Brian O’Neill Breaks Down His $96M Contract, Vikings O-Line & Toughest NFL Matchups | BOS EP6

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I want to talk Delaware basketball.
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So you were basketball player of the year?
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Yeah.
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I was.
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Hey, he's not trying to flex, but you know.
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Average 13 and 8, state champ.
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Okay, but 13 and 8 isn't that like I'm trying to figure out how you won it.
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Like was it was it earned?
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Do you believe it was earned?
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Put it this way, please.
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I was not the best player in the state, and I was not the best player on our team.
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Okay.
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My high school basketball teammates, Dante DiVincenzo, who plays for the Wolves.
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Correct.
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Remember what was that?
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Yeah.
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And uh he was way better than I am.
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Um I think it was more of a career achievement award because it was my senior year and he was a junior.
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Oh.
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He won the state championship.
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So I think there was a little bit of like uh, hey, we know Dante's gonna get it next year.
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Like, let's send him out on a high note.
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You got me bent out of shape.
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What is going on, everybody?
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Welcome back to Bent Out of Shape.
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We are your host, Anthony Barr.
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I'm Eric Kendricks, and we have a special guest today.
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The specialist.
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One of our one of our good friends, one of the one of the best people I've ever played with.
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And that's highlighted by his new contract.
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What's the contract?
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It is 96 million through 2030.
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This is Brian B.O.
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O'Neal.
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Welcome to the show, brother.
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What's up, boys?
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How are we doing?
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Great.
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Man, thank you for uh thank you for joining us.
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Are you a little nervous or no?
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For this or for practice?
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Because I'm nervous for both.
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Respectable.
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The nerves don't go away for practice.
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Respectable.
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That's so true, man.
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But uh, congratulations on your new deal.
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Uh, we're thrilled for you that you'll remain a Viking.
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Um, it seems like the place you enjoy being.
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Um, talk us through the contract a little bit and maybe what are we eyeing?
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Like, what's our first purchase?
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I know you already got you made your money, but now you made even more money.
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So, what are we copping?
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What's our what's our what are we buying?
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I don't know.
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I don't there's not really anything that's like on the list of like things to buy.
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I did just buy a truck, an old truck, OBS 95 OBS.
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Let's talk about that a little bit after you.
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Give me some more information.
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I'm not a big car guy.
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Explain that to me.
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Uh so like two years ago, I started looking on bring a trailer for like old trucks, and I was like, I want one, I want one.
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But I was like, I don't know, whatever.
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The best one I ever saw was in the first 10 minutes of looking on bring a trailer.
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That's how hey, sometimes it works like that.
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And I was like, bro, I just looked for 10 minutes, like I'm not just gonna buy this one.
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If that one came up in 10 minutes, like I'm gonna be good.
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And for two years I looked for like the one I wanted and it never came up.
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And I was like, all right, after two years, like if I really, if I really still want this, like I'm getting it.
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So I went to a dealership in New Jersey, um, tried a few out and ended up getting one.
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What color?
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It's like eggshell white, like awful.
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They have like a little night, nice little lift kit on it.
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Yeah, it's about I think it's got four inches on it.
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Okay, tastefully modded.
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Yeah, I like OBS, man.
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They're they're making a huge uh dent in the market right now.
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People are, I mean, people love old trucks too because they're dependable, they look good.
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It's a little bit of that nostalgic feel from you know when we were growing up.
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But um, yeah, we like to start off the show usually with what's got you bent out of shape.
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And that could be, you know, stubbing your toe in the morning, you know, you maybe your coffee isn't, you order coffee, it's not how you like it.
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Gotta go to practice today.
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What what has you bent out of shape today?
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What had me bent out of shape at the hotel this morning was the elevator wasn't working.
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Oh.
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So I walked down five flights of stairs.
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How were the news feeling when you were going down the elevator?
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It felt good then.
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Talk to me in three hours after practice, but no, that like it was all good.
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There was some kid who was there.
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We signed me and another teammate signed a couple footballs and walked down the stairs with them.
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So it was all good.
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Okay, okay.
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That's a wholesome.
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Hey, from bad to good.
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Absolutely.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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Eric, what has you been out of shape today?
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Um, we went to a restaurant last night, Minari?
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Minari.
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Minari.
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North Northeast?
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I believe it's northeast.
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Anyway, Minari.
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Gas.
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I'm a little bent out of shape because you guys didn't open when I was here.
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Hell yeah.
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Because the meal was incredible.
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The staff treated us Sensationally.
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Sensationally.
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Yeah.
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And um, the food was, I mean, it was just a good experience.
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Met with, you know, we're with Lin Val Joseph.
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I was with my, you know, my buddy Anthony, and and um, we had a good time, you know.
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So I'm upset, I'm bent out of shape that Manari wasn't open sooner.
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Thanks, guys.
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Unbelievable.
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What has me bent out of shape today?
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I'm gonna go ahead and say airplane Wi-Fi.
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Um, I took a flight here and the Wi-Fi was just cutting in and out.
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I know that's a first world problem, but this is 2026.
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And there's no reason we don't have high-speed Wi-Fi on every plane that's flawless.
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Were you were you trying to get something accomplished or was it just Doom Scrolling?
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I wanted to Doom Scroll on my flight here, and it was a three-hour flight.
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Like, I needed something to do.
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That's the best thing to do.
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What's your favorite?
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What's your favorite Doom Scroll?
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I'm just like a Twitter guy.
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Twitter I'll refresh it 24-7.
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Twitter for sports is like got me way more locked in.
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Bro, like Twitter is the best social media app out right now.
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I was gonna say that Twitter kind of has me bent out of shape, to be honest.
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Oh.
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I'm not really on it, and like I haven't tweeted in forever, but this offseason I downloaded it for like a couple weeks, couple months, and I was like, oh my god.
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Hooked?
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It's crazy.
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Or too much information.
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Just like too much information, non-stop, like 24-7, like everything you refresh is like Vikings.
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I'm like, I gotta get this, I gotta get this out.
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This is our time away, you know.
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Have you ever like out on one of those like screw like where the the machine that smashes?
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Mm-hmm.
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Oh yeah, that's what I know.
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Like you're scrolling too much.
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Or like colors mixing, or like something like that.
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Or like a car is trying to jump over the big, like go off the ramp.
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I love it.
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Bro, I actually doom scroll um like car purchasing websites and stuff like that.
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But that's that's enough of that.
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I believe that.
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Well, let's get into a little bit of football talk.
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We're here, we're at the Vikings camp, we're here with their newest um paid player, not newest, but you know what I'm getting at.
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Um let's talk about the offensive line some this year.
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Um we think the offensive line obviously the trenches of where games are won, uh, both offensively and defensively.
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What do you believe will be the key to the offensive line success this year with your subgroup specifically outside of health?
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Obviously health is gonna be important, keeping the guys intact and having continuity across the board.
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But what do you think is the key for uh the starting five this season?
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Well, I think that like I I know you said not health, but it's just something we went through, you know, that's that's just that's real for us.
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Um and so that you know that obviously goes without saying, but I think being able to get all of training camp and all the season in terms of practicing together, like getting a million reps, playing next to the guard that you're gonna play with the whole year, the whole group, the center being the center, and having it everybody practice every day and um you know kind of because we have a new align coach, um, and we are doing things a little bit differently.
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So um some things are different, some things are new, and so the more that we can all take reps together and kind of understand the little differences of hey, this is how we did it last year, but this time it's gonna be a little bit different, and I'll be out there working it together.
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Um, you know, hopefully we'll pay dividends.
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But I mean at the end of the day, like third and ten is third and ten.
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Facts.
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We gotta you we gotta win them we gotta win your match, you're like everybody's like, what's different this year?
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It's like, yeah, there's some different things, but like third and ten is third and ten, and like you gotta be able to go strap it up.
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And so like all the communication and all the things working together is really important, but like at the end of the day, like playing good ball and winning, like winning one-on-one matchups is kind of what it comes down to.
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100%.
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I always feel like when you get a new, you know, a new coach or you know, you introduce new concepts, it's always important to not like completely forget about the old because especially when you have a group that's you know been been in that in that world for so long.
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So I always appreciate when coaches like they can correlate the two.
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Okay, we're wiping this completely.
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So you do need to do this as a news concept, but like maybe taking some things that you did uh previously, or maybe some verbiage that you used previously for a similar technique.
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I always like when they incorporate that as best as they can.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Because it gives you a better understanding of the whole picture.
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And but then like there's like the fine line of like thinking enough, but not thinking too much.
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And like there's been times where like there's weeks where like I've been like, I almost like watch too much film.
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Like at some of the point, like you know what they're gonna do.
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These are the three moves, you know, this is the plays that are gonna be hard for us.
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We know our offense, like the back of our hand, like at some point you get that, you get that, and you like let it go rip.
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Like, flow state flow state is definitely where you want to be most of the time.
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I would say majority.
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And there's some new additions on the Viking defense, uh, especially with these two young draft picks that they got, the interior D-linemen, uh Caleb Banks, uh, Dominique Orange.
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Um can you kind of touch on what you've seen from them so far in training camp and maybe what you saw from them in OTAs and how do you think they will provide for this defense and hopefully take the defense to even another level?
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Yeah, I mean, first, like they looked apart.
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Like you see them all in Alho you're like they don't make them like that.
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That's important.
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Like that, like that's important.
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Hey, I test, I test will get you pretty far in this league, I promise you.
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And they're twitched up.
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And like Twitched up.
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Uh what?
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I like that twitched up.
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Yeah, that's a good term.
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But uh, you know, those two guys on the inside, like not many rookies I know, you know, have spent the whole summer after OTAs here.
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Like mostly everybody goes back, but those two and the linebacker Jake that we got, all three of them stayed the whole summer.
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Nice and like, yeah, this is like I stay here in the summer and like a couple of the vets do, but like for the past four or five years, like there hasn't really been rookies who've like stayed for the whole summer.
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And just like you can tell the first for the through the first week, like there's less of an acclamation or less of a kind of shock because you know the people who are writing our practices are the ones writing our workouts in the whole entire summer.
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There's more confidence, you you know, comfortability, you don't have that like like you know when it's the first day of school and you're coming back, yeah.
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You're kind of like, oh, a little uneasy.
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But it's like, no, you've been here, you've been working out.
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We we failed, so we were grinding in summer school.
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Well, how about Dallas Turner?
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Like, what what do you expect to hit to see him uh you know do in Flow's defense?
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Obviously, he's a he's gonna be a huge piece and he's a great player.
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So um tell us tell us on the field, off the field, what do you what do you see from him?
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What do you like from him?
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I mean, I like a lot.
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There like the thing I would say is like you you see him not thinking anymore right now.
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You know, like there would be flashes his first two years where it's like, oh yeah, like they don't make him like that everywhere.
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You know, like he has the physical tools, the twitch, the like everything to be a really great player in this league.
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And just once you get to the point where it's reaction instead of thinking, automatic, and like automatic, then you start to really fine-tune the details and set things up, set rushes up, kind of play that game um with an offensive tackle, and he's starting to do that rather than hey, on this play, I have to keep contained and I'm rushing up the field.
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Not so like we've all been like, yeah, we've all been able to now just react and go play free.
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You're playing the offense, you're not running plays.
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Like you're telling me to do this, and I I'm trying to do this, and it's like now you want me to make a play, and you know, it's just like they you always get rewarded when you're just playing fast.
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You know what I mean?
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And you've you've now played against this Brian Flores defense in training camp several times.
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Um what are the challenges that that defense provides?
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Because it's not like you're not gonna see that defense typically every Sunday.
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There's the way that that defense flies around.
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Um and is it difficult to go from playing like a Flores defense in practice and then having to prepare for your typical over or under front that you might see during the season?
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Yeah, I mean, I would say uh from a communication standpoint, we will have seen absolutely everything, right?
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Like there's not a look that we won't have seen going into a game.
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It's just more of a mindset shift of like, hey, these are the three packages we're gonna get.
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Let's go, let's go master these three packages and be great at those, rather than like, hey, we gotta cover our bases for 15 different things, you know what I mean?
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But like also like and it's like he wants to win training camp.
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You know what I mean?
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Ultra competitive.
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Ultra competitive.
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It's not like, hey, we're just installing this today, we're gonna see how it goes, we might get burnt.
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Like, no, he wants to win.
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Yeah, like he wants to win the day today, he wants to win it yesterday.
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So it brings a good competitive edge, and like he's got a little bit of a competitive edge.
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Like, if his guys are talking shit after making a good play, like so are we, and like we can kind of go back and forth with him.
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Like, it makes it fun to compete because like you he loves this shit.
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No, I I always thought that how like how that works because you know you have a coach like him who wants to win training camp, like you said, and his defense is so chaotic that oftentimes as an offense you're preparing more for the deep his defense, but it's like you're also preparing for the the season in the 17-8 season.
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So it's like there's that fine mix where it's like, okay, training camp, you're gonna get all the hardest looks through his defense, which is a blessing for you guys, but also at some point we got to start working on what we have to do to beat other teams and like more about us versus more about the defense, which I mean it's cat and mouse.
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That's how that's how it is every training camp.
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So it's like, but it's just a funny dynamic when you have a defense that's this like you know, it's just hectic on when you watch it on film, which is awesome.
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100%.
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And now this is your what fifth year with uh KOC?
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Yeah, and you had what five years with Zim?
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I had four with Zim.
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Four with Zim.
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That's a pretty good balance.
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So you've you've seen the head coach that's a defensive coordinator, you've seen the head coach that's an offensive coordinator.
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Can you compare and contrast your relationships with both coaches and maybe just their styles and which has been which has allowed you to play maybe better or which have you enjoyed more?
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Yeah, I I mean I'll say the first thing is with an offensive head coach, if the offense has a great day, the whole team has a great day.
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Like if the defense wins, yeah, it wasn't good enough, you know.
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And it was vice versa with Zim, right?
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Like 100%.
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We get, you know, we couldn't run the ball and only got, you know, not much going.
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Great practice today.
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It was a terrible practice today.
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You're like, wait, we we had three touchdowns.
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No doubt.
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No doubt.
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So like that's just always gonna be across the NFL who's there.
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I'll say this.
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I'm really, really happy that I've played for both of them.
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Okay.
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And I think the way that Zim coached as a young guy, you learned how to play a certain way.
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You learned how to take care of your business a certain way.
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It wasn't comfortable, but like you appreciate it so much more after it's gone, I guess, if that makes sense.
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From the terms of like, hey, you play tough, you play hurt, you practice hard, you go hard.
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Like, there's a it's not okay for it to not be okay.
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Like there are certain things that were standards.
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Correct.
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I mean, I love the walkthroughs with him.
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I love like there's a certain like a certain amount of things where it was like walkthroughs is almost more important than practice.
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The consistency, like it was like the level of detail which he carried, which he held as an expectation, which I thought, you know, you know, was getting like, you know, maybe maybe tiresome at some time.
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It's like, man, damn, like we obviously know this, like, you know, but it was like how it was like monotonous ingrained, like this is the details, this is how it has to be on the defense side of the ball.
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I mean, obviously wasn't involved with the offense as much, but I grew to appreciate that because when I was on other teams or other defenses, it was kind of like anytime I felt like, oh man, this is like a little bit gray over here, or like a little bit gray over here, like should we iron this up?
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Like, I felt like I had the need to be like, let me go say something, let me go talk to somebody, let me talk to my DB, let me talk to my safety because this isn't as dialed as I needed to be how I'm used to.
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So I respect that from him as well.
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You always knew you always knew where you stood too.
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Yeah.
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Like, I remember my rookie year, there was a time he we're doing stretch line, he walks up to me, he's like, Hey, you know who Bill Parcells is?
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And I was like, Yeah.
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And he's like, he's fucking pissed at you.
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And I was like, uh, okay, like, why?
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He's like, remember the third and short last week against Seattle when you stepped with your right foot instead of your left foot when you had your inside gap?
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He called me and told me to tell you that was bullshit.
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And he's like, He's like, but you're playing tough and you're playing hard, and like smacks me on the shoulder and walks away.
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And he was like, Absolute whirlwind.
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That was that was year two?
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That was year one, I think.
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Oh, that's great.
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Oh yeah, rattling.
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Well, I I also think we need to pivot for a second.
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I want to talk Delaware basketball.
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So I heard I read something that you were the Delaware basketball defensive player, or I'm sorry, basketball player of the year.
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Yeah.
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I was.
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He's not trying to flex, but you know average 13 and 8, state champ.
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Okay, but 13 and 8 isn't that like I'm trying to figure out how you won it.
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Like, all right.
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Was it was it earned?
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Do you believe it was earned?
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Put it this way, please.
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I was not the best player in the state, and I was not the best player on our team.
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Okay.
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My high school basketball teammates, Dante DiVincenzo, who plays for the Wolves.
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Correct.
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That's what he was way better than I am.
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Um I think it was more of a career achievement award because it was my senior year and he was a junior.
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Oh, he won the state championship.
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So I think there was a little bit of like uh, hey, we know Dante's gonna get it next year.
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Like, let's send him out on a high note, you know.
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Gotcha.
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But like there's a lot of variables though.
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Like, but was he tight a little bit?
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Was he was he was he hot about it or was he happy for you?
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I don't know.
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I wasn't tight about it.
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I was pretty happy at the time.
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You're like checking on my own.
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It's cool though.
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I mean, you had to be hooping though.
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I'm trying to figure out does that say more about your game or w the state of Delaware basketball?
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I don't want to diminish your accomplishment by any mean.
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I mean that's a hell of an accomplishment.
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But it's 13 and 8, you know.
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That's a good numbers.
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Yeah.
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How are you scoring most of your points?
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Elbow elbow, low post.
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It was like I was like a 6'6 center who couldn't jump.
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Like there was no future there.
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Like I didn't have a jump shot, you know, it was just the biggest kid.
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And we saw we we all we also saw that you entered college as a tight end.
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So did you like just not have the hands to make it?
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Or like what I thought I had the hands to make it.
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Oh but no, we uh I redshirt as a tight end, and then June going into my redshirt freshman year, the starting tackle blew out his knee.
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And they said, look, you could be you'll either be the four-string tight end and play a couple special teams here, or you could compete with this guy that one of your teammates for the starting right tackle job and probably play a lot longer in the NFL and probably a lot better and make all that money.
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Whoever told you that?
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I'll send him a little bit more.
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Pat Narduzzi, he's still the coach of Pitt.
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You need to go ahead and send him a little bit of like a little care pack, a little care package.
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And were you open to that like immediately, or did you take some convincing?
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It was like he was like, hey, you don't have to let me know right now, because like you know, take a couple days, talk about it with your family, whatever.
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But like the season's like two months away.
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So like once you're once you decide to do it, like it's it's all in, you know, but make the decision and go.
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And I talked to my parents that night, and like I mean, like everybody had kind of joked with me before, like, oh man, you got the frame for a tackle, and like for years you're like, no way, bro.
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Like, I'm gonna be the next couple of years.
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What was your weight looking like?
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What was your weight at the time?
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Oh, wow.
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When they told you to transition.
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Yeah.
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So you just had to like start shoveling.
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People don't understand like crazy.
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Like these, like some of these linemen, like, like, like Brian, like to get on the weight, the weight gain journey is way harder than than losing weight.
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It's way hard.
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It's like one of the hardest things that I've, you know, it's like there's some miserable times in there where you're just stuffing your face like at 10 p.m.
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before, oh man.
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Like, I mean, like, it looked like I sat on an air hose.
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Like, I mean, like I was just like bloated.
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Just whatever you can get, whatever you can eat, you're just eating.
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I showed up, I went back home for the last weekend before training camp and they were like, oh my God.
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Like you're the tackle.
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Yeah.
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Like people had the freshman 50.
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I had like the sophomore or freshman 15, I had like the sophomore 40.
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Oh my gosh.
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How'd your body how like how'd your joy how'd you react to that?
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It was fine then, because like I didn't, I hadn't played a lot of ball and I was you know 19, 20 years old.
00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:26.880
Like if you know you asked me to put on 50 pounds right now.
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Yeah, no chance.
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No chance.
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But when people ask me like what the NFL is like, I often tell them, like, you know the offensive tackles on the on like on the team, like the big guys, like like they're not only fast, but they usually play basketball in high school.
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Like these dudes are extreme athletes, like some of the best athletes on the field.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, exactly.
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So it's like you you they think that it's like an easy down or easy, you know, like an easy type of position.
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I'm like, no, like we're running for our lives out there.
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100%.
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These are big dudes.
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And I also saw that you scored a couple touchdowns at Pitt.
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So you got a nice 30-yard, 24-yard screen pass and uh like an end around, tackle around, rushing touchdown.
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Yeah.
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Nathan Peterman back the other way to alignment, blind O'Neal.
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We did not expect it to be that wide open.
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Number 70! Down the seven line! Goes to the end zone for pit!
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Yeah.
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So have you have you ever mentioned the KOC?
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Like, once we get into that red zone, that goal line, like I'm a weapon down here.
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Like you said this is my fifth year with KO?
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Yeah.
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I've probably mentioned it probably four or five times.
00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:31.519
Okay, okay, okay.
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We need to double those numbers.
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10 tape coach.
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Like that red zone offense last year, goal on offense, sputtered it sometimes last year.
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I think if you in the backfield are catching the ball out wide, compliment JJ out there.
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They got a game plan for you.
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I'm just I've been asking.
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I say, let your playmakers make plays, bro.
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Big seven-five out wide.
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Yeah.
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I think we need to we need to get a package, a B Open.
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I mean, you see the guy from Detroit, Dan Skipper.
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Like he became a legend in that city for you can score a couple more touchdowns.
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We could add another zero to this uh this million that you gave him.
00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:03.039
That's impressive stuff right there.
00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:05.920
Um we want to move to what we call quick hitters.
00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:08.559
So it's just gonna rapid fire some questions at you.
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Um you can give us a one-word answer, you can give us a little more long-winded answer, whatever kind of suits you.
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Um, but I'll let Eric start.
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Um besides Daniil Hunter on your day-to-day in practice, who has been your toughest NFL matchup on the edge?
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And we're talking about like consistency, relentless, obviously athleticism, like your overall, it could be someone unique.
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I mean, G Hunt is number one.
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Like for sure, bro.
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I got spin hours in practice from him for years.
00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:43.759
Uh but no, I'd say I've had a lot of matchups with Aiden Hutchinson.
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Okay.
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And uh I like his game.
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The first time we ever played him, it was his rookie year, it was his third week.
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You know, we got through got through the game.
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I felt like I did pretty good.
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I was like, oh man, like I kind of got him.
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And then we played him in December later that year, and I was like, oh my god, he got good.
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He got good fast.
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He got good.
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He's he's legit.
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He's like, and the way he was able to come back from that injury he had two years ago, and to last year there'd be no fall off.
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People don't do that.
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He has crazy motor too.
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Motor is crazy.
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Talking to the guys in Detroit, like he is as advertised, how he practices as a guy, the whole thing.
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So I got a ton of respect for him.
00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:16.319
Okay.
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Our next question will be what is your favorite stadium to play in outside of U.S.
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Bank Stadium?
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I know my least favorite stadium to play in.
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Soldier Field.
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Is it the ground?
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The ground.
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Yeah, yeah.
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The ground.
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And it's we always play there late.
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Especially for a tackle.
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Like you gotta come on, man.
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I'm kicking.
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I'm trying to block these.
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Soldier Field or MetLife.
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Like the field of MetLife is absolutely terrible.
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That's where AC is gonna die.
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I always think it like Buffalo.
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Buffalo was always kind of like, it just felt kind of weird.
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I like outdoor stadiums that have grass.
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Okay.
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Like your classic, like not I don't really like the new ones.
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Like ours is it's almost 10 years old now, but like I like Lambeau.
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Yeah.
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I like uh like Philly.
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I like uh Denver.
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They played in Las Vegas?
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Yeah, I don't like it.
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Okay.
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Don't like it.
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Does Arizona have a grass and a dome?
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Yeah, I don't like it.
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Uh like the ones where you feel like this stadium is built for football games.
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From the earth.
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It's not an entertainment venue, and you're But did you see the World Cup where everybody was like the stadiums all had grass in it?
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That was pretty crazy.
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It was awesome.
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It could all be so simple.
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It could be.
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Um, what is your favorite place or places to eat in Minneapolis?
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Favorite number one right now is probably Porzana.
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Okay.
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That's what we kind of were hinting at that yesterday.
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What's the order?
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Porzana.
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Sanjusan goes way back.
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That's been a hitter for a couple years.
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Okay.
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Sounds crazy.
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I mean, that's probably one too, to be honest.
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I was saying, what's your Porzana order?
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Like it's just like max out steaks, just no, everything.
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Like if if if not like for me, but like I want to go family style.
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Picking place.
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Little pasta steaks.
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Is that where the O-line dinners are and stuff like that?
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As much as you can?
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Do they have a private room?
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They do have a private room.
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We it's hard because like we're doing I mean now we might have to post.
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But no, everybody takes a turn.
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Everybody gets a week, yeah.
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The car roulette after he loses.
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No.
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Uh I remember we did that one year, we went out and did credit car roulette every single year, and Adam lost the first one, had to pay for the first one, and then we were like planning to do it every week, and then we never went again.
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That was it.
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So he was supposed to have his card out of there and get dinner for the he didn't get it, he didn't get it ever again.
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Oh, that's awesome.
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Okay, next question.
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Other than EK, who is your all-time favorite teammate?
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Because we know he's number one, so after that, what's the who's number two?
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I'm gonna go other than you two.
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So there's no there's no hard difference in here.
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Thanks, bro.
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Bless you.
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Um all-time favorite teammate.
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Because of I mean, Harry's got Harry, Harry, Harry.
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It's probably it's I mean that's like that's like side note, like obviously Harry, but I'm gonna give you more of a dark horse.
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Okay, I like that.
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Um I mean, and D.
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Hunt, because like he helped me so much as like a player in terms of like everything.
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Like, those two are kind of sidebars for me.
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Sure.
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But like a sleeper is Riley Reef.
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Right.
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Nice reef.
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Riley Reef that's a great.
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Honestly, like he might have been tough for the young guys in the in that room, but like but like he created a standard in that room that was like it was undeniable, right?
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It was awesome.
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I mean, like one day I was taking a knee of practice, helmet in my hand, and he walks up to me and he's like, Hey Rook, they pay you a lot of money to be a football player.
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Why don't you stand up and fucking look like one?
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And I was like a bar.
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All right.
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And he was and he was serious.
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He was serious.
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Like there was a way to do there was a way to do things.
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I had a lot of battles with him when he was in uh Detroit.
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Yeah.
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When he finally came into Minnesota, we always like we're talking shit to each other.
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Um but it was like we saw eye to eye on so many different things.
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Yeah.
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And he was he was a great teammate.
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That's a great thing.
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Yeah, no, that was a good one that was a good one, dude.
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That was that was a good one.
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Um obviously it's cool that you said Harry and and D Hunt, because it's like you've seen them, you've been here for a while.
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So like you've seen like the development of their career as well, um, along with yours.
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Yeah.
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I'm just leaving a little bit of hope.
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A little bit of hope out there.
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Who is who's the best dressing teammate that you've had on the roster besides Anthony?
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I don't know.
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I feel like my answer would be different than like the the general.
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Well, this is your answer, so yeah.
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Please.
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How you how you would want to dress or how things that you would think would look cool?
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Alright.
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It's not how I would want to dress.
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But like I just want to wear the team sweats everywhere.
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Okay, of course.
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But like I don't know, you kind of you kind of came correct for a good amount of time.
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It's the Cali, you came to California.
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But it's the it's the confidence, too.
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It's California.
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It's the confidence, like the highest.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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Yeah.
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Oh shit.
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I appreciate that, man.
00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:02.319
I have uh one last question for you before we get you out of here.
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I know you gotta practice here in a second.
00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:11.680
Um I heard there's a a new award going on around with uh a certain demographic within the Vikings team.
00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:21.519
And you may or may not know what I'm talking about, but if you could remove your first layer of clothing so we can get maybe a better glimpse as to what I'm I'm referring to, if you wouldn't mind.
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You're a humble guy.
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We know you don't like to brag at all.
00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:28.079
I mean, uh Aaron Jones was like, you gotta wear the shirt, you gotta wear the shirt in there.
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And I was like, I'm gonna put the hoodie on.
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It's for now, it's uh it's not for the whole entire year, but the shirt.
00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:37.279
Wear the shirt.
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Little higher.
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White boy of the year award goes to be a white boy of the century, man.
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We love you, bro.
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Hey man, thanks for coming on the show, hanging out with us for a little bit.
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Great catching up with you.
00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:55.759
Good luck the rest of the season, I want to tell I've I've already told you already, but I want to tell everybody else that man, this does this man deserves everything that he has.
00:27:55.839 --> 00:28:03.920
He's the he's one of the hardest workers I know, one of the best people off the field, on the field, people in the facility, the staff, like everybody respects him, everybody knows him, everybody loves him.
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You should be thankful that he's a Viking.
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And you know, I'm just so excited to see where your career goes from here, man.
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Thank you, bro.
00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:10.079
Thank you for saying that.
00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:10.400
Thank you.
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Appreciate it.
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Thank God.
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No problem, man.
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That was fun.
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Nice to done.
00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:18.799
Man, what a great conversation with Brian.
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:22.960
It's always good to catch up with former teammates, especially a guy, um, just of his character.
00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:29.839
Um, just such a you you you close it so perfectly, just describing what he means, I think, to the building, um, to the city of Minneapolis.
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Just uh a great player, obviously, but even a better person.
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And I think the um when you when those two things were in parallel, you get um just a really special um experience.
00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:40.480
And so uh love Brian.
00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:44.319
I think that was that was the most I like nervous I had been doing one of these yet.
00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:52.319
And I like I don't know if it's because where we're at or if it's because like I just want to do him justice, you know, and I want to make him feel comfortable, I want to make him like have fun.
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:57.440
So I'm glad that that you know that went that went with really well in my opinion, and I'm glad we got to have good conversation with him.
00:28:57.599 --> 00:28:59.440
But um, how does it feel being back for you?
00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:00.640
I mean, we're on this side of the mic.
00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:01.039
I know.
00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:06.079
Or I guess we're all I guess we're still on this side of the camera, but it's different.
00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:07.519
It's it's different for sure.
00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:10.720
Um I do say I feel really comfortable walking around here.
00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:18.799
Like it feels like I haven't really missed a beat, and even like seeing some familiar faces walking through the building, because there's a lot of people that have remained um since I've no longer been a part of the organization.
00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:20.559
Um it still feels like home.
00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:29.119
I still feel treated like one of the players almost with the staff and um the PR team and even the kitchen this morning, seeing guys at breakfast.
00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:34.559
Like it is definitely you feel like the transition, you like you feel it.
00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:47.200
You don't even when you're in here, and it feels like, okay, now I'm no longer a football player, but I still can like mingle and talk with these guys on like a football level, and it feels like I'm almost teammates with these guys, even though I'm not.
00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:50.480
Um so it's like an interesting dynamic from that exp that experience.
00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:55.119
But um being here in Minnesota always feels like home to me because I spent so much time here.
00:29:55.359 --> 00:29:57.519
No, I feel like the situation feels similar.
00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:21.759
It feels like home for sure, but like I think that the first time I came back, just to be candid, the first time I came back for your retirement, yeah, I did feel like kind of weird, you know, still trying to play in the NFL, still trying to, you know, I got you know, I got released here, so it was kind of like processing all those emotions and being like, damn, like I used to eat lunch here, used to go to work here, and being here for you, obviously it celebrates you, but it was just kind of like I didn't really want to be seen kind of thing.
00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:26.079
I just kind of wanted to be there for you, but not be like seen in a in a way.
00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:31.039
But I I can definitely say that this time, uh even though I'm still trying to play, it's like it's definitely different.
00:30:31.279 --> 00:30:32.240
It definitely feels different.
00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:33.599
I definitely feel way more comfortable.
00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:43.279
Obviously, we have the relationships, which I'm always comfortable with, but they definitely do a good job of making you feel like appreciated and like your all your eight years of service here weren't for nothing.
00:30:43.599 --> 00:30:47.359
No, it's not like you just oh you came and you went, it's like you go about your life.
00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:51.039
You know, it's like you're still part of this Viking family, and I think that's unique.
00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:56.720
I can't speak for every other organization and how they treat their alumni, but I definitely feel still part of the Viking family.
00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:03.920
Even though, as you mentioned, that first two years after I, you know, were no was no longer on the team, it was a little salty in a way, you know.
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:09.680
Like I didn't want them necessarily to do bad or fail, but I was like, I don't want to say jaded, but a little turned off.
00:31:09.920 --> 00:31:10.319
No, for sure.
00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:15.279
Because it's like you didn't want me anymore, but now I'm coming back and you want me to be around.
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:17.519
It's like it's a weird like give and take, you know?
00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:18.400
No, for sure.
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:27.599
And like you said, like at the end of the day, the organization is the organization that we know and love because of how they treated us when we were here and you know how they treat us now.
00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:30.000
So we're very thankful that we're using their studios.
00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:31.279
I know, I think it's nuts.
00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:32.720
It's crazy.
00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:41.279
You know, we we had this idea of like, man, maybe we should go out to training camp amongst my training schedule, amongst your schedule, and and and get this done.
00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:48.799
So I'm glad that we could meet with some players, chop it up, shoot a pod, and yeah, I mean, if you want to see some more for us, you know what I mean, of this show.
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Socials.
00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:51.200
Socials, been out of shape show.
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You know, we've been posting almost every day, and um we're gonna continue to have player interviews and do all sorts of cool stuff.
00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:02.400
Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, like, subscribe, share, repost.
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Everything helps.
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Show your mom, show your grandma, show your auntie, show your aunt, show your cousin.
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My mama's day, well, and we're your grandma's day.
00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:10.400
Um, but that's that's it for today's episode.
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Thanks for joining us until next time.
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Who's got something to say today?
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You got me bit out of shape.