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Christian Haynes: "I'm Ready To Come Out There And Dominate"- Seahawks Draft Conference Call · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Christian, congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that was a long wait.
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  Speaker 1: What was thank you so much? What was it like
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  Speaker 1: to hear your name called? It was it was just
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  Speaker 1: a really great experience, you know, just you know, just
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  Speaker 1: being around family and friends, just having the opportunity just
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  Speaker 1: to hear my name called. It was just great, is
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  Speaker 1: all I can God, Thank God for it, Christian.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have any communication with the Seahawks during the
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  Speaker 3: pre draft process? Is this a team that you thought
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  Speaker 3: was on your radar here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had. I talked with coach Huff over the process.
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  Speaker 1: We sat down, we had a good zoom call, and
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  Speaker 1: we talked ball and we just had a great conversation.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm glad the Seahawks. I knew that I was
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  Speaker 1: on their board, and I was just I was just
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  Speaker 1: happy to get they had me with the call coming into.
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  Speaker 3: Coming into the NFL. You played only right guard at Ukon.
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  Speaker 3: Do you see that being your spot if the Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: told you that or do you feel like you could
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  Speaker 3: switch over to left guard if you needed to.
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  Speaker 1: I could play anything they need me to play, I
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  Speaker 1: mean out there and dominate regardless. So then I just
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  Speaker 1: played a lot of right guard in college. But I
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  Speaker 1: played any any musition. They named me the cluest. How
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  Speaker 1: much pride do you take in those forty ninth straight
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  Speaker 1: games that you started? Sends a lot of pride. It
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  Speaker 1: is not a lot of people can be able to
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  Speaker 1: do that and stay healthy as well during that process.
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  Speaker 1: And so somebody that's played a lot of games and
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  Speaker 1: seen a lot of football and seen a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different situations, and so this going then having having more
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  Speaker 1: RQ than somebody that might have not played as much
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  Speaker 1: football as I did. I'm just got ready to show that. Christian,
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  Speaker 1: how did you describe your game? Somebody is just smart
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  Speaker 1: and nask at the same time, somebody's very athletics might
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  Speaker 1: be able to run also dominated at the point of attack.
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  Speaker 3: Where'd you think you were going to be drafted? Like,
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  Speaker 3: what part of the draft did you think?
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  Speaker 1: I just knew. I knew, I had a feeling it
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  Speaker 1: was going to be today, and I was just you know,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't I wasn't getting mad or anything or getting
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  Speaker 1: too well too high. I just stayed calm, and I
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  Speaker 1: stayed I stayed humble, and I was just was I
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  Speaker 1: heard back call. I was just excited.
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  Speaker 3: What did your experience that the Senior Bowl change your
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  Speaker 3: outlook and maybe the conversations folks were having with you.
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  Speaker 1: I do think that though my experience of the senior
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  Speaker 1: boat to show that I can be able to play
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  Speaker 1: with any level on competition power five, G five, just
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  Speaker 1: showing that I'm a dominant player and going out there
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  Speaker 1: and being one of the top linemen there and winning
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  Speaker 1: the top always a lot of working my team. They
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  Speaker 1: show that like the my the fellow beast, a lineman
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  Speaker 1: respect me and and really the whole team respected me.
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  Speaker 3: How many years were you a captain in college?
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  Speaker 1: A period of captain back to back voted by my teammate, How.
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  Speaker 2: Much Christian do you take?
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  Speaker 3: And being a two year captain and staying in Yukon
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  Speaker 3: and playing all forty nine games in a row.
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  Speaker 1: Coming back to team after COVID without transfer. I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pride into that. I was a big
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  Speaker 1: loyalty guy and it's not leaving Yukon. That was one
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  Speaker 1: of my big things. I wanted to show that you
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  Speaker 1: can make it out anywhere you've been, and Yukon TA
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  Speaker 1: gave me that lawyer team gave me that our team
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  Speaker 1: to play I was. I wanted to leave my legacy
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  Speaker 1: there and as being a captain is having people looking
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  Speaker 1: up to every time, and I take pride in that
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  Speaker 1: every time I was on the field, even off the
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  Speaker 1: field as well.
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  Speaker 2: You were like a two star recruit.
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  Speaker 1: I guess at a high school, did you have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of offers or what kind offers did you have?
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  Speaker 1: I had? I had a good decent amount of offers.
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  Speaker 1: I was just taking between either Yukon, Maryland or Virginia
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  Speaker 1: coming out of high school. So just being able to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, have schools in my radar while also being
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  Speaker 1: able to pick more I wanted to go. It was
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  Speaker 1: still great.
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  Speaker 3: I know that the win loss record didn't necessarily show,
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  Speaker 3: but the opportunity to play for a former NFL head
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  Speaker 3: coach and Jim Moore Junior and his staff, how much
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  Speaker 3: did that help you elevate your game the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of years?
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  Speaker 1: This show it helped me come me more a pro
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  Speaker 1: and he helped them more, just helped me out with
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  Speaker 1: different things to me becoming a pro and gave me
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  Speaker 1: different advice different from my like going into this draft process,
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  Speaker 1: how to how to look in the interviews, how to
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  Speaker 1: how did this carry myself as a person, and if
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  Speaker 1: he just he was just like great help and a
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  Speaker 1: players coach and somebody easier to talk to about the
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  Speaker 1: process too, And I appreciated him.
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  Speaker 2: Christin what kind of a leader are you? And how
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  Speaker 2: has that? How did that change in those two years?
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  Speaker 1: If anything, I was more of a leader by example,
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  Speaker 1: but I have become more a vocal leader. I learned
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  Speaker 1: that my voice when when when I speak, people listening.
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  Speaker 1: So I became more of a vocal leader. I think
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  Speaker 1: when I started talking, people started to like, started to
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  Speaker 1: hear me. So instead of just being by example, I
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  Speaker 1: started being a more vocal and started bringing guys in
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  Speaker 1: and somebody I want somebody. People see me as a
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  Speaker 1: role model looked up to. So I was easy to
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  Speaker 1: talk to you even off the field. Did you have
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  Speaker 1: any contact with coach Mike McDonald during the draft process.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I didn't talk to all coach as much.
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  Speaker 1: I talked a lot with coach Hough.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Christian, this is Hugh milling care father, and I
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  Speaker 2: want to see what's happening. Hey, I just feel good good.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Seattle, Welcome to the Seahawks. We are delighted
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  Speaker 2: to have you. And uh and listen, Cal was talking
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  Speaker 2: about your leadership, but but just tell us all about Look,
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  Speaker 2: Yukon wasn't the greatest football team, but you took a
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  Speaker 2: leadership role. How do you think being on a team
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  Speaker 2: like that maybe shaped you and your role in trying
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  Speaker 2: to lead those guys and maybe change your path.
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  Speaker 1: We just we wanted to change our program on our outcome,
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  Speaker 1: So just coming in there and telling them that we
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  Speaker 1: can try to build something with coach Moore and going
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  Speaker 1: to our first year and going to a bowl game,
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to build on that. Being that leader aspect,
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  Speaker 1: I always wanted to keep showing guys that even though
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  Speaker 1: people might not doubt that, they would doubt if we're
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  Speaker 1: going to keep putting hard and you're not gonna get
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  Speaker 1: discouraged the fucking what did you major in there? I
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  Speaker 1: got my I got my masters and in my under
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  Speaker 1: I got my baskets in Human development Family science, and
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  Speaker 1: I got my master's in sports management.
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  Speaker 3: You did that in four years?
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  Speaker 1: I was. I was at Yukon for six years or
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  Speaker 1: five and a half years, so I got I got
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  Speaker 1: my undergrad on time, and then I got my bassor's
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  Speaker 1: in a year. What did you have with getting the
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  Speaker 1: Masters of Sports Management? What did you? I guess what
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  Speaker 1: in the decision, what I get it? In that I
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  Speaker 1: just I wanted I wanted to do something that can
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  Speaker 1: also work with my schedule for football, but also talking
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  Speaker 1: with my academic counselors who thought that I would be
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  Speaker 1: a great fit at doing that type of work, just
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  Speaker 1: giving back to the students and being able to provide
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  Speaker 1: and being a good job like that. So I decided
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  Speaker 1: to go that route. And then like my last this
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  Speaker 1: last time mess, I was able to be like a
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  Speaker 1: like a like a GA student advisor for our football program.
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  Speaker 1: So I was able to like help out freshmen like all,
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  Speaker 1: help them with their schedules, help them they were prepare
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  Speaker 1: for different things coming up and keeping on their schedule
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  Speaker 1: and different things like that. So it was really it
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  Speaker 1: was a really helpful process for myself.
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  Speaker 3: Who are you celebrating with today?
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  Speaker 1: I'm celebrating with my family and friends, my girlfriends. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, where are you talking to us from? I'm
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  Speaker 1: from Maryland. Where are you talking? What are you talking
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  Speaker 1: to us today? Yeah? That I'm in Maryland right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in Bowie. Okay, Oh no, it's just one boy,
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  Speaker 1: one boy, one booey. What do you know about Settle
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  Speaker 1: a man, the fans that twelve, this everything man. Man,
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  Speaker 1: this is that culture that was there. And I've been
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  Speaker 1: a SATA fan a little bit just growing up. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm a big Gino fan as well. So when
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  Speaker 1: he used to watch him allow when he was at
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia, and I'm just ready to go to come
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  Speaker 1: out there and dominate. You know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different coaches with Marshaw, Hines and Russell. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: just you know, trying to go come back and bring
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  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl back. You know it's gonna take day
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  Speaker 1: by day, but I'm ready to I'm very excited to
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 2: Did you just become a bigger Geno fan in the
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  Speaker 2: last hour?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't understand that. I used to watch this
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  Speaker 1: highlight used to get to get hype of my game.
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  Speaker 1: So he doesn't He don't know that, but I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk to him. We're gonna get right now.
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  Speaker 3: Christian, your brother Marcus spent time with the Broncos last season.
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  Speaker 3: How have you been able to lean on him kind
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  Speaker 3: of through this process?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's just giving me advice. You know, one
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  Speaker 1: big advice you gave me the always be confident anything
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  Speaker 1: I did every day. Come and be a pro and
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  Speaker 1: help your team, lead and help your team an aspect
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  Speaker 1: you can. It doesn't matter what well where you are.
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  Speaker 1: That charge doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what your role
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  Speaker 1: is doing. The team going there and you gotta put
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  Speaker 1: your best pot for a forty team, all of us