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Mike Macdonald: "We're Still Learning Who We Are" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, good to see everybody. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: know we've the ramp period is over, so we're we're
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  Speaker 1: into you know whoever, it was two and a half
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  Speaker 1: or I think it was two hours today, pads on
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  Speaker 1: ready to roll. Good practice. We'll check the tape offense
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  Speaker 1: one the day. So it was a good bounce back
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  Speaker 1: from yesterday. One on one in front of the entire team.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's just it's an opportunity to give the
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  Speaker 1: young guys a chance to shine in front of their
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  Speaker 1: teammates and and uh, you know, had a little competition,
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  Speaker 1: spice it up a little bit. You come to end
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  Speaker 1: up half s joy finding. It's just a two minute
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  Speaker 1: situation that oh the mystery situation. Yeah, it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: something now that most of our situation installs in that
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  Speaker 1: just keeps us on our toes. More reps for myself,
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  Speaker 1: grub Brian working operation, just identifying the situation, the guys
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  Speaker 1: understanding what they're in and then just kind of apply
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  Speaker 1: the tools that we've installed up to this point where
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  Speaker 1: everyone's got to stay on their toes. So it's it's fun,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a good situation. And yeah, well
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  Speaker 1: we'll do that probably the rest of camp.
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  Speaker 2: With the pads on the last two days and maybe
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  Speaker 2: you didn't know an Ota mini camp in the first
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  Speaker 2: few days.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're still learning who we are, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're still chasing that. I think the guys
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  Speaker 1: are bought in. It's great tape to coach off of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a great tape to evow guys on.
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  Speaker 1: But we're let's say, far away. But you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: we're ways out right now, you know, But we have
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  Speaker 1: plenty of when we have time to do it. We
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  Speaker 1: just got to make sure we take advantage of each
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  Speaker 1: day become a bigger part of football.
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious how you're going to utilize that in your
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  Speaker 2: decision making, especially on things like fourth down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, good data is is good data, and you
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  Speaker 1: want to you want to be able to let that
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  Speaker 1: drive a lot of your decisions. But there is a
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  Speaker 1: human element as well in real time, and you know
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  Speaker 1: those will drive kind of how we how we game
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  Speaker 1: plan throughout the week, how we communicate, uh, how the
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  Speaker 1: players expect us to call things. But we do want
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  Speaker 1: to be aggressive, you know, so we do have but
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  Speaker 1: in order to do that, you have to be good
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  Speaker 1: at those situations. So we need to be a good
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  Speaker 1: short yard team. We need to be able to move
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  Speaker 1: people off the ball, we need to be able to
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  Speaker 1: operate and uh, you know, so those are things that
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna you know, consider in those situations. Wyron Murphy
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  Speaker 1: at Christian Hayes last year, we kind of seen that,
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  Speaker 1: lad but guard. You saw Hayes with the ones a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them too. Uh yeah, well Lincoln had a
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  Speaker 1: vet day, so that was a little bit with Christian
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  Speaker 1: with the ones. But yeah, both guys are having a
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  Speaker 1: good camp. You know, they're putting them to the test.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're putting them through the fire right now,
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  Speaker 1: but they're responding. Did you like about what the offense
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  Speaker 1: did today? Yeah, I felt I felt movement up front,
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  Speaker 1: you know, especially with the second group. So that's a
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  Speaker 1: challenge for the second defense is to respond to that challenge.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he can't be getting knocked off the ball.
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  Speaker 2: What have you've seen him from Brek willing Well in
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  Speaker 2: the player you studied when he got here.
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  Speaker 1: And off is in this camera. I see Iron Sharper
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  Speaker 1: and Iron out there when when he's going against a while,
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  Speaker 1: especially DK, but uh, just someone that's on a mission,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and he's responding to the coaching and
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  Speaker 1: he's bought in, and I think the players are excited
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  Speaker 1: about him. So I don't want to I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to oversell it right now, but uh, I think you
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  Speaker 1: can sense our excitement back should spot your coach? Which
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  Speaker 1: touchdown was Bender, Jake Bomo or d K's what? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. John said that might be an all time
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  Speaker 1: top five VMAT catch the last couple of days. So
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  Speaker 1: he's seen a lot a lot of great catches around here,
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  Speaker 1: so I think that speaks to it. Such.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes some coaches emphasize starting fast, starting seasons, starting games fast,
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  Speaker 2: and emphasize finishing. Do you have a part of the game,
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  Speaker 2: part of the season that you plan on emphasizing with
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  Speaker 2: the team.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you need to start fast and you have to
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  Speaker 1: close the game out, so it's and then you and
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  Speaker 1: then you want to extend the lead in the middle,
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  Speaker 1: so you know it's John Harbaugh said, the game's either
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen one of two ways. Either we're going to
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  Speaker 1: start the game with the lead or start the game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, behind, So how do you respond to those
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  Speaker 1: situations and then ultimately how you close games? Out. Situational
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  Speaker 1: football is obviously a big part of that mentality how
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  Speaker 1: you play the game. Again, those are all things that
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to train throughout this camp. That's why it's
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  Speaker 1: set up the way it is. Arty Burn has got
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  Speaker 1: quite a few snaps playing against side today. There's something
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  Speaker 1: he's starting to show last year. What have you seen
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  Speaker 1: from him so far with that deep quarterback? Worth boy,
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  Speaker 1: He's making plays on the football and football is important.
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  Speaker 1: So that's good, you know. I mean it's a poise
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  Speaker 1: about him, a cleanliness to like how he's playing, like
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  Speaker 1: very smooth second strides from the spring. So we're excited
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  Speaker 1: about already's right in the mix and we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: it shakes out and your creation go ahead bout local
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  Speaker 1: Mike Morris so too. Uh yes, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: like an elbow something yesterday. I don't believe it's serious in.
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  Speaker 3: Your creation of the culture comportant is it that create
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  Speaker 3: a patience because like you're saying, the offense won today,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to look at the film on pointing for
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  Speaker 3: the players to understand the day to day and the
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  Speaker 3: building of the culture, not high and low tone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we talk about stacking wins what's important now, So
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  Speaker 1: that mind frame from a play to play basis, you
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  Speaker 1: can't let a good play hinder the next play, and
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  Speaker 1: you can't let a bad play beat you twice. So
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  Speaker 1: I think the guys have that type of methodical approach
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  Speaker 1: and and and we'll get in games where things aren't
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  Speaker 1: going our way and we're gonna have to stay poised
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  Speaker 1: and find the next play and try to regain the momentum.
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  Speaker 1: So that's something that we're building. The guys. They understand that,
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  Speaker 1: and and we're talking that, you know, team beatings and
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  Speaker 1: as we're watching films kind of show them the way
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  Speaker 1: the way the game should be played. And I think
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  Speaker 1: they see see what we're chasing. Belt and heard it today, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Uh shout out to Gena. I was talking like offense
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  Speaker 1: won the game and and he said that give it
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  Speaker 1: an old lineman. Charles been having a having a great,
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  Speaker 1: great camp. The belt is something that's kind of fun,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just kind of mix it up and uh,
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  Speaker 1: spice it up throughout camp of you know, who's holding
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  Speaker 1: the belt, and then we can kind of change the
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  Speaker 1: criteria of how you challenge it. We've got a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of them, you know, Ek has done a great job.
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  Speaker 1: They're like legitimate belts. You're kind of heavy. They're pretty
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  Speaker 1: sweet looking. But uh, I think the guys get excited
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  Speaker 1: about it, and you know, it's means something to carry
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  Speaker 1: that thing around for the you know, the building for
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  Speaker 1: a day or two, you know, as you're the uh
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  Speaker 1: through not a round champion right now, as the offense is,
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  Speaker 1: which is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: What do you learned about with the spoon outside of
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  Speaker 2: the corner of the last couple days.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I've learned you know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you've learned anything. But he needs reps out there,
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  Speaker 1: and needs reps both sides, so he knows that. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: we got great competition when he's not inside at Nickel,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, he's got to he's got to
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  Speaker 1: be on top of his game wherever he's at. What
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  Speaker 1: you've learned, what.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you already were studying them or new before you
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  Speaker 2: got here. For what makes him such a good tackle?
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  Speaker 1: Talking about spoon mentality? Simple with the belt, who can
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  Speaker 1: do the sides out or I mean it's kind of yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the criteria is ever changing. I do reserve the right
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  Speaker 1: to uh it up on the guys, but it's you.
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  Speaker 1: It was exciting and and based on where the team's going.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of a way top, you know, push buttons
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  Speaker 1: here and there and edge guys on if someone needs
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  Speaker 1: a little push, you know, you put a little belt
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  Speaker 1: on the line or something like that. So it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: We had a lot of guys work on at cp
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  Speaker 1: uh Jay Harball, those guys came up with a really
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  Speaker 1: cool plan. There's a few belts as well. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's several belts. We won't tell you all of them.
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  Speaker 1: There's still something yet to be uh uncovered.
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  Speaker 2: Are of the mystery scenarios before you call them?
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  Speaker 1: Is it just year or is Leslie Frasier and Brian
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  Speaker 1: Airs put them together?
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  Speaker 2: They coach any updates on the Connor Williams uh conversations.
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  Speaker 1: Uh no, what do you see the Maker and Dodson
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  Speaker 1: down And well, it's it's they're doing a good job.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a process and we're ramping up the reps.
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  Speaker 1: H But I think they give you some scheme flexibility
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  Speaker 1: of you know, something that linebackers wouldn't usually do. And
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  Speaker 1: then it's a little and then we're starting to interchange
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  Speaker 1: them a little bit, which is something we haven't done
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  Speaker 1: as much. So yeah, it's exciting to see kind of
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  Speaker 1: we're unfolds right now, but we're kind of in the
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  Speaker 1: we're in the build phase and House Dotson didn't do it.
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  Speaker 1: Handling the communications didn't given the time being of this,
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  Speaker 1: guys are doing a good job. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we can get to some we can get to some
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  Speaker 1: calls where there's a lot going on and to be
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  Speaker 1: able to communicate that. So we've we've had a couple
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  Speaker 1: things that have happened in the first few days, you
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  Speaker 1: know that we've we've realized that, hey, we need to
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  Speaker 1: do better than we've been doing getting everybody on the
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  Speaker 1: same page all three levels. Look, it's it's it's easy
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  Speaker 1: to say like, hey, I got the green dot and
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  Speaker 1: I'm making the calls, but you know, when guys are
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  Speaker 1: breathing heavy and people are coming back and the offense
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  Speaker 1: is going fast, it's like there's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 1: You know, It's it's not an easy task. So those
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  Speaker 1: guys have done a great job of understanding how important
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  Speaker 1: it is that we're all on the same page. And
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  Speaker 1: if you know, if we decide that we want to
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  Speaker 1: give a certain look, that all that all eleven guys
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  Speaker 1: really matter, and you know, giving that look and if
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  Speaker 1: you have one guy doesn't get the call, that's not
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  Speaker 1: good enough. And I think we've seen an you know,
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  Speaker 1: pretty good improvement over the last couple of days. We
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  Speaker 1: got a deep, deep, wide receiver room.
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  Speaker 2: How much how much experience the guys like Tody White
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  Speaker 2: should all have been in the league a couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: Does that matter this time of year?
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  Speaker 1: The what do you mean like the experience of the.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, you got a lot of young receivers, but
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  Speaker 2: then he got a couple like White, and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I haven't. I don't think we're looking at it
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  Speaker 1: through that lens. I think you're just looking at what's
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  Speaker 1: the best for the team, how special teams comes into play,
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  Speaker 1: all those things. But I don't necessarily think you're thinking
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  Speaker 1: about age.
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  Speaker 2: If you're given a player advice on how to get
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  Speaker 2: your attention and your respecting camp, what would you give him.
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  Speaker 1: It's play hard at crap man every snap, just uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, play like the way we we we expect
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  Speaker 1: people to play. We know that in house, you know,
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  Speaker 1: without using all the crazy language, but they know what
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  Speaker 1: it looks like. Just coming off with the injury what
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  Speaker 1: have you seen from him with this camp's heart? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's had a productive camp. He's probably argued
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  Speaker 1: that he you know, that he deserves some more stats
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  Speaker 1: that we've credited him for in the epansive room, which
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  Speaker 1: is a daily conversation. But uh, we love Chenna. I
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  Speaker 1: mean he talked about the mentality that you're looking for
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  Speaker 1: on our football team. Uh, he's a leader that we're
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  Speaker 1: going to rely on, especially with his opinion about how
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  Speaker 1: we run things and someone that we value a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And his toughness, his physicality, uh, pass rush, flexibility, inside
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  Speaker 1: and out, underrated drop or underrated player and coverage. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: very excited about him. But he's had he's had a
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  Speaker 1: really good camp. Yes, anything else, Okay, thanks guys,