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Welcome back to the Richard Sherman podcast, and today we got an incredible guest

joining us, San Francisco 49ers, cornerback, Upton Stout.

Appreciate you joining me, brother.

I appreciate you for having me, man.

It's a blessing to be on here. One of the ghosts, man, one of the ghosts. I appreciate that.

How are you feeling? It's your first year in the league. You're playing a lot more than I'm sure

you was expected coming in, but you had an incredible training camp, and you've been having a really

good season.

Talk about how you feeling?

Oh, I'm feeling blessed.

I feel, it's a blessing being in this position.

Going into week 12, I'm feeling the strain on the season,

but it ain't bad because I know every week brings new opportunity,

but it's like you can definitely feel the difference from like last year being around this time. I'd be getting ready, thinking about where I'm going to train at this year. I'm thinking about how I'm from to end off these last seven to six games. But it's like, I'm feeling good. I know every week gets a new opportunity and new opportunity to put something different on film from this past week. So it's like just being able to learn and grow each day every week and try to get better each and every week. I feel like that's really my main focus. It's been feeling good, though. Is it what you were, is the league what you expected? Like coming into training camp, you had an incredible training camp. You were to talk a training camp, if I remember. And I remember coming up there and seeing you, and you playing

fast, playing confident, aggressive, physical.

What went into your mindset going into there?

Because not many rookies come in playing like you were playing.

I mean, I feel like first figuring knowing that I'm coming to the 49ers, knowing that

was already indebted here. So it's like me knowing that I'm going to come 49ers, knowing that was already indebted here.

So it's like me knowing that I'm going to come into a room that had grace ended and the grace they're sending now as far as D, Mo, Fred, or Bose. So I'm already feeling like I got to come in and step up on my guess because like that's the 49 way. So it's like, it's either that or you're going to be watching the game. So it's, really just having that mindset, just trying to grow each and every day and trying to keep leaning on

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