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Kyler Gordon Talks Expectations for Bears Defense _ NFL Training Camp Tour · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Kyler, what's going on? Man, Good to see everybody y'all doing.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing well. I'm sure it kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: it feels weird to hear the media over here in
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  Speaker 1: the shade complaining about being hot. How was it out
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  Speaker 1: there today? It's good?
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  Speaker 2: Little too bad.
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  Speaker 3: Getting used to you know, training in Vegas, so that
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  Speaker 3: that heat and nothing like this at all.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, Vegas training.
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  Speaker 4: Huh yeah, oh that's that's that's yeah, that's that dry.
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  Speaker 3: So this is I'm used to this. Okay, rookie, it
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  Speaker 3: was way worse. We have one ten out here dying.
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  Speaker 3: I'll playing two three stream one two three, like yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing good? All right, So different world now here.
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  Speaker 3: You're paid man out here in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations graduationsly yo, wells deserved here your fourth season in
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  Speaker 1: Chicago and a new staff here. Dennis Allen comes over
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  Speaker 1: and is your defensive coordinator. Now, when did you know
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  Speaker 1: that things were going to be different defensively? What was
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  Speaker 1: the moment, either this offseason or your first meeting with
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Allen where you really got a sense for what
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  Speaker 1: to expect from him?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the first thing, the first couple things
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  Speaker 3: to talk about is learn every position, safety, outside, everything,
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  Speaker 3: knowing the whole entire defense, and uh really in the
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  Speaker 3: last defense I was before, I really just had a
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  Speaker 3: no nickel.
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  Speaker 2: I did play corner two as well my rookie year.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, being able to know inside outside and
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  Speaker 3: be in the back and being able to go anywhere
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  Speaker 3: around in the defense.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it just sets up everything, whether.
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  Speaker 3: It's the skies, being able to do the blitz and
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  Speaker 3: be in the box, carry be on the outside, like,
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  Speaker 3: it's just a multitude of things.
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  Speaker 2: So it's amazing to be able to do.
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  Speaker 4: You think that helps you play faster because you know
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  Speaker 4: all the positions. The other guy knows all the positions.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody knows where everyone is, so therefore you don't have
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  Speaker 4: to necessarily go make a play. Well, I just got
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  Speaker 4: to contain because I know the other guys are going
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  Speaker 4: to make this play, so I'm just doing my job.
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  Speaker 4: How do you think that helps you play?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just more free, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: just more comfortable being in the defense, being like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: I know this is my job.
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  Speaker 2: I got my help here.
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  Speaker 3: All I gotta make sure is I do this, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and then just reloading the next play and doing the
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  Speaker 3: same thing and just having that comfortability of just knowing
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  Speaker 3: everyone's doing their thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that, definitely like that.
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  Speaker 1: How would you describe the style of Dennis Allen's defense?
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  Speaker 2: Very aggressive?
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  Speaker 3: He wants to be feared, and I like that, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what our whole defense wants to give off.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that intimidation, and so we're all about hitting
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  Speaker 3: and coming downhill and letting.
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  Speaker 2: The offense fears. I like that. So there's a big
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  Speaker 2: component in this in this defense.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys want to be feared. You're trying to
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  Speaker 1: set that incredibly physical tone here on the other side
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  Speaker 1: going up against this offense. Now, you guys have seen
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  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson's offense in the division, But what's that been
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  Speaker 1: like now seeing that every day through the early portion
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  Speaker 1: of camp and in the offseason program, and how do
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  Speaker 1: you think that helps you this year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? And Ben is extremely disciplined.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's paying an extreme attention to detail and
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  Speaker 3: getting that from the offense. So you know, when you
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  Speaker 3: have a offense that extremely detail, you got to be
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  Speaker 3: even more on defense. So that just makes us and
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  Speaker 3: forces us to be better, lineup, better eyes, get ready
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  Speaker 3: to get right and so just puts even more stressing
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  Speaker 3: us to be perfect.
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  Speaker 4: One of the things, oh sorry, one of the things
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  Speaker 4: that I noticed. I went to practice, so I saw
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  Speaker 4: like ten minutes of it. Eleven guys running to the ball.
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  Speaker 4: You guys are swarming definitely the ball like Wu Tang
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  Speaker 4: killobes up here. For like, I didn't see a lot
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  Speaker 4: of that last year, but now I'm like, I see
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  Speaker 4: a legit. Eleven guys running to the ball. I'm telling
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  Speaker 4: I'm called. I told him earlier. I'm saying, hey, you
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  Speaker 4: guys will be a top ten defense this year. I've
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  Speaker 4: seen nothing. The ten minutes that I saw, I was impressed.
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  Speaker 1: I was impressed.
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  Speaker 3: That's fun to see. Like everyone wants to get there
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  Speaker 3: and make it play. It gets to the ball like
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  Speaker 3: something's gonna happen. That's all we're telling ourselves every single day.
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  Speaker 3: Somethings gonna happen. And you can feel that from everyone
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  Speaker 3: wanted to get there and do something and be.
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  Speaker 2: A part of the player. So it's definitely great to
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  Speaker 2: have a defense. I want to do that.
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  Speaker 1: High expectations from a Bear's alum here for you guys
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  Speaker 1: here on the outside, as far as the respect you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you guys maybe do or don't get I
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  Speaker 1: saw you know, Pro Football Focus put out a list
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  Speaker 1: of the best cornerback duos and football wall you play
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  Speaker 1: all over the place. Your guys defensive back room didn't
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  Speaker 1: get mentioned in that. What do you think is the
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  Speaker 1: potential for this defensive backroom with guys like you and
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson out here doing your things?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the sky's the limit on to the
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  Speaker 2: More than anything, I'm just excited to go show it.
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  Speaker 3: Like everyone can talk numbers, this and that, who they
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  Speaker 3: think that's all opinionated stuff. Like I'm all about going
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  Speaker 3: out there and showing it. So it don't mean nothing
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  Speaker 3: if you don't go out there and go do it.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just excited to get to the season and
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  Speaker 3: get right see.
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  Speaker 4: I like that I can show you better than I can.
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  Speaker 2: Tell you, really saying.
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  Speaker 4: Like I have to show what I got to show
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  Speaker 4: up and show you what I need to do.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm with that all day. We've talked about
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  Speaker 1: some of the newcomers on your defense up on the
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  Speaker 1: defensive line, especially with Grady Jarrett and Dale. What kind
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  Speaker 1: of impact have you seen from those guys so far?
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  Speaker 1: Assimilating into your defense here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're doing they're vets coming in ten
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  Speaker 3: plus I don't know how much IDAW is, but just
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  Speaker 3: like you said, everyone's running the ball. We got ten
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  Speaker 3: year vests run the ball, showing by example. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not just coming in trying to be a motivational speaker.
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  Speaker 3: He's coming in and they're both doing things by example,
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  Speaker 3: so you can respect that they're making plays still, Like,
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  Speaker 3: it's just amazing to see. So to have those guys
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  Speaker 3: come there and do that just adding to the defense.
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  Speaker 4: So you went from John Hope to Al Harris. Has
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  Speaker 4: that change been like.
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  Speaker 2: For you in the dB room?
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  Speaker 3: It's just nice because you know John was more like
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  Speaker 3: very IQ this and that and not that AALYSM. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, you get more of a you know, he
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  Speaker 3: played a lot of experience playing, so you get IQ
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  Speaker 3: versus a guy that played in the league to give
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  Speaker 3: you a little more experience of him actually being in
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  Speaker 3: the position and going through the stuff like that, the
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  Speaker 3: technique and learning the actual system of the offense versus
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  Speaker 3: our defense and stuff like that. So just getting so
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  Speaker 3: many different informations that it's good to get both in
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  Speaker 3: my career.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, no, I definitely certainly something that staff in Detroit
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  Speaker 1: was well known for having a lot of former players there,
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  Speaker 1: and that an invaluable bit of experience there.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I have to feed the gen Z meter on here.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Byrd said that the young players on this team, say,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson has aura? Do you agree with that? And
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  Speaker 1: how would you define that?
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  Speaker 3: I agree, I would agree definitely has some aura to him.
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  Speaker 2: And how I to find.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when you could just like look at the
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  Speaker 3: coach and just like feel everything he's saying. You can
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  Speaker 3: just understand it without him having to really like explain
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  Speaker 3: it to you or prove it to you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like you just understand.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, oh yeah, well no he went on that time.
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  Speaker 3: And and so when you got a coach just like that,
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  Speaker 3: it's you're already like connecting up there mentally. It's like
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  Speaker 3: all right, like you just feel like you already trust them,
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  Speaker 3: like you know what the plan is. So I think
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  Speaker 3: that's a good feeling. I feel like a lot of
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  Speaker 3: guys fed that way, all right.
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  Speaker 1: The pervasive confidence that emanates from your head coach here
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  Speaker 1: also a lot of confidence from having you on the
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  Speaker 1: team here. So you're a guy listen, we're gonna set
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  Speaker 1: Charles Peanut tilm and one of the foremost NFL nicknames
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  Speaker 1: of my lifetime. You got the nickname spider Man when
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  Speaker 1: you got here back in twenty twenty two. So I
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  Speaker 1: want to ask you superhero nickname time. If we were
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  Speaker 1: to ask you to assign a comp for your teammates
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  Speaker 1: here of some other superheroes, I'm gonna give you the superhero.
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  Speaker 1: You tell me which of your teammates you think fits
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  Speaker 1: the billing. Let's start off with the Flash, So thinking speed,
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  Speaker 1: what's your teammates? Would you say, is the Flash on
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  Speaker 1: this roster?
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  Speaker 2: Flash? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Incredible spot?
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  Speaker 3: I want to say. I want to say Josh Blackwell.
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  Speaker 3: You know he's a speedy guy. He's outside. He played
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  Speaker 3: a lot of gun or two, also played Nickel with me.
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  Speaker 3: You're running down there, four two four three, guy, uh
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  Speaker 3: running pinning down the pinning down the ball.
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  Speaker 2: So he's done a lot of that. So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: give to Josh Blackwell.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we got the Flash locked up there, then Hulk, Hulk, I.
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  Speaker 2: Like this, I like this. I'm gonna give it the decks.
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  Speaker 2: I'mna give it the big decks.
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  Speaker 3: De's just up there cousin havoc always and I think
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna do even more this year.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited to see him play.
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  Speaker 3: That was for the most under smashed deck smash smash.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there we go even another voted confidence there.
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  Speaker 1: This one's interesting to me. Batman, Batman, the Dark Knight,
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  Speaker 1: utility belt going crazy. Maybe a man of few words.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to get that. I want to say
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  Speaker 2: a few words.
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  Speaker 1: Who are you gonna think of? Let's go with your
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  Speaker 1: first reaction.
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  Speaker 3: You know, brisk, Brisk got that Batman on his You
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  Speaker 3: got that Batman tax even to him, you know, kind
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  Speaker 3: of Batman man.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Dark Knight.
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  Speaker 3: You give that Dark Knight energy, you know, but you
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  Speaker 3: know you like that little dark energy on the defense.
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  Speaker 3: But you're definitely coming down blowing stuff up. Defend the
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  Speaker 3: Knight coming and blowing it up. Hey, listen, you said
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  Speaker 3: this a defense that wants to be feared. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like having a little bit of that dark Knight energy
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  Speaker 3: goes definitely last two here, iron Man, iron Man, Smart.
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  Speaker 1: Savvy, Rich Rich Rich.
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  Speaker 2: Rich, I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Kevin Byron, I'm gonna go Kevin Rich, Savvy,
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  Speaker 3: hes vetted putting on all the you know, like you
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  Speaker 3: be putting on game to Spider Man, putting on game
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  Speaker 3: to the whole Avengers team, you know, came to kind
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  Speaker 3: of did that.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's a good comparison right there.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Kell what that's honestly, I like that one
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Kevin Byrn is iron Man. And then last
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  Speaker 1: one here Man of Steel Superman. It's a big summer
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  Speaker 1: block Superman. Who's Superman on this defense?
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  Speaker 2: On the defense, on the defense Mack.
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  Speaker 1: Used to be the whole team. Yeah, why am I
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  Speaker 1: saying opening up for the whole team?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Hold three guys, who's your Superman? It's only because Cold
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  Speaker 2: looked like Superman. I'm just kind of like, I can
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  Speaker 2: see you can be car you know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, col Conbette definitely doesn't have to look fit.
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  Speaker 1: You can fit it.
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  Speaker 2: You can fit it.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a good one. I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: really good one. It looks absolutely all right. These are
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  Speaker 1: all good from Spider Man himself. Kyler Gordon again, Kyler,
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  Speaker 1: congrats on the deal. We're looking forward to this upcoming season.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Best of luck and good luck at the rest of
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  Speaker 1: training too.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Guys appreciate you, Thank you,