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  Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, it hasn't been really. It gives us
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to continue to evaluate everybody, put everybody in
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  Speaker 1: certain situations, and these environments are so controlled from what
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to get out of each thing. What you know,
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  Speaker 1: what a period is for us that I don't I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's really that big of a shock to
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  Speaker 1: the system to have a different group. You would love
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  Speaker 1: to have the same five to create continuity within the group.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, we like the idea of
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  Speaker 1: rolling people and kind of creating that atmosphere that's going
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  Speaker 1: to come up at some point in the season.
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  Speaker 2: So this this kind of creates an opportunity for other
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  Speaker 2: players and walking a little play left guard, things.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, right, yeah, yeah, with that, and then also
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  Speaker 1: you know Chandler Brewer playing center, there's a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: different moving pieces that at some point in time the season,
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  Speaker 1: odds are we're gonna have to go to something in
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  Speaker 1: some way mix and match, and you know, we kind
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  Speaker 1: of have this to fall back to. At least that
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  Speaker 1: guy has experienced playing with or next to so and so.
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  Speaker 3: He thought of that.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper has has brought a physicality. He shows up the
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  Speaker 1: team periods. He's done a good job. He's very entertaining
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  Speaker 1: pre practice with his cart wheels and his high fives
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. No, we've enjoyed him. He brings
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  Speaker 1: a physical aspect. That's been the one thing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as these young guys continue to adjust to the speed
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  Speaker 1: of the game, in the way and the you know,
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  Speaker 1: amount of offense we have in he's done a good
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  Speaker 1: job of just being physical and at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, that's I mean, that's a huge part of
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  Speaker 1: this game and playing offensive line, he certainly has that element.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's just about continuing to get better every single day,
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  Speaker 1: and these games are a little different than practice. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll see as we get into this aspect of it
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  Speaker 1: what it looks like for him missing some of that
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  Speaker 1: physicality at times last year, I don't I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if i'd say that, you know, we're pretty happy with
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  Speaker 1: the physicality that we had. There are certain times that maybe,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you wish something went a little better, whether
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  Speaker 1: that was them, scheme, who we're playing, whatever that may be.
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  Speaker 1: But it's certainly an element of our offense that we
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  Speaker 1: take pride in and we want to continue to invest.
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  Speaker 2: In up and down about top and and just like
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  Speaker 2: what he can do from you guys's scheme, perspective and
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  Speaker 2: all that. But when you add a piece like that
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  Speaker 2: to the wide receiver rooms, do you think that kind
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  Speaker 2: of pushes everyone else in that room to be better
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  Speaker 2: and kind of up their game? Seeing what he does
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  Speaker 2: on a day to day basis absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, somebody that's that talented, he's got different experiences
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  Speaker 1: to some of these guys. So I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these guys watch him and say, oh, he's got
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  Speaker 1: this piece of his game, maybe I can add that. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, the group we have, they're all they're
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  Speaker 1: all very locked in mentally on what's going on. So
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  Speaker 1: they're all very observant of other people and they want
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  Speaker 1: to continue to add pieces of their game. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: none of these guys have been complacent since we got them, uh,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of where they are and their development. So
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  Speaker 1: it's just cool to see them all pick each other's brains,
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  Speaker 1: pick each other's parts of their games. Excuse me that
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  Speaker 1: they feel like they can apply and make their own that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think it kind of helps for the guys
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  Speaker 2: that are on the lower end of the spectrum where
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  Speaker 2: they might be competing for roster spots or some of
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  Speaker 2: those like main character guys like Christians.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think it pushes the room as a whole,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the young guys obviously getting to see what
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  Speaker 1: a guy that's done a lot of things in this league,
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  Speaker 1: what it looks like, how he works, how he approaches it.
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  Speaker 1: And then really with those three guys, Zay, Christian and Calvin,
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  Speaker 1: the way they talk in the meeting room is incredible.
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  Speaker 1: So the guys are able to ask questions, pick their brains.
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  Speaker 1: They're able to explain why they did what they did,
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  Speaker 1: or what they're thinking, or how they want to maybe
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  Speaker 1: another way they could have run around, or certain things
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  Speaker 1: like that that I think is invaluable for the young guys.
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  Speaker 1: How is Britain strange made progress? Britain just continues to
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  Speaker 1: get better and a little different aspect of his game
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  Speaker 1: each time. You know, we've done more with him on
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  Speaker 1: the line and continue to see him as a y
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  Speaker 1: with his hand in the dirt versus you know, off
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  Speaker 1: the balls and f in the full back role extended
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  Speaker 1: from the formation. So each day you kind of see
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  Speaker 1: one step or one aspect of us kind of spoon
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  Speaker 1: feeding little bits and pieces of the offense to kind
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  Speaker 1: of see where he can go with it, and so
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  Speaker 1: as he adds each piece. That's the biggest thing with
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  Speaker 1: him is his versatility, all the different things he can do.
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  Speaker 1: He's bringing a physical element to his game think that
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  Speaker 1: we value, but he's also able to get away from
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  Speaker 1: the formation, get down the field, get down the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Excited to see him as a ballcarrier and some of
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  Speaker 1: these games we get into too.
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  Speaker 3: What was your.
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  Speaker 2: Reaction you when you heard that that Doug had hired
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  Speaker 2: had hired Chad, knowing that you guys were almost together
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  Speaker 2: at Philadelphia, We were.
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  Speaker 1: Almost goot and photo almost. I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: knew that. No, I've known a lot about Chad. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we have a lot of mutual friends, people that thought
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  Speaker 1: very highly of him, spoke very highly and honestly, he
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  Speaker 1: was really the only person we went after when CJ
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  Speaker 1: took an opportunity to go to Texas. You know, Chad
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  Speaker 1: was our first call and we kind of extended an offer,
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  Speaker 1: wanted to see where that went. Gave him a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time with it because everything we knew from him,
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  Speaker 1: from Doug's experience with him, mutual contacts with him, Heath's
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  Speaker 1: relationship with him, We just felt like he'd be a
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  Speaker 1: fit with us, with our room, with our staff, so
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  Speaker 1: he was really the only one when after and certainly
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  Speaker 1: excited with what he's done so far.
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  Speaker 2: Are there many coaches that you've been around that are
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  Speaker 2: a legend as animated of game day as he is?
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  Speaker 2: Because he receivers are already talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. We were making fun of him the other
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  Speaker 1: day because he was celebrating something on the sideline of
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  Speaker 1: a clip and I said, finally we could see this
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  Speaker 1: on our sideline because we've all watched this in Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: for years of him running up and down. There's certain
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  Speaker 1: coaches that everybody across the league is used to seeing
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  Speaker 1: on sideline TV copies running up and down the sidelines.
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  Speaker 1: Chad's one of those. So now he's on our sideline,
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully that that brings some value, some in game
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  Speaker 1: energy to our group. Sam Jan's a guy who had
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  Speaker 1: a pretty big preseason a year ago. How much have
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  Speaker 1: you seen him grow over the last year and where's.
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  Speaker 2: He at right now?
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  Speaker 1: Tim Tim continues to get better every day, and part
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  Speaker 1: of it's, you know, you see just more comfortability with
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  Speaker 1: the way he's approaching things. He understands the scheme were
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  Speaker 1: Last year, it was new for everybody, so everybody was
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  Speaker 1: constantly learning. You know, Tim's one of those guys sitting
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  Speaker 1: behind these top three guys plus Ag as well, competing
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  Speaker 1: for that spot. Was the guy that had the job
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  Speaker 1: last year and did a lot of things and provided
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  Speaker 1: a lot of value for our team.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there are games we played without Marvin, without
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  Speaker 1: Zay where Tim had a bigger role, and so we
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  Speaker 1: know we can trust him, and it's about Tim and
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  Speaker 1: these other guys continue to compete for this spot. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of the back end of this receiver room.
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  Speaker 3: Shift starting today now that it's game week.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, not yet, honestly. Right now, we're still kind of
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  Speaker 1: in our training camp mode of installing, working on certain things,
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  Speaker 1: setting up specific situations to see our offense in. And
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  Speaker 1: then we'll kind of evolve a little bit closer as
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  Speaker 1: we get into Dallas of what we're gonna do, how
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna play, who they are and kind of get
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  Speaker 1: into that with our guys.
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  Speaker 3: Live today, do we get some live today?
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe we're live today.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want to be left? I want to see yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 3: make a note. Oh, I'll do lickability.
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  Speaker 2: The young white wide receivers step up in that department
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  Speaker 2: to him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, A lot of those guys, you know, Uh, Kevin Austin,
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  Speaker 1: I know is a guy that you know has been
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  Speaker 1: here in year two. I think part of its those
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  Speaker 1: guys understand what we're asking for that position. You know,
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  Speaker 1: as long as we're healthy on the front of that group,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that position becomes special teams blocking versatility. If
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  Speaker 1: somebody were to go down in the game, you want
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  Speaker 1: a guy that can fit in all three spots and
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  Speaker 1: not all right, we've got to move Christian outside because
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  Speaker 1: this guy can only play inside or whatever that is.
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  Speaker 1: So that's kind of the value of that fifth sixth
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  Speaker 1: role right there. And so you see, you see a
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  Speaker 1: lot of those guys, whether it be Kendrick pryor Kevin Austin,
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  Speaker 1: Seth Williams, you know, the young guys, Jacob Harris, Elijah Cooks.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys have done a good job of understanding what
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  Speaker 1: the role is and being able to put themselves in
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  Speaker 1: position to provide that for us.
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  Speaker 3: It's five thousand yards now sort of reachable for everybody
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  Speaker 3: at this point. Passing for the really good quarterbacks in.
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  Speaker 1: The way the game goes. It certainly seems that way.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, every year you see passing records get shattered.
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  Speaker 1: How many guys are throwing for over four thousand and
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  Speaker 1: all that. So, you know, I don't know that that's
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  Speaker 1: necessarily a big deal now or a huge achievement, I
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  Speaker 1: guess I'd say so, it's certainly out there, but I
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  Speaker 1: think everybody's just doing what they can to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't, you know, at the end of the year,
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  Speaker 1: we don't care if traver with those for five thousand
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  Speaker 1: and two thousand, if we're in that last game of
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  Speaker 1: the year with an opportunity to win it all.
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  Speaker 3: When you were growing up, or I'm sure you remember
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  Speaker 3: someone hitting back four thousand yard mark, Oh yeah, just outrageous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I was a big fan of Drew Brees and
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning growing up, and it seems like every year
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  Speaker 1: those guys were hitting those kind of numbers and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. So that was kind of the norm, and
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  Speaker 1: now or that was kind of an outlawer, I guess
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  Speaker 1: at the time. Now that seems like the norm, certainly
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  Speaker 1: from just the schemes and the quarterbacks that are in
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  Speaker 1: the league right now.
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  Speaker 2: The offense needing to be multiple. Do you feel like
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  Speaker 2: with this personality can be more multiple?
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  Speaker 1: We do, yeah, you know, I think especially when you
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  Speaker 1: look at the tight end room and the running back
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  Speaker 1: room and what those guys provide of you know what,
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  Speaker 1: our thirteen personnel could potentially be three really good receivers
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  Speaker 1: or three really good receiving tight ends, whether we want
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  Speaker 1: to attach to the formation, open from the formation, whatever
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  Speaker 1: that may be. The running back room provides a lot
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  Speaker 1: of versatility. You know, we kind of have slash power backs,
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  Speaker 1: smaller backs, and then even the receiver room. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a guy like Agnew just provides a weapon. He's a
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  Speaker 1: pro bowl returner that we can create space for and
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  Speaker 1: the defense is certainly aware when he's on the field.
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  Speaker 1: So that's certainly something we want to continue to take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of. We want to be able to do whatever
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  Speaker 1: we need to do each week to win, and we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about that is it. We need to throw at
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  Speaker 1: sixty times, we need to run at sixty times, we
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  Speaker 1: need to win a shootout, we need to win a
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  Speaker 1: slug fest, whatever that is. Our guys understand our goals
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  Speaker 1: to go win the game. You know, we don't. At
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  Speaker 1: the end of the year, we're not really concerned with
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  Speaker 1: what our stats are other than wins and losses. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing for us in the focus. Five
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  Speaker 1: thousand Yeah, it's great live practice. Five thousand yards passing,
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  Speaker 1: got it, That's it. That's all we care about. Is
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  Speaker 1: Walker Little another one of those guys who it's his
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  Speaker 1: second year in a system that you could see maybe
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  Speaker 1: taking a big leap, just that familiarity. Yeah, And I
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  Speaker 1: think a big thing with those guys is the consistency
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  Speaker 1: of the message. So they're used to sitting at a
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  Speaker 1: meeting with ill and understand the techniques we're asking you
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  Speaker 1: to to to utilize. They've practiced this, they've repped this
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  Speaker 1: for a year and a half now, so you're kind
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  Speaker 1: of seeing that all come to fruition. They're seeing why
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  Speaker 1: he's asking to play a certain way, or you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever a scheme is asking us to do.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I think as they understand that, they're able to play
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  Speaker 1: a little faster they're playing, they're able to be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more confident, play with a little bit more conviction.
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  Speaker 1: So that's just kind of the natural growth we expect
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  Speaker 1: from year one to year two. In this system,