00:00in this growth period you had why were you searching for something or did somebody influence
00:05that tell me more no i mean um you know coming out of college going in the nfl i think
00:11i gave
00:12myself one rule and it was if i ever got a major injury i was done playing um and that
00:17happened
00:17seven games into my career so it kind of sucked um but i think that really helped me find who
00:25i
00:25am as a player um and as a person you know i was able to sit at home for 14
00:30hours a day do absolutely
00:32nothing for weeks on end so just finding who i who i was finding my happiness um finding the person
00:39i
00:40wanted to be on and off the field and i think that that's something that um i've built over the
00:46last
00:46nine ten months um and being able to now focus back on football and um you know we've i've had
00:54lots of talks with family and friends that hey look it's football time now and um all my outside
00:59stressors from football kind of go away now um because i've been able to have those talks with
01:05people and um allow myself to you know focus on one thing so it's been awesome do you think about
01:11walking away though after this one yeah definitely really um i would say probably a month and like
01:18the first month was kind of like damn do i really want to do this um and then you know
01:24it was seven
01:25games i was like you know i gotta go back and play yeah like there's no shot there's no shot
01:30different story no i'm so that's so honest if it was the end of the year and i was like
01:34okay i'm over
01:34this you know and i i didn't feel that way at all you know i did feel that way not
01:40having the injury
01:41not learning about myself um but i think that gave me a an extra step of finding that deep place
01:48and
01:48you know coming out of a hole that i didn't know i could come out of so
01:52i'm i'm appreciative of it and i'm excited to see what i can build off of it
01:56you
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