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Speaker 1: You guys are doing OTAs next week. What was sort
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Speaker 1: of rationale behind this sign?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just giving the guys like a week this is
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Speaker 2: a little bit more competitive time with the Mamba periods
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Speaker 2: being involved, and just wanted to give us maybe a
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Speaker 2: week away from this in terms of the big picture
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Speaker 2: of it from an off season standpoint of rest and recovery.
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Speaker 2: Next week, like you mentioned, will be a little bit
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Speaker 2: toned down. We'll only be on the grass for about
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Speaker 2: an hour, hour and fifteen minutes, heavy emphasis on the
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Speaker 2: past game specific to pass protection, past coverage, past rush
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Speaker 2: and throwing the football, and so knowing that this is
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Speaker 2: going to be a little bit more competitive, just wanted
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Speaker 2: to give us a week away and then that last
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Speaker 2: week going into the off season is to not be
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Speaker 2: at like ramped up at this point, to kind of
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Speaker 2: be all right, let's get our good work here and
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Speaker 2: then just kind of ramp it down a little bit
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Speaker 2: next week in order more so for sports science restaurant recovery.
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Speaker 3: What's going to trust is Parker Washington earned with you
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Speaker 3: over this last year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's ton You know, I think he's a guy
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Speaker 2: that every play he comes back and you know, has
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Speaker 2: a communication some you know what he sees out there.
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Speaker 2: The relationship between you know, he and Trevor has continued
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Speaker 2: to grow and develop, and then for us as coaches,
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Speaker 2: his toolbox of being able to play inside, play outside,
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Speaker 2: run routes at all three levels. And I think his
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Speaker 2: football knowledge has just continued to ascend. What he knows
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Speaker 2: he's seeing pre snap to what the coverage does, maybe
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Speaker 2: post snap, how people and leverages change throughout some coverages.
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Speaker 4: I just think his.
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Speaker 2: Overall UH knowledge is really elevated over the last year
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Speaker 2: and and so that makes it a lot easier to
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Speaker 2: work with somebody and to trust them that they're going
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Speaker 2: to do the right thing come game day.
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Speaker 5: Many camp, Hunter came on the field. Dates any updates
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Speaker 5: on him and then Cole.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, no updates on you know, the injured guys.
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Speaker 2: You know, I think they'll they'll they'll be I know,
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Speaker 2: Chris will be full go, you know, come training camp.
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Speaker 2: Coles a part of that same process of you know,
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Speaker 2: might be a little bit longer in training camp.
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Speaker 4: We'll have to see.
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Speaker 2: But Travis, I know, he ran twenty two to six
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Speaker 2: this morning outside of outside here, and you know he
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Speaker 2: was he was talking a lot of smack to Chris
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Speaker 2: Bach and the athletic trainers, and I mean.
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Speaker 4: He just he's worked his tail off.
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Speaker 2: I got to give a lot of credit to our
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Speaker 2: strength staff, athletic training, sports science. They've just kept him
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Speaker 2: not motivated, because he motivates himself, but they've kept it
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Speaker 2: creative for him. The drills, the way that they're pushing
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Speaker 2: him and challenging him. And then he goes into the
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Speaker 2: video room with each side of ball and he's able
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Speaker 2: to get a ton of reps in there. So uh yeah,
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Speaker 2: watching him run around this morning hit twenty two to
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Speaker 2: six was was pretty fun to watch across a couple of.
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Speaker 6: Different position groups. But three young guys really have stood out.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, your impressions on them?
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Speaker 2: Branson and then yeah, yeah, you know Branson's a guy
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Speaker 2: obviously that we had a lot of like for last year.
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Speaker 4: He was close to getting claimed.
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Speaker 2: We ended up you know, putting on the active roster
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Speaker 2: and uh, you know, he may win the Iron Jag
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Speaker 2: you know, of the year at this pace.
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Speaker 4: I know he's.
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Speaker 2: Leading the group right now and leading the team in
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Speaker 2: the individual award. You know, just low Key's pretty athletic,
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Speaker 2: Like he's explosive, he can do multiple different things in
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Speaker 2: terms of UH coverage abilities, whether it's in man or zone.
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Speaker 4: I like him in coverage.
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Speaker 2: I think he's done a nice job with Foyer not
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Speaker 2: getting as many reps in some of the team settings,
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Speaker 2: with he and Jack having to get more of those.
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Speaker 2: So being able to communicate at a high level is
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Speaker 2: what he's needed those reps. I think of Bar. I mean,
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Speaker 2: he's made a ton of plays out here. You could
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Speaker 2: argue for the most improved h for Jabbar really over
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Speaker 2: the last year. A guy that really spent the majority
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Speaker 2: of the time last year on practice, you know, on
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Speaker 2: practice squad and given show team reps and UH, he's
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Speaker 2: made so many plays out here. I think we're excited
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Speaker 2: about what he's able to do.
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Speaker 8: UH.
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Speaker 4: And then CJ.
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Speaker 2: Williams is just I think he leads the team and
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Speaker 2: receptions right now. Now he's getting a lot of reps,
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Speaker 2: mixing in with a couple of different groups. But you
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Speaker 2: talk about what's the job for receivers to get open
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Speaker 2: and catch the ball, and he just kind of does that.
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Speaker 2: It's not necessarily flashy or some you know, big splash
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Speaker 2: move or play. It's I think the quarterbacks trust him.
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Speaker 2: He's smart, knows his job, and you know, he's nice
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Speaker 2: to see Josh Cameron make a couple of plays today
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Speaker 2: as well, which was our first real action seeing him.
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Speaker 1: His college tape and has a translated here so far.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, today, I thought we saw.
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Speaker 2: I thought last week he made a few plays in
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Speaker 2: the red zone, the one when we were in that
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys were here. He made
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Speaker 2: a couple of good plays in the red area last
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Speaker 2: week and then again today, just being able to the wingspan, right,
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Speaker 2: It's like when the field gets shorter and tighter down there, well,
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Speaker 2: what do we can we use to our advantage is
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Speaker 2: height and length and being able to put the ball
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Speaker 2: up for guys. And that's something that really showed on
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Speaker 2: his college tape. It showed up at the Senior Bowl,
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Speaker 2: and look, it's who knows what that equals in the NFL, right,
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Speaker 2: But I have seen a relationship in chemistry with him
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Speaker 2: and the quarterbacks is starting to get there. I know,
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Speaker 2: you know, he's a little banged up early in OTAs
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Speaker 2: and just in terms of not being able to go
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Speaker 2: full full go, but you trust guys that can catch
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Speaker 2: the football and put the ball in different places that
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Speaker 2: maybe they're covered but they're not all the way covered
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Speaker 2: when you can put it.
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Speaker 1: Up for him.
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Speaker 2: Miller, Yeah, Ventrel, you know, he's continuing to get those reps. Again,
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Speaker 2: it's been different with Foyer not being in there right
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Speaker 2: and so that has put a whole onus on those
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Speaker 2: other guys Ben, treil Jack and Branson to step their
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Speaker 2: game up. And I don't mean in terms of really play.
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Speaker 2: I just mean alignment, assignment, communication.
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Speaker 4: Checks, all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: So I don't think we're able to really see what
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Speaker 2: Ventrell does best right now, right that this is not
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Speaker 2: a setting in which we're gonna feel him do what
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Speaker 2: he does best, which we know is thump, stop the run,
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Speaker 2: be somebody that can run sideline the sideline and get
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Speaker 2: come downhill. So we're trying to stress him and stress
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Speaker 2: those guys and coverage a lot more of this spring,
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Speaker 2: and I think he's responded.
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Speaker 1: Eric Murray's experience at that spot huge.
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Speaker 2: You know, it allows us to be able to move
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Speaker 2: Antonio around right and know that in the back end
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Speaker 2: we've got consistency, a guy that's gonna come down and
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Speaker 2: make plays in the wrong game, get us in the
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Speaker 2: right checks and balances in the back end from a
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Speaker 2: coverage standpoint. But Eric plays the game nasty. You know,
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Speaker 2: he plays this game violently. He's made some plays on
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Speaker 2: the ball. He understands how to practice, you know, He's
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Speaker 2: just he's not a guy who's gonna be able to
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Speaker 2: go make a play on the ball without running through
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Speaker 2: the receiver. And just pros know how to stay off
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Speaker 2: the ground. Pros know how to understand angles in practice,
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Speaker 2: to tag off and not hit people. He's just he's
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Speaker 2: a pros pro And I really think if he can
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Speaker 2: continue to stay healthy, we're gonna see a better a
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Speaker 2: better player this year out of Eric.
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Speaker 7: There's one way away from pads.
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Speaker 4: But you said more competitive today.
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Speaker 7: What did you like about the competitive nature of today's.
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Speaker 2: Practice and just seeing some guys make some some plays
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Speaker 2: one on one right like without our mamba period is
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Speaker 2: five man rush cover one, so that's one on one
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Speaker 2: pass rush and one on one on the outside. We're
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Speaker 2: not running any meshes or picks or rubs to help
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Speaker 2: them get open. We're just calling ball plays and let
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Speaker 2: them go play. And it was nice to see some
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Speaker 2: guys make some contested catches, something.
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Speaker 4: That you know early in the year.
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Speaker 2: Last year we struggled with we improved upon that as
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Speaker 2: the year went. Nice to see BT go up over
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Speaker 2: the middle and make a heck of a play, and
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Speaker 2: I mentioned Josh Cameron, and it was good to just
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Speaker 2: see guys go compete when the balls in the air
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Speaker 2: and make some plays. Because it's it's process driven. It's
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Speaker 2: like living in the moment.
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Speaker 4: Right. We only have these three plays, right, and so.
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Speaker 2: We're great in it, we're scoring it, but we've got
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Speaker 2: to live in the moment and play the next play.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 2: So the offense may win one, well, how does the
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Speaker 2: defense then respond? And then how do you respond offensively
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Speaker 2: to the success you just had?
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Speaker 4: And so we're.
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Speaker 2: Trying to train the mind the Mamba mentality of living
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Speaker 2: in the moment, competing without understanding or caring about the result. Right,
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Speaker 2: we know what the result is after those three plays,
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Speaker 2: and then the next group's coming in and playing. So
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Speaker 2: trying to continue to train the mind and train ourselves
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Speaker 2: in competitive situations knowing that man, well we're not going
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Speaker 2: to run the ball in these settings because we're not
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Speaker 2: in pads. It's hard to judge did he get the line,
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Speaker 2: did he make it, did he not? So you know,
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Speaker 2: this whole spring has been a heavy emphasis on the
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Speaker 2: pass game and then that'll somewhat flip as we head
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Speaker 2: in the training camp, be a little bit heavier run
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Speaker 2: to pass. And so that's what this gives us and
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Speaker 2: Mamba allows us to go be competitive without putting our
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Speaker 2: guys in too much harm.
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Speaker 3: Again, hard to judge with no pads.
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Speaker 1: But what have you seen from the offensive line throughout
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Speaker 1: this this time so far?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's hard to tell, you know.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I just know that the chemistry and continuity
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Speaker 2: has been been there and it's been good. I think,
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Speaker 2: you know, nicest see some of the young guys get
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Speaker 2: some reps and do be thrown into the fire and
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Speaker 2: thrown into the mix.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's just always nice when you have a lot.
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Speaker 2: I mean, right now, we got nine guys that I
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Speaker 2: would feel confident and comfortable putting into a game right
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Speaker 2: now and say let's go win and see what happens.
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Speaker 2: And so you're building your depth right now. You're building
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Speaker 2: the continuity and chemistry with the younger guys coming into
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Speaker 2: the mix. And then once we get to the pads,
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Speaker 2: we'll see what we actually have in terms.
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Speaker 4: Of being able to move people and run the football.
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Speaker 3: I mentioned Trevor and Brian Thomas Junior have connected on
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Speaker 3: a number of deep balls over the last couple of weeks. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Is garnering that downfield connection a point of emphasis for
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Speaker 3: the offense at this time?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been a huge point emphasis.
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Speaker 2: I would say we've probably hit more of those in
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Speaker 2: these OTAs in mini camp than we did of all
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Speaker 2: last season, our last offseason combined, that's being the spring
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Speaker 2: and training camp. I would say we've probably hit more
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Speaker 2: of those than last year combined, which is a good thing.
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Speaker 2: It's something that we wanted to emphasize. We started to
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Speaker 2: emphasize it more, you know, after the buy was in
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Speaker 2: terms of trying to push the ball down the field more.
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Speaker 2: And that chemistry with those two is so important because
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Speaker 2: if we can be explosive with those down the field routes,
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Speaker 2: being able to push the ball down the field with
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Speaker 2: those two specifically, well, man, I mean, now it truly
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Speaker 2: unlocks what everybody else can do, not only just what
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Speaker 2: he and BT are able to do. It helps Sprend Strange,
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Speaker 2: it helps Parker Washington, it helps Jakobe Myers, and it
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Speaker 2: helps the run game because now it's like, okay, if
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Speaker 2: we keep throwing over your head, now maybe you have
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Speaker 2: to play more too high safeties, be able to lean coverage,
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Speaker 2: and now we're able to run the football and it
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Speaker 2: helps the underneath guys. So it's crucial to our success.
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Speaker 6: Last one, just with Ameribilagist. What do you get from
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Speaker 6: a veteran guy like that in a running back room
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Speaker 6: that's relatively young.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a young room as you mentioned, and a
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Speaker 2: mirror again another pros pro just does everything.
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Speaker 4: You don't have to say much to him.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to tell him a ton of details
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Speaker 2: in order for him to get something. He picks it
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Speaker 2: up very quickly. I think he's a natural slash runner.
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Speaker 2: You know, he can stick his foot in the ground.
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Speaker 2: He's got some wiggle inside. And then in the past game,
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Speaker 2: I really like him in the past game. I mean
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Speaker 2: he can run routes, he can doub you up, he
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Speaker 2: can come to balance and work edges on people. So
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Speaker 2: I've been very happy to have him here. I think he's,
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Speaker 2: like you mentioned, good for the room. He's on the
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Speaker 2: quieter side, especially just coming in. But I think we'll
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Speaker 2: continue to feel some of his experience in some of
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Speaker 2: his leadership qualities as we go and we get to
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Speaker 2: know each other more great guys.
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Speaker 7: All right, all right, way, I'll.
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Speaker 6: Just follow up with you on a mirabdulla, just kind
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Speaker 6: of veteran guy in a running back room, just relatively young. Like,
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Speaker 6: what do you guys get from his presence game?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, the veteran presence is absolutely real. Those guys have
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Speaker 8: done a great job of continuing to grow from last
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Speaker 8: year to this year, not just in their understanding of
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Speaker 8: the system, but their knowledge of NFL football and just
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Speaker 8: general football intelligence. But he brings that vast experience of
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Speaker 8: different offenses. He's been in different defenses, He's seen different
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Speaker 8: protocols that he's practiced and gone through, whether it's preparation
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Speaker 8: during a week or going through an offseason taking care
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Speaker 8: of your body. So all those things that he's experienced
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Speaker 8: only add to the value of those guys' growth.
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Speaker 9: I've got a lot of competition going on. But when
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Speaker 9: you see the pocket collapse like that and Trevor goes down,
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Speaker 9: do you lose your breath for a few seconds?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's probably a good way to put it. You
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Speaker 8: lose your breath for a few seconds. Certainly not our
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Speaker 8: standard of practice and the way we want to go
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Speaker 8: out there and ex fete things. Protecting the quarterback and
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Speaker 8: protecting the football is of the utmost important, so it's
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Speaker 8: on us to make sure that we keep him protected
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Speaker 8: at all times. But there's a standard we want to practice,
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Speaker 8: and we know we're constantly working towards that.
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Speaker 3: Standards consistently highlighted the importance of you being physical and
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Speaker 3: having a good character. Are there any young names to
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Speaker 3: the draft that has sit up early on in those regards.
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Speaker 8: Well, it's hard to single out one guy. I think
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Speaker 8: you look at the guys that we've added, whether it's
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Speaker 8: through the draft or even through the free agency process,
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Speaker 8: We've tried to identify guys that fit that standard of physicality,
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Speaker 8: those guys that are tough, the guys that go out
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Speaker 8: there and attack, and that stuff shows up on tape
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Speaker 8: and then hopefully it shows up in practice for us
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Speaker 8: every day. So I don't really want to single out
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Speaker 8: one guy because I think those guys have done a
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Speaker 8: really good job of embracing that.
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Speaker 7: It's tough.
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Speaker 8: It's really challenging to do that because you're learning so
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Speaker 8: many different things, not just techniques, but schemes, the way
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Speaker 8: things are communicated as a rookie, So that kind of
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Speaker 8: eats up some of your mental space. So to be
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Speaker 8: able to take that and compartmentalize what I'm trying to
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Speaker 8: learn and then go out there and still play with
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Speaker 8: a certain play style is a challenge, and I like
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Speaker 8: the way that those guys have embraced that.
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Speaker 6: And how have you.
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Speaker 1: Seen him kind of elevate this offseason knowing that he's
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Speaker 1: going to have to take on a bigger role.
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Speaker 8: This year In a lot of ways, it's a great question,
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Speaker 8: because he's elevated with some of the things we expected
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Speaker 8: him with the ball in his hands and the creativity
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Speaker 8: with which he runs the ball, processing some of the
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Speaker 8: reads that we have in the run game that we've
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Speaker 8: kind of tried to tweak and adjust to help him
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Speaker 8: and fit his style a little bit more. But he's
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Speaker 8: also improved from a mental standpoint in the protection game
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Speaker 8: in the past game. So there's so many phases to
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Speaker 8: be in a running back that he's continued to elevate
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Speaker 8: really through his studying and through all the extra work
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Speaker 8: that he puts in.
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Speaker 4: Him and the entire room.
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Speaker 8: They do a great job with Coach Morton, of doing
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Speaker 8: so much extra on their own to try to be
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Speaker 8: out here and prepared for practice, but not only that,
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Speaker 8: to grow and develop. Like we talked about the knowledge
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Speaker 8: of football and just recognizing defenses the way certain fronts
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Speaker 8: are going to play out against certain runs. His anticipation
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Speaker 8: of that will help him. Maybe he doesn't always show
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Speaker 8: up here in the spring, but will really show up
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Speaker 8: once we put pads on. No, maybe you're not hitting yet.
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Speaker 3: What if you liked from the offense so far?
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Speaker 6: Through what don two and.
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Speaker 8: Athletes issue, There's still so many things that you practice
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Speaker 8: even without hitting, whether it's your operation, your communication, all
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Speaker 8: the details on routes and timing and footwork.
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Speaker 4: Even from an offensive line.
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Speaker 8: Perspective, people think that you can't necessarily go out there
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Speaker 8: and practice offensive line play, but you're still practicing proper
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Speaker 8: hand placement, proper striking, proper footwork. All of those things
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Speaker 8: need to show up in individual drills. Then they need
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Speaker 8: to show up and walkthroughs and in jock throughs, and
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Speaker 8: then in full speed. It is still a full speed punch,
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Speaker 8: it's just without all the force behind it. So we
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Speaker 8: try to continue to build those habits in everything we do.
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Speaker 7: There's so much to learn.
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Speaker 10: Last year for Trevor, what you guys were expecting a
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Speaker 10: new offense.
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Speaker 4: Do you feel like he's.
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Speaker 9: Like he's got all that or is there still an education?
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Speaker 3: If I get things are going to be evolved, but
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Speaker 3: I mean, are you.
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Speaker 10: Guys just at a totally different jumping off point when
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Speaker 10: you got back together.
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Speaker 8: Now, that's a good question. There is an element of
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Speaker 8: certain foundational principles and certain concepts that you're always going
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Speaker 8: to be working on, So you don't take any of
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Speaker 8: that for granted. Now, the time it takes to get
16:43
Speaker 8: down the formations or shift their motion or calling plays
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Speaker 8: is condensed this offseason compared to last offseason. What that
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Speaker 8: allows you to do is ultimately take that time and
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Speaker 8: allocate it towards some of the more advanced concepts or
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Speaker 8: studying defenses. Are the different things that come up over
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Speaker 8: the course of a year, so we never necessarily bypass
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Speaker 8: some of the simple things. Those foundations always exist, but
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Speaker 8: our ability to master those maybe a little bit more
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Speaker 8: quickly gives us the opportunity to work on other things instead.
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Speaker 10: There example, for on occasion that you'll be out here
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Speaker 10: and you'll be like, ah, yeah, you didn't say that
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Speaker 10: last year.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I would say that there's moments out there where
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Speaker 8: you can I mean, there's a lot of examples where
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Speaker 8: he's able to go out there and execute something at
17:25
Speaker 8: a high level without having to maybe go through it
17:27
Speaker 8: beforehand or talk through it with the offense, talk through
17:29
Speaker 8: it with the backs or tight end. So it's not
17:31
Speaker 8: just him, it's really everybody. But for example, the other day,
17:34
Speaker 8: he goes out and makes a protection call that we
17:36
Speaker 8: haven't called or really gone through with the group in months,
17:39
Speaker 8: because it hadn't really been since the season the fall,
17:42
Speaker 8: And he goes out there and calls it and the
17:43
Speaker 8: guys are able to execute it really without us going
17:46
Speaker 8: through things, which I love because then I turn around
17:48
Speaker 8: and get to tell those guys, see, this is proof
17:49
Speaker 8: you don't need coaches. I don't need to tell you
17:50
Speaker 8: guys anything. You guys should be able to execute on
17:52
Speaker 8: your own without us doing anything. But that was encouraging
17:56
Speaker 8: just to see him go out there and kind of
17:57
Speaker 8: pick up right where we left off in the fall
17:59
Speaker 8: without us going through something.
18:01
Speaker 7: It's on CJ.
18:01
Speaker 6: Williams and Josh Cameron have a couple of nights catches today.
18:04
Speaker 6: Just what have they shown you guys since they've been.
18:07
Speaker 7: Here as rookies.
18:08
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm going to go back to the things that
18:10
Speaker 8: we talked about with all those rookies, the physicality, the attacking,
18:13
Speaker 8: their play style shows up. Run game, pass game, screen game,
18:16
Speaker 8: you name it, individual drill shows up. But both of
18:19
Speaker 8: those guys have been first and foremost great people to
18:22
Speaker 8: have in the locker room, in the classroom, diligent, the
18:25
Speaker 8: way they study, the way they prepare, the way they
18:26
Speaker 8: want to go out there and perform to our standard
18:28
Speaker 8: has been a real treat to be around. Now they
18:31
Speaker 8: also add an element of strength and physicality. Both those
18:33
Speaker 8: guys are bigger receivers that can do things in the
18:35
Speaker 8: run game. And you see the catches that Josh is
18:37
Speaker 8: making downfield using that body, using his physical presence to
18:39
Speaker 8: help himself create separation.
18:42
Speaker 7: By the end of next week. How much of your
18:44
Speaker 7: offense will you have them here?
18:47
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's funny that that's a question I feel like
18:49
Speaker 8: guys always get in the off season where they put
18:50
Speaker 8: a percentage on it.
18:51
Speaker 7: I don't know that I have. I don't know that
18:54
Speaker 7: eighty two.
18:54
Speaker 8: I'm gonna stick with that. No, I don't know that
18:56
Speaker 8: I have a percentage necessarily on what's in and what's not.
18:58
Speaker 8: One of the things about our offense is that we're
19:00
Speaker 8: always trying to evolve, so we want the things we're
19:03
Speaker 8: practicing this offseason to mirror exactly what we do during
19:07
Speaker 8: the season, so we can say we're perfectly efficient with
19:10
Speaker 8: every single rep we got. But we know as guys
19:12
Speaker 8: continue to develop and new schemes develop and defenses defenders
19:16
Speaker 8: differently through the course of the season, our offense will change.
19:18
Speaker 8: So it's so hard to put a number on Hey,
19:20
Speaker 8: we have this percentage of our offense in because the
19:23
Speaker 8: offense that we have when we show up and fall
19:25
Speaker 8: will not be the same offense that we have in January.
19:27
Speaker 8: Because we're always going to evolve, So we might even
19:29
Speaker 8: evolve from the end of the spring to the beginning
19:31
Speaker 8: of summer training camp when we go back and look
19:33
Speaker 8: at everything and say what do we need to change?
19:34
Speaker 8: What do we need to adjust?
19:36
Speaker 7: I got a weird question. Absolutely, That's what I'm here for.
19:39
Speaker 10: Yeah, Yeah, the UFL went to four points for sixty
19:42
Speaker 10: yard field goals this spring.
19:44
Speaker 8: Never mind, I'm not going to have no good answer
19:46
Speaker 8: for this.
19:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, would you like to see it?
19:48
Speaker 8: Would that just be another headache for the guys in
19:51
Speaker 8: your position? Offense, coura I certainly wouldn't frame that as
19:55
Speaker 8: a headache. It would be a fun challenge to explore.
19:58
Speaker 8: But in terms of having to pay on that, thankfully,
20:00
Speaker 8: that's above my pay grade, so I can pun on
20:02
Speaker 8: that one and let somebody else, somebody more qualified answer that.
20:05
Speaker 8: But it'd be a fun challenge to look into that.
20:07
Speaker 3: Apologies if you've been asked this already, But in terms
20:10
Speaker 3: of whyatt a manual being right guard left guard?
20:15
Speaker 9: The rotation between whyatt Patrick.
20:17
Speaker 8: You could just explain a why those two guys.
20:19
Speaker 1: You've kind of landed on a manual being with the
20:21
Speaker 1: left and then why did the.
20:22
Speaker 8: Right knowing they're still rotating, You guys will rotate, But
20:24
Speaker 8: just curious.
20:24
Speaker 9: I think like there's a notion out there that like
20:27
Speaker 9: the right guard has to be the run blocker. So
20:29
Speaker 9: I was just curious for you if theither wanted to
20:30
Speaker 9: spell that or lean into that.
20:32
Speaker 8: Yeah, it really more so has to do with the
20:35
Speaker 8: fact that you're trying to get a rookie ready to go,
20:38
Speaker 8: and we talked about all of those things that you
20:40
Speaker 8: have to learn just to be able to go out
20:41
Speaker 8: there and operate on offense, let alone go out there
20:43
Speaker 8: and play full speed or even doing drills. So Emmanuels
20:47
Speaker 8: has more experience at the left guard position, so it's
20:50
Speaker 8: a little bit more natural of a transition to continue
20:52
Speaker 8: playing left guard now. Is he capable of playing right, Absolutely,
20:56
Speaker 8: but just for his growth and development process, the starting
20:59
Speaker 8: point is left guard. Like I mentioned last year, probably
21:02
Speaker 8: we want to have as much flexibility in the offensive
21:05
Speaker 8: line room as we possibly can. So those guys we
21:06
Speaker 8: want to be able to play left, right, inside, outside
21:09
Speaker 8: if they're able to.
21:10
Speaker 7: So you'll see some of that.
21:11
Speaker 8: You probably already saw some of that today, and that'll
21:14
Speaker 8: continue through training camp, just like it did last year,
21:16
Speaker 8: where just because why it's playing right, he might not
21:18
Speaker 8: always play right, he's going to get some reps that left,
21:20
Speaker 8: he's gonna get some reps inside, he's gonna get some
21:21
Speaker 8: reps outside. We're incredibly fortunate to have guys that can
21:24
Speaker 8: handle that and do that, so we try to take
21:26
Speaker 8: advantage of that when we can.
21:27
Speaker 9: And push and team periods.
21:32
Speaker 8: I think all of those guys, whether it's tackles, guards, centers,
21:35
Speaker 8: all of those guys continue to push each other to
21:37
Speaker 8: elevate that room. I've been really pleased with the way
21:39
Speaker 8: they've attacked their preparation attacked the competition across the board,
21:42
Speaker 8: and I think thankfully we have a group of guys
21:45
Speaker 8: with some depth that can all push each other.
21:47
Speaker 10: I don't ask this question before, and is there as
21:52
Speaker 10: averaged thirty games in the second half of the year,
21:55
Speaker 10: But if there's a sense you more happy completely within
21:58
Speaker 10: the run games, is there shit internally with the coaches
22:02
Speaker 10: and maybe with these guys about how the run game
22:06
Speaker 10: played out?
22:09
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I wouldn't single out the run game necessarily,
22:14
Speaker 8: and I would say that no matter what we're doing
22:16
Speaker 8: or what the outcome was, we're probably never going to
22:19
Speaker 8: be content with thirty points, forty points, fifty points. There's
22:22
Speaker 8: always going to be so many areas of improvement and
22:25
Speaker 8: we know that going in, so we're not going to
22:26
Speaker 8: be unrealistic and expect that we're perfect every single rep
22:30
Speaker 8: of every single play, otherwise it's a disaster. But if
22:33
Speaker 8: there's something that we can improve on, we're going to
22:35
Speaker 8: attack the improvement and that's going to be our focus,
22:37
Speaker 8: whether we're scoring fifty points or zero point. So we're
22:39
Speaker 8: attacking the process every day. So that it's absolutely true
22:42
Speaker 8: at the run game, but it's also true at the
22:43
Speaker 8: protection game. It's true at the past game, the coaches, players,
22:47
Speaker 8: I think all of us are on the same page
22:48
Speaker 8: that we aren't content with where we were because we
22:50
Speaker 8: know where there's room for growth.
22:52
Speaker 9: Thanks, that's the same questions, and you've heard it.
22:54
Speaker 7: I can't ask you. The guy started talking.
22:56
Speaker 10: You guys were really good on offense the last half
22:59
Speaker 10: of last year points wise, but there's a sense that
23:03
Speaker 10: you're not completely satisfied with how the run game was.
23:07
Speaker 10: Is there is that accurate, like in the building out here,
23:10
Speaker 10: is there a little bit of a chip about how
23:12
Speaker 10: you guys were in the ball.
23:13
Speaker 5: I did hear him say, like, you're almost never gonna
23:16
Speaker 5: be I mean, if we can't if we ended last
23:18
Speaker 5: season first and rushing in the NFL, we want have
23:21
Speaker 5: showed up here just trying to figure out how to
23:23
Speaker 5: get better, you know. So there's always going to be
23:25
Speaker 5: that thing, those different things, the techniques, the scheme, how
23:28
Speaker 5: can we just take that next step as a group
23:30
Speaker 5: as an offense, And that's just that's what we're working
23:31
Speaker 5: towards no matter what. Like I think he said, the
23:34
Speaker 5: best was like, you're never going to be content with
23:35
Speaker 5: where you're at. So, yeah, last year you were kind.
23:38
Speaker 6: Of the guy that came in with knowledge of the system,
23:40
Speaker 6: you understood it, you were able to be kind of
23:43
Speaker 6: a secondary coach to win. Gods had questions this year,
23:46
Speaker 6: how much easier has it been to just communicate when
23:49
Speaker 6: everybody already knows, like what's going on?
23:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, the coming in with such a bit better baseline
23:55
Speaker 5: as a team, as a unit, as an offense with this,
23:58
Speaker 5: with what we're doing, has definitely made it easier. It's
24:01
Speaker 5: showing in camp the conversations are so much at a
24:04
Speaker 5: higher level than they were at this time last year
24:05
Speaker 5: because LST year is truly the basics now, Like we're
24:08
Speaker 5: coming in with an understanding, and our coaches did a
24:09
Speaker 5: really good job of starting starting over really and like
24:12
Speaker 5: coach coaching this in a way that hey, we're not
24:14
Speaker 5: gonna take anything for granted.
24:16
Speaker 7: We're gonna start from the ground up.
24:17
Speaker 5: We're gonna start, we're gonna talk about fundamentals, We're gona
24:19
Speaker 5: talk about the basics to certain plays. They didn't take
24:21
Speaker 5: for granted that we had a year in the system.
24:23
Speaker 5: I think that's an hats off to them. They did
24:26
Speaker 5: an unbelievable job the spring of coaching it in a
24:28
Speaker 5: way that is consistent with where we want to go,
24:32
Speaker 5: just process, process, process, How can we how can we
24:35
Speaker 5: get better?
24:35
Speaker 9: With Brian coming over and you're being familiar with him
24:39
Speaker 9: from in Tampa, what changes as far as comfort or
24:43
Speaker 9: just you know, schematically, what does he bring down to
24:46
Speaker 9: this rushing offense.
24:47
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's been it's been great getting the work
24:50
Speaker 5: with BP again and like you said, schematically, like his
24:53
Speaker 5: brain is wired for running the football and I love it.
24:56
Speaker 7: So we get to have a lot of great conversations
24:58
Speaker 7: about it.
24:58
Speaker 4: I know.
24:58
Speaker 5: I mean he and Liam of Donnach a long time,
25:00
Speaker 5: so they have such a like deep rooted relationship, especially
25:04
Speaker 5: like personally and coaching wise, So you just know that
25:07
Speaker 5: you just know that there's always gonna be a consistent
25:09
Speaker 5: line of communication from the offensive line room to the
25:12
Speaker 5: offensive coordinator, the head coach, and that means a lot
25:14
Speaker 5: to us. You just know everything is it's streamlined, and
25:17
Speaker 5: what you're hearing is you're not hearing multiple different things
25:19
Speaker 5: and we didn't we didn't have that last year either,
25:21
Speaker 5: But that's just another benefit of their relationship and he's
25:25
Speaker 5: done a great job so far.
25:28
Speaker 1: Would you talked with Trevor inside during this off season program?
25:32
Speaker 1: How can you tell that his knowledge of the offense
25:34
Speaker 1: is getting another comfort level.
25:36
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you we saw it, especially just throughout
25:38
Speaker 7: the last season. You saw him grow. I think I
25:40
Speaker 7: talked about it.
25:41
Speaker 5: I had nauseam, Honestly, it came up a lot, and
25:43
Speaker 5: I was very honest when I said, like, his growth
25:46
Speaker 5: has been a catalyst for our improvement as a team.
25:48
Speaker 5: And I think over the course of this office and
25:50
Speaker 5: he's taking even more steps. So when we got out
25:52
Speaker 5: here on the grass, you hit the ground run and
25:55
Speaker 5: like I said, we started with those basics and fundamentals,
25:57
Speaker 5: but we.
25:58
Speaker 7: All know what we're doing.
25:58
Speaker 5: We're all professional football players and we're trying to compete
26:01
Speaker 5: every day and that comes out just the knowledge we have.
26:04
Speaker 5: It filters out once you're out there and sometimes sometimes
26:08
Speaker 5: you're just playing football, even if it's not something we
26:09
Speaker 5: talked about this spring, but it's something we've had before.
26:11
Speaker 5: Those things will come out and like you know, we're
26:13
Speaker 5: just playing football. That's the knowledge we have. That's the
26:16
Speaker 5: baseline we have from doing it for a year already.
26:18
Speaker 8: Were your initial impressions when you first met what you've
26:21
Speaker 8: seen the last few weeks from Emmanual pregnant.
26:23
Speaker 5: Iman has done great. He's super hungry to get better,
26:26
Speaker 5: which is awesome. He's meeting extra he's asking asking.
26:30
Speaker 7: The right questions.
26:31
Speaker 5: He's a physical and smart football player. So it's been
26:33
Speaker 5: fun to get to know him and the other rookies.
26:35
Speaker 5: They've done a great job so far.
26:37
Speaker 10: Franchised has gone back to back of season since nineteen
26:40
Speaker 10: ninety nine. How hard or does this group have the
26:45
Speaker 10: right mentality to shift from a team that may be
26:49
Speaker 10: snuck up on some people last year to now people
26:52
Speaker 10: know who you guys are and and have expectations that
26:56
Speaker 10: you can get back there. Because is that a different mentality?
26:58
Speaker 7: I guess too. No, I don't think it is.
27:00
Speaker 5: Because you said this are a shift in the mentality,
27:02
Speaker 5: and the answer like to get back there? We cannot
27:05
Speaker 5: have a shift in our mentality, is the thing though.
27:06
Speaker 5: Our mentality has been how do we what's our process?
27:10
Speaker 5: You know, when you have some success, to continue to
27:12
Speaker 5: have success, you have to look at what got you there.
27:14
Speaker 5: The success alone does not keep you successful. So for
27:17
Speaker 5: us it is a it's it's almost taking our stripping
27:21
Speaker 5: our mentality down to the basics.
27:23
Speaker 7: It's the process. It's every day, what can I do today?
27:25
Speaker 7: How can I stack these.
27:27
Speaker 5: Days together knowing that like there's this big there's these
27:29
Speaker 5: huge goals in the future, and we're breaking it down
27:32
Speaker 5: to just today and if I just continue to do
27:35
Speaker 5: today the best I can and tomorrow the best I can,
27:37
Speaker 5: over and over, those things are going to come because
27:39
Speaker 5: of how we approached each opportunity each day. So I
27:43
Speaker 5: think it's not a shift in mindset. It's it's truly
27:45
Speaker 5: like being true to our our own mindset.
27:48
Speaker 7: And in this building. Yeah, absolutely, it's it's talked about.
27:52
Speaker 7: I think it's necessary.
27:54
Speaker 5: It's known, we've talked about it as players, just like
27:57
Speaker 5: we have the opportunity to continue.
27:58
Speaker 7: To get better and do some special things. But like
28:00
Speaker 7: I said, it doesn't just happen.
28:01
Speaker 5: It happens because we do the right things now and
28:03
Speaker 5: throughout training camp and during the weeks, throughout the season
28:06
Speaker 5: and all those things.
28:07
Speaker 7: How have you seen Wyatt continue to develop? I think
28:10
Speaker 7: why it's in a great job this spring.
28:12
Speaker 5: Same thing like playing rook playing offensive line as a
28:15
Speaker 5: rookie is very difficult. There's a lot going on. The
28:18
Speaker 5: game happens close, it happens fast, and it's way different
28:21
Speaker 5: than college. The players are better, things are faster, and
28:23
Speaker 5: you have.
28:23
Speaker 7: To get used to that. Why did that early on?
28:26
Speaker 5: And just kept kept getting better. So this spring he's
28:28
Speaker 5: kind of come out and he's just so much more comfortable.
28:30
Speaker 5: So it's been really fun to play next to on
28:31
Speaker 5: times and see him compete and see the way he's
28:34
Speaker 5: handling himself and his understanding of the game has improved
28:37
Speaker 5: a ton, and I'm super proud of that.
28:40
Speaker 7: Thanks, yeah, thank you ever