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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think what we were looking for was alignment
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  Speaker 1: assignments kind of limited some of the motions just to hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's go get our cleats in the ground, let's go
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  Speaker 1: play fundamental football. I thought overall, you know, semi clean
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  Speaker 1: had a couple procedures, but it wasn't egregious. I had
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  Speaker 1: a couple good hard counts there, we got a free play,
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  Speaker 1: so there's some situational stuff that came up. You know,
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  Speaker 1: had to turn over on the defensive side. So hey,
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  Speaker 1: it was back and forth, which is kind of what
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  Speaker 1: you're expecting and hoping for in practice, won and pretty solid.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess exclusively on offense to day what's going
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  Speaker 2: to be that plan?
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  Speaker 3: But he's going to be one day.
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  Speaker 2: Will he ever flip?
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  Speaker 1: And yeah some practices yea, yeah, yeah, he will probably
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  Speaker 1: within the first you know, six practices or so, like
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  Speaker 1: we'll probably have them. You know, you want to give
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  Speaker 1: him a couple of days offense, couple of days defense
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  Speaker 1: and then give him an opportunity to go flip flop
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  Speaker 1: within the same practice, and then that will kind of
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  Speaker 1: become the norm. Right Like, once we do that, that'll
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  Speaker 1: kind of become the norm. And how we operate, but
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  Speaker 1: it'll probably be within the first week or so.
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  Speaker 2: Camp.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the whole camp.
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  Speaker 1: Every single moment. I don't know if you saw it
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  Speaker 1: during special teams, he was doing defensive drills and fundamentals
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  Speaker 1: and footwork. So you know, he's every moment, every minute
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  Speaker 1: that he is in the building, it is accounted for
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  Speaker 1: and trying to make sure that we maximize you know,
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  Speaker 1: his time, our time so that we can ultimately get
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the best outcome.
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  Speaker 2: It's doing extra work, like they go down to the Bahamas,
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  Speaker 2: they're at Episcopal all of the things. Just how much
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  Speaker 2: does that show up here when they're back together again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's huge.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, there's a lot of new faces in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of positions, and so ultimately, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: us to truly play as a team, they got to
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  Speaker 1: get to know each other. They actually have to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: one another's company, enjoy doing it together. And I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: them doing the extra you know, some of the their
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  Speaker 1: own personal time, what you would call his vacation. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they had a good time getting to know
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  Speaker 1: one another, but also got some quality work in which
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  Speaker 1: we as coaches appreciate Mason.
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  Speaker 4: Smith, and he gives us an idea of how long
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  Speaker 4: doing on the play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think extremely long. It's not a major issue.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little bit more precautionary. You know, just tweaked
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  Speaker 1: it kind of the week of camp, you know of camp.
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  Speaker 3: So nothing.
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  Speaker 1: He had a great offseason, He worked his tail off,
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  Speaker 1: He was here a ton, it was in great shape,
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  Speaker 1: worked his tail off, So it was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a bummer obviously, but uh, it's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more precautionary. Could he go and play in a game
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  Speaker 1: in this week, you know, who knows, But it won't
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  Speaker 1: be too long. I think he is that disclosed yet.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's disclosed. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: disclosed yet.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, a new transition with players have coming from your
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  Speaker 4: regime to the new regime.
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  Speaker 3: How quickly did these.
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  Speaker 4: Guys buy into what you're trying to hear and to
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  Speaker 4: see that in your first practice.
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  Speaker 1: Or Yeah, I think that ultimately everybody wants to be
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  Speaker 1: coached right like, so you know, I think that we'll
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  Speaker 1: see the buy in a little bit more and truly
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  Speaker 1: our game, you know, in our games. But in the
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  Speaker 1: process they have they've done everything we've asked them to
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  Speaker 1: do from an energy standpoint communication. You know, it's still
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  Speaker 1: every day. You know, we're continuing to improve those things
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  Speaker 1: and continue to you know, talk about it in the
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  Speaker 1: meetings and the team meetings, but you know, so far,
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  Speaker 1: pretty solid feedback. I think anytime there's change, there's ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: you know, things they like and there's probably things they
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  Speaker 1: don't like. Right at the end of the day, we
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  Speaker 1: all understand that that's very normal.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, I think just getting.
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  Speaker 1: To know them a little bit more on a personal
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  Speaker 1: level and what they're trying to get better at, how
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  Speaker 1: we can see them improve. Anytime a player thinks you
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  Speaker 1: can help them, I think ultimately that's when they start
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  Speaker 1: to trust you.
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  Speaker 4: You said you got Travis's mapped out, was that he
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  Speaker 4: get evaluated on a daily basis, maybe even evolved or
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  Speaker 4: at how that's going.
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  Speaker 1: Can't Yeah, I think it. I mean it evolved a
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  Speaker 1: little bit from the offseason program. Right like we saw
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  Speaker 1: there was a span where maybe he practiced on offense.
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  Speaker 1: Let's call it a Thursday, because we didn't do anything
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  Speaker 1: on the Fridays, and then he had Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: and then Monday he was on defense. That's like four
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  Speaker 1: days without doing anything on offense. Well, we learned that
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  Speaker 1: was too long, right, that's too long to kind of
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  Speaker 1: go without doing anything on maybe the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball. So we learned something there, and we also
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  Speaker 1: within these blocks where we're kind of three days on
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  Speaker 1: with an off day, it allows us to map it
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  Speaker 1: out maybe a little bit cleaner and give him more opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: But every single day that he is on one side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball, he will meet with the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball at least once, maybe twice as well,
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  Speaker 1: So trying to not let that happen. Where he goes offense, offense,
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  Speaker 1: then practice on defense. But he hasn't heard a single
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  Speaker 1: thing on the defensive side of the ball in two days.
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  Speaker 1: So we absolutely learned and I could see it continue
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  Speaker 1: to evolve this training camp.
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  Speaker 2: I'm prescribed where Foreveri's footwork wise now based on when
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  Speaker 2: he first gotten here, engagement that's have to work on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think today I thought he was pretty clean
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's more so a we want to get our feet
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  Speaker 1: to our target, but that doesn't mean your eyes have
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  Speaker 1: to always be at your target. Like we can use
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  Speaker 1: our eyes as a weapon while keeping our feet clean.
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  Speaker 1: That's been something we've continued to work on that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: going into this year in your in your development, your
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  Speaker 1: eyes have to be a weapon and your feet have
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  Speaker 1: to be in rhythm, right because we know once stuff
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  Speaker 1: starts moving, it's not going to always be perfect. So
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  Speaker 1: if we can continue to drill that, I thought he
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  Speaker 1: had a good day, like I said, today, and he's
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  Speaker 1: taken to it right. He was right foot up all
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  Speaker 1: last year and really the course of his career, and
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  Speaker 1: now he's left foot up in the SHOTGUNNA talking about.
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  Speaker 1: So that kind of involves a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: different rhythm footwork, and I thought, I think he's done
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  Speaker 1: a nice job progressing that so far.
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  Speaker 2: Physical identity being something that you mentioned when you first
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  Speaker 2: took over. Does that mean you'll have more physical practices
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  Speaker 2: in training camp in order to make that happen.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have to. I mean, we only have the
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  Speaker 1: one joint practice and you know, so ultimately we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to do it with each other at times, and
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  Speaker 1: obviously you've got to control it and make sure that
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  Speaker 1: we're doing it the right way. But yeah, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to be physical with one another. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: just the bottom line. And you know, right now we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to continue to find our edge. What is our
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  Speaker 1: edge gonna be as a team, as a unit, as
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  Speaker 1: a position group and each player and coach. So what
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  Speaker 1: will be our edge? And we need to make physicality
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  Speaker 1: a part of that and playing with an edge, so
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  Speaker 1: we will we will definitely have to get after it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You brought some of the receivers together over there and
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  Speaker 2: during the special teams period on the podcast. Why was
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  Speaker 2: that important just in that moment?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just gissing more immediate feedback, right, Like there's ultimately
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  Speaker 1: coaching points that happen out here that shoot, maybe I
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  Speaker 1: forget in like two hours to continue to remind them
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  Speaker 1: of you know, whereas I know their position coaches will
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  Speaker 1: cover it. But you know it's good to hear, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for me ultimately on both sides of the ball, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is something I'm seeing, like how can we make
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  Speaker 1: this better? Ultimately? And both those guys it was not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily a mistake. It was just something that we can
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  Speaker 1: continue to clean up, make better, evolve, And you know,
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  Speaker 1: those guys take coaching really well.
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  Speaker 3: In the same vein.
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  Speaker 2: After BTJ had to drop, you were one of the
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  Speaker 2: first people over to him say, hey, let's keep going. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just I know you talk about the power of touch
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  Speaker 2: and all those things. How are you coming along with bad?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Good?
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  Speaker 1: I mean you know, ultimately we had a few drops today, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you had three of them, I think to
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  Speaker 1: my knowledge, and so like that's part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's a physical mistake. He didn't mean to do it,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't try to do it intentionally. It's usually what
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  Speaker 1: happens when you lose your legs a little and you
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  Speaker 1: lose a lot focus. So just trying to hey man,
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  Speaker 1: let's move on, right, We've got to be short memory,
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  Speaker 1: all of us at all times. I'm speaking of myself,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, play the next play like nothing
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  Speaker 1: matters but the next play. And it's so much like
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  Speaker 1: a golfer, right, being a caddy as a coach, it's
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  Speaker 1: like next shop mentality, next play mentality, Let's move on,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you can't do anything about it.
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  Speaker 5: Condition that the team has come back when.
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  Speaker 1: After breaking Yeah, I think, like you know, it's so hard.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we do a conditioning test, and that conditioning test,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the conditioning test for players is playing the game.
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  Speaker 1: And so ultimately, like I'm pleased with the way they
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  Speaker 1: came in, you know, came in We're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: get in football shape still, Like that's the reality, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like they can get in conditioning shape all they want,
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  Speaker 1: but football shape is a completely different thing. And so
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think it'll probably take a couple of
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  Speaker 1: days for us to really feel like we're not dying
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  Speaker 1: out there while having to think and move and do
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  Speaker 1: all those things. So I was pleased with them. I
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  Speaker 1: think they all worked pretty hard this summer.
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  Speaker 2: When you were trying to come up with your training
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  Speaker 2: can schedule as a head coach of the first.
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  Speaker 4: Time you rely on them?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great question. We you know, you've been
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  Speaker 1: to multiple different stops, right, and you've got great coaches
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  Speaker 1: on your staff to rely on. And so we kind
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  Speaker 1: of took a few different models of places we've been,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was La Tampa, Minnesota, Seattle, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: different places where our coaches have you know, specifically been
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  Speaker 1: and Green Bay, Campy and just kind of all right,
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  Speaker 1: what what fits us right and how do we make
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  Speaker 1: this ours? That's that was it really how we went
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  Speaker 1: through Jake Kaiser and Shane Waldron really helped me out
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  Speaker 1: with that throughout the off season program. It's something I've
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  Speaker 1: only had to do on one side of the ball
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  Speaker 1: with an offensive calendar and install schedule, and now you've
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  Speaker 1: got to make and create schedules for the entire offseason
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  Speaker 1: program and season. It's a little different, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: ultimately the benefit of having one o'clock games throughout the
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  Speaker 1: whole season and with the exception of the Monday night game,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a ton of different schedules and routines
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  Speaker 1: for the year.
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  Speaker 4: That's one of those unseen things that a head coach.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, first time has to deal with them.
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  Speaker 3: We know nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was one of those things that you think
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  Speaker 1: you can kind of just like copy paste kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know from places you know, maybe, oh well I
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  Speaker 1: just did it like this in Tampa.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it worked, it was good.
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  Speaker 1: But then you are there's different ways to skin a cat, right,
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  Speaker 1: and there's different ways that ultimately you want to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that you're maximizing time while also being fair right
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  Speaker 1: within the schedule and making sure that we don't leave
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  Speaker 1: training camp and we're not going into week one with
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  Speaker 1: no legs, Like, that's not the goal. The goal is
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  Speaker 1: to go into week one with legs feeling fresh, feeling fast,
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  Speaker 1: and ultimately healthy. So it's definitely a little bit underestimated
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  Speaker 1: and I'm glad that it's over.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta balance that at all.
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  Speaker 5: I'll talk to one of the guys who said, this
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  Speaker 5: first day feels different than it has in years past,
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  Speaker 5: and they like the energy every by smiling and working,
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  Speaker 5: but you have to balance the crank it up today
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  Speaker 5: but be ready for a week one.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's definitely, especially in training camp, it's probably one
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  Speaker 1: of the more delicate things you think about as a
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  Speaker 1: head coach, where it's like you're continuing to try to
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  Speaker 1: push and you want to push those limits of toughness
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  Speaker 1: and be able to make sure that we're getting mentally
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  Speaker 1: and physically tough every single day, while also balancing man like,
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  Speaker 1: you never want anybody to get hurt. You never want
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  Speaker 1: to so it's like, all right, rep count time on
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  Speaker 1: the grass, recovery time, transition times, like, it's absolutely a balance.
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  Speaker 1: You want these guys to come out cranked up, ready
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  Speaker 1: to go each and every day, but it's definitely a balance.
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  Speaker 3: That's uh.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still learning thank.
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  Speaker 5: You, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's go time. So what does that sort of
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  Speaker 3: mean to you?
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  Speaker 2: What does that look like in terms of what you
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  Speaker 2: need to do to sort of get to that?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think it's it's obviously the preparation
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  Speaker 6: of the work you put in in the off season
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  Speaker 6: and the stuff that's already been done, you know now
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  Speaker 6: they were at camp. It's not really necessarily the time
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  Speaker 6: to turn like clip a switch. It's kind of been
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  Speaker 6: on since really post surgery recovery, trying to get back
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  Speaker 6: healthy and learning the new system, all that stuff. Is
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  Speaker 6: put a lot of time in this offseason into making
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  Speaker 6: sure I'm ready to go this season. And I say
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  Speaker 6: that too because I have a lot of confidence in
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  Speaker 6: what we're doing here and the system, the staff, the
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  Speaker 6: new players we brought in, the guys that have already
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  Speaker 6: been here, like the culture, everything we're building here. I
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  Speaker 6: really have a lot of confidence and belief in what
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  Speaker 6: we're doing and that we're doing it the right way.
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  Speaker 6: And I think that, you know, frees me up in
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  Speaker 6: a lot of ways and kind of allows me to
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  Speaker 6: say that and feel confident about it.
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  Speaker 3: Evaluate practice number one, spray.
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  Speaker 6: It's better than the spring, you know, I think for everyone.
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  Speaker 6: I speak for myself, but I assume you know the
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  Speaker 6: offense feels very similarly. Just feels good to know the
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  Speaker 6: system and to hear the calls and to go play
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  Speaker 6: and to not think as much. It feels more like
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  Speaker 6: second nature. So a couple execution things, a couple of
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  Speaker 6: plays that we missed, you know, just a little bit
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  Speaker 6: that we're gonna hit and we got to make moving forward.
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  Speaker 6: But that's always gonna happen. It's never gonna be perfect.
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  Speaker 6: So it felt good to get back on the grass,
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  Speaker 6: guys moving around, flying around, kind of get our bodies
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  Speaker 6: and minds back going. It was a good first day,
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  Speaker 6: competitive back and forth. Defense made and plays, offense mads
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  Speaker 6: and plays, and it's kind of what you want, so
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  Speaker 6: build off that. And for us just to continue to
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  Speaker 6: make those all those contested plays, we got to treat
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  Speaker 6: them like those are all our balls. Either make the
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  Speaker 6: throw and make the catch, make the block, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 6: go make the play.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for work that you guys do away from the building,
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  Speaker 2: whether that's the Bahamas trip or work at a Pistopol
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  Speaker 2: or wherever. Just how much does that show up now
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  Speaker 2: that you're back in the building.
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  Speaker 3: Shows up a lot.
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  Speaker 6: You know, there was some stuff in the spring where
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  Speaker 6: you know, I was just coming off injury, just getting
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  Speaker 6: back in the flow of throwing and really doing a
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  Speaker 6: bunch of field work. I just started that once we
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  Speaker 6: started OTA's and addition to a lot of new receivers
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  Speaker 6: and getting some timing, and you know, even with BT
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  Speaker 6: we only got half a season together, so even some
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  Speaker 6: things there I wanted to polish up. And we were
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  Speaker 6: able to get a lot of work in this offseason,
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  Speaker 6: whether it was in the Bahamas or here, guys being
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  Speaker 6: in town to work out. You know, guys did a
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  Speaker 6: great job of being around, being available, and that stuff
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  Speaker 6: carries over. So when you start camp there's a couple
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  Speaker 6: throws a day. There were some timing throws that I
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  Speaker 6: felt like we were on point that you wouldn't get
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  Speaker 6: if you didn't get the reps in the off season,
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  Speaker 6: just because they're hard. You gotta know, you gotta throw
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  Speaker 6: it before the guy's break. They gotta trust you're gonna
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  Speaker 6: put in the right spot, and you gotta have that time.
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  Speaker 3: Was it like playing at.
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  Speaker 6: He's great just you know, obviously he's kind of that
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  Speaker 6: like silent Assassin. He's he's uh, just goes to work.
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  Speaker 6: That's one thing I love about him. You know, he's
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  Speaker 6: not a he's not a big ego look at me guy.
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  Speaker 6: He just goes and puts the work in and makes
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  Speaker 6: plays and just his speed, his one on one ability,
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  Speaker 6: it's really impressive. And to have him on the outside
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  Speaker 6: that matchup if they ever want to go one on one,
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  Speaker 6: we feel like that's a favorable matchup for us, and
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  Speaker 6: we're gonna win most of them. And then to add
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  Speaker 6: the pieces that we've added only helps that because now
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  Speaker 6: you just have so much speed, so much talent everywhere,
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  Speaker 6: and there's a lot of mismatches, so you can't tilt
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: something one way just for BT or then you got
• 14:51
  Speaker 6: some other issues.
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  Speaker 3: So it helps a lot.
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: And I just like the way he approaches his work
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: every day, honestly, just the way he carries himself.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: You like about this song prints into the line of
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: scriptgey always feel like there's an answer there. So what's
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: that feeling like when you get to the line of
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: scrimmage and you don't have the answer to get out
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: of it?
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: I mean that can you just kind of walk us
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: through that a little bit? Yeah?
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: I mean there's sometimes you know that you don't have
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: the answer, and you know, poor the snap, that's not
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: a good feeling, and you try to just make the
• 15:20
  Speaker 6: best out of the play that you can. But then
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: there's sometimes we're right when the ball snapped, you're like, oh, shoot,
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: this isn't right. And that's sometimes either maybe I should
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: have got to the other play or maybe it was
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: just a look that we didn't anticipate. Like there's a
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: lot of different scenarios like that. But either way, I
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: think it's managing those times because that does happen, you know.
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: I think our staff does an awesome job, but there's
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: gonna be times at some point where we're not in
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: a great play and you can't be perfect, you know,
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: and they trust me to do the best thing with
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: the ball when those those are the that's some of
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: the most important situations is not to make a bad
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: play worse find a completion. That's something I've definitely had
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: to learn throughout my career, is not to try to
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: do too much on a play that's not you know,
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: that's an uphill play.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: How different is you are you physically? You know, the
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: last couple of years, you've pretty much had to watch
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: from the sidelines.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: At the end of the season.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: So how has that changed you and how are you
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: feeling after the first practice.
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: I feel really good. It's the best I felt in
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: a long time. Physically, Yeah, it's it sucks not playing,
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: not being on the field, you know, it's all I
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: love to do, love to play, and you put in
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: all the work in the off season and through camp,
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: and then to have the season cut short isn't isn't fun.
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: So it's given me a really great appreciation for the
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: game and how much you know, I love it and
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: love being out here. And sometimes you take things for
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: granted when you when you get to do it every
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: day and you're healthy, and you take whether you take
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: your health for granted or playing the game for granted,
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: it's you know, when that's taken away for a little bit,
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: you kind of reflect and take a step back. And
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: it's been you know, in some ways, it's been good
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: for me. Unfortunately, you know, I missed some time and
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: never want to miss time. But I think it's been
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: good for some perspective things with me and myself and
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: how I view the game and moving forward, you know,
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: how I want to prepare myself and how I want
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: to play physically, what got.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Lives different this year and then the eight years past
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: to kind.
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: Of help with that or know a lot more, you know, prehab,
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: rehab therapy stuff on my shoulder obviously still you know,
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: after the surgery. But I think through the injuries I've had,
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: you learn things and you try to really stress those
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: areas and put them in different I guess positions and
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: uncomfortable spots, and you train those things to avoid, you know,
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: re injuring the same thing. And I think you learn
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: a lot after getting hurt as far as my body,
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: and maybe you look at things like, oh, in our plan,
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: maybe we didn't address that enough and we can add
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: some mass there, or we can add some strength there,
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: whether it's.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Shoulders or lower body or hips or whatever.
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: You know, there's a lot of things you can learn
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: from injuries and how to kind of minimize those moving forward.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Wam mentioned you just took a quiz couple of days ago.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Have you ever is that common?
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Number one wasn't hard?
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Number two common? No, it's not common. It was.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: It was pretty difficult, and not all the questions. Some
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: of them were some layups, but I mean, yes, there
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: were some good There were some good questions, and there's
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: some tough ones that kind of got us back, get
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: us back going for camp and get the minds going,
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: and you know, all this stuff you have to do
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: as a quarterback.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: It was good.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: It kind of encompassed our whole offense and whether it's
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: scheme protections, it was a lot of stuff that was
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: good to do as like one of our first days
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: back to kind of make sure we're ready to go.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: And we've been looking over our stuff this offseason a
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: lot of different offenses.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, is this the most difficult challenging one.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I would say so, But I think now looking
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: at it as going through it now for the second
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: time after OTA's feels so much more confident and comfortable
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: in it. So the things that I thought were difficult
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: at first have become more second nature and aren't as
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: big of a deal now. So but yeah, I would
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: say just the amount of things you have to know,
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: the amount of calls with multiple plays so that we
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: can be in the whatever position to succeed, I can
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: be in the right play.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: It's more of that than I've ever had.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: It's a lot of emotions, a lot of shifts, all
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: those things, and then just longer play calls a little
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: bit more verbiage because of like I said, multiple plays
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: and motions and shifts. So but once you know it
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: in its second nature, you know what everything means and
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: it all makes sense. But at first it's like you're
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: trying to just spit everything back out and then put
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: it together at the end. So you know, thankfully we're
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: past that and the guys are rolling and feel good
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: about it now. I was, to be exact, I was
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: eighty five out of one hundred. Had a couple there
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: was a couple of little there's a couple of bad
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: answers in there by me that I know. Just it's
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: time too, so it's like twelve seconds to like punch
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: in the answer. So some of that like puts the
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: pressure on you. So I had some dumb answers and
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: then it glitched a couple of times, at least three
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: times some of my answers.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: I'll say it too. But yeah, it was good.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: It's good great, I mean plus B plus not great,
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: but b B yeah waited to be plus.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we round up podcast.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: But but work being tied to this offense, reading your
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: progressions according to the hitch of your footwork how much
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: have you gained from work he's been in the MC system, been.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: In this system speed, Yeah, how you know you look
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: pretty sure about there was?
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: For sure, Nick is he's been in this system. He's
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: really smart.
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: You know, he's played a lot of football, so I
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: definitely can take a lot of things that you know,
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: he says and he does and learn from it for sure.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: I mean he's the guy that, like I said, he's
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: really smart, plays with a lot of anticipation, you know,
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: reading coverages. He's really good. He's on time, his feet
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: are always synced up. So and it was something I
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: watched early on when we started of just his footwork
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: because it is the same system pretty much that he
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: was that he was in and yeah, and hearing him
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: just when I first came in, his confidence and how
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: he feels about the system is like, man, you're gonna
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: love it. It's just you can trust it. The progressions
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: are great. Just keep trusting it, trust your feet, stay
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: on time, like all those things. And to see to
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: hear him say that and to see him do it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: And he's had to play a lot in the past
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: few years and played well like it's can see that
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: that's real, especially you know, coming from someone that's done it,
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: it's nice to.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Hear about using your eyes as a weapon. Has that
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: been an emphasis for you and how's that coming along?
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been great something I've worked a lot in
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: O Ta's and then this this summer break we were
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: on just use it exactly like you said, use my
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: eyes as a weapon and not not giving the defensive
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: tip on anything of where I'm going with the ball
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: and trying to use my eyes to move people or
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: to open up certain windows or whatever. It's been something
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: that a lot of quarterbacks do and you know, I
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: never really know it's it's something that never really been
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: taught necessarily, but to hear their perspective on certain plays
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: and the emphasis on certain places use your eyes, especially
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: to open windows, is something where it makes sense. But
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: it's just if you don't if you're not told to
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: do it, sometimes you don't think about it. And then
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: now you know, learning those little things that can help
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: make the windows two yards bigger. I mean, that's a
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: huge difference in this league. So it's helped a lot,
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: and they've they've taught me a lot about stuff like
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: that and.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Some of those workout videos you're wearing pads. Is there
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: a reason behind that.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: Or in case someone comes in and hits me, you know,
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: I just want to have my no, I'm just kidding.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Uh. I usually throw.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: I try to throw towards the end of the off
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: season in pads at least half the time, just because
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: you don't throw in pads all OTA's all spring, and
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: then you come to training camp and you're in pads,
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: and then you play games and you're in pads, so
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: it is different. You know, you have less range of motion,
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: it's clunkier you're moving around, especially on the run. And
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: I think it just helps me kind of get ready
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: to throw in pads when you know. Sounds silly, but
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: you do have to practice those things. Yeah, like two
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: more unless you're get.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Freaking Josh. Great show, great show. That's good. Thank you.