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Speaker 1: Practices this week. What are sort of your expectations for
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Speaker 1: something like that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean just to continue to to work, continue
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Speaker 2: to evaluate, you know, make progress, and you know, just
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Speaker 2: uh opportunity to to kind of get some some good
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Speaker 2: quality work against another opponent. Besides, you know, besides ourself
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Speaker 2: and practices be as important or more important than the
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Speaker 2: games because you can kind of pick situations and I do. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you're right, you get to pick the situations, the scenarios.
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Speaker 2: It's very controlled. There's no live tackling or anything like that.
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Speaker 2: It's you know, but they're their physical practices, but you
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Speaker 2: can get you can get quite a bit out of them.
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Speaker 2: Seen in these joint practices the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 2: Do you have any is there a punishment for the
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Speaker 2: guys here or you warn them about that. I haven't
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Speaker 2: talked to the team yet. I will in the next
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Speaker 2: couple of days. But you know, obviously that's not tolerated.
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Speaker 2: You know, Todd and I we both obviously respect the
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Speaker 2: game and and how we practice against each other. And
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Speaker 2: I know you know that you know he and I
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Speaker 2: will talk. But at the same time, you know, I
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Speaker 2: understand that, uh, you do these with with with guys
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Speaker 2: that you know, and and teams that are respected and
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Speaker 2: and are gonna they're gonna you know, play hard, practice hard.
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Speaker 2: And we've had great success with them, you know, ourselves
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Speaker 2: the last couple of years. So you know, I definitely
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Speaker 2: want I won't tolerate it with our guys, that's for sure.
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Speaker 2: Just some practices like these.
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Speaker 3: How long do you work with the bust staff to
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Speaker 3: coordinate a plan during that?
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Speaker 2: You know, these go all the way back to the spring,
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Speaker 2: when the when the you know, preseason scheduling and and
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Speaker 2: and the games. You know, you're talking about games and
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Speaker 2: things of that nature. And you know, so we've we've
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Speaker 2: we've been talking since you know May quite honestly, and
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Speaker 2: putting everything together and kind of sign off it, you know,
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Speaker 2: sign off on it back then so that uh, now
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Speaker 2: the coordinators can just get together and and do the
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Speaker 2: scripting and things of that.
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Speaker 1: Nature's super physical today and tomorrow or is it kind
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Speaker 1: of light workouts today?
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow? Is you just played a game and you've got
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Speaker 2: Campa coming in for Yeah, today's a little bit lighter
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Speaker 2: just because it's you know, you know, a couple hours
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Speaker 2: several hours actually just a couple hours. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 2: forty eight hours is so removed from the game. So
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Speaker 2: we'll go a little bit lighter today, still kind of
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Speaker 2: working out some soreness for the guys, and then and
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Speaker 2: then we'll ramp it back up tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Is been more physical than ones in recent years that
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Speaker 1: you added more contracts.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if I've added it as much as
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Speaker 2: just the way the schedule kind of fell, uh for me,
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Speaker 2: when I could have padded practices and things of that nature.
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Speaker 2: You want to have as many as you can, especially
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Speaker 2: early in camp, and then once you start playing games,
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Speaker 2: you know, you really once we get past this week,
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Speaker 2: I think we're down to one padded practice a week,
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Speaker 2: you know, quite frankly, because the games now become a
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Speaker 2: little bit closer together.
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Speaker 1: But you've talked about the depth of this roster in
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Speaker 1: the past. That really seemed to show through on Saturday night.
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Speaker 1: What's your opinion on that after the first half.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it was. It was pleasing to see,
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Speaker 2: you know, all the way through. And it just goes
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Speaker 2: back to I think the spring, you know, talking about
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Speaker 2: our young players, talking about the free agents we brought
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Speaker 2: in here, the draft picks, just and developing the entire roster,
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Speaker 2: you know, and and obviously you go into camp, you know,
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Speaker 2: we had ninety one ninety right now, but you want
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Speaker 2: everybody to have an opportunity and to play. And and
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Speaker 2: I was pleased, you know, the other night, just that
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Speaker 2: that that there wasn't that drop off that you normally
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Speaker 2: see late in games, you know, and our guys, especially
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Speaker 2: the young guys, played well. And that that makes it
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Speaker 2: harder when it comes to, you know, to cut downs,
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Speaker 2: to to make sure that you're keeping the right guys.
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Speaker 1: Signing of Seawan and you know, judging the suspension. Is
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Speaker 1: this just an insurance policy and.
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Speaker 2: Winning on what what doomy situation might be or what well.
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Speaker 2: I mean when you think about Dewey situation to Sean situation,
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Speaker 2: they're very similar because they'll probably miss about the same time.
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Speaker 2: And I'm saying that to say, you know, obviously to
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Speaker 2: Sean making the fifty three and you know, things of
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Speaker 2: that nature at the end of camp. And and but
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Speaker 2: but for us too, it's a it's a veteran player
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Speaker 2: that that we're familiar with who who gives us another
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Speaker 2: gives us more depth, you know, it gives us uh
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Speaker 2: an opportunity at safety that you know right now, you know,
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Speaker 2: kind of fills fills the spot, you know. And we've
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Speaker 2: got some young safeties that are playing well. And you know,
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Speaker 2: Savage you know right now is you know, not cleared
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Speaker 2: for contact yet as much, but you know, so it
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Speaker 2: just gives you gives you another veteran body, you know,
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Speaker 2: and and and some competition and looking forward to getting
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Speaker 2: them out there this week. No, probably not to Atlanta.
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Speaker 2: In terms of the injuries coming out of the game
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Speaker 2: the other yeah, you know, a couple couple of things.
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Speaker 2: We didn't have anything. Knock On didn't have anything crazy
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Speaker 2: a big ee says, he just has a shoulder. He'll
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Speaker 2: be limited a little bit this week or at least
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Speaker 2: the next couple of days. Ventrel, you know, with his
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Speaker 2: little Q tip on his hand, came out, came out, well, yeah, Foyer,
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Speaker 2: Foyer came out. You know after about five or six plays.
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Speaker 2: A little hamstring tightness. He'll be fine. We're just gonna
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Speaker 2: limit him. He'll be out. He'll be out today. We
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Speaker 2: won't put him through it. Tyson will work back in,
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Speaker 2: you know, he was out of the game. He'll work
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Speaker 2: back into practice. Get Ezra back a little bit limited,
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Speaker 2: you know on that on that that heel ankle area.
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Speaker 2: Ton's been cleared, so we'll get him back out there
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Speaker 2: full today in this week. Other than that, it was
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Speaker 2: just some just some you know, little bumps and bruises,
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Speaker 2: but but nothing nothing major. I've heard a lot of
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Speaker 2: the second year guys talk about, you knowing how to
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Speaker 2: take care of the bodies like a pro the score around.
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Speaker 2: Is that something that they just kind of have to
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Speaker 2: experience and see others to do.
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Speaker 1: Is that's something that you talk to them about.
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Speaker 2: Is that part of that maybe second year jump that
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Speaker 2: you expect from guys. You know, we spent a lot
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Speaker 2: of time in the spring sort of onboarding our young players,
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Speaker 2: meaning meaning kind of prepping them and what to expect
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Speaker 2: in camp and and how to take care of themselves.
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Speaker 2: And you know, our team of nutritionists and sports science
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Speaker 2: and strength and conditioning staff medical staff did a great
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Speaker 2: job of that this spring and and just educating our players,
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Speaker 2: you know. And and then you know, for me, it
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Speaker 2: was the message was, hey, over the summer break, you
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Speaker 2: gotta run, you got you gotta you gotta run and
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Speaker 2: get your lower body ready for you know, for the
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Speaker 2: the strenuous of camp. And you know, so the guys.
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Speaker 2: The guys have really really taken that to heart, you know,
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Speaker 2: and and they see too with the you know, with
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Speaker 2: the weather and the heat and humidity, that it's more
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Speaker 2: than just a couple of gatorade bottles at the end
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Speaker 2: of practice. They really have to rest, recover, They got
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Speaker 2: to eat, you got to hydrate properly all that.
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Speaker 1: How much is ZTN really evolving as a receiver for
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Speaker 1: you guys, not just maybe as a safety home, but
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Speaker 1: somebody who can a lot of pressure.
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Speaker 2: On the defense. Yeah, it's you know, he he definitely
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Speaker 2: has the ability to you know, line up in some
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Speaker 2: empty formations or even you know, routes out of the backfield,
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Speaker 2: as we saw the other night. And he just continues
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Speaker 2: to impress there. He's got really good, really good hands
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Speaker 2: catching the football, and we just keep keep developing that
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Speaker 2: and he can he can definitely be a be an
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Speaker 2: asset for us, you know, outside of the backfield.
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Speaker 3: A couple of guys in locker room a special teams said,
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Speaker 3: what we've seen as far as your practice on kickoff
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Speaker 3: kickoff return in training camp has kind of scratched the
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Speaker 3: service of what the wark you've actually put in meetings,
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Speaker 3: wives and everything else, do you feel like you're a
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Speaker 3: lot of track to go in the season, prepared for
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Speaker 3: the return in the and the coverage game based on
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Speaker 3: what we saw the other night, based on what the guys.
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Speaker 2: Has been working on. Yeah, you know, we got to
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Speaker 2: continue to work it. And we got to continue to
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Speaker 2: watch all the film around the league and what teams
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Speaker 2: might be doing. You know, Heath. Heath does a great
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Speaker 2: job of his meetings in classroom and spending time, you know,
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Speaker 2: diving into this this new new kickoff rule and this style,
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Speaker 2: and obviously it benefited us the other night a couple
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Speaker 2: of times, and and but we just got to continue
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Speaker 2: to work it. You know, I still think there's some
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Speaker 2: unknowns you saw, you know, Bucker did a great job
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Speaker 2: of putting the one ball on the ground, you know,
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Speaker 2: and so you're you're more experienced kickers. I think you're
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Speaker 2: going to see more of that as maybe preseason or
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Speaker 2: the regular season, you know, it comes about. And those
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Speaker 2: are all things that you know, we just have to
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Speaker 2: be prepared for. The said can go. In terms of
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Speaker 2: game doll in twenty five versus game not a big
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Speaker 2: difference there, you know, because it might be different if
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Speaker 2: it was the thirty five. Like you know, there's some
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Speaker 2: of the coach as I've talked about, but you know,
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Speaker 2: the thirty. I think if you look around the league,
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Speaker 2: it's been anywhere from the twenty five to the thirty.
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Speaker 2: I mean we were outside the thirty. Kansas City was
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Speaker 2: outside the thirty one time. I think so. But there's
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Speaker 2: really not a big significance. You were talking that five
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Speaker 2: yard margin right there. Kick I think it determines too,
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Speaker 2: like who's back there for the opponent, who's returning the ball.
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Speaker 2: There's some great returners in this league, and so I
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Speaker 2: think you take that into consideration too, that you know,
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Speaker 2: now we're in a tight space and you can kind
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Speaker 2: of when you see it and you see things open up,
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Speaker 2: you know a good returner is going to hit that,
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Speaker 2: and and so I think you have to take all
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Speaker 2: that into consideration as well.
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Speaker 1: Bally evaluated once you got a chance to see the
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Speaker 1: thumb out the other night.
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Speaker 2: He did a nice job, a nice job in the
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Speaker 2: run game protection. Obviously the kickoff returns. You know, he's
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Speaker 2: just he's evolving, he's developing, he's he's improved every single day.
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Speaker 2: He's he's one of those players that really you know,
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Speaker 2: it means something to him and means a lot to him,
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Speaker 2: and and the way he practices and prepares and and
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Speaker 2: did a nice job, did a real nice job. And
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Speaker 2: now something to build on Ryan make of.
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Speaker 1: You know what you pay to see Briswell's slipping a
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Speaker 1: little bit and then get backed up and get back
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Speaker 1: into the plays Ford, I mean, yeah.
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Speaker 3: I got overturned.
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Speaker 2: But from an effort standpoint, you know, that's just yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean that's just one example of many in this
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Speaker 2: football game, I think where you saw a second effort
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Speaker 2: like that and then really kind of third effort for
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Speaker 2: him as he did you know, he did stumble on
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Speaker 2: the route and then be able to you know, make
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Speaker 2: that type of play. You know, it's just a credit
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Speaker 2: to him. And really that's been That's Ryan's philosophy on defense,
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Speaker 2: you know, and it's that attack and aggressive mentality and
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Speaker 2: and swarm to the football. You want to see all eleven,
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Speaker 2: you know, when the when the coaches copy tightens up,
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Speaker 2: you know, on the on the ball, you want to
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Speaker 2: see eleven guys in that frame and and uh, you
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Speaker 2: know we saw more than you know multiple times that
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Speaker 2: was the case, you know, watching watching this game. That's
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Speaker 2: a great effort.
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Speaker 3: You guys, Brilliance speaks on the roster for a few weeks.
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Speaker 2: Now, what goes into getting a guy from the UFL
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Speaker 2: ranks is there as specific people on the staff that
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Speaker 2: kind of watch that whole season go by. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 2: we have you know, our scouting department there they're looking
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Speaker 2: at UFL, they're looking you know, CFL, they're looking you know, European.
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Speaker 2: You know, they're they're just trying to scour the earth
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Speaker 2: for for ball players. And and obviously he had a
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Speaker 2: he had a good, good season this past year and
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Speaker 2: and fortunate to get him.
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Speaker 3: What'd you see some of the young edge guys semi possible,
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Speaker 3: DJ Coleman pretty active.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, both guys didn't did a nice job. You know,
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Speaker 2: some things to correct today and tomorrow. But but I
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Speaker 2: think overall, you know, you saw you saw Dj, you
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Speaker 2: know with his physicality, you saw that playing the edge.
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Speaker 2: Miles is still learning. You know, there was some some
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Speaker 2: times where he was a little bit slow coming off
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Speaker 2: the ball, but I think it's the game and he
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Speaker 2: kind of settled in. He did some nice job. You know,
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Speaker 2: he did some nice things. You can see his athleticism,
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Speaker 2: his ability to run, his strength, and again you know,
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Speaker 2: young player, but it was it was encouraging to watch
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Speaker 2: both those guys plays. After watching you know, Brian, you know,
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Speaker 2: we had some opportunities to get him the football. I
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Speaker 2: thought he did did a nice job in a run game.
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Speaker 2: You know, something we asked our receivers to do is
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Speaker 2: to block and and then you know, obviously made that
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Speaker 2: that really good tough third down, you know, third and
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Speaker 2: one catch down the field, and and you know it
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Speaker 2: was a good start for him, uh to to really
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Speaker 2: kind of sync in. I think he'll just continue to
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Speaker 2: improve and learn from you know, these games.
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Speaker 1: Just to clarify earlier, do we going to miss probably
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Speaker 1: the first six weeks of the season or you know where.
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Speaker 2: It's yeah, I can't. I don't want to put him
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Speaker 2: in a box or lay, but you know it's definitely
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Speaker 2: definitely be you know some time, you know, at least
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Speaker 2: first few games. Possibly.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, early on in this one offensive line up front.
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Speaker 2: Blocking I thought, you know, came off the ball extremely fast,
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Speaker 2: came off the ball, physical, physical. You know, we still
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Speaker 2: have to time up some things with the running back
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Speaker 2: and the offensive line. There were some some opportunities there
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Speaker 2: that we missed, but you know, and then game speed.
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Speaker 2: You know where we're now, we're game speed, and and
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Speaker 2: things were a little bit different. Kansas City does a
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Speaker 2: nice job of attacking the line of scrimmage with their
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Speaker 2: you know, second level defenders, and you know, we've got
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Speaker 2: to be able to come off on some blocks there.
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Speaker 2: But I thought overall, there were some there were some
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Speaker 2: really good things up front. And you know, to to
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Speaker 2: go over one hundred yards in the game obviously is
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Speaker 2: a positive, you know, whether it's regular season, pre season,
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Speaker 2: and again it's still a work in progress. But but please,
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Speaker 2: you know how we started.
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Speaker 1: About Treyvon Walker entering, you know, year three and the draft.
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Speaker 1: Wiles Chadmoma is entering year three as well. He made
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Speaker 1: a couple of nice plays out there. What'd you see
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Speaker 1: from home?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, both guys played played physical. You know, Trayvon's long,
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Speaker 2: he was disruptive a few times. You like to see
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Speaker 2: him get his hands up a couple of times, and
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Speaker 2: maybe bats and passes down Those are again all things
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Speaker 2: that you know, we continue to work on. But and
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Speaker 2: then Chad, Chad made some really nice nice plays at linebacker.
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Speaker 2: You know, he uh was downhill, he was physical, made
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Speaker 2: a nice tackle in space, you know, on the on
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Speaker 2: a pass and and then special teams. You know, he's
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Speaker 2: just a just learning how to play and learn how
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Speaker 2: to play fast. And you can kind of see it
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Speaker 2: with those guys when I say play fast, it means
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Speaker 2: their mind is freed up just so they can just
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Speaker 2: play and they know their responsibility, know their assignments and
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Speaker 2: and both guys played good. Thanks,