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O-Zone Podcast: Andrew Wingard · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast, presented by by Star Credit Union,
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  Speaker 1: featuring Jaguar Senior writer John Hosier and executive producer Dave
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  Speaker 1: de Candice. We have a guest this week. I think
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  Speaker 1: people are really going to enjoy and being excited about.
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  Speaker 1: It's Jaguar's second years safety Andrew Wingard. I said, Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: as we'll learn, there's many many different names we can
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  Speaker 1: we can call him by. But the storyline this week
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  Speaker 1: is fascinating. A huge interception that I don't wanna say
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  Speaker 1: it beat the Colts, but sure had a big hand
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  Speaker 1: in it the other day. Uh, he's a guy who's
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  Speaker 1: very interesting to talk to in terms of his off
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  Speaker 1: the field. I think people are gonna enjoy it, so
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  Speaker 1: we'll get right to it. There's more to him than
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  Speaker 1: the interception. We'll get into more than the interception. But
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  Speaker 1: Andrew talked about the interception. I mean, Phil couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: stared it down much longer. Candy Now, it was It
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  Speaker 1: was a it was a really really cool moment um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I just always, you know, trained my butt
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  Speaker 1: off for to be ready. You know, I came in
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  Speaker 1: this this camp, you know, wanting to prove myself that
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  Speaker 1: I can play that third safety spot and back up
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  Speaker 1: both spots, and um, you know, I knew if if
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  Speaker 1: one of those two guys went down, I'd have to
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  Speaker 1: come in and perform, and that's that's what I do.
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  Speaker 1: And I came in and got the job done. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm super super happy and just excited to build on that.
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  Speaker 1: How many plays had you been in when that play
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  Speaker 1: came refresh my memory? Yeah, I was in on the
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  Speaker 1: series before Josh got up a little bit, so it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't I was a little my blood was flown by things,
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  Speaker 1: so that that's but you replaced Jared on that series.
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  Speaker 1: Being being multiple, being able to replace both those guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, strong and free, being able to come down
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  Speaker 1: in the box as well as play the past. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: just being able to do both of those helped me
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Now, if you've ever seen me, you know
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  Speaker 1: I didn't play the game, and I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of our our viewers didn't play the game. Take me
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  Speaker 1: through that feeling when you know you've got the break,
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  Speaker 1: you know you've read his eyes, you know you've done
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  Speaker 1: your job, and now the balls in the air and
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  Speaker 1: you gotta catch it. I know there's not a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time, but take the listener through that. What is
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  Speaker 1: in you when that's happening. Yeah, it's it's actually pretty
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  Speaker 1: crazy because you know, you're you're standing there and you
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  Speaker 1: you got your pre snap you know, a little indicator
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  Speaker 1: that you know the backs away, so I'm alert for
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  Speaker 1: that that spear out by the by the W receiver
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he took that exact release and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, okay, um, I'm gonna jump. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna jump the crap out of this. And you know
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  Speaker 1: I was I kind of shadowed over the top of it,
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  Speaker 1: and as I was, as I started to drive it,
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  Speaker 1: I just saw a phil you know eye in it
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  Speaker 1: down the whole time. And it's kind of crazy. You
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  Speaker 1: know people say their their life kind of goes into
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  Speaker 1: slow mo, but it really, honestly kind of goes into
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  Speaker 1: slow mo because you're like, holy crap, like he's he's
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  Speaker 1: really about to throw it right now. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he sees me. And then you know, as the ball
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  Speaker 1: goes you know, many times in practice, you know I've
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  Speaker 1: I've drove down on a route and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, dropped an easy pick and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: dang am I gonna be able to do that in
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  Speaker 1: the game. But honestly, when you're in that moment and
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  Speaker 1: you're your adrenalinees flying you, you kind of black out.
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, like I, it was so easy to catch
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  Speaker 1: the ball, like I knew I was going to catch it,
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  Speaker 1: and it just kind of came in slowly like it
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  Speaker 1: was going in slow motion. And then after that it
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  Speaker 1: was it was off to the races. So it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a super cool, super cool feeling, and that's those are
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  Speaker 1: the kind of things you you know, you live for
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  Speaker 1: playing this game because it's you know, statistically, if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the posts, even just great, great defensive players
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  Speaker 1: might have fifty or sixty of these things in a career.
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  Speaker 1: It's a long career. Opportunities for picks don't come along
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  Speaker 1: very often in the NFL, so it's it's one of
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  Speaker 1: those where everything sort of has to come together right right,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it perfectly came together. And you know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of those big named corner
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  Speaker 1: said you want to be a thousand are you want
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  Speaker 1: to be a millionaire, And when you get that opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta be the millionaire and go get that ball.
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  Speaker 1: Because those things do not come often. Like you said,
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  Speaker 1: take me through your your celebration. Afterwards, I saw glimpses
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  Speaker 1: of people on the sidelines said it went on for
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  Speaker 1: a while. Was it was pretty intense. You know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: at first it's kind of the you know, just go
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  Speaker 1: just go back crazy because you don't really know what
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  Speaker 1: to do. And then you know, obviously I I grew
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  Speaker 1: up a big, big Ladinian Tomlinson Fannie. You know he
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  Speaker 1: had the uh, the hand on the back of the
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  Speaker 1: head and the flip of the ball, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: LT train. So I've been I've been thinking about that
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  Speaker 1: celebration for about you know, seventeen or sixteen years, something
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  Speaker 1: like that that I wanted, you know, wanted to do
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  Speaker 1: in a game because you know, you can't celebrate like
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  Speaker 1: that in college or you'll get a flag. So it
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  Speaker 1: was it was a super cool moment, and I definitely
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  Speaker 1: kind of blacked out and just kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: ran around with like a chicken with my head cut off.
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  Speaker 1: But it felt good. So I was gonna say, when
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  Speaker 1: you say six or seventeen years, I guess you can't
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  Speaker 1: sell a great in high school. You're sort of selling
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  Speaker 1: yourself short a little bit. Yeah, you're an unknown in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, but you've never played at a level where
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  Speaker 1: you haven't had success. You're a big time high school player,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of impact in college. Um, I guess just
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  Speaker 1: take me through the process. And you talked about this
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  Speaker 1: sun last year, but a very very good college player,
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  Speaker 1: but you needed an opportunity in the NFL, right right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And you know, as I look back on last year
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the draft and stuff, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: I was a you know, I had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: production in college, and honestly, I kind of got a
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  Speaker 1: little I got a little complacent as a senior. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I had a really good junior year, and you know
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  Speaker 1: i'd be in the games as a senior kind of thinking,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know what are scouts thinking of me?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'd be in the middle of a play,
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  Speaker 1: like if I don't make this tackle, if I don't
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  Speaker 1: get an interception, you know what are scouts gonna think
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  Speaker 1: of me? And I was just you know, I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of thinking too much, and you know that kind
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  Speaker 1: of carried over into um, you know, the draft, where
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  Speaker 1: you know I kind of I really thought I was
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  Speaker 1: going to get drafted to be honest with you and
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  Speaker 1: to have that yeah, you know that moment of holy cow,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get drafted. It kind of it kind of
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  Speaker 1: just reset me, you know, back to that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that underdog mentality. You know I was, I was only
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  Speaker 1: a two star recruit coming out of high school. I
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  Speaker 1: only had one FBS offer, So you know when I
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  Speaker 1: got to Wyoming, I had that. I had that you
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  Speaker 1: know kind of underdog mentality. You know, I wouldn't think
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  Speaker 1: about anything. I just go out and ball, you know,
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  Speaker 1: go out off my instincts. And going undrafted really reset
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  Speaker 1: me back to that underdog mentality. And I've you know,
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  Speaker 1: that was probably the best thing that ever happened to me,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, because, um, as you saw,
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  Speaker 1: you know, out there on Sunday, that's just me going out,
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  Speaker 1: not thinking about anything, not worrying, trusting my instincts and
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  Speaker 1: just going out and making a play. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I I really attribute you know that, you know that
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  Speaker 1: undrafted mentality, um, you know, kind of reset me and
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  Speaker 1: helping me, you know, get to where I am today
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  Speaker 1: because you know, I'm just falling back on my instincts
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  Speaker 1: and just going out and balling and not caring about
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  Speaker 1: what anybody thinks. It's it's obviously the undrafted thing that
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  Speaker 1: follows somebody for a while, honestly, because it's still when
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  Speaker 1: people talk about Jaguar's safeties, it was you know, it
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  Speaker 1: was always Ronnie and jar and you never really talk
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  Speaker 1: about Andrew Wingred. Does that drive you? Still? Does it
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  Speaker 1: bother you? What I mean, it sounds like it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be something that you use. Yeah, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: read into what you know, people say, I just go
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  Speaker 1: out and I just go out and be me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing else you can do. You can't worry about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, outside noise other things like that. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: people are completely entitled to their opinions, but I'm also
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  Speaker 1: completely entitled to not you know, give a crap what
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  Speaker 1: you think about me. And that's kind of how I
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of how I do it. And you know that,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, that undrafted mentality is it's just a
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  Speaker 1: great thing to happen. And you know, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be undrafted to have that dog mentality. You see guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know Josh Allen goes out and plays with his
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  Speaker 1: of his head on fire, like he doesn't give a crap,
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  Speaker 1: you know, So that's kind of how Um, I've kind
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  Speaker 1: of molded into that guy. And if people talk about me,
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  Speaker 1: they talked about me. If they don't, they don't, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just gonna go out and beat me and do what
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  Speaker 1: I do. So now it strikes me from talking and
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  Speaker 1: watching a little bit, you've really, in your second year,
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  Speaker 1: gotten to the point where I'm not sure the phrasing
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  Speaker 1: to use, but it feels like you own special teams,
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  Speaker 1: like you already consider yourself a leader, I think, and
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  Speaker 1: your teammates consider yourself a leader. Um is that just
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  Speaker 1: do you love special teams? Or is that just hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is where I know I can make an impact.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, here's what I said. Do you love do
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  Speaker 1: you love being a corner? Do you love being a safety?
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  Speaker 1: Do you love being a linebacker? Or do you love football?
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  Speaker 1: You know? And I love football And I could really
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  Speaker 1: care less if I'm playing safety or if I'm the
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  Speaker 1: L three young kickoff. You know, I just love football
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  Speaker 1: and I love, you know, getting paid to play football.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, you see a lot of guys in
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  Speaker 1: this league who get you know, they get ran out
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  Speaker 1: in two years because you know they're not a starter,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't want to contribute on special teams because
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  Speaker 1: you know, they think it's a demotion or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: There's three parts of the game. Special teams is that
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  Speaker 1: other thirty three percent, and if you're not a starter,
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  Speaker 1: that's those are your plays. So you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I came into this league, like you said, like we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about undrafted, and I'm like, I gotta make it.
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I still love
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  Speaker 1: football and I could care less what position I'm playing.
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  Speaker 1: So just going out there and being able to play football,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's on special teams or defense, that's what you
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  Speaker 1: gotta do. And when you are on special teams, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta go and ball out because once you play special teams,
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  Speaker 1: that gives you time to perfect your craft on defense.
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  Speaker 1: And then once you're balling on special teams and a
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  Speaker 1: guy gets hurt, there you are. You're out there on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday getting an interception, you know, stuff like that. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whether it's special teams or defense, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I love the game and if I'm gonna be on
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  Speaker 1: special teams, I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: go balls to the walls. Hundred percent. And like you said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we got a lot a lot of young
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  Speaker 1: guys on this team. And I'm a young guy still too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm only in my second year. But you know, I
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  Speaker 1: obviously have more experience than a lot of them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: from last year. So I try to go out there
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  Speaker 1: and set the example and you know, just play with
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  Speaker 1: my head on fire and go out and make plays
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  Speaker 1: when I can and hopefully the young guys follow. Now,
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  Speaker 1: take me through the nicknames. It seems like you've got
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  Speaker 1: a million of them, but we'll focus on first four. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: how much do you embrace that? That's the Dougs thing? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Pretty much? Is Yeah, it's it's that. That was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of the first thing. Uh. That was kind of
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  Speaker 1: the first nickname when I got here. Really it was
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  Speaker 1: from coach Marone. And you know, when the when the
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  Speaker 1: coach is giving you nicknames, you know you're kind of like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing something right. That's good. He knows who I am,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so whatever he wants, right, Yeah, he could
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  Speaker 1: call me you know whatever. Yeah, whatever the heck he
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  Speaker 1: wants to call me. But yeah, so it started with
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  Speaker 1: thor Um. You know, obviously, whenever a white dude with
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  Speaker 1: long blonde hair comes into any football camp, there's always
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  Speaker 1: gonna be Sunshine. So that was there too. Um and
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  Speaker 1: then you know, guys start following you Instagram and stuff
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  Speaker 1: and they see that I got you know, the name
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  Speaker 1: Dewey stuff like that, so that came along, and then
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  Speaker 1: it was you know, I don't I don't think it
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  Speaker 1: was still late last year and coach Coach Wash started
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  Speaker 1: calling me kid Rock, and that kid rock one has
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  Speaker 1: actually stuck pretty hard. I got a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: calling me that now, So I got about I kind
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  Speaker 1: of about four four or five nicknames around here, so
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  Speaker 1: I kind of I kind of loose track. But Dewey
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  Speaker 1: is the one that came with you from college? Is
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  Speaker 1: that just after andrews that the Yeah? Yeah, my my
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  Speaker 1: dad kind of gave me that nickname as a kid.
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  Speaker 1: One of our one of our little neighbor kids had
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  Speaker 1: had trouble saying saying or ours. You know, everyone called
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  Speaker 1: me Drew, and it you know, went from do to Dewey,
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  Speaker 1: So you know, it's actually kind of weird. Usually the
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  Speaker 1: only person that calls me Andrew was my mom when
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  Speaker 1: she's pissed at me or something. So usually it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty Usually everyone just knows me by Dewey. So
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  Speaker 1: that's that's kind of how it's been coming from, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Colorado and stuff that's wild. So you you live with
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  Speaker 1: Minshew last year and and now that's over with it
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  Speaker 1: he throw you out. Was it COVID related or yeah
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  Speaker 1: it was you know, we we just we split up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there was the there was the COVID thing,
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  Speaker 1: and it was I won't bore you with the details,
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  Speaker 1: but we we live apart, but we're still buddies. So
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  Speaker 1: it's all good, right there. I know it's tiresome because
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  Speaker 1: it anytime anybody's talking to you, they probably ask about him.
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  Speaker 1: But he's always a topic people. You know, you guys
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  Speaker 1: are closed. Tell me something about him that you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe people miss. He is as big of a just
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  Speaker 1: a football guy. You know. He he lives eats you know,
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  Speaker 1: you like you said, it's cliche, right, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: lives football, but he this man really lives eats and
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  Speaker 1: sleeps football. You know, it's it's all, it's all he
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  Speaker 1: thinks about. You know. I remember, you know, coming back
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  Speaker 1: you know to the apartment stuff like that last year,
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  Speaker 1: where to the house this year. It's all football. You know.
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  Speaker 1: You get back and he's on YouTube watching you know,
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  Speaker 1: games from nineteen or something. You know, just constantly just
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  Speaker 1: you know, absorb in the knowledge and stuff of the game.
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  Speaker 1: And you see it on Sunday, you know, whether no
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  Speaker 1: matter what the doubters say stuff like that, he goes
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  Speaker 1: out and he balls, you know, And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: what you know, people get away from, whether it's the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the hair, the stash, you know, the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the the big name. He is a grinder
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  Speaker 1: and a football guy, and it shows out on the field.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's always prepared, you know, nineteen of nineteen twenty.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's pretty crazy. And you obviously know that
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  Speaker 1: that guy knows everything the defense is doing. He knows
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  Speaker 1: everything each guy is doing on offense. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty cool to see. So especially from a you know,
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  Speaker 1: a six ft you know, underrated six round draft picks,
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  Speaker 1: So that's pretty cool to see from So I'll get
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  Speaker 1: off the topic in a second, but from being around him,
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  Speaker 1: what percentage if you're just hanging out in a day,
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  Speaker 1: what percentage is the minshoe mania mustache guy, and what
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  Speaker 1: percentage is the guy you're talking about. I've always theorized
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  Speaker 1: with him that basically he turns that on for ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes when the media is watching, and then he's probably
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  Speaker 1: a pretty normal guy outside of that. Is that Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know back at back at the house, he's just
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's just chill. You know, he he just
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  Speaker 1: chills out, you know, watches his TV, reads his books,
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. You know, there's there were the occasional
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  Speaker 1: times last year, you know, after the Thursday night game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to throw him under the bus,
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  Speaker 1: but you know we're out. We're out. We're out at
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  Speaker 1: Jack's Beach, you know, drinking water. You know. So you
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: know we've gone out of We've gone out a few
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  Speaker 1: times and you know lived it up a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: which is pretty cool to see. You know that that
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  Speaker 1: that was one of the crazier things last year was
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  Speaker 1: just you know, he was the backup. You know that
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  Speaker 1: obviously everyone saw the preseason that was pretty rough, and
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  Speaker 1: it just blew up after that that Tennessee game, which
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  Speaker 1: was pretty crazy. You know, when we went out to
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  Speaker 1: the beach bars and it was like it was like
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  Speaker 1: we were like the Rolling Stones or something. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it was Gardner and you know, we were in his
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: little posse and there was just you know, hundreds of
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: people you know around us, which was which was pretty crazy.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: So um, but most of the time, you know, he's
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: just chilling at home. Uh, you know, he's a he's
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: got a tight circle. So um, we'll see what happens
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: down the road. And my understanding is that y'all's families
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: have become pretty close, right just from traveling on the road. Yeah. Yeah,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: my parents, my parents got close with with Mike Walker's
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: family too, and uh, you know, obviously Gardner's family as well.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: They actually had Gardner's uncle has a big boat that
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: they parked out there, um on the river, and my
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: my parents and Mike's parents were out there. So they're
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: definitely very very welcoming people. And it's it's cool that,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: you know, my parents get to make some friends to
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Jared being hurt. What kind of an opportunity is this
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: for you? And I assume you just approach it the
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: same way you always have, just hair on fire full go. Yeah. No,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: it's a great opportunity and something I'm definitely prepared for
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: and ready to go and hold it down while Jared's
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: gone you know, Um, I want to pride myself on,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: you know, being that third safety that if one of
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: those guys goes down, we don't skip a beat. And
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: you know, I was out there today at practice and
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: it just felt great being out there communicating, not even
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: missing a beat. So I'm super excited for the opportunity.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: And you know, I really really love the guys on
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: this defense. Um, you know, we communicate great together and
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who's out there. Um, we're all communicating
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: and you know, getting ready to go. So I'm super
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: super excited for the opportunity. The Athletic wrote a big
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: story on you last year talking about the adrenaline junkie thing. Um,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: it sounds like that's the real thing. It sounds like
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: that's that's who you are. Sort of cliche, sort of cliche,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, but but that's what it is, right, Yeah,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: that's that same feeling of you know, flying down a
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: black diamond on the skis just kind of flowing and
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: going with it. Is kind of the same way I
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: do it on the field. You know, just take it
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: as a ums and you know, if a bad play happens,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: it happens. Move on to the next. If a good
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: play happens, celebrate with your hair on fire. So um,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: that's kind of how I approach everything in life. You know,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: don't get too high, don't get too low. You know,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: get on that get on that adrenaline train, and you know,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: right it all the way. Final question. I appreciate you
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: doing that. I'll let you get out of here. Tell
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: me about this Jaguars team and you're around here last year.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: There's a little bit of a different feeling this year.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: You know, you obviously one, so it helps to be fun.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: But it strikes me, even from watching training camp, that
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: you guys like being around each other. This is a team. Uh,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I guess just put that into words. From your point
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: of view, it really is really different. Um. You know,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: nothing against the guys last year, but this team it's
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: just different. You know, there's young guys, there's first year guys,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: and you know everyone is just kind of a blue,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: blue collar grinder. We're a blue all our grinder type
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: of team. And it's super cool to see all these
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: young guys come out here, uh and just go ball.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: You know. It's guys that you know they're gonna go
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: out and do their job, and they're gonna do it
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty percent. And that's one thing. You know.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Obviously it was one game, you know, we had a
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: really good win, but we got to continue to stack them.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: But um, I think with the base, you know, the baseline,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: you know, fundamentals and technique and effort and stuff like
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: that that you know, Coach Marone has you know, counted
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: us every day, I think it's gonna help us a lot.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And it's a team that, um, whether good things happen,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: whether bad things happen, we're gonna stay even keel and
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: we're just gonna move on to the next play and
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: continue to go and try to ball out. And it's, uh,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: it's super cool to see. And it's just a group
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: of guys that, like you said, we all really enjoy
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: each other's company. You know. It's not like we're you know,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Dan gotta go out to practice. It's we get to
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: go out to practice with with a bunch of guys
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: we respect and a bunch of guys that, um, you know,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: we'll go to war for each other. So it's, uh,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: it's super cool to see. And obviously when you go
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: out and win, it's you know, it's even better and
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: you come back in that locker I mean, the happiness
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: and the bliss you know in that locker room after
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: that game is you know, that's what you play for.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: That's you know, those are the those are the days
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: that you'll remember twenty years from now, you know, just
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: seeing everyone smiling stuff like that, and it's uh, it's
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: super cool that coach Maron has you know, developed this
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: team um to being so tight. Well, Andrew, this is
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the only he's only taken the third time I've talked
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to you, but all times have really been entertaining, very interesting.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you doing this. I think fans are gonna
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: enjoy getting to know you a little bit. So thanks
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: for joining us and not good luck the rest of
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the year. Thank you so much, John, have a good one.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I want to thank you Andrew Windout for joining us. Uh.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: As I say every week, it's not always easy for
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: players to do this, to give fifteen or twenty minutes
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: during the season as they're getting ready for games, So
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: that's always appreciated. And Dave, I thought Andrew or Dewey
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: or kid Rock, whatever you wanna call him, I even
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: all and you know day he would he probably wouldn't mind. Um.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Very interesting guy and as I think we're fine with
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: a few of these players, there's some guys on this
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Jaguars team that are mature with the perspective beyond their years.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I think he fits into that. My theory as to
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: why is he's played a lot of football with a
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: star at Wyoming, even though he was unknown in a
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: lot of places, so he's been through it a lot.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: He's been a leader, he's played at a high level.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: But he's got a pretty good perspective on the NFL.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: He does indeed, And uh, it's funny around the building.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I think mostly people call him Dewey that I've been around.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: It's funny. I haven't you know, he was a rookie
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: last year. I hadn't dealt with him much. I mean,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: this is probably my first time being involved in something
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: he was doing. And uh, he was a great interview
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: and really had some nice perspective for you know, a
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: guy who's only in the second year in the league.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: And um, it's interesting to see and it's had a
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: funny and he kind of talked about at the end
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: about this team. And I know we're a week into this,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: but it feels like this team is super close already,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: and that's pretty good. Since there was no off season
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: program they were in training camp. Training camp was weird.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: And I mean even now they're still not They're still
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: separated at points in the day for meetings and all
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. I mean, they're never in the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: same room until game day. This is pretty good. How
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: how close knit this team team is and kind of
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: what he was talking about there at the end of
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the of your conversation. Yeah, and we'll talk about wind
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Garden a second. Close it out. But I I said
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: on a few shows, so people who listened to this
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: has probably heard me say it's before. But it became
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: clear that Doug looked at this bunch and I knew
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: that as a young team, it was gonna need togetherness,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: a closeness, something like that. And uh, you know, I
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: don't know if it was the social justice conversations during
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the offseason where a lot of players talked to each
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: other and got to know each other. Doug talked about
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: that a little bit. He didn't want to make that
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: connection because he considers the social dust just topic into
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: and of its own. He doesn't want to have that
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: use uh to be something else. But this team, I
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: think you told me being on the sidelines, the communication
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: is very, very high, the helping each other. When you
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: talk to these guys, you can feel it, and I
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: think you saw it on the field the other day.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I've thrown this out many times this week already. They
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: trailed four times, Dave and it it's a young team
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: that didn't play well early on Sunday. You trail the
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: entire game, it would be easy at any point to
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: say the same old team. They came back every time,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: eventually took the lead. About the in the game, looked
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: like the better team. I know the stats were in
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: favor of the Colts, but you know, give Doug some
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: credit for creating that. And at least for a week,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: it worked. So it's it's a it's impressive. We'll see
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: how far it goes. But I get back to win Guard.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I was impressed by the authenticity of what he was
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: saying about really doesn't care where he plays. I thought
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: it was fascinating here talking about special teams, because you
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: know it shows up for people who don't really watch practice.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: When you watch Jaguars practice, I know wind Guard is
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: not the special team. Captain. That's Lambeau. But the players
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: should treat wind Guard on coverage teams like he's a captain.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: They're asking him what to do. They know he knows
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: what to do. This guy plays the role. Usually special
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: teams are good when you've got a fifth or sixty
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: year guy who knows what he's doing and as a leader,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: win Guard plays like that, Yeah he does. And uh.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: A big thing about this team, and kind of more
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: specifically Andrew, is just the ability to communicate. I think
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: that's gonna take this team pretty far, is is how
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: well they communicate. And Andrew, obviously on on your conversation,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: is obviously a great communicator. And um, I just thought,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: you know, I thought overall it was just interesting just
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: at Wyoming, you know, for a smaller Division one school.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, he was a stud and then you know,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: you don't he goes to Combine, you think you're gonna
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: get drafted, and you know it's kind of a a
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: story you hear in the NFL is then you gotta
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: go back and reprove yourself, reprove yourself worthy of being
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. And um, that's not lost on him,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: which is cool. I mean, like he said, some some
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: guys can come in and then all of a sudden
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: they're not they're not playing running back, or they're not
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: playing corner, they're not starting their third or fourth on
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the depth chart, and you start getting down on yourself
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: while treat special teams as you're that's you're a starter
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: on special teams, you know. Um, And I think that
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: says a lot about his personality. Is just that uh
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: stitutiveness not to to to take whatever the next challenges
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: and and try to uh and try to power through
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and make the best of it and make your mark.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And he's definitely doing that. And now he got in
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: this past week, he's gonna fill in for Jared Wilson,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and it will just be interesting to see how that translates.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: And we had someone DJ Chart kind of had the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: same process when he back in two thousand eighteen. Is
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: he was a heck of a special teams player and
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden nineteen he gets his chance to
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: start and he's in the Pro Bowl a few months later.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: It's important to remember with him, UM, I think people
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: because they hadn't heard of him and he was undrafted,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: and I'm probably guilty of it sort of assumed that
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: he's just a special teams guy and sort of your
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: fifth safety guys. He was, he was invited into combat. Athletically,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: he was good enough of Wyoming and had a decent COMBA.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: So athletically he's very capable. So um, let's wait and
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: see until we sort of write him off as a
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: career backup special teams guy. Yeah, this is a big
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: opportunity for him. And uh, he sure didn't look like
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: a career backup when he broke on that ball the
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: other day. I mean, he can joke all he once
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: about Philip Rivers staring the past down. I guess he
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: did a little bit, but he broke on the ball
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and made a play and it was a big time
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: play at a big time moment. So um, a credit
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: to him for being ready because a lot of guys
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: are coming off the bench maybe are ready to make
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: that play. So uh, Dave, I think people who listened
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: to this, along with some other interviews with wind Guard
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: are gonna have a new appreciation for him. Uh. I
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: hope he does well. He has a chance to become
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: a very popular player. Um. I sure enjoyed listening to him.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate you making me sound better than
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I am. I appreciate Joe Fortunato making me sound much
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: better than I am. And uh, you know, this one
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: certainly didn't suck, and so far we're on a roll.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: But we'll try to do better next week. Yeah,