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Press Pass | Travon Walker Speaks on Extension, Career Trajectory · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Hi everyone, and we have Trayvon Walker available.
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  Speaker 2: Please raise your hand if you have a question.
• 0:12
  Speaker 3: We can start off with Jamal.
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  Speaker 4: Some Trayvon congratulations.
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  Speaker 5: Man, how's it field to kind of know that you're
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  Speaker 5: gonna be in Jacksonville for some time to come.
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  Speaker 2: With my family? It was probably like two three years ago.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, if I can, I definitely loved the
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  Speaker 3: man Jacksonville for the rest of my career.
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  Speaker 2: Look at God.
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  Speaker 4: And William Cohen.
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  Speaker 5: Last week he talked a little bit about your end
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  Speaker 5: of season meeting with him, said, you guys spent like
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  Speaker 5: two hours talking talked about guys like Aaron Donald. What'd
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  Speaker 5: you take from that conversation?
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  Speaker 3: Man, It's just like taking my game to another level.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously he's he's senior Aaron Donald. He coached, helped, he
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  Speaker 3: was on the team with.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Donald or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: So it just kind of helped put things in perspective
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  Speaker 3: for me to be able to just click it to
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  Speaker 3: a different type of mindset was from how it was.
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  Speaker 2: Going throughout the year or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: And I feel like it really clicked dawned on me
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  Speaker 3: that it's just time to wrap things up, take it,
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  Speaker 3: take it to the next.
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  Speaker 4: Level, to appreciate your Trayvon.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations, Ben, thank you. We'll go to d Rock then
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  Speaker 2: to Shipley.
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  Speaker 4: Traymon, congrats.
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  Speaker 6: Was this a quicker process than you might have thought
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  Speaker 6: it would have been. Did you think this might be
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  Speaker 6: one of those, uh, you know, negotiations to kind of
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  Speaker 6: drag on for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Me personally, like, I really didn't get too deep into
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  Speaker 3: the negotiation part. I just let my agent handle that,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, they did what they did what they did,
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  Speaker 3: and I mean it was don't happen on God's time anyways.
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  Speaker 3: I'm firm believing God and everything. It just too it
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  Speaker 3: took its own it did its own race.
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  Speaker 6: Does it take a weight off your mind at all
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  Speaker 6: that it's done now and that you don't have to
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  Speaker 6: we're not asking you about it in June, July, August
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  Speaker 6: and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean I definitely said it takes some weight
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  Speaker 3: off of my mind, not saying that I was really
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  Speaker 3: too concerned about it, because I mean, eventually, I know
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  Speaker 3: it was gonna happen, regardless of however much or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But just like having it out of the way, the
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  Speaker 3: money part. All of the talks about the money, like
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  Speaker 3: it's just time to go play ball. Now I don't
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  Speaker 3: have to think about none of that. Like I said,
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  Speaker 3: it's just time to go play ball now.
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  Speaker 6: And one more real quick back to what Jama was
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  Speaker 6: saying about Liam talking about Aaron Donald, he said he
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  Speaker 6: wants to have to take you out of practice because
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  Speaker 6: you're destroying their practice and ability to practice. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: how what does that mean to you? I mean that's
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  Speaker 6: got to be pretty high praise when he mentioned you
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  Speaker 6: and Aaron Donald and says, yeah, Aaron Donald made it
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  Speaker 6: so we couldn't practice, and now I want Treymont to
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  Speaker 6: do the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: Just predominance, man, It's just it's helping everybody else on
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  Speaker 3: the team get better wise helping me get better as well.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, it's just predominance.
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  Speaker 3: And everybody that plays in this league wants to be great,
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  Speaker 3: wants to be Hopefully that's everybody's mindset to be great
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  Speaker 3: in the end. I think that's that's really what he
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  Speaker 3: was getting to when he was speaking on that.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks we I appreciate it, sir, Thank you, Siple.
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  Speaker 2: Then to O'Halloran.
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  Speaker 4: Shipley, I think you're still muted.
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  Speaker 7: Oh sorry, Trayvon, congratulations, thanks for doing this. You said
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  Speaker 7: that you know you've known for a few years of
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  Speaker 7: Jacksonville was where you wanted to be.
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  Speaker 4: What does it say to you that, you know, even
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  Speaker 4: with new.
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  Speaker 7: People coming in last year, they pretty quickly showed that
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  Speaker 7: same belief in you that they wanted you here.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, can you say that one more time for I'm sorry?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know you said a few that you knew
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  Speaker 7: for a few years that this is where you wanted
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  Speaker 7: to be. Was to say that even with a new coach,
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  Speaker 7: new gem coming in, you know, just a year ago,
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  Speaker 7: that they knew pretty quickly it was a mutual feeling
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  Speaker 7: that they wanted you here too.
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  Speaker 3: It really means a lot because, like you said, getting
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  Speaker 3: a new staff in like you, it's always that uncertainty
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  Speaker 3: and coming into the When they first got here, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like they did a great job just communicating with
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  Speaker 3: me think of things, and that kind of already put
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  Speaker 3: in perspective to how that relationship was.
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  Speaker 2: Going to go. Sometimes you never really know how it's
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  Speaker 2: going to go.
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  Speaker 3: But ever since they've been there, I feel like we
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  Speaker 3: on my end and then we've been transparent with each
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  Speaker 3: other and we just have cordial conversation to where we
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  Speaker 3: can all just be comfortable and that was one of
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  Speaker 3: Limb's main things, like say what's on, speak.
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  Speaker 2: Your mind and we'll go from there. Appreciate yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Dravon couple for you.
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  Speaker 1: Late in the season, they moved you inside on some
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  Speaker 1: passing downs next to Josh.
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  Speaker 4: If you guys start doing that for the full season.
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  Speaker 4: What kind of impact do you think you can have
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  Speaker 4: as an interior rusher.
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  Speaker 3: I think I could have an impact wherever they put me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care if they put me in the secondary.
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  Speaker 3: It's all about versatile in this league or whatever. But uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's all about just being versatile. Do whatever the team,
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  Speaker 3: do whatever I need to do to help the team.
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  Speaker 4: So blitzing safety is on the table.
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  Speaker 2: Say that again.
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  Speaker 4: Blitzing safety is on the table.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, if that's what we need, then I do whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Last one for me is, you had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: pressures last year. Your pressure rate was was pretty decent.
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  Speaker 1: What are you working on this offseason to take that
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  Speaker 1: next step to get back to that double double digit
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  Speaker 1: sack totals.
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  Speaker 3: Number One of my main thing was just working on
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  Speaker 3: getting healthy, and then it's just fine tuning those little
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  Speaker 3: small details within my hands, our coordination, things of that nature.
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  Speaker 3: Just trying to keep my twitch as far as my strength,
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  Speaker 3: risk mobility, working on a lot of things. But it's
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  Speaker 3: basically just kind of iron or out some small details.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the further you get in your career, like
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  Speaker 3: it kind of get it gets harder to I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: say it gets harder to continuously elevate it, just like
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  Speaker 3: you got to find those little small little details within
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  Speaker 3: your game and continuously work those things.
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  Speaker 4: Think you know.
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  Speaker 5: Last one, Travis.
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  Speaker 8: Holmes, congratulations on the extension, Trayvon. I just wanted to know, like,
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  Speaker 8: how has your leadership style evolved since you first initially
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  Speaker 8: entered the league as the number one pier and now
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  Speaker 8: you have the opportunity with the extension and everything else
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  Speaker 8: and just being that leader on the field to also
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  Speaker 8: mentor the younger players.
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  Speaker 3: Man, I think for me it's just kind of a
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't even say more vocal. Me is just like
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  Speaker 3: abctually leading by example. I know what's expecting in the league,
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  Speaker 3: I know what's expected from a leadership standpoint, I know
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  Speaker 3: what's expected from this staff that we have, and I
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  Speaker 3: just try to go out there and be the best
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  Speaker 3: version of me every day. And I feel like I've
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  Speaker 3: been a leader at my whole life. So a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things just really translate to talking to the players.
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  Speaker 3: Players coming to me asking questions. It's just by me
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  Speaker 3: opening up telling them things that I went through. Just
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  Speaker 3: maybe say if I was a rookie or whatever. But
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  Speaker 3: that's really all it is.
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  Speaker 2: No appreciate it.
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  Speaker 8: And also with the to the back to back two
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  Speaker 8: SAX seasons and then having the multiple injuries that dealt
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  Speaker 8: within this past you know, twenty twenty five season, Like
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  Speaker 8: how did that impact you or did that impact you
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  Speaker 8: at all? And you know as far as the mentals,
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  Speaker 8: as far as your off season preparation and all of that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it definitely affected me with the injuries, but
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  Speaker 3: just coming off going having two back to back double
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  Speaker 3: the just SAX seasons, then coming off of season like
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  Speaker 3: last year. It's just always I mean, it's football. It's
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  Speaker 3: a one hundred percent injury rate. You know, those injuries
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  Speaker 3: going to be there, but you just gotta continuously fight
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  Speaker 3: through those things. And that's what I tried my best
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  Speaker 3: to do. And like, as long as I'm not putting
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  Speaker 3: the team in a bad position in my eyes to
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  Speaker 3: jeopardize winning games or whatever, I'm always try my best
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  Speaker 3: to be out there on the field, regardless of banged
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  Speaker 3: up Hurd or not, because everybody around the league at
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  Speaker 3: a certain point in the season is going to be
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  Speaker 3: banged up at some point, so I just try to
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  Speaker 3: keep going.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you, congratulations, so thank you. That's everyone, Thanks Trey,
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  Speaker 2: thank you all.