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Press Pass | Brandon Scherff: "I can feel the energy & excitement..." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Oh, we were just playing a few games at my
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  Speaker 1: house and um, all of a sudden we saw the
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  Speaker 1: ambulates go on the field, and you know it's bad
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  Speaker 1: when the ambulance comes on the field. So uh um,
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  Speaker 1: we're just you know, praying for him and you know,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully makes a speedy recovery. So our thoughts are with him,
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  Speaker 1: and that's all we can do is pray for him
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  Speaker 1: right now. Doesn't doesn't give you any not second thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: right but just as a person to be able to
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  Speaker 1: come in the next day after seeing something like that,
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  Speaker 1: how does that impact you? I guess I would I
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  Speaker 1: would say right now, what's important is for you know,
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  Speaker 1: prayersure for him and just just worrying about him and
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  Speaker 1: and doing everything that we can to pray for him
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  Speaker 1: and just just wish him the best and hopefully makes
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  Speaker 1: speed recovery. I didn't even think anywhere near that in
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  Speaker 1: the game. But how long would it take just to
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  Speaker 1: get your mind right if you were in that situation
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get back out on the field
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  Speaker 1: at some point. I think the worst thing I had
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  Speaker 1: was in college of broken fibula, and I mean I
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  Speaker 1: it was it was hard for me to you know, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: obviously I was having surgery. I don't know, I've never
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  Speaker 1: had anything like that before. So but God's got a plan.
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  Speaker 1: He had a plan for me, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just continue to trust in that. And like I said,
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  Speaker 1: all you can do is pray and and uh and
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  Speaker 1: just wishing the best a teammate standpoint, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: see something like oh I got you. You know the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the team too, yeah, I have. I cannot
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  Speaker 1: speak on their part. I've never been a part of that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've been. I've seen guys obviously down with injury.
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  Speaker 1: And what you do is neil byam and send up
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  Speaker 1: a prayer and um, that's all you can do right
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  Speaker 1: now for them to report the last few weeks or so,
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  Speaker 1: fighting through it, staying out there. What does that mean
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  Speaker 1: to you? To just kind of set that tone for
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  Speaker 1: the old line in the offense. So you're, hey, we're
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  Speaker 1: playing through this thing. Yeah, absolutely, you know. Uh, um,
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  Speaker 1: you you're obviously living a dream right now. So any
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  Speaker 1: opportunity you can to go out and play football and
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  Speaker 1: fight through you know, whether it's an ankle or something,
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  Speaker 1: just just continue to fight through it because I know, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you're in week eighteen, of the season. Nobody's completely healthy,
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  Speaker 1: so you just gotta do what you can do to
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  Speaker 1: to play for one another. And I thought we've all
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  Speaker 1: done a great job in this building doing that. Very
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  Speaker 1: get involved in a winner take all game in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: um no, I mean, we played the Eagles, but that
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  Speaker 1: was to win. If we won, we were in. But
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  Speaker 1: it's never been a winner take Also, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a heck of an environment and we're all excited for it.
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  Speaker 1: There's the environment, but then there's still the process getting
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  Speaker 1: ready for the game you have. How do you balance
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  Speaker 1: those two? Just continue to to focus on the details.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously the games on Saturday, so you gotta
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  Speaker 1: you gotta speed up a little bit. But Doug's gonna
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  Speaker 1: dug into all. The coaching staff has done a great job,
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  Speaker 1: you know, throughout the year. You know, we had that
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  Speaker 1: three game stretch in twelve days, so they did a
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  Speaker 1: great job taking care of our bodies. And uh, we
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  Speaker 1: we got we got four or five days, so we're
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  Speaker 1: we're I can feel that the energy and the excitement
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  Speaker 1: from a bunch of guys, you know, because this is
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  Speaker 1: a huge game for us and we're we're excited. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: how different is this Tennessee team from a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of guys on a report as well, But
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  Speaker 1: is it you know, what are they looking like right now? Uh? There?
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  Speaker 1: I mean the I'm gonna speak up on their D lines.
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  Speaker 1: Their D lines. They got a great D line. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I think we had a hard time rushing the ball
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  Speaker 1: against them up front. They're really stout their physical um.
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  Speaker 1: So we gotta we gotta bring our a game and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we got a couple of days to plan
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  Speaker 1: for them, and we're gonna get our best shot. You
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  Speaker 1: got to talk about that preparation throughout the week and
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  Speaker 1: how you need to have the intensity at a certain
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  Speaker 1: level throughout the season. This is a week where you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that from the team, right No.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean you just gotta focus on you know,
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  Speaker 1: you you can't get you know, you can't get too excited.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta kinda you gotta kind of take it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and just when game when game day comes, then you
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  Speaker 1: gotta let it, let it go. So I would say
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  Speaker 1: just to have a little bit of patients and just
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  Speaker 1: continue to trust in the process that Dougs put in
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  Speaker 1: front of us. And and uh, just just do your job.
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  Speaker 1: Control you can control. How hard is it to kind
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  Speaker 1: of bottle up that excitement until Saturday when you know
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  Speaker 1: it's like right around the corner. And of course these
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  Speaker 1: are the games that you want to be a part of. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's hard, you know, and some of the
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  Speaker 1: younger guys haven't been in the say, situations like that before.
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  Speaker 1: And I think this is one of the biggest games
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  Speaker 1: obviously since two thousand and seventeen here too, which is
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  Speaker 1: what some people say, So not a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: have been a part of it. So it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: excited to see their reaction, and we're excited to play.
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  Speaker 1: Not having been in those type of games actually be
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  Speaker 1: a strength for this team. I have no idea. Mean,
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine because they don't know, they don't know
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  Speaker 1: what to expect. I would that's a good question. How
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  Speaker 1: would you answer that? I'm not sure. You know, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you don't know what you're going is. That's right? There,
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  Speaker 1: you go, that's right. You want to you want to talk,
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  Speaker 1: you can talk. You're part of the Washington Dallas rivalry
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  Speaker 1: obviously for a while, so you kind of know all
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  Speaker 1: about that. In the engine out. It was a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but like when you came here, did you dive into it,
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  Speaker 1: like the Titans Jags robbery at all? Not not something
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  Speaker 1: you talked about or even thought about until you played
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  Speaker 1: the first time. Yeah, it was. It was really nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and we talked about until we played in the first time,
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  Speaker 1: and then they showed that stat um and then obviously
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  Speaker 1: we went over there, had a good game plan and
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  Speaker 1: you know it came out of victorious. So we got
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  Speaker 1: to do the exact same thing this week, and um,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get their best shot and they're gonna get ours.
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  Speaker 1: Or did you ever get to the point where you
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  Speaker 1: were like, man, I hate the Alas when you were
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  Speaker 1: up there with the Reds or the Commanders. Sorry, did
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  Speaker 1: you ever get to that point? Because fans are like
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  Speaker 1: they hate the biggest rival, But I know players probably
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  Speaker 1: don't get to that point, right right, I mean, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: every every game in the NFL is a big game,
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  Speaker 1: so you kind of gotta treat them the same, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: win loss, you know, you obviously want to win them all.
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  Speaker 1: So as a player, I would I just you know,
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  Speaker 1: just try to do my job and control what I
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  Speaker 1: can control. Yeah, I'm I'm just saying that's that's all
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  Speaker 1: I do. Yeah, Travis ct regress as the sea that
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  Speaker 1: has gone along his first season on the field. From
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the season to now, he's done a great job.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's exciting. Uh when he hit that sixty
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  Speaker 1: two yard run. You know, we right when he hit
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  Speaker 1: the hole and we heard the crowd chairing um and
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  Speaker 1: we saw him right down the field. I just put
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  Speaker 1: my hands up and one gave Trevor high five or
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  Speaker 1: hug or something like that. But you know, he's been
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  Speaker 1: great for us. I think all those guys snoop. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he had his first touchdown too. So it's fun to see.
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  Speaker 1: You know, from the first preseason game until we was
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  Speaker 1: that week seventeen. We we that was game sixteen. So
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  Speaker 1: how you know they're hitting the holes, how they're finding
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  Speaker 1: the holes, how they're seeing things you know before they
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  Speaker 1: even unfold, and they're making that cut. So and it's
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  Speaker 1: fun to just see him run through a tackler too
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  Speaker 1: and get that extra yard. It pumps us up. There's
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  Speaker 1: a vet just playing in a night game. Do anything
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  Speaker 1: for you. I mean it's past my bedtime almost, but uh,
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  Speaker 1: um no, but it's it's it's a good experience, you know, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the Jets experience. That was our first night game besides
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  Speaker 1: preseason game, so it was fun to see everybody juiced
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  Speaker 1: up for that, you know. And then the stadium. I
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  Speaker 1: hope the state's gonna be packed, so it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a good, great environment. How impressive you've been just with
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  Speaker 1: how Luke's grown over the course of the season. Foreigner, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's done a great job to see his confidence. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's he's grown, His confidence has grown, and
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  Speaker 1: the way he communicates and carries himself is if you
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  Speaker 1: told me that he was a rookie, I would have
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  Speaker 1: told you you're crazy, because he's one of the smartest
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  Speaker 1: rookies ever played with great perfectly bad. Thanks