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Press Pass | Pederson: "Our offense needs to be fluid." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What what is this day gonna be white just seeing
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  Speaker 1: all the fans and everything and having time.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's gonna be Uh, it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: great day. Number one, we get a chance to you know,
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  Speaker 2: sort of for it. It's it's a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: both for the team being able to transition from our
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  Speaker 2: new facility, particularly on a game day, right, being able
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  Speaker 2: to walk through and getting over here, uh on a
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  Speaker 2: game day uh situation. So there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: that involved. Plus you know, having the military here and
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  Speaker 2: the fans here. It's just gonna be a great day
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  Speaker 2: and exciting day for everybody in the fans and and
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  Speaker 2: you know, just looking forward to you know, the next
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  Speaker 2: few hours through the funnel that all the workout equipment,
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  Speaker 2: all the siding equipment.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about. I think we kind of underplayed that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what does it meant for the players, for you,
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  Speaker 1: for your staff to have an actually dedicated training facility.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it means everything to us.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's just exciting to have a a place
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  Speaker 2: that uh, you know again that we call home. Right,
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  Speaker 2: It's it's uh, it's an off this building. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you're not coming to the stadium every single day and
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  Speaker 2: I was walking in with with some players, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: and it deep down you kind of miss it. You
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  Speaker 2: kind of miss you know, walking up and down these
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  Speaker 2: hallways and and uh. But then but then you kind
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  Speaker 2: of stop yourself and you're like, I don't know about
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  Speaker 2: that now. I kind of like having a window and
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  Speaker 2: and being able to see the practice fields and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, getting back over here.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously it's uh, it's exciting. You know, obviously O t
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  Speaker 2: as were here this spring and and all of that,
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  Speaker 2: but just getting back and getting familiar with everything, it's
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  Speaker 2: just a nice little dry run for you know, the
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  Speaker 2: season to come. Updates on Cisco, Harrison.
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  Speaker 1: And Shotley. Okay, so Cisco, Cisco's good again.
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  Speaker 2: He's back, but I wouldn't I wouldn't pu him one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: We're still gonna monitor him, make sure he's he's good
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  Speaker 1: to go.
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  Speaker 2: H Harrison, Anton, You're gonna see a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: incorporated today. We're still progressing him slowly, so he'll he'll
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  Speaker 2: get a couple of reps here and there with the first.
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  Speaker 1: Unit, and then Shatley is a little a little different.
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  Speaker 2: After practice the other day, he went into a fib so,
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  Speaker 2: so we got him right away, got him treated. He's fine,
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  Speaker 2: he's okay, he's with the team. You know, everything's calm down,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but but he's he's obviously he'll be out
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  Speaker 2: there today, he'll be in uniform, but you know, uh
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  Speaker 2: until uh until he's cleared. You know, he'll just he'll
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  Speaker 2: just work on the side and all that. But but
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  Speaker 2: from a health standpoint, he's good.
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  Speaker 1: They've done three strings and pads coming up where you
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  Speaker 1: want to fly out about your achief. You know, this
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  Speaker 1: is a this is a grind.
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  Speaker 2: This is a grind part of training camp here and
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  Speaker 2: and you know, uh, it's more it's more about the
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  Speaker 2: I think the mental mental toughness, you know, at this point,
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  Speaker 2: because we know the season is a long season, and
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  Speaker 2: and things come up and you have to endure some
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  Speaker 2: some adversity from time to time, and there's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: some you know, I mean, it's it's gonna be hot,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be warm. Guys aren't gonna feel good. Coaches
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  Speaker 2: aren't gonna feel good. But you know what, this is
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  Speaker 2: what we we signed up to do. And so these
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  Speaker 2: three days are are gonna gonna show a lot that way.
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  Speaker 2: To see who's who's really focused in locked in, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll take care of him obviously with with water
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  Speaker 2: breaks and different things like that and keep them hydrated
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  Speaker 2: and and all. But uh, this is a this is
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  Speaker 2: a good little stretch, you know. Then another day off
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  Speaker 2: and then we then we prepare for for the first preseason.
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  Speaker 1: Game during camp.
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  Speaker 2: How much is this do you encourage Trevor at all
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  Speaker 2: to like figure out what guy's catch radiuses footballs in
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  Speaker 2: different places and see different receivers.
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  Speaker 1: Can make playing a little Yeah, you know you want
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  Speaker 1: to try that that stuff. This is the time to
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  Speaker 1: do it. See see what guys can and can't do.
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  Speaker 2: And and really too it's a trust factor for the
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  Speaker 2: for the quarterback, for Trevor, you know, to be able.
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  Speaker 1: To put a ball uh in an area and see
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  Speaker 1: a receiver go get it. Just you just you remember
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, right and.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, so we we encourage him to to try
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  Speaker 2: try different things.
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  Speaker 1: Just you know, even even.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if it's if it's if if a receiver
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  Speaker 2: is double covered, you know, not not tight, the double
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  Speaker 2: double covered, but covered where he can throw a ball
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  Speaker 2: and stick it in there, see what he can sort
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  Speaker 2: of get away with and and try to try to
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  Speaker 2: do the same thing with with receivers and find out
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  Speaker 2: what they can can't do. There's today about maybe who's
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  Speaker 2: the only one preseason game at.
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  Speaker 1: Home and you wanted to get the bands.
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  Speaker 2: Of one more opteamers to see the team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, obviously we got a nice stadium
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  Speaker 2: across the way where fans are you know, out there
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  Speaker 2: every day and and watching watching what we do. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is just a bigger venue to allow
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  Speaker 2: more people on a Saturday morning, and yeah, just to
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  Speaker 2: just to see the guys, you know, and and uh
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  Speaker 2: be around the team and just kind of get that
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  Speaker 2: excitement and.
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  Speaker 1: Enthusiasm for uh, for the season.
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  Speaker 2: No, not today, No, no.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, it's it's from a practice standpoint. We're still normal.
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  Speaker 2: We're still getting you know, we're still evaluating and still
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  Speaker 2: you know, wanting to see everybody practice and get get reps.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing lived, no, nothing live today, No nothing live today.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see anybody separating? But why do you see
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  Speaker 1: really obviously you know your top three, top four are
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  Speaker 1: of that bottom have Do you really see anybody separating?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I I see Kevin Austin a little bit
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  Speaker 2: flashing and doing some really good things, you know, even
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  Speaker 2: even uh, you know, Elijah Cooks is making some plays.
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  Speaker 2: Big tall guys. Him and Jacob Harris both are you know,
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  Speaker 2: big tall guys. And and you know, obviously Tim Jones
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  Speaker 2: kind of picking up where he left off a year ago,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and the other guys are still learning and
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  Speaker 2: improving and and uh uh, but I think Kevin's been
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  Speaker 2: the one that has has done a really nice job
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  Speaker 2: kind of embracing that second year coming in understanding what
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  Speaker 2: we're asking him to do in his role. And and
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  Speaker 2: again it's you know, it's a big, big training camp
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  Speaker 2: for for him and many of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Since you and Ryan hows Roy Groan as a player
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  Speaker 1: and is a defensive lineman. Yeah, you know, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think of him as as a lead,
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  Speaker 2: one of the one of the strong leaders of our
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  Speaker 2: football team, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And and really how he I think he's really embraced
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  Speaker 2: the things that that we started teaching last year in
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  Speaker 2: training camp. And and you know, obviously it wasn't probably
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  Speaker 2: what he wanted to start the season, but he was
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  Speaker 2: another player that just as the season went on, got
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  Speaker 2: better and better and just understanding.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what the what the defense is and presented
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  Speaker 1: and the techniques and.
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  Speaker 2: Everything that that that coach Caldwell and Buck you know
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  Speaker 2: present to them, and and and and you know, you
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  Speaker 2: just saw the fact that he works extremely hard, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in practice, and uh that pays off to a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the young guys in that room. And and you
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  Speaker 2: know even even this offseason now this training camp, he's
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  Speaker 2: he's really taking his game to another another level. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what we got to have in that in that
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  Speaker 2: D line room.
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  Speaker 1: Bigsby, y.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Tank, Yeah, yeah, we call we call him Tank
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  Speaker 2: all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Bigsby, What do I like about him? You know?
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  Speaker 2: This kid is this kid is uh outside of like
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  Speaker 2: the size of speed, a less of all that, but
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  Speaker 2: this kid is he's a sponge, you know. And he's
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  Speaker 2: really a smart, uh smart young running back understands defense,
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  Speaker 2: understands you know. One of the things really too, that's
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  Speaker 2: that's been impressive is how well he's taken the coaching,
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  Speaker 2: whether it be from Bernie or myself or even Phil
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  Speaker 2: you know, ralsher being able to take that and and
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  Speaker 2: and apply it to uh, to what he's doing. And
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  Speaker 2: he's he's just improven every day. You know, it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a really good competitive room, is what what you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited about because there's some really good talent in
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  Speaker 2: that room. But he's he's he's shown us that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some really good things with with uh you know the
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  Speaker 2: competition where he's at uh uh you know TJ.
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  Speaker 1: I just say tj Is has done done a nice
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  Speaker 1: job as well.
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  Speaker 2: And he's I would even say he's a better pass catcher,
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  Speaker 2: you know, than than of course in college they didn't
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  Speaker 2: they didn't throw it to him a bunch, but he's
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  Speaker 2: a really good pass catcher, you know, out of the backfield.
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  Speaker 2: You talk me literally what you've seen from Parker is
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  Speaker 2: another one that's uh. You know, he sits there behind
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  Speaker 2: Christian and Aggs all the time. He sits there and
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  Speaker 2: studies them and watches them. He is strong, he's powerful. Again,
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  Speaker 2: He's another one that's probably not you know, a blazer,
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  Speaker 2: but at the same time, he's very quick in and
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  Speaker 2: out of breaks and transitions.
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  Speaker 1: He's a smart receiver.
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  Speaker 2: He's learning our system, he's getting getting better there every day.
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  Speaker 2: And and really see him, you know again coming up
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  Speaker 2: in these preseason games, just whether he gets a punt
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  Speaker 2: return or a kickoff return or something like that as well.
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  Speaker 2: Are are all things that as a coaching staff that
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  Speaker 2: we can we can really evaluate him and and and see.
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  Speaker 1: But he's done a nice job for.
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  Speaker 2: Us A and he said he sees him as a
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  Speaker 2: cent cru Christian.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see that? Not yet? Not yet?
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's I mean, listen, christians A Christian's uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, uh a kind of light years ahead. But
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  Speaker 2: I could see him kind of being in that type
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  Speaker 2: of you know, uh role, let's say, but I will
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  Speaker 2: I would say this, he's probably more of an inside guy,
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  Speaker 2: where Christian can play both inside out. Y you talked
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  Speaker 2: about fully a little a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 1: But what have you sort of seen from him as
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  Speaker 1: far as his progress?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously last year he wasn't able to do a lot
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  Speaker 2: of training camps, got injured in the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: But what have you seen this year.
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  Speaker 2: Just how he's m in you know, attacked uh this
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  Speaker 2: training camp. You know, he came in great frame of mind.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he wanted to get back to the player
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  Speaker 2: he was, you know when we evaluated him as a
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  Speaker 2: as a free agent. And and he's done that. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's been really impressive these first two weeks. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's coming off the ball pad levels low and just
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're you're starting to see those sides again.
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  Speaker 2: Second year player in our system, much like Roy uh
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  Speaker 2: where they're a game now Uh can go to the
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  Speaker 2: next level. And and he's really uh, he's really embraced that.
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  Speaker 2: And and again he you know, he understands that, and
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  Speaker 2: he knows he knows where he needs to be and
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  Speaker 2: and he's heading heading in that direction. Y, you talked
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  Speaker 2: about his expectations that you guys have room and that
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  Speaker 2: guess for himself, what is that?
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  Speaker 1: What what type of player do you guys expect him
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  Speaker 1: to be defensing?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Y, you know, he he's gonna be somebody that
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  Speaker 2: can that can hopefully dominate the the middle or the
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  Speaker 2: interior that the offensive line, right, and he's he's our
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  Speaker 2: he's our guy in the middle, and you want him
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  Speaker 2: to be able to push, push the pocket and generate
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  Speaker 2: some power there, especially if he's working you know, as
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  Speaker 2: a no's and working you know, one on one with
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  Speaker 2: with with centers and things like that. And you know
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  Speaker 2: that's that's the expectation, you know, And and again it goes
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  Speaker 2: back to just keeping keeping players in the right spots
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  Speaker 2: and and making sure that they can be the best there.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what he's done. And and you know, just
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  Speaker 2: again taking this game one more notch up and and
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  Speaker 2: you know, his expectations are high and and so are
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  Speaker 2: ours and and he's on the right track.
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  Speaker 1: How much growth is it? Yeah, yeah, we'll go to more.
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  Speaker 2: How much growth does a with a little shop just
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  Speaker 2: since you got first gat again.
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  Speaker 1: Moment, you're quite a bit.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's been a guy that you kind of
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  Speaker 2: you know, he said, okay, he can play tackle, he
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  Speaker 2: can play guard, you know, move him around a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: and and uh, obviously we feel like his his best
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  Speaker 2: position is tackle. But but again, the I think the
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  Speaker 2: versatility that he has shown us is very valuable, you
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  Speaker 2: know the fact that he can move inside and play
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  Speaker 2: guard if if need be. And just again, his maturity.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't play a ton of snaps, you know obviously
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  Speaker 2: in college and and uh obviously here they saw something
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  Speaker 2: that that uh, you know, excited them and and it's
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  Speaker 2: the same things that that excite us.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's done a nice job, you know, these first
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks of camp, and and you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: really again another player that's really embraced his opportunity a
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  Speaker 2: movie you.
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  Speaker 1: Said as Jim Press wants to be established and think
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  Speaker 1: you he's were.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of an identity department, you know, on offense, just
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  Speaker 2: being being multiple and moving our guys around. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we talk a lot about you know, obviously the run,
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  Speaker 2: game play, action, all of that is critical, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: our offense needs to be needs to be fluid. You
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  Speaker 2: know that identity needs to be fluid. It needs to
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  Speaker 2: be something we're sort of changing every week. Being able
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  Speaker 2: to put our guys in positions to to move around
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  Speaker 2: our skill guys, and that's something we've been able to
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  Speaker 2: establish these first couple of weeks and the guys who's
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  Speaker 2: done a nice job, you know, a nice job of that.
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  Speaker 2: I think defensively is being aggressive upfront, you know, being
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  Speaker 2: physical upfront. You know, we we do understand that generating
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  Speaker 2: past rush in this league is a lot of it.
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  Speaker 2: But being able to stop the run and all of that,
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  Speaker 2: that is really I think where our defenses strong suit
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  Speaker 2: and being physical and those are just a couple of areas.
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  Speaker 1: And then special teams. You look at special teams where
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  Speaker 1: we finished we want to pick up where we left
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  Speaker 1: off last year.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we want to be dominant in the return game,
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  Speaker 2: and then we want to be able to you know,
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  Speaker 2: pin pin our opponents, you know, deep in their territory.
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  Speaker 1: Things like that, good coverage units.
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  Speaker 2: We pride ourselves on being physical there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, thank you,