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Mike Macdonald: "All Three Units Are Doing Good Stuff" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, iserebony great?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, gotta love the Blue Angels practice every every year
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  Speaker 2: something really special.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty sure we're the only ones around.
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  Speaker 2: To have that. So uh, some added added crowd noise
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  Speaker 2: on purpose. So Sam was like, was that you did?
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  Speaker 2: Was that crowd noise on purpose?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: But it was good.
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  Speaker 2: It was good work, great practice, longest practice so far.
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  Speaker 2: Physical good stuff, a lot of situational work. We're going
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  Speaker 2: through all three, all three units doing good stuff. So
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  Speaker 2: excited to watch the tape and you know, we're almost
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're over halfway through this week, which is
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  Speaker 2: a critical week for us.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll look forward.
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  Speaker 2: To put an exclamation point on it tomorrow and Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, what can you tell us about Charles situation?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Charles, Charles had like a it was a
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  Speaker 2: displayed dissocated finger, long and short of it, but we
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  Speaker 2: felt like just it was a good opportunity to fix
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  Speaker 2: it so we didn't have to worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: When to heels. So we're looking at a couple couple few.
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  Speaker 2: Weeks here, Uh, expecting to be back before the San
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  Speaker 2: Francisco game, sometime between you know, the Green Bay game
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  Speaker 2: and in the first week.
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  Speaker 1: So it felt like this is a good opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: uh get him right finger, I believe so. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to keep playing.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, but once he kind of understood the timetable and
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  Speaker 2: kind of play the long game, seemed like it made
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  Speaker 2: sense when.
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  Speaker 3: You look at your scheduled where you at right now,
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  Speaker 3: whatever schedule you have, and what's happening on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're finishing up the install phase of really you know,
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  Speaker 2: both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: So the install's.
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  Speaker 2: Execution is is probably better than expected giving this much
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  Speaker 2: you know scheme that's in.
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  Speaker 1: Which is good.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, we expect as we start to circle back
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  Speaker 2: over the next week or so to really be honting
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  Speaker 2: on details and really you know, oiled up ready to
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  Speaker 2: go play a football game. Yeah yeah, we're wrapping it
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  Speaker 2: up here. I mean you're always gonna be adding wrinkles
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  Speaker 2: in here. But uh, basically the you know, nuts and
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  Speaker 2: bolts everything is in. Already know about the r introduction
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  Speaker 2: to full back into this offenses here with you play.
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  Speaker 1: It's great, it's great.
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  Speaker 2: It's great work for for our defense as an element
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  Speaker 2: of physicality.
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  Speaker 1: Both guys are doing a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: The short yard and stuff was fun. To watch today. So,
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah, really exciting.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing a great job. Does that looks like Josh Jones?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he gets smater reps with enough tackle Charles, we're
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  Speaker 1: just pretty be fine out here. They're kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Adding it makes it we give some some much needed flexibility.
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  Speaker 2: And look, we're not just bringing him in here to
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  Speaker 2: be a swing tackle, like go go compete, go ear
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  Speaker 2: yourself a job, push abe. Uh Now there's an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to left tackle where you know you can you know,
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  Speaker 2: put your put your stamp on things.
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  Speaker 1: Coach you talked about maybe again in the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: It's good. Feel like you're learning enough from the Pats. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: really good.
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  Speaker 2: We're I wouldn't say we're made decisions yet, but it's
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  Speaker 2: starting to come into focus a little bit. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think I think it's gonna go through a preseason
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  Speaker 2: game or two. I can't complain about the Blue Angel.
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  Speaker 1: It's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it's probably gonna probably gonna go into preseason games.
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  Speaker 1: But it's coming into focus a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Especially Anthony Radford.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the coming a better shame, but he wants
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  Speaker 1: to consistency from what are you see it from him?
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  Speaker 1: And the other guys in the right guards.
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  Speaker 2: Five. Yeah, Ab has been really intentional. H you see that,
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  Speaker 2: You see his you see his ability which is really
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  Speaker 2: which is.
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  Speaker 1: Really great to see.
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  Speaker 2: That's obviously a great element of physicality. But you're right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, those are the things that he knows he
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  Speaker 2: needs to work on and he has been working on him.
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  Speaker 2: Christian's right in there, and then you know, uh, Jaleen
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  Speaker 2: is doing a great job too.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we gotta we gotta get that figured
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  Speaker 1: out pretty soon. Second year so far, like, what do
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  Speaker 1: you expect this second year?
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  Speaker 2: Follow Well, if you think the thing about Byron that
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  Speaker 2: we have to remember was this guy was having a
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  Speaker 2: tremendous training camp last year. Uh, and then going into
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  Speaker 2: I think it was the might have been the Miami
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  Speaker 2: or the New England game, is when he got kind
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  Speaker 2: of when he got hurt again, and that's a tough
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  Speaker 2: thing to come back through, you know, and play at
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  Speaker 2: a high level at the end of your rookie year.
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  Speaker 2: So still played at a high level I thought throughout
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  Speaker 2: the season, but he felt a kind of a different
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  Speaker 2: level that he's able to get to, and that's that's
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  Speaker 2: what gave us confidence of what he can become and
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  Speaker 2: I think I think he's doing that again then probably
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  Speaker 2: even to another level. Uh, being here in the offseason
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  Speaker 2: I think was really helpful for him. I think he'd
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  Speaker 2: I think he'd say that, and then I think it's
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  Speaker 2: evident how much how hard he worked this this summer,
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  Speaker 2: coming back in really good shape, and he's really becoming
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  Speaker 2: the player that we expected him, had a vision for him.
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  Speaker 1: So we got to go make it happen now.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean there's some times where you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you leave this guy singled in the run game or
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  Speaker 2: pass game, he's been winning those battles. So it's been
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  Speaker 2: it's been really good to see him. Yeah, we just
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  Speaker 2: we keep giving him stuff and he just keeps executing.
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  Speaker 2: And you have to be careful that you don't take
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  Speaker 2: the playmaker out of the player. So that's something that
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's kind of on my mind, but he
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  Speaker 2: just keeps keeps learning and keeps executing and keeps making plays.
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  Speaker 2: He's got great enthusiasm and anytime you got a coaching
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  Speaker 2: point for him, he's very receptive towards it. And uh
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  Speaker 2: just we've said this kind of dausum here, but he's
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  Speaker 2: just a really really fun player. To coach, and the
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  Speaker 2: vets in the room are doing a great job with
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  Speaker 2: him too, Uh, Julian Kobe, those guys, Uh, it's a good.
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  Speaker 1: Group to the point where you can't play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, guy like me, you gotta tell me exactly what
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  Speaker 2: to do all the time. For me to operate a
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  Speaker 2: guy like him, you gotta let him go play. Give
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  Speaker 2: him the kim kinda give him, you know, give him
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  Speaker 2: the intent of the play, you know, kind of commanders
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  Speaker 2: intent type of idea, and then let him go come
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  Speaker 2: to life. I'll take.
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  Speaker 1: A tackle to switch.
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  Speaker 3: How have you seen hims this year after getting.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, we're fortunate last year with these rookies
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  Speaker 2: that had we kind of put him in the fire
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  Speaker 2: that had to play for us, and we won games
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  Speaker 2: with them, you know, playing for us. So take it
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  Speaker 2: to the next level. You know, we brought in Josh
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  Speaker 2: to be a swing tackle, compete with him. The same
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  Speaker 2: opportunity that Josh has right now with Charles being out
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  Speaker 2: for a period of time. You know, Charles is a
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  Speaker 2: tremendous player, but we do have a standard about how
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  Speaker 2: we don't want to play and.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, when he's in there, let's rock and roll.
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  Speaker 2: This is the first time we've seen him, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm eager to watch the tape and see how he did.
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Fell seems to sit profile for his safety. You've
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  Speaker 2: seen that pass. Yeah, he's a he's a really physical player,
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  Speaker 2: plays fast, decisive, great attitude about him, great spirit he's got.
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  Speaker 2: He's got to play making ability that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: guys aren't defense have, which is really cool. I wish
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  Speaker 2: you could take credit for it as a coach, but
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  Speaker 2: just I think. I think I think it's one of
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  Speaker 2: those things like ball finds energy. You know, you play
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  Speaker 2: the right way, you play fast, you run to the ball,
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  Speaker 2: you make decisive decisions in real time. Seems like the
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  Speaker 2: ball kind of comes your way. So I think I
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  Speaker 2: think the most value you're going to see from him
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  Speaker 2: this guy's a tremendous special teams player, has a leadership
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  Speaker 2: capability to him, and has really commanded our punt team.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, something else side surprise became available experiency.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that. Yeah, yeah, no one told me
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  Speaker 1: if they're a surprised or not.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I mean this is the type of mentality
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  Speaker 2: we have in practice, which is really cool. It's just
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  Speaker 2: a great art to today is just there's a there's
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  Speaker 2: a couple of players early. Look, we're throwing a lot
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  Speaker 2: at him schematically on defense, but it's good for him
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  Speaker 2: to kind of get trial by fire and some of
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  Speaker 2: those situational things, and uh, we'll learn from those early
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  Speaker 2: in practice. We'll be able to come back in a
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  Speaker 2: critical two minute situation and basically win the game for
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  Speaker 2: the offense by making two really two really great plays
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  Speaker 2: and then operating. You know, that's not an easy operation.
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  Speaker 1: Right there at the end to manipulate the clog. It's
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  Speaker 1: great to see. So it just shows you can rebound.
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  Speaker 1: The poise was awesome to see. So we ended practice
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  Speaker 1: the right way. Are you working on.
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  Speaker 2: Like the kinds of package plays that you might have
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  Speaker 2: him for the season lumbers It more about they're able
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  Speaker 2: to make somethings tore they wanted to see. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: really haven't looked into, like exclusively, how we're going to
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  Speaker 2: use him yet.
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  Speaker 1: Right now he's training at quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: There's plays that he can do that probably you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're not gonna run with Sam or Drew that are
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  Speaker 2: in you know, in the installs up to this point.
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  Speaker 2: But right now we're sticking like we're finishing up the
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  Speaker 2: install phase of basically our offensive operation. That said, have
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  Speaker 2: you been able to really feel the steed and at
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  Speaker 2: the system that you.
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  Speaker 1: Have to tell me how you felt it in that
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  Speaker 1: two minute. That's that's pretty cool. He mentioned on the radio,
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  Speaker 1: Steven House sched doing some work with you guys. Can
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  Speaker 1: two guys.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, Steve's obviously great player for us,
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  Speaker 2: had a great you know, he's he's kind of joined
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  Speaker 2: forces with Mike and kind of all aspects of our
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  Speaker 2: operation here and our staff, our players, uh me personally,
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  Speaker 2: just doing a lot of work with them on messaging
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  Speaker 2: and getting kind of get streamlined and uh really just
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  Speaker 2: trying to create the alignment within the building and there's
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  Speaker 2: just kind of this nexus point of everything to come together.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's been a tremendous asset for us. We
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  Speaker 2: got a great some great ideas that we want to
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  Speaker 2: be able to come to life over time, which you
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  Speaker 2: don't have to talk about those right now, but it's
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  Speaker 2: exciting over the next certain amount of time to you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think that you're talking about chasing Edges really really
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  Speaker 2: helping our franchise kind of you know, push the envelope.
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  Speaker 2: The guy you said, we didn't run them all very
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  Speaker 2: well and kind of challenging offensive ad.
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  Speaker 1: You see, I uni respond last.
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  Speaker 2: Just what I told the team was, this is this
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  Speaker 2: is how camp goes, and this is how you get good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, one side of the ball does some good
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  Speaker 2: things the next day, then you know, the other side responds.
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  Speaker 2: We're not game playing each other, but it's it's how
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  Speaker 2: you how you execute, and then you gotta you know,
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  Speaker 2: are you gonna who's gonna respond, Who's gonna who's gonna
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  Speaker 2: come back? And that's what we've seen over the first
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  Speaker 2: you know, a week of practices. You know, today's short
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  Speaker 2: yardage offense got the better of the defense for the
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  Speaker 2: most part, it felt like and so part least frankly,
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  Speaker 2: is just uh me preparing the defense the right way
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  Speaker 2: so we could we could play the right way in
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  Speaker 2: some of those situations. So I don't think that necessarily
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  Speaker 2: was put on the players, but uh it's great for
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  Speaker 2: us to know, Hey, next time Sure Guards comes up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we got.
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  Speaker 1: To bring our a game so we can keep sharpening
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  Speaker 1: each other and the Blue Angels we yet, Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was I didn't know Jay could run like that. That's
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  Speaker 1: pretty impressive. That was good.
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  Speaker 2: My money was on killer. There was no money at stake,
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  Speaker 2: but my mental money was on a killer.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, we talked to I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: We talked to Kim Walker and Greg asked him every
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  Speaker 3: offensive quotinator talks about running the ball, and Ken said,
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  Speaker 3: this is the first time in practice he could see
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  Speaker 3: does an intentionality do the little things to run them all?
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  Speaker 3: And can you just talk about that the attention to
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  Speaker 3: detail you all are doing every day, every snap to
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  Speaker 3: get to be a good running football team.
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  Speaker 2: I think you kind of answered it based off your question.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, but I think it's that simple. It is
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  Speaker 2: just you know, it's first and ten, you get an
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  Speaker 2: option to run or to throw it, and we're working
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  Speaker 2: on our run game again, we're still working on our
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  Speaker 2: run install So it's not like everything we have to
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  Speaker 2: rep these plays that are getting installed and you got
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  Speaker 2: to you got to do it.
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  Speaker 1: In this scheme.
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  Speaker 2: You have to get those reps of understanding movement and
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  Speaker 2: ideing fronts and how you pick things up on the
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  Speaker 2: backside and how you handle front side movement so you
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  Speaker 2: can kind of play as one in that. So you
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  Speaker 2: need reps, and you need unscripted reps, and you need
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  Speaker 2: scripted reps and you need walkthroughs. It's it's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of detail, but once you get it, it's it's it
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  Speaker 2: should be pretty pretty powerful. So I think it's great
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  Speaker 2: that Ken feels that and uh, you know, the actions
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  Speaker 2: are backing up the words, which is really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Like you've got a better idea of writing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a good feel for his timeline, but man,
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  Speaker 2: this guy is you feel him in the building. Is
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  Speaker 2: his mental stamina right now for football is unlike anything
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  Speaker 2: I've really seen.
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  Speaker 1: It's really really impressive. What what what?
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  Speaker 3: What's your goal or playing for the Saturday at lumit
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  Speaker 3: and what you guys you want to get kit downe there?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah great. So a few things going on.
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  Speaker 2: We're you know, we're trying out a new uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: pregame schedule. So what we'll work through that. It's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of great situational work. So it's not like a
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  Speaker 2: it's not a hey, start the clock at quarter one,
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  Speaker 2: but like we'll do an opening series situation, We'll do
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  Speaker 2: a two minute situation.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to play out an overtime.
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  Speaker 2: It's like simulate an overtime towards the end of practice
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  Speaker 2: and then it's a good opportunity to see the young
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  Speaker 2: guys kind of compete at the end of practice too,
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  Speaker 2: So we'll go about an hour and a half hour
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  Speaker 2: and four forty five minutes and be fun.
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  Speaker 1: With all the all the twelves there. Hopefully we got.
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  Speaker 2: A bunch of people to come out and spend the
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  Speaker 2: time with us and see the team operate. And it's
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  Speaker 2: a great opportunity for us to get used to our
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  Speaker 2: home game schedule because it's a big emphasis for us
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  Speaker 2: this year, and we've got two preseason home games too
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  Speaker 2: to kind of double down on it.
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  Speaker 1: So that'll be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: Is there something something you first learned last year or
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  Speaker 3: something that you're kind of refighting for this year and first.
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  Speaker 2: Of all that or yah, well we did we did
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  Speaker 2: take out some of the group work, so it is
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more situation like true situations throughout. It's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of teamwork, someone on one type stuff, not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily like Skelly or inside run things like that. So
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  Speaker 2: a lot of teamwork, a lot of situation stuff to
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  Speaker 2: simulate game operations as best we can.
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  Speaker 1: Is what got you to consider working with my Steven?
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  Speaker 1: How did that start? Well?
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  Speaker 2: It it came from John and something just we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about how to how to take our game to the
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  Speaker 2: next levels as an organization, and John had a priorly
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  Speaker 2: ship with both guys, and as we started to put
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  Speaker 2: our heads together, we really felt like it could be
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  Speaker 2: an edge for us. And it's been. It's been tremendous.
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  Speaker 2: It's been tremendous. So it's really fun to work with them.
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  Speaker 1: They challenge me.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I've grown a lot working with them,
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  Speaker 2: and so I'm just excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Might Jared, I'd look like you had a good day today,
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  Speaker 2: bat the ball down, get a good session one on ones.
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  Speaker 1: What do you kind of see from him in the
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  Speaker 1: uh just pushing out your bits of line.
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  Speaker 2: I'm laughing because we we get into a little thing
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  Speaker 2: at the end there him getting being on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, just you look, you're a rookie dude, Like
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  Speaker 2: just put your head down, keep keep playing. There's great plays.
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  Speaker 2: He's practicing the way we want. Like in terms of
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  Speaker 2: the spirit letting it rip, things are gonna happen. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna get on you because because we expect we have
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  Speaker 2: a vision for you. But how you want to be
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  Speaker 2: and then go recalibrate and go and you know, keep rolling.
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  Speaker 1: So off to a good start, but he's a rook.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see you on on Shaquille Fan or Harris Jones
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  Speaker 2: or one of those guys might be uh no, no
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  Speaker 2: updates on those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you everyone, all right, thank you, thank you,