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Speaker 1: This is sorry.
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Speaker 2: How's it feel to have the guys kind of coming
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Speaker 2: back into the building.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it kind of feels like the twenty
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Speaker 3: sixth season kind of getting started, getting a kickoff and
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Speaker 3: in a lot of ways, Uh, great to get them
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Speaker 3: back because so much of the work that gets put
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Speaker 3: in throughout the off season with the coaches start to
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Speaker 3: get sick of it. You know, you want to get
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Speaker 3: some of that stuff put into practice. Is really what
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Speaker 3: I mean is with fundamentals, techniques, concepts, three better, three
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Speaker 3: best with our players like you, you're kind of chomping
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Speaker 3: at the bid, especially like I mentioned last time, after
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Speaker 3: you go to the owners meetings and you just gets
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Speaker 3: a little bit more competitive and ready to go.
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Speaker 2: Howmant is this time of year for like building account days,
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Speaker 2: you have a team starting to get the guys to
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Speaker 2: make the locker room together.
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Speaker 4: That's huge.
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Speaker 3: Mentioned that this morning to the guys that we have
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Speaker 3: to attack our relationships, the communication, the way that we
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Speaker 3: operate with each other on a day to day basis.
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Speaker 3: Because there's there are new faces, there's a lot of
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Speaker 3: familiar which is great, continuity, which is awesome, but we
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Speaker 3: have to attack our relationships and the way that we
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Speaker 3: approach every single day at a high clip for us
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Speaker 3: to be able to go where we want to go
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Speaker 3: obviously right now, but more than your initial impressions.
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Speaker 5: Four hours in.
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Speaker 3: Great, really good participation. The guys were locked in answering
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Speaker 3: questions in the meetings, very engaged in the In the
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Speaker 3: team meeting, UH, Coach Orsiano got up and spoke about
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Speaker 3: the Iron Jags and went through that, went through some
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Speaker 3: of the you know the draft that's coming up for
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Speaker 3: that this week. UH, and then both offense defense split
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Speaker 3: up both those groups and coordinators were able to talk
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Speaker 3: to the unit, showed a lot of examples of good
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Speaker 3: stuff and then areas in which we can improve. And
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Speaker 3: then they broke up individually to the precision groups and
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Speaker 3: then started to dive into three better, three best to
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Speaker 3: the specific player. And while those guys as were meeting
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Speaker 3: with the coaches, the other coaches assistant position coaches took
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Speaker 3: the rest of the group and started to kind of
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Speaker 3: get through some initial uh you know, remembering of terms
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Speaker 3: and concepts and things like that. It's yeah, absolutely no,
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Speaker 3: it's it was Look, it's voluntary and for so we
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Speaker 3: just appreciate guys, you know, taking the time and anybody's
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Speaker 3: not here, like it's totally been communicated and understood, Like
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Speaker 3: there's no surprises. The guys are all seem like they're
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Speaker 3: in a good place.
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Speaker 2: I know you guys won't really be in a practice
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Speaker 2: setting for a few weeks, but it's just had.
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Speaker 5: Last year with Parker and Luster kind of really start
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Speaker 5: turning heads.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you kind of look for for players
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Speaker 3: around this time and know they're kind of descending. You
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Speaker 3: can you can see obviously the guys that are putting
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Speaker 3: in a little extra time, maybe because especially last year,
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Speaker 3: so much was new, right, and so you could see
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Speaker 3: the people, the players that ascended a little bit earlier,
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Speaker 3: how much maybe time they were putting in extra meeting
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Speaker 3: with coaches as much as they could, just chomping at
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Speaker 3: the bit to get down to the fundamentals text and
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Speaker 3: but also take it to the next level to go
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Speaker 3: make a play. We're just worried about lining up in
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Speaker 3: a lot of ways. So look, there's so many guys
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Speaker 3: that have that opportunity, and that's the beauty of this time.
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Speaker 3: That's the beauty of it's not really uh like we're
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Speaker 3: judging every single thing for competition on the depth chart
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Speaker 3: and we're trying to compete in everything we do. But
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Speaker 3: it's so much more about learning the toolboxes now that
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Speaker 3: we can maybe move forward past lining up and bunch right,
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Speaker 3: you know, we can get into some of the details
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Speaker 3: in the toolbox kit for these players, so we can
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Speaker 3: go and take them our next game in this in
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Speaker 3: this organization's game to the next level.
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Speaker 5: You guys do the best with coaches too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I basically did something like that with the coaches.
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Speaker 3: Were met with each coach on in all three phases
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Speaker 3: and sort of gave them a little bit of a
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Speaker 3: three better, three best, and maybe it was two or
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Speaker 3: whatever it was for each coach to go and work
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Speaker 3: on throughout the spring in the winter time. So when
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Speaker 3: we do meet again come May June, before we cut
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Speaker 3: out of here, we can touch on a few of
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Speaker 3: those areas in which maybe we've challenged coaches to improve,
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Speaker 3: to grow, to lean into things, and areas in which
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Speaker 3: they did well as coaches and staff members. But I
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Speaker 3: know Tony and James did a lot similar with a
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Speaker 3: lot of the people in this building, and we did
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Speaker 3: no different with the coaches that my boss, the owner,
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Speaker 3: he tells me, we obviously talked about you know, a
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Speaker 3: few areas in which you want to continue to grow.
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Speaker 3: I think one being you know, as a first year coach,
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Speaker 3: you're so concerned with the time management piece, and not
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Speaker 3: just in your day to day but also on game
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Speaker 3: day and what that looks like, trusting the people around
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Speaker 3: you and coming to the conclusions and not looking back
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Speaker 3: and whatever decision you make, to live with it and
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Speaker 3: to not dawn on it too much and worry about
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Speaker 3: what you did. And sometimes I think as coaches we
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Speaker 3: have a tendency, especially myself, to look at too many
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Speaker 3: of the negative things and you start harping on that,
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Speaker 3: and ultimately you can only do your.
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Speaker 6: Best with the trade. Last week, what did click or
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Speaker 6: face and what'd you like it about the game?
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Speaker 3: It wasn't necessarily anything, didn't. I have a lot of
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Speaker 3: respect for Masonsville. I hope he has a heck of
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Speaker 3: a career. He did nothing but what we asked him
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Speaker 3: to do from a work ethic standpoint, from uh doing
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Speaker 3: the right things and what we asked of him, and
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Speaker 3: just we felt like we had an opportunity to potentially
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Speaker 3: get an ascending player that can provide a little bit
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Speaker 3: in the rush. It's it's hard to find big men
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Speaker 3: that can move like that on the interior party or
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Speaker 3: defense without giving up in the run game is something
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Speaker 3: we want to continue to be top notch out which
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Speaker 3: we were in the NFL this past season, but something
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Speaker 3: we want to look at that root gives us an
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Speaker 3: opportunity the big man that can move, that can get
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Speaker 3: in the rush plan as well, and showed the ability
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Speaker 3: to get to the quarterback a little bit, so that
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Speaker 3: that was something that we felt like was gonna fit
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Speaker 3: for us. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, big man, Yeah, Yeah, he
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Speaker 3: was good. We talked briefly after the team meeting and
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Speaker 3: just what a fresh opportunity, fresh start for us being
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Speaker 3: in our second year as an organization. Together with this group,
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Speaker 3: it's a great time to come in as somebody that
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Speaker 3: we can lean into that's got a ton of talent
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Speaker 3: that we want to be able to help get to
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Speaker 3: get his game to the next level.
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Speaker 7: William, how are you guys coming out of last year
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Speaker 7: injury wise? I know, obviously there's a lot of tench
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Speaker 7: on Travis and you guys touched on that two weeks ago,
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Speaker 7: but what about a guy like Cole Van Lannon, Yeah,
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Speaker 7: and maybe some others that are they going to be longer.
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Speaker 3: You know, I don't have exact timelines on some of
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Speaker 3: those guys. I think obviously Travis Cole, like, those guys
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Speaker 3: aren't gonna be probably doing too much throughout the off
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Speaker 3: season program, like with the in terms of practice, right Uh,
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Speaker 3: they'll be doing a lot of rehab, getting on the side,
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Speaker 3: being able to utilize some of the you know, the
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Speaker 3: virtual meeting room downstairs to get some mental reps in there. Uh,
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Speaker 3: that's a way that we can kind of facilitate some
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Speaker 3: of the reps that they're missing. Specifically, off the top
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Speaker 3: of my head, let's see who else could be Jordans
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Speaker 3: j lou similar ballpark. Like, we're not expecting those guys
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Speaker 3: to probably hit the grass this spring in competitive situations,
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Speaker 3: but they're gonna get a ton of reps we've got.
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Speaker 3: You know, we expanded the downstairs with that virtual meeting
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Speaker 3: room to make it a little bit more realistic, and
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Speaker 3: so those guys are gonna be able to utilize that
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Speaker 3: room a lot of times during practice to be able
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Speaker 3: to go get some mental reps. And I think that's
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Speaker 3: gonna be huge for those guys this offseason.
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Speaker 6: Do you want to see out.
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Speaker 4: To Trevor over the.
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Speaker 5: Next two months.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, and when we get out
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Speaker 3: on the grass specifically, is that the expectation is, you
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Speaker 3: know that he's kind of playing at the level in
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Speaker 3: which he was towards the end of the season, right
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Speaker 3: from a footwork standpoint and ownership of the system, communication, cadence,
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Speaker 3: overall command and also you know, throwing and catching the football.
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Speaker 3: I think that that's something that it's important for us
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Speaker 3: to go take a next step as a receiving group,
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Speaker 3: as a tight end group, running backs, everybody that's involved
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Speaker 3: in the past game specifically, but for him, the leadership,
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Speaker 3: the command, and also the way that he was throwing
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Speaker 3: the football towards the end of the season. The expectation
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Speaker 3: is that way we pick off there and let's roll.
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Speaker 8: Outside of the running game, which we've talked about a
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Speaker 8: little bit. Is there any other specific areas of the
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Speaker 8: offense that you're really looking to lock in on this offseason.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think explosives versus negatives, right, Like, how many
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Speaker 3: negative plays do you have per game versus explosives per game.
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Speaker 3: That's something we're always looking at. It's hard to execute
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Speaker 3: ten eleven twelve play drives without something bad happening or
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Speaker 3: a negative play occurring, and what a negative play actually
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Speaker 3: does to a drive. And then also improveing in situational football,
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Speaker 3: specifically third down on offense and defense, and also in
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Speaker 3: the red zone on both offense and defense in terms
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Speaker 3: of scoring touchdowns versus not allowing your opponent to score touchdowns.
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Speaker 3: So you look at, hey, how can we be more explosive.
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Speaker 3: Limit some of those negative plays, whether it be by
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Speaker 3: penalty sack, negative be our rush, and then get better
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Speaker 3: in third downe a red zone or definitely some areas.
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Speaker 3: We're looking to improve upon a lot of really.
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Speaker 2: Good things in your first year, a couple of valleys
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Speaker 2: as well. But it felt like the team was able
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Speaker 2: to remain, eat and heal regardless of highs or lows.
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Speaker 2: Now would it be in a year later? And I
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Speaker 2: realized it's only been a few hours.
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Speaker 8: Can you feel that?
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Speaker 2: Can you see that a year later?
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Speaker 3: The difference, Yeah, probably less guys looking at me like
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Speaker 3: I got something on my forehead, you know, like you
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Speaker 3: see what I'm talking and just the just guys speaking
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Speaker 3: the same language, understanding what the standards are, you know,
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Speaker 3: in terms of the way we operate. In the meeting, room,
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Speaker 3: the way that we communicate with each other. That was
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Speaker 3: very clear within you know this half a day we've
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Speaker 3: been here so far, that guys are serious. I've heard
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Speaker 3: the word win a lot, you know, like guys Rook
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Speaker 3: when I talk to him, I just want to win
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Speaker 3: some games, coach, you know. And so if we have
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Speaker 3: a we above me mentality, which I believe this room,
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Speaker 3: you know, that room of guys does, and they do
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Speaker 3: it the right way, you can definitely feel maybe a
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Speaker 3: little bit more confidence in the standard and confidence in
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Speaker 3: the continuity of how we operate.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: I think I saw Brenton Strange's quotes the other day
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Speaker 3: was like, it's nice to come back. I at least
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Speaker 3: know the schedule, like know what's coming right every day,
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Speaker 3: and that that doesn't necessarily allow for complacency. It allows
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Speaker 3: for man, I can go attack other things because I'm
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Speaker 3: not stressing the day to day and what's going on
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Speaker 3: on every minute of the day.
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Speaker 8: Change in your two.
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Speaker 5: How much does on it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, people know honestly. If anything, you know,
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Speaker 3: we we really looked at the self scout throughout the
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Speaker 3: off season where the areas in which we can improve,
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Speaker 3: and then like what's not even worth it. So honestly,
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Speaker 3: if anything, it was addition by subtraction, I'll be honest.
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Speaker 3: It was a lot of Man, how can we get
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Speaker 3: better at these core concepts and what's not worth it?
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Speaker 3: Especially not in the spring, right, like maybe something that
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Speaker 3: we can touch on when we have more time in
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Speaker 3: training camp or you know when you have a little
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Speaker 3: bit more of a practice and then a walk through
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Speaker 3: at night. Right, So we really it was a lot
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Speaker 3: more subtraction this offseason and looking at what run concepts
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Speaker 3: do we not need right now? To just go get
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Speaker 3: good at a few things and try to emphasize those things.
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Speaker 3: Same thing with the pass game on offense is all right,
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Speaker 3: how can we continue to do with these guys do best?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 4: Man?
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Speaker 3: We need to improve here to attack people in the
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Speaker 3: fall versus man, that's that's not something we need. And
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Speaker 3: it goes to the same on defense, it's like, okay,
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Speaker 3: how can we get better in all phases on defense
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Speaker 3: without adding too much to these guys plate If anything,
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Speaker 3: let's try to subtract and refine.
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Speaker 5: For you offensively, where is this getting We obviously had
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Speaker 5: some hits.
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Speaker 3: You probably had more, missus than it's last year, and
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Speaker 3: that aspect for you. We've talked about that a lot.
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Speaker 3: It's like you can use Obviously. I love the screen
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Speaker 3: you know. I've always been a huge fan of the
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Speaker 3: screen game, not just because of how it attacks the defense,
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Speaker 3: but because being a little bit of a breather play
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Speaker 3: for the quarterback helps your O line out the pressure.
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Speaker 3: It's one hundred person going to be of importance. This spring,
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Speaker 3: We're gonna do multiple different circuits. We've got come and
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Speaker 3: do subtraction. Let's subtract all these other ones that we
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Speaker 3: put in last spring that we never even really got
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Speaker 3: to that all that did was water down the ones.
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Speaker 3: Maybe we work somewhat good at right. So that's a
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Speaker 3: huge area in which we're like, Okay, what receiver screens
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Speaker 3: our best? And then who do we want to throw
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Speaker 3: that receiver screen too? And let's work on that. Okay,
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Speaker 3: what are our best running back and tight end screens?
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Speaker 3: How do we try to simulate that in the offseason
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Speaker 3: without a real rush and without pads because some of those.
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Speaker 3: So much of the screen game is being a good actor,
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Speaker 3: and when you don't get live reps at being an
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Speaker 3: actor all the time, it's hard to sometimes go simulate
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Speaker 3: that and even a course of a week of practice
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Speaker 3: against your scout team because you tell the d endo rush, Well,
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Speaker 3: what if it doesn't feel real to them? Now we're
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Speaker 3: asking our scout team to do something that's not realistic,
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Speaker 3: and now your screen sucks. So it's just it's an
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Speaker 3: area I want to improve on, and I think we
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Speaker 3: can improve on it.
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Speaker 5: You know, last year, obviously he was going to rehab.
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Speaker 5: He wasn't really able to have a.
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Speaker 4: Normal obviousely said how much more can people to plate this.
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Speaker 5: Time of the year.
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Speaker 3: Now, yeah, I think that's a great point. I mean,
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Speaker 3: he wasn't even thrown for a long time. We were
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Speaker 3: working so much more on the above the neck and
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Speaker 3: the and the waist down so much a last spring,
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Speaker 3: and if we can start kind of in a lot
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Speaker 3: of ways where we left off in a lot of
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Speaker 3: ways for him to be able to take that next
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Speaker 3: jump of complete ownership, of complete ownership of what we're
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Speaker 3: getting accomplished pre snap, that whole operation so we don't
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Speaker 3: snap it under five, and then to be able to
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Speaker 3: execute once you get the ball in your hands, because look,
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Speaker 3: so much happens for the quarterback pre and post snap,
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Speaker 3: and it no, it's true we would like to be
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Speaker 3: able to give him more ops to play faster too, Right, Like,
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Speaker 3: there's that fine line between being in the perfect big
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Speaker 3: play having a number of different cans and kills and
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Speaker 3: alerts versus man, let's just call and run it. Let
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Speaker 3: them those guys just go play. And I think, if anything,
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Speaker 3: we'd like to lean more into that this spring because
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Speaker 3: that now makes the quarterback all right, post snap, I've
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Speaker 3: got to have a three dep answer quarters, answer man
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Speaker 3: answer to and I got to know where those are
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Speaker 3: and find a completion. Sometimes when you leave living the
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Speaker 3: can in premiere world, you're almost I don't want to
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Speaker 3: say paralyzing the player, but you're not letting them maybe
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Speaker 3: be as creative as possible, and you're dictating to him
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Speaker 3: where the ball should go. So it's that balance. There's
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Speaker 3: a lot of good things that we can learn from.
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Speaker 3: But if he can take that growth of complete ownership
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Speaker 3: this spring, and you know, I'm excited about getting the
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Speaker 3: opportunity to do.
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Speaker 5: It, Craig.
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Speaker 8: Obviously, Traymont got his extension just in terms of what
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Speaker 8: he means the team to.
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Speaker 4: You over the last few years.
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Speaker 9: I mean, uh, what he means to the team is,
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Speaker 9: you know, he brings that Georgia football.
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Speaker 4: Breed line.
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Speaker 9: I guess you know, if guys, it's just come in
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Speaker 9: and work, you know, our selfless guys, our team first guys.
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Speaker 9: And he puts on that, he puts on that his
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Speaker 9: helmet and comes to work every single day a lot
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Speaker 9: of I got a lot of love and a lot
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Speaker 9: of respect for him, And I know everybody on this
16:33
Speaker 9: team as well, coaches included obviously our front office as well,
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Speaker 9: because they want to paid them if they didn't. And
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Speaker 9: you know the funny thing about it too, like I
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Speaker 9: don't think this is this isn't gonna change him. Like
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Speaker 9: he's still gonna come in and attack the same attack
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Speaker 9: to day as if he was, you know, getting drafted again.
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Speaker 9: So you know, and then what he means to me, man,
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Speaker 9: that's that's my rod dog, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: That's a guy that you.
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Speaker 9: Know, as soon as he came in, we we locked
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Speaker 9: in and we became brothers, and you know, and and
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Speaker 9: also fear competitors as well.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 9: He pushes me every single day and I try to
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Speaker 9: do the same thing as well. Uh. We want the
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Speaker 9: best for each other and we want to be the
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Speaker 9: best due in the National Football.
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Speaker 6: League and kind of have the guys back together a
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Speaker 6: little bit.
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Speaker 9: It feels good to be back, Manu. The energy is
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Speaker 9: super high. You know, I think the first team meeting
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Speaker 9: went when how I expected, you know, having Liam going
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Speaker 9: up there talking to the team, you know, still have
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Speaker 9: that fire built up.
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Speaker 4: Man, it's awesome to hear.
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Speaker 9: It's awesome to get back into the you know, to
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Speaker 9: camps meetings and you know, kind of getting back to
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Speaker 9: the basics. Uh, I know, its day one, but you know,
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Speaker 9: I'm excited for for what tomorrow holds for us, and
17:40
Speaker 9: uh even even the workouts outside.
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Speaker 4: You know, we're getting really good work. So you know,
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Speaker 4: I'm excited to be back.
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Speaker 10: Off season of off season a slender time.
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Speaker 5: What's your plan this off season? Well as what led
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Speaker 5: to you.
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Speaker 10: Being near the first week?
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Speaker 4: I mean.
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Speaker 9: For me, uh, you know, Arizona. I still go to Arizona.
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Speaker 9: You know, I just timed it up differently. But for me, man,
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Speaker 9: you know, outside of you know, what my contract says,
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Speaker 9: you know, and what and what we talk about there.
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Speaker 4: You know, I'm not gonna argue that.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, but you know, outside you know, being with the guys,
18:22
Speaker 9: it's just good to be back you know, I think
18:23
Speaker 9: we have a really good locker room, a really good presence.
18:27
Speaker 9: G a lot of the young guys. Man's just to
18:30
Speaker 9: see how far they've gone, being around Danny, being around
18:32
Speaker 9: bj uh and just kind of act like we never left.
18:36
Speaker 9: And uh, you know, y and and and guys would
18:38
Speaker 9: know guys that age out and and they they always
18:41
Speaker 9: look back and say, what do you miss the most?
18:43
Speaker 4: You miss the locker room?
18:44
Speaker 9: And right now I'm in that moment of like, you know,
18:47
Speaker 9: let's continue to embrace this and let's continue to carry
18:50
Speaker 9: on for what we had before and uh.
18:52
Speaker 4: Take it to the next level. And I'm excited about that.
18:55
Speaker 4: Did Josh?
18:55
Speaker 6: Seven years since your draft week? Uh, what do you
18:57
Speaker 6: remember most about it? What these guys are gonna be true?
19:00
Speaker 1: This?
19:00
Speaker 4: What can I mean?
19:04
Speaker 9: Where's the draft this year in Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh. Shout to Pittsburgh,
19:09
Speaker 9: Shout out to those guys. Though, Man, this is a
19:11
Speaker 9: this is a lifetime you know. Uh you know for me, Man,
19:15
Speaker 9: I didn't you know, we being frank being real for me,
19:19
Speaker 9: I didn't think I was gonna go to the NFL
19:20
Speaker 9: until my junior year, you know, of college. So for
19:23
Speaker 9: me to be able to put that work in and
19:25
Speaker 9: then the city and those seats after my senior year
19:28
Speaker 9: of like damn, like I really achieved that, I really
19:33
Speaker 9: achieved this at a high level, and now I'm at
19:34
Speaker 9: an opportunity to be drafted. It was just a surreal moment.
19:39
Speaker 9: Anticipation is is kind of gonna be crazy.
19:41
Speaker 4: You know.
19:41
Speaker 9: I thought I was gonna go higher. I obviously I
19:43
Speaker 9: went seven, you know, but still like for me, it
19:46
Speaker 9: was just like, oh my gosh, what I'm gonna I
19:47
Speaker 9: don't know who's at the fire. I don't know who's
19:49
Speaker 9: at the four, Like, what's happening? What's happening? And then
19:50
Speaker 9: you have other guys that are in situations like they
19:53
Speaker 9: can't control that, you know.
19:54
Speaker 4: And I know everybody probably thinks, yeah, I had a
19:57
Speaker 4: good meeting with this team.
19:59
Speaker 9: I think I'm gonna go to this team, but it's
20:01
Speaker 9: actually the team that I never talked to, you you know.
20:04
Speaker 9: And then even like oh my god, where okay, where
20:06
Speaker 9: am I at right now?
20:07
Speaker 4: Okay? Where am I going?
20:08
Speaker 9: So you know, coming in day one after you get drafted, man,
20:13
Speaker 9: coming in and just settling in being with the guys,
20:16
Speaker 9: you know, kind of kind of just embrace yourself early.
20:19
Speaker 9: I think it will probably be the easiest transition for
20:21
Speaker 9: guys coming into the league. You know, everybody don't like
20:24
Speaker 9: a standoff guy. Guy that's kind of feeling it. Man,
20:26
Speaker 9: come in and be yourself and compete at a high level,
20:30
Speaker 9: because that's the first thing that we're gonna see, you know,
20:32
Speaker 9: for me, if I come in, that's the first thing
20:33
Speaker 9: I noticed with.
20:34
Speaker 4: Danny and bj Man.
20:35
Speaker 9: The guys competed every single day with each other, with me,
20:39
Speaker 9: with Trey and and you can't do nothing but respect that.
20:43
Speaker 9: And so you know, that's what I'm kind of looking
20:45
Speaker 9: forward to these guys. I think James does a heck
20:47
Speaker 9: of a job. I'm bringing good players in here, and
20:50
Speaker 9: good high value players, and I'm excited.
20:52
Speaker 4: To see what the draft looks like for us this year.
20:54
Speaker 6: How much more as is everyone now that you kind
20:57
Speaker 6: of know what to expect that we am in the sad.
20:59
Speaker 9: And pay everybody that these I think we should all
21:01
Speaker 9: still be, you know, on our you know, we we
21:05
Speaker 9: got to come in with the expectations of you know,
21:09
Speaker 9: this is this is a business at the end of
21:10
Speaker 9: the day, and if you come in complacent, then things
21:14
Speaker 9: are not gonna be end well for you. So for me, man,
21:17
Speaker 9: this is a day to day operation for me to
21:19
Speaker 9: come in and execute and be at a high level.
21:21
Speaker 9: Come in, you know, smile on my face always, but
21:23
Speaker 9: know that you know this job doesn't last forever, and
21:27
Speaker 9: take advantage of each moment.
21:28
Speaker 4: So and and I think we all know that too.
21:33
Speaker 4: And but it's a good feeling to have.
21:34
Speaker 9: It's a good feeling to know that you know, at
21:36
Speaker 9: least those guys making those decisions are are like guys
21:39
Speaker 9: that communicate with you, and guys that want to win,
21:41
Speaker 9: and guys that want the best for the team. And
21:43
Speaker 9: if you are on that roster when we do make
21:45
Speaker 9: the roster or you know, the practice squad, they believe
21:49
Speaker 9: in you. And so so for me just to come
21:52
Speaker 9: in every single day and be ready to work, that's
21:55
Speaker 9: the only thing I can do. And that's the only
21:56
Speaker 9: thing everybody else feels like they can do as well.
22:00
Speaker 7: Would have bet you going into this year you had
22:02
Speaker 7: the huge year in the contract season. You have to say,
22:05
Speaker 7: you chase down this franchise sac record and we're at
22:08
Speaker 7: this stage of your career, like, what are you this
22:12
Speaker 7: time of the year, what's that carrot going into the fall?
22:15
Speaker 9: I mean, for me, you know, is a validation and
22:21
Speaker 9: and this can go two ways, you know what I'm saying,
22:24
Speaker 9: cause people can be chasing you know, everybody should chase greatness,
22:28
Speaker 9: you know. But for me, you know, I've been one
22:31
Speaker 9: of the best guys at my position for the last
22:34
Speaker 9: couple of years and you know, don't get talked about
22:37
Speaker 9: as much. And you know, and again it's a lot
22:41
Speaker 9: of media, but if you turn the film on, you know,
22:43
Speaker 9: I've been one of the best guys. But the validation
22:45
Speaker 9: of being named with those guys that are you know,
22:49
Speaker 9: Will Anderson just got fifty million, you know, being Miles
22:52
Speaker 9: Garrett and you know you hear Max Crosby, T J.
22:55
Speaker 4: Watts and Nick.
22:56
Speaker 9: Bosa is like you know, when you when you have
22:58
Speaker 9: a list of those guys of who's the best in
23:00
Speaker 9: the league, you know, I want Josh Hans Allen to
23:02
Speaker 9: be one of those guys that come to the top
23:04
Speaker 9: of the list. And for me, that's just keep producing.
23:08
Speaker 4: You know.
23:08
Speaker 9: I know SAX has been a huge thing in my position.
23:11
Speaker 4: You know, for me, I don't think about it.
23:13
Speaker 9: I I've been up here before and I'm s you know,
23:15
Speaker 9: all we said, man, that's not a thing that kind
23:17
Speaker 9: of carries me.
23:18
Speaker 4: Me turning on the tape and me.
23:20
Speaker 9: Knowing that I'm whooping the guy in front of me,
23:21
Speaker 9: and that guy knowing that as well, and coaches knowing that.
23:24
Speaker 9: Coaches know I gotta play against him, Like that's what kind.
23:26
Speaker 4: Of drives me.
23:27
Speaker 9: But again, man, I did a lot of things, you know,
23:30
Speaker 9: from last year, knowing things I need to do better,
23:32
Speaker 9: to finish better, and uh, you know, I'm looking to
23:35
Speaker 9: improve on those aspects to to get the job done.
23:38
Speaker 2: I know what happened a few months ago was just
23:40
Speaker 2: your thoughts on camp, you know, coming back.
23:42
Speaker 4: Or who camp with them?
23:45
Speaker 9: And I love camp to have you know, you always
23:48
Speaker 9: want the best guys in the building at all time.
23:49
Speaker 9: And I think he's a he's a he's a young coach.
23:52
Speaker 4: Well he's not.
23:53
Speaker 9: He's a young coach, you know, coming up, you know,
23:56
Speaker 9: his second year going into DC. And to have a
23:58
Speaker 9: good coach in the building, you can't beat that. And
24:01
Speaker 9: you know, you you talent, a good coach with good players,
24:04
Speaker 9: that's a recipe for success to me. And you know,
24:07
Speaker 9: when I can come into a situation knowing that, like
24:09
Speaker 9: you know, I'm coming in and giving into my all.
24:11
Speaker 9: And I got a coach that's speaking to me, giving
24:13
Speaker 9: it to giving it his all. It's a recipe for success.
24:16
Speaker 9: And uh, not only I feel like that, but play
24:18
Speaker 9: all the other players as well.
24:20
Speaker 4: So you know, we love camp.
24:22
Speaker 9: You know we're gonna fight for him now we kind
24:24
Speaker 9: of know what he's about, and uh, it just brings
24:27
Speaker 9: the love and trust a little bit further. Yeah, we
24:32
Speaker 9: had a we had a we had a We definitely
24:34
Speaker 9: came across the past, uh a few times. Great kid.
24:41
Speaker 9: You know, I talked to him in his drive process.
24:44
Speaker 9: I talked to him when he was in I think
24:45
Speaker 9: I was still in Kentucky and he came on a
24:47
Speaker 9: visit and uh we chopped it up and ever since,
24:50
Speaker 9: and I just seen him in Arizona too, so like
24:53
Speaker 9: even before he signed, this was before he got traded there.
24:56
Speaker 9: You know, every time I see him, like, he always
24:57
Speaker 9: gives me a lot of love, a lot of respect.
24:59
Speaker 9: And you know, I've always followed him every time we
25:01
Speaker 9: played against them all. You know, we always touch base.
25:05
Speaker 9: And so for him to be on the team now,
25:06
Speaker 9: to know what type of value and character that he has,
25:09
Speaker 9: he's gonna fit right into what we got going on.
25:11
Speaker 9: And I'm excited to rush with him. I'm excited to
25:13
Speaker 9: play with him. He kind of know what we about.
25:17
Speaker 9: And uh, you know again, like I was, just tell
25:19
Speaker 9: him about the rookies. Man, come in here, be yourself,
25:22
Speaker 9: you know, compete at a high level.
25:24
Speaker 4: And he gonna fit right in with us.
25:26
Speaker 9: And uh, he has that type of mold and I'm
25:28
Speaker 9: excited to get going with him as a unit.
25:31
Speaker 8: Obviously led the league and run defense last year. What's
25:34
Speaker 8: the next step for the defensive.
25:35
Speaker 4: Front lead the league in secks?
25:41
Speaker 6: Well by Josh off topic a little bit on the
25:45
Speaker 6: union front. What what give you a confidence that JC
25:48
Speaker 6: Treck can bring some continuity to the union that you
25:50
Speaker 6: guys haven't had.
25:51
Speaker 5: In the last couple years.
25:52
Speaker 9: I mean, JC brings a lot of a lot of
25:55
Speaker 9: personal experience. You know, he's former player, was there was
25:59
Speaker 9: the NFL p a rep PA president.
26:02
Speaker 4: Sorry, and uh, a guy that fought for us.
26:06
Speaker 9: And you know, I was in those meetings and you
26:09
Speaker 9: know it was a long debate, uh, to see who
26:12
Speaker 9: we're gonna choose. But at the end of the day, man,
26:13
Speaker 9: we all collectively chose to go with JC because he
26:16
Speaker 9: was the best fit. He was a guy that, you know,
26:18
Speaker 9: with things coming up recently like now in the next
26:21
Speaker 9: couple of years, a guy that's gonna fight for us,
26:23
Speaker 9: a guy that understands.
26:24
Speaker 4: What we need.
26:25
Speaker 9: And uh, you know he he he gave me the
26:28
Speaker 9: confidence that you know, we're gonna be in good hands.
26:30
Speaker 9: But he also needs a good staff around him as well,
26:33
Speaker 9: and he needs good support in each team. Uh that's
26:35
Speaker 9: gonna help fight with him. And so you know, if
26:38
Speaker 9: I can help in any way, I am uh to
26:41
Speaker 9: support him and if to support us essentially.
26:44
Speaker 4: So I got a lot of respect for JC because
26:47
Speaker 4: I know you.
26:47
Speaker 5: Said you weren't complacent it all coming in. But do
26:50
Speaker 5: you feel like he, especially you guys, can have.
26:52
Speaker 8: A head start maybe a little bit from having the
26:55
Speaker 8: continuity of knowing Camp Camp, knowing you who even.
26:58
Speaker 5: Have a lot of that recently on the defensive side.
27:03
Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, I I would think so. But again,
27:06
Speaker 9: you know, we're starting back at phase one. I think
27:09
Speaker 9: once we get back on the field and we start,
27:12
Speaker 9: you know, start going into what what these meetings look
27:15
Speaker 9: like more and depthly, maybe we can skip over a
27:17
Speaker 9: few things. Maybe we can talk a little bit more
27:19
Speaker 9: broadly about you know, what are we expecting from each other?
27:23
Speaker 9: And uh, take that next step of like, maybe we
27:26
Speaker 9: don't have to do it by the book right now,
27:27
Speaker 9: because we did it by the book, maybe we can
27:29
Speaker 9: do it by experience. You know, how do we feel secondary?
27:32
Speaker 9: How do y'all feel up front? How do ya feel linebackers?
27:35
Speaker 9: How do we feel about communicating things? So there's a
27:38
Speaker 9: lot of different nuances. I feel like we're gonna improve on, like, hey,
27:42
Speaker 9: let let's not do that right now, let's let's lets
27:45
Speaker 9: le let's gravitate towards this and then having that year
27:47
Speaker 9: with the back end as well. Shit kind of work.
27:51
Speaker 9: So you know, I'm excited about that. I'm excited to
27:53
Speaker 9: see what our defense looks like going into year two
27:58
Speaker 9: under camp, knowing that things that we did well last year,
28:01
Speaker 9: knowing things that we didn't do well last year. I
28:03
Speaker 9: think that's important as well, and uh, just improving on
28:06
Speaker 9: all facets so we can be the best defense in
28:08
Speaker 9: the That's foot League.
28:09
Speaker 2: At this point in your career, do you find yourself
28:12
Speaker 2: a little bit more this is what we need? I mean,
28:16
Speaker 2: do you say we need it at their edge so
28:18
Speaker 2: Trayvon can move inside next to me, or we need
28:20
Speaker 2: another defensive tackle, or do you just lead back to
28:23
Speaker 2: the others.
28:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just played football here. I just played football. Man.
28:29
Speaker 9: I try to you know, stay in my lane. And
28:32
Speaker 9: you know, if they ask me what I you know,
28:34
Speaker 9: what I would want to do or my opinion, then
28:37
Speaker 9: I would give them my opinion.
28:39
Speaker 4: But for me again, just to have.
28:41
Speaker 9: That trust, I think that trust is need to be
28:43
Speaker 9: had to you know, James is gonna do James and
28:46
Speaker 9: Tony are gonna do the right things to bring the
28:47
Speaker 9: right people in to help benefit and uplift this team
28:50
Speaker 9: and well this ecosystem, and uh, you know, and I'm
28:55
Speaker 9: a part of ecosystem that needs to uplift those people
28:58
Speaker 9: whoever they bring in. So if we don't bring the
29:00
Speaker 9: body in, we're gonna rock with the guys we got.
29:02
Speaker 9: If we do bring somebody in, we're gonna rock with
29:04
Speaker 9: whoever we will bringing.
29:06
Speaker 5: Loss season the way it is a wordivating fatter right
29:10
Speaker 5: now is still brushing your brain.
29:14
Speaker 9: I mean, obviously, you know, you in with a loss.
29:17
Speaker 9: Only one team is gonna end with a win, and
29:20
Speaker 9: we want to see the finish with a loss. And
29:22
Speaker 9: the way we went out, I think it was a
29:24
Speaker 9: learning experience for us. You know, there's never any moral victories,
29:28
Speaker 9: you know, we kind of got that out of our ways.
29:30
Speaker 9: I think we're all old enough to know that. You know,
29:33
Speaker 9: losing is a part of it, but how can we
29:35
Speaker 9: get better? But I think it was a learning experience.
29:38
Speaker 9: We played against a good team, uh, a well experienced
29:42
Speaker 9: team at that. Did they make more plays probably, did
29:47
Speaker 9: they make exciting plays, no, but they just didn't mess
29:51
Speaker 9: up from my understanding of how the game went, and
29:55
Speaker 9: that was a that was a good lesson to have,
29:56
Speaker 9: you know. So when we play against experienced teams, man,
29:59
Speaker 9: we and beat ourselves. That's every week. But in the
30:02
Speaker 9: playoff games, man, you can't beat yourselves. Uh, we stopped
30:06
Speaker 9: to run, you know. I feel like we contained Josh too,
30:11
Speaker 9: to not scramble as much as he's.
30:14
Speaker 4: As he typically does. But he just made the right place.
30:17
Speaker 9: And okay, okay, but yeah, you know, just we learned
30:26
Speaker 9: a lot of experience and I can't wait to get
30:28
Speaker 9: back in that phase again and uh take it to
30:31
Speaker 9: the next level.
30:37
Speaker 1: It was. It was great.
30:38
Speaker 10: We were just talking the locker room, catching up. I
30:39
Speaker 10: haven't talked to him in a long time. It was
30:42
Speaker 10: obviously we've both grown up a lot since then, so
30:45
Speaker 10: like seeing him now. It's it's kind of crazy. But
30:48
Speaker 10: I texted him the other day and it was like,
30:50
Speaker 10: basically we talked when he was getting drafted, and he
30:54
Speaker 10: mentioned like, you wanted to come down to Jacksonville, like
30:56
Speaker 10: you know, of course, go somewhere with some familiar faces.
30:58
Speaker 10: And we hadn't talked since then, So I text him
31:01
Speaker 10: and said, well, you're down here. Probably not how you
31:03
Speaker 10: would have imagined it, but we're back together. So no,
31:06
Speaker 10: I'm excited. He's he's a great guy. Excited to get
31:08
Speaker 10: him in the building and a good addition for us,
31:10
Speaker 10: And yeah, it'll be fun. How much different is this
31:13
Speaker 10: off season for you just not having to rehab, you're
31:16
Speaker 10: not learning new coaches.
31:18
Speaker 1: How much more can you do? Yeah?
31:20
Speaker 10: A lot different, I think just from a you know,
31:22
Speaker 10: training I guess physically first and foremost, it's it's a
31:27
Speaker 10: lot better not having to recover from a surgery and
31:31
Speaker 10: injury and trying to get back just to where you
31:33
Speaker 10: can train like normal and throw and do all.
31:36
Speaker 1: The things that you want to do.
31:37
Speaker 10: So you know, that's obviously a plus being able to
31:40
Speaker 10: just start my training and be healthy back in you know, February.
31:44
Speaker 10: And then I'd say the mental part of it too,
31:47
Speaker 10: is not having to completely relearn a new system like
31:51
Speaker 10: that's that's a bonus as well, because you can really
31:54
Speaker 10: fine tune some of the things and you can get
31:57
Speaker 10: into more of the details instead of just trying to
31:59
Speaker 10: learn stuff for the first time.
32:00
Speaker 1: You're a lot further along. So starting today.
32:04
Speaker 10: I feel like, obviously we're a lot further ahead than
32:06
Speaker 10: we were last year, and a lot of work to
32:08
Speaker 10: be done. And you know, we got to build a
32:10
Speaker 10: bunch of chemistry. We got new guys and there's a
32:12
Speaker 10: lot of guys to get up to speed. But as
32:14
Speaker 10: far as I think our core and guys that were here,
32:17
Speaker 10: the comfort level, with the offense with each other, the chemistry,
32:20
Speaker 10: all that stuff is a nice carryover. But you still
32:22
Speaker 10: got to go and like I said, put the work
32:24
Speaker 10: in this year.
32:25
Speaker 4: The chemistry.
32:26
Speaker 5: How important is this time of year to just kind
32:28
Speaker 5: of building that to.
32:29
Speaker 10: Inducation super important. You know, there's there's all the rules
32:32
Speaker 10: and guidelines and all the stuff where you can't practice
32:35
Speaker 10: competitively against each other for a while. So that's the
32:37
Speaker 10: best time I think to have that structure and practice
32:40
Speaker 10: where it's all about fundamental fundamentals technique. You know, as
32:44
Speaker 10: far as all the stuff that we can control on offense,
32:46
Speaker 10: the operation, making sure we're clean, operating quickly, and and
32:51
Speaker 10: doing all that stuff with the line of scrimmage and
32:52
Speaker 10: practicing all the things that you know, when you do
32:55
Speaker 10: start to practicing each other, get each other and get competitive,
32:59
Speaker 10: that some of that suff can kind of slip a
33:00
Speaker 10: little bit. So I think it's now is the time
33:02
Speaker 10: to hone in on all the details and kind of
33:04
Speaker 10: iron out all the stuff in our system and get
33:06
Speaker 10: guys along that might need some help as far as
33:08
Speaker 10: they're learning for the first time or whatever it is.
33:10
Speaker 1: There's a lot of chemistry throwing too, think.
33:12
Speaker 10: About routes and timing, and you know, now it's kind
33:14
Speaker 10: of the best time to do all that before it
33:16
Speaker 10: gets really competitive and you're going against each other some of.
33:18
Speaker 5: The press stuff.
33:19
Speaker 3: But how helpful is it just knowing you kind of
33:22
Speaker 3: know how them operates, you kind of know what the
33:23
Speaker 3: schedule looks like going in the story.
33:26
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's that's a big part of it
33:29
Speaker 10: is just when it's your first time with the new
33:31
Speaker 10: staff and new players, coaches, all those things. When it's
33:35
Speaker 10: all new, there is a level of just discomfort, I
33:40
Speaker 10: would say, and you don't really know how things are
33:42
Speaker 10: going to go or what the schedule is going to be,
33:43
Speaker 10: and you haven't built the relationships yet with all the
33:47
Speaker 10: new staff to where you know each other really well.
33:49
Speaker 10: And I think now that we've had a year of
33:51
Speaker 10: working together, there is that comfort in the relationship piece
33:55
Speaker 10: of it and being excited to be back just because
33:57
Speaker 10: you know these guys and I've worked with them and
34:00
Speaker 10: just excited to get back in the building and work
34:02
Speaker 10: on all the things I know we need to work
34:04
Speaker 10: on and get better and improve. And I think we're
34:06
Speaker 10: all on the same page as far as we know
34:08
Speaker 10: what we need to do, and we have a lot
34:10
Speaker 10: of work to get there, but we have this optimism
34:13
Speaker 10: about you know, the work we're gonna put in the future,
34:15
Speaker 10: and I think all that stuff's exciting. And this time
34:18
Speaker 10: of year ago, it's all new and you're trying to
34:20
Speaker 10: you're trying to figure out learn each other and learn.
34:22
Speaker 1: The system and all that stuff.
34:25
Speaker 6: On Travis for today after so many years together.
34:28
Speaker 10: Yeah, Yeah, definitely definitely weird. You know, it's we got
34:33
Speaker 10: a great running back room outside of Travis, obviously, those
34:36
Speaker 10: guys are awesome, and our team is really really tight, group,
34:40
Speaker 10: But for sure a tough not having Travis. You know,
34:43
Speaker 10: I've talked about it, I think before, But happy for
34:45
Speaker 10: him and you know that situation, and just happy for him.
34:49
Speaker 10: He deserves everything he's gotten, so I think it's a
34:51
Speaker 10: good thing for him and his family. But yeah, definitely
34:54
Speaker 10: weird eight years. So I'm gonna miss that guy. But
34:56
Speaker 10: you know, we'll, you know, life keeps going, and I
34:59
Speaker 10: know he he's looking forward to the opportunity. He's gonna
35:01
Speaker 10: get New Orleans and you know, we got a great
35:03
Speaker 10: group that we got to work with here and we're
35:05
Speaker 10: gonna be just fine.
35:06
Speaker 1: But definitely missed that guy.
35:09
Speaker 5: Wrong.
35:10
Speaker 10: So that was something I was like, I've known him
35:14
Speaker 10: for eight years, and I think what happened was I
35:16
Speaker 10: came in a year after him at Clemson, and I
35:18
Speaker 10: guess he told all the all them his freshman year,
35:21
Speaker 10: but I wasn't there.
35:22
Speaker 1: I was still in high school.
35:23
Speaker 10: So when I came in, I guess he just conceded
35:25
Speaker 10: that it was going to be Etn instead of.
35:28
Speaker 1: H and h in. Is that what it is? Yeah,
35:30
Speaker 1: So I was.
35:32
Speaker 10: Like, I've known him for eight years and didn't even
35:33
Speaker 10: know that. So anyways, yeah, he didn't I guess he
35:37
Speaker 10: didn't mind too much.
35:39
Speaker 5: With the Trayvon getting paid James the socks up. Just
35:41
Speaker 5: how was toughness stood out to his teammates.
35:43
Speaker 2: So somebody who plays on the other side of the ball,
35:45
Speaker 2: is that something that you can kind of see that
35:46
Speaker 2: he just kind of commands and rooms.
35:49
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think even you know, playing different sides of
35:51
Speaker 10: the ball, you know, you're not necessarily talking game plan
35:55
Speaker 10: and working with each other through the week in the season,
35:58
Speaker 10: but you see all those things and being around him
36:01
Speaker 10: now for what four years, I mean, just that's something
36:04
Speaker 10: that all of us know about him, and then he
36:06
Speaker 10: plays the right way, and just to keep a guy
36:09
Speaker 10: like that around, I think is the right thing for
36:12
Speaker 10: our team and just the right thing to do because
36:14
Speaker 10: of the energy he brings, the way he works. He's
36:16
Speaker 10: one of the hardest workers on our team. Great player,
36:19
Speaker 10: has the right attitude.
36:20
Speaker 1: You know, he's a great teammate.
36:21
Speaker 10: So I think he fits all the or has all
36:26
Speaker 10: the traits that you want for a guy that obviously
36:27
Speaker 10: you're gonna pay a lot of money to and that's
36:29
Speaker 10: going to be here for a while. So I was
36:31
Speaker 10: really happy to see that. Just happy for him. And
36:33
Speaker 10: he's a great player. I think his best football is
36:35
Speaker 10: ahead of him too. I mean, he's you know, I
36:37
Speaker 10: got all the faith in the world in him, So
36:38
Speaker 10: I'm excited that we get to be together for a
36:40
Speaker 10: little longer.
36:41
Speaker 8: There's a specific area of your game that you're looking
36:43
Speaker 8: to grow in year two. Obviously you said last year
36:46
Speaker 8: there was so much newness and recovering from the injury
36:49
Speaker 8: and all that. Is there something specifically you think you can.
36:53
Speaker 4: Grow this year?
36:55
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, I think there's always I've talked about
36:57
Speaker 10: in the past. There's always little things technique wise, whether
37:00
Speaker 10: it's footwork, movement in the pocket. Looking over at the season,
37:05
Speaker 10: I think I got a lot better some of my
37:08
Speaker 10: footwork that I changed throughout the offseason last year. As
37:10
Speaker 10: the season went on, it just takes a lot of
37:11
Speaker 10: reps and then the game reps to changes a little bit,
37:15
Speaker 10: and I got more comfortable as the season went on.
37:16
Speaker 10: I thought that got a lot better. And then some
37:19
Speaker 10: of the pocket movements as well, just you know, being
37:22
Speaker 10: poised in the pocket, subtle movement, staying in a position
37:25
Speaker 10: to throw. I also think that got better as the
37:27
Speaker 10: season went on. But there's a lot of clips where
37:30
Speaker 10: I know I can improve and get better. You know,
37:32
Speaker 10: I'd say just the consistency piece of it. I felt
37:34
Speaker 10: like as an offense and personally individually kind of hit
37:38
Speaker 10: our stride towards the end of the season, but just
37:40
Speaker 10: putting that together for seventeen weeks plus, you know, playoffs
37:44
Speaker 10: and being able to do that consistently down the stretch
37:46
Speaker 10: to win these big playoff games. You look at all
37:48
Speaker 10: those things and just excited for the opportunity to put
37:51
Speaker 10: together an even bigger stretch of good football for you know,
37:55
Speaker 10: our offense, our team, And I think that's the challenge,
37:58
Speaker 10: right is doing it every week and just I did
38:00
Speaker 10: for that opportunity.
38:02
Speaker 5: Wait, what do you remember about your draft night? And
38:04
Speaker 5: what advice do you have the guys who are kind
38:06
Speaker 5: of going through that.
38:08
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it's such a great weekend for all
38:11
Speaker 10: the guys that get drafted and just the opportunities that
38:14
Speaker 10: you get. You get to kind of it's a cool experience.
38:16
Speaker 10: You're around your family and coaches, and everybody does a
38:20
Speaker 10: little bit different, but family and coaches and all the
38:22
Speaker 10: people that mean a lot to you, and such a
38:25
Speaker 10: big moment of I mean years and years of work
38:28
Speaker 10: and it's not even for me It wasn't the dream
38:31
Speaker 10: necessarily to be an NFL player when I was five, Like,
38:33
Speaker 10: I just love football. And then you know, I woke
38:36
Speaker 10: up when I was at Clemson as a twenty one
38:39
Speaker 10: year old and found myself with the opportunity to get
38:41
Speaker 10: drafted and come here to Jacksonville, And it almost feels
38:44
Speaker 10: like a dream just because you've worked so hard for
38:46
Speaker 10: so long and then you're here. Obviously it's just the beginning,
38:50
Speaker 10: so there's a lot more work to put in, but
38:51
Speaker 10: I think celebrate in that moment is huge, especially with
38:54
Speaker 10: your family and a lot of people make a lot
38:56
Speaker 10: of sacrifice.
38:56
Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest thing is it's not just
38:59
Speaker 1: about the player.
39:00
Speaker 10: It's the families and the coaches and all the people
39:02
Speaker 10: that believed in you and sacrifice for you to get there.
39:05
Speaker 1: That's the cool part.
39:06
Speaker 6: Trevor Han't granted you Disky back. Even if he wasn't back,
39:09
Speaker 6: you would have had the same offense. But does it help
39:11
Speaker 6: the mist all goal quicker? And since you guys know
39:14
Speaker 6: each other.
39:14
Speaker 1: Score Yeah. Me and Grant have a great relationship.
39:17
Speaker 10: You know, I've I've talked a lot in here with
39:19
Speaker 10: you guys about just what he means to our offense
39:21
Speaker 10: and our team and the way he operates, and I
39:24
Speaker 10: love that guy. I got so much faith and belief
39:27
Speaker 10: in him and how he works and just how smart
39:29
Speaker 10: he is. I know he's made me a better player.
39:32
Speaker 10: So I'm really excited he's back and he brings a
39:35
Speaker 10: lot of value to our team. So yeah, you know,
39:37
Speaker 10: we just started today, kind of did some intro stuff,
39:40
Speaker 10: so we haven't got into the weeds of the installs yet,
39:42
Speaker 10: but you know, just excited to get into that.
39:44
Speaker 1: I know he's worked, he talked about today.
39:47
Speaker 10: You know, they work all off season, the coaches to
39:49
Speaker 10: kind of get ready for all of us to come back,
39:50
Speaker 10: because that's what they love doing, is coaching. So I'm
39:53
Speaker 10: excited to see all the things that we're going to
39:55
Speaker 10: talk about this offseason, all the wrinkles and adjustments that
39:58
Speaker 10: we can make.
39:59
Speaker 5: You got Jacobe, he had to jump right in last
40:01
Speaker 5: year a mid season.
40:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, what does the next couple of months.
40:03
Speaker 6: Allow you to make the experiment with that you weren't
40:06
Speaker 6: able to do last year.
40:08
Speaker 10: I do think just you know, for him being able
40:10
Speaker 10: to be here with the guys through a whole through
40:12
Speaker 10: a whole off season to get that work, you know,
40:14
Speaker 10: one me and him that chemistry. To continue to build
40:17
Speaker 10: on that, we had to try to pick it up
40:19
Speaker 10: mid season, which is a lot of credit to him.
40:23
Speaker 10: He was really easy to get in sync with and
40:25
Speaker 10: he was super hard worker, so we got it going
40:27
Speaker 10: pretty quickly. But that can be hard to do. So
40:30
Speaker 10: now to have a full off season together, and I
40:32
Speaker 10: think just the relationship piece to be able to hang
40:34
Speaker 10: out with you know, his teammates and get to spend
40:36
Speaker 10: time together, and you know, have the weekends and be
40:38
Speaker 10: here and get to know your teammates. I think that's
40:41
Speaker 10: a big piece of it too. And get comfortable where
40:42
Speaker 10: you're living you're not. He moved here in November and
40:46
Speaker 10: just came and played with us I guess a few
40:48
Speaker 10: days later in Houston. So it was kind of a
40:50
Speaker 10: crazy quick turnaround. So I think he's probably you have
40:53
Speaker 10: to ask him. I'm sure he's probably excited to kind
40:55
Speaker 10: of settle in and get this offseason program to really
40:57
Speaker 10: get some good work in, but also.
40:58
Speaker 1: Get to know his teammates a little better.
41:00
Speaker 2: You improved improved by nine point one points a game
41:04
Speaker 2: last year, almost twenty eight. Yeah, talk to Liam and
41:08
Speaker 2: you'll say you can get better at the scream or
41:10
Speaker 2: consistent running better on third down? Where can this offense.
41:15
Speaker 1: Go this year?
41:15
Speaker 2: And do you have a number in mind?
41:17
Speaker 6: Points per game?
41:18
Speaker 2: Is that something you ever think about?
41:22
Speaker 10: Not really, you know, that's not something I've I've thought
41:25
Speaker 10: about as far as our offense, how many points per
41:27
Speaker 10: game we're gonna score it? So, I mean, I think
41:28
Speaker 10: as many as possible is always.
41:30
Speaker 1: Kind of the goal.
41:31
Speaker 10: Every game is different, you know, of course, you want
41:34
Speaker 10: to improve every year, so we want to think that
41:37
Speaker 10: that number is gonna be higher this year. And you
41:39
Speaker 10: look at our season, like I talked about earlier, we
41:42
Speaker 10: got so much better towards the end of the season.
41:44
Speaker 10: So if we can put ourselves in a position and
41:48
Speaker 10: use this offseason to get better at the things we
41:49
Speaker 10: need to get better at and continue to do the
41:51
Speaker 10: things well that we were doing well at the end
41:53
Speaker 10: of the year, you'd like to think that that average
41:56
Speaker 10: will go up because we didn't start the season scoring
41:58
Speaker 10: as many points as we did the end of the season. So,
42:01
Speaker 10: like I said, for when you guys, when asked about
42:04
Speaker 10: me individually, what I want to get better at it,
42:05
Speaker 10: it's also for our offense is having that consistency throughout
42:10
Speaker 10: the whole season. You know, obviously every week is a
42:13
Speaker 10: little bit different. You might only need to score, you know,
42:16
Speaker 10: twenty to win, but there's going to be weeks where
42:18
Speaker 10: you need to score thirty five to win. So I
42:20
Speaker 10: think being able to do whatever you need to do
42:22
Speaker 10: to win is the most important