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  Speaker 1: Let's start for real, just an injury update on the
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  Speaker 1: guys that uh.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we know Walker Walker Little he'll be out, you
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  Speaker 2: know with the ankle, probably missed the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Savage is still in the concussion protocol, so day to
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  Speaker 2: day obviously, we'll see how that progresses. Vent Trail's ankle
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  Speaker 2: didn't do anything yesterday. We'll see today. Probably be limited today.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: So he's he's the the latest. Everyone else is is uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, dinged up obviously, but should be you know,
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  Speaker 2: Brenton Strange, we find Tyson's good the ones that they.
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  Speaker 3: Came out of the game, but we're returned. I'll be
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  Speaker 3: good for the game.
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  Speaker 2: So is that Cole at left tackle for us?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: No, Cole, you know, definitely want to see Cole in there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he had a good preseason as we know,
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  Speaker 2: and and he's filled it nicely. So see him over there,
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  Speaker 2: that would be good for him.
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  Speaker 4: Do you notice any differences I guess when Tennessee's offense
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  Speaker 4: with the quarterback change, maybe things that they're doing differently
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  Speaker 4: with Mason and there's.
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  Speaker 2: No I mean, you know, still trying to you know,
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  Speaker 2: still trying to push the ball down the field. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: at the Calvin and some of the speed they have,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, still the ability to run the football
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  Speaker 2: screens Tony Pollard, you know, getting him to get him
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  Speaker 2: the ball when they can. And you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: one of the things too you're seeing is the defense
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  Speaker 2: is also creating some you know, some takeaways.
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  Speaker 3: Right, they're taking the football away, giving their.
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  Speaker 2: Offense some opportunities, but not a whole lot, you know,
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  Speaker 2: still just just running the running the offense.
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  Speaker 3: Do you like playing your team for the second time
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  Speaker 3: this close?
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  Speaker 2: It's fine? I mean, yeah, it's okay. You know, obviously
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  Speaker 2: they know us, we know them. We're gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: play them again at some point during the season, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, the familiarity obviously with both both teams, and
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  Speaker 2: we're both teams are within three weeks. This will be
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  Speaker 2: the fourth week. I guess, you know, is is okay?
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  Speaker 5: Your offensive line's ability to pass block is pretty solid,
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  Speaker 5: and then the running numbers are pretty dismal. Is that disparity?
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  Speaker 5: Can you put your finger on why an O line
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  Speaker 5: would be so good at one thing.
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  Speaker 6: And not so good at the other.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, obviously there two different, two
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  Speaker 2: different skill sets, right, you know, sometimes two we're seeing
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  Speaker 2: by scheme, you know, run through linebackers, you know, anticipating
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  Speaker 2: runs where where we're not we're not coming off on
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  Speaker 2: those combos quick enough and or sometimes not targeted in
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  Speaker 2: the right direction right, and and that that's a that's
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  Speaker 2: a possibility as well with some of the runs. And
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  Speaker 2: then you know you also have to look at the
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  Speaker 2: backs and and see if the backs are you know,
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  Speaker 2: hitting hitting the hole or hitting you know where where
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  Speaker 2: we anticipate the ball to go and and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: and and so it's it's it's probably a lot more
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  Speaker 2: moving parts.
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  Speaker 3: You know in the run game.
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  Speaker 2: And then and then just being able to sustain it
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  Speaker 2: just sometimes two yards we don't think is is is great?
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  Speaker 3: But it can be. Right then you got to just
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  Speaker 3: kind of continue to stick with it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the times that we've been able to
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  Speaker 2: kind of stick with the run we've had, we've had
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of success.
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  Speaker 5: And actually it looks like this line is back next year,
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  Speaker 5: could be at least four or five, right, how do
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  Speaker 5: you fix that the running.
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  Speaker 4: Part moving forward?
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  Speaker 2: Well, again, I think it it starts with just looking
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  Speaker 2: at the scheme, right, looking at uh, the things that
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  Speaker 2: we're doing and also doing what are we doing well?
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  Speaker 2: And and we need to focus on that and and
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  Speaker 2: and what are the skill sets of the guys and
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's still a an athletic group. Our
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  Speaker 2: tackles especially you know, where we can get out and run,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Uh So we got to look at some
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  Speaker 2: of that and then just just overall, right, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's that's where you have to You have to just
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  Speaker 2: just you know, look at it and and cut back
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  Speaker 2: where you can cut back, you know, increase what is good.
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  Speaker 3: And and just focus on that.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know you guys have already played him,
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  Speaker 1: but Calvin just what made him a special player for
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  Speaker 1: you guys last year and just seeing him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: be able to find success.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I think in Calvin's case, I think the thing that
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  Speaker 2: really sets him apart from a lot of guys, it's
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  Speaker 2: just his work ethic.
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  Speaker 3: The way he came in here.
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  Speaker 2: And and and worked right away and and wanted to
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  Speaker 2: get in with Trevor and you know, learn the offense
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  Speaker 2: and and get as many catches as he could, you know,
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  Speaker 2: from the quarterbacks. And uh just the way again, the
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  Speaker 2: way he attacks practice during the week, he practices like
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  Speaker 2: he plays and and when you do that, you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have success on on game day, right and and and
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  Speaker 2: that's something that really kind of sets him apart from
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  Speaker 2: from a lot of people and from a lot of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of receivers, and and it's what's made him
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  Speaker 2: a really good receiver, you know, a great receiver in
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  Speaker 2: this league. And and of course we know his ability
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  Speaker 2: to run and and and stretch the defense. So I
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  Speaker 2: think just his work ethic and the way he attacks
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  Speaker 2: it and the way he approaches it, you know, sets
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  Speaker 2: him apart.
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  Speaker 5: Do you a starter again?
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  Speaker 3: We're looking at that right now.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's a possibility, yes, Yeah, what did.
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  Speaker 5: He just show enough in three quarters last week that
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  Speaker 5: it's kind of got fresh legs and knows what he's
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  Speaker 5: doing back there and really solid flies the back in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think, Uh, I think the health
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  Speaker 2: where he is is is is one thing.
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  Speaker 3: I think. To understanding the defense, you know, is another.
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  Speaker 2: And and my only you know, if there is a
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  Speaker 2: regret is that he got hurt in camp and and
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  Speaker 2: he didn't get a chance to really start the season.
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  Speaker 3: So he's coming into his own right now. He played well.
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  Speaker 2: Last week and uh, look forward to these next couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks and watching him, watching him go yu.
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  Speaker 4: It gets pretty hard this time of the year when
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  Speaker 4: you know everybody's out of of the of the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: you're playing teams in the same situation, and find some
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  Speaker 4: sort of character these guys. How much of anything do
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  Speaker 4: you think, uh, possibly finishing with a winning record in
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  Speaker 4: the division, which this team has not done very often
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  Speaker 4: in the last fifteen years, twenty years? Is that any
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  Speaker 4: kind of a carrot at all for you to throw out.
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  Speaker 3: There this week? It is?
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  Speaker 2: It is I I think one you you finish, you
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  Speaker 2: finish the the the way you wanna finish, obviously two
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  Speaker 2: division opponents, and and.
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  Speaker 3: It carry it carries you, It carries you into the offseason.
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  Speaker 2: It's the momentum that you want and and so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's there's something to be said about that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to to play well this week and and and try
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  Speaker 2: to you know, do everything you can try to get
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  Speaker 2: a win this week and then go to go to
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  Speaker 2: next week and and if you can do that, then
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  Speaker 2: then you know, there there's I think that's something you
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  Speaker 2: can look at, because then you have to look at
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  Speaker 2: the rest of your schedule and go where did we mess?
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  Speaker 2: Where did we where did we come up short in
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  Speaker 2: some of those other games? Because then it puts you
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  Speaker 2: in a position to each year kind of compete for
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  Speaker 2: your your division right your division champion. And so this
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  Speaker 2: definitely would be a positive, you know, going into the
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  Speaker 2: off season if we can do that.
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  Speaker 4: Also, could you sort of evaluate what you've what you've
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  Speaker 4: seen from Josh Mines out this year? Clearly his sack
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  Speaker 4: numbers are down from last year, pressure rate not so much.
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  Speaker 4: But what are you seeing from him this year in
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  Speaker 4: terms of even though the production isn't quite where you
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  Speaker 4: would want it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 2: You know, probably give you a better answer once the
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  Speaker 2: season's over and we look at everything, and and but
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  Speaker 2: you know, coming in and learning a new learning a
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  Speaker 2: new scheme, you know, a little bit different technique for him,
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  Speaker 2: and really all the all the d lineman d ns
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: And and just teams, teams know we have two great
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  Speaker 3: edge rushers too. I mean that's that goes without saying.
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  Speaker 2: And and so they're gonna they're gonna spend a lot
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  Speaker 2: of time and we see a lot of time with
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  Speaker 2: tight ends and backs, you know, chipping on the edges
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  Speaker 2: and and slowing slowing our guys down and and that's.
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  Speaker 3: Been a big part of it too.
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  Speaker 2: And because we do that right anytime we face you know,
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  Speaker 2: good edge rushers like like we do each week.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, he's.
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  Speaker 2: He's really built himself and and and really made himself,
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  Speaker 2: i think personally into into into an edge rusher that
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  Speaker 2: can continue to improve. Meaning I think there's more out
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  Speaker 2: there for him, you know, to continue to learn. And
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  Speaker 2: even though he's you know five years in six years
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  Speaker 2: in going into and just learning and growing and maybe
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  Speaker 2: even you know, moving him around a little bit more,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but but he's someone that that his athleticism.
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  Speaker 3: His length, his speed.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we have to find as a staff, you know,
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  Speaker 2: opportunities for him too, you know to uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: to get after the passer and and I think one
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  Speaker 2: of the things to learning how to learning how to
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  Speaker 2: set the edge this is a little bit different, you know,
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  Speaker 2: learning you know, the run.
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  Speaker 3: All these different.
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  Speaker 2: Things are all techniques that that he and Trayvonn and
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  Speaker 2: and Eric really learned this year. But with that, I
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  Speaker 2: think they're going to continue to improve and get better,
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  Speaker 2: you know, even into next year.
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  Speaker 6: Couch, do you have any Christmas traditions anything unique that
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  Speaker 6: you guys do maybe as.
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  Speaker 2: A family, No, not really. You know, we've always done
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Eve. Of course, Christmas Eve is my wife's birthday,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, I've got to make sure that that
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  Speaker 2: everything's separated, right, It's got to be birthday first, take
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  Speaker 2: a pause.
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  Speaker 3: Then we go into Christmas Eve.
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  Speaker 2: But just having you know, just having the family Christmas
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  Speaker 2: Eve kind of you know, the the gifts and things
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  Speaker 2: like that on Christmas Eve.
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  Speaker 3: And then of course.
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  Speaker 2: Growing up with our when our boys were young and
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  Speaker 2: even when I was young, you know, Santa would always
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  Speaker 2: come you know, overnight and and and be there Christmas morning,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and so we've kind of carried those traditions,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with our boys.
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  Speaker 3: And and even with our our grandkids now.
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  Speaker 2: And and it's fun to kind of kind of see
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  Speaker 2: that the evolution because our our boys, as they begive
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  Speaker 2: their families and the traditions and things that carry on.
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  Speaker 2: So it's uh, it's a special time of the year
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  Speaker 2: obviously to be real and your family and and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being able to to kind of reminisce a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 6: And one more thing, New Year's resolutions. Is it something
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  Speaker 6: you think about, anything you're thinking about changing maybe this
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  Speaker 6: next coming year off the field, on the field, whatever
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  Speaker 6: you maybe have thought about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we're gonna change a lot of things.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think obviously from this role, you know, how
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  Speaker 3: can I be a better version?
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  Speaker 2: Right? How can I help our team? You know, I
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  Speaker 2: think about those things and and you know, we gotta win,
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  Speaker 2: bottom line, you gotta win. And so I think a
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  Speaker 2: lot about that. And of course you think about your
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  Speaker 2: health and your age and you know all the different
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  Speaker 2: things that come with that. And yeah, I need to
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  Speaker 2: work out more, I need to eat less and you know,
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  Speaker 2: do all that. But about two weeks in, I'm I'm
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  Speaker 2: done with that. So let's stick to football, Okay, working
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  Speaker 2: on the golf game, yeah,