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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: “We Know What We’re Capable Of... The Sky Is the Limit.” · Press Pass

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's definitely there's some I guess, comfort
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Speaker 1: in knowing that I already know the system, and our guys,
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Speaker 1: our core group of guys already know obviously, you know,
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Speaker 1: you got Calvin and some guys up front, and then
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Speaker 1: you know, some some new running backs all that that
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Speaker 1: that need to get up to speed. But that'll happen,
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Speaker 1: and we have so much time to do it. I
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Speaker 1: think it was nice this offseason being able to focus,
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Speaker 1: you know a little bit more just on the physical
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Speaker 1: side of you know, training and getting my body right,
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Speaker 1: especially after a long year, you know, with some just lingering,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe injuries, little stuff from the season. So
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Speaker 1: I had a chance to take a little break, help
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Speaker 1: some of that heel up, and then really just you know,
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Speaker 1: work on my body and obviously prepping, and there's things
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Speaker 1: you know, you watch tape and you figure out some
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Speaker 1: of the weaknesses from last year individually as an offense,
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Speaker 1: some of the strengths, so you kind of figure out
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Speaker 1: the stuff that you want to work on. I was
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Speaker 1: able to focus more on that than I already got
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Speaker 1: a whole new system I have to learn, and I
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Speaker 1: don't really you know, you have to kind of start
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Speaker 1: from scratch. So it was nice having that comfort and knowing,
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Speaker 1: you know, I know the system and that's not an
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Speaker 1: ops squall I'm gonna have to really face this year.
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Speaker 1: But now it's just how do we take that next step?
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Speaker 1: You know, for myself and for the offense. Was it
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Speaker 1: like it's it's a lot of you know, a lot
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Speaker 1: of cut ups just of our season. You know, you
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Speaker 1: gots organized by you know, concept whatever that is. You know,
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Speaker 1: we have different names for different groupings of stuff that
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Speaker 1: we do. So it's it's looking at all that, like
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Speaker 1: every play we ran in those certain families and seeing
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Speaker 1: what were we good at? What do we struggle with?
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Speaker 1: Obviously there's things that we did really well that we
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Speaker 1: kept coming back to throughout the season. But then there's
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Speaker 1: things that you know, maybe we tried to do a
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Speaker 1: few times that we weren't great at, or what are
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Speaker 1: or even just for myself, like what were my consistent
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Speaker 1: misses on certain throws or you know, is it mechanical?
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Speaker 1: Is it just a miss? Is it because of pressure?
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Speaker 1: Just all those things you look at and you know,
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Speaker 1: you talk to the coaches and kind of see, you know,
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Speaker 1: where are we on the same page? All those things
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Speaker 1: and and a lot of them lined up. And that's
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Speaker 1: kind of what we've been talking about in our meetings
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Speaker 1: the last few days of how we start the off
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Speaker 1: season of you know, what do we want to work on?
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Speaker 1: And obviously you start from you know, you start from
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Speaker 1: the ground up, especially because you do have new guys
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Speaker 1: that have to learn the system, but you can move
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Speaker 1: a little faster because the majority of us already know it.
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Speaker 2: What's it like getting to know and working with Calvin Ridley?
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Speaker 1: So far, he's been awesome. He's just he's hungry, you know,
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Speaker 1: he's he's excited to be here. He's got the right attitude.
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Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest thing that I've noticed. And
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Speaker 1: then on the field, I mean, he's a freak, you know,
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Speaker 1: just the way he runs routs, how explosive he is,
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Speaker 1: great hands, you know, it seems like he's he's picking
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Speaker 1: stuff up. Obviously we just started, but it seems like
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Speaker 1: he's picking it up pretty quickly. And he has that experience.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's played for a few years, so he's
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Speaker 1: used to you know, having some new systems, having to
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Speaker 1: learn that and some stuff obviously carries carries over through offenses,
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Speaker 1: but he's been great. You know, I'm just excited to
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Speaker 1: have him to be a part of our room. It
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Speaker 1: seems like he's really gelling with the guys great. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's a it's not the it's not the hardest group
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Speaker 1: to jail with. It. Christian and Zay and all those
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Speaker 1: guys are awesome, you know. I think they they treat
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Speaker 1: guys well. And they've kind of brought him in and
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Speaker 1: it's it's going really well, and he's he's he seems
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Speaker 1: super hungry and ready to go, and you have.
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Speaker 2: So much stability on the offense outside of him. Is
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Speaker 2: it easier to kind of be able to kind of
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Speaker 2: just loop in a guy like that since everybody else
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Speaker 2: kind of knows and you've been communicating with them so far.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I mean even just not even from obviously,
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Speaker 1: it's easier for me because I'll have, you know, one,
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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to learn it myself because I already
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Speaker 1: know you know our system. But then I'm also not
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Speaker 1: trying to communicate that with ten different guys. It's really
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Speaker 1: just a few guys that are new that you're trying
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Speaker 1: to explain, you know, whether it's footwork or how we
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Speaker 1: run certain routes or kind of what we're thinking, and
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Speaker 1: I can I can say, hey, we're running this route,
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Speaker 1: watch today, Watch Christen, that's how we're running it. And
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Speaker 1: they can kind of tell you, you know, all your splits,
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Speaker 1: all that stuff, and they can help them just as
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Speaker 1: much as I can. So it's nice having that support
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Speaker 1: too from those guys as long as or along with
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Speaker 1: CJ and those guys too. So having all that makes
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Speaker 1: it a lot easier to get guys up to speed
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Speaker 1: and it just happens that much faster.
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Speaker 3: No, he's not in the building right now, but I
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Speaker 3: know you've had a chance to work out with Evan
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Speaker 3: a little bit this offseason. Yeah, vibes with him. How
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Speaker 3: are things going as far as trying to bat to
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Speaker 3: know when you're in the building X amount of days
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Speaker 3: a week and also going to work.
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Speaker 4: Outside the building.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's been great. You know, we threw a
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Speaker 1: few weeks ago and he looks great. He's in great shape. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: it's good to see him. We have a really good relationship,
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Speaker 1: so been staying in touch with him and yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: he's doing great, you know, I know he's he's taken
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Speaker 1: care of business on his on his end, and he's
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Speaker 1: doing a great job of you can tell he's gonna
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Speaker 1: be ready when when the time comes. You know, obviously
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Speaker 1: in my position, I don't have any control in that,
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Speaker 1: and you know, it's it's just kind of something they
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Speaker 1: got to work out and I'm just here ready for
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Speaker 1: whatever that day is he comes back. So it's all
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Speaker 1: but he said, with a guy like that, and you
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Speaker 1: guys have all seen it with his work ethic, and
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Speaker 1: our coaches and staff are the same way. You don't,
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Speaker 1: you don't worry about him. You know he's taking care
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Speaker 1: of business and he's gonna be ready, So it's not
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Speaker 1: something you worry about. Obviously. It's a guy you want
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Speaker 1: around just because he's a great for the locker room
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Speaker 1: and he's he's a great player. So but we know
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Speaker 1: that that's gonna come.
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Speaker 5: So it was your reaction when you first learned of
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Speaker 5: the numbers on Jalen Hurts's contract.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It's a big one. It's a big one.
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Speaker 1: So I just I think that's awesome for guys to
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Speaker 1: be rewarded for their play and not even their play,
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Speaker 1: but just you know, I don't know Jenden's super well
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Speaker 1: but it seems like, you know, his character is great
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Speaker 1: and he seems like a great leader, and I think
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's always awesome to see guys get rewarded
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Speaker 1: for that and for a team to obviously believe in
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Speaker 1: them that much and kind of go all in on them.
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Speaker 1: So it's it's cool to see and obviously a big,
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Speaker 1: big number, which is good for you know, the future
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Speaker 1: of guys playing the position. So I think it's really cool.
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Speaker 5: Quick follow up, Now that you're here in your third year,
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Speaker 5: how much more comfortable and maybe more assertive are you
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Speaker 5: with suggesting plays for the offense and being more participatory
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Speaker 5: in the playbook calling whatever whatever form that might take.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think just that's that's another step to take.
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Speaker 1: This year is now it's my second year, finally, my
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Speaker 1: second year in the same system, so we have that
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Speaker 1: experience of having a full season and got to that
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Speaker 1: towards the end of the season. We got to where
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Speaker 1: we did that a lot, and you know, I did that,
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Speaker 1: made some checks, made some changes or recommended things, and
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Speaker 1: so that relationship with the coaches has grown a lot
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Speaker 1: to where I'm comfortable doing that. And then obviously it's
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Speaker 1: so early in OTAs that's not really where we're at
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Speaker 1: right now. We're still kind of just laying the groundwork,
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Speaker 1: like general information, getting on the same page with the
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Speaker 1: new guys, and then we're gonna start installing soon. But
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Speaker 1: we're not quite there yet. But I think that's gonna
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Speaker 1: be something that takes off way sooner this year because
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Speaker 1: we have so many guys that have been in the system,
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Speaker 1: including myself, and you can start day one or whatever
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Speaker 1: when you start going against the defense. If it's not
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Speaker 1: a look, if it's a look I don't like for that,
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Speaker 1: play can just change it because guys know it. So
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Speaker 1: being able to start there instead of like last year,
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Speaker 1: you have a play it's not a good look from
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Speaker 1: the defense, but you know, we're still learning the system,
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Speaker 1: we're not checking anything. Then you go and film, you're like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is not really what you want, but you know,
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Speaker 1: here's some things that we could do now we can
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Speaker 1: kind of start there. So I think that's where we
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Speaker 1: should see the progression this year, which will put us
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Speaker 1: even further ahead once we hit training camp and then
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Speaker 1: you know August and September, that's.
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Speaker 6: Gonna be expectations this year around here that there haven't
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Speaker 6: been in quite a while. How does that impact how
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Speaker 6: you approach the off season and this next couple of months.
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Speaker 6: What's important about the next couple of months for you
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Speaker 6: to focus on?
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Speaker 1: You know, I think we can't really focus on the expectations. Obviously, Uh,
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Speaker 1: you're doing something right when the expectations raised for your
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Speaker 1: for your team. So obviously that's just a byproduct of
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Speaker 1: the success we had last year. But still, you know,
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Speaker 1: we didn't last year, didn't in the way we wanted
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Speaker 1: it to. So it's you know, obviously it was a
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Speaker 1: good year for our team, for the city, for its organization,
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Speaker 1: but there's more out there, and I think we've set
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Speaker 1: a new standard of you know, who we're gonna be,
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Speaker 1: the team we're gonna be, and we got to start
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Speaker 1: that way this year. And so that's the mindset. I
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Speaker 1: think we don't really think about those expectations much because
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Speaker 1: all we can do is just try to keep getting better,
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Speaker 1: and we know for us, we feel like that's the floor.
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Speaker 1: So I mean that's really the only I guess, the
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Speaker 1: only like expectations we think of that, you know, for ourselves,
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Speaker 1: But we don't. I just don't think it's good to
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Speaker 1: pay attention to that stuff. You know, we we know
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Speaker 1: we're capable of and we've added more talent and you know,
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Speaker 1: the sky's a limit for us. But we got to
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Speaker 1: get better every week and we got to focus on
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Speaker 1: what's right in front of us. You know, you can't
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Speaker 1: look for you can't talk about winning the super Bowl
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Speaker 1: right now. You got to look at getting better this
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Speaker 1: week and just keep stacking those for you know, four
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Speaker 1: or five months, and then when the season comes. You know,
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Speaker 1: that's how you put yourself in the best situation to
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Speaker 1: just be your best every week and keep getting better.
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Speaker 3: Did you guys talk at all to Dove, to Press,
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Speaker 3: to the coaching staff. Did you find yourself I don't know,
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Speaker 3: like in February coming up with a play and like
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Speaker 3: texting them or was it completely like you guys didn't
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Speaker 3: think about anything until you got back in the building
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Speaker 3: one day.
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Speaker 1: No, I was, you know, I was around, I guess
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Speaker 1: right after the season and we met and we talked
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Speaker 1: and kind of I guess, like broad vision just some
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Speaker 1: of the stuff in the season. Obviously none of us,
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Speaker 1: like myself or the staff haven't really looked hadn't really
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Speaker 1: looked through the tape at that point, but just talk
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Speaker 1: about the season and and everything. And then we took
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Speaker 1: some time apart. I think that's healthy. You know, we've
8:53
Speaker 1: been been with each other for seven months straight, you know,
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Speaker 1: here every day almost all day. So we took some time,
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Speaker 1: took a few weeks, and then once I started getting
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Speaker 1: back in town, started working out again, then I'd come by,
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Speaker 1: you know, once a week, and we'd sit down and talk.
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Speaker 1: And there's been a lot of things that me and
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Speaker 1: and Mike and Press and and we've all talked about
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Speaker 1: of just you know, some how do we like philosophy,
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Speaker 1: things that we look at, like what do we want
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Speaker 1: to change, what do we want to what were we
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Speaker 1: really good at? Like I'd already said, but so we've
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Speaker 1: had those conversations. I wouldn't say as much like, oh,
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Speaker 1: this is a play, you know, I just thought of,
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Speaker 1: but it's more like something that we might have ran
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Speaker 1: once last year that I liked, that was kind of
9:30
Speaker 1: a game plan weekly play. But let's kind of make
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Speaker 1: that more of a part of what we do. You know,
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Speaker 1: there was some definitely conversations like that last year.
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Speaker 4: For obviously it wasn't even here, hadn't been drafted yet.
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Speaker 4: What kind of jump. Do you think you guys can
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Speaker 4: make your relationship with Luke and on the field, and
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Speaker 4: what can that add to the offense this year?
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Speaker 1: I think it can had a ton obviously this point
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Speaker 1: last year, like you said, he wasn't here, and then
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Speaker 1: when he got here, him and chat, we're kind of
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Speaker 1: going back and forth with reps, and then I guess
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Speaker 1: into training camp at some point he kind of took
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Speaker 1: over that starting role. But he's still I mean, as
10:04
Speaker 1: smart as he is, he's still a rookie and he's
10:05
Speaker 1: still trying to learn everything. And there's you know, you
10:07
Speaker 1: can only go so fast, like you got to try,
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Speaker 1: and especially at that position, you can't try to do
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Speaker 1: too much. So I think there was times where he
10:13
Speaker 1: just had to keep it simple just so he could
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Speaker 1: play his best, and then seeing the growth throughout the
10:18
Speaker 1: season of just stuff that he sees. I mean there
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Speaker 1: was one example of one game where he's calling out
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Speaker 1: cover zero before I even saw it and just so
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Speaker 1: then I'm that much faster I make my check. And
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Speaker 1: that doesn't really happen much with guys up front. They're
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Speaker 1: not usually seeing all that and taking in that information.
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Speaker 1: So he's got all the ability in the world as
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Speaker 1: far as processing, So now to see him take that
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Speaker 1: next step and he already knows everything. He can direct traffic,
10:42
Speaker 1: and you know, he's playing with three or four other
10:44
Speaker 1: guys that have that have been here. So it's just
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Speaker 1: that I think that group is so important to have chemistry,
10:50
Speaker 1: and they built that chemistry throughout the season and played
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Speaker 1: really well, and I think that's obviously really nice to
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Speaker 1: be able to start there instead of having to rebuild
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Speaker 1: that all over again. Have you been doing anything differently
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Speaker 1: this offseason? You mentioned obviously not having the order of
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Speaker 1: new offense. Has your sort of prep or study even
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Speaker 1: different than the last two offense off seasons. It's definitely changed.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, it's not about it's not about getting
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Speaker 1: necessarily in the playbook and learning everything. It's more about
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Speaker 1: looking at last season's tape and what we did because
11:19
Speaker 1: last year, you know, I did a you know, I
11:20
Speaker 1: would look at really briefly the twenty twenty one season
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Speaker 1: just to see some mechanical stuff that maybe I didn't
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Speaker 1: do well or some areas that I can improve on.
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Speaker 1: But it wasn't That's not gonna be my offense. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm watching the table like the plays don't matter because
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Speaker 1: I'm that's not gonna be our terminology that we're not
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Speaker 1: gonna be run those plays. A lot of our guys
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Speaker 1: are changing, So I wouldn't say the tape wasn't useless,
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Speaker 1: but to some degree it was like hard to you know,
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Speaker 1: use that to plan for this season. But now we
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Speaker 1: have a full library of whatever is that twenty games
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Speaker 1: or nineteen games from from last year that we can
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Speaker 1: use and see, this is our offense here, this is
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Speaker 1: who we became throughout the year. A lot of the
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Speaker 1: guys are the same. Obviously, you want to evolve and
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Speaker 1: get better, but you can look at stuff that, hey,
12:05
Speaker 1: what can we do better now that we have Calvin, Like,
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Speaker 1: what's how's that going to change our offense? What stuff
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Speaker 1: that we can do with him? That's even you know
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Speaker 1: me and Press talking about, you know, Calvin's tape and
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Speaker 1: what he's done in the past, what what's he been
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Speaker 1: good at? You know, there's just there's so much stuff
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Speaker 1: that you can do and you start at a different
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Speaker 1: level when it's not a new system.
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Speaker 4: Anytime, you think it helps mentally for you and the
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Speaker 4: other guys going into a season where there's not.
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Speaker 1: A lot of questions, not a lot of distractions about
12:28
Speaker 1: you know, how.
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Speaker 4: Big guys are gonna be, how well we're going to
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Speaker 4: play that kind of thing.
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Speaker 5: It's just sort of like the normal.
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Speaker 1: I think it's it's really cool just and not even that,
12:37
Speaker 1: but obviously that's part of it. But I think just
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Speaker 1: having the relationship that we have and going through what
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Speaker 1: we did last year and a full season, like I said,
12:44
Speaker 1: with all these guys and or it's just a really
12:47
Speaker 1: tight group and we have those great relationships. And I
12:50
Speaker 1: think my first you know year obviously, and then going
12:53
Speaker 1: to my second year, it felt like you kind of
12:55
Speaker 1: have to rebuild a lot of those because a lot
12:56
Speaker 1: of guys aren't there. I mean, there's some carryover, but
12:58
Speaker 1: a lot of guys aren't there anymore and have new
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Speaker 1: faces coming in. And that's always going to be the case.
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Speaker 1: But to be able to limit it how we did
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Speaker 1: and there's not a ton of new guys, and I
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Speaker 1: think it's it's helped us a lot. And like I said,
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Speaker 1: we can just start way ahead of where we were,
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Speaker 1: and there's what there's things I can talk talk about
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Speaker 1: with you know, Christian and Zay and Luke and Brandon
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Speaker 1: and whoever. Tyler, Shatley, whatever, whoever it is, that maybe
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Speaker 1: I couldn't have a year or two years ago because
13:23
Speaker 1: we've now played together for two years or a year
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Speaker 1: for some of those guys, and you just started a
13:28
Speaker 1: different place relationship wise.
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Speaker 5: Even though there's a two year separation between you and
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Speaker 5: the guys that are coming out for this year's draft.
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Speaker 5: Do you at any point feel, you know, feel compelled
13:39
Speaker 5: if you happen to run into Trent to give it,
13:42
Speaker 5: give him a tidbit about somebody that you that you
13:44
Speaker 5: either played with or played against, and vice versa. This
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Speaker 5: might Trent occasionally ask you something about somebody.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it depends. I've had conversations obviously, even with
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Speaker 1: our coaches about you know, guys that I've played with
14:01
Speaker 1: in the past that Clemson that are that are coming out,
14:04
Speaker 1: or maybe guys I've played against, but more so played with,
14:07
Speaker 1: and just what I think about him if if it's
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Speaker 1: someone that we could maybe be interested in, you know,
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Speaker 1: whether that's earlier or later in the draft, or if
14:14
Speaker 1: he's still available, whatever the case is. Just I think
14:17
Speaker 1: it's more about like character and stuff like that, because
14:20
Speaker 1: obviously the tape is the tape, and if they don't
14:23
Speaker 1: think a guy is good enough, then that's kind of
14:25
Speaker 1: kind of ends there. But if they do think he's
14:27
Speaker 1: he's a good player and have some interest in I
14:29
Speaker 1: can speak on or I played with this guy for
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Speaker 1: two years or or a year or whatever, maybe three years,
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Speaker 1: and I can attest like, you know, even one of them,
14:37
Speaker 1: like kJ Henry is a guy I lived with. That's
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Speaker 1: just an example. I haven't talked about him necessarily with
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Speaker 1: our staff, but like, that's just a guy. I literally
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Speaker 1: lived with him for a year and a half my
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Speaker 1: freshman and half my sophomore year, so if they were
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Speaker 1: to ask me, I kind of know the person he
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Speaker 1: is and stuff like that. So that's just an example.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, weapon that's all. That's never a bad thing.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see where you know, we got. We got
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Speaker 1: some We got some picks this year, so we'll see
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Speaker 1: where we land. I think, you know, are we we
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Speaker 1: We crushed it last year and a lot of the
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Speaker 1: guys played really well and really the last two years,
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Speaker 1: so we're doing something right and just to try to
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Speaker 1: keep doing that and add into this locker room and
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Speaker 1: just I think the biggest thing I said is the
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Speaker 1: character piece of you got to have guys that think
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Speaker 1: the same, and I think they've done a great job
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Speaker 1: of bringing in guys like that, and I think that's
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Speaker 1: why we had the success we had last year, as
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Speaker 1: much as the talent, and more so the mindset and
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Speaker 1: just the culture we're building. We're building