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• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Just has a mild calf injury right now that we're
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: just gonna precautionary and just just hold him out.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: How do you think it went yesterday? Yeah, I thought
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  Speaker 2: it went well. Good, good competition out there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of plays when you think
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  Speaker 1: about I think we had ninety plus reps both sides,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so you know you're playing maybe a game
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  Speaker 1: and a half of practice. But it was good, you know, again,
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  Speaker 1: great competition. It was good to go against another opponent.
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  Speaker 1: Todd does a great job of coaching his players, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and and it was just it was good. You decided
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  Speaker 1: how many players you're gonna hold it, not yet get
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  Speaker 1: through today, check with ferg medical staff, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and again be cautious with some guys you know right
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  Speaker 1: now that might be banged up, but probably finalize that tomorrow,
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe even Saturday morning. Well, right now, Trevor,
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  Speaker 1: with getting all the reps here, you know, he won't
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  Speaker 1: he won't go and and so be Mack and c
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  Speaker 1: J get you know, they'll split a half a piece.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have a timeline on Christian or it's.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of day to day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get through this game, get to next week. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we break camp after this game and get into more
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  Speaker 1: of a normal, kind of an end season type schedule,
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  Speaker 1: so with more rest on it, and we'll see where
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  Speaker 1: he is for Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody else yesterday come out of practice, any sort of.
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  Speaker 1: Injuries, No, DT might be the only one today you
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  Speaker 1: won't see out there. He kind of has the foot,
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  Speaker 1: the little heel issue that he banged about a week ago.
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  Speaker 2: He's fine.
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  Speaker 1: We're just gonna kind of gain precautionary and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of hold him out today. Other than that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody should be should be good and working. I thought
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  Speaker 1: I did some good things. You watched the one on
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  Speaker 1: one pass rush. I thought we did good there. You know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Vita Vea is a big, strong, powerful human being, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, but.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's good for us.
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  Speaker 1: It's good for for Mitch and the guys to go against.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought we thought we did some good things.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's a it's a unique scheme. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen it for a year. Obviously, it's the same
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  Speaker 1: one that we had here, and so some of the
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  Speaker 1: pressure and again we're not gonna understand too. We're not
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  Speaker 1: game planning or scheme in anything. It's just what we're
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  Speaker 1: going against and kind of using our rules. But I
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  Speaker 1: thought overall, they they did, they did some good things
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  Speaker 1: at the opportunity against Todd Bowles and his defense.
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  Speaker 2: What makes that defense such a challenge? What makes it
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  Speaker 2: such a good play caller?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a it's a versatile defense in the
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  Speaker 1: in the sense that you can you can mix fronts, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you can play with more linebackers, less d lineman and
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  Speaker 1: vice versa, pressures, you know, disguises. You know, he does
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  Speaker 1: a great job of that. He just go back to
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  Speaker 1: our game last year and some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: he did. And that's what makes it a challenge because
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  Speaker 1: what he shows you maybe the week before is not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily what you're gonna see in the in your.
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  Speaker 2: Game, you know. And and he does a he does
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  Speaker 2: a great job with that.
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  Speaker 3: Have you seen Brian Thomas Junior to take some steps
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  Speaker 3: forward over the course of the.
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  Speaker 2: Game we have.
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  Speaker 1: He's been doing a really nice job, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: it it showed up, you know, a couple of plays
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  Speaker 1: in the game last week and and then you know
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  Speaker 1: this week in practice, and he continues to grow and
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  Speaker 1: and just he and Trevor keep keep talking and working
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  Speaker 1: and then that's what's gonna take you know, not going
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  Speaker 1: to be a finished product right away, but if he
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  Speaker 1: continues to improve and and just you know, learn with
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  Speaker 1: the offense, grow with the offense. But he's he's been
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  Speaker 1: doing a really good job.
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  Speaker 3: So you guys had seven guys in the back end
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  Speaker 3: secondary we had six or more years of experience. Was
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  Speaker 3: that a concerted effort to get older?
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  Speaker 1: More to you he's stacked there?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think.
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  Speaker 1: I think some of it is, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: say we you know, you look to get older because
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to look to get younger. I think with
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  Speaker 1: some of the injuries and the situations now with the
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  Speaker 1: Dewey you know, being out right now and just it
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  Speaker 1: and where Darnelle is, you know, he's not in that
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  Speaker 1: contact mode yet. You know, it's precautionary. So you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to fill in some pieces there. And these guys have
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  Speaker 1: you know a lot of a lot of years, you know,
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  Speaker 1: veteran experience, and it's it's always good to see, you know,
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  Speaker 1: where a guy is and really add some more depth
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  Speaker 1: to that roster.
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  Speaker 3: Is there something about the way Ryan's evens set up
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  Speaker 3: with the cross corners that experienced novel safeties are maybe more.
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  Speaker 1: Much more needed.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe well, I mean there's always.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you if you're asking about maybe the
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  Speaker 1: comunication piece back there or those guys have seen more football,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously, but I still like to the you know,
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  Speaker 1: Antonio Johnson back there. I mean, when Daniel Thomas was,
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  Speaker 1: he's been in there. He's been doing doing a nice job. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Cisco is in a great place. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Eric Hallitz made made some strides you know, this year,
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  Speaker 1: and of course then Josh Proctor is kind of moving
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  Speaker 1: around a little bit. But you know, you still got
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  Speaker 1: to try to keep you know, a ninety man roster
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  Speaker 1: healthy through training camp and that's a that's a challenge
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  Speaker 1: movement made for you through US training camp and his development.
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  Speaker 2: He's another one that's been been a bright spot.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's really i think challenged himself to learn
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  Speaker 1: the defense, you know a little bit of a different role,
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  Speaker 1: but he's really embraced it. And you know, he showed
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  Speaker 1: up in the game when he played and made some
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  Speaker 1: nice plays last week, and he just continues to really impressed.
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  Speaker 1: And then on special teams too. You know, he's a
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  Speaker 1: he's an added contributor there. So he's been doing a
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  Speaker 1: doing a really nice job.
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  Speaker 3: Josh Roger moved a linebacker. Is that an experiment or
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  Speaker 3: is that something you guys, It's.
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  Speaker 2: Just something we're gonna look at.
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  Speaker 1: He's a bigger body, He's a physical kid, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and so just just experimenting, you know, with with just
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  Speaker 1: kind of seeing what if he can handle that load
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  Speaker 1: in there. And as you know, as well as you know,
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  Speaker 1: playing the back end Doug of the young corners, fair
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  Speaker 1: to say, Braswell and Brown have kind of emerged there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, both guys.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Monteric, I think last year playing gave him
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  Speaker 1: confidence going into this year and he's he's competed well.
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  Speaker 2: Christian, you know, he battled through some injury last year.
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  Speaker 1: I R kind of most of the season, if not
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  Speaker 1: all of it, I think, and really kind of came
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  Speaker 1: out this year, I think, something to prove and he's
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  Speaker 1: done that and he's done a nice job up you know,
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  Speaker 1: this year. And so those two have really taken the
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  Speaker 1: steps you want to see, you know. And I think
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  Speaker 1: too it's a credit to you know, Chris and Corey
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  Speaker 1: coaching everybody back there and getting everybody, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: equal time, you know, and and it's been been good
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  Speaker 1: for both of them.
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  Speaker 3: Well go today, no no from.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, he he can't, but you know he won't
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  Speaker 2: go for I don't need him to go. I mean
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  Speaker 2: you might want him to go. I don't need him
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  Speaker 2: to come. I know what he can do.
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  Speaker 3: You needed to go next week? You want him to
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  Speaker 3: go next week?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you could get a few snaps possibly,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, that's not a concern right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Doug. Every year to year, coaches as you get
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  Speaker 3: towards the end of camp talk about how the cuts.
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  Speaker 2: Are going to be difficoled and tough.
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  Speaker 3: But when you when you think back here and.
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  Speaker 1: And even maybe so in Philadelphia, where does this where
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  Speaker 1: will the difficulty of the cuts right for you issue?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I can think of a couple of, you know, positions.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's some really good battles going on the
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  Speaker 1: defensive line, offensive line as well, you know, with with
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  Speaker 1: some of the young guys that are emerging, and and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's not again you want them to make your
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  Speaker 1: fifty three, but you also would love to get them
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  Speaker 1: back on practice squad if possible. So there's always that
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  Speaker 1: fine line. I think the secondary as we mentioned, is
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  Speaker 1: another one another spot.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's good.
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  Speaker 1: It's good and bad, you know, because there's a there's
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  Speaker 1: the potential of losing good football players. But if you
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  Speaker 1: lose good players, that means you've got good players already
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  Speaker 1: on your roster.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a.
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  Speaker 1: Challenge and and it you know, trying to make all
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  Speaker 1: the peace is fit.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably going to be tougher than your first two here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah by far by four.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, y'all want to know if CJ or Mac have
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  Speaker 3: impressed you a little more than the other pretty good
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  Speaker 3: quarterback battles so far going on between both of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's been been really close. Honestly, the
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  Speaker 1: addition of Mac was was great for that room. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it was great for CJ. They've both those guys have
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  Speaker 1: really embraced the challenge. We've been upfront with both of
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  Speaker 1: them and explained exactly how camp was gonna go. And
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  Speaker 1: and you know, really both of them I think are
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  Speaker 1: within three or four reps of having.
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  Speaker 2: You know, fifty to fifty, you know, split right down
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  Speaker 2: the middle. So it's been good.
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  Speaker 1: It's been good competition, you know, and CJ has been
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  Speaker 1: a really positive influence on Mac just learning the system too.
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  Speaker 1: And and and that's something you don't see when when
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  Speaker 1: when somebody's challenging for your spot, you know, and you
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  Speaker 1: see that other player coach him up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's encouraging and that's positive. But both guys have
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  Speaker 1: done done a great job.
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  Speaker 3: What's the plane for them this week? And I know
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  Speaker 3: you said, no, Trevor, who's gonna start? Is there any
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  Speaker 3: play in place?
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  Speaker 1: Haven't decided who's gonna start yet, but I know they're
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  Speaker 1: both try to get him both at least a half
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  Speaker 1: if I can.
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  Speaker 3: What's the concern level with Ezra when you live in
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  Speaker 3: that last year, you know.
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  Speaker 2: He battled through it.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday you probably saw him kind of hobbled a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but he's fine. It's just sore, you know, and you
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  Speaker 1: know it's different, you know, than than the game. But
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: you know, it's just gotta just gotta fight through it.
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  Speaker 2: But he's okay, shut him down for a week or
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  Speaker 2: so or no.
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  Speaker 1: No, we're just gonna be you know, it's it's precautionary
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  Speaker 1: kind of limit his reps, you know, throughout the course
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  Speaker 1: of the week, and you know, see where he's at.
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  Speaker 2: You know, for the game, was it good to see
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  Speaker 2: you Christian not passing yesterday? Was it good to see Parker?
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  Speaker 3: It seemed like he was real active making plays.
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  Speaker 2: Did Did you think he did a pretty good job
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  Speaker 2: of stuff it in for Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, anytime you get a young player going against
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  Speaker 1: an NFL starting you know, secondary and defense, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: good to get in a really good evaluation. Parker has
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  Speaker 1: done a great job. You know, he's been a real
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  Speaker 1: bright spot for the r offense this camp. And you
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  Speaker 1: know even for him and Devin really to kind of
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  Speaker 1: get these reps now are valuable back to ez ru
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  Speaker 1: in that situation.
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  Speaker 3: Does that create an opportunity to back? Does that create
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  Speaker 3: an opportunity for Cooper odds maybe to see a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more reps put the four unquote starters on off
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  Speaker 3: on the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Are you excited by that prospect at first performance on Saturday?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the physicality is a word that I know Press
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  Speaker 1: reference yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: For Cooper that some of you guys wanted.
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  Speaker 2: What did you see in terms of.
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  Speaker 1: That word from it on Saturday?
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  Speaker 2: It's a great word big big man's as Press said, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he is Doug get put one more buck in your
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  Speaker 2: question there. Yeah, Levonte David thirty four years of age
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  Speaker 2: over the one. You've gone up against him a couple
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  Speaker 2: of times.
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  Speaker 1: What's your oppression at this guy and have you noticed
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  Speaker 1: any drop on I mean just a you know, obviously
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: a tremendous player, good leader, veteran presence, still playing at
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  Speaker 1: a high level, you know, and you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's that's what you want in in players like that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, every every roster is looking for for guys
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  Speaker 1: that can that can do that, and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it just it just it just gives your team confidence,
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  Speaker 1: It brings brings energy, brings leadership and and just somebody
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  Speaker 1: that I think as the season goes, you just lean
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  Speaker 1: on more and more, you know, to get more out
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  Speaker 1: of to get more out of your team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah,