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  Speaker 1: You know, a knowledgeable experience d Lineman who he's Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl experience, played the game for a long time run
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  Speaker 1: in the past, and just that leadership ability. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's already been you know, vocal with the younger guys
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  Speaker 1: as well as the guys who've been here at just
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  Speaker 1: what he sees and and just how to play the game,
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  Speaker 1: how to be a pro. So first and foremost, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's he's a valuable, valuable asset to us.
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  Speaker 1: If you thought of the rookies so far, the rookies
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  Speaker 1: are get are improving, they're catching on to the defensive
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  Speaker 1: scheme and the speed of the game in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Really pleased with their progress.
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  Speaker 1: And and how they're learning and learning the techniques and
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  Speaker 1: fundamentals of of what we're teaching as well.
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  Speaker 3: I thought, you know, obviously a year ago you aren't here.
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  Speaker 1: But you look at what Devon Hamilton did.
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  Speaker 4: I thought he was the best defensive player here last August,
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  Speaker 4: and he went down with that ailment.
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  Speaker 2: It looks as though he's back.
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  Speaker 5: And I understand you haven't seen him in pads, but
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  Speaker 5: your early impression.
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  Speaker 2: On the rich oh so you better believe I watched
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  Speaker 2: all of twenty two of him.
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  Speaker 1: Uh when I first got here and just seeing the
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  Speaker 1: I I it's uh, it's funny cause in twenty you know,
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  Speaker 1: I I was a assistant D line coach in Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: and he evaluated him coming out right. So he was
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  Speaker 1: one of the guys that I liked and was really excited,
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  Speaker 1: uh when I got here, cause I watched him something
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  Speaker 1: in in twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: Then I heard about what happened in twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: But just you know, getting him back to to that
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  Speaker 1: form and I I truly believe he he will get there.
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  Speaker 1: Looked explosive in practice. You know, you could see some
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  Speaker 1: of the drills that he's doing. I think he's getting
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  Speaker 1: back and he's getting comfortable with what we're asking him
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 2: So just really excited about him. What is it like
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  Speaker 2: for me, Ran Nilsen, who also loves D line.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Ryan Nilson, that's that's that's my guy. So uh
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  Speaker 1: many people don't know, but he coached me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So in two thousand five I played D line at
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  Speaker 1: Old Miss and he was my position coach. So you
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  Speaker 1: talking about a relationship shift that spins from two thousand
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  Speaker 1: five up until.
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  Speaker 2: Now, and it's really good. It's really unique. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: To be coached by him and to also have a
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  Speaker 1: guy uh that's mentored me throughout my career, uh, in
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  Speaker 1: previous NFL stop and in the college ball and to
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  Speaker 1: now be able to be here and work with him
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  Speaker 1: with that knowledge, experience and the trust factor of hey,
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  Speaker 1: this was this was my coach and now we're working together. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Him being a D line guy, Like I've always thought
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  Speaker 1: he's one of the best developers.
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  Speaker 2: Of defensive lineman in the country.
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  Speaker 1: So to have him here as a asset while I'm
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  Speaker 1: coaching that position that you can't put a value.
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  Speaker 6: On that the same kind of coaching salas him.
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  Speaker 7: Where do you feel like you're.
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  Speaker 6: A little bit different?
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  Speaker 2: I'm a dif, I'm a different guy, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I I say, we have some similarities and a little different,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I like to bring energy to the
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  Speaker 1: to the table with the guys, and the biggest thing
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  Speaker 1: I wanna coach technique and fundamentals. So I'm always looking
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  Speaker 1: for ways and nick picking the other ways that the
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  Speaker 1: guys can prove their play and play hard like that's uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's what we wanna see on tape.
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  Speaker 3: But the reviews.
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  Speaker 6: Ain't know when we talk to Trent and they were
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  Speaker 6: talking a little bit about some of the second third
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  Speaker 6: round picks that to have, you know, maybe they haven't
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  Speaker 6: lived up to what their full potential is, whether it's
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  Speaker 6: injuries or whatnot. Are you excited to kind of have
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  Speaker 6: that role that you get to play and and help them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very very excited about those guys. You know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: two different type players. You know, Jordan's more than those
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  Speaker 1: and Mason is more than three. Uh, but to to
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  Speaker 1: to see their strengths and then their improvable areas, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just think the future is it is bright for them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Jordan being very strong at the point of
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  Speaker 1: contact and Mason being uh A a really good athlete, uh,
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  Speaker 1: flexible play to run, can can rush as well. So
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  Speaker 1: really excited about what those guys bring to the table.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, our job is to maximize their potential,
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  Speaker 1: to to get them over to hump and get them
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  Speaker 1: better and help them have you know, really good careers.
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  Speaker 5: It's really truly predicated upon what the teaching is and
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  Speaker 5: that's where the value comes in. So fella say, when
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  Speaker 5: we're giving this look, the quarterback is taught this, So
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  Speaker 5: no one understands.
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  Speaker 8: This is how they're going to try to attack us.
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  Speaker 8: Again when we're.
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  Speaker 5: Giving this look right here, you know again the quarterback
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  Speaker 5: is being taught this right and then that's how the
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  Speaker 5: nuances and things of that nature really work.
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  Speaker 2: So the value goes both ways.
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  Speaker 5: We can show you one thing dictate where you're gonna
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  Speaker 5: go to the ball, or we can show you another thing
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  Speaker 5: and then now try to create the confusion there. So
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  Speaker 5: show this look end up here all that. So when
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  Speaker 5: that's the circular motion of that's how it.
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  Speaker 3: End up with it that time of year, that's what
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  Speaker 3: this is about.
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  Speaker 5: Like that's where the teaching comes into play and these
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  Speaker 5: look this is what the quarterback is taught right. So
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  Speaker 5: like a big part of us teaching defense is truly
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  Speaker 5: teaching offense.
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  Speaker 8: So when you have to call to interview, who did
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  Speaker 8: you first talk with Ryan?
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  Speaker 2: Or how how did that or how did that process?
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  Speaker 5: Kind of yeah, look, I've I've I've been talking to
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  Speaker 5: Ryan since nineteen ninety seven, so it's like, yeah, so
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  Speaker 5: it's a long extensive history there. Now, I I love
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  Speaker 5: that guy, truly look at him as a family member.
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  Speaker 5: So obviously again we're we're always talking so yeah, the
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  Speaker 5: first the first call came from him and that obviously
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  Speaker 5: again heard from coach Peterson, heard from Doug and look
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  Speaker 5: as a natural, natural, easy transition for me.
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  Speaker 9: At that point was Corey pa Also, did you know
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  Speaker 9: that Corey might possibly be part of the staff as
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  Speaker 9: well or did that come maybe a little bit after.
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  Speaker 5: So this is personal. I'm I'm not ever gonna speak
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  Speaker 5: for Ryan in this case. Coach Robinson is good on
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  Speaker 5: any staff that I'm a part of. Ever, so the
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  Speaker 5: history of remainder of my life as a football coach,
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  Speaker 5: that's how I feel about him. I trust him watching
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  Speaker 5: my children. So two years ago, right again, we we
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  Speaker 5: were able to form a connection there in uh in
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  Speaker 5: New Orleans and again from there, you know, it's like
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  Speaker 5: when you recognize your responsibility, you know, coming into it,
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  Speaker 5: grown into a room, and it's so it's either we're
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  Speaker 5: teaching or we're not right. So it's either we're developing
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  Speaker 5: or we're not right. And then and that's all you
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  Speaker 5: can hope for. Right again, it's to be with people
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  Speaker 5: of integrity who are secure and who they are as
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  Speaker 5: people and that are connected in the mindset of being
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  Speaker 5: a developer, right because it is truly about developing people.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the worst thing in the world to be
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  Speaker 5: around are people that are insecure, and insecure men are
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  Speaker 5: dangerous men.
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  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on Jari and DeAndre processing?
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  Speaker 10: What have been your impressions since you've got them on
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  Speaker 10: the field and working with them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so again, size, speed lend. Another huge attribute is
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  Speaker 5: coverage intensity. Right, It's okay to be like, right, it's
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  Speaker 5: really cool to be really fast, but if the intent
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  Speaker 5: isn't get to get into phase in the proper position
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  Speaker 5: with the receiver, and what's all that speed for?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 5: And so it's it's just that type of mentality and
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  Speaker 5: intensity and and and that drive to uh to compete,
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  Speaker 5: right and be successful on every down. So, and those
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  Speaker 5: are guys with mean, super athletic and really good speed.
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  Speaker 3: Right, they're both four or three.
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  Speaker 5: Guys, and they got hyped, they got lamped, they got sized,
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  Speaker 5: and so they're they're really cool for the profile fits.
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  Speaker 2: Chris, I agree, But.
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  Speaker 7: It's Tyson and Cisca. You played any different style of
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  Speaker 7: secondary last year, how tough is it or how challenging
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  Speaker 7: is it to you didn't do adaptin.
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  Speaker 3: Serve a new style of play?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: I think throughout your your your your whole entire life
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  Speaker 5: at some point in time. You know, like everybody's been
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  Speaker 5: a part of a defense right or tried to play
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  Speaker 5: a particular style.
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  Speaker 3: That's been really challenging.
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  Speaker 5: Writing and get up there, getting people's face, challenging math
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  Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage. You know, get get on the back,
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  Speaker 5: especially as a safety, right again, lock in key the
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  Speaker 5: quarterback and get get get get tuned in the key
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  Speaker 5: in the quarterbacks in tensions and seeing how they're trying
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  Speaker 5: to work us again and then how we're sentially trying
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  Speaker 5: to work our disguise is to forward a quarterback and
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  Speaker 5: everything being relative from there. So I think it's been
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  Speaker 5: a really cool transition. I know, again, the guys have
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  Speaker 5: We've got a lot of buy in. You know again,
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  Speaker 5: we've got really good guys. They are really good athletes,
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  Speaker 5: and really looking forward to seeing where.
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  Speaker 2: We take it there.
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  Speaker 10: Pressure has been a pacing so far, and what kind
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  Speaker 10: of year could this be for him after what was
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  Speaker 10: a bit of a difficult one last year.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So it's the you know, the we don't control
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  Speaker 5: every circumstance, right, but we do controler every thought and
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  Speaker 5: so the soft tissue injuries whatever again whatever it took
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  Speaker 5: place last year, right, and all that stuff has to
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  Speaker 5: be white clean, right, so it's a clean slate. I
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  Speaker 5: think he's one of the finer athletes that I've been
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  Speaker 5: around throughout my coaching career here. Uh, it's kind of
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  Speaker 5: just the way you know, he's able to run and transitioned.
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  Speaker 5: You know, he's got a he's got a bit of
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  Speaker 5: a perpetual motion thing. Obviously can he's been a state
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  Speaker 5: champion here you know as one hundred meter runner ten
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  Speaker 5: three like that. That's incredibly valuable and I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: it's just kind of weird, you know. So it's just
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  Speaker 5: like when you when you when when you're able to
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  Speaker 5: watch an athlete again in motion and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 5: Right again, he's got that proverbial ball type movement to
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  Speaker 5: where he's not he's not a like a hesitant, stiff
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  Speaker 5: type guy. Again, he's just rolling, you know, he's just rolling.
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  Speaker 5: So Uh, the big thing is always going to be
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  Speaker 5: and this for every every every everyone a part of
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  Speaker 5: the secondary was covering right again, it's just going to
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  Speaker 5: be again I discipline, Uh, the level of intensity again,
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  Speaker 5: once we figure out the direction after the wide receiver's
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  Speaker 5: going and staying true to that right again, so not
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  Speaker 5: allowing our eyes to come up and drift and keep
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  Speaker 5: the quarterback and all that type of stuff. So again
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  Speaker 5: that in particular has just been going. It's training for
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  Speaker 5: everyone and not more in particular for him, but just
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  Speaker 5: being able to to watch a god against sank right.
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  Speaker 5: So you see the profile here, height, length, speed, size,
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  Speaker 5: all that type of stuff. Man, it's it's getting him
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  Speaker 5: at the line of scrimmage. How many guys can actually
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  Speaker 5: run past him? That sort of stuff, you know, So
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  Speaker 5: just helping them, teaching him utilize his skill set it,
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  Speaker 5: keeping his eye discipline again, stand true to his strength,
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  Speaker 5: and then watching him maximize it physically. You think he's
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  Speaker 5: a good scheme flip Oh absolutely, yeah, absolutely, I think
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  Speaker 5: they're like everyone in that in in the room right now,
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  Speaker 5: like his has got a chance to to to bring
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  Speaker 5: value to our football team.
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  Speaker 10: A little bit on the background, I'm sorry I'm wrong,
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  Speaker 10: but were you connected to any positions here in the past,
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  Speaker 10: like legion of Boom connections when Gus Bradley was here.
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  Speaker 10: Is there ever any potential crossover and you interviewed or anything.
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  Speaker 5: With whom Jackson hasn't been before in the past.
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  Speaker 3: Just for you.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if this is this is the first time,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I don't know if it's remember your name,
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  Speaker 5: it's okay, how real?
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  Speaker 6: How's your relationship been with the room? The dvs are
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  Speaker 6: a pretty unique group, I'm sure you know, just so far.
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  Speaker 6: How do you feel like they've taken it? How that
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  Speaker 6: transition has been going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, humble, hardworking, you know, game and it's.
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  Speaker 5: Fund right, fund and and that that that's that's kind
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  Speaker 5: of the idea, right, is that we all understand, like,
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  Speaker 5: what what's fun in football? Okay, because again everybody wants
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  Speaker 5: to have fun, but like losing ain't fun, you know,
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  Speaker 5: And so I think the awesome part about it is is,
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  Speaker 5: you know, like what we what we don't talk about
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  Speaker 5: is when right, Like that's the known factor, right, and
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  Speaker 5: the thing to talk about is the unknown factor, And
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  Speaker 5: it's the how to right or the thing that we
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  Speaker 5: need to consistently lock into And it's the how to.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that's the really cool part about the
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  Speaker 5: room is to where that like that's the everyone in
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  Speaker 5: the room knows and understands, right again, what our end
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  Speaker 5: goal is, right again, it's to be the last team standing, right,
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  Speaker 5: And so now that's not important. The important part is
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  Speaker 5: is how we're going to be that team. How we're
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  Speaker 5: going to be that unit that's going to end up
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  Speaker 5: being the last team standing. And I think that that
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  Speaker 5: that that's where the again, the collective decision of the
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  Speaker 5: guys and the room. Right again, that focus and that
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  Speaker 5: singular mindset's been really cool to watch it.
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  Speaker 6: Grow come into been in this position before we're coming
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  Speaker 6: into a new team. Is it difficult to kind of
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  Speaker 6: obviously they went through something at the end of last
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  Speaker 6: season it wasn't great and to get them on board
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  Speaker 6: and get them moving towards something a little bit different.
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  Speaker 6: Do you feel like they were really open to that
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  Speaker 6: right out of the gate or is that something you
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  Speaker 6: kind of have to work towards them.
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  Speaker 5: It was really open throughout the gate, right And it's
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  Speaker 5: just like any any any time that you're establishing a relationship,
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  Speaker 5: right again, as they used to recognize a genuine, true
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  Speaker 5: value you know of the person, stand up or form
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  Speaker 5: and that's and that's all that you can do.
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  Speaker 2: You know, again, you got to stand up there.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, the just has to be a firm validity right again,
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  Speaker 5: And what and what we believe and what we know,
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  Speaker 5: and and then there has to be again, the validation
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  Speaker 5: has to come within the expertise of the teaching and
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  Speaker 5: the coaching. If they don't intermingle, if there's not intertwined,
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  Speaker 5: if there's no mesh there, then I think that's where
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  Speaker 5: a lot of the conflict kind of comes into play,
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  Speaker 5: you know, because again, you're going to demand excellence, but
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  Speaker 5: if we're not teaching excellence, then how could we ever
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  Speaker 5: demand it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, how they're doing.
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  Speaker 9: I'm excited about the group, first of all, just the
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  Speaker 9: approach they've taken this offseason, the amount of work.
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  Speaker 2: They put in and the work they put in on
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  Speaker 2: their own.
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  Speaker 8: Uh, it's kind of a.
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  Speaker 9: Hard, hard hat group that they're workers, and that's exciting.
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  Speaker 9: And it's a good mixture of young guys and new
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  Speaker 9: guys and some guys in between.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm excited about the trajectory of that group.
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  Speaker 9: But I'm really excited to see what we'll do and
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  Speaker 9: we get to put pads on and go for real
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  Speaker 9: and train and came.
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  Speaker 4: How much versatility is in that group, especially in the
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  Speaker 4: scheme that you guys are going to play.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, that's the neat thing you got a guy
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  Speaker 9: like Chad who is kind of in between Foyer and Devin.
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  Speaker 8: You got a big linebacker and devn You got a
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  Speaker 8: guy in.
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  Speaker 9: Foye that's a loose hip linebacker that can close and
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  Speaker 9: has a knack for slipping guys and running around. And
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  Speaker 9: Caleb's done a good job too, you know. So I'm
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  Speaker 9: excited to see where those guys go.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of eyes on dem talent that at times
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  Speaker 4: is you know, just had to get through some mud
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  Speaker 4: in the first couple of years in the NFL. How
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  Speaker 4: do you see him in year three or what you
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  Speaker 4: know about him so far?
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  Speaker 9: The thing that's exciting about Devin is, I mean, he's
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  Speaker 9: a guy that wants to be good, so he's.
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  Speaker 8: He's coachable, He's constantly.
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  Speaker 3: Trying to learn the game.
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  Speaker 9: I'm excited to see where where is trajectory will go,
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  Speaker 9: because you're right, he's now, he's in year three, so
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  Speaker 9: he anticipates some things he might not have anticipated as
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  Speaker 9: a younger player.
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  Speaker 2: Does he have the.
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  Speaker 3: Ability to move around as well? Like college?
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  Speaker 9: Right now, what we're doing with those guys, all of
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  Speaker 9: them are moving around, because that's kind of the process
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  Speaker 9: in OTAs. Yeah, you know, we're trying to expose them
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  Speaker 9: to a whole lot of different things, so when we
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  Speaker 9: get into September, we can put our best eleven out
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  Speaker 9: on the field in the best opportunities to win.
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  Speaker 4: Last one for me, when do you know you've got
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  Speaker 4: to handle on what your group is and what they can.
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  Speaker 3: Do, and you want to have a great question.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know that that constant that happens until you
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  Speaker 9: get into September, to be honest with you, And you
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  Speaker 9: know this league so often it's about who's.
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  Speaker 8: Who's available, you know, so that's what training camps for.
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  Speaker 11: Talk about Devin gaining weight, I was just curious, what
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  Speaker 11: do you think that that does for him in terms
• 15:27
  Speaker 11: of his strength and things of that.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think it's necessarily weight.
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  Speaker 9: I think it's been muscle mass or just but it's
• 15:34
  Speaker 9: definitely gonna help him strike blockers. It's gonna you know,
• 15:37
  Speaker 9: you talk about knock knock back tackles. When you get
• 15:40
  Speaker 9: a guy that's explosive and can run like that and
• 15:43
  Speaker 9: he's carrying a lot of you know, a lot of strength,
• 15:46
  Speaker 9: obviously that packs a bunch.
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  Speaker 11: It seemed like over the first couple of years of
• 15:52
  Speaker 11: his career, at least from the layman's terms are just
• 15:56
  Speaker 11: from a casual observer, he could get lost sometimes curious
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  Speaker 11: from your perspective with this new scheme, how it could
• 16:04
  Speaker 11: probably help him just do the things that he needs
• 16:08
  Speaker 11: to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know.
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  Speaker 9: Again, it's just the continued reputation, repetition of where I
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: fit within the scheme and then how I fit with
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: the offense attacking me. I hate to go backwards because
• 16:22
  Speaker 9: you know I wasn't here, and to be honest with you,
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: it doesn't do any good.
• 16:28
  Speaker 8: I could only speak to about where we're at right now,
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: and I'm pleased with where he's at. In the process.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: There are some breakdowns and communication on defense on this
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: team last year when you come in with a new
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: staff and you're trying to kind of establish that trust.
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  Speaker 6: Is this the time where you really lay the groundwork
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: for that before it gets a little more physical.
• 16:45
  Speaker 9: Absolutely, I think this time is critical. And that's the
• 16:47
  Speaker 9: one good thing about the way the NFL has the
• 16:49
  Speaker 9: phases right, because there is some learning in the classroom
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: and then you get into individual and then you get
• 16:55
  Speaker 9: to go against the offense, and really all you're trying
• 16:57
  Speaker 9: to do is build a foundation, so when we get to.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Training camp, we're ready to fire.
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  Speaker 9: And there's also you know, from the simplest to the
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: more complex schemes. But I'm pleased with where we're at
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: we get and also glad we have training camp.
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: How do you feel the defense has been in terms
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: of being open and accepting kind of the new scheme
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: and just taking that all in right now, the guys.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Have been awesome.
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: I mean they've been awesome from the point of.
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: Not just embracing the scheme, but embracing the techniques.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: That go along with it.
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: And you know, for a voluntary off season program, you
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: wouldn't know as voluntary.
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: They've been here and they've worked hard.
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: What are you looking forward to a training camp obviously
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: installing the new system, but just getting to know them better.
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and I think too, like there's always an excitement
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: of when you put pads on, you know, and just
• 17:51
  Speaker 9: to see how guys carry themselves with pads on and
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: who's a contact player and who's not.
• 17:57
  Speaker 12: So he's been everything that we could ask for up
• 18:00
  Speaker 12: to this point.
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  Speaker 10: How does how have you seen him respond just through
• 18:03
  Speaker 10: what was a bit of a down in the year
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: last year with his injury and maybe a little less
• 18:07
  Speaker 10: production than getting one of it.
• 18:08
  Speaker 12: To be honest, I really, you know, for us, if
• 18:11
  Speaker 12: everybody got a clean slate. So I can only judge
• 18:15
  Speaker 12: him off of kind of what I see day in
• 18:17
  Speaker 12: and day out out of him, and what we see
• 18:19
  Speaker 12: day in and day out, and so far, what we've
• 18:21
  Speaker 12: seen all right, it's been it's easy. He's come with
• 18:23
  Speaker 12: a winning attitude and it's been it's been winning approaches
• 18:27
  Speaker 12: to everything we've asked him to do. And so just
• 18:29
  Speaker 12: continue to push him in that direction to be consistent.
• 18:31
  Speaker 12: And I think when you can, when you can own
• 18:33
  Speaker 12: the process, then the results, right, the results will come
• 18:36
  Speaker 12: and they'll speak for themselves.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: What's the dynamic like in that cornerback room, Ronald Darby's
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: kind of like the He's the og in the room.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: He's the only one. The rest of them are kind
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: of young guys trying to find their way, right. Yeah, No,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: it's pretty it's.
• 18:46
  Speaker 12: Pretty cool man, because he's a he's a lead by
• 18:49
  Speaker 12: example guy. You know, he'll he'll take guys on his
• 18:52
  Speaker 12: wing kind of talk to him getting not not not
• 18:55
  Speaker 12: a you know, big talker or not a loud guy
• 18:58
  Speaker 12: in any way, but his actions and how he leads
• 19:01
  Speaker 12: and how he operates. Uh, it's definitely a benefit to
• 19:04
  Speaker 12: have a veteran and uh, you know, but if you
• 19:06
  Speaker 12: watch him move, he he moves just like some of
• 19:08
  Speaker 12: these young guys run around. So it's it's it's no
• 19:11
  Speaker 12: old guy jokes going on. Man, that guy can still
• 19:13
  Speaker 12: he can still fly, can still move just as well
• 19:15
  Speaker 12: as all the best of.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: 'em can play inside and outside.
• 19:18
  Speaker 12: Absolutely, absolutely yes, a ton of versatility with the player,
• 19:22
  Speaker 12: ton of versatility.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: First impressions been of the room as a whole. I mean,
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: it can be difficult to come into a situation as
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: the new guy and try to put in your new system.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Do you feel like they've been receptive.
• 19:34
  Speaker 12: Absolutely, it's it's the right kind of people. And so
• 19:36
  Speaker 12: it starts with you know, if if their hearts are
• 19:39
  Speaker 12: prepared to receive and are willing to receive, then you know, uh,
• 19:43
  Speaker 12: it's it's easy. And and they they're those kind of
• 19:45
  Speaker 12: players that that uh they want to learn.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: They're hungry.
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: Uh, they're open minded, you know.
• 19:50
  Speaker 12: And and good thing is, again we we share history
• 19:52
  Speaker 12: with enough guys in the room as well that you know,
• 19:55
  Speaker 12: there's there's kind of some already built in buying uh
• 19:58
  Speaker 12: amongst enough guys that are room that you know it
• 20:01
  Speaker 12: kind of like, uh, you know, it catches on with
• 20:04
  Speaker 12: everyone else as well.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: So it's the time of the year where you really
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: have to build that trust so that when things hit
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: the fan that you're good.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 20:12
  Speaker 12: So just you know, as a coach is just being consistent,
• 20:15
  Speaker 12: you know, being consistent every day, Uh, the same message.
• 20:18
  Speaker 12: You know, uh, never change and never waivering. The standard
• 20:21
  Speaker 12: is the standard and I think gods respect that. And
• 20:24
  Speaker 12: then if they can come in and understand what the expectations
• 20:26
  Speaker 12: are for them, it makes their jobs easier because it's
• 20:28
  Speaker 12: not they know, they know what every day, you know,
• 20:31
  Speaker 12: it's expected of them and kind of what the message
• 20:34
  Speaker 12: is and what the mindset is. And we just continue
• 20:37
  Speaker 12: to be consistent and hammer way.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: Or what's your coaching style? Like what's your what's your vibe?
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: How do you come across to the players?
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: You have to ask them.
• 20:44
  Speaker 12: I mean, you know, I'm honest, I'm genuine, I'm myself
• 20:49
  Speaker 12: first and foremost, you know, I care.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: We're in the business of building men.
• 20:54
  Speaker 12: You know, this is ministry and so you know, as
• 20:57
  Speaker 12: much as it's about obviously foot all and winning football, games.
• 21:02
  Speaker 12: For me, it's also about relationships. It's about you know,
• 21:05
  Speaker 12: teaching and showing other other you know, young men that
• 21:11
  Speaker 12: you know in life. Man, it's about being a contributor
• 21:15
  Speaker 12: in a positive way, all right, to our communities, to
• 21:18
  Speaker 12: our families. And we can use this platform with football
• 21:22
  Speaker 12: to reach as many as possible and be that example.
• 21:25
  Speaker 12: And then when you reach this level, somebody's looking at
• 21:28
  Speaker 12: you right as multiple young kids, older people looking at
• 21:31
  Speaker 12: you as an example, and what do you do with
• 21:33
  Speaker 12: that when you charge with that responsibility. So that that's
• 21:36
  Speaker 12: really my approach with the guys. And you know, whether
• 21:40
  Speaker 12: they like it or not, I mean, I don't know.
• 21:41
  Speaker 12: They smile, they laugh at my jokes, so I guess
• 21:44
  Speaker 12: I guess I'm throwing a decent job.
• 21:46
  Speaker 13: Now. The production sometimes that ebbs and flows. There's sometimes
• 21:49
  Speaker 13: there's things that are uncontrollable that happen. But I just
• 21:53
  Speaker 13: like I mentioned to him, if you want to have
• 21:56
  Speaker 13: your production, but your production will be there if you
• 21:58
  Speaker 13: keep your focus on just trying to get a little
• 21:59
  Speaker 13: bit better. And like we were talking about Trayvon just
• 22:02
  Speaker 13: a minute ago, as you get better, it's harder to do,
• 22:04
  Speaker 13: it's harder to get better. When you're as you continue
• 22:06
  Speaker 13: to get better, you know, you got to work twice
• 22:10
  Speaker 13: as hard to get the same improvement that you might
• 22:11
  Speaker 13: have gotten four or five years ago.
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: We're not giving too much away. What's the biggest difference
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: I think that fans will see in how you use
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: Josh and Trayvon in this scheme fair.
• 22:21
  Speaker 13: To last, you know, from a different standpoint. The main
• 22:26
  Speaker 13: thing I think like they're still going to be involved
• 22:28
  Speaker 13: in the coverage part of it, but it may not
• 22:30
  Speaker 13: be to the same amount. There'll be still some opportunities
• 22:33
  Speaker 13: where they've got to do some things coverage wise. It
• 22:36
  Speaker 13: just may be, like I said that percentage as the thing,
• 22:39
  Speaker 13: the same things are going to be there, just for
• 22:41
  Speaker 13: shifting percentages around.
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: That'd be the main thing.
• 22:44
  Speaker 13: You know, they may play, you know, they're going to
• 22:46
  Speaker 13: be playing more as a D line, so they may
• 22:49
  Speaker 13: you know, their stances may change a little bit, but
• 22:51
  Speaker 13: it won't be one hundred percent. So you may see
• 22:54
  Speaker 13: some shift there, but again it won't be it's not
• 22:58
  Speaker 13: going to go from one end of the spectrum.
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: To the other.
• 23:01
  Speaker 13: It's just maybe moving from you know, one area a
• 23:04
  Speaker 13: little bit more towards a different area.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: That's all twenty seven sacks combined last year in that area, LA,
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: how do you measure improvement from a group that was,
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: you know, maybe as good as any the.
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: League last year.
• 23:18
  Speaker 13: Yeah, So for those guys, it's it goes back to
• 23:22
  Speaker 13: like when you're talking about the measurement of success that
• 23:26
  Speaker 13: was in the sack number, right, And so from a
• 23:29
  Speaker 13: sack standpoint, you know, you'd like to see improvement always, right,
• 23:33
  Speaker 13: And you might you might see that from other contributors
• 23:37
  Speaker 13: or whatever else, from you're looking at the totality of
• 23:39
  Speaker 13: the position group, but from them, you know, in the
• 23:42
  Speaker 13: past rush standpoint, I like to focus on affecting the
• 23:45
  Speaker 13: quarterback because I feel like they have more control over
• 23:48
  Speaker 13: how they affect the quarterback than they sometimes do to
• 23:50
  Speaker 13: the actual outcome, which may be the sack. But at
• 23:55
  Speaker 13: the end of the day, they're judged on sacks. I'll
• 23:58
  Speaker 13: be judged partially on their ability to get sacks, and
• 24:00
  Speaker 13: so we don't want to completely just just we don't
• 24:03
  Speaker 13: want to completely just push that aside. That's real, But
• 24:06
  Speaker 13: at the end of the day, I'll focus a little
• 24:07
  Speaker 13: bit more on their ability to affect the quarterback and
• 24:10
  Speaker 13: try to help the defense.
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: Where did you see Trayvon improved the most last year.
• 24:14
  Speaker 13: I think the way that he like when when I
• 24:17
  Speaker 13: watch him play, he's faster. It's not the processing of
• 24:21
  Speaker 13: different things happened a lot faster. I think he understands,
• 24:25
  Speaker 13: he understands the angles. He does a great job of
• 24:29
  Speaker 13: understanding the small things. Now he's applying like you know,
• 24:32
  Speaker 13: pre Snap, he's doing a better job of understanding situations
• 24:35
  Speaker 13: where the back is seeing little little indicators maybe from
• 24:39
  Speaker 13: the offense, where it gives him a little bit more
• 24:41
  Speaker 13: of an edge pre Snap to help him. And then
• 24:44
  Speaker 13: I think as he continues to to be able to
• 24:48
  Speaker 13: process things as he is right now during the play
• 24:52
  Speaker 13: you know I'm talking about during the plague, and that
• 24:53
  Speaker 13: came with experience, right. I think his athletic ability, you know,
• 24:59
  Speaker 13: is will continue to take him to new heights. But
• 25:02
  Speaker 13: again it's going to be difficult and he's got to
• 25:04
  Speaker 13: continue to put into work. But like I said to
• 25:05
  Speaker 13: somebody earlier, like he is one of
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: The hardest working guys I've ever been around.