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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: In the the Freecat video that the team just like
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  Speaker 2: out You're always going over to the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard the guys make a big play. It's not
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  Speaker 1: just a gad, it's not just.
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  Speaker 3: A bit job.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting a bug.
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  Speaker 3: Why is that.
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  Speaker 1: Important to you?
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  Speaker 3: Some of that type of love? I can't help it.
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  Speaker 4: Probably being Italian, that's a tough Uh.
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  Speaker 3: No, I grew up like that, man. The reality is, uh, we're.
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  Speaker 4: Like that all the time. It's kind of way it
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  Speaker 4: is here. Uh, that's why I was raised. And I
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  Speaker 4: mean that sincerely. Like, uh, I probably just interact with
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  Speaker 4: people like that a lot. But yeah, I mean I
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  Speaker 4: love coaching these guys, and and uh, we definitely have
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  Speaker 4: a brotherhood.
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  Speaker 3: You know, on this team and in.
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  Speaker 4: That room, in the unit room, there are hard guys
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  Speaker 4: you know, not to enjoy being around. And uh, they're
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  Speaker 4: really just a bunch of great dudes and that and
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  Speaker 4: that's really kind of the culture.
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  Speaker 3: Here when you've got to prepare for three quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 3: they all kind of play the game a different way.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, how does that kind of change your week?
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  Speaker 3: You just sleep less pretty much now.
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  Speaker 4: But no, Yeah, there's uh, there's you know, three different
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  Speaker 4: guys who when you watch him involved doing a good
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  Speaker 4: job and.
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  Speaker 3: Coached against Fields and Taylor before.
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  Speaker 4: So both of those guys are really I mean they're
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  Speaker 4: elusive in there and they've both done a really good job.
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  Speaker 4: And having coached against them in games passed, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they made.
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  Speaker 3: A hard hunt us.
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  Speaker 4: So I got a ton of respect for those guys
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  Speaker 4: and I thought they did, you know, good job rallying
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  Speaker 4: in the game the other day against Miami and you know,
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  Speaker 4: did a bunch of good things also, you know, with
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  Speaker 4: the young guy.
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  Speaker 3: To have that game of cook because there was nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Just to be able to see him for sure, you know,
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  Speaker 4: see him operating against the Dolphins the other day.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he did a good job.
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  Speaker 4: He hung in there, made some really good throws and
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  Speaker 4: you know kind of got them going as the game progressed.
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  Speaker 4: So but that was that was really important to be
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  Speaker 4: able to watch him a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Matt Dickerson got up thy two steps last week. How
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  Speaker 3: much it he come along the way he provided your front.
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  Speaker 4: He's a great story because he's a guy who's just
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  Speaker 4: gotten better every day. And I mean that like throughout
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  Speaker 4: his career, you know, he's progressed a ton and really
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  Speaker 4: you know when you watch Matt and really watching him
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  Speaker 4: in practice, that's really for us. We're like, man, he's
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  Speaker 4: he's done such a great job. Even when he was
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  Speaker 4: playing scout defense, he was getting after it, competing every play,
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  Speaker 4: and that kind of gave us even an even better
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  Speaker 4: look at him. You know what he's capable of doing,
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  Speaker 4: and he's been able to do that out there in
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  Speaker 4: the games on Sundays for us.
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  Speaker 3: So credit to him.
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  Speaker 4: I mean a lot of the work that he put
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  Speaker 4: in it jumped out to us throughout the season and
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  Speaker 4: that's why he's out there and why he's I feel
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  Speaker 4: like he's having the success he's been having to this point.
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  Speaker 1: What did it say about Traymon? Just get him something
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  Speaker 1: ready for that game last week?
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  Speaker 4: What did it mean to happen back? Yeah, he he's
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  Speaker 4: a huge boost for us obviously emotionally, you know, and physically.
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  Speaker 3: Trays a guy like he can play. He's gonna play.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's not looking amiss any time. He's doing
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  Speaker 4: everything he can to get ready, and he's played through
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  Speaker 4: a lot this year in particular, you know, his wrist,
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  Speaker 4: his knee, everything.
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  Speaker 3: He's a great dude. I know I've said that a
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  Speaker 3: million times up here.
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  Speaker 4: But he's he's what we really want to be on
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  Speaker 4: this team, what we want to be about. You know,
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  Speaker 4: the tough guy, does his job, loves his teammates, plays
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  Speaker 4: with emotion. I think one of the things that jumped
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  Speaker 4: out to me about Trey the other day was him
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  Speaker 4: turning and running to the ball. You know, perimeter plays
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  Speaker 4: him turning and you know, trying to strike somebody, you know,
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  Speaker 4: as hard as he can within the confines of the
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  Speaker 4: rules and you know, play good, clean football. But he
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  Speaker 4: sprints around every play and we value that tremendously.
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  Speaker 1: What do you like about the times that you guys
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  Speaker 1: have been able to put inside kind of What do
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  Speaker 1: you like about the snaps?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think with Trey moving him around, he's one
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  Speaker 4: of those guys where he's got so much flexibility. Because
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  Speaker 4: the thing about Treyvon and you could play him anywhere
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  Speaker 4: from a three technique out to a nine technique.
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  Speaker 3: You see, like we dropp him in coverage.
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  Speaker 4: He's about his talented as guy, a guy as I've
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  Speaker 4: ever been around. You know, he can play defensive tackle.
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  Speaker 4: He plays Ford technique and does a great job on
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  Speaker 4: the tackle. He could play head up on the tight end.
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  Speaker 4: And you feel like you got an advantage there, and
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  Speaker 4: he can play as wide as a nine technique, So
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  Speaker 4: moving him across the front has been something that's really
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  Speaker 4: helped us, not only in the past game, but in
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  Speaker 4: the run game this year, and certainly in the pass rush.
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  Speaker 3: We feel like he can create matchups for us, and
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  Speaker 3: we can get.
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  Speaker 4: Him, you know, aligned with Josh or aligned with Eric,
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  Speaker 4: or align with somebody else where.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we can manipulate what we want With the protection.
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  Speaker 5: Episode makes a play on the very first player from
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  Speaker 5: scrimmage or defense talk about the instincts as a linebacker.
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  Speaker 3: For him to come out here and do something like that,
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  Speaker 3: this is a great word because that's exactly what he has.
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  Speaker 3: He has really good instincts. Man.
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  Speaker 4: He You know a lot of that though, I would
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  Speaker 4: say for Devin comes from the work he does.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty tedious throughout the week.
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  Speaker 4: You know, even if you if you watched him and
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  Speaker 4: walk through his footwork, his hand placement, where his eyes are,
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  Speaker 4: they're not really bouncing around, so you know, if you
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  Speaker 4: were to stand behind the offense and watch him, I
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  Speaker 4: think his eye progression is really really good. Every play
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  Speaker 4: that jumps out to me in preparation. You know, if
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  Speaker 4: he's entering into a block, he's entering near foot, putting
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  Speaker 4: himself in a position to be hairlined under chain and
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  Speaker 4: strike with his hands, you know, so he can come
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  Speaker 4: back and finish the play and tackle the football. So
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  Speaker 4: he's repping those things at all times, whether it's the
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  Speaker 4: individual work to walk through, going into practice in the
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  Speaker 4: live setting, and then he's been able to take that
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  Speaker 4: out there on Sunday. So it's really, yes, it's he's
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  Speaker 4: got tremendous instincts, but he's building that every day in
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  Speaker 4: the film room and out in the field.
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  Speaker 3: So it's great to see him be rewarded for that.
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  Speaker 5: Murdered back this week, got it and made a huge
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  Speaker 5: force fumble right there. I just look at you guys
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  Speaker 5: going back to training camp and you guys working at
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  Speaker 5: pussy really is and muscle mimorate at this point with
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  Speaker 5: these guys.
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  Speaker 4: For you hope, So you know, you hope it's it's
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  Speaker 4: getting to the point where it's just.
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  Speaker 3: Something you do.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you see somebody walking down the street and
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  Speaker 4: you want to punch the wallet at a hand or something,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like everybody's just that's your
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  Speaker 4: natural reaction, but uh, there's there's there is a culture.
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  Speaker 3: That here and the guys do that.
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  Speaker 4: I would say, like the coaches our position coaches have
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  Speaker 4: done an unbelievable job in the pre practice, in the
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  Speaker 4: post practice, and in the drill work of you know,
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  Speaker 4: just getting the guys mindful of that, you know, ending
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  Speaker 4: drills with that all the time. And I really credit
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  Speaker 4: the players honestly for their stick touitiveness of it, and
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  Speaker 4: the coaches are never relenting on it and trying to
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  Speaker 4: make sure it's because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: it's really about how many attempts you get. You know,
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  Speaker 4: your your percentage of success is going to go up exponentially.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if you're taking the more attempts you take,
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  Speaker 4: the more option you're gonna get to get A takeaway.
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  Speaker 2: That's been sort of picking it up over the last
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  Speaker 2: few weeks in terms of snaps.
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  Speaker 1: Just what have you guys seen from him?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a.
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  Speaker 4: And you guys can see it when he plays. He's
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  Speaker 4: a hard charging guy. He's a guy who plays with
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  Speaker 4: great fundamentals. He's doing what he's been coached to do,
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  Speaker 4: what he's being coached to do every day, and his
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  Speaker 4: effort jumps out. You know, his effort jumps out, and
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  Speaker 4: I think his teammates really appreciate that about Danny. He's
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  Speaker 4: put so much work into into this to get to
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  Speaker 4: where he is and he's earned everything, which I think
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  Speaker 4: the guys really respect and value that about Danny too.
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  Speaker 2: He's not the biggest guy, but it seems like he's
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  Speaker 2: able to do everything against the run.
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  Speaker 3: Just how impressed have you been by that? Very impressed.
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  Speaker 4: I would credit Matt Edwards, Derek LeBlanc, those guys who
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  Speaker 4: have worked with him, and I think Danny was was
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  Speaker 4: well coached when he came in here from college.
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  Speaker 3: But to me, guys like that, it's so much about
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  Speaker 3: your mindset.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he is unrelenting on himself to get it right,
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  Speaker 4: and you see that. That's kind of what jumped out
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  Speaker 4: in camp watching him and in the off season. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's a guy that wants to get it right, gonna
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  Speaker 4: do everything he can to get it right through the
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  Speaker 4: extra and it's dividends for him.
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  Speaker 3: But so much of that is.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to say how hard he is on himself,
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  Speaker 4: but how much he demands from himself's probably a better
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  Speaker 4: way to say that.
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  Speaker 3: Shuffle of the secondary.
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  Speaker 1: Last week he was getting here at Murray back but
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  Speaker 1: not having Dewey.
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  Speaker 4: What does it say about I mean the guys you
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  Speaker 4: have in the safety and cornerback room that be able
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  Speaker 4: to kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of shuffle pieces and everybody kind of keeps the standards.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he you know, I thought Antonio did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: He has done a great.
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  Speaker 4: Job, I should say, And he's he's a guy that's
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  Speaker 4: really got a lot of position flex because he's out
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  Speaker 4: there sometimes playing safety, playing nickel, playing dime, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: playing linebacker type roles too. So he's a he's a
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  Speaker 4: bright guy because that's a lot of techniques that that
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  Speaker 4: we ask him to play.
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  Speaker 3: It really is when you go through it.
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  Speaker 4: And he's a guy that's up in here in the
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  Speaker 4: office all the time trying to do extra rayon lane.
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  Speaker 4: I thought jumped in and did a bunch of good
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  Speaker 4: things over that period and even the other day. So
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  Speaker 4: it says a lot about them, But it also says
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  Speaker 4: a lot about the older guys who have prepared him,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. They they kind of embraced
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  Speaker 4: him and brought him in to try and teach him
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  Speaker 4: and get them right and are always working They're all
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  Speaker 4: always working.
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  Speaker 3: Together, is what I would say. It is a huge
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  Speaker 3: part of that.
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  Speaker 2: You run defense has been really strong this year.
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  Speaker 3: But Breest Hall.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously talented back. What type of maybe different challenges does
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  Speaker 2: he bring as a as a runner?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, coach against him before when I was in Miami.
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  Speaker 4: I got a ton of respect for him as a runner.
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  Speaker 4: He's made big plays in the run game in the
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  Speaker 4: past game, and he's done that through his through his career.
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  Speaker 4: So I've seen firsthand. You know how good of a
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  Speaker 4: player the guy is. H I said this about a
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  Speaker 4: couple of guys previously in weeks prior. But he's hard
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  Speaker 4: to tackle. It's got to be a team tackling mentality.
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  Speaker 4: And their offensive line, in my opinion, has done a
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  Speaker 4: great job this year. They do a great job staying
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  Speaker 4: on the down guys, moving people on double teams. Josh
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  Speaker 4: Myers the center. He was in Green Bay with me
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  Speaker 4: last year, so I've been around him a lot. Know
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  Speaker 4: how talented he is, how capable he is. Both tackles
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  Speaker 4: and guards I think are physical. I think the young
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  Speaker 4: tight end Taylor has done a really good job for them.
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  Speaker 4: And Rucker has always been a guy who's been a
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  Speaker 4: poa guy that's a finisher.
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  Speaker 3: He's a good football player.
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  Speaker 4: So they got a lot of guys, you know, even
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  Speaker 4: when they bring back in as a fullback, they they
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  Speaker 4: got a lot of guys who finished blocks and they've
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  Speaker 4: done a really good job in a run game as well.
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  Speaker 3: So credit to them.
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  Speaker 4: And it's going to be a challenge out there on Sunday,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, we're just trying to get these guys prepared,
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  Speaker 4: prepared to to meet that challenge.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Trevor yesterday he was talking a little bit about his
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  Speaker 2: growing confidence this in the offense and Liam said after.
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  Speaker 3: The game that the team's growing in confidence, and he
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  Speaker 3: can give we're back growing in confidence. Uh can you
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  Speaker 3: see that, Trevor.
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  Speaker 5: I mean that would practice field all the game, build
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  Speaker 5: the confidence that that's.
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  Speaker 3: Building and him I like it.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of suspense for that question build up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's awesome. Yeah, absolutely, I think you see it in
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  Speaker 1: practice even in the meeting room. You feel when you
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  Speaker 1: start communicating with guys and they really have a grasp
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  Speaker 1: and a mastery of things. You can sense that just
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  Speaker 1: in the communication. But it's awesome to see it materialize
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  Speaker 1: on the field with some of those plays that we
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  Speaker 1: all see him, whether it's on schedule or off schedule,
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  Speaker 1: to play with that type of confidence is really what
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  Speaker 1: we've been building towards all year long. But it takes
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  Speaker 1: so much work, so much preparation, so much time on task,
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  Speaker 1: that you know it's not going to happen overnight. So
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  Speaker 1: it's great to see some of the fruits of his
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  Speaker 1: labor really start to materialize.
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  Speaker 2: That's maybe the step over the last four weeks specific.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a lot of little things. I think you
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  Speaker 1: there are things that show up on TV or on
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  Speaker 1: tape that are apparent to everybody, like some of the throws,
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  Speaker 1: like you look at the throw he made to Tim
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  Speaker 1: Patrick on our sideline, the throw he made to Tim
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  Speaker 1: Patrick on their sideline, two critical downs, some of the
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  Speaker 1: plays in the red zone, off schedule, moving around in
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  Speaker 1: the pocket. Those things are apparent because of how fast
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  Speaker 1: he's playing, the decision he's making. But it's even little
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  Speaker 1: things with making certain calls up front, or the way
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  Speaker 1: he's bringing shifts and motions and time in some of
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  Speaker 1: those things up that are so you know, the details
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  Speaker 1: of those things are so minute that people may not
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  Speaker 1: notice from an outsider, but they make a big difference
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  Speaker 1: to the players that he's playing with and to us
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  Speaker 1: as coaches, to the scheme and the system and little
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  Speaker 1: angles being lined up and being executed properly. So those
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  Speaker 1: things kind of pay, you know, dividends for everybody else
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  Speaker 1: in the offense that don't always show up on his
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  Speaker 1: stat sheet or show up with a completion for him
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  Speaker 1: that everyone's clapping for him, but those impact the team
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, are.
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  Speaker 5: Getting the team into the right look at Golige more
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  Speaker 5: now too.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's done a really good job of that
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  Speaker 1: all year. I think it's just the speed and the
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  Speaker 1: comfortability with which he's doing that has continued to improve.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot that we put on guys, and it
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  Speaker 1: is foreign for everybody. It's not just foreign for the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: It's different for the wide receivers. The way we call formations,
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  Speaker 1: the way we change plays, the way we have multiple
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  Speaker 1: plays in the huddles, or the way we call different
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  Speaker 1: plays at the line of scrimmage and check in and
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  Speaker 1: out of things.
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  Speaker 3: So it was different for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: So I think he's improved in that, and the wide
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  Speaker 1: outs have improved. The running backs have improved at that
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  Speaker 1: because even for those guys, you're up at the line
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  Speaker 1: and if I'm a guarter, I'm a running back and
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, Okay, I got this run, what's the front?
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  Speaker 1: What am I looking at? What's this block going to
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  Speaker 1: play out like? And then all of a sudden everything
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  Speaker 1: changes and I got a totally different play.
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  Speaker 3: When I got to.
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  Speaker 1: Restart that whole mental process and the balls getting snapped,
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  Speaker 1: I might not have the time to think back through Okay, wait,
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  Speaker 1: now I'm doing this run, what's the front, what's the look?
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  Speaker 1: What's my cut going to be? And you have to
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  Speaker 1: speed up that process, do all that in an instant
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  Speaker 1: and we're getting closer and closer and closer to that
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  Speaker 1: being instantaneous to where guys are processing. We're never going
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  Speaker 1: to truly achieve automaticity where guys are up there and
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  Speaker 1: they're just out there playing totally mindless, totally unconscious, but
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  Speaker 1: that's what we're shooting for, and the closer we can
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  Speaker 1: get to that, typically the better it is.
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  Speaker 3: If you guys have said aboutch of Kobe Myers, he
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  Speaker 3: says a great feel for the game. What are examples
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  Speaker 3: of that?
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  Speaker 1: More coaches stamp there's a lot of different feels. Are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different examples that show his feel. I
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  Speaker 1: think the first one that shows up is kind of
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  Speaker 1: his feel in space where you see some of these
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  Speaker 1: teams playing zone coverage, where they have defenders who have
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  Speaker 1: vision on the quarterback and they have different spots to
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  Speaker 1: get to and different landmarks, or they're reading off of
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  Speaker 1: what our routes are to kind of determine what their
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  Speaker 1: drop's going to be. He has a feel for where
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: those defenders are going, where they're trying to get to,
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: and then where his route fits off of that, and
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: that kind of takes a second and third level order
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: of processing. Not just to know we tell you to
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: get to this spot, but this spot is going to
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: open up because we're telling you to get to a
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: spot that looks covered. But if you have a great
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: understanding of what the defense is doing or what the
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: defense is trying to do, then you can run your
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: route in a certain way to try to get to
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: that spot on the field or to try to dictate
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: the coverage to play a certain way. All right, now,
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: I run a route this way and I lean out,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: but gets that defender to move out, and I opened
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: up my window inside. Little things like that that are
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: really subtle show up with him when he's running routes.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Then you see it in the run game too. With
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: my understanding of angles on the block, you see a
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: lot of plays that he's making getting down, blocking safeties,
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: blocking corners. I mean, he's blocking linebackers on some place.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: And you really can only do that when there's a
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: physical mismatch at time.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: If you have great.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: Technique, great angles, you have a great understanding where the
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: run is going to go, where the blocks inside are going,
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: because how those blocks distribute will change how the safety
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: or the linebacker is going to trigger on the run. Right,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: because they're keen. He knows, okay, the safety is keen,
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: the tight end or the safety is keen the tackle.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: The tackle does this, this is the safety's response going
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: to be. And because he's responding like that, I have
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: to take this angle. That's a really high level, you know,
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: series of thought. To be able to go out there
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: and play fast and execute that type of block for
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: just a simple run play, but to be able to
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: process all that so fast does require really a special
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: feel for understanding the game of football and just to
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: feel for space out there. I love the.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Concepts speaking on Chick Coote Meyer such down down in
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: the red song. Oh could you walk us through that
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: because I see that, you know, without giving away too
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: much of your stuff.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean it was really that. That's another
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: great play. And really he had one in Tennessee the
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: week before too, with a great understanding of space with
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: those guys where they know, hey, a coverage is going
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: to distribute a certain way, let me get to this spot.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: And even the week before in Tennessee, like that one
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about, he feels a defender drop out and
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: you probably notice on there he feels that guy drop out,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: feels that space and let me just sit down right now.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Where it's tough on those type of routes because you
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: give him a certain landmark and say, hey, the open
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: space is probably going to be from here to here,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: right like maybe you say it's between the hashes or
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: it's from the hash to the numbers. Well, that's a
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: lot of space that it could be open. So there's
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: some gray area in there, and they got to be
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: able to distinguish or on the fly make that decision
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: and be decisive and sit down. It's extra impressive in
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: the red zone because everything happens so fast down there.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: You'll see Trevor is separating his hands, he's starting the
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: process of throwing before Jacoby is actually coming out of
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: his break, before Jacoby is looking for the ball. On
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: some of these touchdowns he's had, and really even some
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: of the deeper plays he had on some of the
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: incuts and some of that stuff too, he's counting on
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Jacoby to be at a spot. So the connection between
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: those guys and the understanding where they're getting to is
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: really the key to what makes those plays so successful.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: You have a bad weather game, lots of rain and
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: there's drops and ball security things. Do you just chalk
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: it up to that's going to happen in these types
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: of games, or is there like specific teaching points from
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: those things.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Well, the rain and the elements in general will always
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: in a sense expose your fundamentals or exacerbate the effects
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: of your fundamentals or the impact of your fundamentals. So
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: if guys are playing with poor footwork, it's going to
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: result in guys slipping and ended up on the ground.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: We're in the turf, it may end up in a
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: dry turf, it may end up in a slight stumble
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: or a slight misstep, or you're not as quick off
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: the line, So it kind of exacerbates all the issues.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: That show up with poor fundamentals.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: So the first priority is getting us back to clean
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: fundamental football. Same thing really comes true with catching the football,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: proper framing of the catch, seeing it all the way
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: in the proper tug. All those things you talk about
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: just come to life. They're always important, but now they're
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: just highlighted in those weather elements. Then for our standpoint
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: as a coach, we never want to just chalk up
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: a mistake and say, oh, well, it's going to happen
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: and kind of put our hand up. We're going to
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: always try to call the game or dictate the game
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: in a way where we stay out of situations where
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: we have to put guys in a spot where you
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: could have those drops, you could have those plays that
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: are a little more difficult to execute in the rain
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: and elements. You want to have enough in the game plan,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: especially going into a game where you know it's raining,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: where you can get the plays and say we can
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: execute these rain, shine, wind, hail, whatever. We feel good
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: about getting these done. Now. Credit to the guys we
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: go out there and practice with the wet ball and
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: do a bunch of different things to simulate the elements,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: but it's a whole different beast do out there and
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: do it in the game, and I thought the guys
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: handled it at a high level.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: You do a guy like two be put falling around
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: last week, make sure that you keep his confidence high.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great point about keeping the guy's confidence high.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: We always, whether it's ball security, reads pass protection, we're
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: always a process oriented approach. So with that, we cannot
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: go too high too low on the results.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: We know the process will drive the results, but we're
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: not going to live and die by those results because
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: it's the process, the process, the process for all the
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: guys that we control. So knowing that we just have
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: toot and just like everyone else, go right back to
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the process. He's got thousands and thousands and thousands of
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: reps of proper ball security, and we're going to continue
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: to practice those habits over and over and over and
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: over again. For the backs, the quarterbacks, the receivers, the
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: tight ends. Everyone's going to practice proper ball security every
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: single time they catch or touch a football. That's no
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: different for him we're going to go right back to
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: that process, and I got the confidence in him that
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: he'll go out there and continue to do what he's
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: done all season prior to that.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Advantages to deploy your tight ends in the run game.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: I see, if you have these guys lead blocking, is
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: this something that you know fundamentally you had already in
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: your kind of d and as a play caller before
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: you got here.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I think the group we have is especially unique that
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know if any of us on the offensive
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: staff have quite had the group that we have here
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: where we really have four guys who.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Can do all those things you talk about.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: So I think we all have experience with little bits
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and pieces of guys being able to block on the edge,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: coming back across the line, you know, inserting for blocks
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: as a lead blocker, like you say, there's so many
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: different blocks. Then they're around the edge going out there blocking.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: DB's what's unique about this group is we have four
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: guys that can do all of those blocks. You see
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Quintin Morris, you see Breton Strings, you see Johnny Mnt.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: You see Hunter Long blocking defensive ends. Then you see
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: him blocking safeties out in space. Then you see him
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: blocking coming back and blocking defensive tackles. Then you see
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: him coming across and blocking a defensive end. To have
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: those guys that are kind of puzzle pieces that you
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: can mix and match, and then all of them are
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: able to make catches in the past game, run after
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the catch. That versatility is really unique and it opens
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: up a ton in the run game first and foremost,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: but then the play play action game, then the pass game,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: quick game, even on third downs. Those guys are weapons
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: out there where we're trying to find different ways to
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: continue to say, how can we get these guys out
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: and routes to be you know, the first read or
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: primary because they're such a great matchup at times for
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: weeks because of the different positions got to live in
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Yesterday leaves he thinks that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Covid Land has done enough to be a starter.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, how much of a weapon is that they
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: have a guy like that that I mean could basically
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: start at a couple of different positions where you need
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: being huge, huge In the NFL. We've probably or I
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: probably mentioned this a couple of times. You know you're
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: going to go through the whole year and probably not
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: be able to start the same five guys for every
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: single snap for the whole year. So it's really important
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: that that room specifically to have a unit of guys
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: that you feel like can go out and start. It's
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: awesome to see those guys actually do it and to
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: have that confidence grow more and more that not only Cole,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: but some of those other guys who have gotten opportunities
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: could truly go out there and start and play at
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a high level at those positions because whether you like
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: it or not, at some point we're going to need it,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and we didn't need it. And he went out and
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of answered the bell as he went
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: out there in multiple positions in different weeks and did it.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: So it's a testament their preparation, their work, and it's
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a huge luxury for us as coaches to have that
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: depth in that room, and not only to have that depth,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: to have that cohesion in the room where the guys
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: who can start, you know, you got eight guys, sometimes
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: seven guys, you can still feel good about starting five
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: no matter what the mixing matches.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.