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you know Sam's a a special guy a great
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friend and uh was was a good dude to
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play for you know and um you know
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hopefully we'll see what happens um but
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we obviously I wish him nothing but the
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best and I hope he gets a little bag
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wherever he's at if he's with us great
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if he's not go get his money he's gonna
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get a bag somewhere yeah he's gonna get
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one somewhere he earned it so when you
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guys clinch a playoff spot the footage
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inside that locker room I thought was
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really telling you guys were so excited
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but also so excited for him you could
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see you guys rally to Sam why was that
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such an emotional day for your locker
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room and Sam yeah it was a it was an
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inivision game um you know everybody had
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you know had us as underdogs and um you
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know Sam never let anything get to him I
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mean throughout the entire season you
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never let anything get to him um all the
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talk all all the media all the stuff uh
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never let anything get to him and inside
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that locker room and you know KO did a
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really good job um with us and with the
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team um with not let any of the outside
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noise get to us and especially
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throughout the season and um you know I
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think that was huge for for all of us
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and then to watch Sam you know grow
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throughout the season um and really you
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know grow into his own and and be as
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confident as he was um was was a lot of
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fun to watch and um you know we built
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this locker room and KO built this
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locker room um to to love each other and
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to enjoy watching each other and enjoy
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playing with each other and and that's
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really what you know we all strive to to
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have and and so when we see a guy have
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success like that and like Sam and it
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just brings up the entire locker room
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it's it's fun to be a part of and and
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that's what we loved and that's what we
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love to see with Sam so you know it's a
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business but it's got to be a little
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awkward because the team may decide as
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good as Sam was that they want to run
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with JJ and you can't blame them because
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obviously they drafted JJ but for
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yourself it's got to be like man we just
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had so much production with darnold like
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you said you're a friend of of his and
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you're like yeah I could see both sides
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I'm sure but you're probably like yeah
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but you don't want to move away from
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something that was just so good a year
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ago yeah I mean listen at the end of the
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day I've I've played with a lot of
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different quarterbacks I mean Sam is is
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one of my great buddies always will be
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um you know but I've grown to love JJ um
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JJ when he came into the locker room um
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as a rookie last year he he was on a
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mission as well before his injury and um
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you know he showed everybody on the
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field that he was he was there and he he
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he belonged there and so um obviously
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him him getting um past this injury and
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what he's done um you know I went up
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there last week and was able to hang out
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with him and you know he's ready to play
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and and that's really cool as a as a
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tight end and um you know as I'm getting
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older in this league to watch a young
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guy and and watch him um and his desire
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to to be out there with the boys and and
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and hang out and really really strive
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for greatness so um whichever way we go
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I mean I'm excited uh I'm excited to be
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a part of the organization I'm excited
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for JJ I mean like I said he he's a he's
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a great dude um and and and would love
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to obviously play for him and and and
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and watch him grow in this league and be
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be a vet that that can lead him through
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this so um whichever way they go I'm
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going to be happy but um you know we'll
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see you never know to
