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FB Coach Jim Mora - Weekly Presser Oct 14 BC · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Some opening thoughts are ABOUTBC coming off the bio.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was a good week for us the buye.
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  Speaker 2: We got a great combination of rest and recovery and
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  Speaker 2: work in We're get a little bit of a jump
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  Speaker 2: start on Boston College and excited about this game going
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  Speaker 2: up there. It's always fun to play at that place.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great environment, really cool stadium and playing you know,
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  Speaker 2: we don't look at records. We look at the team
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  Speaker 2: and what we see on tape, and we see a
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  Speaker 2: good football team. They're physical, they're they're hard nosed, they
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  Speaker 2: they play hard, they're very well coached by coach O'Brien
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  Speaker 2: and that staff, and it would be another hell of
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  Speaker 2: a challenge for us on the road. So I think
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  Speaker 2: our guys are excited about the challenge. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: something that you know, one of our goals is to
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  Speaker 2: you know, try to you know, win on the road,
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  Speaker 2: which we have been okay at but not good enough at.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just our next it's our next challenge. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of you go back and look at the first
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  Speaker 2: six games where maintain aways from well, we've made constant
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  Speaker 2: improvement every week in one way, one area or another.
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  Speaker 2: We just have to continue to work to put it together,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on a Saturday and just.
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  Speaker 1: Right now.
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  Speaker 2: You know, one of my main concerns is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: our red zone offense and defense scoring touchdowns. I mean
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  Speaker 2: we're good percentage wise in terms of scoring, but scoring touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we worked on that. We worked on
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  Speaker 2: our third down stuff. You always got to improve in
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  Speaker 2: those possession downs. We did a lot of fundamental individual
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  Speaker 2: work that sometimes you have to move through rather quickly
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  Speaker 2: in a game week so that you can get into
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  Speaker 2: the preparation stuff. But it was just a really positive
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  Speaker 2: week for us. We were able to go back and
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  Speaker 2: look at film and to see if we were tendencied up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, one of the things you want to make
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  Speaker 2: sure you're doing offensively and defensively is not getting tendencied
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  Speaker 2: where another team can kind of zero in on what
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  Speaker 2: you're doing in particular situations or out of particular looks
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  Speaker 2: on defense or particular formations on offense.
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  Speaker 1: We took a hard look at that of as we're seeing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's someone we can count on. He's got good hands,
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  Speaker 2: he's a willing blocker, he's really smart. As you've seen,
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  Speaker 2: we put him in a lot of different spots, move
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  Speaker 2: him around, put him in motion, try to get good
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  Speaker 2: matchups for him. And then you have to decide how
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  Speaker 2: an opponent's gonna treat him. Are they gonna treat him
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  Speaker 2: as a wide out, are they gonna treat him as
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  Speaker 2: a tight end, or are they just not gonna worry
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  Speaker 2: about it? You know, we've seen all three of those things,
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  Speaker 2: and so we're always trying to put our players in
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  Speaker 2: the best position to.
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  Speaker 1: Have a favorable matchup to do what they do best.
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  Speaker 2: And Juice is just one of those guys that's a
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  Speaker 2: you can kind of play them like a Where's Waldo?
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can put them all over the place
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  Speaker 2: and make them decide how they want to treat him.
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  Speaker 1: Coach, going back to the.
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  Speaker 3: Bible, just how do you think the player's energy was
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  Speaker 3: obviously no game, but how do you think the practice
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  Speaker 3: from the players of perspective when last weekend at the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Of this week, it's been good, their their energy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, our guys practice hard all the time, they
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  Speaker 2: practice well, uh, you know, we took the.
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  Speaker 1: Pads off a little bit last week. We spread our
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  Speaker 1: practices out.
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  Speaker 2: I think that helped them and recover and come out
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  Speaker 2: to practice with really great focus and really great energy.
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  Speaker 2: And then this morning was the same thing. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're they're excited to play again. They like to play
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  Speaker 2: football on Saturdays, but they realize that, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: have to earn the right to go out and play
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  Speaker 2: with confidence by the way they prepare, you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
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  Speaker 2: And so they take our practice very seriously and they
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  Speaker 2: bring great energy. And that's how you get better. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when you have players that have that attitude, that embrace that,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's how you get better.
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  Speaker 4: You can look at it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you don't. But with our clouds, is that
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  Speaker 1: a next step for this program to get another winning
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  Speaker 1: over them?
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  Speaker 2: We don't really think about that. It's just the next opponent.
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  Speaker 2: It's Boston College. We respect them as a football team.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, we recognize that they're a power for opponent,
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  Speaker 2: and but for us, it's about playing really good football,
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  Speaker 2: doing all we can to prepare all week and going
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  Speaker 2: to a tough environment and doing all we can to
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  Speaker 2: try to get a win.
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  Speaker 4: What happened they came into the seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't show it, but.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean you turn on the film, you
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  Speaker 2: see talent everywhere, you know. I mean, they've got a
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  Speaker 2: they've got a a very good back. They've got a big,
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  Speaker 2: physical offensive line. You know, they've always had good tight ends.
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  Speaker 2: Their receivers they're long guys, you catch the ball well.
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  Speaker 2: Their defensive front is very good. Their linebackers very very smart, intelligent,
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  Speaker 2: instinctive players. They've got athleticism all over their secondary. Their
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  Speaker 2: kicker hasn't missed the kick. You know, their punters are good.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just a great challenge for us. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, we look at the.
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  Speaker 1: Film and and and.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, that's how we decide who our opponent is and
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  Speaker 2: how we need to prepare to to give oursel give
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  Speaker 2: ourselves a chance to win.
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  Speaker 1: You Uh, yeah, I do. Uh in the NFL, Yeah sure, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: bring that's different.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's a huge difference between coaching and the pros
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  Speaker 2: and coaching in college. And that's that in college, you
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  Speaker 2: compete year round against your foe, you know, because you're
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  Speaker 2: recruiting on the you're on the recruiting tear and now
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  Speaker 2: you're in the in the portal you know window. In
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  Speaker 2: the pros, you compete against your opponents six seventeen weekends
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  Speaker 2: and then through the playoffs and the rest of years,
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  Speaker 2: you collaborate and your friends and you might go on
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  Speaker 2: vacation together because you're not trying to beat each other
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  Speaker 2: in the draft, because there is no beating each other
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  Speaker 2: in the draft. I mean, your pick is what your
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  Speaker 2: pick is, and you make your decisions. Free agency comes
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  Speaker 2: down to money, so that's you know, that's not the coaches.
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  Speaker 2: So to me, that's one of the bigger differences. Other
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  Speaker 2: than that, it's just football. So I always felt like
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  Speaker 2: I had really good relationships with the my NFL compatriots
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  Speaker 2: rather than you know, in college because there was just
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  Speaker 2: you know, we yeah, you try to beat each other
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  Speaker 2: on Sundays, but the rest of the year, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you pulled for each other.
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  Speaker 4: It's been the biggest change and shows the seasons going on.
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  Speaker 2: As he added, maybe it's willing to to just if
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  Speaker 2: something's not there downfield and there's a window to run,
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  Speaker 2: to take off and go. You know, he's made some
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  Speaker 2: plays lately with his legs, which is encouraging for us
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  Speaker 2: because it just adds another dimension to our offense.
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  Speaker 4: You've talked about the deep balls and need to get
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  Speaker 4: better at that and is he just are you guys
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  Speaker 4: practicing it more. Is he just getting a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more accurate with his crows or you know, things coming
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  Speaker 4: together with.
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  Speaker 1: Chemistry, all of those we're practicing it more.
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  Speaker 2: We always practice it, but we put a little added
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  Speaker 2: emphasis at certain times during the week on that. And
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  Speaker 2: he has with the with the players on his own.
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  Speaker 2: It's the timing, you know, of the repetition that you
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  Speaker 2: know comes with repping it in practice, and then it's
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  Speaker 2: just the chemistry amongst him and the receivers. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the more you do it together at a high level
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  Speaker 2: in a competitive environment and you have success, the more
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  Speaker 2: you learn about each other and that builds trust.
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  Speaker 4: Where is your run games stand right down? Bell is
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  Speaker 4: obviously a huge thing, But have you seen other guys
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  Speaker 4: step up and pick up here and there or just
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  Speaker 4: leaning more.
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  Speaker 2: Heavily on the camp No, I mean we you know,
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  Speaker 2: Victor has done a continues to do a good job.
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  Speaker 2: He's always done a good job since he's been here,
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  Speaker 2: and not only as a runner, but as a pass catcher.
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  Speaker 2: You've seen us hues Oliver all. He gives us a
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  Speaker 2: dimension of just you know, he's a powerful, explosive inside
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  Speaker 2: runner who gets to the oat field and tries to
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  Speaker 2: tries to punish tacklers.
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  Speaker 1: And then you've see an MJ play a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we're lucky that we have depth in
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  Speaker 2: the running back room and multiple guys can go in
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  Speaker 2: there and get it done.
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  Speaker 1: For us here at the back. Good morning, Good morning Joe.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's simple for Russell Berken.
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  Speaker 3: The team twelve games seas in, six games in at.
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  Speaker 2: That point point, do you have a that way point
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  Speaker 2: from fourth CARDI team?
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  Speaker 1: You do that?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't. We have a daily report card on
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  Speaker 2: our team. How do we do today? How have we
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  Speaker 2: done so far today? But no, we don't. We don't
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  Speaker 2: do anything like that because it doesn't really matter. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it is what it is, and it doesn't matter if
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  Speaker 2: the next day you're not as good as you were
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  Speaker 2: the last day. So we're always just trying to get
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  Speaker 2: better every day.
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  Speaker 3: Are replaces you further ahead now when you're one season?
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean, I just want us to continue to
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  Speaker 2: make progress, you know, every single day. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: long term, you know, I mean, you have a long
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  Speaker 2: term plan, but you have short term goals to get
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  Speaker 2: to that, you know, long term objective. And so that's
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  Speaker 2: how we think. You know, like I've said many many times,
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  Speaker 2: when I put my hand right here, this is where
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  Speaker 2: we stop. We go as hard as we can to
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  Speaker 2: that point, reevaluate, and then we keep going. And I
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  Speaker 2: think in this in this business, that's the best way
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  Speaker 2: to think, especially during a season. You know, off season
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  Speaker 2: maybe a little bit different. But during the season, it's
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  Speaker 2: about the game right in front of, which means it's
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  Speaker 2: about the practice right in front of, which means it's
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  Speaker 2: right the meeting right in front of and you've got
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  Speaker 2: to be great at all of those things in order
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  Speaker 2: to grow successfully.
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  Speaker 4: Was the Was the bye week beneficial to you?
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  Speaker 1: Did you see a little bit of in the bye week?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I saw us get a chance to uh recover. Uh
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  Speaker 2: I saw us have a chance to get a little
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  Speaker 2: lecture work on BC. I saw a chance for our
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  Speaker 2: guys to reset a little bit and rest. And I
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  Speaker 2: saw him come out to the three practices we had
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  Speaker 2: with great energy, you know, and great focus and intention.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we wanted. But we didn't zero in
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  Speaker 2: on one specific area during the bye week.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: The the goal at this point was to to have
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  Speaker 2: really energetic, UH high tempo practices and get our guys,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as healthy, as fresh, as recovered as we could.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many.
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  Speaker 4: Players transfers find guys in the last couple of years
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  Speaker 4: that they.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty clear that especially Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Guess it's a collaboration of all of us. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's right now. It's our personnel department getting a head
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  Speaker 2: start on guys who could potentially go in the portal,
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  Speaker 2: who have gone in the portal, you know, at any
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  Speaker 2: level of football, whether it's a lower level or it's
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  Speaker 2: a group of five, or it's Power four, you know,
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  Speaker 2: junior college. It's just finding guys that maybe are overlooked,
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  Speaker 2: that are looking for an opportunity to level up or
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  Speaker 2: maybe an opportunity to get more playtime, and they're brought
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  Speaker 2: to the table and we evaluate them as a staff.
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  Speaker 2: And you have to work rather quickly in the portal,
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  Speaker 2: as you guys know, because it just happens so fast.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we have parameters that I don't think
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  Speaker 2: we have position parameters and character traits that we lean
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  Speaker 2: heavily on that we don't really stray from, and we
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  Speaker 2: go try to find guys that fit the profile of
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  Speaker 2: the type of player in person that we want and
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  Speaker 2: then we attack with aggression. And certainly this day and age,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't have money, it doesn't matter. You have
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  Speaker 2: to have money because they're all getting paid. And fortunately
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  Speaker 2: there's been people here at Yukon over the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of years that have made a difference for us and
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  Speaker 2: will continue to do and do so, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: and uh, and then we have to go out during
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  Speaker 2: the season and we have to prove our work by
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  Speaker 2: winning games, which over the last three and a half
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  Speaker 2: years we've been able to do so.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you just you just try to find the
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  Speaker 2: hidden gym, you know, or you find somebody that that
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  Speaker 2: is looking for an opportunity to be coached by a
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  Speaker 2: head coach that you know, spent twenty eight years in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL and coach fifty six Hall of Famers and
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  Speaker 2: knows what greatness looks like.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what you do.
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  Speaker 4: How the scheme that it seems like they're to learn
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  Speaker 4: what we'll get into it.
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  Speaker 2: I think our offensive scheme is really attractive to people
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  Speaker 2: because it's a pro style scheme. We use words, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we teach formations and shifts and motions, and we you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we we teach conceptually and So if you're looking
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  Speaker 2: to be a great player, you want to come and
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  Speaker 2: play in a system like this, you're going to get
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  Speaker 2: great coaching, and you're going to get NFL level coaching,
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  Speaker 2: and you're going to get NFL level practices and NFL
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  Speaker 2: level meetings and NFL level standards, and you're going to
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  Speaker 2: level up, and by the time it's time for you
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  Speaker 2: to move on to the next level, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: be prepared. You're going to understand route concepts, You're going
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  Speaker 2: to understand the intricacies of your position, how to run
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  Speaker 2: the ball, where to run the ball, not just running
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  Speaker 2: the ball. You know, you'll become a master at the
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  Speaker 2: outside zone, you know, if you're a running back, alignment
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  Speaker 2: or a tight end, So those things are really important.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's not just throwing the ball around. It's
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  Speaker 2: really detailed, detailed stuff, and it works for us, as
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  Speaker 2: you've seen, you know, we've I think we've proven up
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  Speaker 2: to this point that the way we do things work.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't think it's scheme on defense and defense
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  Speaker 2: is different man defenses. You know, it's it's effort, it's athleticism, speed,
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  Speaker 2: it's violence, it's those types of things. But offensively the thing.
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  Speaker 1: That we do.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why you wouldn't want to play in
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  Speaker 2: this system if you have a desire to go play
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  Speaker 2: at the next level, NFL level coaching, NFL level structure,
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  Speaker 2: and an NFL system.
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  Speaker 1: How much improvements made since three or four things that
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  Speaker 1: they really kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of ticked off day one this year, day one of
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  Speaker 2: Matt being here. They've improved, but there's still a lot
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  Speaker 2: of room for improvement, a lot of room for improvement.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're not where we want to be yet,
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  Speaker 2: but the last couple of weeks we've made strides.
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  Speaker 1: We're are you taking well?
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  Speaker 2: We brought in a whole lot of new players, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes it takes guys a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: time to mesh in this system that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: them are maybe not familiar with. But we have great
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  Speaker 2: faith in and I think that's starting to happen. You know,
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  Speaker 2: with certain becomes confidence. With confidence comes speed with playing.
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  Speaker 2: With speed, with playing speed comes making plays. And so
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  Speaker 2: I think you're starting to see that happen.
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  Speaker 4: Do you enjoyed that whole puzzle of piecing together a
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  Speaker 4: group and turning or is it a little frustrated but
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  Speaker 4: rewarding afterwards?
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  Speaker 1: It's not new to me.
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  Speaker 2: In the NFL, that's what you do. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: draft is recruiting, and free agency is the portal. So
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  Speaker 2: it's something that I've done forever. I'm familiar with that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm used to dealing with contracts and money.
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  Speaker 2: I'm used to dealing with the uncertainty the off season
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  Speaker 2: if a guy's going to be on your team, are
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  Speaker 2: not going to be on your team. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: is what it is. You know, to me, it's I
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  Speaker 2: enjoy it because it's what I've always done. It's just
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  Speaker 2: part of my DNA. You know, I don't really know
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  Speaker 2: anything different. I think that's given us a real advantage here,
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  Speaker 2: the fact that I was successful in the NFL, and
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  Speaker 2: I was around Bill Walsh, and I was around Bobby Bether,
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  Speaker 2: and I was around Mike Hoonger, and I was around
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  Speaker 2: Jim Thinks.
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  Speaker 1: You know, guys that are in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: And I wasn't around Dick for Meal and Carl Peterson,
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  Speaker 2: and I got to see how they set up a franchise.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is a franchise now with the portal
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  Speaker 2: and and and nil and it's it's it's very much
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  Speaker 2: like an NFL franchise, So I'm pretty well versed in
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  Speaker 2: in doing what we're doing at this time. In college football,
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  Speaker 2: obviously it's a lot of guys on defense all doing
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  Speaker 2: their jobs.
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  Speaker 4: But have there been a couple of guys that just
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  Speaker 4: kind of grab this defense.
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  Speaker 2: By the you know, there's been eleven. Well, there's been
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  Speaker 2: more in eleven because we play a lot more in eleven.
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  Speaker 2: It's been really just a commitment by all of them
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  Speaker 2: that has to continue to being better and everything we do,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to pay more attention to detail, to trust
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  Speaker 2: in each other because of the work that they see
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  Speaker 2: each other do it on the field and during practice
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  Speaker 2: and then in the games, and uh, a better understanding
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  Speaker 2: of of you know, how they fit in in the scheme.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just it's a concerted effort. It's a collaborative
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: effort by the coaches and the players to just say, hey,
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: we're going to get right, and we're going to get
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: right now, you know so, But it's always a challenge
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: because you know the other teams are doing the exact
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: same thing. You know, they're making those concerted efforts. So
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: you've just got to work longer, harder, more efficiently to
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: get it done, and you have to have an unusual
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: and uncommon commitment, and I feel like we have that.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Coach.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Can you just speak to camp Edwards put together season
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: after in fact that we haven't really had your a while.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Do you just speak to hit success so far in
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: the season, just what you expect.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: From him moving forward. Yeah.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: I mean he's an easy guy to talk about and
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: we get to talk about him a lot and deservedly,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: so you know, he uh, he's he's just a tough person.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: You know, he's a tough dude. He really cares, and
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: he works hard at it, and he's dependable, you know,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: and even when he gets beat up, you know, he
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: just there's no quit in him.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: There's no give up. He just keeps going.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: And I think that, you know, he's kind of the
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: identity of our team, that toughness, you know, that blue
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: collar attitude. And I think everyboy, know, every player on
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: this team really respects him, you know, and we draw
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: energy from him when we see him out there running
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: the football the way he does and catching the way
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: he does. And then you know, we come in here
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: and watch film and people don't really notice it when
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: they're watching the game with their naked eye, but the
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: way he protects, you know, in the past game. I mean,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: those are all just signs of his toughness and his
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: commitment to this team. And so to see him, you know,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: continuing to play at a high level, that's important, you know.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: And to watch him like, you know, the guys beat up.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: You carry the ball as much as he carries that,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: you get beat up. Having a few days off last
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: week to rest his body, he came back. He looked like,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: you know, it was the first day of training camp
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: again today and I love that, you know, And to me,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: that's just a tough, hard ass mindset of camp Edwards,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: which I think any coach would relish a guy coaching
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: a guy like that. Were good, Okay, Hey, thanks everybody, Joe.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Good to see him