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So what's up, man?

So for the people, obviously, that maybe don't, don't know you, I mean, we do, as we

are getting a time to wrap it. It's always nice to talk to another NFL player, especially another offensive lineman who played the game as you should. So I'm excited to get into some of that stuff. But can you talk a little bit about how you got here, a little bit on the history? because that to me is always amazing to hear the origin story.

Absolutely, man.

Take it way how you got here a little bit on the history because that to me is always amazing to hear the origin

story absolutely man um take it way back i was born in new york city lived in brooklyn until i was

10 years old parents got divorced when i was seven mom moved my brother and i out to l a at some

point in there around seven or eight years old, I was at my grandparents' house in Connecticut,

watching the late morning summer news and the Jets and the Giants came on in training camp.

And I thought to myself, that's what I want to do when I grew up.

There was a lot of chaos in my childhood, a lot of alcoholism, a lot of mental health issues,

a lot of darkness, a lot of, it was just, it was very chaotic.

And so I saw football as this vehicle for me to transcend those circumstances.

And my mom would never let me play.

Finally, going into my freshman year of high school, with the help of my dad,

convince her to let me play football.

And it was, we were talking about it just a second ago.

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