the dorms
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Speaker 2: of Rochester.
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Speaker 3: So what character do you love the most from that show?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I wouldn't say I had a character like the most.
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Speaker 2: You know, a lot of them died off, you know.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, no, it was definitely a great great I.
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Speaker 1: Don't want to give it away if anybody's watching this
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Speaker 1: and have not finished it yet, but were you a
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Speaker 1: fan of the ending, because that is what a lot
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Speaker 1: of people talk about who have watched the show, is
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Speaker 1: the disappointment with how it ended.
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Speaker 2: Now, I wasn't a fan of the ending. It was
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Speaker 2: kind of it kind of left you, you know, once
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Speaker 2: and more.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's still a great show. Where
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Speaker 2: do they have an off spin of it? It's what
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Speaker 2: the I think. I'm only episode two. I haven't quite
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Speaker 2: got into it, haven't.
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 2: Game of Throws, you kind of got to get into
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Speaker 2: it and once you're into it, you're good. But haven't
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Speaker 2: quite gotten.
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Speaker 4: To that one yet.
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Speaker 3: Okay, any other shows that you're watching that you are
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Speaker 3: enjoying right now?
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Speaker 4: Now? I'm always open to suggestions though.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I always open to suggestions, all right, So leave
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Speaker 3: some suggestions in the comments. Greetrian and he can start
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Speaker 3: a new show.
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Speaker 4: Sure.
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Speaker 1: I know you're a big fan of fishing. Have you
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Speaker 1: gotten to get into any fishing here once you guys
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Speaker 1: are back here for like workouts in April and May
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Speaker 1: and that stuff.
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Speaker 4: I have not gotten to fishing yet, but I will soon.
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Speaker 2: Uh has a pawn in the back, so okay, yeah,
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Speaker 2: we'll get out there and throw a little bit and
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Speaker 2: have a good.
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Speaker 4: Time for Shure.
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Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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Speaker 1: Do you like to do that in your free time
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Speaker 1: in the off season when you're not around Buffalo?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean it's a little chilly in Buffalo, you know,
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Speaker 2: during the season for fishing and everything, but no, back
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Speaker 2: in South Carolina. Yeah, for sure, get onto some boats
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Speaker 2: with Matt. We'll see.
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Speaker 1: Okay, We've got a lot of guys on this team
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Speaker 1: who are from the South, whether it's South Carolina, whether
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Speaker 1: it's Texas. We've got some country boys on this team.
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Speaker 1: Who would you say is the most country on this team.
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Speaker 2: We love to say Bailing because he has like the
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Speaker 2: biggest asset accept from Georgia. So yeah, I love Bailing.
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Speaker 2: I would say he's up there. I would say Baleen's
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Speaker 2: up there. He's not that country, I would say he's
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Speaker 2: up there.
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Speaker 3: Where does ed Oliver fit into that?
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Speaker 2: Eddie? Oh, just because he got so many, you know,
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Speaker 2: different things. He got the horses, you know, he likes
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Speaker 2: the dude you had ATVs. He liked the race on
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Speaker 2: the little track out here, So yeah, who knows what Eddie.
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Speaker 2: You know, Eddie likes to do a little bit of everything.
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Speaker 2: But he's definitely definitely a good time, and what about you?
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Speaker 3: Where do you fit in?
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Speaker 1: I remember on your first day after you got drafted.
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Speaker 3: I think you had some nice.
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Speaker 1: Boots on, some leather boots on, and you were talking
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Speaker 1: about how you're from South Carolina. Liked fish him like
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Speaker 1: he's going to fit in perfectly. So where do you
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Speaker 1: fit into some country boys?
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to work my way up, you know, I'm
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Speaker 2: trying to work my way up, just to get some
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Speaker 2: country things going. You know, he ain't quite got the
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Speaker 2: horses and stuff yet, but I can't sit it not
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Speaker 2: on the way.
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Speaker 3: Is that something that you want in the future as horses?
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Speaker 2: I can see that. I can see that. I feel
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Speaker 2: like it would be a good time, you know.
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Speaker 1: Okay, describe the future life of a veteran Dorian Williams
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Speaker 1: who who's on his second or third contract. He's got
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Speaker 1: money in the bank right on, he's he's got a
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Speaker 1: life set up. Where are you living and what do
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Speaker 1: you have? You're still in the NFL, So we're talking
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Speaker 1: about off seasons.
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Speaker 2: Off seasons. I don't know, maybe Buffalo, maybe South Carolina.
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Speaker 2: Maybe back in South Carolina a little bit warmer, but yeah,
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Speaker 2: just around family. My family probably like the biggest thing
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Speaker 2: to me. I'm so close to them, so half of
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Speaker 2: them all near is is big for me. So just
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Speaker 2: being back home, having somebody to you know, spend that
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Speaker 2: free time and all that type of stuff with. So
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Speaker 2: just having somewhere we all can come hang out and
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Speaker 2: spend some time together as a family is probably my
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Speaker 2: biggest thing.
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Speaker 3: How many horses do you have?
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Speaker 4: At least three?
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Speaker 2: At least at least three, We gotta be able to
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Speaker 2: ride together, a couple of ATVs and whatnot.
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Speaker 3: Really close with your family? Who are you close with?
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Speaker 3: Who do you talk to the most?
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Speaker 4: Everybody?
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Speaker 2: Really mom, dad, both my sisters and my brothers, my grandma. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: we're very very close knit family. We're very open. They
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Speaker 2: all pretty much know everything's going on. And yeah, we're
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Speaker 2: very very close knit.
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Speaker 3: Are the sisters and the brothers? Older?
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Speaker 1: Younger broth the young you're the youngest little bit. Wow,
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Speaker 1: does anybody else play sports or had they play sports
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Speaker 1: growing up?
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Speaker 4: We all played sports growing up.
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Speaker 2: My brother played at wing Gate, so he played in
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Speaker 2: college a little bit of basketball.
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Speaker 4: And then I think I'm the only football What.
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Speaker 3: Do they think of the youngest bro in the NFL?
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Speaker 4: Like, it's crazy?
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Speaker 2: I felt that they all kind of knew how how
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Speaker 2: serious I was about football and.
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Speaker 4: And that if it was a way, I was going
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Speaker 4: to find a way growing up.
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Speaker 3: That's awesome, Dorian. What do you want for the.
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Speaker 1: Rest of the seas and what are your your hopes
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Speaker 1: and goals here as as we're about almost at the
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Speaker 1: halfway point.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously we want everybody to stay healthy, just go
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Speaker 2: want to know every week. It's that's a tough task,
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Speaker 2: but that's something we're always shooting for us to go
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Speaker 2: just want to know every week. We like to take
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Speaker 2: it week by week. You know, it's a long season,
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Speaker 2: so just taking a week by week, looking to go
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Speaker 2: one to know and we'll.
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Speaker 4: Find our way. For sure.
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Speaker 1: You learn a lot during your rookie season in the league.
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Speaker 1: What what have you learned the most about that? Now
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Speaker 1: that you're near two and you're like, it's a different
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Speaker 1: story now because I've been here for for this is
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Speaker 1: my second year now, for sure.
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Speaker 2: Just taking it one day at a time, taking one
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Speaker 2: day at a time. You see some guys, young guys
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Speaker 2: getting a little bit ahead of themselves and uh and
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Speaker 2: not quite working out the way, you know, not staying
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Speaker 2: truth to their process and staying truth to the process,
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Speaker 2: staying engaged every week. I think that's the biggest thing.
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Speaker 2: And relying on one one another. You know, you could
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Speaker 2: talk to guys about what's going on and how you
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Speaker 2: feel and what you see out there, so I think
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Speaker 2: that's that's big.
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Speaker 1: Well, we've loved watching you on the field so far
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Speaker 1: this season. It's been so awesome to see what you've
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Speaker 1: done with the starting opportunity. We can't wait for more
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Speaker 1: to appreciate you, all right, Thanks Torian, Thank y'all.