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John Schneider: "We Have To Get Our Identity" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You're excited to be here. Got down with our free
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  Speaker 1: agency meetings, uh draft meetings last week. We were able
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  Speaker 1: to get the scouts back for a weekend before we
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  Speaker 1: came down here and uh get this thing going again.
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  Speaker 1: And here we go down here to figure out what
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  Speaker 1: the all season's gonna look like start. So let's gope
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  Speaker 1: it helps a lot. You know, we didn't have the uh,
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  Speaker 1: the guys in the interviews last year, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: having the position coach, defensive coordinator, head coach, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having those guys in in the room is a big
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  Speaker 1: deal to you know, just get the players going and
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  Speaker 1: like the football knowledge and but yeah, it helps a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they were just putting your implementing all their
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  Speaker 1: systems last year. So it's an opportunity for these guys
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  Speaker 1: to get down here and get rocking. Biggest gap, it's
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  Speaker 1: just both sides of the ball, you know. It's I
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  Speaker 1: was just talking to Dave about this. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I feel bad for our fans because, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: not making the playoffs two years in a row, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, so we gotta get we gotta get we
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  Speaker 1: gotta get looming rocking again. You know, we gotta get
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  Speaker 1: speed on defense and be able to run the ball
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  Speaker 1: and get you know, get this, get our get our identity.
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  Speaker 1: You know. So the new coaching staff now on new
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  Speaker 1: offensive staff, it's pretty cool, you know, like a proven
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  Speaker 1: system and the teachers are really impressive. What do you
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  Speaker 1: like about I'm sorry, what do you like? Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So when we got here in twenty ten, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Alex Gibbs was here for a minute with us, and
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  Speaker 1: I had a little bit of exposure in Green Bay
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  Speaker 1: with to the wide zone stuff. But you know that
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  Speaker 1: that Alex and Mike Shanahan, you know, those guys were
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  Speaker 1: obviously going to Super Bowls and stuff with it, right,
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  Speaker 1: so in Denver and uh so like watching that over
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  Speaker 1: the years, that system, like again proven system. And then
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  Speaker 1: you know Rick Rick Dennison was there and and uh
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  Speaker 1: you know, so he's been involved with so to have
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  Speaker 1: to have the number of people in that like especially
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  Speaker 1: with our offensive line, so like John Benton, Rick Dennison,
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  Speaker 1: Clint's focus on running the football. Yeah, and Justin Outen
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  Speaker 1: you know, played center and was a tight end run
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  Speaker 1: game guy for the Packers too. So uh yeah, it's fun,
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  Speaker 1: it's good, it's it's it's A. It's a really cool group.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, it's it's cool to kind of have things
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  Speaker 1: settled too, because last year, you know, through our off
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  Speaker 1: season process, you know, we were late with our hire
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  Speaker 1: and then Mike you know was hiring the staff and
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  Speaker 1: kind of getting people together like throughout the free agency
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  Speaker 1: or the draft meetings. So this year to have you know,
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  Speaker 1: be able to be keep you know, talking the same language,
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  Speaker 1: having the position coaches come in and present to us
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  Speaker 1: now you know before we start each position, like hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know this is what I want, that's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking for. It's it's really helped. It's just like A
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  Speaker 1: it's just you know, like we're constantly talking about that
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  Speaker 1: holistic approach of you know, acquisition, sports science, player development,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like just bringing that whole thing together. And obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the coaching is number one priorities, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially on that side of the ball. The way we
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  Speaker 1: finished the season. Yeah, I couldn't hear you. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: When the NFL world has given up on quarterbacks, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think are you giving up in quarterbacks? Yeh? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The evaluation is just all your yeah, just the football knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: the confidence, the person spending time with you know, his
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  Speaker 1: our connections to other coaches around the National Football League
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  Speaker 1: players that are players that have played with the individual
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  Speaker 1: coaches that have coached the player. Uh, it's hard, you
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  Speaker 1: know without you know, when NFL Europe was around, it
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  Speaker 1: was awesome. Those guys had an opportunity to go play
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  Speaker 1: in the spring, and so there's there was just better
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  Speaker 1: development at that time for more seasoned UH quarterbacks. We
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be a smart, tough, physical, fast football team
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we want to be able to walk.
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  Speaker 1: We want to get our home field advantage back and
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  Speaker 1: win multiple championships for our fans. Regular season evalua, they're
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  Speaker 1: all evaluated on an individual basis, So every circumstance is different.
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  Speaker 1: It depends on you know, what's going on with the
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  Speaker 1: player at the cool uh where he is medically. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't it's just part of the all part of
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  Speaker 1: the evaluation process. I don't mean it's not it's not
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  Speaker 1: good or bad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, gonna see you Lance.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. It means a lot actually, you know, growing up
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  Speaker 1: in in Green Bay, and that's why I have that
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  Speaker 1: affinity for like every day, like the fans. I always
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  Speaker 1: wanted to know that the guys over at the Packers
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  Speaker 1: facility were doing whatever they could to win football games
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  Speaker 1: and it was such a big deal. I know how
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  Speaker 1: much it meant to me so and I know a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the people you know working for the Packers
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  Speaker 1: and how much time and energy they've put into this.
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  Speaker 1: So I just think it's it's gonna be awesome for
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  Speaker 1: the guys to be able to Like, I just hope
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  Speaker 1: it's not snowing because the remember the year we drafted
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  Speaker 1: Javon Walker, we got like a there was like three
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  Speaker 1: feet of snow and he had never even seen snow before.
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  Speaker 1: So some of these guys might be freaked out if
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  Speaker 1: there's a big snowstorm. But uh, no, really excited for
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  Speaker 1: everybody at the Packers and just a it's a great
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  Speaker 1: fun atmosphere competing in every in every aspect of building
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  Speaker 1: a football team every day. You're talking about Pete, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and uh his ability to instill confidence in people is
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  Speaker 1: is second and none. And uh the energy I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to be it's it's it's a culture shift.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure what it was, you know what
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  Speaker 1: it was in the past, but I know what's coming
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  Speaker 1: in with from Pete. I mean that's we get we
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  Speaker 1: don't have enough time for that, but but we we
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  Speaker 1: uh we we did a lot of awesome stuff together,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I think you know those two years
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  Speaker 1: starting out seven and nine, and there was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of there's a lot of things we had to work through,
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  Speaker 1: and we overcame it. We sustained it. That's the That's
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  Speaker 1: like his positive approach is amazing. I always tell people,
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  Speaker 1: I think that his best coaching job was the year
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  Speaker 1: we lost the year after we lost the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: and he was unbelievable that year. Yeah, it feels like it, right.
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  Speaker 1: But your ability to to run the ball and and
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  Speaker 1: and condense the game and you know, be able to
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  Speaker 1: stretch the field and throw the ball over the top.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's ever changed. You know, you do
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  Speaker 1: see you do see just with a technique standpoint, you
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  Speaker 1: do see a like the tackling not being great, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially in college football, and uh, you know that's something
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  Speaker 1: that you just you want to be able to have
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  Speaker 1: that didn't need to play wherever. Wherever you're gonna play
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  Speaker 1: in Detroit, you can play at home, you can play
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  Speaker 1: in Philly. You you got we want to be able
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  Speaker 1: to run the ball wherever you are, you know where
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna play, and that having that physical run game
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  Speaker 1: just you know, gets the defense rocking too. Sorry it's
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  Speaker 1: hot here, holy col phish. Every year there's a constant
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  Speaker 1: evaluation of, Okay, how do we acquire the player? You
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  Speaker 1: know what all went into the decisions? So measuring it
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  Speaker 1: is like a every every year, like how do we
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  Speaker 1: change our our process? Like if we emphasize enough in
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  Speaker 1: one area or another? You know, we've how we managed
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  Speaker 1: our cap. That's usually a pretty big project after the
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  Speaker 1: draft right where you're you're you're talking about okay, you know, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we've spent more money on this side of the ball
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  Speaker 1: than this side of the ball, because I mean this
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  Speaker 1: is you know, cash and cap. You got to rob
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  Speaker 1: for Peter to pay Paul, so you got to make
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  Speaker 1: those decisions and then okay, you know, did how did
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  Speaker 1: we do it? Like what was our process? What was
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  Speaker 1: the decision making process? And we're constantly like adapt and
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure that out as we go. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not like there's just one way to do things.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be super pliable where things stand. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure he's on our team. Yeah, yeah, he's uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's a big, strong, fast, physical receiver. Yeah. Well there's
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit more more clarity there, right, because
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  Speaker 1: these you've seen the system. We saw it and you
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  Speaker 1: know with the Vikings, we saw it in Denver and
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  Speaker 1: then you know what they just went through in uh
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  Speaker 1: in New Orleans. I mean they started out really strong,
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  Speaker 1: they got real beat up, especially in the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: But Clint did a great job, like and they're really
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just got this really cool, like calmness
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  Speaker 1: about him. And he's been around the league enough, especially
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  Speaker 1: with his father, to understand what the free agency process
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  Speaker 1: looks like. You know what the draft process looks like. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, team building, being pliable. You know, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: he's he's been around it. So I would say I
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  Speaker 1: would say the experience last year was like we were
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  Speaker 1: just everybody was just coming together. We're kind of like
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  Speaker 1: learning each other's names, you know, like, Okay, what do
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  Speaker 1: you like we go through? You know, we went there's
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  Speaker 1: a there's a level of like, you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: speaking the same language. So we had signed some guys
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  Speaker 1: in in in free agency that you know, solid players,
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  Speaker 1: but weren't necessarily a good fit. So it's like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: we got adjust in the fly, like let's not wait,
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  Speaker 1: let's make decisions. And Mike's great that way, Mike's really
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  Speaker 1: really well you guys know you guys talk to him
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  Speaker 1: every day, but like really smart, clear communicator. Evaluate. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's again, you're evaluating everybody individually. So how way have
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  Speaker 1: they played? You know, what kind of injuries do they have? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what are the analytics people think? What are
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  Speaker 1: sports science people think? What are the coaches? You know,
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  Speaker 1: how the coaches value that, you know, value the player?
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  Speaker 1: What's the fit? So it doesn't necessarily you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: there's a if you're talking about like high weight speed,
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  Speaker 1: is that kind of why you're getting at like and
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  Speaker 1: how does that? Yeah, we're we're actually we're actually more
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  Speaker 1: interested in the person and the competitor, what kind of
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  Speaker 1: football player they are, more than like you know, the
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  Speaker 1: GPS times or the high weight speed. What they're doing here?
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  Speaker 1: You know this is really you know for us, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're evaluating these guys in the workout, but but it's
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  Speaker 1: more about the football like their tape was their tape
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  Speaker 1: tell us? And then you know, getting to know the
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  Speaker 1: person a little bit more here, and I'm the biggest
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  Speaker 1: thing is the medical besides free agency in the draft
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  Speaker 1: and you know, yeah, well we talk about compensating factors, right,
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  Speaker 1: So what what kind of compensating factors does the player have?
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  Speaker 1: Whether that's you're just if you're talking about durability in general,
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  Speaker 1: that's how they how they take care of themselves, work ethic,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what are the trainers at the school say?
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  Speaker 1: What are the strength conditioning guys say? How they evaluate
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  Speaker 1: the individual? So there's always there always has to be
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  Speaker 1: some sort of if you're if you're undersized, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like you have to figure things out like I I
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  Speaker 1: had to figure out how to like pass block, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean and then a little guy, right, what do
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  Speaker 1: I do? You could cut back then, so it's like
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  Speaker 1: all right, like I'm gonna be cutting. I've better be
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  Speaker 1: really good at that otherwise I'm gonna get trucked, which
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  Speaker 1: I did a lot yep run over. Sorry, not that
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  Speaker 1: that's affected me over the years at all or stayed
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  Speaker 1: with me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that kind of sense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a great teacher. I mean you talk about
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  Speaker 1: acquisition and development, right, I mean they're getting the best receivers,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was just in Dallas a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, and his father came up to me and
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  Speaker 1: his son might go to Ohio State, and he was
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  Speaker 1: telling me about the recruiting process, and they're just root.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're obviously very good evaluators. And then he's
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  Speaker 1: such a great teacher. You know, played the game, knows
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  Speaker 1: what it takes. There's a mentality approach that they that
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  Speaker 1: they have, you know they have they have that they
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  Speaker 1: just have that receiver kind of swag about him, and
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  Speaker 1: it feels like they come into the into the league
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  Speaker 1: like ready to go. Oh like all aspects like their
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  Speaker 1: approach off the field, you know, the study habits, how
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  Speaker 1: they take care of themselves whether they're in the facility
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  Speaker 1: or away from the facility. Uh, you know, the out
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  Speaker 1: running precision of like being a precise for outrunner, you know,
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  Speaker 1: working with the quarterbacks, having an understanding of feel for
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  Speaker 1: you know, how how I run rountes for this quarterback
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  Speaker 1: or that quarterback. They're just it's a great question because
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  Speaker 1: they they do seem like they're they're they're ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the game. And yeah, I would I would attribute that
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  Speaker 1: to Heartline for sure. He was a fun player too.
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  Speaker 1: Like a really good special teams players we had. It's
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  Speaker 1: like natural toughness about him, you know, like really gritty,
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  Speaker 1: really good rout runner himself for really good hands, worked
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  Speaker 1: his tail off so well. There was a lot. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he was he was extremely impressive in the interview obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but then you know, speaking to everybody else, like it's
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  Speaker 1: interacted to him and work with them over the years.
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  Speaker 1: All the background information was was spot on, and then
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  Speaker 1: actually he's like it's it's even more impressive, like the
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  Speaker 1: more time you spend with him, and uh yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: I would say I would say just the the uh
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  Speaker 1: like the teaching. There's a really cool clarity about his
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  Speaker 1: teaching and I you know, I'm not sure what he
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  Speaker 1: would tell you, but you know, he was coaching freshman
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  Speaker 1: high school when he was in college. He just has
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  Speaker 1: a really really cool way about him in terms of
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  Speaker 1: being in front of the room. A great question. There's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a baseline that we start this week. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're meeting with you know, every agency you can meet with,
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  Speaker 1: and then every team and every kind of tries to
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  Speaker 1: get a little bit of like a little lay of
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  Speaker 1: the land. So it starts I think I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that gets really really serious about maybe three
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  Speaker 1: weeks out to two three weeks out because like at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's like we got to
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  Speaker 1: make a decision here, like let's let's roll. So but
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  Speaker 1: up there up. You know, when we picked Spoon a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago, it was like people were talking,
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  Speaker 1: but you don't necessarily know, like what's real, what's not real?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Before the draft?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We have a guy Patrick Ward is an incredible guy,
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  Speaker 1: really talented. Uh. He works with Becca then they put
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  Speaker 1: together a really cool uh. Like they're they're constantly doing it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's everything. It's every mock draft you can think of,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Shoot now it's like what Vegas thinks, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like anything you can anything you
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  Speaker 1: can put in a pile to evaluate. Uh, they're on it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, uh yes to a certain extent because it's it's
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  Speaker 3: it's constantly changing, Like I don't know how they I
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  Speaker 3: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: How they do it. To be else with you that
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  Speaker 1: they're constantly one one day he g hays a fifth
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  Speaker 1: round pick. Next thak he's a third round pick. But
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  Speaker 1: it's it's just another tool for us to try to
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  Speaker 1: recognize how to navigate the draft on the draft weekend,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of maneuver. Uh it's a good question. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure if it's if it's uh like increased over
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  Speaker 1: the years. I mean, Brett Farve always wanted Randy Moss,
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  Speaker 1: you know, talk to me, you know, like, are you
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  Speaker 1: gonna winn get a Randy Moss? But no, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's always I mean, obviously it helps, right if the
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  Speaker 1: if the quarterbacks it like really has you know, has
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  Speaker 1: a relationship with the receiver that he throws with in
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  Speaker 1: the off season or something like that, or he played
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  Speaker 1: with the college you know, and you just have It's
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  Speaker 1: it's just another you know, part of our tool in
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  Speaker 1: the acquisition process. Oh, I think it'll affect it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. You know. It's the free agencies, it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a solid group, uh in free agency,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a it's a rare year with running backs.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's in the draft, it's a I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I I can't remember this number of uh like legit
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  Speaker 1: prospects at the running back position in the draft, and
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  Speaker 1: I usually don't talk about like depth in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just it's sticking out this year. It's rare. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand the question. I apologize, Like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're not supposed to take running back in the first round.
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  Speaker 1: I think Detroit and net LANDA. You know, those guys
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  Speaker 1: are doing pretty good. Yeah, yes, yes, sorry I didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear the last part. Yeah, it's because of the talent
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  Speaker 1: the position. Yes, oh cool.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Their relationships are people skills, communication skills, ability to have
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  Speaker 1: relationships with. Like I would always hit the equipment guys
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  Speaker 1: when I went there to like figure out what kind
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  Speaker 1: of person the guy is. Like we've really challenged the
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  Speaker 1: guys over the last like three years about like who
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  Speaker 1: is who is the person? Who's the competitor so and
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  Speaker 1: really focused on on those those grades and then the
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  Speaker 1: talent kind of you that's kind of the easiest, the
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  Speaker 1: easier thing to do is to evaluate the talent level,
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  Speaker 1: but really, you know, who is the person and what
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  Speaker 1: are we going to get when you know you're in
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  Speaker 1: tough times, right you're yeah, So I would say the
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  Speaker 1: the like the knowing, like knowing different positions and all that,
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  Speaker 1: Like that's that's big, you know, like Hutch does it
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: for us. Steve Hutchinson does it on the offensive line,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: just goes out and just does one position for us.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: But the rest of the scouts have to be evaluate
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: like every position. We don't just scout one position. So
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: uh yeah, just like building relationships, I mean, the football knowledge,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: it's just it's got to be a given. You know,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: we have auch of really cool young guys that are
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: kicking butt right now. We like the intern like interns
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: that we've just hired full time, and it's just really
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: cool to see their approach of like you know, trying
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to reach out, trying to establish these relationships with guys
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and they want kind of kind of want they want
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: to show you that, hey, you know, I know this
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: guy here and then that guy there, and I'll talk
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: to this person my coach with that guy. So it's
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah, they started this morning, we were
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: going through all that stuff. Yet, Yeah, I think there's
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: one offs, right, So yeah, there's different phone calls, and
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I mean it's you want to have all that you
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: want to have all the information so you can make
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the best decision. And so you're you know, like if
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: we're if we're talking about like last year, the hip drop, right,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: So I would rely on John Lynch, just a friend
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: of mine. What what what's this going to look like?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: How we can officiate it? You know, So there's one
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: offs like that, but you know, the league does a
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: really good job of presenting everything. Here's all the information,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: this is what's coming. So basically this morning they're kind
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: of laying out the groundwork for what could be coming
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: when we're when we get to uh, the owner's meeting,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: and I mean that's right around the corner too. Just
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: part of our evaluation process, like going back, yep, our
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: self evaluation, just you know, where why are we missing right?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: What's off right now? Like you're just constantly looking for
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: your blind spots and trying to figure trying to figure
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: out how to compensate for them.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, how are you seeing that?
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Right? Yeah? We just have to we have to adapt.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: We have to keep like trying to understand who the
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: person is, how they're you know, okay, they're why why
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: are they why are they jumping into transfer portal? You know,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a sometimes it's a reflection on character.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just a reflection on depth at a school,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: at a position. You know, I want to go play
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: somewhere else. Sometimes you know, the guy that recruited him
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: is left, is at a different school. So it's every
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: every individual, howty, what is there? What is their uh
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: particular situation and and to put that in the you know,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: evaluation computer and try to figure it all out. But
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the NIL stuff has helped I think. I mean, I'm
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: glad the guys are getting paid, and it's also a
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: way for us to you know, evaluate how much they
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: love the game, how they're going to handle themselves professionally.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: You know, there's guys that you know, have you know,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: two and three cars right now, Guys making six million
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: and some guys making you know, thirty thousand, right, So
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's another part of the UH information to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: put in the evaluation bucket for the draft. In particularly,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: do you see sarrt uh? Sometimes it's again it depends
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: on on the It depends on the person, how the hand,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: how do they handle themselves off the field? Sorry can
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: you I can't hear you? Guys? Okay, how are we
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: In particular, I think does a really good job of
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: that evaluation process is recognizing what the what the deficiencies are, right,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: So they wanted to fix their defense, they went out
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and hired Vic Fangio. It's just it's a he's a
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: tell the truth guy, so he's always gonna understand what
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: needs to be fixed and and and work on it
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: as quickly as he can, right, Thanks guys,