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Press Pass | Grant Udinski & Trevor Lawrence on Prep for Preseason Week 1 · Press Pass

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Speaker 1: All right anything, guysn't ready all right, So you guys
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Speaker 1: had the inner squad scrimmage the other day, Just how
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Speaker 1: did the guys look out there and what did you
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Speaker 1: kind of see?
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Speaker 2: It was good to get the team reps together with
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Speaker 2: a bunch of different groupings out there. Saw a bunch
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Speaker 2: of different guys in different situations first on, second out, third.
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Speaker 3: Down, a little bit of red zone work, two minute.
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Speaker 2: Work, and like I said, guys in different positions and
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Speaker 2: put in different spots and having to string drive together.
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Speaker 2: So it's good to see the guys who out there communicate, compete,
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Speaker 2: play fast, play together all those things that we kind
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Speaker 2: of preach and you try to create in these controlled settings,
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Speaker 2: but getting into more of a mock game, you really
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Speaker 2: see it come to life.
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Speaker 4: I know.
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Speaker 5: The next day is kind of you know, going over
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Speaker 5: a little bit, you know, the day before to walk through.
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Speaker 5: Have you seen guys kind of take that out there
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Speaker 5: today and already share improvements where you guys wanted to
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Speaker 5: see it.
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Speaker 2: I think so, And I think not only from the
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Speaker 2: walkthrough to the practice, you see the accumulation of reps
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Speaker 2: week to week or even from the spring to the fall,
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Speaker 2: which is encouraging to see the guys even be able
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Speaker 2: to call back to a way they ran a certain
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Speaker 2: route in the fall, or see me in the spring
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Speaker 2: and take it to how they're going to approach going
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Speaker 2: into the fall and say, I saw this look this
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Speaker 2: one time in OTA's or I saw this in phase
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Speaker 2: two where we talked about this adjustment earlier when we
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Speaker 2: were still in the acclimation period a couple weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: And they're able to retain those things. That's encouraging because
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Speaker 2: you know they're studying, they're working at it. We're continuing
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Speaker 2: to walk through those looks, talk about those looks, study
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Speaker 2: those looks, and those are the things that separate us
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Speaker 2: on critical downs when it's third down and there's crowd
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Speaker 2: noise out there. Being able to execute those adjustments, those
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Speaker 2: small changes when it's under pressure, it's such a big
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Speaker 2: deal for us. Moving into your two, Austin Trent Well
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Speaker 2: had a really good better day.
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Speaker 1: I think you had two long touchdown catches. Just what
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Speaker 1: does it say about the receiver room in general that
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Speaker 1: you have a guy like that as a backup right now?
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Speaker 6: A lot.
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Speaker 2: That's a great question. It's an excellent point about the
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Speaker 2: room in general. Because I think from the top down,
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Speaker 2: from the leadership of Jacoby and Parker and BT and
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Speaker 2: that group that's typically going with the ones, and Travis
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Speaker 2: and Josh and CJ like all the way down to
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Speaker 2: the rookies and even Trevor and some of those guys
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Speaker 2: that are playing with Joey and Carter and Nick. You
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Speaker 2: have a group of guys that are football guys. And
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Speaker 2: I know that's a little bit cliche, but guys that
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Speaker 2: are eight up with football and playing the receiver position
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Speaker 2: and working on their craft, mastering the offense and learning
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Speaker 2: the nuances of lining up here and taking this split
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Speaker 2: and adjusting this route a certain way. Just like I
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Speaker 2: talk about knowing the difference in the way we run
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Speaker 2: arout versus a certain look that we got in the
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Speaker 2: spring versus how we're gonna run it in the fall,
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Speaker 2: versus a different look. It's rare at times to have
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Speaker 2: one or two guys in a room that are that
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Speaker 2: into football and that into their craft going out there
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Speaker 2: in two or three different groups level and to them
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Speaker 2: all in the same room. So it's a special group
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Speaker 2: for me to coach, for you be to coach, and
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Speaker 2: the rest of the guys, I know the quarterbacks love
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Speaker 2: having guys like Tram out there.
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Speaker 7: Rant, I think it's the only time we're going to
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Speaker 7: talk to you this week.
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Speaker 2: So can you talk a little bit about play calling
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Speaker 2: on Saturday in a preseason game, and especially with lots
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Speaker 2: of young players on the field.
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Speaker 6: I mean, what's your approach? What do you.
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Speaker 2: Expect to get on Saturday against the Saints with as
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Speaker 2: many young guys as you're gonna have.
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Speaker 3: Likely, Yeah, absolutely looking forward to it.
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Speaker 2: And part of it is because I have that group
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Speaker 2: of guys to call plays for that are guys that are,
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Speaker 2: like I said, so focused on their craft and have
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Speaker 2: been so diligent the way they study, which makes it
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Speaker 2: nice for me because a lot of times in preseason
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Speaker 2: you're going out there and just trying to get kind
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Speaker 2: of the basic plays snapped and executed and see if
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Speaker 2: guys can go out there and communicate. Now, there will
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Speaker 2: still absolutely be an element of that where we want
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Speaker 2: to be able to find out what we have with
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Speaker 2: those guys. So I understand going into it that we
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Speaker 2: always go out and compete every single time we're going
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Speaker 2: out there to play, whether it's a seven on seven
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Speaker 2: or a preseason game. But we know that there are
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Speaker 2: other things we want to accomplish to set ourselves up
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Speaker 2: and set each player up for success going into the season.
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Speaker 2: So we'll put together a call sheet and the game
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Speaker 2: plan accordingly, so we can see what these guys can
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Speaker 2: do and let them go out there and hopefully compete
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Speaker 2: and have some fun.
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Speaker 3: How do you.
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Speaker 6: Approach that, Dred?
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Speaker 3: I mean, is this like your Super Bowls a player?
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Speaker 3: I don't know that I would quite frave it like that.
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Speaker 2: I think more than anything, I'm excited to see these
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Speaker 2: guys go out and compete against somebody else. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's really not about me or the plays I call,
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Speaker 2: because these are the plays we've been practicing, and it's
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Speaker 2: such a collaborative effort to put together a list of
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Speaker 2: plays that the guys know and are comfortable with that
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Speaker 2: we can go out there and run and then really
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Speaker 2: see what the guys can do, give them the opportunity
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Speaker 2: to go out and showcase their talents. So it's not
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Speaker 2: really about the plays that I call, and I know
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Speaker 2: that going into it, and it's a likely a mention
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Speaker 2: maybe a little bit tighter menu or a different menu
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Speaker 2: that we might carry going into a game plan. But
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Speaker 2: I'm just looking forward to seeing those guys go out
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Speaker 2: there and runs the runs that we've practiced on a
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Speaker 2: hundred times against our defense and do it live with
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Speaker 2: tackling against somebody else last year.
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Speaker 3: That's a great question.
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Speaker 2: I think you learn a lot about not only the
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Speaker 2: timing and the process you always go through that simulation
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Speaker 2: on the sideline even in real games, but having a
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Speaker 2: real feel for the personnels and substitutions you have injuries,
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Speaker 2: you're trying to manage the game, You're trying to get
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Speaker 2: different looks, so at some point you're kind of even
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Speaker 2: managing more things than you would be in a normal
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Speaker 2: game because you're just trying to get the first down
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Speaker 2: or manage a game or finish a drive. Where you're
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Speaker 2: going into preseason game and saying there's a couple of
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Speaker 2: things we got on our checklist that we want to
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Speaker 2: see a certain guy do a certain thing or get
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Speaker 2: a certain look or get a certain play rep. So
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Speaker 2: trying to juggle and balance that was a great experience
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Speaker 2: and I think ultimately one of those things that you
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Speaker 2: need the reps of going through and live live just
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Speaker 2: like a quarterback, just like receiver, live bullets flying to
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Speaker 2: really get that down on the old Live.
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Speaker 1: You've had to do some juggling this week out of necessity.
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Speaker 1: How beneficial will that end up being in the long record?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you hit the nail on the head.
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Speaker 2: It will be beneficial because I know I say it
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Speaker 2: every time. You guys are probably sick of hearing me
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Speaker 2: say it. But we know that you're not gonna have
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Speaker 2: the same five starting offensive line for every single rep
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Speaker 2: of every single game. I mean, if you do, you're
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Speaker 2: incredibly fortunate, and that'd be extremely rare. So we are
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Speaker 2: fortunate to have guys you see Jonah playing inside at center,
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Speaker 2: at guard. You got guys playing left and right at
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Speaker 2: the tackles. You've got tackles who can play guards, guards
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Speaker 2: that can play tackle, guards that can play center and shoot.
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Speaker 2: We've had tackles who have taken snaps at center. So
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Speaker 2: we're fortunate to have that flexibility. We just need to
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Speaker 2: continue to build the communication and make sure that each
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Speaker 2: iteration of the offensive line is as cohesive as that
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Speaker 2: first unit. And that's something will continue to work probably
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Speaker 2: throughout camp, even probably throughout the whole year. Whether we
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Speaker 2: like it or not, We're gonna continue to work different,
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Speaker 2: different groupings, different guys working together.
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Speaker 5: Brian put a big emphasis just on their chemistry and
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Speaker 5: that connection. Have you seen that carry over now the
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Speaker 5: paths you're deeper into camp.
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Speaker 3: I think so. I think it's similar.
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Speaker 2: To what we talked about with the development of guys
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Speaker 2: from the spring into the fall or year one Tier two.
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Speaker 2: We know that that progress is never going to be
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Speaker 2: a straight line, but I think you see the route
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Speaker 2: tree continuing to develop the chemistry of the timing and
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Speaker 2: the understanding of the quarterback and receiver, whether it's the
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Speaker 2: quarterback knowing the receiver is going to win on a
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Speaker 2: certain route a certain way, or the receiver knowing the
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Speaker 2: quarterback is going to put a ball on a certain
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Speaker 2: location versus a certain look. When you have that down
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Speaker 2: and you don't need to think about it and you
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Speaker 2: don't need to communicate verbally pre snap every single play
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Speaker 2: based on a look, that increases your chance of execution significantly.
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Speaker 3: And I think you see that at times out there.
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Speaker 2: Certainly something we're going to continue to work on, but
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Speaker 2: it's been exciting to see it come to fruition when
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Speaker 2: it has. I think it sting out through ten days,
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Speaker 2: got traded anything moving forward, I'm probably gonna give you
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Speaker 2: the boy answer. The things that always stand out to
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Speaker 2: me are the things that make you love coaching a
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Speaker 2: guy like Trevor so much.
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Speaker 3: And that's who he is.
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Speaker 2: First and foremost as a person as a leader. His consistency,
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Speaker 2: his work ethic, his discipline is that to his mentality
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Speaker 2: with which he plays every play. He studies the play
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Speaker 2: but comes in and prepares. Those things are so special
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Speaker 2: to me as a coach, and the things you might
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Speaker 2: not always see on the field. So he may have
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Speaker 2: days where his completion percentage might be lower than other days,
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Speaker 2: but as coaches are so committed to the process that
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Speaker 2: it's still such a joy to see him come in
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Speaker 2: here and prepare and work so hard and study and
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Speaker 2: try to improve every single day, not taking a single.
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Speaker 3: Detail for granted.
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Speaker 2: It's so easy even for me to assume we've done
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Speaker 2: this before, we can relax on this coaching point or
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Speaker 2: this detail or this play or this concept, and he
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Speaker 2: approaches it with that same beginner mentality or that white
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Speaker 2: belt mindset every single time he steps in the door.
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Speaker 2: And that's what makes him so special, that makes him
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Speaker 2: such a joy to coach.
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Speaker 7: The more time that this group spends together, the more
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Speaker 7: comfortable you get with schematic intentions and the more you
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Speaker 7: delve deeper and deeper into the playbook. At this moment
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Speaker 7: in time, how complex have you guys gone from a
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Speaker 7: play calling standpoint?
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Speaker 3: I would like to say, hopefully not too complex.
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Speaker 2: I would like to have the best balance of complexity
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Speaker 2: where we can attack defenses in a variety they have
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Speaker 2: different ways and put our guys in optimal situations with
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Speaker 2: enough simplification where our guys can go out there and
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Speaker 2: play fast. So I don't know if there's a way
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Speaker 2: for me to quantify how complex it is, but it's
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Speaker 2: certainly a balance that we're trying to strike. We want
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Speaker 2: to be able to attack defenses in a variety of ways,
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Speaker 2: but still keep it simple enough for guys to play fast.
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Speaker 2: I love Borgage is another guy who you love his attitude.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you see him in there in the huddle
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Speaker 2: and we're at the end of this practice. It's hot out,
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Speaker 2: it's humid, everyone's sweating everyone's eye, and he's got the
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Speaker 2: biggest smile on his face, ready to call another run.
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Speaker 2: Play in thirteen personnel where we've got three tight ends
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Speaker 2: out there and the defense knows that a run it's
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Speaker 2: a run. We know it's to run, it's going to
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Speaker 2: be a physical, violent play, and he can't be more
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Speaker 2: excited to it.
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Speaker 3: So those are the things that fire.
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Speaker 2: You up seeing a guy like that with how eager
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Speaker 2: he is to approach every single play.
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Speaker 1: A lot of our selves gout another sum what's kind
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Speaker 1: of the biggest thing you want to see out of
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Speaker 1: the guys over the next few days.
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Speaker 2: There are so many things that we're trying to get
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Speaker 2: out of the guys in different drills and team situations
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Speaker 2: out here, but it's really overarching. When you said the
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Speaker 2: biggest things are the overarching concepts that we look in
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Speaker 2: the in the spring are really the same concepts we're
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Speaker 2: looking at in the fall now, we just have the
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Speaker 2: pads on them there in a different setting and doing it.
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Speaker 2: So we're still looking at the fundamentals. We're still looking
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Speaker 2: at playing fast, we're still looking at playing attack, and
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Speaker 2: we're still looking at our play style. All the things
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Speaker 2: that Liam probably talks about the team up here and
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Speaker 2: who we are as our play style, our identity as
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Speaker 2: an offense, those are always the biggest things no matter
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Speaker 2: the setting we're in.
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Speaker 3: Now, is there more to it?
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Speaker 2: Because now we're able to practice different blocks in the pads, absolutely,
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Speaker 2: but those foundational elements of our offense and our identity
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Speaker 2: as an offense, those never change.
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Speaker 1: Really appreciate you guys talk about the arm sleeve. I
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Speaker 1: know you gave us answer last year about why you
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Speaker 1: wear it a camp, but why'd you go to it?
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Speaker 6: Same reason? What did I say last year? Now? I
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Speaker 6: just get a little.
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Speaker 8: Soword at the beginning of camp, trying to get used
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Speaker 8: to the volume.
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Speaker 6: You know, obviously throwing in the off season.
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Speaker 8: I prepare for camp, but it's always a little bit
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Speaker 8: more because there's just less off days and more volume,
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Speaker 8: especially the first couple of weeks. So it's a little soreness,
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Speaker 8: but nothing not keep me out of anything. Feel good,
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Speaker 8: feel like you know, every day throwing it better and better.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, just little.
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Speaker 4: Soreness tingency purposes. But in terms of your perspective, the
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Speaker 4: offensive line, different guys shuffling around, what's been your evaluation
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Speaker 4: so far? That group?
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Speaker 6: They did a nice job.
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Speaker 8: I mean camp is always is always interesting for the
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Speaker 8: guys up front because there's a lot of shuffling around,
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Speaker 8: and the cohesion part of it's really important, and the
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Speaker 8: chemistry of playing together with a five, and but on
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Speaker 8: the flip side, you know, realistically just doesn't happen all season,
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Speaker 8: so you got to practice throwing new guys in and
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Speaker 8: shuffling around and did the same thing last year, and
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Speaker 8: I thought it really paid off for us with some
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Speaker 8: injuries that we had later in the season and guys
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Speaker 8: being able to move around and us not skip a
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Speaker 8: beat and still be able to play well up front.
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Speaker 8: So I think it's really good for us. I think
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Speaker 8: everyone that's gone in has done a nice job, and
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Speaker 8: we're just challenging them, I guess, trying to move around
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Speaker 8: and not everybody's playing their most comfortable position, which is
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Speaker 8: good for us.
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Speaker 4: What have you seen, especially those two second year guys
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Speaker 4: along the right side, and Wyatt and Jonah.
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Speaker 8: Done an awesome job. I mean, Wyat's taking some huge steps.
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Speaker 8: He looks great obviously, big physical guy.
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Speaker 6: Can move people.
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Speaker 8: I think, you know, mentally, he's getting it more and
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Speaker 8: more every day. He's doing a good job with the offense.
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Speaker 8: And then Jonah he's one of one of the smarter
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Speaker 8: players I've been around, to be honest, and since the
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Speaker 8: day he came in, he just just gets it. Obviously,
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Speaker 8: I think coming in as a center and playing center
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Speaker 8: a lot when he first got here. He's learned the
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Speaker 8: offense so well. Now he's moving over to guard a
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Speaker 8: little bit and he's able to do everything just because
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Speaker 8: center's got to know it all. So I think that's
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Speaker 8: helped him a lot. And he's just you know, really
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Speaker 8: good at getting in position, really smart making all the calls.
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Speaker 8: He runs the show up there, him and Hanesy do
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Speaker 8: an awesome job, and those guys are really really smart.
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Speaker 5: Connection with you and Ryan has been such an emphasis.
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Speaker 5: Have you seen that kind of carry over as you
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Speaker 5: get deeper into camp and the pads that come out.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think every day you know, it's you can
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Speaker 8: see it show up. And the great thing is is
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Speaker 8: every day you see it show up, and then you
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Speaker 8: also see plays where and it's not unique to him,
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Speaker 8: it's everybody on offense where it's like, oh man, we
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Speaker 8: still got work to do to build this chemistry to
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Speaker 8: where we really can hit all these big plays we
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Speaker 8: have opportunities for. So that's the good thing is the
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Speaker 8: dialogue between me and him has been the best it's
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Speaker 8: been since we've been together. The amount of times that
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Speaker 8: we're talking about every single play on the sideline after
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Speaker 8: so much good feedback from him and figuring out, you know,
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Speaker 8: what he's thinking when he's running these routes and how
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Speaker 8: he wants to win on the dB on certain routes.
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Speaker 8: So I think we're growing every day and just really
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Speaker 8: really happy with how far we've come along with our
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Speaker 8: you know, connection and chemistry.
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Speaker 1: You guys have the first and three joint practices this week,
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Speaker 1: which means you might not play a ton in the game.
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Speaker 1: Do you care if you play in those preseason games?
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Speaker 1: Has that been a conversation at all?
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Speaker 8: I mean not really. It's not never something I focus
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Speaker 8: on too much. Obviously, if you do play, you want
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Speaker 8: to play well, so you put everything into it so
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Speaker 8: you can go out there and play good, clean football.
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Speaker 8: And it's good practice for us. But to me, it's
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Speaker 8: just taking it one day at a time, Like you know,
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Speaker 8: we got pride to still on Tuesday here and then
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Speaker 8: we're gonna go to a joint practice and just trying
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Speaker 8: to treat all those like game reps and get all
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Speaker 8: these valuable reps that are good opportunities for us to
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Speaker 8: learn and grow, and then when the game comes, you know,
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Speaker 8: if I play, then I'll go and do my best
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Speaker 8: there too, but I don't I trying to focus on
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Speaker 8: it too much. It's not something that takes up too
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Speaker 8: much space in my brain.
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Speaker 4: To camp, how do you kind of evaluate your performance
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Speaker 4: so far?
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Speaker 6: I think it's been up and down, you know. I
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Speaker 6: think it's been camp.
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Speaker 8: It's been competitive, and it's really I think we've done
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Speaker 8: some great things. We've had some we've ran the ball
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Speaker 8: pretty well. I'd say overall, we've taken some big strides there,
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Speaker 8: and I think the passing game we've had some some
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Speaker 8: good explosives. Still can find more a couple a few
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Speaker 8: too many mistakes I think just from me decisions and
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Speaker 8: some throws I went back. But it's camp, and our
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Speaker 8: defense honestly has given us some really good looks. They've
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Speaker 8: added some stuff since last year that they're playing coverage
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Speaker 8: a little bit differently, and then they're showing some things
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Speaker 8: and then they're bluffing out and so they're challenging us,
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Speaker 8: which is really really good for us. So obviously there's
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Speaker 8: plays I want back, but I do. I do know
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Speaker 8: that we're getting better every day. So I've been happy
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Speaker 8: with the progression, but we got to continue to work.
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Speaker 7: You're working for.
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Speaker 3: Send us something to your stuff so far.
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Speaker 8: Is there some communication between you two in terms of approach, pass, rush,
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Speaker 8: or even the handoffs that's beneficial. Yeah, a lot of
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Speaker 8: just get on the same page when it's a new
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Speaker 8: back that you haven't played with. Especially you know, we
14:12
Speaker 8: do exchanges every day on just our run plays and
14:16
Speaker 8: how we're doing our footwork and our ball handling all
14:18
Speaker 8: those things. And then the protection stuff is huge, where
14:21
Speaker 8: he's seeing the calls, he's knowing what he's doing, he's
14:23
Speaker 8: getting the checks from me, and I think that's probably
14:25
Speaker 8: the biggest thing is because that takes some time. Every
14:27
Speaker 8: team has different adjustments. So he's doing a great job tho.
14:30
Speaker 8: He's really smart. He's picking it up. But we've got
14:32
Speaker 8: some more work to do.
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Speaker 3: How you can leaquinby for you guys in the passing.
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Speaker 8: Game, yeah, I mean just great hands, good route runner.
14:40
Speaker 8: He's gonna be in there because he's such a good protector.
14:42
Speaker 8: So I think the more we can do with him
14:44
Speaker 8: and getting him out on the routes and concepts, the
14:46
Speaker 8: better for our offense.
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Speaker 6: And I know that he's capable.
14:48
Speaker 8: We've seen I remember watching his highlights and when he
14:51
Speaker 8: was coming when we drafted him out of college and
14:53
Speaker 8: some of the crazy catches he had in college. So
14:55
Speaker 8: and we've seen him out here. He's making plays. He
14:56
Speaker 8: had a good catchdown on the red zone today. If
14:59
Speaker 8: he can be a rep for us, it's it's real
15:01
Speaker 8: because he's gonna be in on a lot of passing situations.
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Speaker 5: Lilliam I said that Chris Rodriguez somebody who you really
15:05
Speaker 5: start to appreciate when the pads come on.
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Speaker 6: Is that kind of what you've seen for sure?
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Speaker 8: I mean you saw here in the the Mott game,
15:11
Speaker 8: and ever since we put the pads on some of
15:13
Speaker 8: these runs that don't look as great when we're tagging off.
15:16
Speaker 8: You see it when we're thudding and you're like, there's
15:18
Speaker 8: no way that guy's gonna tackle him before five yards.
15:20
Speaker 8: I mean he's running over people. So he runs downhill.
15:23
Speaker 8: He's a big guy. He's hard to get your arms around.
15:26
Speaker 8: You know, his legs are moving. So I think he's
15:29
Speaker 8: gonna be great for us because you know he can
15:31
Speaker 8: get those and find those dirty yards, and he also
15:33
Speaker 8: has the capability to make people miss. So I think
15:35
Speaker 8: he's really well rounded and send you a good job
15:37
Speaker 8: for us.
15:38
Speaker 1: Parker has continued his kind of really good camp. Just
15:41
Speaker 1: what if you seen out of him over the last
15:43
Speaker 1: few days.
15:44
Speaker 6: Just consistency. I mean, the same guy every day.
15:46
Speaker 8: We might not connect on every on every rep, but
15:49
Speaker 8: it's that dialogue and the communication every single time, and
15:53
Speaker 8: you know what you're gonna get from him. You talk
15:55
Speaker 8: about we had a rep. I don't know if you
15:56
Speaker 8: guys saw the deep shot today and we threw it
15:59
Speaker 8: and outs on air right before it and I told
16:02
Speaker 8: him to hold this thing I'm throw out there and
16:04
Speaker 8: I kind of missed the throw a little bit, human
16:05
Speaker 8: made a good catch on the sideline and then we
16:06
Speaker 8: got the same exact rep in team. He ran it
16:08
Speaker 8: the same exact way and I gave him a good
16:11
Speaker 8: thrower we could run under it. So it's just little
16:12
Speaker 8: things like that where he's just really dependable when you
16:15
Speaker 8: talk about something, he knows what to do, he knows
16:17
Speaker 8: what to expect, and you can trust him and he
16:19
Speaker 8: just keeps showing up every day.
16:20
Speaker 1: You talked about that communication between you guys, because that's
16:22
Speaker 1: something that you've had to kind of grow into as
16:25
Speaker 1: you've gone deeper into your career.
16:28
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I think I've always tried to have
16:29
Speaker 8: a good relationship and communicate with all my teammates and
16:33
Speaker 8: all the guys on my side of the ball, especially
16:34
Speaker 8: skill guys. But I think you just learn as you
16:37
Speaker 8: play more football and the best ways to communicate what's
16:40
Speaker 8: actually important, Like don't fill guy's brains with stuff that's
16:44
Speaker 8: really not that important, Like what do you actually need
16:46
Speaker 8: them to know if something comes up that maybe they
16:48
Speaker 8: wouldn't expect, What do I need? What do I need
16:50
Speaker 8: them to know? So we're on the same page, just
16:52
Speaker 8: kind of cutt into the chase with some of those
16:54
Speaker 8: things and not bogging them down with too much, but
16:56
Speaker 8: it's also still giving them the details and the tools
16:59
Speaker 8: to where we're always ready for whatever the defense can do.
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Speaker 3: Good Thanks guys,