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Inside The Charge: Cam Lewis Talks Family, Buffalo Pride and More! · Inside the Charge

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into another episode of Inside the Charge. I'm Maddi Glabin.
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  Speaker 1: We're so excited to have the guy who can do
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  Speaker 1: it all on defense with us. Mister cam Lewis, you
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  Speaker 1: have had a thrilling start to the season. Unfortunately, your
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  Speaker 1: teammate and nickel cornerback Tarren Johnson goes down on the
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  Speaker 1: first drive of the first game. You have to come
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  Speaker 1: in and you did not look back. Cam, I want
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  Speaker 1: to start there. Why were you ready for the opportunity?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we just have such a good room, dB room
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  Speaker 2: as a whole. You know, we meet safeties, meet together,
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  Speaker 2: Nichols and in the corner, so we all on the
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  Speaker 2: same page. We all know the game plan, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, just it was just my time, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to step in and just play my game. Really, you know,
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  Speaker 2: meeting with Arn being with Terran these well six years
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  Speaker 2: I've been here, He's been teaching me a lot, so
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel like it would just be a fall
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  Speaker 2: off from me to him, you know. Kind of the
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  Speaker 2: same type of player in my eyes, with both aggressive,
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  Speaker 2: not the biggest you know guys, and we gotta play
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  Speaker 2: the A gaps, the big gaps, you know, that run
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  Speaker 2: fifth thing but just trying to go out there and
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  Speaker 2: just play my game. And that's mainly what I did.
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  Speaker 1: Not the biggest, but aggressive. And it's easy to see
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  Speaker 1: that on a film with the way that you can
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  Speaker 1: stop the run. What is the mindset that you have
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  Speaker 1: to put yourself in to be able to stop a
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  Speaker 1: tight end, stop a big running back, stop a wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver when these guys may have several inches and pounds
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  Speaker 1: on you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, just trying not to get block crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you do, you do.
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  Speaker 2: It kind of started when I was like six, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because we used to hit a lot. I started playing
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  Speaker 2: when I was six. I used to cry every single
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  Speaker 2: day I practice, and my dad was like, the you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be out there, You're gonna quit.
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  Speaker 3: So I wanted to play.
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  Speaker 2: So that aggression started ray early for me, and then
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  Speaker 2: I'm just a different person when.
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  Speaker 3: I cross white lines.
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  Speaker 2: You got to turn that autr ego, getting that mode,
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  Speaker 2: have that confidence in the world that you can you
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  Speaker 2: can go out there and play with the best of them,
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  Speaker 2: And that's what I try to do.
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  Speaker 3: Like I'm small, but I'm big too. You know.
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  Speaker 1: You had to flip that switch pretty quickly in the
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  Speaker 1: first game. Because you were telling us after the game
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  Speaker 1: that hey, I was the safety who was going to
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  Speaker 1: go in in our dime package when we were going
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  Speaker 1: to rotate into it. But then you had to be
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  Speaker 1: thrust into the nickel cornerback spot. It's not like you
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  Speaker 1: were backing up a safety and you got put into
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  Speaker 1: the safety spot. No, you were supposed to go in
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  Speaker 1: at safety and you win in at nickel cornerback. How
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  Speaker 1: quickly does your brain have to process the things to know, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is a new job, I'm doing new things. I
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  Speaker 1: have calls I have to make, I have to listen
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  Speaker 1: to this guy. How quick of a process is that
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  Speaker 1: for you?
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  Speaker 2: Probably takes right last, say, like two minutes once I
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  Speaker 2: really get told like I'm going there and nickel, because
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  Speaker 2: only I do it.
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  Speaker 3: I practice all the time. Now some periods I.
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  Speaker 2: May be nickel heavy, and then maybe the last two
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  Speaker 2: plays I gotta go back there in safety. So it
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  Speaker 2: just gives me that I guess I'm just getting used
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  Speaker 2: to being able to switch, to flip the switch, you know, like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm safety here, so I got to make all these
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  Speaker 2: safety costs, and then when I go back to nickel,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta make any Nichols costs. But it just give
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  Speaker 2: me a brighter understanding of the whole defense and what
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  Speaker 2: everybody's supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: If that makes sense, Yeah, definitely. It also makes you
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  Speaker 1: somebody who I mean, I don't know how this team
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  Speaker 1: can live without you at this point because of what
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  Speaker 1: you can do. We're going to get into that in
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. But we got to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: game against Miami because you guys had three interceptions ub products.
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  Speaker 1: You're also a ub product. JaMarcus Ingram had two of those.
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  Speaker 1: One he returned for a pick six. And there was
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  Speaker 1: a picture that was taken in the locker room after
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  Speaker 1: the game. I need to get your thoughts on what
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  Speaker 1: is going through your mind in this picture. I will
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  Speaker 1: show it on the screen here, but to describe it,
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  Speaker 1: Cam is celebrating, JaMarcus has the football with his hands
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  Speaker 1: in the air. Hrasuel is screaming, Kaye's pointing to the sky,
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  Speaker 1: DeMar is celebrating. You guys look like it's a group
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  Speaker 1: that is elated about the victory. What's going through your
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  Speaker 1: mind here?
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  Speaker 2: So this is the thing we after, you know, a win,
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  Speaker 2: and after we get like takeaways, we always celebrate the
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  Speaker 2: takeaway so this picture right here. You know he got
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  Speaker 2: the bar earlier because he got the first pick, and
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  Speaker 2: then we went to cbuse he got another pick. But
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  Speaker 2: this was the end it all to pick six. You know,
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  Speaker 2: everybody just cheering, but you just want to be excited
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  Speaker 2: for your teammates. You know that's making plays and it's helping.
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  Speaker 3: The team win.
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  Speaker 2: So we're always trying to have a good time, you know,
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  Speaker 2: make some fun out of it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you have worked so hard for your opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: but so has JaMarcus Ingram and for him to also
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  Speaker 1: be ready that day to get called. You're now moving
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  Speaker 1: to nickel and then JaMarcus is the guy who's going
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  Speaker 1: to rotate in not at safety but at slot corner
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  Speaker 1: when you guys go in dime. And he made a
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  Speaker 1: big play in week one to save the game against
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals. In week two he shows up again with
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  Speaker 1: two interceptions. How cool has it been to watch from
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  Speaker 1: your vantage point, not just in games, but in practices
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  Speaker 1: watch an undrafted guy like you come onto the scene
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  Speaker 1: and prove to everybody I can do this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it's awesome. Yeah, cat in there like the same story.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he bounced around multiple colleges and then he
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  Speaker 2: ended up being a tryout guy, making the team undrafted
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  Speaker 2: and just being able to stick around. So I understand
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  Speaker 2: the grind, just not knowing if you're good enough, but
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  Speaker 2: he always shows that, you know, he's good enough. He
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  Speaker 2: makes place all the time. Every time you get the opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: he makes play. So I really wasn't surprise. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: more so just you know, know, happy, Like I told him, like,
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  Speaker 2: I wish it was me, but I'm not selfish, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad it was you.
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  Speaker 3: If anybody else, I'm glad it was you.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I just been you know, excited to acided
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  Speaker 2: for him and just hoping he can, you know, be
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  Speaker 2: consistent and keep doing it. You know, every time he's
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  Speaker 2: out there just makes some place. You know, it's is
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  Speaker 2: this blessing to be out there, So why not have
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of fun while you're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: You spoke about JaMarcus having, you know, that imposter syndrome
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  Speaker 1: of I don't know if I'm good enough to make it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm good enough to be here.
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  Speaker 1: You've been quoted saying, you know, at some point in
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  Speaker 1: my college career, the NFL was not on the radar
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  Speaker 1: for me. Now that you are in the NFL, how
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  Speaker 1: do you reflect on back on the time that it
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  Speaker 1: took you to realize, Hey, this is this is a dream.
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  Speaker 1: Actually this is going to happen, and now I'm starting.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's tough because sometimes I still feel like
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  Speaker 2: it's a dream that like I'm waking up and I'm
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  Speaker 2: being in my bed, you know, a pull of sweat,
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  Speaker 2: just like sweating, but I don't know, just trying to
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  Speaker 2: be in the moment. When I drive into work every day,
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  Speaker 2: take a second just to look at the stadium, the
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  Speaker 2: new stadium being built, just everything around me.
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  Speaker 3: Just trying to just taking all in just like.
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  Speaker 2: You, hear you, like you you made it here, and
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  Speaker 2: trying to continue to grow each and at each and
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  Speaker 2: every day.
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  Speaker 3: But like I said, it was it was a grind.
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  Speaker 3: It was a grind.
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  Speaker 2: Like I think it was my junior year where I
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  Speaker 2: was like, Okay, you may have a shot, so let's
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  Speaker 2: just go all in.
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  Speaker 3: And I went all in.
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  Speaker 2: And six years later, here still here, trying to leave
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  Speaker 2: my market, trying to have to see more.
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  Speaker 1: You decided to play college football down the street at
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  Speaker 1: University at Buffalo. You are from Detroit, how did you
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  Speaker 1: be come into the picture for you?
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  Speaker 2: So I got a couple offers around the mac West Virginia, Toledo.
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  Speaker 2: And then this was when when Jeff Quinn was still
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  Speaker 2: like you be reached out and I bought at a
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  Speaker 2: camp or whatever, and then he told me to come up
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  Speaker 2: for a visit. Had a camp here, did really well,
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  Speaker 2: and he was like, yeah, you have an offer, and
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  Speaker 2: I went to I look around the campus and to
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  Speaker 2: commit right on the spot, and my dad was like no, no, no, wait, wait,
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  Speaker 2: wait wait. So we went back to the hotel room
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  Speaker 2: and talked about it, and yeah, I kind of like
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  Speaker 2: fellow love with it. I came here summertime, sunshining, got
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  Speaker 2: the lakes, and they treated me like family. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: too far away from home as well, so that was
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  Speaker 2: a big deal for me. It's like my brother went
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  Speaker 2: to school just as a regular student at West Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: so I didn't want to go there and be up
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  Speaker 2: under him like that's Cam's little brother.
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  Speaker 3: Like I wanted to make a name for myself.
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  Speaker 2: So I felt like Buffalo was far enough but still
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  Speaker 2: close enough to home, war my parents could come up
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  Speaker 2: if they wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: And then being in Buffalo. Playing here in college, you
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  Speaker 1: start to get a feel for the NFL team down
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  Speaker 1: the street. As you went on in your collegiate career,
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  Speaker 1: your junior and senior year, and the NFL dream started
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  Speaker 1: to become more clear in the back of your head.
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  Speaker 1: Were you ever thinking it might be nice to stay
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  Speaker 1: here for a few more years?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, no, no, I run to get out of Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: To be completely honest with you, is just because it
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  Speaker 2: has so many similarities to back home. You still get
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  Speaker 2: the snow, still get the coldness and the wind. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: summers are not there long, but they're still pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know, it's awesome now. The teammates called
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  Speaker 2: me a local guy because I've been here.
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  Speaker 1: So it's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: You've been here for so long and it's ten years.
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  Speaker 3: Ten years? Yeah, oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: How to go places without GPS now it's it's insane.
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  Speaker 3: But no, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the second hold of me now. So they
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  Speaker 2: welcome me with open arms, and I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: So since you've been here for so long, to the
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  Speaker 1: young'n's coming in, what do you what do you tell
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  Speaker 1: them about this place that is not home to you?
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  Speaker 2: I joke around with them like they're you're gonna find
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  Speaker 2: your wife here, You're gonna have a couple of kids
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  Speaker 2: here because there's not much to do. It's a family
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  Speaker 2: in football. That's really what it is, what it comes
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  Speaker 2: down to. But no, you're just gonna you're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: fun you come here. Uh, it's a family atmosphere, like
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  Speaker 2: always stayed at like everybody in school with each other.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody wanted to hang out with each other after after work,
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  Speaker 2: even though we see each other every single day, freaking
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  Speaker 2: and the freaking seven seven pm. So uh, it's just
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  Speaker 2: it's that type of culture that we have here that
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  Speaker 2: I hear. That's not a lot of different places that
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  Speaker 2: that's always awesome though.
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  Speaker 1: She said, this is a place you find your wife
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  Speaker 1: and you have your kids. Did you find your wife
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  Speaker 1: in Buffalo?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't find my wife in Buffalo. Were we dated
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  Speaker 2: in high school?
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  Speaker 3: So? I guess high school? Sweetheart high Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was my senior year, her junior year. She made
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  Speaker 2: a little advance on me, called me cute and jim
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  Speaker 2: and the rest is history, you know, two kids later
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  Speaker 2: and three years marriage later.
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  Speaker 1: So where did she go to college? Did you guys
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  Speaker 1: have to do long distance.
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  Speaker 2: We did have, Yeah, we had we had to do
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  Speaker 2: a long dist So she went back to school back home,
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  Speaker 2: hery for college. So she went there, and we're just
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  Speaker 2: bouncing back and forth or long distance. And she used
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  Speaker 2: to come up here and hang out with me. So
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  Speaker 2: as soon as I signed here, she was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming, I'm coming up here. So we've been up
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  Speaker 2: She's been up here ever since i've been here.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, if you look back on Instagram, you proposed to
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  Speaker 1: her on the field. Why is that High Mark Stadium
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  Speaker 1: just as important to her as it is to you?
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I guess because I just proposed there. But
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  Speaker 2: it is for sure. Yeah, you know, it's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of ups and downs with it. You know, NFL career,
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  Speaker 2: you don't know if you're going to be in one place.
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  Speaker 2: You get traded, get released. But it was such a
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  Speaker 2: big milestone for me, you know, to make it, so
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  Speaker 2: I guess I kind of wanted to share that with
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  Speaker 2: her in a place where you know, I made my
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  Speaker 2: first NFL team or you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So it's special.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is special. It got a special place in
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  Speaker 3: my heart. But I honestly didn't know what I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to do when I proposed, and I was like, I
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  Speaker 3: can do it at the stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was sweating if you ask her what
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  Speaker 2: I said when I propose, didn't have a long speech,
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  Speaker 2: got on one knee, shaken, you know, I love you?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you know what.
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  Speaker 1: That's what my husband did too, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you need to get back down.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I got it. Yes or no? What is
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  Speaker 3: it going to be? No?
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  Speaker 2: It was a good experience, but hopefully I only have
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  Speaker 2: to do that once.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you guys have two kids. Now fast forward
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  Speaker 1: from marriage to now you have two boys, and they're
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  Speaker 1: at the age where it seems like they're starting to
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  Speaker 1: understand that, hey, dad plays in the NFL. Dad has
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  Speaker 1: a really cool job. How old are your two sons
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  Speaker 1: and have they started to take a liking of football.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Caden is three, is the oldest one, and Christian is two. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they understand it, I guess kind of fully. Now it's
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  Speaker 2: coming full all the way for them.
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  Speaker 3: Now. Caden puts on.
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  Speaker 2: My helmets at home and run around with football and
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  Speaker 2: then I say ready to say hike and he gets
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  Speaker 2: to kicking the football all over the place. And then
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  Speaker 2: just to be able to bring them here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: being the indoor, being around, you know, all this stuff
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  Speaker 2: that I wasn't able to you know, growing up. I
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  Speaker 2: think they're gonna look back on it and it's like,
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty cool. But every time we pass the stadium,
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  Speaker 2: every time they see the Bills logo and they say dada,
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  Speaker 2: dada dada.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's always awesome.
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  Speaker 1: That's so cool. You spoke about the family culture, the
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  Speaker 1: family atmosphere that is within the walls, that one Bill's drive,
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  Speaker 1: and you have to shout out our head coach Sean
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  Speaker 1: McDermott for that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But one other thing that he has played an instrumental
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  Speaker 1: role in going back to the defense is in seasons
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  Speaker 1: past the last few years, this defense has been riddled
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  Speaker 1: with injuries with big name players. And here we are
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  Speaker 1: to start the season and it's the same thing. But
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  Speaker 1: it seems to not matter who comes in. Doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: if if you are undrafted, it doesn't matter if you're
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  Speaker 1: a third rounder or new to this defense. It seems
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  Speaker 1: like the guys who have to step up they're successful
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  Speaker 1: in that. And it starts with the head coach. Why
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  Speaker 1: is coach McDermott so good at getting the best out
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  Speaker 1: of you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you don't get treated as a backup for
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  Speaker 2: to say, like everybody prepares like a starter. You never
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  Speaker 2: know when your name is gonna be caught, so you
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  Speaker 2: have to be able to be ready, just like I
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  Speaker 2: just tell all the rookies like this, even if you're
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  Speaker 2: on a private squad or you know, you may not
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  Speaker 2: be playing right now, it's not necessarily a red shirt year.
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  Speaker 2: You have to prepare like your name is gonna get caught,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on Sunday, like you're.
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  Speaker 3: About to dress and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So we always kind of prepare in that mindset like
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  Speaker 2: we're about to play one hundred snaps, you know, each Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: So if we, you know, get the chance to go
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  Speaker 2: out there, we're always ready.
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  Speaker 1: Your fellow DB's call you a Swiss Army knife of
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  Speaker 1: this defense because you can do it all. Safety Corner Nickel.
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  Speaker 1: You're also a big part of special teams as well.
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  Speaker 1: When did this role start to come about where it
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  Speaker 1: was cam Lewis is gonna be the guy who can
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  Speaker 1: do a little bit of everything.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess it started, I say twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 3: It started for me.
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  Speaker 2: I was always big and trying to make the team
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  Speaker 2: during special teams, you know, in offensive, I mean defense.
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  Speaker 2: But one time, just like all right, we getting kind
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  Speaker 2: of thin on one position. You think you can make
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  Speaker 2: a transition to safety. Still got to play both, and
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  Speaker 2: it's like, yeah, I mean I'm up for it. If
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: that makes me stick around a little bit longer, you know,
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: anything to help the team win.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm up for it.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: So that's kind of where it started, and it's just
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: been taken off from there. You know, still been playing
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: four course special teams, Still been trying to learn each
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: and everything in safety, niggle, and then sometimes I had
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: to go out there and play corner.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: My first start was at outside corner versus Tennessee. So
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: I still you know, able to play you know outside
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: if I need to.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: You make it look easy. But how much extra time
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: does it require to stay up to date and stay
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: ready at all of those positions?
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: A lot, a lot, a lot of early meetings, a
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: lot of late meetings, and a lot of nightly film
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: watching for me before I go to sleep, just because
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: it's it's.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Different positions, like you're looking for different things.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Your keys are different, the communication is a little bit different,
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: So you just got to be able to flip that
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: switch and do it, you know, just like the guys
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: that just play that position on you know what I'm saying.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's a lot of extra work, but it's
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: worth it though. You know, I still have a job.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: I'm still helping this team win. And yeah, I'm still here.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Speaking of still being being here still and still having
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: a job, I mean, the Bills re signed you this
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: offseason to a two year deal. How does something like
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: that help your confidence knowing that this team wants you here.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it just shows that they value me.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: And you always always feel good when you're wanted. And
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: you know, they were calling me during the process like yeah,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: we want you back, you want you back, and you know,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: I was trying to honestly, I was just trying to
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: test the waters, but something just kept on pulling me
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: back here. You know, Like I said, this is home
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: for me. So it's like anywhere else, if nobody can
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: match what the Bill's got, then I'm coming back home.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: So I'm glad, you know, was able to sign back here.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Always I'm grateful for the opportunity and like I said,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: this is this is the second home for me.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you didn't truly test the water out some
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: other team, because you know you're so valuable. You've been
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: here for six seasons now, and I'm sure it helps
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: too as a player. You know this defense so well.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Now it would have been not that you couldn't have
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: done it, but to be here for six years and
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: really build on what you've been working on probably is
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: maybe what you wanted in the end of like, hey,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: I can actually perform in this defense tomorrow tomorrow.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly winning the process as well too. And uh,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: my wife, she was trying to like go test, go test,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: go test, but yeah, exactly what she wanted. But it's like,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: and I made a proper stor where I was like,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I have to stay here, then I buy you a
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: house wherever you.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Want to wherever you want to live.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Did we follow through?
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: We did follow So I bought a house in Texas.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: We're down in Houston. That's where she wanted to move to.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: And I was able to sound back here.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Happy wife, happy life. That's awesome. So you guys bought
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: a house in Texas. How is that process?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: It's a little stressful at first, grow up a little bit, right, it's.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Crazy, it's crazy now. Yeah, so I'm officially a homeowner.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of things that you have to do
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: in the house just to you know, have it up
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: and running. But it's it's been a lot, but it's
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: been it's been good though. Now she's getting like an
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: interior designers, she's doing all that extra stuff, so letting
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: her do all that, do all that stuff. But during
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the process we're kind of we're kind of quick. But
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: it was kind of easy as well.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: So did you guys spend most of the off season
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: there or is that going to be coming up this
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: off season?
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Both?
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: So we went down there because I've never been to
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Texas other than this pass off season, to be honest
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: with you. Went down there to the rodeo and see
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: what that's all about. And that is craziness, Like it's craziness,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: so much stuff to do. The food there is amazing,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: and yeah, we just we just spent some time down
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: there and I like it. I don't I don't mind it.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: So it's a little bit farther from Detroit.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: But.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: You got some Texas guys on the roster at Oliver
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: von Miller, Terrell Bernard. They speak about Texas in a
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: different way, as if like, hey, we're from Texas and
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: if you're not, then you don't get it.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: You get to be a part of it. I know.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Tell them I was just on a flight with a
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: this off season. I'm like, oh, where are you going?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: I just bought a house maid. Welcome, welcome.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: No, It's it's cool though, So I guess I have
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: some guys to train with, especially in the off season too,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: so that that that helps. I don't have to find,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: you know, a training on my own, so that always helps.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Definitely. I wanted to bring up your style because everybody
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: on this team has style. You also have your own
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: sense of style. It seems like it's more like relaxed casual,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: but also with a twist of making it look nice
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and upscale. Try how would you describe your style? I
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: pulled a couple of pictures. I don't know if we
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: want to talk through any of these. A couple are
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: from this season already, and one is from last season.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: How would you describe some of the pieces they have?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: So this one is honestly, Zara hits a toe that stuff,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: you know, the shoes in the bag.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: But I don't know.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I just want to especially this year, I want to
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: do a little bit more simpler, simple, straight to the point,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: not a whole bunch of extra stuff. So I don't know.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: My wife kind of put that together, honestly. I bought,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: you know, like I told you, I just buy pieces.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I bought the pants. I'm like, oh, these pants look nice,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: let me get these. And I bought the shirt. Shirt
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: actually came in like a set, like a short set.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: So I just mix and match and.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Just kind of put all together. Just something simple, not
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: too much.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I'm not like a risk taker when it comes to fashion,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Like I like to be comfortable, clean, clean, Yeah, clean,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: look not too much.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: So that was where are the shades from?
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Those are Cardier, So from being from Detroit, you have
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: to have like a pair of Cardier.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: We call them buffs because of the buffalo horn. Yeah,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: we call them buffs. So I have like a couple
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: of pair. So it's rotating and then it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Looks like we have a Louis bag on the side.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Louis bag. Shout out dang Jack on the on
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: the gift stage. Lash, we missed you so much.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I like that a lot and then how long have
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: you had this thirty nine chain for?
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Just got it? Just got it? So just off season was.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: This gift yourself to myself sign signing.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: It's the number I got in college. Yeah, and then
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: when I first got here, Levi had it.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Levi Wallace had it, and I was begging him to
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: have it, but he had he had it in college.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: So I feel like that's the number that I've been
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: through the most stuff, you know, through and uh, we'll end.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: So it has a meaning that has a lot of
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: meaning to me.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: You know a lot of injuries through it and a
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: lot of ups and downs, but a lot of you know,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: going upwards.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, trending in the right direction. I love that. And
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: this was a fit I believe on our way to
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: maybe one of the preseasons.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Miami, Miami, Yeah, Miami.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: And you have the Louis luggage here.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's fancy.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: That looks good.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Most of the stuff are gifts, So okay.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Louis, I would love to be gifted.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Me too. I'm very grateful.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Same to camp to.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: This.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I love this comfy, cozy look. But it looks elevated,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: you think, so, I think so, I think it looks fancy.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I mean there's a way that you can wear sweats
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: and a sweatshirts like, dang, you just roll out of beds,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: but you look like I'm on my way to go
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: do something.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I try to at least I like
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the more when I go cozy, I like the more.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Baggy, extra little oversized deal.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: So that was like just some black swet fants, some
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Acex comfy feet, and raspberry what they call a golden
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: vintage hoodie that just came out not too long ago.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: When you're shopping, are you an online shopper? Are you
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: somebody who has to go in the store and try
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: things on both.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Both both more or less online because it's you know, Internet,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. You see stuff, you get to stroll, see
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: something you like, Apple pay right to it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: It's the best and worst thing.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: And I do a lot of late night scrolling shoes shopping,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: So that doesn't help.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: That never helps.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: So shoe shopping, late night and shoe shopping. Do you
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: have a brand that you are obsessed with? Or you
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: somebody who likes to spread the wealth in terms of
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: what you're wearing on your feet.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: I used to be a big Jordan guy.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: So I used to be like a shoe collector type
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: of deal, but I've noticed I don't wear the shoes
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: that I buy, so I start.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: You know what, that's very that's very mature.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Like I don't just buy shoes anymore, like I have
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: to wear them, like wow, costly, So I come shoes
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I have on, like the Blinciagas, like those slippers, nice, nice, easy,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: like I can kind of wearing with anything, like the
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: running shoe wave that they have right now, so you know,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: digs it's big on the A six, yeah, like the
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: A six and New Balance. Been having a lot of
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: comfy shoes, so I've been doing some of those, and
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: then I may throw a couple of designer pairs in there,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: like on that first fit from week one, those Louis
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: bitin red bottoms. I wouldn't know, but simple yeah too much?
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Nice?
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, not too much.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I like it. Do you test the shoes? I guess
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: you guys don't do too much walking on a game
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: day in Buffalo in December. But are you thinking about, Okay,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: there's salt on the ground, it's snowy, I'm not wearing
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: my red bottoms. Are you like whatever I'm walking across
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the street.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, whatever, I'm walking across the street. It's not I
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: don't feel like it's that big of a deal. Like
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: to try to keep the red good, Nah, I don't.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I don't really care about that. My wife does, though.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: She puts the the clear little thing at the bottom.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know what what it's called, just to save
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: save the color. She hasked me to do it, like
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: freaking care who's looking at the bottom of the shoes.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Hey, there's some people that buy shoes and don't you said?
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: You realized I need to wear the shoes that I buy.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: But there's some people that buy shoes that are super
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: nice and they just Theyeah.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I mean I have a couple of shoes like that. Yeah,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I guess you could feel like that. But don't be
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: worth nothing if you really don't.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: All right, I want to finish up by going around
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: the dB room, because you have some great guys in
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: that room alongside of you. Who is the loudest guy
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: in the dB room?
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Loudest? That's kind of tough because everybody got their moments.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: But that's just the sko of se.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: In what way?
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Uh, he's always into something like any arguments is stemmed
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: from him.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: He always want to play like corn hole, Uh, ping
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: pong is this thing now? Yeah, but he's just always
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: into something.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: He seems like the type of dude who's never going
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: to back down from a competition.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Even when he lose.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: He's he's just looking for that one win and then
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: tell you about that one win.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I said, like, I don't beat you five other time,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: you just got this one. What have you done lately?
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: That's what he says, What have you done lately? I
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: just want this one. That's all that matters. Like, that's
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: not that's not what it means.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Like that confidence on and off the field. Who is
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the most interesting player in the dB room?
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Interesting? I say, let's go t rap t rap.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: He just does a lot of things that you normally
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: wouldn't do. I feel like the way he eats. He's
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: here early, leaves late, just like his routine he does.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: You don't see a lot of guys doing that.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: But yeah, he's got a health and wellness type.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Of He throw me off with a couple of things
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: that he'd be eating. Did any of the things my thing?
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I love it. Who's the funniest in the dB room.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Funniest.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go d Ham, I'm gonna go school, and
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: then I'm gonna throw j Mark in there as well,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: because j Mark is funny. He always wants to do something.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: You never want to sit down. Just like this last
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: little break, He's like, man, I need to find something
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: to do. I need to find something to do, and
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: I'm like, j Mark, just stay here.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: He is always picking up. I feel like in the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: off season he'll come to us and be like, hey,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I have this thing that I want to do, whether
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: it's an invention, whether it's something new that he wants
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to pick up on the side. He's always adding to
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: his repertoire that he can do. How do you have
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the time?
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Clothing clothing line, T shirt line, got underwear, he got
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: some soaps.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I'm like, dang, j ware, some got.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Storefront.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: I know, like he got it off. That meant that
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: man's hilarious.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: What does d Ham do that's so funny?
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: DM just be himself, which is which always a good time.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: You know, he's always happy and uh shine that light
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: on everybody else. So but M just funny in itself
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Where does kam Lewis fit into the mix.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I'm the more reserve, quiet, go with the flow type
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: of guy. But I may throw a couple of jokes
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: out here and there, get a get a couple of
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: last then I'm back.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Then you're back. I'm back to my You've been here
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: for the second longest out of any dB at this point.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: How wild is that?
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: It's crazy? It's you and me and Terror.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you were a young guy at one point
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I was. Now you've been here for six years. You
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: got a lot in new faces in this building as well,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: including the dB room. You're an o G.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: It's crazy that you said that. Yeah, it's.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Different, you know, just because we did have Micah, we
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: did have whole and else with the two guys. Yeah
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: and Trey. Yeah, I can't forget about Trey. Those were
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: the guys we used to lean.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: On and Levi was here for a minute too.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Dane.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: We just had a whole bunch of guys that were
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: our core guys that were here for a while. But
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: to see them going it was it was a little different,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: especially when we came back in the spring. But you know, uh,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: something new, something you got to get used to. But
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: you know, we always miss those guys. So but terror
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: it's our leader now, he's our leader. He's on our
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: leadership council. Yeah, and we push into them everything like
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: all our dB discussions, all our dB dinners that we
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: have arguments about right to Terry's commissions all on him now.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not taking that response, not yet.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Maybe a few years down the road when you're mister
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Buffalo one hundred.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: It's too much pressure.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: At one point we look back and we'll be like, Wow,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Camp's been living in Buffalo for twenty years.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Now, I'm gonna have to buy a house.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: It'll be the mayor of Buffalo, get.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: About of here. You know, I love this place. So
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: it's been treatment.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: It's got a way of pulling you in and you
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: just can't get out. I know, Buffalo doesn't want to
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: let you.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Go at all, and I don't want to let it
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: go right now.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: So, oh, we love it.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: It's a good thing.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I can't Thanks so much for sitting down telling us
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: a little bit about your story from Detroit to you
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Be to now starting in the NFL. It's been so
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: fun to see what you've been able to do in
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: the last few years here because you're a big part
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: of this group.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Appreciate it. It's been a lot, but I'm appreciate it's
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: been a lot. It's been a lot, but I really
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: appreciate it. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Up it's just been a battle, uphill battle, and continue
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  Speaker 2: to make that uphill battle into you know, more opportunities
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  Speaker 2: for myself and more ways to help this team wins
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  Speaker 2: the h That's the number one goal.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I'm not a selfish guy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always a team before me, and that's the way
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it should be, you know, playing this
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  Speaker 2: team sport.
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  Speaker 3: So anything I can do to help this team win,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Well, Kim, thanks so much for the time.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate you taking the time out of a busy
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  Speaker 1: week as you get ready for another game. We want
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to let you guys know to stay tuned for more
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  Speaker 1: episodes of Inside the Charge coming up soon