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Mac & Bone Show- Devin Lloyd · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back everybody. It is the Mac and Bone Show
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  Speaker 1: live from Panthers training camp, getting his twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: season kicked off right here Sports Radio ninety two to
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  Speaker 1: seven WFNZ. One of the new faces that Panther fans
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  Speaker 1: are very excited about is sitting here with us right now.
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  Speaker 1: He has been a linebacker, Devin Lloyd. Devin, Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte and welcome here to the Mac and Bone Show.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging with us.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing absolutely absolutely, I'm glad to be here.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: So all right. How comfortable are you now getting in
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  Speaker 1: the defense? You had the off season workouts? Now you're
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  Speaker 1: a few days into camp. Do you feel like the
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  Speaker 1: new guy still or you is? Do you feel pretty
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  Speaker 1: at home right now?
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  Speaker 3: No? I do feel at home, Yeah, definitely. Like you know,
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  Speaker 3: I've been telling everybody the team and all the guys
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  Speaker 3: in the locker room have been great. It's been fun
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  Speaker 3: getting to know them, and it's a whole lot of
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  Speaker 3: fun in that locker room every day and when we
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  Speaker 3: step on the field. So it's definitely feeling like home now.
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  Speaker 2: What drew you to Charlotte as your new home? This organization,
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  Speaker 2: this defense, all that surrounds it here. What drew you
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  Speaker 2: here during free agency?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you definitely from the outside in look at the
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  Speaker 3: ascension of this team, and obviously for me it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: I want to win. So just the opportunity to be
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  Speaker 3: able to for this team last year to go to
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs and obviously win the division didn't go the
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  Speaker 3: way you know we expected or won it, but you
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  Speaker 3: see the progression of this team and it was exciting
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  Speaker 3: exciting for me to be a part of that growth.
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  Speaker 3: But also you look at the talent on defense and
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  Speaker 3: you know, I understand, you know how good we can
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  Speaker 3: be when we do what we're supposed to do. So
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  Speaker 3: that's exciting to be a part of getting to play
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  Speaker 3: with a lot of great players and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: go see what we can do.
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  Speaker 1: Man, You and Geniel Phillips added to a defense that
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  Speaker 1: gets more talent every year. Man, we can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: see it. Last year was a special year for you.
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  Speaker 1: All Pro honors, Pro Bowl honors, It felt like you
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  Speaker 1: really made a jump. What do you what what was
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  Speaker 1: different last year?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: How?
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  Speaker 1: How was it just learning or was it something they
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  Speaker 1: did with you schematically? Like what made last year pop?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, when I look at last year, I
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  Speaker 3: look at you know, the end of the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: fourth season and really me mastering my process, which is
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  Speaker 3: just ultimately what I do on a day to day basis,
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  Speaker 3: so my habits, my lifestyle, really just understanding what it
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  Speaker 3: takes for me to to live a life that is
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  Speaker 3: really just just doing everything right, you know, just doing
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  Speaker 3: things off the field right. And then obviously you know
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  Speaker 3: that translates to on the field. But then that in
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  Speaker 3: addition to the new coaches, and I mean they taught
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  Speaker 3: me a lot about the game as well, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so they opened my eyes with a few different things,
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  Speaker 3: especially in the run game, you know, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: learning a game in addition to really me just handling
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  Speaker 3: my business and really mastering my process off the field,
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  Speaker 3: I think it all came together and really just taking
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  Speaker 3: advantage of opportunities. And now I have, you know, an
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  Speaker 3: even greater opportunity here. So I'm looking forward to, you
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  Speaker 3: know what we're gonna do here.
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  Speaker 2: Deep linebacker history here. Sam Mills has a statue out front.
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  Speaker 2: We've got TD Keithley, I'm more on him momentarily. You've
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  Speaker 2: got Dan Morgan, a man who signed you here and
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  Speaker 2: then people say, Devin Lloyd the next guy in that group.
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  Speaker 2: What's it mean to you? To you to be named
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  Speaker 2: with those group of guys that's potential? Pants are great?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously it's an honor. But I haven't done anything yet.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta, you know, prove myself and earn that. But
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  Speaker 3: it's just really cool to be a part of somewhere
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  Speaker 3: where there's great linebacker lineage. Just uh, these fans in
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  Speaker 3: this city expecting great linebacker plays, you know, it's uh,
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  Speaker 3: I love it, you know. So I just look forward to,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, proving myself and you know, ultimately just
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  Speaker 3: showing that, you know, I deserve to be a part
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  Speaker 3: of that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've already been learning from one of those guys,
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  Speaker 1: Luke Keikley. There's a Panthers dot com article by Darren
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  Speaker 1: Gant was a great read about you and Luke talking ball.
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  Speaker 1: And then Luke says, let's watch some film which you
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  Speaker 1: had to love because this due this dude is hey
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  Speaker 1: film was a film freak when he played. Was there
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  Speaker 1: something you learned already? You learned a couple of times.
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  Speaker 3: You had to well yeah, obviously, yeah, I mean anytime
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  Speaker 3: he talks ball, you know, you listen. But yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: just really just went over a lot of stuff. It
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  Speaker 3: wasn't even just like, oh I took away this one
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  Speaker 3: specific thing. It's more so like, okay, how he's wired
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  Speaker 3: and you know, some technique things, just overall, how he
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  Speaker 3: approached the game as a leader, as a football player,
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  Speaker 3: all that. So, And it wasn't the first time I
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  Speaker 3: talked with him, but you know that, and hopefully you
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  Speaker 3: know it's not the last. But yeah, I mean, every
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  Speaker 3: time you know, you conversate with you know, future Hall
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  Speaker 3: of Famer, you're gonna learn something.
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  Speaker 1: I get the feeling he loved it too, like you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, wasn't just wasn't him doing you
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  Speaker 1: a favor. It sounds like he was like, yeah, let's
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  Speaker 1: watch you know, like that's fun to him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, two guys that love ball talking ball, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so I think that's that's fun for anybody loves ball.
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  Speaker 2: Devin, I was always like to look up and see
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  Speaker 2: what guys did in high school because there was always
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  Speaker 2: multiple positions and guys play other places on the field.
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  Speaker 2: So you were a wide receiver of safety. And it
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  Speaker 2: says you averaged thirty eight yards a punt.
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  Speaker 3: Also, you were then I was the punter. That was
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  Speaker 3: actually my first starting position. So I was the punter
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  Speaker 3: on varsity my sophomore year and yeah, that was my
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  Speaker 3: first in positions. So that's funny.
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  Speaker 1: You look out, Sam Martin, Sam Martin, you better be
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  Speaker 1: you better be working out, baby oh Man. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So you talk about this defense and just how special
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  Speaker 1: it can be. Do you what last year? I think
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that was so special for your
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  Speaker 1: last year is you did everything like against the run.
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  Speaker 1: You had a great year. But two things that I
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  Speaker 1: really can't wait to see as a fan is your
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  Speaker 1: coverage year was amazing and we really need that coverage
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the field. Didn't have it last year.
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  Speaker 1: And then another thing is the blitz success you had.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, is have you gotten a feeling of like
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  Speaker 1: how much coverage? How much is gonna be blitzing?
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  Speaker 3: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: You know? What? Whatich?
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  Speaker 1: What do you feel like the role is gonna be here?
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  Speaker 1: Is it gonna be similar to last year in Jacksonville?
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  Speaker 3: I think there's gonna be similarity. I know our coach
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  Speaker 3: last year like to blitz me a ton. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think I'm probably gonna be blitzing as much, but there's
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  Speaker 3: still gonna be some of that, but definitely, you know
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  Speaker 3: a lot of more opportunities and coverage as well. I
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  Speaker 3: think overall, it's really just you know whatever, Uh, whenever
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  Speaker 3: I'm on the field, just being effective, whether it's in
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  Speaker 3: the game, in the past game or pressure in the quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: just being effective. So that's my standard every time I'm
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  Speaker 3: on the fields, it's gotta be good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How excited are you to watch Derek Brown just throw people?
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  Speaker 2: Man at the club they call it. How how far
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  Speaker 2: up are you to watch guys just flying all over
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  Speaker 2: the place.
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  Speaker 3: Man, It's a big, strong, angry man that commands double team.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I mean, playing linebacker behind him is
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  Speaker 3: gonna be fun. I just hope he doesn't take all
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  Speaker 3: the tackles.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta worry about Merrick flies in too? Man
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  Speaker 2: back there, Oh good tackle.
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  Speaker 3: We got this, you know. I mean that's why I
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  Speaker 3: came here though, you know, look around and every level
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  Speaker 3: of defense we got ballers. So I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: So we I don't know if we know what we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about, Devin, but we tried, right, we tried. We
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  Speaker 1: meet me. We well's Panther fans, We like look at
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  Speaker 1: this unit and say, and I have the scot and
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  Speaker 1: lost stinks, but I still look at this unit and say,
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  Speaker 1: this could be a top ten group. Is that fair
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  Speaker 1: like to put that sort of nuh like? Is that
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  Speaker 1: a fair expectation? Or you're gonna say that ain't enough
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  Speaker 1: of an expectation. What do you what do you expect?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, first, I do want to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: say that I'm sick for my brother Nick, and I
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  Speaker 3: know that you know he's gonna bounce back, He's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be stronger than ever. And yeah, you know, just everybody
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  Speaker 3: please keep nicking their prayers, but also be optimistic about him.
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  Speaker 3: You know that he's gonna come back and he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be hungry than ever. But then, you know, when you
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  Speaker 3: say stuff like that, it's it's our mentality as well.
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  Speaker 3: But ultimately we got to prove it. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: not doing much talking about it, but it's definitely something
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  Speaker 3: that's on our mind. Is you know, being the best in.
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  Speaker 2: The league, Devin, you also not only have the great
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  Speaker 2: linebacker when he ach year, there's a utah when the
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  Speaker 2: edge as well, right, Steve Smith, Jordan Gross have you
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  Speaker 2: have you talked to those guys at all about being
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  Speaker 2: the next great uh not only linebacker here, but a
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  Speaker 2: great Utah youth.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Steve was here a few uh weeks ago right
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  Speaker 3: before it was during the Ota time frame, at Bryce's camp,
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  Speaker 3: and so yeah, we had chopped it up. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we didn't talk too much about like being the next
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  Speaker 3: grade or anything. But it's cool that there is also
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  Speaker 3: a tradition of youths as well. And then obviously Jordan
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  Speaker 3: Gross is coaching at Utah, so that lineage is cool
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  Speaker 3: as well. For sure.
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  Speaker 1: Do you talk trash to Brady Christiansen or you trying
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  Speaker 1: to keep that college rivalryside so far?
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  Speaker 3: You know, he just came in the other day when
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  Speaker 3: they re signed him and the yeah, he brought it up,
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  Speaker 3: so there was a little something there. But I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's a great guy.
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  Speaker 1: I love it all right. So what is your what's
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  Speaker 1: your Let's get away from football for a second. What
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  Speaker 1: have you noticed about Charlotte since moving here? I actually
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  Speaker 1: lived in Jacksonville years back. I do think there are
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  Speaker 1: definitely some similarities and there some differences. What do you
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  Speaker 1: like about Charlotte so far? What are some of the
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  Speaker 1: cool things yeah, I love.
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  Speaker 3: The energy, you know, i'd say, I mean, first, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Southern hospitality is real out here. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just over all the people, all the interactions. Everybody's just
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  Speaker 3: real friendly and honest. And then also just the energy.
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  Speaker 3: It's a youthful, go getter type energy. You know. Jacksonville's
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  Speaker 3: a little more laid back retirement kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: slower pace. So I do like there's an uptick in
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  Speaker 3: just the old row feel in the city. And then
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  Speaker 3: food's great. You know, I have a chef, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: whenever I eat out, you know, everything's been awesome.
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  Speaker 1: So you can look at our waistlines and see how
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  Speaker 1: we we we concur on the food all right. Unfortunately, Devin,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for coming on. You were gonna up the
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  Speaker 1: energy when you start doing things out in that stadium,
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  Speaker 1: the energy in Charlotte is gonna be up. We can't
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  Speaker 1: wait to see you play. Thanks for coming on with us, man.
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  Speaker 3: We appreciate it, absolutely absolutely, Thanks for having me