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Press Pass | Press Taylor: "We get an opportunity to go play and that is what excites them the most." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're certainly excited to you know, all the things
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  Speaker 1: we've worked on since we got together in April, of
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  Speaker 1: trying to put that, you know, into action and see
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  Speaker 1: how that applies to all our guys, see all our
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  Speaker 1: guys play together. You know. It's from our standpoint, it's
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  Speaker 1: just fun as coaches to get to watch our guys
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  Speaker 1: go out and compete, stakes on the line, all that
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  Speaker 1: type of stuff. So we're certainly excited.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting journey, has been a long time since he's been
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  Speaker 2: to start a game one of the season. Do you
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  Speaker 2: worry about some nerves with him at all or have
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  Speaker 2: you seen enough that you're comfortable with them.
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  Speaker 1: We're certainly ready to roll with him. We're very comfortable
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  Speaker 1: with you know, Walker's process and kind of how he
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  Speaker 1: gets himself prepared to play. I'm sure all our guys
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  Speaker 1: face kind of the first game jitters. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: just a natural thing of being off for so long
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  Speaker 1: and then get an opportunity to compete again in front
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  Speaker 1: of fans and on TV and all this type of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So that's certainly something we understand. We'll deal with, but
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  Speaker 1: we're confident that our process prepares the guys to have
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  Speaker 1: that confidence ready to go perform. How much you learn
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  Speaker 1: about just one week or does it you know, multiple
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  Speaker 1: weeks to really understand how well I think you certainly
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  Speaker 1: evolved as the season goes on, and that that's a
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  Speaker 1: big thing of you know, how long does it take
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  Speaker 1: somebody to kind of figure out who the who they are,
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  Speaker 1: what skill set they have available to them, and then
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  Speaker 1: that kind of changes each each week as you deal
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  Speaker 1: with injuries, you deal with certain situations, you played certain defenses.
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  Speaker 1: Uh So that's kind of the the fun process of
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  Speaker 1: a year of a season of the ebbs and flows
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  Speaker 1: and how your offense turns and pivots and changes to
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  Speaker 1: do whatever you need to do to be as successful
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  Speaker 1: as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Names.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we were confident in our rundown last year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, certainly we have the ability to create explosive
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  Speaker 1: plays throughout the year. We also had you know, far
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  Speaker 1: too many negative plays in those situations, so it felt
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  Speaker 1: like we were a little volatile at times. Uh, But
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  Speaker 1: we knew we were capable of rattling off some explosive
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  Speaker 1: plays when it was necessary. And you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to think now that we've kind of eliminated
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  Speaker 1: the number of negative runs that come up, but things
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  Speaker 1: are gonna come up, and we'll kind of see where
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  Speaker 1: we go from there.
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  Speaker 2: Better than you guys expected.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know necessarily that we put expectations
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  Speaker 1: than anybody who have We we really want him to
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  Speaker 1: just come in here. We know what we're drafting in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the character we think we know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously don't spend every single day with him like we
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  Speaker 1: do now. Uh So he's certainly been impressive in the
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  Speaker 1: way he approaches his work and his professionalism, and that's
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  Speaker 1: been exciting for us to see. But that was also
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  Speaker 1: something that I think we felt like we were getting
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  Speaker 1: when we drafted the players. So I don't know in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the expectations you put on a guy and
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  Speaker 1: what you end up seeing from him, but we're we're
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  Speaker 1: happy we have him been around for a while, not
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  Speaker 1: as much mystery of what you might see a defense as.
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  Speaker 2: That might be in some other League One games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think they kind of he's pretty
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  Speaker 1: true to who he is and what types of defenses
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  Speaker 1: he plays and stuff like that. The coverage elements of it.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's week one, they've had months off, they have
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  Speaker 1: a new head coach, So maybe there's some new mandates
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  Speaker 1: out there to try something different. Obviously Jim Bob being
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  Speaker 1: there understanding how we attack this defense last twice last year. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's certainly those elements that come up in
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  Speaker 1: any game. A lot of it comes down to the
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  Speaker 1: unscouted looks of you know, us presenting things to them
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  Speaker 1: they haven't seen from us, or them presenting things to
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  Speaker 1: us that we haven't seen, and how we handle those situations,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of times that comes down to your quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: your offensive line, what the communication process is. So you're
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  Speaker 1: hoping when those unscottered looks show up, everybody kind of
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  Speaker 1: falls back on their standard operating procedure and we figure
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  Speaker 1: it out as things go on. And that's the as
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  Speaker 1: you grow through an offense through the years, the continuity together,
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  Speaker 1: you hope you can handle those situations a little better
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  Speaker 1: each year. Just opening, I mean, there's obviously just a
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  Speaker 1: lot of excitement and week one and then the fact
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  Speaker 1: that it's a team we've seen twice, the team that
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  Speaker 1: we know in our division. We know the personnel, we
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  Speaker 1: know the people on the on their roster, the schemes
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  Speaker 1: they like to play defensively, you know that it makes
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  Speaker 1: it I think it amps it up a little bit
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  Speaker 1: just for the fact that it's a divisional game. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that our guys need much extra just
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  Speaker 1: we get an opportunity to go play and they that's
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  Speaker 1: what excites some of the most a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 1: that we're about winning from you that focus of league.
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  Speaker 2: Televisions.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of the things we've talked about in
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  Speaker 1: front of our guys. We talk about as a staff,
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  Speaker 1: but we talk about it to our guys. We believe
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  Speaker 1: that character is a competitive advantage. We have guys that
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  Speaker 1: have high character. We have guys that have high football
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  Speaker 1: character as well, and that our guys love to prepare,
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  Speaker 1: They love being in meetings, they love meeting on their own,
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  Speaker 1: they love practicing, and so we think that gives us,
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  Speaker 1: in a league of parody, some of an advantage of
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  Speaker 1: we know how these guys prepare and what they do.
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  Speaker 1: So we've invested in that, and we we spend money
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  Speaker 1: to bring in guys. We spend time to research these
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  Speaker 1: guys character, like we were talking about with Tank earlier,
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  Speaker 1: to research their football character, their personal character, because we
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  Speaker 1: feel like that adds to our building as a whole
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  Speaker 1: of the energy in the room, the energy and the building,
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  Speaker 1: and then the way these guys approach in the preparation
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  Speaker 1: they put in to get ready to play on a Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: We love a comeback story, but how do you build
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  Speaker 2: early leads this year?
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  Speaker 1: If you score early and they don't, you build early leads? No,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you always go out every drive you're thinking
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna score. So that's certainly a big part of it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: last year we felt like there were times we could
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  Speaker 1: move the ball early and we turn the ball over.
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  Speaker 1: That happened through the preseason as well. I mean, our
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  Speaker 1: starters had two drives to start the preseason. We turn
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  Speaker 1: the ball over on both of them if through an interception,
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  Speaker 1: we fumbled at the one. Now they built the confidence
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  Speaker 1: that we move the ball down to the one yard line,
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  Speaker 1: But we obviously want to finish with points, and so
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  Speaker 1: that's a big part of it. But really it's it's
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  Speaker 1: just understanding our plan, who's doing what, making sure we
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  Speaker 1: have the right plays, making sure everybody is prepared for
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  Speaker 1: the moment and as confident as possible in executing their
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  Speaker 1: job at a high level. There's no secret Sauce I
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  Speaker 1: think every team tries to go out and score early
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  Speaker 1: is generally the ultimate goal. Garrison is about to make
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  Speaker 1: his first start. How did you see him develop? Similar
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  Speaker 1: to all our young guys, you just saw him get
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  Speaker 1: better every day. Obviously he dealt with the shoulder injury
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  Speaker 1: early on and missed some days here and there, but
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  Speaker 1: he's really taken to Phil's coaching, the guys around him,
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  Speaker 1: buying into the room, and the culture of the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line room has itself, and it's it's got to bring
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  Speaker 1: some comfort to him. Know when you're standing there next
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  Speaker 1: to Brandon Sheriff and you know the comfort of the
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  Speaker 1: communication from the guy next to you and relying on
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  Speaker 1: a guy to do his job so you know you
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  Speaker 1: can do your job. There's not there shouldn't be any
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  Speaker 1: doubt in Anton's mind about the guy next to him
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  Speaker 1: knowing his job, doing his job at a high level.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we just want Anton to go out
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  Speaker 1: and play and and do what we think he's capable
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  Speaker 1: of doing. Go through playing against well, I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: know they don't need much introduction to particularly the defensive tackles.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're they're well established players. Uh quit. He
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  Speaker 1: pays a great edge Rusher. I think he's done a
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  Speaker 1: great job for them so far. I know Dio was
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  Speaker 1: there when we drafted Dio. Dio's got a ton of
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  Speaker 1: potential and he's a long, rangy guy, very different build
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  Speaker 1: than Quitty itself. So there's certainly just the matchups of
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're playing different players and different snaps, different
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  Speaker 1: situations come up, different pass rush situations come up where
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  Speaker 1: you got to handle this guy. We're on the road,
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  Speaker 1: we're using cadence, which these guys coming from college, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these guys have not played with cadence to
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  Speaker 1: begin with, So now there's a lot of different factors
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  Speaker 1: that come in. Plus it's just the first game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's his first NFL start. Getting the ability to settle
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  Speaker 1: into a game early is certainly key for all our guys.
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  Speaker 1: Cool thanks guys,