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Press Pass | Doug Pederson Speaks Before Week 3 of OTAs · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You could just comment. I know he posted on an
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  Speaker 1: Instagram story about David White. Was that in practice? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: It w gosh, it was a non contact obviously unfortunate,
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  Speaker 2: just running her out and he was having a really
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  Speaker 2: good off season and uh, just you know, wish him
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  Speaker 2: well now during the recovery. We'll get him back and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully everything you know for him, you know, is positive
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  Speaker 2: and and uh but uh, yeah, just happened last week
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  Speaker 2: that it was.
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  Speaker 1: Should you know, obviously he'll be a candidate to be
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  Speaker 1: placed on reserve. Ir would be the hope for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, talk to Trent about that and
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  Speaker 2: and definitely be a candidate for that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Doug, you mentioned last week that uh talked about
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  Speaker 4: how Trevor has been more of a vocal leader and
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  Speaker 4: all all that.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever been on a team with.
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  Speaker 4: A really good quarterback who you didn't think was all
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  Speaker 4: that into.
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  Speaker 1: Being a leader.
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  Speaker 4: It was just a counted quarterback who could get the
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  Speaker 4: job done.
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  Speaker 1: But as far as leadership is kind of so.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh you know, I mean you you kind of
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  Speaker 2: lump all the all the great ones and all the
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  Speaker 2: good quarterbacks in that in that boat. I guess you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're they're good leaders in the locker room, off the field,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with with the coaching staffy you know. And look,
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  Speaker 2: it's not about necessarily being all vocal. I mean I
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  Speaker 2: played with you know, one of the greatest you know
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  Speaker 2: in Bretton. He wasn't a vocal guy, but he just
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  Speaker 2: he just led by example and you know, uh spoke
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  Speaker 2: up when he had to, you know, and and you
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  Speaker 2: know Trevor's very similar that way.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he speaks when he has to.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, just things we've seen this offseason have been
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  Speaker 2: very positive that way, and we just got to continue
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  Speaker 2: to to grow in that direction.
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  Speaker 4: How much do you sense the way last year ended
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  Speaker 4: he is serving as as fuel for him.
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  Speaker 1: You know what it does for you, but I mean
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  Speaker 1: for him.
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  Speaker 3: I think it. I think it.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's fuel motivation for him, you know, to uh
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  Speaker 2: to to compete this year, to stay healthy this year,
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  Speaker 2: to to lead better this year, you know, and and
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  Speaker 2: maybe demand more this year.
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  Speaker 3: Those are all positive traits that.
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  Speaker 2: Can come out of something, you know, as negative as
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  Speaker 2: the end of the year last year.
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  Speaker 4: You're going into year three with Evan Ingram, what sort
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  Speaker 4: of growth have you've seen from him over the time
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  Speaker 4: you've had with him.
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  Speaker 2: He just, i mean just continues to improve, just understanding defense,
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  Speaker 2: understanding our system.
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  Speaker 3: You know how he and Trevor on the same page,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: And Evan's done a nice job just leading his room.
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  Speaker 2: Him and Luke Luke both. I mean, these are the
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  Speaker 2: two veteran guys in there. But you know, Evan was
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  Speaker 2: a great addition for us, you know, three years ago,
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  Speaker 2: and continues to you know, really impress and and really
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's another one of those guys that's taken
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  Speaker 2: more of that vocal stance, I think, especially with the offense,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And and he's also somebody that can backs
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  Speaker 2: it up on the field. So he's done a nice job,
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  Speaker 2: continues to uh, you know, lead by example obviously, and
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  Speaker 2: again not a he's not always the vocal guy, but
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  Speaker 2: when he when he needs to, he he will.
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  Speaker 5: How is it to have a good core of those
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  Speaker 5: vocal or non vocal leaders on the team.
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  Speaker 3: It's good, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And then I don't have to do it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to yell and scream all the time
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  Speaker 2: or or or you know, motivate. It's you know, when
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  Speaker 2: it comes from their peers. It carries a lot more weight.
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  Speaker 1: How confident are you? Did you know what kickoffs are
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  Speaker 1: gonna look like next year?
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  Speaker 3: And is still some mystery?
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  Speaker 2: You know, We're still working out some things, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and it's it's good this offseason to really, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think vet out what what we can and can't do,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with with angles and blocks, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's different types of returns and and all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: things that we're continuing to work work through. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna take you know, preseason, preseason games to really
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  Speaker 2: fully understand, you know, what it's about. But I think
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  Speaker 2: for us it's, uh, it's been good because we get
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  Speaker 2: all our guys out there and and you know, get
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  Speaker 2: some stuff on tape that we can study and and
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of kind of work through, work through some kinks
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  Speaker 3: that way.
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  Speaker 1: Did she talk last week about not using a kicker
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  Speaker 1: for kickoffs?
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  Speaker 3: Who who's kicking?
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  Speaker 1: Defense to that? Right? Well, you guys could use load
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  Speaker 1: the cook you can you can tackle.
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  Speaker 3: That's why you're on that side. The river.
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  Speaker 1: Years a lot of names, identity, who you want to
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  Speaker 1: be and who you are? Do you do you have
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  Speaker 1: a sense of who you want to be. And do
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  Speaker 1: you have a sense of who you walk are right now?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I I yeah, I guess yes and no.
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  Speaker 2: To answer the question, I mean it's early, you know,
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  Speaker 2: no pads are on, and and we're still working through
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  Speaker 2: and and in this time of year, it's it's about
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  Speaker 2: the teaching, right and and really I think establishing, establishing
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  Speaker 2: some philosophy all three phases.
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  Speaker 3: I think you kind of, you know, as.
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  Speaker 2: A coach, you look, you look big picture and kind
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  Speaker 2: of have an idea of what it looks like and
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  Speaker 2: what it could look like. But I think I think
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  Speaker 2: that stuff evolves. It really evolves too as the season
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  Speaker 2: progresses too, Right as you get into September and October,
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  Speaker 2: you're never a finished product, and you know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things can happen, you know, early in the season.
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  Speaker 3: So I think we're I think we're working through that
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 1: In your head, what do you want to be?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you've heard the guys talk a lot about
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've talked a lot about it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you definitely, you know you want to be a physical
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  Speaker 2: football team. You want to be a smart football team.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to beat yourself. Obviously, those are all
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  Speaker 2: those are all I think three obvious traits that you
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  Speaker 2: want your football team to uh to be. And and
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  Speaker 2: then you know, ultimately schematically it just depends on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of how the season goes and what begins to unfold.
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  Speaker 5: What do you seem.
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  Speaker 2: Well, kick off, kick off and kick off return. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's a big thing.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we've been working working some red zone a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more, you know, and and really.
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  Speaker 3: Again it's it's this is this is a time of
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  Speaker 3: the year where.
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  Speaker 2: It's about development, it's about teaching, and it's about the fundamentals.
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  Speaker 2: And and I don't think so much that we're tinkering
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of things, but at the same time
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  Speaker 2: developing our young players and seeing what you have and
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  Speaker 2: can they handle, you know, playing, you know, getting getting
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  Speaker 2: snaps with Let's say it's you know, a young offensive lineman,
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  Speaker 2: can he get the reps with the starters or a
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  Speaker 2: d lineman can he get the reps with you know,
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  Speaker 2: your starters the secondary guy.
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  Speaker 3: So if there's any tinkering that goes.
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  Speaker 2: On, that's probably where it's at right now, the personnel
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  Speaker 2: and the growth and developing those young players. Are there
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  Speaker 2: any of those young players that maybe didn't play a
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  Speaker 2: ton last year that stood out to you so far
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  Speaker 2: to this point. You know, the two three on offense,
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  Speaker 2: you look at you look at what Brenton's doing. You
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  Speaker 2: look at what Parker's doing. Parkers, you know, taking a
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  Speaker 2: really good step forward this year. He's having a really
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  Speaker 2: good offseason.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Hodge is coming back and getting opportunities out there,
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  Speaker 2: looking looking really good.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Tank Tank's another.
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  Speaker 2: One offensively, you know just where he's at, you know,
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  Speaker 2: mature level and understanding the offense. I think defensively, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Lacey taking another step this year even though he
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  Speaker 2: played you know a little bit last year. Ventro Miller
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  Speaker 2: coming back off the injury, is having a good offseason
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  Speaker 2: and the way he's moving around, can he can you
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  Speaker 2: know carry that into training camp, you know. And and
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  Speaker 2: then and then even just some of the some of
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  Speaker 2: the young young rookies. You know, Jarion Jones is getting
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  Speaker 2: opportunities out there. You know, Trey Prince is getting opportunities
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  Speaker 2: out there, you know, and and and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, it's uh, and that's all part of
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  Speaker 2: the development, right, that's all part of you know, this
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  Speaker 2: time of year and making sure those guys are in
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  Speaker 2: a position to help.
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  Speaker 1: List it off all of last year's draft picks.
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  Speaker 5: How important is that first true off season for these
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  Speaker 5: guys considering last year, you're going right from draft right
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  Speaker 5: into jumping into stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's yeah, I think it's big, you know,
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  Speaker 2: going into year two for them, They've had an off
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  Speaker 2: season to kind of rest and and uh get healthy obviously,
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  Speaker 2: and then and then going into year two, there's confidence there.
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  Speaker 2: We understand their ability and what they can do. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's that's the part that as coaches, we've
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  Speaker 2: got we've got to see, you know, and plugging them
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  Speaker 2: in and and see where they can help us, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And and you know, because when you finally get down
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  Speaker 2: to your fifty three, it's it's all fifty three are
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  Speaker 2: available on game day, and and you know, all these guys,
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  Speaker 2: all these guys have done a nice job, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this offseason, even the guys that were injured, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and missed the season are all contributing and and
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  Speaker 2: doing doing a nice job.
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  Speaker 1: Compared to last year, when you made a commissant vocal
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  Speaker 1: effort to spend more time with the defense to kind
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  Speaker 1: of divide your time a little bit, how would you
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  Speaker 1: assess so far? And especially knowing like you said, the
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  Speaker 1: hope is that Ryan can handle the defense in terms
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  Speaker 1: of how you've divided your time.
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  Speaker 2: Still you know, still involved really in all three phases
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  Speaker 2: again this time of year, you know, very confident obviously
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  Speaker 2: on the defensive side, that that Ryan.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Ryan can handle that and he's done it.
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  Speaker 2: He's proven that, you know in his career and and
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  Speaker 2: you know it just it just gives me the flexibility
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  Speaker 2: to spend time in all three areas and really really
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  Speaker 2: get a good good handle on on where we are
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  Speaker 2: as a team and and and how we can you know,
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  Speaker 2: how I can adjust certain things is to fit us.
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  Speaker 5: What Eric I know he's been limited on field, but
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  Speaker 5: maybe some of the conversations in the classroom and stuff
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  Speaker 5: like that.
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  Speaker 2: Eric Mseta, well, you know, he and I who just
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  Speaker 2: conversations on the field.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's going to be a really good leader
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  Speaker 3: once once. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously right now it's tough for him because he's not
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  Speaker 2: out there, you know, and in competing with the guys.
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  Speaker 2: But but he's one of those players that you really
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  Speaker 2: don't need to see a lot because you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: got a track record in the history there, but I
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  Speaker 2: think I think what he brings is that that leadership
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  Speaker 2: he's bring. He brings a confidence level. He's he's been there,
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  Speaker 2: He's been at the top of the pinnacle, been to
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl, has been the NFC championship games. He he
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  Speaker 2: knows how to he knows how to do it. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the part that that that I'm encouraged by,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and and he and I have had
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  Speaker 2: conversations already about that, and and just looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: him getting out there and really mixing it up the guys.
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  Speaker 5: You've spoken about the value of the experience of these
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  Speaker 5: free agents like Eric and Ronald, even though it's earlier,
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  Speaker 5: they're still kind of learning the system here. How have
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  Speaker 5: you seen that applied so far benefiting the team as
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  Speaker 5: a whole.
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  Speaker 2: I just think, you know, one, it gives you, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think depth, right, It gives you depth at those positions,
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  Speaker 2: and it gives you flexibility to especially in the D
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  Speaker 2: line right, to move move some pieces around first, second down,
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  Speaker 2: third down, right, and where Eric can plug in, he
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  Speaker 2: can plug in an end, he can plug in as
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  Speaker 2: a three tag traybon, he can be an end he
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  Speaker 2: can be a three tech you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, So there there's some It'll be really nice once
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  Speaker 3: we get.
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  Speaker 2: Them all out there together, just to see how that
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  Speaker 2: plays a part. Same as the secondary you know, with
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  Speaker 2: Ronald a veteran guy. You know, he comes in here,
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  Speaker 2: you know, competing for that spot and just really embracing
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity but at the same time being able to lead.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, because we've got some young guys still
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  Speaker 2: at the corner position and being able to I think
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  Speaker 2: show them, you know, how to practice, how to study,
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  Speaker 2: how to prepare. Are all things that guys like that
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  Speaker 2: really bring bring to us.
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  Speaker 1: Besides David healthy last week, no other injuries. And then
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  Speaker 1: do you have a timeline in terms of Eric, Gabe
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  Speaker 1: and Roy going open how to limited?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think you know, Yeah, David is the only one
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  Speaker 2: that's the significant one. Those other guys should be cleared
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  Speaker 2: and ready to go for training camp.
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  Speaker 5: Any absence has anticipated today on the field absences.
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  Speaker 4: You just Josh thinks the only one you have free
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  Speaker 4: issues this time camp.
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  Speaker 1: How do you plan to do the Manaford meaning camp.
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  Speaker 5: The way you kind of did it last year?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, which is what young guys and all that
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  Speaker 3: other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the veterans G yeah, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I I'll i'll be selective, you know with those guys.
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  Speaker 2: But again, it's it's it's about development and and growth
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  Speaker 2: and and uh, the more time we can work with
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  Speaker 2: young players, getting getting more reps, you know, it's beneficial
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  Speaker 2: for for us as a whole,