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Press Pass | Caldwell: "It Really Just Comes Down To Taking Advantage of Your Opportunity" · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Mix and match cornerbacks and uh with with the situation
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  Speaker 1: with Tyson, you know you might have one guy playing
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  Speaker 1: both cornerback and safety.
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  Speaker 2: You got you got like u two or three different
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  Speaker 2: options to how you can go there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we got a g a bunch of guys that
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  Speaker 3: have gotten a bunch of reps that are been you know,
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  Speaker 3: working hard and ready to plug him in and see
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  Speaker 3: what they do. Yeah, Buster be the next guy up.
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  Speaker 3: Just uh what he's done uh through training camp and
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  Speaker 3: out there practice every day. He's a guy that works
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  Speaker 3: hard and you know we're confident with him going out
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  Speaker 3: there and he'll be ready to go when you can
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  Speaker 3: do something like that rather than like moving tray outside
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  Speaker 3: and shifting a bunch of pieces. Really, if you move
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  Speaker 3: too many people around, you're moving too many people around.
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  Speaker 3: If you can just put one guy in and you
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  Speaker 3: know that's what they're the here for. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: saw what he did in the off season and what
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  Speaker 3: he did in training camp, and he deserves to be here.
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  Speaker 3: He gets the opportunity to go out there and play.
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  Speaker 4: Say yesterday you've been uh to von Campbell or or Hollet.
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  Speaker 4: You might be calling up or it might our guys
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  Speaker 4: in the building already that could kind of help you
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  Speaker 4: with TIC. How much confidence you having those guys on
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  Speaker 4: the practice squad though?
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  Speaker 3: The guys, uh, that's the reason they're here. They showed
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  Speaker 3: an ability and you know the numbers didn't work out
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  Speaker 3: for them to be on the fifty three. But and
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  Speaker 3: now you know we can call guys up and you
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  Speaker 3: know they'll go out there and you know, be able
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  Speaker 3: to help us out.
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  Speaker 2: How did you feel.
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  Speaker 5: Bus or did I know he was kind of just
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  Speaker 5: throw it in there? But how'd you feel like he played?
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  Speaker 2: I thought I thought he did good. He tackled well,
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  Speaker 2: he was in coverage.
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  Speaker 3: And again, communication is something that it's not just him,
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  Speaker 3: it's everybody we have to get better at. And that's
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  Speaker 3: just one of the areas where we'll get the calls
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  Speaker 3: to him and let him understand the technique he's playing.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, he did a decent job.
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  Speaker 5: More challenging since it's a short week to sort of
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  Speaker 5: build that organic chemistry or chemistry between the corners and
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  Speaker 5: the safts and specifically Buster.
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  Speaker 2: It's really not I think I said it a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: We were in London for ten and we got to
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  Speaker 3: jail together and we're talking all the time, and then
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  Speaker 3: you go out on the field should be the same way.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you're a safety or a linebacker, you ought
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  Speaker 3: to be out there talking just like you're talking in
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  Speaker 3: the locker room or you know, uh riding the bus somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Leading in the NFL and and takeaways, how much is
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  Speaker 1: that as a function of you know, being in the
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  Speaker 1: second year with with your system and just the improved
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  Speaker 1: communication level, cause that that seems to be a a
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  Speaker 1: pretty big factor in getting turnovers.
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  Speaker 3: I think, uh, it really just comes down to taking
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  Speaker 3: advantage of your opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: We've been able to touch.
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  Speaker 3: The ball and the guy they're coming down with it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Josh had a strip sack wherever to get
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  Speaker 3: a couple of fumbles. So it's just being able to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, take advantage of opportunities. We always talk about
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  Speaker 3: the numbers favor us, so if we get more guys
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  Speaker 3: around the ball, we have opportunity to take the ball away.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what we try to do, and we're doing
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  Speaker 2: a decent job right now. Really wipe them up all over.
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  Speaker 3: He's he's a guy that can run it can and
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  Speaker 3: he's really good out of the backfield. And he's a
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  Speaker 3: guy that they feed the ball to. So that's really
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  Speaker 3: the challenge. He's gonna get many opportunities. We just have
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  Speaker 3: to be around him, get a bunch of guys around
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  Speaker 3: him and try to sew him down.
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  Speaker 2: On Sunday, where.
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  Speaker 4: Got in the gated and you're like waving him back
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  Speaker 4: as he's jumped into the stands, and then he comes
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  Speaker 4: back and gets a pick for real, and he goes
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  Speaker 4: right back into the stands. Gus, you just talk about
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  Speaker 4: him and how much energy he brings to the team.
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing. It's uh the.
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  Speaker 3: Energy he plays with. He's a guy that is passionate
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  Speaker 3: about his play and you can see it on the field.
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  Speaker 3: He's a guy that if you're walking down a street
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  Speaker 3: at night, you want him with you because he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: fight with you. And he goes out there every week
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  Speaker 3: and he's a tone setter for us. He's a guy
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  Speaker 3: that brings a bunch of energy. And I saw the flag,
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  Speaker 3: so I knew he wasn't gonna count, but I was
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  Speaker 3: trying to get him back so we know we can
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  Speaker 3: get the next call in.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's great to see his hard work
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  Speaker 2: pay off.
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  Speaker 3: Get an opportunity to have one and then get another
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  Speaker 3: one later on. It was It was good to see
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  Speaker 3: how long person.
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  Speaker 5: Were you by what Smooth was able to do coming
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  Speaker 5: back from injury, like thirty two snaps was in there
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  Speaker 5: pretty active.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was that was big, just to get
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  Speaker 3: back coming off the injury and just getting it was
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  Speaker 3: great to see him go back out there and play
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  Speaker 3: and it'll just continue to get better. You know, the
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  Speaker 3: first day you're out there, you're going as hard.
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  Speaker 2: As you can.
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  Speaker 3: Then you start to feel you know, now, hey, I'm back,
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  Speaker 3: and he'll go out there and you know he did
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  Speaker 3: some good things in the pass for us and he'll continue.
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  Speaker 2: To do it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, speed and they have size, so that's always a challenge.
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  Speaker 3: And then they have multiple guys that can stretch the feel,
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  Speaker 3: multiple guys that can go up and can test for
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  Speaker 3: a ball, So that's a big challenge. And you have
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  Speaker 3: a quarterback that's throwing the ball anywhere he wants to,
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  Speaker 3: so that, uh, passing game is gonna be a tough
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  Speaker 3: task force.
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  Speaker 4: You were with Tam Food, you played the Saints a
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  Speaker 4: couple of times already in your career. Just how tough
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  Speaker 4: is it to play in that building.
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  Speaker 2: It's tough to play it out in there.
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  Speaker 3: But the other thing about it, I told the guys,
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  Speaker 3: it's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: The atmosphere is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: So when you go down there, you're gonna be up
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  Speaker 3: for the game because they're gonna make you get up
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  Speaker 3: for the game, the fans and you know they all
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  Speaker 3: the costumes they have on. It's a great atmosphere to
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  Speaker 3: be in. This Thursday night, we're the only show on,
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  Speaker 3: so you know they should be excited, ready to go yours.
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  Speaker 1: Williams playing in such a such a high level, both
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  Speaker 1: in the pass since he's breaking up and the interceptions
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  Speaker 1: he's getting.
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  Speaker 3: I think just the hard work came in last year,
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  Speaker 3: had to shown her a little bit. Then with playing inside,
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  Speaker 3: then we moved him outside and I think he's comfortable
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  Speaker 3: in the system, comfortable what we're asking him to do,
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  Speaker 3: and he's showing that he has good hands, you know,
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  Speaker 3: former basketball player, good eye coordination. So he's a guy
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  Speaker 3: that it's the ball around him, he's gonna be able
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  Speaker 3: to make a play on it. It's a short week
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  Speaker 3: make getting the defensive game playing together difficult. It does
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  Speaker 3: because you know coaches and players are always gonna schedule
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  Speaker 3: in a routine and routines jacked up. I came over
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  Speaker 3: right after the game on Sunday trying to get as
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  Speaker 3: much information as I could. But we understand that it's
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  Speaker 3: a Thursday night and it's a great opportunity for our
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  Speaker 3: team to go down there and play, so we'll be ready.
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  Speaker 3: We're just gonna have to you know, speed everything up,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, get the details to the players can
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  Speaker 3: let them understand what they're supposed to do and what we.
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  Speaker 2: Want to do, and we'll go down there and you know,
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  Speaker 2: let it go.
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  Speaker 5: Let you think about getting Devon back last week.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, uh, he gave us a jolt.
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  Speaker 3: He was out there, he was flying around, and Devin's
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  Speaker 3: a guy that he's long, he's instinctive and he makes
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  Speaker 3: plays on the ball. Now he had to cast on
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  Speaker 3: his hands, so he's unable to catch two of them,
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  Speaker 3: but uh, it was it was good to see him back,
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  Speaker 3: and I thought he brought a lot of energy and
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's good to see him flying around.
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  Speaker 2: Well since the.
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  Speaker 3: Other guys caught him. You know, we have we have
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  Speaker 3: this competition between inside linebackers, cornerbacks, safeties and outside linebackers
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  Speaker 3: and typically inside guys are catching them all the best,
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  Speaker 3: but uh, with that cast on, it's gonna be tough, right.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't just ask you about Antonio Johnson?
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  Speaker 1: Do you foresee him getting uh getting more snaps as
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  Speaker 1: this season moves on? And you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how much tyson situation might affect that, depending on where
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  Speaker 1: you want to play them, But I'm just he is
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  Speaker 1: he a guy that you can foresee getting on the
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  Speaker 1: field a little bit more often?
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  Speaker 3: Really, Uh, I think Aja got a chance to play
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  Speaker 3: last week and the week before.
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  Speaker 2: It's just his skill set is.
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  Speaker 3: Something that we can use and we just finding ways
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  Speaker 3: to get him out there. You saw him going a
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  Speaker 3: few times on third down and his package is just
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  Speaker 3: increased by you know, just whatever opportunity we want to
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  Speaker 3: give him, and he's a player that he's ready for it.
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  Speaker 3: He has a great skill set to do what we
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  Speaker 3: need him to do, and you know he'll continue to evolve.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for