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• 0:00
  Speaker 1: His first impression seeing Travis Hunter.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: What were your thoughts?
• 0:04
  Speaker 3: What did you see?
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: How's he sort of progressed?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, tremendous athlete, love his energy every day, comes into
• 0:10
  Speaker 4: the building, has a smile on his face. You could
• 0:14
  Speaker 4: feel his love and joy for football, and then he
• 0:17
  Speaker 4: carries it throughout the entire day. And so he's just
• 0:21
  Speaker 4: continued to make progress. Be the best version of itself.
• 0:24
  Speaker 4: I think that's the number one thing that we ask
• 0:26
  Speaker 4: of all all players come in and be the best
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  Speaker 4: version of of themselves each and every day. So that's
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  Speaker 4: that's that's the approach, that's the mindset.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: How how difficult is it maybe to because he is
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: playing both sides, you know, how difficult is it for
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  Speaker 1: you to get as much maybe one on one or
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: just you know, face to face time as you know
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: as you can with him? And what do you guys
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  Speaker 1: have to do to sort of replicate what.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: You would do?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? So Coach Khin he put a a great plan
• 0:53
  Speaker 4: in place, and now it's our responsibility to execute his plan.
• 0:57
  Speaker 4: And I think we're off to a good start and
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  Speaker 4: a big part of that is Travis. He puts in
• 1:02
  Speaker 4: the work. Like I said, he loves football, and when
• 1:06
  Speaker 4: you got guys like that that truly love what they do.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we we make the we make the time
• 1:12
  Speaker 4: to get everything that we need accomplished done each and
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  Speaker 4: every day. And I think I think that's something that
• 1:17
  Speaker 4: he'll just continue to get better at. We'll continue to
• 1:19
  Speaker 4: get better at as far as making sure that we
• 1:22
  Speaker 4: make the most of every opportunity that we get. So
• 1:24
  Speaker 4: whatever meeting it might be, whatever time we get out
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  Speaker 4: on the field, also walk through. We just make sure
• 1:29
  Speaker 4: we maximize the moment.
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  Speaker 5: We Uh back in Jacksonville when you work, which here did.
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  Speaker 1: You come back here?
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  Speaker 4: To be honest with you, very little. My family was here, uh,
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  Speaker 4: with my mom and dad before they passed away. And uh,
• 1:50
  Speaker 4: but my brothers and sisters are here. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: this all season is is so limited in what we
• 1:57
  Speaker 4: do as coaches, so we're really to be on the weekends.
• 2:01
  Speaker 4: And so I really couldn't take too too much, you know,
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  Speaker 4: trips back to Florida. And so to answer your question,
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  Speaker 4: I really did not get a chance to come home
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  Speaker 4: as often as I would have liked to. But I'm
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  Speaker 4: certainly excited and blessed to be home now and making
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  Speaker 4: the most of it with my family, my brothers and
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  Speaker 4: my sisters, trying to spend as much time with them
• 2:20
  Speaker 4: as possible, as well as my my nephews.
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  Speaker 6: Just what you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, I've struggled with really trying to put it into
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  Speaker 4: words because it's it's full circle, you know. My only
• 2:44
  Speaker 4: thing I just wish my mom and dad could have
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  Speaker 4: been here to see it, because I know they would
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  Speaker 4: be Oh my gosh, my dad would be just going
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  Speaker 4: crazy right now, and so I just I wish they
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  Speaker 4: would have been around for it. But other than that,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm just so excited and blessed to get
• 3:00
  Speaker 4: an opportunity to come home and be a part of
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  Speaker 4: something special with Coach Corny. Coach when you uh reflect
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  Speaker 4: and I know you guys don't have a lot of
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  Speaker 4: chance to do that coup of what's in front of
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  Speaker 4: you every single day, and you gotta stay in the moment,
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  Speaker 4: so truly.
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  Speaker 2: Right, do you ever catch yourself and pinch yourself.
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  Speaker 4: And think about Kobee Rodgers and the impact not only
• 3:19
  Speaker 4: they had in your life growing up, but some of
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  Speaker 4: the things that you're now telling players are those things.
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  Speaker 6: That you hold from them?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, cause it's it's it's never you know, one
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  Speaker 4: person doing it by themselves to get to whatever level
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  Speaker 4: we're striving to be. And for me, it was to
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  Speaker 4: be a professional football player in the NFL. And then
• 3:41
  Speaker 4: after being able to accomplish that, I wanted to continue
• 3:43
  Speaker 4: my career in sports and and basically paying it forward,
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  Speaker 4: giving something back as a coach. And so to answer questions, certainly,
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  Speaker 4: it started with coach Rogers, you know, holding me, holding
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  Speaker 4: me after practice and and having me work on route
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  Speaker 4: running and catching the football and all these little things.
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  Speaker 4: Knowing that if I wanted to be the very best
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  Speaker 4: version of myself, that was an area that I needed
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  Speaker 4: to improve improve on, and and so he did. He
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  Speaker 4: put me through drills post practice, uh him and coach
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  Speaker 4: Belgia and those guys, and it helped me, helped me
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  Speaker 4: develop as far as a hands catcher, as a route runner,
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  Speaker 4: and then I ended up obviously being able to go
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  Speaker 4: to Florida State and learning from coach Bobby Bowden, which
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  Speaker 4: it was a little bit of everything. When we talk
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  Speaker 4: about the person, it's it's who you are, your character,
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  Speaker 4: because he always preached faith, family, and football, and and
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  Speaker 4: we saw we saw it every day. It wasn't something
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  Speaker 4: that he just you know just said, and we get
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  Speaker 4: to see you you you saw it each and every
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  Speaker 4: day with with how he carried himself.
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  Speaker 6: What's the next step for Walker in your place?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's the slidify the position, you know, whatever position
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  Speaker 5: ends up at the slidi vibes and go in there
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  Speaker 5: and be you know, a seventeen games starter for multiple years.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, and that's what we see in him
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  Speaker 5: and Anton. They're both they're both capable of going to
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  Speaker 5: either spot and they're both capable of starting seventeen games
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  Speaker 5: for us going into the playoffs, playing in these big games,
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  Speaker 5: and it's very helpful. And we brought guys in and
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  Speaker 5: have been in these situations. A guy like Patrick McCarry
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  Speaker 5: who comes in, you know, he's been kind of like
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  Speaker 5: a glue guy around with the Ravens, who's played all
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  Speaker 5: these positions and he's played in all these big games
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  Speaker 5: and he's just you know, it doesn't matter if a
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  Speaker 5: guy goes down, you're gonna move him over and he's
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  Speaker 5: not gonna bat an eye. I can go play it,
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  Speaker 5: which is interesting, you know, and let's be good for
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  Speaker 5: those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Ezra Cleveland as well.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Ezra, you know, I actually you know Ezra was
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  Speaker 5: drafted in Minnesota, so I know we know some of
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  Speaker 5: the same people, which has been good, you know, getting
• 5:44
  Speaker 5: to know one another. And this surprisingly as you watch Ezra,
• 5:48
  Speaker 5: you know he's he's an athletic guy. You know, you
• 5:50
  Speaker 5: don't you don't see it, and then you go into
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  Speaker 5: the weight room and you're like, Wow, this guy's really strong.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's won our Lifter of the Week twice
• 5:57
  Speaker 5: this spring on the offensive side. So he's working his
• 6:00
  Speaker 5: ass off and he's just competing.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: He's one of those guys he doesn't say much, competes,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and he'll you know, every once in a
• 6:07
  Speaker 5: while he'll talk, you know, and you know, say some
• 6:09
  Speaker 5: stuff to the young guy to help him out. He'll
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  Speaker 5: give him the nugget to get him through the day.
• 6:12
  Speaker 5: You know, this the type of guy he is.
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  Speaker 1: And then a young guy like Milom coming in here
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: as a rookie, you know, has he held his own
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: physically at least weight room and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, So Whyatt is like a bull in a
• 6:25
  Speaker 5: china shop right now. You know, he is a strong,
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  Speaker 5: powerful kid. He is transitioning from the tackler spot, which
• 6:32
  Speaker 5: is a little transition for him, but he's working his
• 6:34
  Speaker 5: ass off. He's another guy you know, you know you've
• 6:37
  Speaker 5: been arrested to see once the pads come on, where
• 6:39
  Speaker 5: he can actually stand, because he does have the ability
• 6:41
  Speaker 5: to be a starter in this league. It's gotta be
• 6:44
  Speaker 5: just as an offensive line because just get us to camp.
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: Can we put pads?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, it's it's fun. You know these guys, you know,
• 6:50
  Speaker 5: you go out here and you know it's lovely. It's
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  Speaker 5: past season right now, you get it. You getting wit
• 6:54
  Speaker 5: got away for training camp to get that run game
• 6:56
  Speaker 5: rolling a little bit so, but it's it's fun. You know,
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  Speaker 5: it gives us timing working our technique because these guys
• 7:01
  Speaker 5: always need that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: As much as they sometimes hate drilling, you know, they
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  Speaker 5: realize why we do the drills we do. We just
• 7:08
  Speaker 5: don't drill the drill we're drilling to give done better.
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: There's more Mark, the Mark.
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  Speaker 5: Whipple tree is an underrated tree.
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  Speaker 2: How proud is your dad of the UMass contingent especially.
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  Speaker 7: Here, Yeah, he's very proud of it. You know, we
• 7:25
  Speaker 7: Liam and Shane and I have got in some of
• 7:28
  Speaker 7: the meeting rooms together and told a couple old stories
• 7:30
  Speaker 7: about things that we probably haven't heard about in over
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  Speaker 7: ten ten years or so. And so he came down
• 7:36
  Speaker 7: and visited a couple few weeks ago and just got
• 7:38
  Speaker 7: a chance to see everybody because it's been a little
• 7:40
  Speaker 7: bit a while since we were all together at that time,
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  Speaker 7: and so very happy, very proud, and he's just always
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  Speaker 7: asking seeing how.
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  Speaker 3: Things are going.
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  Speaker 7: And obviously he's gonna be a Jaguar fan and washing
• 7:50
  Speaker 7: this season for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Next time.
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  Speaker 2: I probably asked for a bit. There's somebody who knows.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing about quarterback in the football.
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  Speaker 4: It's probably in gold.
• 8:01
  Speaker 7: If somebody asks you, what do you mean when they
• 8:04
  Speaker 7: say you've changed.
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  Speaker 1: And treasures fallwork?
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  Speaker 6: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: I don't. I think if anything, it's it's just subtle
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  Speaker 7: things that you can adjust. And a lot of it
• 8:14
  Speaker 7: has to do with, you know, taking the classroom footwork,
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  Speaker 7: here's the x's and o's and what's written on the paper,
• 8:21
  Speaker 7: and then going out and applying it, but then being
• 8:24
  Speaker 7: able to coach off that and for Trevor to feel
• 8:27
  Speaker 7: that after watching the film review and saying, hey, I
• 8:30
  Speaker 7: was a little quick in this drop here, I can
• 8:32
  Speaker 7: be a little slower. I can temple this and that's
• 8:34
  Speaker 7: kind of where it just takes that practice, those time
• 8:37
  Speaker 7: on tasks, the reps, because each guy you're throwing it
• 8:39
  Speaker 7: two is different, each guy that's covering is a little
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  Speaker 7: bit different. And so at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 7: we still have sticking to a script in terms of
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  Speaker 7: each places footwork, but things can be you know, adjusted
• 8:50
  Speaker 7: here and there as you go through that process of
• 8:53
  Speaker 7: playing the play. So it takes a you know, a
• 8:55
  Speaker 7: downloading process, it takes a playing on the field those
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  Speaker 7: reps that come up in terms of actice. And so
• 9:01
  Speaker 7: he's done a great job of the self evaluation piece
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  Speaker 7: saying right away, hey.
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  Speaker 2: I did feel a little bit quick here.
• 9:06
  Speaker 7: Maybe I could you know, sit on this a little
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  Speaker 7: bit boring and let bet work. So whatever it may be.
• 9:12
  Speaker 7: And I think that's just goes back to his his
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  Speaker 7: approach in terms of growing and getting better each day.
• 9:17
  Speaker 7: He he that's his main focus and that's what he's
• 9:20
  Speaker 7: done and that's why it's been such a just a
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  Speaker 7: pleasure to work with him. Impressive the year five for
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  Speaker 7: him to be able to kind of accept the right word,
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  Speaker 7: you know, throw out some things he's done and buy
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  Speaker 7: in Yeah, he's that's that's kind of who he is.
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  Speaker 7: He wants to do whatever it takes too, you know,
• 9:40
  Speaker 7: to become better for this year, to become better, for
• 9:42
  Speaker 7: the team, to become better. And you know, he's put
• 9:45
  Speaker 7: a lot of trust into us. He's a coaching staff
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  Speaker 7: and and he's taken a lot of those things and
• 9:49
  Speaker 7: ran with him. And that's what just makes it a
• 9:51
  Speaker 7: great environment to work each day. And you got other
• 9:54
  Speaker 7: guys in the room. The other quarterbacks are great guys too,
• 9:57
  Speaker 7: talking just talking ball and talking the game. They've been
• 9:59
  Speaker 7: in system too, So we have a lot of great
• 10:02
  Speaker 7: discussions in the room. And so Trevor's you know, just
• 10:06
  Speaker 7: the way he's approached each day has been you know,
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  Speaker 7: unbelievable fun one and.
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  Speaker 2: Each day and you go back and look and I
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: see you're getting yes.
• 10:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 10:17
  Speaker 7: And we've actually had conversations and actually some things that
• 10:21
  Speaker 7: have come up in meetings that say, hey, here's here's
• 10:24
  Speaker 7: here's back in you know, week one or maybe you
• 10:26
  Speaker 7: know when we first started out, and here's how he's
• 10:28
  Speaker 7: looking now and here's the result. And so you're seeing
• 10:30
  Speaker 7: a lot of the progress is being made. He I
• 10:32
  Speaker 7: think he sees it. And the units has grown in
• 10:35
  Speaker 7: terms of their ability to get up on the line
• 10:37
  Speaker 7: scrimmage and play fast and the receivers being in right spots.
• 10:41
  Speaker 7: So each day it gets a little bit better. And
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  Speaker 7: that's all you can ask for. What can I learned
• 10:44
  Speaker 7: from today? What are the plays that can pull that
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  Speaker 7: I could have been better? And you know, leaving the
• 10:49
  Speaker 7: room each day saying I get my I gave my
• 10:52
  Speaker 7: best evaluation myself. I got better. I grew each day,
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  Speaker 7: And that's all we can ask the players right now.
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  Speaker 8: And offense, so real quick, just at Travis the first
• 11:00
  Speaker 8: time you saw him out there on.
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  Speaker 6: The field, what was your first us He's good, He's
• 11:08
  Speaker 6: really good, and it's just I just can't I can't
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  Speaker 6: fathom him doing playing that many players on offense and defense.
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  Speaker 9: Just at a high level too, not just doing it,
• 11:17
  Speaker 9: but at a high level like that. Yeah, he's special man,
• 11:22
  Speaker 9: just watching them move, it's just easy for him. So
• 11:25
  Speaker 9: we are so excited to have him, and it is
• 11:28
  Speaker 9: a blessing that would be that we're able to get him,
• 11:31
  Speaker 9: get him in.
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  Speaker 2: The backfield a little bit too.
• 11:32
  Speaker 9: Is that potentially you know what you never know? I mean,
• 11:35
  Speaker 9: I don't know. He's got enough positions to worry about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 11:41
  Speaker 9: why not, Yeah, yeah, we'll figure something out. So yeah, appreciate,
• 11:46
  Speaker 9: appreciate you you too, Demetrius harm how you doing chat afore?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, me too.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: You probably are to talk a little bit about him,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: but but with facial twoton and just what did you
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: see when you first led your eyes on him, maybe
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: in the film room, whatever that may be, And then
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: what does he sort of turn into so far? I
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: know it's only been a few weeks, but just so
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: far that you've had had your hands over.
• 12:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, he's really fast.
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah he can run.
• 12:09
  Speaker 9: Yeah, really excited for him. And also just just the
• 12:13
  Speaker 9: way he runs really easy for him, you know, it's simple,
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  Speaker 9: h He's a smooth mover in and out of cuts
• 12:20
  Speaker 9: and stuff like that. So yeah, it's just it's just
• 12:24
  Speaker 9: fun to watch him as a runner. When guys are
• 12:26
  Speaker 9: just natural runners, you know, it just they just make
• 12:28
  Speaker 9: it look real easy him. Its looks like they're just
• 12:30
  Speaker 9: kind of jogging it and they're still running really fast.
• 12:33
  Speaker 9: And you know, he's been making plays out there and
• 12:35
  Speaker 9: showing his speed, so we're excited to, you know, get
• 12:37
  Speaker 9: the ball in his hands.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: What's that learning curve like for a rookie running back.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: I know, running the ball, catch the pass, but in
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: terms of pass protection, how steep up a learning curve
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: is that? And how do you sort of progress a
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: guy like that through easily?
• 12:53
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you have to start early. Yeah we've already. That
• 12:55
  Speaker 9: was the number one thing we started with because these
• 12:58
  Speaker 9: guys know how to run their ball, so clean up
• 13:00
  Speaker 9: all those little details on that and knowing you know
• 13:03
  Speaker 9: where to line up as a receiver and you know
• 13:05
  Speaker 9: to all that kind of stuff. But they have to
• 13:06
  Speaker 9: be able to pass throw, so it takes the longest
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  Speaker 9: that's the most important thing and it's the hardest thing
• 13:12
  Speaker 9: to teach these guys. So we start now, we start early,
• 13:16
  Speaker 9: and then we're gonna keep progressing all the way through
• 13:18
  Speaker 9: camp and get it right. So that way we're able
• 13:19
  Speaker 9: to get it right bit and by.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: The time of the season starts, this running back room
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: is kind of crowded. And then you have Travis, you
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: have Cage, you have facial Plan, all these guys. What
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: are your impressions of this room? And I guess you
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: start with Travis too, and what have you seen from him?
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  Speaker 2: What can you bring to the tables?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, he's doing a great job. It's just great to
• 13:40
  Speaker 9: just learn the kids. Learning all these guys, you know,
• 13:42
  Speaker 9: just their personality and how they think and how they learn.
• 13:46
  Speaker 9: And I think that's the biggest part, is just knowing
• 13:49
  Speaker 9: these guys first and just having in depth conversations with
• 13:51
  Speaker 9: these guys and and that's that's the first part. And
• 13:54
  Speaker 9: then but on the field, just like he's been in
• 13:57
  Speaker 9: the past, super it's just super smooth, easy runner, just
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  Speaker 9: kind of how I talked about like Ba Sial, just
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  Speaker 9: natural natural for him. He's in his DNA, he knows
• 14:09
  Speaker 9: that he just does stuff right. He's versatile. Use him
• 14:12
  Speaker 9: in the passing game to get a couple of running
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  Speaker 9: backs out of there out there on the field, so
• 14:17
  Speaker 9: we just put him in different positions just to make plays.
• 14:19
  Speaker 9: One of those guys you just want to get the
• 14:20
  Speaker 9: ball in his hands. So he's doing extremely well. Tank's
• 14:24
  Speaker 9: doing doing well. Tank's been chopping at the bit to
• 14:27
  Speaker 9: getting pads. You know, he's he's he's kind of getting
• 14:31
  Speaker 9: tired of this, uh just helmet stuff. He wants to
• 14:33
  Speaker 9: hit and run and get this run game going. It's
• 14:35
  Speaker 9: been frustrating because you know this this time of the year,
• 14:38
  Speaker 9: like you can't get too much into these runs. It's
• 14:40
  Speaker 9: just it's too hard because they're only in helmets and
• 14:42
  Speaker 9: you know you have to limit the physical contact. And
• 14:45
  Speaker 9: but he's ready to go. He's uh picking up the
• 14:48
  Speaker 9: playbook extremely well. I trust him with all that stuff.
• 14:51
  Speaker 9: I need somebody to go on there to just do right.
• 14:54
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna put him out there.
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  Speaker 3: Him.
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  Speaker 9: Travis is the same way. And then just getting these
• 14:58
  Speaker 9: young guys. They're all versatile, all different, which is fun
• 15:03
  Speaker 9: a show really fast. He's a smaller guy but really strong.
• 15:08
  Speaker 9: Uh Lee Quint, it's Lee Quint, which I found out. Yes,
• 15:12
  Speaker 9: I don't say to la Quin, but he doesn't. He
• 15:14
  Speaker 9: doesn't mind. But uh, fun washing him play just do
• 15:18
  Speaker 9: the past protection stuff and you know, line up as
• 15:20
  Speaker 9: a receiver and he's very versatile. Same thing about he
• 15:23
  Speaker 9: was in college that was you know, Russia five hundred
• 15:25
  Speaker 9: yard reception yards or receiving yards. And then Jack Quindin,
• 15:31
  Speaker 9: big old kid. Can't wait to get him pass. You know,
• 15:33
  Speaker 9: he's doing rise. You know he's still slowly learning. Doesn't
• 15:36
  Speaker 9: get as many reps as the other guys, but still
• 15:37
  Speaker 9: looking for big things for him too.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah.
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: I think everything's been going great, you know, getting settled
• 15:44
  Speaker 8: in whether it's you know, settled into the area, getting
• 15:47
  Speaker 8: used to the the commute, getting used to the afternoon
• 15:50
  Speaker 8: afternoon showers, but the the beautiful weather for the most
• 15:53
  Speaker 8: part here has been uh has been fun.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: And then the football part of it's been, you know,
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: so seamless in.
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: Terms of, uh, coach going doing a great job setting
• 16:01
  Speaker 8: our the tone for what we're going to be, what
• 16:03
  Speaker 8: our culture is gonna feel like. And then the players
• 16:06
  Speaker 8: just having that positive energy and that open mindset to
• 16:08
  Speaker 8: come in and be ready to work every single day
• 16:11
  Speaker 8: and and get better every single day.
• 16:14
  Speaker 10: There's a lot of first time you know that coach,
• 16:15
  Speaker 10: first time coordinators. Is that kind of is there an
• 16:18
  Speaker 10: energy with that where people are excited to kind of
• 16:21
  Speaker 10: prove themselves.
• 16:22
  Speaker 9: And immerse their roles.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think for for for all those guys.
• 16:26
  Speaker 8: That are in the first time so to speaking, their role,
• 16:28
  Speaker 8: it's also a role that they've been preparing for for
• 16:29
  Speaker 8: their whole life. So uh, I think they've you know,
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: whether it's Grant or Liam and his you know, first
• 16:35
  Speaker 8: time head coach and role, or or Camp on the
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: defensive side of the ball, Like you feel that energy
• 16:40
  Speaker 8: every single day, and and those guys attacking it with
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: that that mindset of you know, the confidence that they have,
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: but also the openness to you know, trust people around
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: them and ask questions when there's when there's stuff that
• 16:51
  Speaker 8: that we might need a different answer to.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: When you look at this.
• 16:56
  Speaker 10: Roster now that we're getting closer training camp, kind of
• 16:58
  Speaker 10: what's really available to you and the weapons on offenses
• 17:02
  Speaker 10: that kind be exciting to get to work with that
• 17:04
  Speaker 10: kind of cook that's not being put together.
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think from both the skill set and the
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: attitude of the guys it's being around him in this
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: offseason program so far, you know, I think it's, Uh,
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: it's an exciting time, you know, because you've got guys
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: that can work well together, can can provide a lot
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: of different challenges to a defense.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Uh. And they've shown the ability to pick up the
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: system you know, pretty quickly. And you know, when you
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: talk about you know, not a lot of time that
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: they've been around it so far, and.
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: The the ability to operate and run a multitude of
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: plays in an off season program this quickly, you know,
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: really speaks volume to the guys that have been you know,
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: the position coaches, how you know, what a good job
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: they've done at teaching, but also the players.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Buy in and and willingness.
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: To learn and keep asking questions and having the confidence
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: that they are sure on something, go ahead and ask
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: it and you know, allow us to keep rolling.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: As an offense, working for.
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: Lym obviously and playing quarterback has been obviously very centric
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: offense centery. He's been exciting to work with him so
• 18:00
  Speaker 10: closely and kind of get to bouncings.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Off of him and just like he's sure.
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: I think, you know, for myself and Liam, you know,
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: different stops along the way that we've been together and
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: seeing the game through the same lens, I think has
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: been a great starting point.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: But then I think I've been impressed watching him.
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: You know, how how good of a job he's done
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: now in the head coaching role where you know, I know,
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: one thing.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: That always stood out to me about Liam as.
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: An offensive coach was his ability to know all eleven
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: on the field every snap. And then now seeing him
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: in the head coaching role, and you know where it's
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: more than just being the you know, the offensive coordinator,
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: but seeing him you know, in front of the room
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: talking special teams, talking the defensive side of the ball,
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: and really his commitment to being that head coach and
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: owning that role as well as still doing a great
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: job on the offensive side of the ball has been
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: something fun to watch. And you know, that positive vibe
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: that he brings every day and and you know makes
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: you want to get.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Up, go to work and have some fun getting better.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Is it really important?
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: In Miss steam Tad guys have been an important mean.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, uh position more no no, no, no, no,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: nothing like that. But it just helps if you've been
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: in the if you have guys who've been in the system,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And that's really any offense,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: it's not just this one in particular.
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: So yeah, realistic expectations for renting this season obviously, I
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: know you guys can be really please with what he's
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: past it in young girl ability kind of.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Hen work on the express.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Uh to be a good starter and whatever responsibility and
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: duties that's called for him to put any other thing
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: else on it. I don't really know uh what to
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: say to that, but uh, but I'm just looking forward
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: to seeing him step up and like I've been saying,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: just being able to see him sustain uh throughout the
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: whole season.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I think he's more than wearing to do that.
• 19:43
  Speaker 10: I feel like the opportunity was given he always tea Yeah,
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: and now.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: We need to rent.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah for sure, for sure, absolutely, And like I said,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: it is a lot of work. It's a lot of
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: time that he's gonna have to put in outside the
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: building and he's done it before, and like I said,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: it's just a matter of just him doing consistently.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: How kind of I know, we're still in the mix
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: of learning.
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: And making you run great from what you.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Put all your players so far, do you like get
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: have the Titans like fit in at this point?
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely absolutely. You know, like I was saying before,
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: it is you know, it's good in the run game.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: You know the way that the the mid zone and
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: all and the system that we run, uh definitely benefits.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Uh with's with certain things. But yeah, you know, the
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: the the Titan's gotta be versatile. They can be anywhere
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: in the offense and uh they'll be able to perform.
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: We're called im on a lot of faces in your room,
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: so kind of getting acclimated and everything haus have been
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: uh coming together for you so I could so.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: Many in the base.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah for sure, And like I said, you you
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: get a lot of different personalities that don't know each other.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: So it's definitely been h a lot more quieter than that, hope.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: But now in in time it'll all come out. But uh,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: but now the the good thing is they're all here
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: to work. Uh, there's no distractions, there's no guys who
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: are in it for themselves type of things. So, uh,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: it's a great room.