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Speaker 1: Obviously the record, just just your thoughts and immediate emotions.
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Speaker 2: Just obviously, I'm so fired up for the kid. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's a it's something he had been working on. We
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Speaker 2: talked last week about, uh, just kind of what he
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Speaker 2: had put into that bye week, how much pressure he
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Speaker 2: puts on himself. Uh, And I just felt that, you know,
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Speaker 2: I felt like he was in good shape, and I
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Speaker 2: was expecting a great game by him. You know, James
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Speaker 2: and I both had a conversation before the game, and
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Speaker 2: I told him, I think he's gonna have a spectacular game.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know would be record breaking. I wish I
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Speaker 2: could have called that, but Uh, I was expecting to
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Speaker 2: have a good game because I saw where he was
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Speaker 2: at and uh and we just he's so talented and
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Speaker 2: he's such a great kid. It was just cool moment
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Speaker 2: for the for him, it was a cool moment for
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Speaker 2: the Specialist in general. Those three guys work together like brothers, UH,
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Speaker 2: and they love each other, and they spend so much
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Speaker 2: time together. They have so much invested interest in each
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Speaker 2: other on the field and off the field. And then
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Speaker 2: you saw the reaction from the players and the energy
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Speaker 2: it brought, and it just shows you how much they
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Speaker 2: care for him. But it's just the team, you know.
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Speaker 2: It just shows you what our teams like around here
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Speaker 2: and what the world we're going. There was a big
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Speaker 2: momentum factor in that game going in a halftime. I
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Speaker 2: feel like we were a different team coming out at half.
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Speaker 2: So it was really cool, Uh to just be a
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Speaker 2: part of it and be an impact, you know, on
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Speaker 2: the on the win. Anytime special teams can be an
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Speaker 2: impact in a good way.
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Speaker 3: I love it.
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Speaker 2: Well. As he kicked it, it sounded good. The first thing
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Speaker 2: I look at typically is the returner deep and when
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Speaker 2: I see a guy go back there, that makes a
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Speaker 2: coach a little nervous because it is the possibly of
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Speaker 2: a return. The one thing I did look for him
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Speaker 2: as he as the ball was kicked, he didn't move.
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Speaker 2: And when he didn't move, to me, that mant it
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Speaker 2: was online. And that was the first thing I looked at,
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Speaker 2: was it was online. I felt pretty good, pretty comfortable
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Speaker 2: because I knew he had the leg strength to get there.
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Speaker 2: And then and then feeling Logan's reaction, I think about
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Speaker 2: halfway down the field, uh to see to feel kind
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Speaker 2: of some of the guys could see it. That was
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Speaker 2: it felt good. And again it was just good to see.
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Speaker 2: It was cool to see a cool moment for.
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Speaker 4: Us, the conversation like on the sidel like him said,
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Speaker 4: he told before the drive he got to the fift there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's something we set the lines pregame
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Speaker 2: and and and we have a good idea what that
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Speaker 2: looks like. And and you know, we have a line,
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Speaker 2: you know that we started with. And then he you know,
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Speaker 2: he told me before, you know, at the fifty and I,
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Speaker 2: of course I communicate that with coach and as always
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Speaker 2: before that drive, I mentioned that again we have a line.
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Speaker 2: But he did say the fifty, he said, if he
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Speaker 2: gets into the fifty, uh, you know, he said, he
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Speaker 2: wants it. Of course it goes on second down, and
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Speaker 2: then of course it comes up again and he goes Heath,
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Speaker 2: what do you think? And as I looked to see,
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Speaker 2: I said, he wants it. And as I looked at
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Speaker 2: to communicate with Camas, I normally he would to see
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Speaker 2: if he really wants it. He was already walking on
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Speaker 2: the field. And I think that told us enough what
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Speaker 2: he was, what his plan was, and and he kind
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Speaker 2: of looked at me with a smirk and a smile.
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Speaker 2: And I said, Coach, he wants it, So it was great.
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Speaker 3: It was cool.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's the classic, you know, after
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Speaker 2: him not playing to it to his best the last
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Speaker 2: few games. You know, you know, I'm sure some people
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Speaker 2: probably were hoping for a you know, a nice short
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Speaker 2: one and easy one. Let's send him out there for
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Speaker 2: the record break and see what he can do with that.
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Speaker 2: But I guess it just shows you the belief in him,
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Speaker 2: the you know, the belief in himself to never waiver,
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Speaker 2: nobody wavered here. That's the cool thing. Everybody's you know,
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Speaker 2: no one lost confidence. And and so you're I had
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Speaker 2: no problem sending him out there. It sounds crazy to
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Speaker 2: send him out there and that and that, you know, circumstance,
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Speaker 2: but we we we knew everyone believed he can make it.
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Speaker 5: Got this, uh, get the scale, old kid from Arkansas.
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Speaker 3: And if you look at the sidelines, obviously everybody's.
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Speaker 4: Gonna be excited.
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Speaker 6: But you know, it was a race between Josh and coach.
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Speaker 6: See you can get to him first. Devin Lloyd was
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Speaker 6: jumping around like he was a little kid at Christmas time.
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Speaker 6: I thought, Jonah Manham's gonna swallow him up.
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Speaker 3: But what does it say about Cam and his relationship
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Speaker 3: with the.
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Speaker 6: Team that these guys seem to really like him and
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Speaker 6: embrace him, and and it doesn't matter what he makes
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Speaker 6: a kick or not.
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Speaker 3: They were there for him when he was missing. They
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Speaker 3: love him to death.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's a He's not like one of those
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Speaker 2: you know, a lot of times when you have specialists,
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Speaker 2: they can be weird at times. He's one of the
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Speaker 2: most popular guys on this team. And I think from
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Speaker 2: a specialist perspective, that's not super normal. Uh, We're fortunate
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Speaker 2: here we have three good ones that that that's the case.
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Speaker 2: But I think he's so lovable. I think everyone loves Cam.
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Speaker 2: They love his personality, they love his focus when it
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Speaker 2: comes to his craft. They know he puts more time
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Speaker 2: than anybody. And I think it's I think he's just
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Speaker 2: they just love him to death. And I saw that
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Speaker 2: from the first time I went and worked him out
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Speaker 2: when he was still at Arkansas. You know, we went
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Speaker 2: to dinner together and it was something i'd right away.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, this guy has it he there's something about
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Speaker 2: this kid. You just love him to death. Yeah, it
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Speaker 2: usually is and and you know, and there's times when, uh,
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Speaker 2: you know. I I even ask him on game, you know,
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Speaker 2: on game day or mid game, how was that? How
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Speaker 2: did he hit it? And he has a good feel
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Speaker 2: of the sound, the feel how it got off, just
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Speaker 2: because he's the closest to it. And it's honest, I mean,
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Speaker 2: he's the last person to touch it.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 2: And and and he's so talented, uh and it has
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Speaker 2: so much experience. He has the ability that he knows
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Speaker 2: right away. I think he knows when he hits it
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Speaker 2: clean and uh. Again, he has a he's the first
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Speaker 2: guy to see it emill maybe not.
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Speaker 3: Return coming off the sidelines. What does that say about him?
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Speaker 3: And then just the work you guys do in practice
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Speaker 3: and have manyparent I think it's great.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's cool. Like I said, credit
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Speaker 2: to him, obviously, didn't you know he gets reps in practice,
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Speaker 2: but a lot of times those are not you know,
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Speaker 2: obviously he's not planning on playing in that game, especially
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Speaker 2: in the overtime, but he prepares every single day.
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Speaker 3: You know, he's on.
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Speaker 2: Practice squad most of the season. Never wavered his uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, his buy in, never wavered on uh preparing
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Speaker 2: like he was gonna play week one to even this weekend,
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Speaker 2: so he was ready, and and and the fact that
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Speaker 2: he hit it downhill he broke a tackle, and then
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Speaker 2: the guy's blocking for him that they blocked it up
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Speaker 2: really clean. That was very Again it was credit to
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Speaker 2: the guy's blocking for him as well of just clean blocks. Sound,
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Speaker 2: you know, just everything was super fundamentally sound.
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Speaker 3: It was perfect.
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Speaker 2: And the ay, yes, he was watching it live. You
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Speaker 2: know it's ah, he's very very talented as well. And
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Speaker 2: you know it's like we were watching it kind of
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Speaker 2: going no way now, We're gonna no way, not for
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Speaker 2: one day. But there's so many talented kickers. You know,
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Speaker 2: this is a this is a record that wouldn't surprise me,
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Speaker 2: uh if it gets broke again and and and hopefully
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Speaker 2: our guy, like I said, our guy can break it again.
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Speaker 2: So there's gonna be people going after that record. And
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Speaker 2: and because these kickers are so talented.
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Speaker 8: Fun Raiders flot kickoff returns last week against you guys.
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Speaker 3: They did a really good job.
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Speaker 2: They had a good plan and and give credit to
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Speaker 2: to to McMahon, he's a heck of a football coach.
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Speaker 2: I thought they had a really good plan. And then
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Speaker 2: and ultimately comes back to us, I got to do
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Speaker 2: a better job of really getting back to the details
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Speaker 2: of getting off blocks. We do a good job of
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Speaker 2: leveraging him. Now we've got to get back to the
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Speaker 2: fundamentals of getting out blocks, pad level down, uh more,
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Speaker 2: knock back at point of attack. So there are things.
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Speaker 2: These are things that we work on a good amount,
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Speaker 2: but I got to emphasize them more and and and
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Speaker 2: that's on me. So we'll work on that this week.
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Speaker 2: There's there's no question about that.
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Speaker 4: It's havings this year changed.
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Speaker 7: Anything at all.
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Speaker 2: I think it is the guys more time to do it.
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Speaker 2: As far as the ball, they prepare the exact same way.
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Speaker 2: He just has more time to do it. So as
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Speaker 2: far as the football perspective, they don't do anything different
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Speaker 2: with the you know, they don't do anything different other
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Speaker 2: than it's more time to do it.
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Speaker 3: He was thinking about continuing to use the.
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Speaker 2: Ball and Logan had to kind of talk time to.
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Speaker 3: Reason.
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Speaker 2: He's like the big brother.
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Speaker 3: They all listen to.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 9: To get there. Yeah, I think with that, there were
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Speaker 9: times we changed it up, try and play some man covers,
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Speaker 9: just to get on them a little bit tighter.
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Speaker 5: And obviously they made a couple of plays.
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Speaker 9: You know, in man to man against us, we had
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Speaker 9: one miscommunication there that got us. But yeah, you're just
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Speaker 9: trying to spin it around, moving around a little bit.
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Speaker 9: When that's the case, if they're taking a duncan like
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Speaker 9: you said, and they're really in the types of zones
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Speaker 9: that you play, there are some more match ear zones
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Speaker 9: you know.
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Speaker 5: Uh that you can go to.
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Speaker 9: But that's that's usually what the that's really where the
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Speaker 9: onus shifts you.
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Speaker 8: Prepare for a quarterback, and they started to see.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, back to his old tape and then obviously, you
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Speaker 9: know last week against Denver, you get a pretty good
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Speaker 9: idea you know of who he is and and how
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Speaker 9: he operates.
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Speaker 5: But good player.
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Speaker 9: He's athletic, you know in terms of uh being able
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Speaker 9: to move in the pocket.
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Speaker 5: And get the ball.
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Speaker 9: He's an accurate thrower, you know, get the ball to
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Speaker 9: their playmakers. So that's still a challenge and looks like
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Speaker 9: a guy that is obviously very decisive and has been
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Speaker 9: there quite a while.
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Speaker 6: Hold as much value.
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Speaker 8: It was a different offense.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, just to watch the player, you do
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Speaker 9: definitely go back and look at that, but yeah, systematically
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Speaker 9: it doesn't hold hold as much value but yeah, but
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Speaker 9: definitely to watch the guys and kind of see their
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Speaker 9: skill set.
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Speaker 4: For sure, very Trumb's obviously done some good things, but
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Speaker 4: we'll getting Devin back.
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Speaker 9: Kind of mean you guys, Yeah, that's that's a big
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Speaker 9: part of everything we were able to do earlier in
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Speaker 9: the year, because when I was talking about him in
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Speaker 9: the past is more I think Devin really is capable
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Speaker 9: of doing a lot of things, you know, whether it's
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Speaker 9: the pass covers, the pass rush, playing in the box
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Speaker 9: as a linebacker and then playing on the ball.
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Speaker 5: It is really just a unique skill set that way.
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Speaker 9: So it gives us a little bit more in terms
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Speaker 9: of options things that you can do, and he definitely presents.
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Speaker 5: Some problems for the offense for sure.
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Speaker 10: This is the first time travesling the nine arts kind of.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, then whenever you lose guys in the season, you know,
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Speaker 9: when you're going into a game plan with one idea
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Speaker 9: and then things shift or change, you're feeling out to
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Speaker 9: do what you think is the best or use the
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Speaker 9: best options possible, I would say at that point, but
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Speaker 9: trav I felt like it was doing a really good
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Speaker 9: job and some of the man and man stuff. Also
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Speaker 9: on third down because the thing with him is he's
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Speaker 9: got ball skills. So it's a challenge to throw the
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Speaker 9: ball at a guy like that because he can go ahead
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Speaker 9: and make a play.
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Speaker 5: He's got a very top star, you know, and and
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Speaker 5: changing the direction.
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Speaker 9: So that's what makes him really elite in my opinion
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Speaker 9: as a defensive back. So yeah, losing them, you lose
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Speaker 9: a little bit there, and you try and shift the
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Speaker 9: guys into positions as best you can. About Kobe Myers,
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Speaker 9: so it's funny. I was talking to him yesterday when
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Speaker 9: I was in Miami. We played him like twice a
11:22
Speaker 9: year when he was in New England. You know, I'm like,
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Speaker 9: this guy is a total pain in the ass, Like
11:27
Speaker 9: he just catches everything and he blocks everybody, you know
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Speaker 9: what I mean, Like he were going there and you
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Speaker 9: got guys like an eleven personnel zero receivers usually getting
11:36
Speaker 9: in there and MDM and the safety and I mean
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Speaker 9: he going there like damn fullback, you know. So I
11:41
Speaker 9: always had a lot of respect for him as a player,
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Speaker 9: and Coach A gets him in college too, actually, but
11:48
Speaker 9: he's really like when you look at receivers, he's such
11:52
Speaker 9: a do you value guys like that so much? You
11:56
Speaker 9: know what I mean, They go and make contested catches
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Speaker 9: and he's he's tough. I always felt like that it
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Speaker 9: was it was a hard guy to defend when we're
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Speaker 9: in Miami because there could be two guys at the
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Speaker 9: point of attack, and he really attacked the football and
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Speaker 9: going up in the air for the ball a lot
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Speaker 9: of times. I remember he made some made a couple
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Speaker 9: of sick catches against us that I'm definitely over by now.
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Speaker 9: But uh, but yeah, he's happy to have here.
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Speaker 7: Man.
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Speaker 5: He's awesome. Dude too, does a lot of the dirty work.
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Speaker 4: Probably doesn't get the shine, must he's got the golden
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Speaker 4: hand after the last week. I meant to this defense.
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Speaker 10: Everybody on our defense loves them, but I think we
12:31
Speaker 10: probably gets lost for us as a defense right now
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Speaker 10: at this point, we've been pretty good to this point
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Speaker 10: in the run game.
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Speaker 5: I think we made a significant jump throughout the course of.
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Speaker 9: The season, and I would say he is as big
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Speaker 9: a part of that as anybody.
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Speaker 5: You know. You say, like, he does a lot of
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Speaker 5: the dirty work.
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Speaker 9: He plays double teams, uh, you know, all day and
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Speaker 9: he plays him as good as anybody I've been around
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Speaker 9: and coaching in the front and coaching the run game
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Speaker 9: over the years. I think he's you know, as good
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Speaker 9: as anybody we've had, and he gives us the opportunity
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Speaker 9: to do that and play with depth of the defense
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Speaker 9: because that guy's able to gap people. And that really
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Speaker 9: comes down to, like you said, a selflessness and he
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Speaker 9: really is a technician. You know, if you got any
13:19
Speaker 9: love for people who got love for watching d line
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Speaker 9: play and guys you know, playing blocks and whipping blocks.
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Speaker 5: He's done a great job for us that way this year.
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Speaker 9: A couple of the media guys when they come in
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Speaker 9: on you know, we're talking about the game on Sunday,
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Speaker 9: and he definitely jumps out to them as well. And
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Speaker 9: he made a huge play for us the other day
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Speaker 9: in the past game was you know, game changing play.
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Speaker 5: So I love that dude. I think everybody here does.
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Speaker 5: So he's a great dude too.
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Speaker 1: Behind the franchise record for side, just.
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Speaker 8: How special is that?
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Speaker 1: I know he is kind of focused on the season
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Speaker 1: right now. For how special.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, he's up to him and so like you could
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Speaker 9: care less, you know it's that I mean that in
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Speaker 9: a positive way. He's just kind of like, uh, always
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Speaker 9: talking about business for the most part, you know what
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Speaker 9: I mean, and like how we can uh get it
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Speaker 9: better and where we.
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Speaker 5: Can improve, what we can take advantage of next game.
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Speaker 9: He's about as selfless a player as you're going to
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Speaker 9: run into. He really enjoys all the other parts of
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Speaker 9: the game, and like in terms of the rush and
14:21
Speaker 9: all that stuff. He's a guy that like cares about
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Speaker 9: his teammates. So that's been really refreshing just being around
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Speaker 9: a guy like that. And you know, obviously I'm happy
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Speaker 9: for him, but I don't feel like he in any
14:33
Speaker 9: way is satisfied, but he's excited to get going again.
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Speaker 3: What was that kind of challenges that presents.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, you you really got to do a good job
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Speaker 9: at the point of attack. Usually, you feel like most
14:48
Speaker 9: of the times in the NFL, where if you have
14:50
Speaker 9: defensive ends on a tight end more often than not,
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Speaker 9: especially if that guy is more of a pass catcher,
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Speaker 9: you should have a one up on him there in
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Speaker 9: the run game.
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Speaker 5: You know, we talk about that all the time.
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Speaker 9: When you play with heavy personnels, they try and make
15:03
Speaker 9: it a more obviously they're trying to create a stalemate
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Speaker 9: there right, you know, and not give you the edge.
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Speaker 9: So you got to be a technician in your technique,
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Speaker 9: especially in the run game, you know, and it's gonna
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Speaker 9: make you work in the past game they keep those
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Speaker 9: guys in and six man seven man protections, you're working
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Speaker 9: against an offensive.
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Speaker 5: Tackle again, you know.
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Speaker 9: So that's also part of the reason why guys do it,
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Speaker 9: and that's the challenge of it.
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Speaker 4: Full last game early How hard is it to replace.
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Speaker 8: Not necessarily the player of a few of them, the.
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Speaker 4: Leadership that he brings in the game in this league.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, he's such a like you know, savvy vet too,
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Speaker 9: you know what I mean. He just kind of understands everything,
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Speaker 9: and he's done a great job of trying to prepare
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Speaker 9: the guys behind him throughout the whole year, you know.
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Speaker 9: And I think his relationship with Jarian is pretty cool
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Speaker 9: to see. You know, he's always there. They're always kind
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Speaker 9: of working together, talking ball together. Christian braswell, same way.
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Speaker 9: So he's done a great job. And like in the game,
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Speaker 9: you know, the guy gets hurt. I think the first
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Speaker 9: there can play the game, and he was right behind
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Speaker 9: me the entire game talking to the other guys, like
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Speaker 9: literally you could hear him. I can hear them talking
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Speaker 9: behind me and communicating some of the stuff that you're
16:11
Speaker 9: talking about getting ready for in the game plan during
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Speaker 9: the week, and he's behind you seeing it. So he
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Speaker 9: didn't he didn't step away totally from the game when
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Speaker 9: he went down, you know, as bad as he felt.
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Speaker 9: So I have so much respect for him, love coaching him,
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Speaker 9: and it's awesome to have a guy like that though,
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Speaker 9: like for our team, it's awesome for all the other players,
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Speaker 9: especially in that room.
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Speaker 5: Have that dude all right, especially thank you.
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Speaker 3: The other sideline last week.
16:37
Speaker 5: What do you think about looking.
16:38
Speaker 3: Really excited about what he can add.
16:40
Speaker 7: The presence and the type of person is first and
16:43
Speaker 7: foremost for the room will be a huge addition for
16:45
Speaker 7: those guys to get around. A guy who's been experienced,
16:47
Speaker 7: a competitive guy who works and is focused and really
16:50
Speaker 7: tries to master his craft in so many ways. And
16:53
Speaker 7: then similar things that Liam and James have talked about.
16:56
Speaker 7: A guy who plays strong, strong handed, strong in the
16:58
Speaker 7: run game, strong at the top of his route, strong
17:00
Speaker 7: getting off the ball. He does that at a high level,
17:03
Speaker 7: and then he still has the ability to separate underneath,
17:05
Speaker 7: can run some all you know, really routes at all
17:07
Speaker 7: three levels, third level, second level, and first level routes,
17:10
Speaker 7: so he'll be a good guy who can play inside outside.
17:12
Speaker 7: That versatility is huge for the offense, especially as you
17:15
Speaker 7: kind of piece things together and find different roles from
17:17
Speaker 7: in the middle of the season.
17:19
Speaker 6: Ran on the somewhere at some point in the second half,
17:21
Speaker 6: or maybe when you're looking at the game on film,
17:23
Speaker 6: do you think yourself, second and no penalties really good?
17:27
Speaker 6: Third back conversion rate to run a pass is pretty
17:29
Speaker 6: much balanced, no offensive penalties. Did you think this is
17:34
Speaker 6: what this is supposed to look like?
17:37
Speaker 7: It's certainly what we've been striving towards, and we came
17:40
Speaker 7: off of the self scout and there are so many
17:42
Speaker 7: things to improve, but the thing that always stands out
17:45
Speaker 7: is how much we had beat ourselves in certain games.
17:48
Speaker 7: The times that we struggled, it's because of those things
17:50
Speaker 7: you mentioned penalties, you know, screwing up assignments, things here
17:54
Speaker 7: and there where we get off schedule, and being able
17:57
Speaker 7: to stay out of those and just play clean football.
17:59
Speaker 7: You see what the guys are capable of when they're
18:01
Speaker 7: in normal situations, just able to go out there and
18:03
Speaker 7: play and execute. It's so hard to live in those
18:06
Speaker 7: situations where you shoot yourself and put yourself behind the sticks.
18:10
Speaker 7: So that's absolutely what we're trying to be on a
18:12
Speaker 7: consistent basis and continue to be more explosive as we
18:15
Speaker 7: have opportunities that are created by staying on schedule. But
18:19
Speaker 7: it was nice to see a string together, a couple
18:21
Speaker 7: of drives of what we've been working towards pretty much
18:23
Speaker 7: since the end of the year.
18:24
Speaker 6: And with the injuries, with this offenses operating compete efficiently,
18:28
Speaker 6: you can't be like a plug and play situation. Can
18:30
Speaker 6: you survive injuries and guys still what to do, can
18:35
Speaker 6: run what you want to run, and you know it
18:37
Speaker 6: doesn't look like a play will change a whole lot.
18:39
Speaker 3: When you had Tim Jones out there.
18:41
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's a credit to him. And it's
18:42
Speaker 7: really it's really dependent on the guys. Who is the
18:46
Speaker 7: guy going in and what spot is he trying to
18:48
Speaker 7: fill in for. There are certain guys that you're never
18:51
Speaker 7: going to be able to replace, But guys when they
18:53
Speaker 7: prepare to play different positions and when they have the
18:55
Speaker 7: skill set to play different positions, it keeps that playbook
18:58
Speaker 7: more open than it might be at certain positions where
19:00
Speaker 7: you have to limit things down. Now, there's always going
19:03
Speaker 7: to be certain plays that are designed for a specialty,
19:05
Speaker 7: specialty players or specialty looks, and you have to adjust
19:08
Speaker 7: those or take those out, and just how you're going
19:11
Speaker 7: to call the game accordingly. But when you have guys
19:13
Speaker 7: that prepare the way Tim prepares, per the way Trammel prepares,
19:16
Speaker 7: and those guys are able to step in in a
19:18
Speaker 7: big situation and go out there and execute, it makes
19:20
Speaker 7: life a lot easier on everyone else around them and
19:22
Speaker 7: the play calor because you can go in there and
19:24
Speaker 7: really run the offense too.
19:26
Speaker 5: Kind of an effective goal line option.
19:28
Speaker 7: For you guys in yet well, I think his strength
19:30
Speaker 7: and his contact balance. You see a lot of yards
19:32
Speaker 7: after contact. Very few times you see him finishing runs
19:35
Speaker 7: going backwards, and that's huge at the goal line, short yardage,
19:38
Speaker 7: any run really, but it's especially a parent on those
19:41
Speaker 7: where you need one one hard run, one hard yard
19:45
Speaker 7: or a hard run, and he goes out there and
19:46
Speaker 7: is able to get it. On looks that aren't always clean,
19:48
Speaker 7: there's oftentimes a guy where they you know they've outnumbered
19:51
Speaker 7: yet so there's a guy there at the point of attack,
19:53
Speaker 7: and you've got to be able to run right to
19:55
Speaker 7: a shoulder tackle or run right through an arm tackle
19:57
Speaker 7: and his strength and ability to accelerate upon receiving the
19:59
Speaker 7: balls is what makes him, you know, an asset there.
20:02
Speaker 8: Well, Ken, how many reps that had taken practice for
20:05
Speaker 8: you guys to feel comfortable stamming at the travels having
20:09
Speaker 8: him make the decision.
20:10
Speaker 7: Well, like Liam mentioned it, it's over the course of
20:13
Speaker 7: weeks of getting all of those reps. I don't know
20:16
Speaker 7: if I could pinpoint in exact time where you say, okay, now,
20:18
Speaker 7: now you're exactly one hundred percent comfortable, But it certainly
20:22
Speaker 7: wasn't the first time. But after a couple of weeks
20:25
Speaker 7: with a guy like that, who who is able to
20:28
Speaker 7: learn and do things at a high level, do new things, especially,
20:32
Speaker 7: you feel pretty confident after a couple of reps when
20:34
Speaker 7: he does it at consistently at a high level and
20:36
Speaker 7: is able to execute cleanly. Of course, we were trying
20:39
Speaker 7: to mitigate as much risk as possible, so we probably
20:41
Speaker 7: over prepared and made sure that we had more reps
20:43
Speaker 7: than maybe we needed. But after a couple of good
20:45
Speaker 7: reps and seeing those guys do it, and really him
20:47
Speaker 7: practicing with a couple of different guys and a couple
20:49
Speaker 7: different iterations of it, felt good about showing those plays
20:51
Speaker 7: and you know, going out there and executing them in
20:53
Speaker 7: some crunch crunch time moments.
20:55
Speaker 3: Excuse me on Sunday, out.
20:56
Speaker 1: President or out present, I should say, are you homes
21:01
Speaker 1: and our new those greaty games to rushing touchdowns is compresses.
21:09
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's another thing when we talk about the
21:11
Speaker 7: guys being able to go in there and play, and
21:12
Speaker 7: it's kind of a testament third preparation. It's a testament
21:15
Speaker 7: to the identity of the offense and the group as
21:17
Speaker 7: a collective hole that that's who they are, that's the
21:20
Speaker 7: way they win games, that's the way they practice, that's
21:22
Speaker 7: the way they work. And nobody was phased when we
21:25
Speaker 7: were down or even in the first half when we
21:27
Speaker 7: were playing ugly. We didn't start to play cleaner football
21:30
Speaker 7: until we got into the late second quarter into the
21:32
Speaker 7: second half, and the guys were resilient with their mindset
21:35
Speaker 7: and their effort and their finish every single play. And
21:38
Speaker 7: that's really the identity that we're trying to build, and
21:40
Speaker 7: that's who they kind of embody out there on the field.
21:42
Speaker 7: So you know, that's something that takes a lot of work,
21:45
Speaker 7: and it's the way they practice It's who they are
21:46
Speaker 7: every day. It's not something that you just show up
21:48
Speaker 7: on Sunday and say, I'm gonna flip the switch and
21:50
Speaker 7: now all of a sudden, we're gonna play really hard
21:51
Speaker 7: and be able to win grimy games. They're going to
21:53
Speaker 7: go in there and work every day to have that,
21:55
Speaker 7: you know, outcome be possible on Sunday a lot. I
22:01
Speaker 7: think we've talked about it a couple of times, with
22:04
Speaker 7: the versatility of a couple of different offensive linemen, and
22:07
Speaker 7: really throughout the spring and training camp, guys playing left,
22:10
Speaker 7: guy's playing right, guys playing inside of guard, playing outside
22:12
Speaker 7: of tackle, he's taking snaps, he's played all five positions
22:15
Speaker 7: on the offensive line, and then he's running back and
22:17
Speaker 7: forth on and off the field report and as an
22:19
Speaker 7: eligible tight end. You know, however many times it was
22:22
Speaker 7: fifteen twenty times in the game and then goes in
22:24
Speaker 7: there and plays guard.
22:25
Speaker 3: That's not easy to do. To switch positions.
22:27
Speaker 7: It's a totally different world being on the edge and
22:29
Speaker 7: then going inside of guard. So not only to prepare
22:32
Speaker 7: to do both of those things, but then then it
22:33
Speaker 7: came to actually go out there and do it. I
22:36
Speaker 7: can't say enough good things about Cole and his effort
22:38
Speaker 7: to prepare and then his effort actually on the field.
22:39
Speaker 7: So a ton of trust in a guy like that.
22:41
Speaker 4: Which did the game play play already have to change
22:44
Speaker 4: at the end of the Raiders game just because of
22:47
Speaker 4: the firstel you had available we were out of here
22:49
Speaker 4: last year receivers you basically at one healthy.
22:53
Speaker 8: Local line he had playing for him.
22:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, how does that?
22:57
Speaker 5: It?
22:57
Speaker 7: Definitely, it definitely caused a little bit of chaos, But
23:00
Speaker 7: that's why you do all that preparation and go through
23:02
Speaker 7: every conditional pre game of Okay, what if this guy
23:04
Speaker 7: goes down, what if that guy goes down? What if
23:06
Speaker 7: these three guys go down all at the same time,
23:08
Speaker 7: And you try to have plans and backup plans and
23:10
Speaker 7: backup plans to the backup plans of things you're going
23:12
Speaker 7: to get to.
23:13
Speaker 3: Most games it doesn't show up.
23:15
Speaker 7: You do all that preparation every week, and then at
23:16
Speaker 7: the end of the game on Sunday, you're like, well
23:18
Speaker 7: you did hours and hours of preparation for different conditional
23:20
Speaker 7: plans that never happened. This so happens to finally come up,
23:24
Speaker 7: and thankfully the guys and the coaching staff, the assistant
23:26
Speaker 7: coaches did a great job, phenomenal job preparing their guys
23:29
Speaker 7: for all of those different roles, Tuma going in there
23:32
Speaker 7: at the end and playing tight end a bunch of
23:33
Speaker 7: different calls, so we were able to still call relatively
23:37
Speaker 7: normal game. There's always gonna be a couple of things
23:39
Speaker 7: you take off the plate, just from a standpoint of
23:42
Speaker 7: ease and execution. But because those guys had done so
23:44
Speaker 7: much work preparing for all of the different things that
23:47
Speaker 7: could happen, the coaches, the assistant position coaches, and the
23:50
Speaker 7: position coaches and the players, we were able to go
23:53
Speaker 7: out there and execute a bunch of different plays that
23:54
Speaker 7: we needed to plays we really needed to get to
23:56
Speaker 7: at the end at a high level to go down
23:58
Speaker 7: and win, which was huge.
24:00
Speaker 8: Staff. You have Trevor Bendelson, whose first year NFL guy. Yeah,
24:03
Speaker 8: what do you remember about twenty twenty in your first
24:05
Speaker 8: NFL season? How about the foundations?
24:08
Speaker 3: Yeah?
24:08
Speaker 7: Mine was certainly a little bit different because of COVID,
24:11
Speaker 7: so kind of through wrenching it, but you know, it's
24:15
Speaker 7: it's a learning curve for sure, because there are there
24:18
Speaker 7: are differences, probably more differences than I'd realized that at
24:20
Speaker 7: the time between college.
24:21
Speaker 3: Football and the NFL. I think people make a big
24:24
Speaker 3: deal about.
24:25
Speaker 7: The differences in the players and say, well, these are professionals,
24:27
Speaker 7: those are college players, But the football on the grass
24:30
Speaker 7: and dealing with players is very similar in a lot
24:32
Speaker 7: of ways. You know, you still are formal relationships with
24:35
Speaker 7: the players, You still care deeply about these guys on
24:37
Speaker 7: and off the field, and you still are so fired
24:40
Speaker 7: up when you see them go out there and succeed
24:41
Speaker 7: or execute something that they've been practicing at or working
24:43
Speaker 7: at for a long time. So a lot of those
24:46
Speaker 7: fundamental aspects of coaching remain the same. It was really
24:49
Speaker 7: more of an adjustment to here's the schedule, the games
24:52
Speaker 7: on Sunday. You have to different weekly flow. The off
24:55
Speaker 7: season is a little bit different. Now mine was crazy
24:57
Speaker 7: because it was in COVID, so we were virtual. We
24:59
Speaker 7: weren't doing OTAs. Even training camp was a little bit different.
25:03
Speaker 7: Everybody was separated for spacing purposes. But I think there's
25:08
Speaker 7: so many things that are similar from dealing with people
25:10
Speaker 7: and coaching, like those foundational principles are the same, but
25:13
Speaker 7: learning the schedule, new ways of doing things was definitely foreign.
25:16
Speaker 7: I think the one thing that probably caught me. By surprise,
25:19
Speaker 7: more so than I would like to admit. Is you
25:21
Speaker 7: get through a college season and you finish twelve games,
25:23
Speaker 7: and then you look up and you're like, oh man,
25:25
Speaker 7: we still got like five more and potentially even more
25:27
Speaker 7: games after this when you're ready to be done. We
25:30
Speaker 7: came off to buy this past week or two weeks
25:32
Speaker 7: ago now at this point, and you really are looking
25:34
Speaker 7: at it from a guy who's a guy like Trevor
25:36
Speaker 7: or a guy who's a rookie, and say, you still
25:38
Speaker 7: have basically a whole college season left.
25:41
Speaker 3: You just got to the bye weekend.
25:42
Speaker 7: You have basically what you've been doing as an entire
25:44
Speaker 7: season ready for the rest of the year. So that's
25:47
Speaker 7: definitely a mindset shift in terms of how long the
25:49
Speaker 7: season is, those weeks kind of start to stack together.
25:52
Speaker 3: It gets longer than you realize.
25:54
Speaker 1: How wout just Houston Stevens improved even since we breed.
26:00
Speaker 7: I mean the level that they're playing at. The numbers
26:02
Speaker 7: speak for themselves. They've been they've been dominant in really
26:05
Speaker 7: all areas of the game. So they've improved. They were
26:08
Speaker 7: they were really good defense when we played in Week three.
26:10
Speaker 7: Unfortunately for us, they've continued to improve right those guys
26:13
Speaker 7: fly to the ball, in coverage, the rush, the run,
26:16
Speaker 7: game that the you know, they've been lights out. So
26:19
Speaker 7: it's hard to pinpoint one area that they've improved because
26:21
Speaker 7: they're really they've improved in all phases.
26:22
Speaker 3: I mean, you're not the top defense in the league
26:24
Speaker 3: without really being solid across the board.
26:26
Speaker 5: How can we get.
26:31
Speaker 7: I think we got to continue to find the things
26:33
Speaker 7: that we do well and go out there and make
26:35
Speaker 7: sure we're prepared to execute those things at a high level.
26:38
Speaker 7: And as coaches, we got to continue to find ways
26:40
Speaker 7: to get guys to settle in and be able to
26:42
Speaker 7: perform at the level we know they're capable of performing at.
26:45
Speaker 7: You see the way they're you see what they're capable
26:48
Speaker 7: of at the end of the game when kind of
26:49
Speaker 7: the nerves wear out and they get into a rhythm.
26:52
Speaker 7: So the challenge us is how can we get them
26:54
Speaker 7: in the best situation possible early, right away from the
26:56
Speaker 7: get go, and make sure they feel comfortable to go
26:58
Speaker 7: out there and execute right away. We know that they're
27:01
Speaker 7: capable of that, we're capable of getting into group, but
27:03
Speaker 7: we got to continue to try to find ways, whether
27:05
Speaker 7: it's schematically or different personnels or even the way we
27:08
Speaker 7: prepare on Saturday or Friday at the end of the week,
27:10
Speaker 7: when we start kind of dialing on how we want
27:12
Speaker 7: to start the game, changing up and doing more or
27:15
Speaker 7: maybe doing lesser, or taking different avenues to prepare those
27:17
Speaker 7: guys