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  Speaker 1: And when you when you think back to when you
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  Speaker 1: first hired coaching and which is what sort of stood
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  Speaker 1: out to you.
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  Speaker 2: And why you wanted to hire him. How has that
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  Speaker 2: sort of been born out by out press of the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles attend this year?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I I think I mentioned it before.
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  Speaker 1: Where I was at Maine and he was at Boston College.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't know each other, but his brother was a
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  Speaker 1: UMass alum, but I didn't really.
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  Speaker 2: Know them that well. I'd heard of his family.
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  Speaker 1: More so because of his brothers that were high school
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  Speaker 1: coaches in Jersey. And then I went down to watch
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  Speaker 1: a practice at Boston College for staff development and I
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  Speaker 1: just you know, was watching their practice and saw his
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  Speaker 1: style and the way that his players kind of responded
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  Speaker 1: to him, and then I watched their meetings. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: dude's pretty impressive, you know, and just kind of kept
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  Speaker 1: his name and then linked up a few times randomly,
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  Speaker 1: and then he worked for Don Brown at Michigan, which
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  Speaker 1: was my college head coach, and so then there was
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  Speaker 1: a natural connect and that was made, and so we
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  Speaker 1: kind of just stayed in touch, followed him over the years,
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  Speaker 1: and then when you looked at Green Bay last year,
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  Speaker 1: their run defense specifically, and how they played the run,
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  Speaker 1: how they played as a as a group. I really respected,
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  Speaker 1: and he made it hard come in here. He made
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  Speaker 1: it really hard, but it was very clear. I know
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  Speaker 1: some of his players in Green Bay at the time
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  Speaker 1: were hurt and when he left, and that was a
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  Speaker 1: huge reason why he didn't really want to leave, was
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  Speaker 1: because of the relationship with the players. So his personality
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  Speaker 1: shows right in in our defense and in the staff
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  Speaker 1: and the way that they kind of prepare go through things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the people that he's worked with, you can
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  Speaker 1: see so much of what he's taken from from those
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  Speaker 1: people and made it made his own. You know, when
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  Speaker 1: you see a player walk in to the stadium with
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  Speaker 1: his face on his shirt as Antonio did, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of cool. You know, he shows you that there's a
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  Speaker 1: relationship there and you know he's done a He's done
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  Speaker 1: a great He's a very passionate person, so it shows
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  Speaker 1: in his work. He pours into it. And the relationship
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  Speaker 1: piece is the main part that I've always respected and
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  Speaker 1: appreciated about Camp. And you want the majority of your
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  Speaker 1: coaches to be that way, to be relational and when
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  Speaker 1: you work in.
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  Speaker 2: College, a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You you get that because you have them at your
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  Speaker 1: house a lot, you have them over you're you're with recruits,
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  Speaker 1: you're with families, and you're able to relate in that way.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's what you're seeing where.
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  Speaker 2: That TBD TVD you walked through today, walk through today?
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  Speaker 1: Normal, uh, Thursday practice tomorrow, which will that will be
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  Speaker 1: our potential Pad's day will be tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Just going to kind of see how things go today
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  Speaker 2: and where we are.
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  Speaker 1: Cole Bishop and Jordan Poyner of the safeties. Have you
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  Speaker 1: seen the venterer the Jordan Yeah, I mean shoot Jordan
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  Speaker 1: Poyer Maan, I remember twenty twenty. I think he was
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  Speaker 1: there when we were playing there and they were damn
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  Speaker 1: good defense. Look, they've been running a similar defense since
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  Speaker 1: Coach mcdermot's been there. And so they see all the
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  Speaker 1: quarters beaters, they see all the three D beaters, they
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  Speaker 1: see all the quarter quarter half beaters. And Jordan Poyer
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  Speaker 1: a is seeing a lot of football and he's played
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  Speaker 1: a ton of ball. I know he's a leader, he's
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  Speaker 1: communicator back there, and then you see Bishop getting his
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  Speaker 1: hands on the ball, making plays, anticipating some of those
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  Speaker 1: concepts that they're used to seeing and you can tell
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  Speaker 1: they do a lot of you know, pass offs and
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  Speaker 1: coverages in the back end is pretty tied together.
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  Speaker 2: You can tell.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're what number one in the past defense
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  Speaker 1: for a reason, and I think those two guys are
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  Speaker 1: a big reason why.
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  Speaker 2: James Cook what stands out for you on film when.
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  Speaker 1: The elusive slippery, elusive smooth. He's just a has a
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  Speaker 1: great feel for mid zone, you know, for the zone game,
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  Speaker 1: and you know the press combinations and then just like
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  Speaker 1: he has such a great feel and then duo like
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  Speaker 1: if you collapse at all, he's so he's fast enough
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  Speaker 1: to bounce it and go one on one with a
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  Speaker 1: corner that's got a crack replace and he's fast enough
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  Speaker 1: to run around the edge and make that guy miss.
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  Speaker 2: And the run against the Browns.
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  Speaker 1: That that has been all over the place, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: They had two.
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  Speaker 1: Guys unblocked in the hole and he just makes them
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  Speaker 1: both miss and he's off to the races. And they
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  Speaker 1: use him a lot in the past game as well.
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  Speaker 1: So he's a dual threat. He's one of those guys
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  Speaker 1: that fits in the same mold as you know, your
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  Speaker 1: Bejeon's your McCaffrey's those kind of guys. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: be on the screws with the in the past game,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got to be at our best clamp tackling
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  Speaker 1: this week.
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  Speaker 2: And Carter Braders can be a scout quarterback, favorite quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: How can you help.
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  Speaker 1: Keep look here? Pat, Yeah, making sure that we extend
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  Speaker 1: some plays and just giving those guys a look of like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Carter's got a big arm. I mean, that
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  Speaker 1: ball can go anywhere on the field in some ways,
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  Speaker 1: so it's it's a great representation of There'll be examples
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  Speaker 1: of throwing on time and in rhythm and practice, and
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  Speaker 1: there'll also be some examples of hey, Carter, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hang on to this one, move around, find some lanes,
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  Speaker 1: run around and try to try to throw it somewhere
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  Speaker 1: down the field. And you know, just trying to give
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  Speaker 1: those guys as realistic of a look as you can.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Nic will still get some reps and do
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  Speaker 1: what he's always done and done a great job, but
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  Speaker 1: Carter can can do some of those things and be
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  Speaker 1: able to create a little bit off schedule that can
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  Speaker 1: help give those guys. Me and I showed the team
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  Speaker 1: this morning of those plays from Josh Worris got people
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  Speaker 1: draped all over him, you know, step armingham pump faking them.
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  Speaker 2: And h is football player. Man, what Josh Allen can
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  Speaker 2: do the defense, Yeah, I think it's.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the ultimate strain is what it is, right, because
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  Speaker 1: you're you're dual three. You have to defend the run.
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  Speaker 1: In the past, every time the ball is snapped. Right,
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  Speaker 1: It's not as if you can just tee off on
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  Speaker 1: a guy like that, knowing man really can't really move,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so you can just go play to man
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  Speaker 1: or go do these things you have to. Your rush
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  Speaker 1: plan has to be extremely dialed in. Your spy game
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  Speaker 1: has to be dialed in if you're going to do
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  Speaker 1: any of that stuff. Your zone coverage has got to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that you're giving eyes obviously on the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: At all times.
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  Speaker 1: And look, when you have to account for the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: every play, you know, we have it a luxury of
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  Speaker 1: that as well in ways where quarterback can take off
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  Speaker 1: on you. It's it's hard to defend every blade of grass.
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  Speaker 1: Their tight ends, what they do, but also the defense
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  Speaker 1: how they defended tight ends. Yeah, both Kinkaid and Knox
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  Speaker 1: very good football players.
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  Speaker 2: Great in the past. They do.
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  Speaker 1: They work their tails off in the run game, and
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  Speaker 1: they do a nice job of putting them in advantageous
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  Speaker 1: matchups in the run game, and they'll get heavy, they'll
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  Speaker 1: go jumbo, but still have those tight ends out there.
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  Speaker 1: So now you've got bigger people on the grass defensively,
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  Speaker 1: but they like to maybe spread it out and throw it.
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  Speaker 1: So they do a nice job of creating matchups for
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  Speaker 1: the tight ends. And they're good players, and there's a
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  Speaker 1: trust level you can tell between Josh and those guys.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, obviously we struggled a little bit against Bowers,
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  Speaker 1: who's you know, obviously a lot of people have struggled
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  Speaker 1: against him. But I do think that, you know, some
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  Speaker 1: of where we're at now, you know, with Antonio and
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  Speaker 1: with some of these different packages can help us continue
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  Speaker 1: to you know, defend bigger sets that way, but still
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  Speaker 1: have athleticism on the grass and be able to feel
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  Speaker 1: comfortable about stopping the run still. But that's the predicament
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  Speaker 1: that they put you in. When you play with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of tight ends and you go heavier, well, now,
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  Speaker 1: yeah you're better against the run, but you're more susceptible against.
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  Speaker 2: The pass vice versa.
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  Speaker 1: You play little against heavy people, big people.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're susceptible against the run. So that's why you
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you see Sean McVeigh doing a lot in
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  Speaker 1: LA with thirteen personnel and stuff, So you know, it
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  Speaker 1: definitely can create some mismatches.
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  Speaker 2: You're going against the guy twenty twenty eight because you
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  Speaker 2: were in the rams.
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  Speaker 1: How are the bills in particular, how is that personnel
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  Speaker 1: for evolved to that same point.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this was a group that you know when
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  Speaker 2: they had step on Diggs, perhaps they were placing such
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  Speaker 2: an episode something tight end and then on.
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  Speaker 1: The flip side, on the defensive side of the wall,
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  Speaker 1: you could argue, I don't want to say that they
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  Speaker 1: were bible to try to stop later in terms of
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  Speaker 1: definitely there there linebacker core. You know when I was there,
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  Speaker 1: it was I think Edmunds animal right, Milano's still there.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously they've continued to emphasize athleticism with Bernard in there,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously Taron Johnson being that nickel position that he's
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  Speaker 1: damn good run defender when you're playing an eleven and
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  Speaker 1: you're staying in nickel, which they do even the twelve
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  Speaker 1: personnel at times, so you can.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely tell within their scheme.
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  Speaker 1: They have personnel evolved both on offense and defense, as
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned, because it was a little bit more geared
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  Speaker 1: towards when we played them in twenty twenty, like the
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  Speaker 1: skill players and Josh and being able to do those things.
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  Speaker 1: Now you can see the evolution of you know, the
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  Speaker 1: run game, the physicality that while also I mean they
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  Speaker 1: can spread you out with Shakira and all those guys inside.
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  Speaker 2: So they've done a nice job.
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  Speaker 1: And I've got a lot of respect for Sean McDermott
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  Speaker 1: and how they've continued to win regardless and evolve. As
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  Speaker 1: a staff took this job, did you expect the success
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  Speaker 1: to come to quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Or as it exceeding the change?
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  Speaker 1: I think you try not to put too many expectations
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  Speaker 1: on it when you take the job. Like I didn't
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  Speaker 1: sit here saying, you know, I hope we win eight,
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  Speaker 1: or I hope we win ten, or you know, I
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  Speaker 1: just I didn't put many of those I guess labels
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  Speaker 1: on the job. When you get it, you're you're really
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  Speaker 1: just hoping to improve and in and to help players improve.
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  Speaker 1: You're hoping to obviously continue to elevate the standard and
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  Speaker 1: raise the bar, you know, to say I assumed we
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  Speaker 1: would win thirteen games when I took the job, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I can't say that, but I think that.
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  Speaker 2: I guess you could say.
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  Speaker 1: We've we've I'm not going to say overachieved, but I
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  Speaker 1: think you can say that we've probably gotten a lot
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  Speaker 1: better in some ways. And so that you say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you've you've helped, You've done what you wanted to do,
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  Speaker 1: which was get better, which was improved, which was uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, help individual players reach their potentials, right, Like
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  Speaker 1: those are the goals that you have, and so I
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  Speaker 1: guess you could say we've.
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  Speaker 2: Reached some of those goals for sure. How Davis's Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: personal journey, Yeah special, extremely special. No Ray very well
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  Speaker 2: know his whole story, his whole life.
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  Speaker 1: You know the background, the journey that it took to
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  Speaker 1: get where he's at now, and to see him have
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  Speaker 1: the success that he's had, it was no surprise. But
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  Speaker 1: it's an incredible story. Very mentally tough, very talented football player.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he led the SEC and touchdowns that year
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  Speaker 1: in twenty three and he just continues to get better.
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  Speaker 1: And you can tell how trusted he is there, how
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  Speaker 1: dynamic he's been in both in the return game and
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  Speaker 1: then when okay, last week, when he's you know, the
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  Speaker 1: number one.
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  Speaker 2: Back, what that can look like.
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  Speaker 1: So they've got a really good punch you know, one, two,
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  Speaker 1: really three punch with those running backs back there and
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  Speaker 1: raise a huge part of that.
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  Speaker 2: Very proud of Ray to be where he's at today.
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  Speaker 2: That had Buffalo really gotten after Challel. So how big
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  Speaker 2: of a game for your front? Four? Huge?
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  Speaker 1: Huge showed some of those examples this morning about you know,
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  Speaker 1: seeing Atlanta and even you know, just the teams that
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  Speaker 1: are able to create a rush with four, and because
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  Speaker 1: you need to have eyes in the secondary on him
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  Speaker 1: as well in some of the zones and making sure
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  Speaker 1: that you're changing the picture back there for him and
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  Speaker 1: for those you know, receivers and skill players. So huge
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  Speaker 1: tests for those guys, I believe they'll be up for
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  Speaker 1: the challenge. Whether we have to rush with four or five, six,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. We have got to impact and affect
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback in and out of the pocket.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think has made Tune such a good
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  Speaker 2: short yarn togavery guys a.
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  Speaker 1: Year especially get all yeah, he's you know for a
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  Speaker 1: guy that obviously is thing coming out with speed right
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  Speaker 1: and he does a nice job like getting behind his
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  Speaker 1: pads and being able, and he's and he's rocked up
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  Speaker 1: for you know, a smaller dude. And and I know,
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  Speaker 1: like we were looking at when I was in Tampa
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  Speaker 1: last year, like we were looking at Ray Davis and
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  Speaker 1: looking at Bucky Irving and those guys, and then this
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  Speaker 1: year you kind of have a I'm not gonna call
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  Speaker 1: it the same type, but there's some similarities.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You know those compact backs, right that can take a hit,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe don't.
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  Speaker 2: You're not getting whacked every time you get you take
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  Speaker 2: a hit.
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  Speaker 1: Because they're compact, they're smaller, lower you know, center gravity,
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  Speaker 1: they're able to kind of get in there and gain.
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  Speaker 2: Those short yardage hard yards and too.
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  Speaker 1: Like when he's feeling good and he's been healthy and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like obviously you guys have seen he's helped us,
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  Speaker 1: so we need to continue that.
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  Speaker 2: He's so he's been so concerned about ball security.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, you got to stop running out in
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  Speaker 1: the open field with two hands on the rock.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, like, go be.
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  Speaker 1: Creative, man, like cover it up, lock it up when
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: you're in traffic. And but dude, you don't need to
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  Speaker 1: run with two hands on the ball all the time.
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  Speaker 1: When you're driving in this morning, did you allow yourself
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  Speaker 1: to think for a second day, this is pretty cool?
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is not pretty amzzed in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not thinking of too many happy thoughts in
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  Speaker 2: the morning. Uh No, but it's it is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's cool to you know, coming into the
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  Speaker 1: team meeting this morning, right, congratulating the team on because
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  Speaker 1: we went through the obviously the game a little bit
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday that we just had and went through the
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  Speaker 1: players of the game and all that stuff. So we
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  Speaker 1: were able to you know, cheer for that and and
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  Speaker 1: move on and so uh yeah, a ton has been accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, you sit here and say that, well
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  Speaker 1: you're here now, so you might as well. Nothing really
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  Speaker 1: does matter what we just did, Like, it really doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna whatever gets celebrated no matter what in a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks from here. Whenever it ends, You're you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be pissed off or you're gonna be really happy for
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  Speaker 1: for one too, and one person, one team, one organization
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  Speaker 1: is typically happy at the end of the season.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what is hard about this job and in
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  Speaker 2: this profession. But It's also what's exciting about it love
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  Speaker 2: of guys.
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  Speaker 1: On the team when this is their first playoff experience.
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  Speaker 2: Just mentally, do you handle this week with those guys differently?
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  Speaker 2: Was it the same as usual?
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  Speaker 1: Same ass man, same ass That's what we talked about
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  Speaker 1: this morning, was wan to o again this week. That's
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  Speaker 1: especially you know, we're in the dance now, right, We're
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  Speaker 1: in the tournament, so it is we got to go
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  Speaker 1: one and know each.
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  Speaker 2: Week, but taking it week in week out.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think that our players have done
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  Speaker 1: a nice job of you know, rising to the level
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  Speaker 1: of competition and playing well and important games right and
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  Speaker 1: that no flinch, no blink mentality, the mindset to you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we got to go take care of ourselves, go play
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  Speaker 1: our best football, put our best foot forward, and go
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  Speaker 1: compete our asses off and see what happens. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think we got enough guys that I've played in
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  Speaker 1: playoff atmosphere that know what it takes, that know what
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  Speaker 1: it's about, that can help some of these younger guys
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  Speaker 1: maybe talk through it. But yeah, maybe a little faster
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  Speaker 1: and maybe a little you know, more physical like guys
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  Speaker 1: might sustain blocks a little longer. And that's the difference.
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  Speaker 1: That is playoff football, and you know we'll be ready
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  Speaker 1: one Ques.
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  Speaker 2: Waters. No, i've heard about it. I mean i've heard
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen obviously a lot of the notes on it,
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  Speaker 1: but now I haven't read too much. I used to
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  Speaker 1: read more than I do now, and I probably need
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  Speaker 1: to get more into it, but with two little ones,
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  Speaker 1: pretty hard.
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  Speaker 2: So thanks