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Ryan Nielsen on Building the Jaguars' New-Look Defense | The O-Zone Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The Zoom.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer John Oser.
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome into this week's ozone podcast. I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: about this one. I've been hoping to talk to Jaguars
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  Speaker 2: defensive greenader Ryan Nilsen I since he got here. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, Ryan, I appreciate you doing this and thanks
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  Speaker 2: for taking the time right now.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Why Jacksonville?
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  Speaker 1: Why not?
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  Speaker 3: So many good things about the place. Let's start at
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  Speaker 3: the top of the owner. It's been fantastic. You hear
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  Speaker 3: all the good things about everything that he's doing here
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  Speaker 3: in the city, what he's done with the building, the direction.
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  Speaker 1: Of the team.
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  Speaker 3: You go to the head coach, what a great person.
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  Speaker 3: Coach Peterson is a phenomenal, phenomenal man to myself, my family,
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  Speaker 3: He's been awesome. And then Trent general manager is uh.
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  Speaker 3: Love being around them, his knowledge, you know, all those things,
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  Speaker 3: and so just a combination of you know, those three
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  Speaker 3: people at the top, uh. And then you get into
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  Speaker 3: the building. Uh, the players. Right, We've got great people
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  Speaker 3: here the building in terms of the people that work
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  Speaker 3: inside the building in all departments, and so it's a
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  Speaker 3: it's well run and everything every every part of the
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  Speaker 3: building that you go into, you feel that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we got knowledgeable people or who want to help and
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  Speaker 3: be a part of a winner.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's it is a great combination.
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  Speaker 3: And we're just you know, we just want to do
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  Speaker 3: our partner and help help continue that and and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, make this team.
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  Speaker 2: Win, gotcha. Obviously, when you are researching a job, you
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  Speaker 2: look at the talent, you look at the personnel. Since
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  Speaker 2: you've gotten here and sort of gotten to know the guys, uh,
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  Speaker 2: good fits. I feel like the personnel matches up to
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  Speaker 2: what you want to do. And obviously there's some on
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  Speaker 2: you to put them in the right position.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so it's a combination.
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  Speaker 3: But look when you walk in here and you look
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  Speaker 3: at the defensive personnel that we have from upfront in
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  Speaker 3: the back end, and we've got some good players and
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  Speaker 3: so you know, our whole thing is is help those
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  Speaker 3: players and you know, all different levels of first year
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  Speaker 3: to ten year, fifteen year vets if improvement, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we want to develop. You know, we're in a profession
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  Speaker 3: of development, helping these guys achieve the next step. And
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  Speaker 3: so that's what that's been the main focus this offseason.
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  Speaker 3: I think we've got a great defensive staff. You've got
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  Speaker 3: Chris Rashard, Corey Robinson just to name a couple of
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  Speaker 3: our guys, Matt House. You know, guys who've coached at
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  Speaker 3: in Super Bowls and won championships and things like that,
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  Speaker 3: and Bill Shuey and been part of great defenses. And
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  Speaker 3: so we've got a bunch of great teachers on their
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  Speaker 3: defensive staff and to help these guys, you know, take
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  Speaker 3: the next step. And you know, all we're trying to
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  Speaker 3: do is build the best group of players and defense
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  Speaker 3: that we possibly can and win a ton of football
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  Speaker 3: games along the way.
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  Speaker 2: They're all important. But you mentioned Richard played with him,
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  Speaker 2: which I didn't realize. Uh did you sort of know
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  Speaker 2: at all when you were playing with him this guy
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  Speaker 2: might be a coach someday to even think about that
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  Speaker 2: sort of thing. And they just tell me how important
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  Speaker 2: he is to what you're going to be doing.
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  Speaker 3: Sure now, at that time, you know, we thought we
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  Speaker 3: weren't playing in the NFL for fifteen years and retire
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  Speaker 3: and you know, and that's just how it was going
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  Speaker 3: to be.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's what you wanted to do. But how
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  Speaker 1: important is he? I mean, he is.
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  Speaker 3: Let's let's start with this. I mean, he's a phenomenal man.
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  Speaker 3: He's a great person. Uh, he cares so much, unbelievable
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  Speaker 3: in terms of intelligence and the football coach. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's he's the best, you know, and that was one
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  Speaker 3: of the things, you know, bringing him here obviously our
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  Speaker 3: relationship and you once surround yourself with great people, and
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  Speaker 3: he's a great person in all aspects, and so he
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  Speaker 3: is so important to what we're doing. And he's he's
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  Speaker 3: helped these guys. I mean, you're already seeing the improvements
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  Speaker 3: with his coaching and teaching in our secondary and you know,
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  Speaker 3: and everything that we're doing. And so he's got his
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  Speaker 3: fingerprints all over it.
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  Speaker 2: Not that you don't have expertise there as well, but
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  Speaker 2: having a good guy on the back end in today's
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  Speaker 2: NFL in terms of coverage, that really matters, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, But I think it's it's all levels, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's you want to have good coaches, right and
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  Speaker 3: so you know, coaching is teaching, and you want good
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  Speaker 3: teachers and you know, communicators to your players, and we
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  Speaker 3: have that here at all levels, you know, or defensive
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  Speaker 3: line or linebackers and in our secondary and our coach,
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  Speaker 3: assistant coaches and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, our whole staff.
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  Speaker 3: I think we've we've done a good job of bringing
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  Speaker 3: guys in here that are good coaches and and and
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  Speaker 3: we're showing that on the field right now.
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  Speaker 2: Here's my million dollar question. I get so many questions
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  Speaker 2: about four three four schemes in this day and age.
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  Speaker 2: Everything I understand is that it's hard to describe your
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  Speaker 2: scheme as a quote four three four? How do you
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  Speaker 2: describe your scheme? And I guess sort of what what's
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  Speaker 2: the best way to describe for somebody who really doesn't
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  Speaker 2: know x'es and o's if you follow.
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  Speaker 1: Me, sure, I mean, look, we don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: pigeonholed in terms of this is exactly what we are.
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  Speaker 1: We aren't evolving, we won't be on the cutting.
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  Speaker 2: Edd hard for anybody to do that this day and age, right, but.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of the goal of what we've set out
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 3: And even some things from last year are different than
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  Speaker 3: some things are going to be from this year. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, when we were in New Orleans and just
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  Speaker 3: all the places, you know that all these coaches have
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  Speaker 3: been and input in kind cause kind of what we
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  Speaker 3: did is we got in there and we threw, you know,
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  Speaker 3: everything up on the board and then we picked holes
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  Speaker 3: at everything, and everybody had the input of of how
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  Speaker 3: we want to be in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 2: This is January February, March.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's the you know, and that was
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  Speaker 3: a great time. And you know you're hearing guys talk
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  Speaker 3: and coach and hey, we did it like this, we
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  Speaker 3: did like what's but what's the ultimate is what's best
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  Speaker 3: for us here in jackson And that's what we've done.
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  Speaker 3: We've kind of we've we've thrown it all in there,
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  Speaker 3: and then we've taken the best parts out of everything.
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  Speaker 3: And so when you look at it, it's, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a little bit different and what you can
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  Speaker 3: call it whatever you want four two five four three
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  Speaker 3: three four, because there's again we want to have parts,
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  Speaker 3: the best parts of every every every scheme. And then
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of how we've built this thing.
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  Speaker 2: What's the uh you know, I've gone to some players
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  Speaker 2: in the last couple of weeks. The emphasis has been
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  Speaker 2: on how simple you and your coaches make it seem.
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  Speaker 2: What's the art of getting what's in your mind simply
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  Speaker 2: into their performance?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, it's you have to know what you're talking about, right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean right, that's that's the big right right.
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  Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think you know, you have to have an expertise and
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  Speaker 3: exactly what you're coaching, you know, and how you want
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  Speaker 3: it to look, and then the fundamentals and technique that
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  Speaker 3: need to go with how it looks.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's a there's an art to that.
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  Speaker 3: And again, you know, we've got a good group of
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  Speaker 3: guys our staff wise that that know how it wants
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  Speaker 3: to look, that you know, have a vision of Hey,
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  Speaker 3: we want our players to play it like this and
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  Speaker 3: use these fundamentals in order to have help help them
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  Speaker 3: have success, you know. And that's a big part of
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  Speaker 3: it is it's not just hey, it's look, the scheme
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  Speaker 3: is the scheme is the scheme? Sure, The special ingredient
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  Speaker 3: is the players. Like That's that's the magic of of
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  Speaker 3: of our defense is our guys out there on the field.
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  Speaker 3: And and so what we're doing is we're equipping them
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  Speaker 3: with you know, the best fundamentals and technique uh to
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  Speaker 3: have success at their positions and so we all can
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  Speaker 3: have success on defense.
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  Speaker 2: I have two things written down here. One is philosophy,
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  Speaker 2: and the other one is attack aggressive probably the same
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  Speaker 2: question though, yeah, well.
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  Speaker 3: Sort of philosophy. I mean, look, it's it's a you know,
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  Speaker 3: we want to be multiple. You know, this day and age,
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  Speaker 3: you got to stop the run on a light box,
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  Speaker 3: you have to play shell, you have to manipulate uh
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  Speaker 3: coverage pre and post snap, you know, all those things
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  Speaker 3: and keep people guessing of what what it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be once the ball snapped.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be multiple in terms of pressure, to
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  Speaker 1: be a little pressure from all different angles. And so
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  Speaker 1: we you know, we want to do that.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know the attacking aggressive is that's just
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  Speaker 3: kind of a mindset now and in terms of you
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  Speaker 3: know how we just want to operate every day in
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  Speaker 3: the building, you know, in the weight room, uh, in
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  Speaker 3: our meetings, even in the training room. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: we want to attack everything we don't you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's don't just want to be sitting back in anything
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  Speaker 3: that we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if we're we're.
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  Speaker 3: In the weight room and we're lifting weights or you
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  Speaker 3: know we're on the field conditioning, you know, we want
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  Speaker 3: to be aggressive, forward leaning. You know, the mindset, the
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  Speaker 3: the you know, our you know, our aggressiveness of how
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  Speaker 3: we approach things football wise, and then let that bleed
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  Speaker 3: over to our play.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we want our confidence. It's a confident thing and.
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  Speaker 3: That's that has something to do to do with the knowledge.
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  Speaker 3: And then in the meeting, you know, attack the meeting.
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  Speaker 3: Don't just sit back and just listen, man, be active
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  Speaker 3: in the meeting, be engaged, ask questions. You know, understand
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  Speaker 3: the reasons why we're doing things, and that you get
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  Speaker 3: the confidence and you you know you you you walk
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  Speaker 3: taller and you're you know what I mean. It all
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  Speaker 3: goes together with the players. And but it's a constant.
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  Speaker 3: It's an everyday thing. It's an everyday reminder. We don't
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of sayings or you know, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of gimmicks and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: This is just who we are and what we believe.
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  Speaker 2: So uh so much of defense is making sure players
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  Speaker 2: understand it and can play fast. So there's some Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we want to keep it simple when there's moving parts.
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  Speaker 2: How do you keep it simple? Like I guess it's
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  Speaker 2: what you said earlier. Just make sure they understand it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the knowledge, right, you don't here, align and adjust.
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  Speaker 3: That's the game today. Aligning your initial alignment and then
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  Speaker 3: what's our adjustment. And also when the offense moves once, twice,
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  Speaker 3: three times, I mean you're getting a punch off shift
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  Speaker 3: trays of motion in this game today.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: And so here's our initial alignment. If they do this,
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  Speaker 3: here's our adjustment. And the faster and the better you
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  Speaker 3: know it, the more confident, more aggressively that we.
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  Speaker 1: Can adjust on defense.
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  Speaker 3: And then and then the other thing is your eyes.
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  Speaker 3: You know where to put your eyes pre snap and
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  Speaker 3: then post snap. If they do this, then we take
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  Speaker 3: our eyes from here to here. And so that's what
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  Speaker 3: we're coaching. You know, we're coaching on players. Hey, start
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  Speaker 3: with your eyes. Here your start key. We should have
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  Speaker 3: a start key.
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  Speaker 1: Every single play.
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  Speaker 3: I start key, and then if this, if he responds
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  Speaker 3: in any different way, maybe I stay on that start key,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe I go to my confirm key. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's all part of the teaching progression in what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: I guess you've gone through it two years in a
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  Speaker 2: row now. But the acclimating process when you're coming in
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  Speaker 2: as a coordinator to a new system, these three or
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  Speaker 2: four months that you're basically going from being a new
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  Speaker 2: guy to be out there on the field how enjoyable
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  Speaker 2: is that process because you're getting to know thirty five
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  Speaker 2: guys who have as much passion as you do, Right,
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  Speaker 2: so I assume that's part of why you're in this sure.
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  Speaker 2: How important is it and how enjoyable is it?
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  Speaker 3: It's one of the most favorite times is when we
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  Speaker 3: did get together defensive staff wise and put up some
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  Speaker 3: diagrams of what we're you know what would here's kind
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  Speaker 3: of what we've done.
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  Speaker 2: This is just you and the coaches, yes, okay.
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  Speaker 3: And then we talked about, you know, let's let the
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  Speaker 3: guys go in there and coach, hey, we see it
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  Speaker 3: like this, or I see it like this, all right,
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  Speaker 3: and then we kind of mix and match and make
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  Speaker 3: it the best at all three different so you're building something, right,
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  Speaker 3: So everybody has input, everybody has ownership and what we're
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  Speaker 3: doing like and hopefully that's been created in that you know,
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  Speaker 3: everybody feels that they have a part of what we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: That's important, you know, the morale part of it. And
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  Speaker 3: then the same thing with the players, like all right,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, hey, we're going to go down there. This
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  Speaker 3: is we've had success at any different stops along the way,
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  Speaker 3: any coach has success doing it like this, and then okay,
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  Speaker 3: we want some feedback.
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  Speaker 1: How did you feel, where were you looking? What were
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  Speaker 1: you thinking?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: How does this?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and and so give us some feed Let's let's
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  Speaker 3: communicate on all this, you know, like we want to
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  Speaker 3: hear what they're they're thinking, and and so that helps us.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Hey, if it wasn't done correctly, why not?
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  Speaker 3: And then we can help you correct the issue and
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  Speaker 3: fix it to make it where it is working and
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  Speaker 3: help you because the ultimate thing, you know, yes, why
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  Speaker 3: why do we get in.
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  Speaker 1: This is players. There's two things. Love the locker room.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing like the locker room, and on the planet
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing like it. It's unique into its own way.
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  Speaker 3: And wanted to be as close to that as possible,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And then players, you know, like, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: help them to achieve at this level and didn't really
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  Speaker 3: because you know, started in college. But help those guys achieve,
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  Speaker 3: you know, their best level of football and become men
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  Speaker 3: and all these different things that when you're in college
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  Speaker 3: you're helping young men grow into men and life lessons
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  Speaker 3: and things like that. But also in this league, take
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  Speaker 3: it one step further. As you know, some of these
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  Speaker 3: guys can you know, acquire generational wealth and you know
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  Speaker 3: for their families and things like that, and so that's
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  Speaker 3: us absolutely, it's it's it's life changing, like you said.
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  Speaker 3: And so there's you know, there's a lot of that
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  Speaker 3: that goes into you know, the day in and day on,
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  Speaker 3: come love coming in the building, seeing our guys.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing like it, and so it fires you up,
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  Speaker 1: and it's to keep driving force.
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  Speaker 2: Did you always want to do this? And if not,
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  Speaker 2: when did you know?
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  Speaker 3: Always had a pretty good idea Again, thought I was
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  Speaker 3: going to play in the league for twenty years and
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  Speaker 3: you know I would be doingever, you know, coaching Pop
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  Speaker 3: Warner or whatever. But I think there was always a hey,
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  Speaker 3: there's this. Didn't quite know exactly what coaching was until
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  Speaker 3: we got into it in Idaho in two thousand and
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  Speaker 3: four and kind of all the things that got into it.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, knew because volunteered at SC and you
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  Speaker 3: know kind of had the nuances of the coaching and
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  Speaker 3: how to communicate to players, you know, that type of thing.
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  Speaker 3: But then you know, went back played arena football stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that, and then kind of dabbled a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: In insurance and just like this is not for me.
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  Speaker 3: And then eventually went up there and that's when when
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  Speaker 3: it went to Idaho and had the first and to
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  Speaker 3: be honest is the first two months really was like.
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  Speaker 1: This might not be the route.
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  Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, it was like we
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  Speaker 3: started were about halfway through the season and it was like,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, this is pretty awesome, Like this is
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  Speaker 3: a great.
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  Speaker 2: Like they happened, you just started and things.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you're coaching players, they're starting to have a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of success, and you're making a difference, and
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  Speaker 3: you know what this is, this is pretty it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: It's a it's a cool industry. It's a there's nothing
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  Speaker 3: like it. There's nothing like it. And and then took
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  Speaker 3: off from there.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you good at it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: That's you know, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Just fits.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's uh again in the locker room. And
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  Speaker 3: then what you're seeing, you're making a difference. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you're making a difference with the.
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  Speaker 1: Players, and look, it's it's it's really.
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  Speaker 3: Cool when you see a player and he's struggling at
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  Speaker 3: any different position, he's struggling with this technique or or
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  Speaker 3: making this type of play, and all you just tweak it,
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  Speaker 3: coach him something new and he goes out there on
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  Speaker 3: Sunday or he makes the play and he just like,
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  Speaker 3: it's so gratify you help that guy, you know, make
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  Speaker 3: that play tech and then again and again and again
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  Speaker 3: and again, and it's, uh, you know, the adrenaline and
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: you know that part of it is is it's really cool.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: It's it's really cool to see that and the growth
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  Speaker 3: of players. You get these rookies that you know, come
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: from all these different college programs around now they're they're
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: here with us and you know, you don't know where
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: the program that they came from, and so you're kind
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: of starting all over and that you know, and then
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: you're learning those guys and their personality and you're helping them,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: you know, to achieve the you know, their greatest because
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: that's the goal. You know, we we want to do
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: it ultimately, we want to do.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: It better than it's ever been done before. Sure, like
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: that's what.
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  Speaker 3: Our you know, what we want to do as a
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: defensive staff and with our football team and help do
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: it better than it's ever done before.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: And it might sound you know a little bit uh
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: where you know, we get too.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Much confidence or whatever it is, but that's been our
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: you know, we just want to keep working, and it's
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: never it's the product is never finished. You know. We
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: we talk about you know, we work up through and
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: to the game, you know, up work at work to
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: the game and then all the way through the game
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: and and so the Hayes never in the barn. We're
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: always trying to make it better because we've we've been
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: in games where little tweak here and a little tweak
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: there helps us win the game. So that's that's the
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: approach that we take for the players. Keep grinding, keep
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: getting better every single day, and do it better than
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: it's ever been done before.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, people, this is audios. People can't see it, but
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: the answer to the question why you're good at it,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: you can see it in your face. Appreciate that's pretty cool.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: The last thing we do here is I call it
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: the O zone. Five. Five quick questions, trying to have
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: a little fun. Ryan Nilsen, what was your last binge watch?
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, was it like? Was it sealed? Team six?
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I think that's that we were watching.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: The last song you heard in the car on the
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: way in this.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Morning should have been Cowboy with Toby Keith.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Kids are singing it now, so it's.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, cool, funny, best coaching moment.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Gosh, there's so many that you know, come to mind
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: that in all different levels.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Sure, you know, I wouldn't want to just single one out,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: just wouldn't want to tarnish any of the other ones.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Here's the person that you wouldn't be.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Here without my father, got for sure.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Why.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: A lot of life lessons, a lot of drive. There's
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: so many things that he has taught me along the
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: way that yeah, there's no way that that would be
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: sitting here with you without him.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Got you. Now, this is the question. The entire interview
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: is built up. Everybody wants to know best mustache, Connor Nielsen.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, no doubt, mister con not even close.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but that's a good answer, Ryan Nielson.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed this so much. Thank you for joining the
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: US one podcast.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me.
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