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Speaker 1: M how are we doing.
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Speaker 2: I think for you this time last year, if you get injured in this practice, to come out here and be healthy and come away with the pig.
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Speaker 1: Just how special today? I mean it was.
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Speaker 2: It really didn't hit me into it, Like I got through the sideline and all the boys were congratulating me.
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Speaker 1: It's definitely a full circle moment.
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Speaker 2: Just sticking to the process and taking the day to day and honestly, it's been it's been a hell of a ride. But I got a lot of good people in my circle, my wife, my family. Honestly being here, I stayed here with the team last year and that it honestly helped me a lot. So, uh yeah, it's been a great It's a great, great experience. What did you like about yourself through the process of free having back from the injury. I'll say, like, I honestly put my if I feel like if I put my mind to anything, man, I feel like I can go do it.
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Speaker 1: Uh So, I honestly like.
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Speaker 2: Just trusting myself coming in putting the work in. Like obviously it's a long process and it's it's it's tough on the brain. But if you if you put your mind to it. I feel like you do it, and I feel like I did that really well. After you intercept, you feel like most people who were celebrating with you understood.
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Speaker 1: The connection came.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that last year there was a lot of people that were saying they didn't want to say anything to me before practice because everybody obviously knew. And uh, a lot of people that came up to me and they're like, man, the year later, you come back and you get a pick, that's that's so special, like there's nothing but God. And honestly it is, so I really appreciate it. Uh, thank God for being in this situation.
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Speaker 1: W What was that like last year? Like having an injury coming down in the practice I play with duram rain, like just the immediate aftermaths of it, like you probably know immediately.
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Speaker 2: What's happening, kpah, and then to now have the year earlier, Uh, when it happened, I was. I mean, I went through every emotion you can imagine, honestly, like you, I feel like you put in so much work and then it's just taken away from me like that. And I feel like what I did very well is I dealt with it so fast to where like the next week when I came back in for treatment, I was.
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Speaker 1: Like, I was already over it. So I was.
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Speaker 2: I was ready to put my best foot forwar it every day. So getting over it pretty fast was the best thing I did.
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Speaker 1: How did you get over the beak? What did you get? How did you? Honestly?
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Speaker 2: Like I I was, I'm a very so what I had a trend coach in uh college?
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Speaker 1: Tell me so what now? What? Like? So, no matter what happens to you.
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Speaker 2: Like you gotta you gotta fight back and you gotta adjust. So I feel like that's what I did. Will some love?
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Speaker 1: You said you stayed here to rehab? Yeah? What was that? I mean some some guys go home, some guys do it here. What's the what was the decision like that?
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Speaker 2: I mean they asked me to stay, so I was obviously gonna stay. So yeah, they they asked me to stay, and I just stayed up.
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Speaker 1: Here and did my rehab. What well, some guys coming off an injury, maybe how hard time to lag with the.
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Speaker 2: New team from the CRS to wanna resign you or early in the offseason?
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Speaker 1: What that means you to get recned? I mean it was special.
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Speaker 2: Uh, obviously, like a lot of guys, especially in my position, like, you don't come back a lot from acls like that. So honestly, it it meant a lot knowing that I put in the work and they saw the work that I put in.
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Speaker 1: So I feel like that's what helped me get back in this situations.
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Speaker 2: Your fellow safetych Nick covers from the injury, have you given him.
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Speaker 1: Any advice throughout your c.
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Speaker 2: I just tell him to keep working, like honestly, like I it's it's you can take it step by step and if you just keep going, like you're gonna come back better than you were. So I feel like that's what I've been telling him.
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Speaker 1: Jack Howard, can you just talk about his communications style and then how he's just yeah.
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Speaker 2: Uh, he he's been. I had him in LA So he was a linebackers coach when I was in LA. So I've known him for about four years now, and uh, he's a stickler about communication. Uh That's that's what I feel like. That's what our room does at a really high level. Like everybody in our room can communicate at a really high level. And that's that's what he preaches to us. And if you can't communicate you're not gonna be on the field. So I feel like that's what he's a stickler about.
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Speaker 1: And where do you feel like? Where do you feel like you are? Like, uh like serial world game.
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Speaker 2: Right now a year from this getting back in them, I'm one hundred percent health. I'm obviously still knocking some dust off with a little a few things like I'm not I'm nowhere near where I want to be, but uh my, my body's.
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Speaker 1: One hundred percent.
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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to get the mental part back back down. If you're the safety, it seems like there's a lot of uh competition in safety.
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Speaker 1: Where do you feel like you fit in?
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Speaker 2: And kind of I'm just I'm just here to do whatever I need to do to get on the field, whatever that means, whether it's a mentor to anybody, whether I'm on the field on special teams, playing like, I don't care.
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Speaker 1: What it is. I just want to be in the building.
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Speaker 2: When you weren't rehappy last year and you were talking ball with your teammates, when you weren't rehabby and you were talking bold with your teammates last year, who just spent the most time.
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Speaker 1: Talking Ah, that's tough.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I'm the type of guy, like I'm cool with everybody on the team, Uh pretty much everybody in the DV room that was our dB room master was so tight, like it was you can go up and talk to anybody, like from anybody to the top guy like spooned to anybody you want.
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Speaker 1: To talk about. But I feel like I feel.
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Speaker 2: Like me and Tod like because me and to kind of have similar stories like both on drafted free agents, like when I first got here from.
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Speaker 1: LA, like we kind of hit it off.
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Speaker 2: So just honestly, honestly seeing thy last year was it was really impressive, like him going in and competing at a high level. I love to see that verata and uh yeah, I'll probably say Tie, you want to kind of like kind of shouting you out after or what would that mean to have your head coach kind of single you out of It's so cool like to see to see that he has seen the work that I put in honestly means a lot, especially coming from where I am, coming from where I came from last year, like it's it's been a long, pro long process and just seeing that that work has come to light, it's it's amazing thinking my.
00:05:18
Speaker 1: Drafted what did you? Uh? What do you even see? Hi from n Tory Foster through camp?
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Speaker 2: That guy is electric uh he he It feels like he makes it play almost every day.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: But he he's definitely putting a lot of good stuff on tape. Did you did you? Were you able to still feel like you were a part of this pull throughout last year.
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Speaker 1: Sitting from from the background and kind of having to do your thing?
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Speaker 2: That's what That's what I tried to do the most, like, cause I feel like if I tried to do the process on my own, it would have probably been a hard process. So that's why I stayed in the building. I even went out to practice sometimes like it was. I probably tried to make it at least two practice a week so I would still feel like I'm a part of the team. So I didn't feel like I was in the background in the dark, like doing this all by myself.
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Speaker 1: So I I feel like that was probably the biggest part.
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Speaker 2: And you sent the mental aspect of something and I think you're still trying to get over Is it trusting.
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Speaker 1: Your body in this try?
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Speaker 2: No, it's not trusting my body. It's a it's honestly trusting my eyes. Like I I'm I'm like all over the body, like I feel good about my body. But it's just like seeing certain things and reading, reacting and stuff.
00:06:12
Speaker 1: I feel like I still got a list of tab bit. I'm almost there, but I still got a tab it to do. What did you see on the interceptional? Uh? So we were in quarters.
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Speaker 2: Uh Jackson was running the over and I cleared the post and then came down the over and I just honestly didn't know if Sam I was gonna throw the ball. I was shocked through through it.
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Speaker 1: He's usual, he usually don't make those mistakes.
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Speaker 2: But uh yeah, I came down in the over and intercepted it.
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Speaker 1: Anything else has Thanks, Thanks you guys,
Speaker 1: M how are we doing.
00:00:06
Speaker 2: I think for you this time last year, if you get injured in this practice, to come out here and be healthy and come away with the pig.
00:00:12
Speaker 1: Just how special today? I mean it was.
00:00:14
Speaker 2: It really didn't hit me into it, Like I got through the sideline and all the boys were congratulating me.
00:00:19
Speaker 1: It's definitely a full circle moment.
00:00:21
Speaker 2: Just sticking to the process and taking the day to day and honestly, it's been it's been a hell of a ride. But I got a lot of good people in my circle, my wife, my family. Honestly being here, I stayed here with the team last year and that it honestly helped me a lot. So, uh yeah, it's been a great It's a great, great experience. What did you like about yourself through the process of free having back from the injury. I'll say, like, I honestly put my if I feel like if I put my mind to anything, man, I feel like I can go do it.
00:00:44
Speaker 1: Uh So, I honestly like.
00:00:46
Speaker 2: Just trusting myself coming in putting the work in. Like obviously it's a long process and it's it's it's tough on the brain. But if you if you put your mind to it. I feel like you do it, and I feel like I did that really well. After you intercept, you feel like most people who were celebrating with you understood.
00:01:02
Speaker 1: The connection came.
00:01:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, that last year there was a lot of people that were saying they didn't want to say anything to me before practice because everybody obviously knew. And uh, a lot of people that came up to me and they're like, man, the year later, you come back and you get a pick, that's that's so special, like there's nothing but God. And honestly it is, so I really appreciate it. Uh, thank God for being in this situation.
00:01:21
Speaker 1: W What was that like last year? Like having an injury coming down in the practice I play with duram rain, like just the immediate aftermaths of it, like you probably know immediately.
00:01:30
Speaker 2: What's happening, kpah, and then to now have the year earlier, Uh, when it happened, I was. I mean, I went through every emotion you can imagine, honestly, like you, I feel like you put in so much work and then it's just taken away from me like that. And I feel like what I did very well is I dealt with it so fast to where like the next week when I came back in for treatment, I was.
00:01:50
Speaker 1: Like, I was already over it. So I was.
00:01:52
Speaker 2: I was ready to put my best foot forwar it every day. So getting over it pretty fast was the best thing I did.
00:01:56
Speaker 1: How did you get over the beak? What did you get? How did you? Honestly?
00:02:01
Speaker 2: Like I I was, I'm a very so what I had a trend coach in uh college?
00:02:06
Speaker 1: Tell me so what now? What? Like? So, no matter what happens to you.
00:02:10
Speaker 2: Like you gotta you gotta fight back and you gotta adjust. So I feel like that's what I did. Will some love?
00:02:17
Speaker 1: You said you stayed here to rehab? Yeah? What was that? I mean some some guys go home, some guys do it here. What's the what was the decision like that?
00:02:25
Speaker 2: I mean they asked me to stay, so I was obviously gonna stay. So yeah, they they asked me to stay, and I just stayed up.
00:02:30
Speaker 1: Here and did my rehab. What well, some guys coming off an injury, maybe how hard time to lag with the.
00:02:35
Speaker 2: New team from the CRS to wanna resign you or early in the offseason?
00:02:38
Speaker 1: What that means you to get recned? I mean it was special.
00:02:41
Speaker 2: Uh, obviously, like a lot of guys, especially in my position, like, you don't come back a lot from acls like that. So honestly, it it meant a lot knowing that I put in the work and they saw the work that I put in.
00:02:51
Speaker 1: So I feel like that's what helped me get back in this situations.
00:02:54
Speaker 2: Your fellow safetych Nick covers from the injury, have you given him.
00:02:58
Speaker 1: Any advice throughout your c.
00:03:01
Speaker 2: I just tell him to keep working, like honestly, like I it's it's you can take it step by step and if you just keep going, like you're gonna come back better than you were. So I feel like that's what I've been telling him.
00:03:12
Speaker 1: Jack Howard, can you just talk about his communications style and then how he's just yeah.
00:03:18
Speaker 2: Uh, he he's been. I had him in LA So he was a linebackers coach when I was in LA. So I've known him for about four years now, and uh, he's a stickler about communication. Uh That's that's what I feel like. That's what our room does at a really high level. Like everybody in our room can communicate at a really high level. And that's that's what he preaches to us. And if you can't communicate you're not gonna be on the field. So I feel like that's what he's a stickler about.
00:03:38
Speaker 1: And where do you feel like? Where do you feel like you are? Like, uh like serial world game.
00:03:43
Speaker 2: Right now a year from this getting back in them, I'm one hundred percent health. I'm obviously still knocking some dust off with a little a few things like I'm not I'm nowhere near where I want to be, but uh my, my body's.
00:03:53
Speaker 1: One hundred percent.
00:03:53
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to get the mental part back back down. If you're the safety, it seems like there's a lot of uh competition in safety.
00:04:01
Speaker 1: Where do you feel like you fit in?
00:04:02
Speaker 2: And kind of I'm just I'm just here to do whatever I need to do to get on the field, whatever that means, whether it's a mentor to anybody, whether I'm on the field on special teams, playing like, I don't care.
00:04:12
Speaker 1: What it is. I just want to be in the building.
00:04:13
Speaker 2: When you weren't rehappy last year and you were talking ball with your teammates, when you weren't rehabby and you were talking bold with your teammates last year, who just spent the most time.
00:04:22
Speaker 1: Talking Ah, that's tough.
00:04:24
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I'm the type of guy, like I'm cool with everybody on the team, Uh pretty much everybody in the DV room that was our dB room master was so tight, like it was you can go up and talk to anybody, like from anybody to the top guy like spooned to anybody you want.
00:04:37
Speaker 1: To talk about. But I feel like I feel.
00:04:40
Speaker 2: Like me and Tod like because me and to kind of have similar stories like both on drafted free agents, like when I first got here from.
00:04:47
Speaker 1: LA, like we kind of hit it off.
00:04:48
Speaker 2: So just honestly, honestly seeing thy last year was it was really impressive, like him going in and competing at a high level. I love to see that verata and uh yeah, I'll probably say Tie, you want to kind of like kind of shouting you out after or what would that mean to have your head coach kind of single you out of It's so cool like to see to see that he has seen the work that I put in honestly means a lot, especially coming from where I am, coming from where I came from last year, like it's it's been a long, pro long process and just seeing that that work has come to light, it's it's amazing thinking my.
00:05:18
Speaker 1: Drafted what did you? Uh? What do you even see? Hi from n Tory Foster through camp?
00:05:22
Speaker 2: That guy is electric uh he he It feels like he makes it play almost every day.
00:05:27
Speaker 1: Uh.
00:05:27
Speaker 2: But he he's definitely putting a lot of good stuff on tape. Did you did you? Were you able to still feel like you were a part of this pull throughout last year.
00:05:35
Speaker 1: Sitting from from the background and kind of having to do your thing?
00:05:38
Speaker 2: That's what That's what I tried to do the most, like, cause I feel like if I tried to do the process on my own, it would have probably been a hard process. So that's why I stayed in the building. I even went out to practice sometimes like it was. I probably tried to make it at least two practice a week so I would still feel like I'm a part of the team. So I didn't feel like I was in the background in the dark, like doing this all by myself.
00:05:55
Speaker 1: So I I feel like that was probably the biggest part.
00:05:58
Speaker 2: And you sent the mental aspect of something and I think you're still trying to get over Is it trusting.
00:06:02
Speaker 1: Your body in this try?
00:06:03
Speaker 2: No, it's not trusting my body. It's a it's honestly trusting my eyes. Like I I'm I'm like all over the body, like I feel good about my body. But it's just like seeing certain things and reading, reacting and stuff.
00:06:12
Speaker 1: I feel like I still got a list of tab bit. I'm almost there, but I still got a tab it to do. What did you see on the interceptional? Uh? So we were in quarters.
00:06:21
Speaker 2: Uh Jackson was running the over and I cleared the post and then came down the over and I just honestly didn't know if Sam I was gonna throw the ball. I was shocked through through it.
00:06:28
Speaker 1: He's usual, he usually don't make those mistakes.
00:06:29
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, I came down in the over and intercepted it.
00:06:33
Speaker 1: Anything else has Thanks, Thanks you guys,
