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Feb 7, 2021
3X Super Bowl champion Emmitt Smith talks tequila and football on Sway In The Morning.
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touchdown emmitt smith 75 yards
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ladies and gentlemen he rushed for 18
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355 yards breaking the record formerly
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held by walter payton
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he also holds the record for career
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rushing touchdowns 164.
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he's only running back to ever win the
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super bowl championship the nfl most
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valuable player award the nfl rushing
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crown in the super bowl mouse valuable
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player award and all in the same season
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ladies and gentlemen
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we talk a three-time super bowl
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champions super bowl mvp eight-time pro
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bowler
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the one and only have the b and he's our
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friend give it up for emmitt smith
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smith hey hey what are you
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doing bro are you being family you good
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yeah fam i'm good man i'm chilling man
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we gotta have today healthy
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i heard that have the bee is here with
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us and tracy g
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hey hello ladies hi
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thank you for joining us we appreciate
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you it's so funny sway um
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that emma said that he's staying healthy
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we trying to do the same but the last
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time we saw him he had us drinking that
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bomb tequila early in the morning
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hey hey if i got mine with me right now
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too hey
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yeah but i wish you guys were here we'll
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be taking shots right about now too
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cheers cheers cheers hey hey admit i i
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man i i have to be honest with you man
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because
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you had us take you had us trying every
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different kind
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of the tequila and we was tasting it on
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the air
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oh man i just now recovered from last
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year
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just now recovering man how's the
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tequila business going
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man it's going well this uh tequila
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headed door brand is just growing
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uh like like weeds man i'm telling you
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people are
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are especially during this quarantine
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time we've seen a huge
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uptick obviously people need need
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something to uh
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me to break mentally and so a lot of
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folks are having after
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uh afternoon drinks and noon drinks and
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and uh but enjoying life as they as they
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know it and so uh everything has changed
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but
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for me i'm gonna celebrate my tequila on
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sunday at the super bowl game um
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i'm enjoying that moment and most big
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moments i do celebrate it with
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with tequila and uh i take mine straight
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on the ball of ice some of my friends
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like to take the arizona tonic
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but uh you can have it the way you want
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it treat it like burger king have it
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your way
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yeah hey what flavor you gonna go with
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you gonna go with the caramel and honey
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with the toasted almonds uh what you
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gonna do
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uh in terms of what my tequila yeah
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which which one you gonna sip on
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oh i'm gonna sip on head to door ultra
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this this clean crystal clear
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in yeah and uh i'm just gonna have mine
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on a bowl of ice
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and um enjoy some ribs enjoy some uh
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some some honey pepper chicken wings and
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uh things that i'm gonna prepare i'm
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cooking all of that bro
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oh that's good hey hey
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hey man you know we've been doing this
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for some years now man i don't even know
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how many years we've been doing these
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interviews and we see each other and
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it's just always love
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i'm ready for the invite emmett i think
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i'm ready heather and i
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are ready for the invite to the house
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tracy's gonna come we're ready for the
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invite anytime you're ready
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oh yeah you drop down to factors you're
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always invited
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yo evan said food and sway changed the
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whole interview
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you're more than welcome just let me
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know whatever you're coming through
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dallas and let me know
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i mean no big deal he said it on there
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we got a lot of people lined up on the
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phone
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um but before we get to that since we're
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talking about texas uh i'll be remiss if
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i didn't mention deshaun watson and i
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know
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i know it's a different team but you
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know he's been in news a whole lot for
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his
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you know he's unhappy with the texans
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and what's been going on in their hiring
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practices with the gm
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and also not really taking his advice on
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interviewing
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uh the enemy the offensive coordinator
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for the kansas city
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chief and now he wants out what are your
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thoughts about that does he have a point
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you know i think he does have have a
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point but
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also at the same time i think teams
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doesn't necessarily have to take the
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advice or even
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even listen to
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any player because anytime you give a
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player that much authority
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um i think you you start across the
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crossing the line but it's okay to get
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this opinion in terms of who
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um who who might be
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uh best to help him grow as a as a as a
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professional athlete that's that's fine
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but i think the team should be trying to
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do what is right and what is best for
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the entire organization as well as the
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team itself
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by hiring quality people to help the
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team become
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better and if air b enemy is the guy
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that can do that
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yes see what happens though the
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transparency of it all
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and and doing things in secrecy um
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and bringing folks in that's not gonna
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benefit your your
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franchise quarterback could be a problem
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and i think
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what the texans did either they did not
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either they were not truthful with him
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or they misled him or they completely
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ignored
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anything about him or anything that
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would help him become a better
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quarterback what systems out there can
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best serve uh deshaun watson
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and i think deshaun is looking at it
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from the standpoint of patrick mahomes
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i mean if the enemy can do the things
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that he's doing with patrick mahomes
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how can he not work with a guy like
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desean watson
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how can he not improve and i think that
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sean watson is also seeing some of the
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things that
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the texans have done prior to this year
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yeah one letting the andre hopkins go
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for no apparent reason whatsoever
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trading them away
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no disrespect to david johnson but come
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on
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at the end of the day you you trade your
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best wide receiver
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and the blanket to to the sharon watson
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away
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and and and not really replacing with
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any quality players
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that's a problem that's a huge problem
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and so
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i think the sean washington is seeing
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the organization is really not being
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being truthful or straight up
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did he go away oh man this line went out
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no man he was running towards the
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touchdown with that one
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that's that's a killer did he put up
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some mute that's a killer
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emmy had us ripped y'all
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wow yo and i was mad too because we were
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live on the air and
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images kept pushing us to drink the
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tequila
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okay i'm back guys okay
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my statement on that is i think i think
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uh
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what the texans have done they have
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completely destroyed the chemistry
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of that team and everything now from
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this point on is all about rebuilding
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the chemistry and
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and it starts with trust and you have
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broken the trust with one of the most
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important players on your team
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and that is deshaun watson and probably
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even jj did you watch
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it yeah uh
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great point emma smith hb you want to
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say what up to emmy
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no i love it man i'm excited we we spoke
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to tylor earlier today another
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hall of famer and another super bowl
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champion we spoke to tour earlier today
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and i was just wondering like i love to
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hear you guys
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get so excited about the big game that
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happens every single year do you have a
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ritual
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like i know you mentioned the food but
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do you still have like everybody over
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at your house or do you have like you
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just chill out you watch the game by
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yourself
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what's your ritual now that you don't
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have to actually be there and suit up
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you know this this year is gonna be
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different because i'm used to being
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at the super bowl yeah and uh not at the
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super bowl i'm on
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i'm on my way back on super bowl monday
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uh morning
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just to get in front of the television
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to watch it with the family but this
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year
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i'm gonna be at the house uh i'm gonna
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be celebrating with family members and
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probably a few friends uh people that
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i'm
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consistently being around and so i'm not
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and i'm not just gonna open up my house
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to anybody because this pandemic is
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is for real it's really so i just i got
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to
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keep things in perspective but i will be
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out on the grill
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we'll be smoking some ribs
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lemon uh uh wings and i'm gonna do some
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hot links i'm gonna do some other stuff
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as well
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and we're gonna have us a nice little
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time with as few people as possible
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big celebration few people yup yeah man
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emmett i'm not even gonna try to front
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as if i'm the biggest football
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you know fan out there no that's not
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really the case
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although i appreciate the enthusiasm
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especially of heather
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and sway and i have big time respect for
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the players who put their bodies out
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right there i'm more of a basketball fan
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and i'm i want to try to find a
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connection because recently
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i was listening to a podcast episode
9:35
super soul
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podcast oprah's joint and she was
9:38
speaking to the legendary coach phil
9:40
jackson about ego and compassionate
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leadership and he was bringing up how a
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lot of people don't realize
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that players in his opinion are living
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in a state of constant anxiety
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you know thinking about all the great
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pressures on these
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young men because they're not just
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serving themselves they're serving their
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family you know what i mean they're
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looking after mom
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dad like all these different providers
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and
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things aren't guaranteed so if you don't
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mind sharing just
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what your time in the nfl and even post
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has taught you
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about ego first and foremost
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uh i try to put my ego in check uh other
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words i try to have a level of humility
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and the best way to control that ego is
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to have a level of humility
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and lower the expectations of the world
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uh
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what you want to get out of the world uh
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versus what the world is expecting of
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you
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um we do have a sense of of
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responsibility
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to our culture in terms of uh when you
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get out of
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your neighborhood which we all come from
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the angles to all of us but a lot of us
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come from
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um humble very very very very very
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humble beginnings
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and but we go through the process of
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training our bodies training our minds
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to
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become very successful athletes or high
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performing athletes if you will
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um that success is is different for each
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and every person
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and once you get out you have a greater
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responsibility not only to yourself to
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try to maintain
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and continue to grow and be in the sport
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as long as you can
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and produce and perform at a high level
11:22
so you can earn
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whatever you're capable of earning and
11:26
that
11:28
responsibility and that anxiety that
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he's talking about
11:32
is carrying uh
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a heavy load because you carry
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generations with you
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not only generations of your own
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immediate family
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mom and dad brothers and sisters cousins
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and uncles and aunts
11:46
nieces and nephews but also the
11:48
community which we come from and the
11:50
community which we try to serve
11:52
because everybody feel like they made it
11:56
when you made it and unfortunately
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unfortunately uh you have to learn how
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to
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to to shed some of that off because
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your responsibility is to not give
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everything back to everybody but to help
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them
12:13
understand what it takes to become
12:16
who you have become we don't become
12:19
successful by ourselves we become
12:20
successful by
12:22
the village that has helped raised us
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and that village
12:26
is a small group of people that has
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helped
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kept me and others on track uh reminded
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us constantly that
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we have a talent but that talent would
12:37
leave us at some point in time
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and what you do with that talent is up
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to you
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and you are responsible for that talent
12:45
no one else
12:46
can can um can be responsible for that
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talent and how you nurture that is up to
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you
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and then once the game is over what you
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do beyond that as the word would say
12:55
your talent will make room for you
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it's up to us to figure out what room
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that talent is making for us because
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we're walking in circles
13:04
that mom and dad and brothers and
13:06
sisters might not ever ever ever
13:08
walk in front of or be around and we're
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around
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multi-billionaire people that has a
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multi-billionaire mindset
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and if you're able to tap into that
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mindset that mindset
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and and and and help it
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and shape it and mold it to who you are
13:26
and take advantage of the relationships
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that this
13:28
sport and sports give you then you can
13:31
take it to the next level
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and you have to be humble in this
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context and that's where the anxiety has
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to go away because
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humility we all need a level of humility
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and we all have an opportunity to learn
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and grow for me
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i don't ever want to stop growing i
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always want to continue to learn
13:48
more and new things because that newness
13:50
and that new learning
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brings fresh energy and that fresh
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energy is the one thing that drives
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me every day because i want to be a
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provider for my mom and my
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my dad and my brothers and sisters i
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want that so i don't feel that pressure
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it's something that i want and it's
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something that i'm capable of doing
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because
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god has blessed me with the
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opportunities to do that amen
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smith ladies and gentlemen come on man
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thank you come on man
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i got to take a couple callers in it i
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know you got to go uh but mike from ohio
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wanted to say something to you mike real
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quick say hello to emmy smith
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hey hey what's going on man i just want
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to give a shout out for the sweet potato
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casserole recipe
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you put in back in the days
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my mom's been making that since i was
14:37
back in grade school and still my
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favorite dish for thanksgiving
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yes sir yes sir yeah yeah i got a
14:44
quick question how do you feel about
14:46
like kind of the the reintegration of
14:48
running backs into
14:50
the offensive plans these days it seemed
14:52
very quarterback wide receiver heavy for
14:55
a few years and now you start to see
14:57
guys like derrick henry and kind of
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offenses rely on that you think that's
15:01
just kind of
15:02
coming in a new wave where people are
15:05
like
15:05
offenses are really starting to
15:07
appreciate the running back position
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as much as as much as they could be
15:12
well i'm not sure if that's straight
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across the board
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that works for the tennessee titans uh
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but it may not work for the kansas city
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chiefs
15:20
or uh it may work a little bit for the
15:23
tampa bay buccaneers
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and so but for the for the titans it
15:27
definitely works
15:28
uh it's that balance that i believe that
15:30
ever we all need
15:32
uh i like to look at it and michael
15:34
irvin and myself and trey mean we used
15:35
to talk about it all the time
15:37
we're gonna attack you by air land and
15:39
sea the sea part of it was left up to
15:41
the kicking
15:42
and the special team units but the air
15:43
part was michael and troy the ground
15:45
part was me
15:46
and that's just the way we looked at it
15:48
and so with the tennessee titans
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that's the that's their style and that's
15:52
their offensive scheme
15:53
so it's it varies depends upon the
15:56
organization and the team itself
15:58
the steelers like to run the rock and
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have that balance
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and so so does so does the baltimore
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ravens
16:05
they do it with lamar jackson but that's
16:07
the balance that teams are looking for
16:09
uh when you have a special quarterback
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like
16:13
patch mahomes and who has the arm that
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he has
16:17
uh it's kind of hard to create that
16:19
balance but even the kansas city chiefs
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love to run the football and some people
16:23
use the passing game as part of their
16:24
or an extension of their running game
16:27
but i'm
16:28
glad to see derek heary is doing what
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he's doing and taking advantage of every
16:32
opportunity and kudos to a man that
16:34
kills over 2 000 yards absolutely
16:36
mike you a citizen great question
16:37
brother all right let's wait in the
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morning
16:40
janice i'mma let you close the interview
16:42
she's in syracuse say hello to the
16:44
legendary emmy smith janice
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[Music]
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your name before i knew my biological
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grandfather's name that's how much of a
17:00
biggest fan my father
17:02
is and you know of course i became that
17:04
by default but i just want to let you
17:05
know of everything that you have done in
17:07
your career
17:08
we respect and appreciate and applaud
17:10
you and give you your flowers now
17:12
but listen our contract for good news
17:14
thursday back in uh december
17:16
uh suede good morning tracy g heather b
17:19
h
17:19
everybody hey the doctor
17:23
they said to my dad you know y'all need
17:25
to give him permission to die and i said
17:26
nope not never
17:27
i remember my dad's in rehab i'm going
17:30
to
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listen to the playback of this and
17:32
record it so i can give this to my
17:34
father to listen to
17:35
emmit smith mr emmett when i tell you my
17:37
father is the biggest emmitt smith fan
17:40
up here in syracuse new york his license
17:42
plates say dd dallas
17:46
that is literally what it says and i'm
17:48
like oh my god
17:50
i'm sorry i didn't even think i was
17:51
gonna get through i'm gonna replay this
17:53
to have him listen to this but
17:55
i just you know i just wanted to say
17:56
thank you i'm a buccaneers girl now so
17:58
that's what i'm rooting for but
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yo y'all don't understand how this is
18:02
just made with janice janice let's do
18:04
this let's do this
18:05
what's your dad's name douglas dixie
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douglas dixie he's in rehab right now
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emma smith
18:12
and uh they they didn't think he was
18:14
going to make it and janice kept praying
18:16
and praying not only did he make it he's
18:17
in rehab
18:19
maybe you could say say something
18:21
encouraging and inspirational to him i i
18:23
know he'll love to hear from you
18:24
say his name again douglas dixie
18:29
douglas dixie hello mr dixie i'm just
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gonna say this to you
18:33
um when others count you out god counts
18:36
you in
18:37
and it's up to you to create the
18:40
environment
18:41
within your own mind of a positive
18:44
atmosphere
18:45
never let others define who you are you
18:47
define yourself and
18:49
your children still believes in you
18:51
still love you
18:52
so fight for more than just yourself we
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all need other things to fight for
18:57
we need things to drive us and motivate
18:58
us to our level of greatness
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and your greatness is right here with
19:02
your family so continue your rehab
19:04
continue to create a new level for not
19:08
only you but also for your family
19:09
because they believe in you and you set
19:11
the level of belief
19:12
that god is real and he lives to this
19:15
day
19:16
and you're here for a purpose if that
19:18
purpose is just to show them how to
19:20
persevere through these moments
19:22
that's what the purpose is you've
19:24
already have a foundation for each and
19:26
every one of your children
19:27
you establish a deeper belief for the
19:29
dallas cowboys and i love you for that
19:31
so at the end of the day keep it pushing
19:35
keep it keep it moving absolutely
19:39
thank you thank you so much y'all have a
19:42
great weekend
19:43
wow
19:46
i appreciate you yeah janice you know
19:49
you and your pops your whole family are
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citizens okay
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