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Mike Macdonald: "We Have Great Competition Going On In Our Secondary" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Everybody ready, right, all right, great to see everybody good. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: really good practice, looking forward to watching it.
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  Speaker 2: Getting to that point of camp.
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  Speaker 1: Where you're reaching a uh pretty good bit of install
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  Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball, which is just good.
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  Speaker 2: It's good.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's good stretch for each for you know, especially
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  Speaker 1: the young guys to work through the fog here. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll start to slow down pretty soon. But right now
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  Speaker 1: a lot of scheme in, so police are the execution
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  Speaker 1: where we're at with the amount of scheme that's in
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  Speaker 1: and efforts good just those always things we're chasing and
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  Speaker 1: that that's evident from leaving practice. But the guys have
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  Speaker 1: been great. We'll go attack it and come back tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: on pads.
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  Speaker 2: The lengths and tasting in the practice ses.
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  Speaker 3: Where did you find that happy medium.
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  Speaker 2: And pushing fool and starting up?
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  Speaker 1: I wish I was more and I wish there was
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  Speaker 1: like an actual formula that you have to you could
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  Speaker 1: abide by that's like tried and true. It's just it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those methods principles, things like how we practice
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  Speaker 1: no matter the circumstance is non negotiable. But where the
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  Speaker 1: team is, you know, do we have guys out what
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  Speaker 1: are we trying to accomplish seeing the big picture too,
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to kind of incorporate all that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And again it's not just me sitting in a corner
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  Speaker 1: just figuring out, like a lot of people at hand,
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  Speaker 1: Like our coordinators have been great, Less has been great,
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  Speaker 1: Sam Ramson has.
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  Speaker 2: Been great, Patrick Ward's been great. So it's a team effort.
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  Speaker 2: I'll chance him now.
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  Speaker 4: So maybe the first GAMP you had.
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  Speaker 1: To be traveling first camp, I think we bang our
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  Speaker 1: head against the wall a little bit more. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that team, we probably needed it, you know which is
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  Speaker 1: but I think there's some some things we probably could
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  Speaker 1: have done it better as well.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, when someone has a great play a great practice,
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  Speaker 3: that stands out how much you pay attention to how
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  Speaker 3: someone reacts when they've had a bad play or a
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  Speaker 3: bad practice.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're trying to pay attention to everything and
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  Speaker 1: who needs what and how guys handle different situations. I think,
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  Speaker 1: not saying you're great at it, but you're definitely trying
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  Speaker 1: to be in tuned to all the things that are
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  Speaker 1: that are happening out there.
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  Speaker 2: And if a guy's not having success.
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  Speaker 1: You know, how do we how do we write the course,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is there something that we can do to
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  Speaker 1: do a better job, or do you need to talk
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  Speaker 1: to somebody or kind of it's all hands on deck
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  Speaker 1: to try to get him going.
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  Speaker 5: I check.
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  Speaker 6: We've seen Mike Bark maybe work with the Ones a
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  Speaker 6: little bit more the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: I just what do you see it from him any sessions? Well, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Bud's one of those rookies that are that's.
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  Speaker 1: We're asking a lot of them right now and and
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  Speaker 1: I'm really impressed with how he's handling it. There's there's
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  Speaker 1: things there's it's not perfect, but how he goes about
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  Speaker 1: his business is what we're looking for. And I think
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  Speaker 1: he needs to trust that he's gonna come out of
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  Speaker 1: the fog, you know, and uh and take it from there.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it's I think it's important to start
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  Speaker 1: building a relationship with those guys and having a feel for,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the speed of the game with the Ones
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  Speaker 1: and how he communicate and how we play.
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  Speaker 2: And he's doing a good jobs here.
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  Speaker 5: He talked us about Nicki and more and how you
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  Speaker 5: kind of see how much he could handle. Is it
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  Speaker 5: similar but I know there are different players, but similar
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  Speaker 5: like let's see how much we can throw.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very similar for sure.
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  Speaker 1: It's really the same thinking with every every young guy, Right,
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  Speaker 1: it's just what's that, what's the proper balance that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: like that? What's the magic combination that we're shooting for? Sam?
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  Speaker 2: And I think of that flag? What do you think
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  Speaker 2: is just there that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: It was good as uh got thrown over our head finally,
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  Speaker 1: So that was that was a good wake up call
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  Speaker 1: for us on defense. But that's definitely a point emphasis
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  Speaker 1: after this first week is trying to get a sheet
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  Speaker 1: the ball on some of those deeper targets.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have any more visibility when Julian Neal might
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  Speaker 3: be getting back out there?
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  Speaker 1: I don't, but it's it's not it should be. We're
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  Speaker 1: kind of we should be shorter term at this point.
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  Speaker 3: This should he might how much farther ahead naturally? Is
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  Speaker 3: it has to be now after an offseason, was going
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  Speaker 3: to have a.
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  Speaker 1: Four year safe Yeah, we're it's uh, it's just different, right,
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  Speaker 1: It's just now there's new circumstances. There's way more banked
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  Speaker 1: reps underneath our belt.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. I think that. I think both guys, you're in
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  Speaker 2: a really really good place.
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  Speaker 1: So it's about, you know, again kind of the challenge
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  Speaker 1: of the of the campus, how far can we take it?
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  Speaker 1: And that's really that's that's what we're focusing on right now,
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  Speaker 1: is you know, how far can we take that relationship?
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  Speaker 1: How far can we take this route tree? You know,
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  Speaker 1: how great of timing can we creat with those two guys.
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  Speaker 1: So all those things, it's just like the stuff that
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  Speaker 1: you're focusing on every day for.
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  Speaker 3: A defensive coach, the thread and having your sheet and
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  Speaker 3: on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Saints. Yeah, it's a real thing. It's a
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  Speaker 2: real thing, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But the charges, you know, whatever personnel group we put
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  Speaker 1: out there, you have to be.
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  Speaker 2: Able to be balanced, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So if they you know, we got to be we
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  Speaker 1: gotta have to have a way to block people and
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  Speaker 1: be able to run the ball and have the whole
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  Speaker 1: offense at our disposal no matter who's out there. And
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  Speaker 1: so the guys that are are are jockeying and competing
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  Speaker 1: for for reps, they have to they have to know
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  Speaker 1: that as well as you know, you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: throw your face in there and move people, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: so we can. So teams, aren't you know, they don't pigeonholes.
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  Speaker 2: Don't.
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  Speaker 1: They're only gonna do one thing. When you know we
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  Speaker 1: put a certain personnel group out on the field.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone focuses on Rashid's speed, but you guys started running
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  Speaker 3: the ball out of eleven personnel a lot better when
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  Speaker 3: he got there last year. How much the speed effects
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  Speaker 3: on the outside the run game, on offense?
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  Speaker 2: It does? You know?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's like there's there's variables that go
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  Speaker 1: into it, obviously, but like there's a guy that you
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  Speaker 1: need to put two people on because he's gonna make
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  Speaker 1: you pay if you don't, then it's one last guy
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  Speaker 1: in the box.
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  Speaker 2: You know. It's really that. It's kind of the it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty it's as simple as I can make it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that goes for the worst answer yet of training camp.
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  Speaker 5: We saw Michael ben was out there and you know
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  Speaker 5: kind of working with guys were placed.
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  Speaker 2: I've just i know, got other letgens.
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  Speaker 5: Around doing that too, But just have a guy like that,
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  Speaker 5: Just have a couple of guys you can lay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I I saw Cliff Favoriteles out here at the
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  Speaker 1: first time I see him in a minute, and then
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne Brown was here.
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 1: If you had to meet, so I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: Meetium and I think he was talking to some of
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  Speaker 1: the old linemen as well, so uh yeah, those guys
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  Speaker 1: are always you know, like obviously we're gonna try to
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  Speaker 1: coach him through the lens of how we do stuff here.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, if Michael Bennett wants to coach you
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  Speaker 1: up on something, then we're surely gonna listen.
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  Speaker 2: Look like Mitch, Mitch Johnson and some of the Spurs
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  Speaker 2: guys are here today too. Yeah, yeah, the Spurs crews here.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Mitch is from the areas Seahawks fan, which
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  Speaker 1: is really cool, and uh we had a great visit
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  Speaker 1: with him yesterday and kind of talked some shop with him,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, we had a we had a
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  Speaker 1: full you know, training camp.
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  Speaker 2: Day to day that they've been a part of.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't really connected much this they get feedback on today, but.
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  Speaker 2: Well we'll debrief here in a little bit. But it's
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  Speaker 2: been a great visit.
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  Speaker 1: Great people really aligned on how we want to run
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  Speaker 1: our programs, which is a lot of fun and similar
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  Speaker 1: experiences taking over for legendary coaches and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: which you're able to you know, kind of talk shop
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  Speaker 1: with us.
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  Speaker 2: That's been that has been really been really fun.
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  Speaker 3: What do you get from talking to coaches and other.
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  Speaker 2: Sports, Well, there's a lot of parallels. You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's at the end of the day, we say we
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  Speaker 1: sell football widgets, you know, so there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a people business and how you
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  Speaker 1: how you align people and you know, do all the
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  Speaker 1: things right. So there's a lot of similarities. And he's
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  Speaker 1: really nogal. He's way more knowledgeable about our team and
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  Speaker 1: our game than I am about basketball.
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  Speaker 2: Could let mean I like, I don't really know Wemby.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm an idiot right now when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to other sports.
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  Speaker 2: No, he didn't know. He's they've been hanging out and
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  Speaker 2: going to meetings.
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  Speaker 1: He's talking to guys, but they didn't address the team.
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  Speaker 2: I want a lot of them. Don't want to put
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  Speaker 2: him on a gun like that.
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  Speaker 6: Uh on then Williams, you've seen him show up at
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  Speaker 6: the leadership on the on the on the field and
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  Speaker 6: then off the field.
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  Speaker 2: Well it's.
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  Speaker 1: You know, not not everything is uh it's not. It's
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  Speaker 1: not just like you can just be in it like
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  Speaker 1: live in a vacuum, you know, like there's context to
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  Speaker 1: what he's going through right now. So to be able
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  Speaker 1: to manage that and still be the person that he
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  Speaker 1: is every day, Uh, and be the ascid he is
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of his teammates and you know, put
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  Speaker 1: the football product on the field like he has every day.
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  Speaker 2: Is it's pretty remarkable, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Spoon's doing the same thing. So they really just
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  Speaker 1: tip your cap to him.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, we haven't seen Robbie Hoots out there the last
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  Speaker 2: o days.
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  Speaker 1: Him just say like we're look, we're gonna try to
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  Speaker 1: find some more information with with Robbie's situation some I'll
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  Speaker 1: just leave it at that right now, but we'll have
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  Speaker 1: an update for you sooner than later.
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  Speaker 6: Oh you guys, you got allowed to have this thation
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  Speaker 6: collassators you're before how instrumental with John Eddings around and
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  Speaker 6: and how big of an in the impacting he had
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  Speaker 6: the Audien buying is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, John's been phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to it's hard to compare the two years
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  Speaker 1: with a with a drastic system kind of overload. But
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  Speaker 1: I can just speak to like how we want to
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  Speaker 1: coach everybody every play with the spirit of like high
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  Speaker 1: expectations but like a positive attitude, high bar, master of fundamentals.
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  Speaker 1: He's an old school principal, new school method guy, keeping
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  Speaker 1: it real. Just a really great guy, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: really great guy. The guys love him, and what I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it like his investment in every single player we
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  Speaker 1: have in the offensive line room, and guys feel that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they feel like if you're really bought in,
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  Speaker 1: trying to make him better every day, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: he does. Coach Maygiel will send you two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty pounds no shanella from the running between the tack
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  Speaker 1: just being a physical back.
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  Speaker 6: But we've seen him make one hand and catches out
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  Speaker 6: here in the past few days.
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  Speaker 3: Getting the ball down the field, and we've been surprised
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  Speaker 3: with the.
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  Speaker 1: Way that he's been able to should have regard about there,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised, but it's just something that you know,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, you you kind of have a brand
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  Speaker 1: of ball that you're used to. And then when guys
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  Speaker 1: are out there making plays kind of outside that you
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  Speaker 1: know box you put him in, then it's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it just shows you how talented he is.
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  Speaker 1: So he made some great plays today, really impressive play
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  Speaker 1: all the way around the offensive line picked up a
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  Speaker 1: pressure we had that we should have had a free guy, and.
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  Speaker 2: We made it.
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  Speaker 1: We made a decisive decision with him up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: up to see him.
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  Speaker 2: That was awesome running back.
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  Speaker 4: It was alessive kind of evalu into the league for
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  Speaker 4: a while and not kind of big contracts. You've had
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  Speaker 4: a high draft pick, Pat we definitely used for that fly.
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  Speaker 4: It seems like it was waing back the other way
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  Speaker 4: a little bit. Do you do you think that vision
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  Speaker 4: that has shown himself that it has been more impact
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  Speaker 4: in the areas year. You need to have some good
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  Speaker 4: running backs to be successful where the league has.
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  Speaker 1: Been a hurting you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know, I never I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Just do we want good players at running back? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Be great?
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard for me to I don't know. You probably
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  Speaker 2: don't want my I don't think I even have an
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  Speaker 2: opinion on that. Honestly. It's just.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get as many great players in each position room
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  Speaker 1: as we can get that fit out.
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  Speaker 2: What we do, you know, and let's go from there.
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  Speaker 4: Before xactly last year, exactly the guys, you guys, now, like,
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  Speaker 4: what does having.
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  Speaker 2: The pieces you have there kind of a lot. You
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  Speaker 2: got to do.
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  Speaker 6: What you want to do the most excited.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think I think you're talking about guys that
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  Speaker 1: play the way we want them to play, so and
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  Speaker 1: they're good teammates and work.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they do all the things that we're asking
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  Speaker 2: them to do.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, but I think you could do that
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  Speaker 1: at a lot of positions we have, you know, not
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  Speaker 1: I don't really thinking like a, Hey, this is just
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  Speaker 1: a running back thing, or a safety thing or a
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  Speaker 1: inside linebacker thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's just kind of a thing thing my approach. And
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  Speaker 2: he's competing for a bigger.
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  Speaker 1: Role and what have you seen that in this camp
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  Speaker 1: for Yeah, he's really competing and really excited for the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity has and he's and he's making the most of it.
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  Speaker 2: So he's making a heck of a case for for
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  Speaker 2: carving himself out a Rolety.
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  Speaker 5: More of an update on Dick.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin worry at all or no no update? It's positive,
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  Speaker 2: but just no update.
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  Speaker 6: What has Zach I mean brought in for you a bit?
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  Speaker 3: What has Zach or brought in for you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Zack's been tremendous, just another He's got a great attitude,
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  Speaker 1: he sees the game the way we want to see it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's one of those things.
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  Speaker 1: We've got guys that have joined our team that weren't
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  Speaker 1: here last year, and so you know, he hasn't like
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  Speaker 1: not he hasn't like been intimidated by like, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to be myself and kind of you know, throw
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  Speaker 1: my flavor of how I see the game him and
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  Speaker 1: to the team.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: So he's been an asset and he's contributed to what
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to build. It's been it's been awesome. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's nice to have him back. He's doing some good things.
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  Speaker 1: He's gotta gotta improve on a lot of other stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but there's there's some good stuff as well.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's great to see that there's a solid
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  Speaker 2: foundation you can build off of.
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  Speaker 4: Inside outside.
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  Speaker 1: You think you can be both, Yeah, we we've we've
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  Speaker 1: moved a little bit more to to Nickel recently, so
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  Speaker 1: to your point, you can play both, and again we've
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  Speaker 1: got we've got a great competition going on in our secondary.
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  Speaker 2: He's right in the thick of it.
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  Speaker 4: You consider him kick return, he's done that.
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  Speaker 2: We short answers, Yes, yeah, yeah, all right, thanks, you'll