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Mike Macdonald: "It Was A Good Day Of Practice" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: It's good. It's a good day.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're learning as we go. Guys, spirits are
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  Speaker 2: high and we're playing fast. I think we're you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're practicing the right way for the most part, and
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  Speaker 2: we're just getting after it.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a good, good day of practice.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of back and forth terms of execution, but uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're chasing it.
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  Speaker 1: So uh onwhere we go.
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  Speaker 3: There was a lot of communication, there was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of energy.
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  Speaker 4: How would you kind of where they are with installing,
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  Speaker 4: with retaining what you have already.
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  Speaker 2: Presented to it's a challenge right now. You know, we're
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  Speaker 2: we're still installing. We're gonna be installing defensively. Uh shoot throughout.
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  Speaker 2: I mean installed to is today and you know, we'll
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  Speaker 2: evaluate it as we go. So if if the guys
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  Speaker 2: like we're real slow to make some checks today, anticipating things,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll make some decisions so it doesn't pile on,
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  Speaker 2: so we don't we don't get too far behind. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm not really worried about the pace of how fast
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  Speaker 2: we get everything in. We want a really good foundation
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  Speaker 2: for when we get into camp. So we have a schedule,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll adjust this as we go. Today was date
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  Speaker 2: today was installed to know, uh thoughts I'm going with
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  Speaker 2: the game jerseys out there instead of pracking jerseys that
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  Speaker 2: it wants to be behind that Well, it's something that they
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  Speaker 2: did in Baltimore. And the thinking behind it is we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to make practice as much as like a game
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  Speaker 2: as possible. So how we dress all the details, where
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  Speaker 2: we stand, how we operate, how we coach them up
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  Speaker 2: timing wise, like we want the guys feeling like they're
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  Speaker 2: out there playing.
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  Speaker 3: So that's just that's kind of part of the equation.
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  Speaker 1: How much time do you have to spend on the
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  Speaker 1: new kickoffs there?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I wish I had the correct answer. We
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  Speaker 2: just stop, Like you know, maybe it was like three hours.
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  Speaker 2: We'd just get through three hours to stop. It's yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's an ongoing thing. The rules have been evolving throughout.
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  Speaker 2: That's something that we you know, we're trying to stay
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  Speaker 2: with it and uh be a lot of like I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to say, like experimentation, but that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: what it is. Is what works in terms of alignments
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  Speaker 2: and how we can play you know with things and
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  Speaker 2: who can block what and you know, the schemes and
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  Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see because you know, we're not
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  Speaker 2: we're not sharing secrets on how we're going to operate,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll have to adopt when you know, the league
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  Speaker 2: starts to declare, you know, early in the season, we.
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  Speaker 5: Similar regard like how much room do you think the
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  Speaker 5: rates for the innovation within the rules? There were teams
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  Speaker 5: to try different things and different concepts, different ideas.
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  Speaker 2: When they kick off, I hope hopefully a lot, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, hopefully it's gonna be a really fun football play.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's the whole spirit behind what everybody
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  Speaker 2: was trying to do. And I think for the large,
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  Speaker 2: for the most part, I mean that's we got a
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  Speaker 2: really good chance to make it a really exciting play.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, that's that's the way we see it.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen the rookies kind of acclimate with the
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  Speaker 2: veterans now they're all here together working, Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just gonna take some time just how to operate.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, our vets have been great, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: leading the guys.
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  Speaker 2: And showing them routines and keeping the competition high, but
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  Speaker 2: bringing them along. You know, it's a we want to
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  Speaker 2: respect everybody and you know, the rookies have to do
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  Speaker 2: their part as well to you know, respect those guys
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  Speaker 2: that have kind of laid the foundation in front of them.
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  Speaker 1: So we got a great group, really excited that guys
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  Speaker 1: are working well together.
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  Speaker 4: There's annuity you guys have for all to edge guys
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  Speaker 4: back from last year. What are your early thoughts on
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  Speaker 4: seeing a healthy you Chit and rows through out there?
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  Speaker 1: Boy may Darryl Taylor And yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's great to see him out there and
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  Speaker 2: working communicating. I mean, we're working through how we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: structure our past rush and who's playing what spot and
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  Speaker 2: kind of what shakes down and what makes sense and
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  Speaker 2: what hits and all those things. So I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: is a great time here to to sharpen the sword,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak, and kind of understand, you know, build
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  Speaker 2: the foundation, kind of build a platform to jumping off
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  Speaker 2: point for when we come back in the fall. And
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  Speaker 2: then even when that happens, you know, it's a you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna constantly evolve of where you're gonna put guys and
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  Speaker 2: how you're gonna interact and what groups you can put
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  Speaker 2: out there, and if you're not doing that, you get
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  Speaker 2: static and you kind of become you know, you know off,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Get a bead for what you're doing. So you got
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  Speaker 3: to keep it moving. You personally, you joked about not
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  Speaker 3: talking this much.
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  Speaker 4: But now that you've got more.
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  Speaker 2: Practices under your belt, where have you seen a change
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  Speaker 2: in how you approach it or you're comfortable? Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean you're you're having interactions with guys and that
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  Speaker 2: kind of gives you a feel for how you know
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  Speaker 2: guys tick and you know how what types of conversations
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  Speaker 2: you want with who. So again, it's a process and
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  Speaker 2: it takes time, and there's no magic wand you can
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  Speaker 2: just wave and everybody just gets along and there's all
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  Speaker 2: this mutual understanding about how we're going to operate. It's
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  Speaker 2: we're just like chasing the mutual understanding of what kind
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  Speaker 2: of football team we want to be, and it's just
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  Speaker 2: this constant chase.
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  Speaker 1: Of what we want.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Spoon knows, you know, he's like, well, you
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  Speaker 2: know a couple of conversations with Mike, but yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: mean that's that's what we're shooting for. And today was
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  Speaker 2: a great testament of it about you know, how we're
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  Speaker 2: going to operate as a team.
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  Speaker 4: Like about you know Smith, this Austinson before you've really
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  Speaker 4: been around him at time, just now.
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  Speaker 1: That I've been around in a couple of months, seen
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  Speaker 1: him on the fields, what been your oppression for GENA.
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  Speaker 2: He's highly competitive. I love how Gino works. We're pushing
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  Speaker 2: him to take the next step as a as a
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  Speaker 2: football player, then as a leader, and and I think
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  Speaker 2: he's he's answering the call. So really excited about uh
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  Speaker 2: about Geno up to this point just getting to know him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but just really such a such a respect
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  Speaker 2: for how how hard this man works at his craft.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's coming along. Fine.
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  Speaker 2: It's again we're we're practice. We're practiced too, you know.
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  Speaker 2: There it's funny. You know, you're sitting in the offensive
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  Speaker 2: staff watching practice with guys, and there's things that offensive
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  Speaker 2: coaches notice with the whole team, you know that you
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  Speaker 2: don't necessarily see from like the defensive perspective. So but
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  Speaker 2: I thought, I thought he had a really good practice
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  Speaker 2: and he's slinging it. But just like the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the team, he's got a lot of work on. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I got a lot to work on. It's just but
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  Speaker 2: I think we all have that mentality of how we
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  Speaker 2: want to of how we want.
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  Speaker 1: To approach it.
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  Speaker 2: So I think Sam's right there. I think it's an
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  Speaker 2: exciting future at the base of how you whole people
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  Speaker 2: and isn't practically any different than last yet tis again, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: each each situation is unique. I mean Michigan, we took
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  Speaker 2: it really really slow. Uh, what we were trying to
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  Speaker 2: do is very foreign to the guys.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: It took a long time, and we and we took
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  Speaker 2: our time and that and that's okay, you know, but
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  Speaker 2: we're we're chasing exeit cushion At Baltimore, the first year
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  Speaker 2: was similar more to Michigan than you'd anticipate. The second year,
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  Speaker 2: they had a good pretty pretty good baseline, so we
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  Speaker 2: were able to get along with a good clip. So
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  Speaker 2: I think if you go in with an open mind
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  Speaker 2: of hey, let's do what makes sense for this group,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's where end up in the right spot.
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  Speaker 4: I through linebacker coaching background, not having contact right now,
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  Speaker 4: rookie like Tyre Sanyas and of the other undrafted guys
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  Speaker 4: out there, what do you think are the most important
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  Speaker 4: things to see progressional wise in that position before you
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  Speaker 4: get into trade and camp.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think it's uh, I hate to
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  Speaker 2: make keep making these blanket saiments, but it really is
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  Speaker 2: the whole defense and really the whole team. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you're looking at communication in and out of the huddle,
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  Speaker 2: you know, pre and post snap alignments, how fast they
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  Speaker 2: were reacting, able to execute your technique without having to
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  Speaker 2: go like combative against the next guy across you. In
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  Speaker 2: the run game, it gets kind of tough because you
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  Speaker 2: know the runner is going to run through the defense,
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  Speaker 2: and when you can seems when you go back and
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  Speaker 2: watch it on tape, like, oh, there's a guy right there,
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  Speaker 2: we would have made the play. And you know, those
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  Speaker 2: are some assumptions you have to make until you put
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  Speaker 2: the pads on frill and that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: But that's that's the uh, that's where we're at. But
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  Speaker 1: those are the things you're looking for.
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  Speaker 5: What if you learned in the last month, maybe the
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  Speaker 5: last two days, about how to run the practice, how
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  Speaker 5: you want.
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  Speaker 2: Have done here? Well, I think I think, uh, I
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  Speaker 2: think we had a pretty clear vision about how we
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  Speaker 2: wanted practice to go. I mean, we want to be fast,
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  Speaker 2: we want to execute, we want to be loud, we
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  Speaker 2: want to get the job done, we want to get
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  Speaker 2: the heck out of here, you know. So there's not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of lollygagging around, but to make it it's
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  Speaker 2: we wanted we were again, you don't.
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  Speaker 3: Practice to practice, you're practicing to train to go play
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 2: So all a lot of the decisions that we're making
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  Speaker 2: are you know, inspired by that kind of principle behind
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Where is Lucas and his whatever?
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  Speaker 2: It's hard, it's hard to tell, you know, it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to tell. I mean, we're shooting for camp right now.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, abs uh Abbes getting after it and in rehab.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm proud of his effort that he's putting in.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't see Anthony Bradford out there. Yeah, he tweaked
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  Speaker 1: his ankle yesterday. Shouldn't be it shouldn't be long.
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  Speaker 5: Mike, What did you learned about your fourinators getting to
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  Speaker 5: work with them a little bit Europe the last month
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  Speaker 5: or so?
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  Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, you know, I'm We're in a great spot.
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  Speaker 2: We get I think we hired two great people, two
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  Speaker 2: really good football coaches working more hand to hand, hand
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  Speaker 2: in hand with a d on a daily basis, just
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  Speaker 2: getting the defense organized and installing and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: But really excited about ads. The connection needs to be
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  Speaker 2: able to make with the defense, how he orchestrates the front.
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  Speaker 2: We've been able to bounce a lot of ideas off
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  Speaker 2: one another, so that's been really fun. And then Grub,
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's talking about really detailed, detail oriented guy
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  Speaker 2: knows exactly what he's looking for.
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  Speaker 1: He's very precise.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about as a team where like we want
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  Speaker 2: clarity and everything we're doing, you know, we want the
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  Speaker 2: guys to know exactly what the expectations are, exactly what
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  Speaker 2: they're you know, what's being asked of them, and he
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  Speaker 2: has that.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's a very clear communicator for sure.
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  Speaker 5: It's like the goal that has the installed time if
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  Speaker 5: I end up any hands.
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  Speaker 2: On no, no baseline, Yeah, that we're chasing the baseline
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  Speaker 2: based fundamentals. You'll see it's it's not a huge install,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's concepts. Spoke at the base concepts in then
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  Speaker 2: and then we'll go from there.
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  Speaker 4: Getting the fourthead of the card a little bit here,
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  Speaker 4: but you guys are playing your forward mentor Jim Harvard
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  Speaker 4: the first preside the game, do you have the interest
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  Speaker 4: in maybe doing some joint practices.
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  Speaker 3: We don down of the life down the line maybe,
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  Speaker 3: but this year we're not going to.
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  Speaker 2: But it'll be it'll be, Uh, it'll be fun to
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  Speaker 2: see those guys and see Jesse and you know, some
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  Speaker 2: of the other coaches that.
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  Speaker 1: We're familiar with. But yeah, it'll be fun to go
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  Speaker 1: down there and then get after it a little bit like.
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  Speaker 3: A clarity from the coaches into the players.
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  Speaker 1: What does that enable I'm sorry, the clarity in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the players you just said. You know, the coaches
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  Speaker 1: are clear, yeah, and making that clear with the players
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  Speaker 1: it makes you lets you play the right way.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: If I know exactly what's expected me, how I'm supposed
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  Speaker 2: to do it, now I can go play the way
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  Speaker 2: we want, you know, on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: So if it's out there and it's great, that sews
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  Speaker 3: you down.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're just come and put yourself in those
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  Speaker 2: in those positions of those guys out there, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: where do you stand, what do you look at?
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  Speaker 1: How do you move? All those types of things.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know that's why it takes so much time,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and that's that's what differentiates good teams from
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  Speaker 2: from great teams. Oh yes, alrighty, But that's okay, but
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  Speaker 2: it's to simulate the game as much as we can.
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  Speaker 4: Baseline, Treel Dotson and Jern Baker, we didn't really see
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  Speaker 4: them out there today, are they Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, t Dots out there, but he's limited and bakes
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  Speaker 3: in the in the in house.
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  Speaker 1: But he's rehaving right now.
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  Speaker 4: He's talking about making his game like as possible in
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  Speaker 4: every possible way.
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  Speaker 3: Was that something that you took from Baltimore or the
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  Speaker 3: other staff along the way where that was kind of
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  Speaker 3: drilled us mostly from from John And uh just just
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  Speaker 3: makes sense, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're not going to practice to practice great,
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  Speaker 2: we're practiced to go go out there and play games
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  Speaker 2: in a game like scenario.
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  Speaker 5: So, Greek wooland what do you just in general, what
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  Speaker 5: are you kind of seen out of him this time
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  Speaker 5: last year?
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  Speaker 3: He had just that knee surgery and it kind of
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  Speaker 3: you know, he missed this whole time last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, uh, I think Threek's in a great spot.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's in a great spot. We had a
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  Speaker 2: great conversation today, expected big things from him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: So just like everyone else on the defense and on
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the team, we're gonna be pushing them
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  Speaker 2: because uh, there's greatness in there.
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  Speaker 5: Got position group in general that one're pretty excited about
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  Speaker 5: with both the guys come back and.
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  Speaker 1: Then you have a couple of corners in the draft.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean we're really excited about our secondary
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  Speaker 2: and I think there's some some flexibility there. We can
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  Speaker 2: get some some personnel groups for guys moving around, play
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  Speaker 2: matchup ball a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, I think they're they're in a good spot.
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  Speaker 2: And again, I mean we'll see, you know, it's just
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  Speaker 2: kind of the guys had great two days, We've stacked
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  Speaker 2: and let's go back to work, you know, have another
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  Speaker 2: great oat tomorrow and then see we're at kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of going to the next day. So one day at
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  Speaker 1: a time. Inside, I mean where do I start.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, uh, great feel for the game, I mean
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  Speaker 2: just it kicks things up really quick, but just understands
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  Speaker 2: ball and plays that are really really fast speed. But
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  Speaker 2: when you know Nickel, there's a lot of action in there,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know, when you guys have that type
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  Speaker 2: of skill set, you can kind of get them around
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  Speaker 2: the action as much as possible.
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  Speaker 1: So he'll do all the things.
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  Speaker 2: So blitz man' zone, play a deep air of the field,
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  Speaker 2: So it's a it's a it's a fun position.
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  Speaker 1: To play Jenkins. What are you seeing out of him
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  Speaker 1: so far?
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  Speaker 2: Shoot, I mean the things we anticipated off of tape
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  Speaker 2: and off of like reputation and kind of doing our homework.
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  Speaker 2: But he's gonna be a leader on this football team.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to count on him. And he's very talented.
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  Speaker 2: He's a guy that we can you know, play matchup
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  Speaker 2: with and he can you know again, he can do
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  Speaker 2: all the things we ask from.
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  Speaker 1: A from a safety in our system. So off to
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  Speaker 1: a great start. We uh, we expect a big year
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  Speaker 1: from him. Anything else all right, Thanks guys,