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Bryce Young Drafted, The Latest on the Buccaneers' Releases, & An Interview with Andrea Gosper · NFL Now

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  Speaker 1: is my leadership. There's eleven people on the field at
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  Speaker 1: one time, and one of my strengths is leading and
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  Speaker 1: make sure that we're all working unified as one unity.
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  Speaker 1: This guy is good, I'll tell you he's kind a
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  Speaker 1: nice arm Off Frice On, University of Alabama quarterback. I
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  Speaker 1: think my style of play is boys processing quickly and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, trying to make the most efficient plays,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's handing the ball off or making reads in
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  Speaker 1: the past games at a touchdown. My father's helped me
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  Speaker 1: a psychologist as a therapists. He's definitely taught me to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that I'm staying calm, I'm controlling what I
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  Speaker 1: can control, and to be able to take that sort
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  Speaker 1: of approach not just a sports SUPs of life. It
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  Speaker 1: that I was exposed to at a young age. Hang
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  Speaker 1: On wan age strike for me when an Eisen was
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  Speaker 1: definitely a surreal moment. You know, I think subconsciously is
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  Speaker 1: something that every kid who plays football kind of James
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  Speaker 1: about but wasn't done with the season at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and I knew that there's a lot more than I
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  Speaker 1: want to accomplish, and there still is a lot more
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  Speaker 1: than I want to accomplished, And you know, that kind
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  Speaker 1: of carries over. It was great at something I always remember,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I think I'll be able to appreciate
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  Speaker 1: a lot more down the line. Hot off the presses,
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  Speaker 1: Lanzerline's second mock draft, which includes trades and Lance, has
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders as well as the Cardinals and the Multimore
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  Speaker 1: Ravens trading into the top ten. The Ravens to take
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Will Levis and the Raiders getting c J. Strout,
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  Speaker 1: But his number two pick is Bryce Young going to
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Texans l the Bear staying and taking Will
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  Speaker 1: Anderson number one overall, Jim Trotter joining us now here
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  Speaker 1: on NFL. Now, let's talk about who Lance has going
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  Speaker 1: number two, and that is Bryce Young. He measured in
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  Speaker 1: at the combine, so much attention being paid to what
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  Speaker 1: shoes he was wearing, how did he look standing next
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  Speaker 1: to other people, how much the size impact the way
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  Speaker 1: these talent evaluators feel about the Alabama quarterback. Jill. Look, Patrick,
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  Speaker 1: you can never paint with a broad brush here, but
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  Speaker 1: all of the personnel people and coaches I've talked to
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  Speaker 1: do not place great value in this discussion that he
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  Speaker 1: is not tall enough or heavy enough, or that they
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  Speaker 1: have concerns about it. Obviously there are some, but look,
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  Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels is one of those who told me, you
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  Speaker 1: know what you're concerned about most when you look at
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  Speaker 1: quarterback of his size and stature is the durability issue.
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  Speaker 1: And he said that has not been an issue with
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Young, with the exception of that one instance last
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  Speaker 1: year where he missed a moment. But what he said
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  Speaker 1: is you look at the production and he said, quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: of that size they throw through windows. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: we see Drew Brees. We've seen Drew Brees do it.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen Kyler Murray do it. We've seen Russell Wilson
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  Speaker 1: do it. And he said, is that Bryce Young has
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  Speaker 1: done that as well. I talked to another team in
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  Speaker 1: the top ten who's interested in a quarterback told me
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. They are not concerned about the size
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  Speaker 1: element that people talk about with Bryce Young, so he
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  Speaker 1: will be I'd be surprised if he's not the first
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  Speaker 1: quarterback taken off of the board from the teams that
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  Speaker 1: I've talked to. But size in this case is not
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  Speaker 1: an issue with these clubs that I've spoken to. Patrick, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: had that size are when he won the Hyde Trophy.
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  Speaker 1: Looking ahead to the March Pro Day coming up in
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  Speaker 1: Tuscaloosa to get the final check of the boxes for
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Young heading into the twenty twenty three NFL Draft,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Trotter checking out one of the top quarterback prospects.
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  Speaker 1: Here in twenty twenty three, back here on NFL Now
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  Speaker 1: with what is new right now coming into the NFL
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  Speaker 1: Laws Ange, You've NFL Network inside of Tom Pella Sero
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  Speaker 1: joining us to go through some of this news. Tom
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  Speaker 1: in twenty nine year old Donovan Smith is going to
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  Speaker 1: be looking at some options. What can you tell us
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  Speaker 1: about the Bucks tackle? Patrick? The Bucks are releasing their
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  Speaker 1: left tackle Donovan Smith today after trying to shop him
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  Speaker 1: in trade talks over he passed twenty four hours or so.
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  Speaker 1: It was difficult to get a trade done because Smith
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  Speaker 1: had a high non guaranteed base salary around fifteen million
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  Speaker 1: dollars just not a number that other teams could take
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  Speaker 1: on at this point, so instead they opt to release
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  Speaker 1: Donovan Smith, saving about ten million dollars against the cap
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  Speaker 1: and then upwards of fourteen fifteen million dollars in terms
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  Speaker 1: of cash. Now, this is part of a broader effort
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  Speaker 1: here for the Bucks, who of course kept a lot
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  Speaker 1: of veteran players around brought veterans in during the Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady era. They also planned to release Leonard Fournette when
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  Speaker 1: the new league years begins, and there is additional work
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  Speaker 1: here to make sure that their cap is in the
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  Speaker 1: right spot as we head toward the new league gear
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  Speaker 1: which begins next Wednesday, Patrick and Tom, let's keep it
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  Speaker 1: in the state of Florida. As Byron Jones also seeing
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  Speaker 1: a departure from the Miami Dolphins after three seasons of
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  Speaker 1: which he played too what can you tell us there? Well,
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  Speaker 1: this was expected Patrick Byron Jone did not play all
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  Speaker 1: of last season coming off an achilles injury. Is rehab
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  Speaker 1: did not go exactly as they had anticipated. He was
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  Speaker 1: one of the high profile and highest paid free agent
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  Speaker 1: signings just a few years ago. Here certainly played well
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  Speaker 1: early in his career, but then the injuries short circuited
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  Speaker 1: things as he went into twenty twenty one. Jones also
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  Speaker 1: took to Twitter recently saying that those injuries have left
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  Speaker 1: him unable to run or jump. So remains to be
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  Speaker 1: seen whether or not there's any future for Byron Jones
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. But we do know that for now
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  Speaker 1: is that this release saves Miami about fourteen million dollars
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  Speaker 1: in cash and nearly that much in cap space yet
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  Speaker 1: another team. We'll see plenty of this Patrick here over
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  Speaker 1: the next week or so. Some of those veterans who
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  Speaker 1: got paid a lot a few years ago get to
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  Speaker 1: the non guaranteed portions of their contracts and the team
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  Speaker 1: moves on. Yeah, and hoping to see Byron Jones able
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  Speaker 1: to get back physically as thinking back to his unofficial
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  Speaker 1: world record at the broad jump that he had back
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  Speaker 1: in the twenty fifteen NFL combin Tom Pellicero with the
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  Speaker 1: latest on a couple of spots in Florida, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of teams making some changes changes at the head coach
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  Speaker 1: in front office positions in the off season and during
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  Speaker 1: the season. For the Arizona Cardinals, looking ahead looking back
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  Speaker 1: what they did last year lasted in the NFC West
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  Speaker 1: projected the sixteen point six million in cap space, and
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  Speaker 1: they have some notable free agents as well as some retirements.
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  Speaker 1: AJ Green and JJ Watt announced their retirements. Robney Hudson
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  Speaker 1: also considering retirement. So let's discuss the twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals with Omar Louise paying attention to the team
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  Speaker 1: this offseason. To Norma, we have to start with the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback still making his recovery from a torn a CEO. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we see all those graphics and the different moves that
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  Speaker 1: they have. The Arizona Cardinals priority number one is getting
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  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray healthy and he's been in the facility rehabbing,
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  Speaker 1: working out, making sure that heat tries to get back
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  Speaker 1: as quickly as possible. But it seems at this point
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  Speaker 1: that Kyler Murray will miss at least the start of
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  Speaker 1: the season. It got me thinking back to the Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: Browns training camp last year when I visited Brie, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: They were obviously getting ready to Kobe Brissette to play,
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  Speaker 1: but Deshaun Watson would be waiting in the wings. And
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  Speaker 1: ask Monty austin Ford, their general manager for the Cardinals,
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  Speaker 1: how that might influence Kyler Murray's unavailability at the start
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  Speaker 1: of the season, how they build the roster this season,
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  Speaker 1: it's something that they will consider. They don't know who's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the quarterback yet quote McCoy is still
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  Speaker 1: under contract there, but the fact that they do have
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  Speaker 1: to consider Kyler Murray's unique skill set something that they
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  Speaker 1: look forward to working with when he does come back.
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon has told Kyler Murray they don't want him
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  Speaker 1: to rush back, given that his legs and that torn
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  Speaker 1: acl is what makes him so valuable a commodity in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, that it'll be interesting to watch how the
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  Speaker 1: rest of this offseason unfolds given those circumstances with Kyler
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  Speaker 1: Murray and the uncertainty to start the season. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: want to see Kyler backhealthy. One note that clearly jumps
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  Speaker 1: out the last highlight. Kyler ran around so long, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't even have enough time to show the entire highlights,
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  Speaker 1: like eighty four yards Olive Brown in real actual yardage.
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  Speaker 1: They had the whole team on his back in that point.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a Week one win over in
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Also featured in those in those highlights was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of new Copkins one of the best spots
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  Speaker 1: on this roster for a few years after the trade
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  Speaker 1: from the Houston Texans. What's the future with the DeAndre
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  Speaker 1: Hopkins in the cart? Well, I appreciate it Jonathan Gannon's
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  Speaker 1: honesty last week when he was as point blank is
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  Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is going to be on this team in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three? Does a couple of years under contract
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  Speaker 1: for new Hopkins there? And he was honest and said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Obviously, DeAndre Hopkins makes a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money for a team that's at all appearances at this
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  Speaker 1: point at least a little bit of a rebuild money.
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  Speaker 1: Austin Ford saying that he's been in communication with DeAndre
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  Speaker 1: Hopkins and his representative. You know, it appears that he's
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  Speaker 1: on the trade block, but I don't think they're in
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  Speaker 1: position to dump him at this point. I mean, both
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon and Austin Ford have said that they appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the talent that DeAndre Hopkins is, that they're glad that
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  Speaker 1: he is on their roster at this point. So that'll
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  Speaker 1: be another interesting move here in the next week or
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  Speaker 1: so to see what happens with DeAndre Hopkins. As far
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  Speaker 1: as Hopkins right now, he's been working out in Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: Dez Hopkins playing some pickup hoops, looking like you used
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  Speaker 1: to do their Patrick talking to the Dallas fands on
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  Speaker 1: Instagram Live and saying what's good. So be an interesting
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  Speaker 1: player to watch here in the next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps trying a facilitator a relationship there between those communities
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  Speaker 1: is DeAndre Hopkins. So Jonathan Gannon comes over. He just
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  Speaker 1: had a former Cardinal and the son Reddick have a
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  Speaker 1: resurgent season. What's Jonathan Gannon's future outlook for this defense? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's an interesting case. I think he was asked last
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  Speaker 1: week at the Combine if with building a super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: caliber defense with the Eagles and all that talent that's
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  Speaker 1: on that roster, they're going to aim for some of
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  Speaker 1: the free agents there that the Eagles might have, And
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  Speaker 1: he said, yeah, it's helpful to have some familiarity when
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  Speaker 1: you're kind of implementing a defense. But he said that's
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily going to roll out the twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles defensive playbook for the Cardinals next year. And
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  Speaker 1: he said he likes to think about his defense as
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  Speaker 1: a canvas. They give the players the paints. They give
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  Speaker 1: him the tools to say, as long as you stay
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  Speaker 1: in this canvas, you can have a lot of autonomy
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  Speaker 1: for what this defense could look like. And he said
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  Speaker 1: he took a lot of heat when he went to
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles and said he plays a schematic less defense.
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  Speaker 1: He caters everything to the players what they can do.
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  Speaker 1: Looks to do the same there. Obviously, they have the
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  Speaker 1: number three pick overall in the draft upcoming. We mentioned
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  Speaker 1: the DeAndre Hopkins, you know, potential asset there to build
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  Speaker 1: more capital there in the draft potentially, So given you
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  Speaker 1: know all of that, Gannon's building up that defense something
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  Speaker 1: you know, be interesting to see in the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of months. Now, so many different spots. Of course, DeAndre
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  Speaker 1: Hopkins does have a no trade clause and so anything
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  Speaker 1: that the Cardinals do, we'll have to run through New
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  Speaker 1: Hopkins as well. Perhaps that's why he's working the people
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, getting some interest there in Texas as
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  Speaker 1: he's training this offseason looking ahead to twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for Omar Ruiz in his view of the off
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  Speaker 1: season four the twenty twenty three Arizona Cardinals. The oh
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  Speaker 1: and my role is to oversee college scouting pro scouting
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of the administrative work. I grew up
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  Speaker 1: I was in the outfield and I keep my Apple
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy how that ended off. I like to say,
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  Speaker 1: Andy Gosper, the player personnel coordinator for the Buffalo Bills.
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  Speaker 1: And a busy time of the year right now, you
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  Speaker 1: just got off the play from Indianapolis, but that's where
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  Speaker 1: what areas, what areas I was interested in and we talked,
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  Speaker 1: and I got a call a few months later from
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  Speaker 1: Joe asked me if I wanted to come on with
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  Speaker 1: him in the scouting department. And getting that actual call Andy,
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  Speaker 1: because you had you had the opportunity, there were paths diverging.
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  Speaker 1: You were actually on the field playing softball at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Can you take us through that moment a little bit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So we were in one of our games and I
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  Speaker 1: played center field, so I was in the outfield and
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  Speaker 1: ran in called them right back and that's how it happens.
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  Speaker 1: Really crazy, and through the conversations, obviously with the women
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  Speaker 1: in sports form, there's so many different avenues right to
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  Speaker 1: become a part of the NFL. But that process, did
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  Speaker 1: that make you believe that the Bills organization in the
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  Speaker 1: to figure out what I wanted to do because I
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  Speaker 1: came in not specifically knowing the avenue that I want
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  Speaker 1: to go down, just that I wanted to be in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. And so now you're in this position where
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  Speaker 1: You just kind of go with it, you know. I
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  Speaker 1: And they congratulations, looking forward to now going into season
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  Speaker 1: five and all the twists and turns there and good
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  Speaker 1: luck to you guys. I'm sure we're going through a
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  Speaker 1: busy draft season. We're spending time with us on the
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  Speaker 1: NFL now, Thank you so much, appreciate it. Dug it again.
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  Speaker 1: Wanting to throw to the end zone. Touchdown Max Duggan
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  Speaker 1: on the ground has been the story. I'll get you
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  Speaker 1: put it up. Touchdown, William He's sucking with his legs
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  Speaker 1: solid right, touchdown Duggan, He's just gonna hoist it down
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  Speaker 1: as he's done throughout the year. Max dugging so must
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  Speaker 1: talking about Anthony Richards's performance at the colmdown. Max Duggan
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  Speaker 1: was no slouch, measuring in at six one and a half,
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  Speaker 1: his hand size nine and seven eighths and he ran
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  Speaker 1: a very respectable, very fast, four or five two forty
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  Speaker 1: among the fifteen quarterbacks that were at the combine. He's
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  Speaker 1: preparing for the NFL Draft in the wake of an
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  Speaker 1: incredible senior season at TCU. He joins coach Steve Mariucci
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  Speaker 1: for a whiteboard breakdown. In this installment, I'll draw my play,
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  Speaker 1: Max Duggan, come on in here, TCU coach, how you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good, Thanks for coming, Yes, sir, thanks for having
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  Speaker 1: me on. All right, you're really sitting that hot seat, sir.
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching the Michigan game, right your score is forty
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  Speaker 1: one thirty eight or some dark thing. And this guy
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  Speaker 1: named Clinton Johnston, he goes flying across air and this
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  Speaker 1: guy seemed to go a little higher, but he was
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  Speaker 1: looking to pick two and that wasn't on your sideline scripts.
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  Speaker 1: And this guy went about seventy yards for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Different formation, different guys, different formation. Yeah, we got zero
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  Speaker 1: on that play. And Q Goes makes a great play.
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  Speaker 1: I think, Tay, he makes a great block trying to
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  Speaker 1: find their guy he's coming off. I think he made
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  Speaker 1: a block from from off man two, so got to
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  Speaker 1: find him. And you know, Q goes and does arrest
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  Speaker 1: you it's third down and seven. Here Michigan blix its tugging,
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  Speaker 1: tups it off short Clinton Johnston, how's the first time
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  Speaker 1: head off? He goes, And you had been the starter,
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  Speaker 1: all right, yes, sir for a while, and then all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden in that first game, Chandler Morris is
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  Speaker 1: the starting quarterback. Did you ever then doubt yourself because
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  Speaker 1: somebody else took your job? I think going in your
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  Speaker 1: senior year, you want to, you know, do everything you
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  Speaker 1: can to kind of turn the ship, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: you lose that battle, and as a competitor you are
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  Speaker 1: just you know a lot of disappointment myself as as
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  Speaker 1: a player. But no doubt though, what if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: get hurt, I would have been the best backup quarterback
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  Speaker 1: in the country. Then that's a good answer, man. What
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  Speaker 1: does a kid from Council Bluffs, Iowa learn from baling Hay?
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  Speaker 1: You know, just a lot of mental toughness. I think
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  Speaker 1: physical toughness and mental toughness. Physical hand man, Yeah, because
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  Speaker 1: you're out there from you know, eight an to you know,
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  Speaker 1: when when the sun goes down, maybe throwing a thousand
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  Speaker 1: bales forty five fifty pound hay bales all day, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to test you a little bit. It sure does tell
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  Speaker 1: me and tell our viewers exactly what Wolf Parkinson White
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  Speaker 1: syndrome is. Yeah, it's just a hard condition I was
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  Speaker 1: born with since birth, and it meant that I had
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  Speaker 1: an extra electrical pathway in my heart that made my
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  Speaker 1: heart beat um extremely fast. So I got through a
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  Speaker 1: nine hour procedure to fix the heart procedure, and then
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  Speaker 1: two days later I have a blood cloud because of
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  Speaker 1: surgery and going to emergency surgery for that, and I
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  Speaker 1: was able to play on our first game four weeks later.
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  Speaker 1: That came from that toughness. Saron, Hey, I think, huh, well,
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  Speaker 1: any any issues since then? No, Saraya, I feel great.
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  Speaker 1: I had a guy on my team that went through
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  Speaker 1: that as well. So I'm gonna show you a play
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  Speaker 1: round right a right two jet flanker number eighty short
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  Speaker 1: post X shake. Okay, So we want to get the
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  Speaker 1: ball to our guy, like you want to get the
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  Speaker 1: ball to Quentin Johnston. Okay, sir, Like we're going to
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  Speaker 1: try to find this guy. It's crunch time. It's third
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  Speaker 1: and eight, we're in the red zone. We got we
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  Speaker 1: don't want to field goal. We got to shoot it
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  Speaker 1: in the end zone, sir. But let's get the ball
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Rice right here. If you see that guy in
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  Speaker 1: the middle, and you know it's three deep zone, he's
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  Speaker 1: in the scene, isn't he all right? Sir? If this
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  Speaker 1: guy is strong safety and this free safety show you
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  Speaker 1: a tough cover two, he's doing the post inside of
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  Speaker 1: that guy. So it's two jet flank or short post
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  Speaker 1: X shake touchdown, check down right here to write here
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  Speaker 1: you got that, sir. So last year you guys didn't
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  Speaker 1: make a bowl game. You had a losing record to
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  Speaker 1: the National Championship. How does that happen? You know, I
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  Speaker 1: think with a new coaching staff coming in, I think
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  Speaker 1: our guys did a great job just buying in. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we had a lot of guys of you know, veterans
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  Speaker 1: that played a lot of snaps that kind of came
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  Speaker 1: into their own of of being. You know that that
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  Speaker 1: senior leadership that we needed didn't hurt that you came
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  Speaker 1: in and played your butt off right surrounded by some
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  Speaker 1: good players. That makes my job easy. I like that answer.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been in trouble? No, sir, just like that.
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  Speaker 1: Never maybe mowing the lawn a little bit wrong. My
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  Speaker 1: Dad might have written me a new one. But what
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  Speaker 1: do you tell these coaches and scouts and general managers
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  Speaker 1: about you? You know, I think that at this level,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be able to throw, everybody can run, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody's a great athlete. But I think, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I've been able to show in my career and on
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  Speaker 1: tape as I'm gonna keep complete my ass off, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's in reps and practice, in the weight room, in games,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you can to be the best player you can
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  Speaker 1: and make guys around you that are gonna be better.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see you draw my play, sir, You
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  Speaker 1: remember it, sir, show me. Okay, we're gonna be in
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  Speaker 1: brown right any right, two jet flanker, short post X shake,
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  Speaker 1: Our back's gonna be coming out. This is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a great indicator if we get man or we get zone,
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  Speaker 1: we get a back or going out. So he's just
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  Speaker 1: gonna be on a hitch Okay, on a hitch our
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  Speaker 1: Why is gonna be on our on our shallow? He
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  Speaker 1: can sit. If it's zone, he can keep going. If
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  Speaker 1: it's man, Jerry Rice, here, we get middlefield close, middle
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  Speaker 1: field close, he's gonna take it up the seam, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna bang it. Middlefield open. That's when he can post
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  Speaker 1: it right here. We're gonna have our post corner, post corner.
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  Speaker 1: We get some sort of hard corner, we get cloud
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna turn into a China China. Huh okay, China.
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  Speaker 1: All right, two jet protection. What if it's full blitz,
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  Speaker 1: full blitz. Jerry Sho's taken up. We're gonna hit right here.
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  Speaker 1: If we get say, middle field close, we're going seam.
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  Speaker 1: We're going one. If we get middle field clothes, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna go one, two back here to three four. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: touchdown checkdown, seez that's pretty good, man, that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Touchdown checkdown. Hey, fantastic season. All right, keep her going. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I know you can believe in you man, Max Doug
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