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  Speaker 1: He no good.
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  Speaker 2: What was your takeaway for pastday across? It's alt like
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  Speaker 2: at times, at least I know from watching it. Perhaps
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  Speaker 2: the wide receivers struggled to create separation. You think just
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  Speaker 2: the nature of red zone drills.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know. And I like what we've
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  Speaker 1: done where we started the first two days. Red zone
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  Speaker 1: really take the volume off the guy's legs, get them
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  Speaker 1: back in the flow of playing. So it's different than
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  Speaker 1: we've normally done. We normally come out day one, install
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  Speaker 1: first second down, next day's third down, next days red
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  Speaker 1: We just went red zone, and it's more for the players,
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  Speaker 1: and I think they appreciate that. With that said, space
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  Speaker 1: is restricted, things happen very fast. The install's still very small.
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  Speaker 1: I think yesterday probably had twenty six reps in the
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  Speaker 1: red zone passes. We have six instauls, six plays, so
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  Speaker 1: we're cycling through and we'll tell Ryan Hey plays five, ten, fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: they're all the same play if you'll just mix coverages
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  Speaker 1: for us so we can build our tapes so they're
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  Speaker 1: doing the same thing we're playing. They're playing. Obviously, we
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  Speaker 1: never went to turn the football over them. That's number one.
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  Speaker 1: So there's things that happen that you'll coach off. But
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  Speaker 1: as of right now, we're putting our install together. They're
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  Speaker 1: putting their install together. We're hoping that the things we're
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  Speaker 1: putting in today, tomorrow, throughout the entirety of camp are
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  Speaker 1: things that are going to help us throughout the course
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  Speaker 1: of the season, not necessarily to win today or win yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: As we go. Still with your early thoughts on Brian
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  Speaker 1: Thomas and how he's handling cancer, He's things really well.
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  Speaker 1: He has retained a lot of the information that we
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  Speaker 1: taught through the summer through the off season, carried it
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  Speaker 1: over very well. And again he's everybody's getting used to
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  Speaker 1: the speed of the red zone, particularly so when you
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  Speaker 1: start there. It makes it tough at times for the
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  Speaker 1: condensed space, the way things happen, and his the value
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  Speaker 1: he's going to bring. We expected to show up in
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  Speaker 1: the red zone. We expect to show up in all
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  Speaker 1: aspects of our offense as well. So those are things
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  Speaker 1: that you know, we haven't necessarily got to at this
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  Speaker 1: point in time. Again, it's about it's about putting in
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  Speaker 1: concepts that we think will help us down the road.
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  Speaker 1: Not necessarily they're going to win a rep today, that
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  Speaker 1: on a script and practice, there's.
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  Speaker 2: A general thought that the defense is ahead of the
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  Speaker 2: offense just normally, regardless of the team.
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  Speaker 1: Early in camp A, you agree with that and be
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  Speaker 1: why would that be the case. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: think there's a give and take within every rep. Again,
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  Speaker 1: we don't put the most value on scripted practices and
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  Speaker 1: things we're doing. We understand both groups, both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the ball, understand we're trying to get something accomplished with
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  Speaker 1: this period red zone seven on seven. We're putting in
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  Speaker 1: six concepts, they're putting in four coverages, and let's just
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  Speaker 1: mix and match and see how it goes. We continue
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  Speaker 1: to build these tapes as we teach our guys understand
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  Speaker 1: we may not run certain concepts against two high coverages.
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  Speaker 1: They may only have two high coverages. And today, through
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  Speaker 1: the course of the season, you're gonna get caught at
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  Speaker 1: times or something was different than you expected, and you
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  Speaker 1: got to be able to do the right thing with football.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be able to adjust your route accordingly.
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  Speaker 1: And those are the situations we want our guys to
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  Speaker 1: see right now as we continue to build this thing out.
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  Speaker 1: A big difference in the intensity level with Walker and
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  Speaker 1: jam or both of them going into contracting years and
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  Speaker 1: obviously both of them have the job not necessarily those
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  Speaker 1: So I just think overall is a unit and really
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  Speaker 1: as a team, you see that it feels very intents.
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  Speaker 1: I think guys understand very clearly what we're trying to communicate,
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  Speaker 1: what we're trying to get done, and guys have carried
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  Speaker 1: that over the practice field. So it's good to see
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  Speaker 1: as an entire unit, the way these guys approach individual periods,
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  Speaker 1: you know, small group drills, first team competitive periods have
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  Speaker 1: had one hundred catches last year. What does improvement look
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  Speaker 1: like for him? Yeah, I think just continuing to grow
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  Speaker 1: in the system and being able to do all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of things. We get up there in the install meetings
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  Speaker 1: and we say this is our formation. We're running this
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  Speaker 1: playout of tomorrow, but we need you guys to understand
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  Speaker 1: this is a three man concept. The more you could
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  Speaker 1: play one, two and three, the more versatile you are,
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  Speaker 1: the more valuable you are for our offense as we go.
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  Speaker 1: So I think just understanding the details of if I'm three,
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  Speaker 1: I run it like this, If I'm two, I running
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  Speaker 1: like that. If one they need me to do this
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  Speaker 1: understanding that growth in the system as well. With all
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  Speaker 1: these guys. It's obviously easier for Christian and Eavan they've
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  Speaker 1: heard it seventy five times already, where these other guys
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  Speaker 1: just continue to grow. And that's something you guys don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily see. But the evening walkthroughs, when there's a special
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  Speaker 1: teams walk through going on, we'll take all the skills,
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  Speaker 1: we'll go over here and we'll just call out the concepts.
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  Speaker 1: We don't give him information, we don't give any we
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  Speaker 1: make a move around, and so we're just trying to
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  Speaker 1: trying to give him those reps that when there's not
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  Speaker 1: a physical load being asked on them, but the mental
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  Speaker 1: reps are working their way through. And then you see
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  Speaker 1: that carry over where you know everyone's in the blue moon.
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  Speaker 1: Trevor will pull something out in an adjustment and a
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  Speaker 1: drill and these guys that don't even blink and they
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  Speaker 1: can execute a new concept based on the adjustment that
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  Speaker 1: just gives us more value down the road. Yeave Davis,
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  Speaker 1: what you would expect see would be. I know it's
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  Speaker 1: early in camp, but to see about what you expect
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  Speaker 1: he would be when you guys brought him in I
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  Speaker 1: think so. And again I think a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: things that Gabe can do you'll see more in the
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  Speaker 1: live periods when which we don't have a ton of those,
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  Speaker 1: but as the pads come on and things get physical,
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  Speaker 1: that there's an element to Gabe that we expect, we
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  Speaker 1: expect to bring out of him, or him to bring
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  Speaker 1: out in our offense even more. Obviously, he's got length,
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  Speaker 1: he's got speed, he's got play speed. So those are
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  Speaker 1: all things that that as we just continue to grow
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  Speaker 1: and build that we think he'll add to the offense.
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  Speaker 1: What's the biggest difference to you for year two guys
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  Speaker 1: in training as opposed to that rookie year guys like
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  Speaker 1: Anton and Parker, they've all said they feel more confident.
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  Speaker 2: Is that's something that needs kind of see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's the biggest thing. And part of
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  Speaker 1: it's knowing the offense, knowing what the expectations are. But
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  Speaker 1: the other thing is knowing where we do this drill.
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  Speaker 1: At where we do that, they're they're moving around on
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  Speaker 1: the field more confidently. It's not get back in line,
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  Speaker 1: watch somebody else do it so I know what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: It's hey, we're running this drill. They jump to the
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  Speaker 1: front of line. They know what the expectation is, and
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  Speaker 1: so you just see that. You get to see their
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  Speaker 1: skill set flourish a little more because the confidence is there.
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  Speaker 1: The confidence is just I know what I'm doing right here.
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  Speaker 1: That helps a lot with those guys.
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  Speaker 2: People maybe overlook with rookies entering their first camp, just
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  Speaker 2: how much is where they being thrown at them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. I remember a long time ago,
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  Speaker 1: as a player or as a coach, we traded for
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  Speaker 1: a player that had a significant role on our team,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember him just saying, dude, once you settle
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  Speaker 1: into just the way I drive to work, the way
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  Speaker 1: I walk in, the where I park, the way I
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  Speaker 1: walk in the building, the way I get to these
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  Speaker 1: that all is an element of it. There's just a
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  Speaker 1: confidence in those guys as they go, and now I
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  Speaker 1: can do my job better because I'm more confident in
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  Speaker 1: what's going on every sing day as we go. So
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  Speaker 1: I think with young guys, that's typical. I mean a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these guys live in small college sounds. All
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, they move to Jacksonville. They're in this hotel,
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  Speaker 1: they're getting around here and there they're meeting people they've
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  Speaker 1: never seen before. There's a lot more people in the
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  Speaker 1: building and training camp as well, So I think you
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  Speaker 1: just kind of let them settle in and they start
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  Speaker 1: to bring out who they are.
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  Speaker 2: In regards to Etn What aspects of his game do
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  Speaker 2: you want him to concentrate on during camp.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a big thing and we're kind of
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  Speaker 1: making the push as a run unit of just understanding
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  Speaker 1: the targeting with everything and the way we target certain
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  Speaker 1: blocks is going to determine where we think the ball
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  Speaker 1: will go. Now, we want them to be very disciplined
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  Speaker 1: in the reads that we're giving him with the run game,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're trying to overexpose them in the past game,
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  Speaker 1: give them a ton of different things that he's got
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  Speaker 1: to do that he's got to see a lot of reps,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, the more they're in those situations, the
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  Speaker 1: more we're getting trusted them, the more they're getting trust themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and more importantly, the quarterbacks are getting trust in those
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  Speaker 1: guys on the mentorship that Ryan Thomas is getting guys
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  Speaker 1: like Gabe and Christian who got themselves when they were
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  Speaker 1: rookies from some pretty good receivers. Yeah, exactly, those guys,
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  Speaker 1: I think they were they were brought up the right way,
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  Speaker 1: so they're carrying that over and passing that down to
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  Speaker 1: younger players. Not just Brian. I mean, we got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of young guys in that room, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: first second year players in that room, and those are
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  Speaker 1: two great vets really to look at and emulate as
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  Speaker 1: you go. And we talked about that when we got here.
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  Speaker 1: Of everybody in their room, we feel like there's somebody
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  Speaker 1: that they should all be all the young players should
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  Speaker 1: be looking up to and kind of just follow that person,
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  Speaker 1: whether you ask them questions or not. Just notice what
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  Speaker 1: they do, you know, take incorporate things that they do
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  Speaker 1: into their professionals from their professionals, and that you can
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  Speaker 1: incorporate into the way you approach your job. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's just that's just the right, the right way
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  Speaker 1: to go about things as we go, and we have
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  Speaker 1: those guys that they should be looking at and emulating.
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  Speaker 1: Howving a change is the run blocking stuff you're talking about,
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  Speaker 1: at what might people see? I don't think you'd even notice, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think there's just an emphasis on certain things,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's playing under center, you know, if you run
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  Speaker 1: a wide zone concept from under center first, the gun,
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  Speaker 1: the back's path, the relationship, the timing, the synchronization of
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  Speaker 1: a combination block into relation where the back is at
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  Speaker 1: that time. That changes a lot of things, and so
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  Speaker 1: we want to hone in on this is what we
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  Speaker 1: want to get good at, and we want to be
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  Speaker 1: able to create whether the presentation changes, the scheme, the
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  Speaker 1: coaching points, the targeting, the read keys. We want to
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  Speaker 1: try to make that as uniform as possible. So the
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  Speaker 1: guys are getting that ten thousand kicks that we kind
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  Speaker 1: of talked about as we go to thank.
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  Speaker 2: You, back off of John's question year two of Britt
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  Speaker 2: and Strange tank Bixby, from where the season ended in
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  Speaker 2: January to where they are now, how would you assess stuff?
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  Speaker 1: I think similar like we were talking about, there's just
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  Speaker 1: a confidence with those guys of understanding what's being asked
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  Speaker 1: to them every single day, what meetings look like, what
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  Speaker 1: individual periods look like, what each scheme looks like. As
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  Speaker 1: we go so again you start to see that now
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  Speaker 1: they know, hey, why'd.
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  Speaker 2: You do this?
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  Speaker 1: I did this because I saw this, and they give
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  Speaker 1: you great feedback and why they made decisions they make
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  Speaker 1: and then there's sometimes where I did this because you
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  Speaker 1: guys told me to do that, and okay, we need
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  Speaker 1: to recoach that if we're not getting exactly the result
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  Speaker 1: week expected based on the way we communicated originally. So
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  Speaker 1: you're just able to communicate a little bit better because
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  Speaker 1: they have a lot of confidence, they're able to explain
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  Speaker 1: back to you why they did the things they did
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  Speaker 1: or what they interpreted in a coaching point you made,
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  Speaker 1: what if he did, Trevor if anything different this.
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  Speaker 2: Game to work on.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously ball security is up there for us,
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  Speaker 1: but just ownership at the offense of communicating, not with
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  Speaker 1: necessarily the players, but us as well. What do you
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  Speaker 1: love about this? What do you not love about this?
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  Speaker 1: When do you like this? When do you not like this?
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  Speaker 1: What are you thinking? So a lot of times that's it.
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  Speaker 1: He does something and say why'd you do that? And
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  Speaker 1: I just want to hear his answer, and then if
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  Speaker 1: we like the answer, okay, great, let's talk about that
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  Speaker 1: a little more. If we don't, we need to either
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  Speaker 1: pull the reins back on something, we need to reteach something,
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  Speaker 1: we need to reevaluate the way we do a certain thing.
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  Speaker 1: But you just want to see the ownership. It's his offense.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's the one holding the ball back there in
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  Speaker 1: the past game. He's the one making those decisions. He's
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  Speaker 1: the one that has the ability to trump any protection
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  Speaker 1: we need, make any adjustment. So you just want to
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  Speaker 1: continue He's still a young quarterback, you know, so you
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  Speaker 1: just want to hear his thinking process to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that we're getting exactly what we expect on certain things,
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  Speaker 1: or that we continue to cater the offense to fit
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  Speaker 1: him to he has an opportunity to flourish. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know he's probably gonna make throws against coverages that
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't make that throw against in a game, just
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  Speaker 1: because of which touch botter earlier.
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  Speaker 2: But do you get like the two intercepts of the
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  Speaker 2: gan zone. Are you more annoyed because he made those
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  Speaker 2: first because they were inaccurate even put the ball where
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  Speaker 2: it was, or do you just say, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: he never would have made that throw in a game and.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter. No, every down is a coaching
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for us. So you know, I felt like one
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  Speaker 1: he was probably late to a throw, left it inside.
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  Speaker 1: Do he made a great play in the corner of
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  Speaker 1: the end zone. Another one was a naked He thought
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be a pressure. He pulls up on a
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  Speaker 1: naked which is not something we typically do, but he
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  Speaker 1: thought he saw something he didn't as we go, we
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  Speaker 1: watched the film immediately he knows. Really he came off
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  Speaker 1: the field right then. I was clean one night, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you were clean. Continue to attack the edge. The play
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  Speaker 1: expressed itself completely differently. They're learning opportunities. Do I think
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  Speaker 1: he would have thrown that in the game. Probably not.
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  Speaker 1: For the most part, He's been a good decision making
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  Speaker 1: when it's come to throwing the ball in harm's way
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  Speaker 1: as it goes. But that's something that I'd rather happen
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  Speaker 1: today than in September. So those are things We'll continue
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  Speaker 1: to encourage him to take his opportunities to push the
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  Speaker 1: ball in certain situations, especially in practice. But again, just
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  Speaker 1: communicate with us, why did you do that? What made
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  Speaker 1: you pull up on a movement play to begin with?
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  Speaker 1: Why'd you end up throwing that ball there? Did you
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  Speaker 1: like the way you threw the ball? You know, all
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  Speaker 1: those certain things. It's just getting the right feedback as
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  Speaker 1: we get you can got a communication.
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  Speaker 2: One thing we've kind of heard from players and from
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the assistant coaches when we spoke with
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  Speaker 2: them back in June. Is this renewed sense of transparency communication?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously a lot of that is on the defensive side
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  Speaker 2: of the ball with a new staff, But on the
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  Speaker 2: offensive side of the ball, did you guys have like
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  Speaker 2: a round zero, like, hey, we need to be more
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  Speaker 2: open with each other conversation or how do you each
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  Speaker 2: season it's a new roster, so to speak, how do
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  Speaker 2: you build that trust?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if it's been a new thing necessarily.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's just kind of the environment we've created
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  Speaker 1: in that offensive room with those guys where they understand
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  Speaker 1: we want to empower them. They're the guys ultimately that
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  Speaker 1: stepping between the lines. So it really what we think
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  Speaker 1: we're communicating to them is what they're taking in. That's
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing. So we need to know exactly
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  Speaker 1: how you see this, So a lot of things will
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  Speaker 1: happen on the field, and our first question is why
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  Speaker 1: did you do that? We just want an explanation. We're
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  Speaker 1: not trying to see if we're not trying to catch
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  Speaker 1: you for doing something wrong. We just want to know
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  Speaker 1: why you thought that way and then if you thought
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  Speaker 1: a certain way that we weren't expecting, we need to
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  Speaker 1: go back to the way we communicated it to begin with.
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  Speaker 1: So ultimately, all it is is to get on the
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  Speaker 1: same page, whatever that may be. So we're all moving
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  Speaker 1: towards the same direction as we get into September and
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  Speaker 1: get these games where things really matter now