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Julian Love: "All Of The DBs Complement Each Other Well" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody living going are good. We're good.
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  Speaker 2: So much is the same on defense, coaches, players last year,
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  Speaker 2: what do you feel like might be different?
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  Speaker 1: I think is our launching point.
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  Speaker 3: I think last year obviously there's so much to figure out,
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  Speaker 3: and it takes a while. We just started on a
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  Speaker 3: whole kind of different you know level. Uh, and we
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  Speaker 3: just know how each other works. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the camaraderie and the chemistry is is just heightened.
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  Speaker 1: And so now that kind of standard is like high
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  Speaker 1: from the jump.
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  Speaker 4: You're got you seem to be pushing him right.
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  Speaker 1: In hood, right in the mix. Uh, he's been there
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  Speaker 1: pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's you know, as a rookie, it's tough,
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  Speaker 3: especially as a higher profile rookie, it's always tough.
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  Speaker 1: But he has a humility to.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of go and get it, uh and kind of
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  Speaker 3: you know, take on the coaching, take on the kind
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  Speaker 3: of whatever the players are saying to him. And he's
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  Speaker 3: doing a good job so early on. I know it's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of time his player. Now we're gonna need
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  Speaker 3: him to be in a role in his defense, uh,
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  Speaker 3: because he's so talented and so yeah, I think he's
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  Speaker 3: doing a great.
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  Speaker 1: Job early You guys are rising pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, uh, you know, rookie in the DV room,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna you gotta get some thick skin for sure.
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  Speaker 3: We all kind of go at it pretty heavy. And
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  Speaker 3: so he's doing a great job. I mean he has
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's getting quick witted coming back at us
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more. But he's just I mean, he
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  Speaker 3: fits in so naturally. I think the you could tell
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  Speaker 3: they were intentional about like the personality types, and he
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  Speaker 3: fits in the personality of our of our DV room.
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  Speaker 4: I know it's really early with him, and he believe
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  Speaker 4: in practice for a few weeks, but but how do
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  Speaker 4: you see his skill set complimenting what you and Kobe
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  Speaker 4: burning the table in this defense?
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the number one word, you know you're here.
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  Speaker 3: His versatility, He can do a lot. He did a
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  Speaker 3: lot in college and COVID and I pride ourselves and
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  Speaker 3: doing a lot. And I think for us to be
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  Speaker 3: successful as like kind of a safety room, you have
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  Speaker 3: to like we can be really good if we can
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  Speaker 3: come down the slot, we can play deep in the field,
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  Speaker 3: we can play in the box.
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  Speaker 1: I think we all do that well. Obviously.
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  Speaker 3: Nick just his physical traits can make him really excel.
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  Speaker 1: But I think all of us really compliment each other.
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  Speaker 4: Well in that word, Julian going back to Kobe, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it seems like he's having a quiet and very effective
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  Speaker 4: Uh what we've seen of him except.
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  Speaker 2: Fair, fair assessment.
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  Speaker 1: How he's going through the practices.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Kobe is Uh, Kobe just has a chip on
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  Speaker 3: his shoulder. And that's I think we all, we all
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  Speaker 3: love him so much, you know, he you know, it
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  Speaker 3: is kind of like Jordan in the Last Dance, just
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  Speaker 3: takes everything personal. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: That's the type of person he is. He competes in
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  Speaker 1: everything he does.
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  Speaker 3: And you know when he's quiet, he's locked in and
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  Speaker 3: he's in, he's in the zone. And I think we
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  Speaker 3: all you know, if you look at kind of the
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  Speaker 3: dB room of who you guys see the most, we're
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  Speaker 3: very different, all of us, uh, And I think that's
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  Speaker 3: what's special about us is that we don't have to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, try to be like each other.
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  Speaker 1: We can let.
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  Speaker 3: Kobe be Kobe, let Spoon be Spoon, reg be Reagan,
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  Speaker 3: they let me be me, And so I think we
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  Speaker 3: just love Kobe for who he is, and he just
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  Speaker 3: works his ass.
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  Speaker 4: Off offense test the defense differently than last year, you know,
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  Speaker 4: as you're trying to come together.
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  Speaker 3: And guys'then new Yeah, I mean from schematics, from personnel.
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  Speaker 3: When you play agach other so much, you tend to
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  Speaker 3: just kind of play the person and kind of you
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  Speaker 3: know who you're going against. And right now we're just
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  Speaker 3: we need to play free, we play true to kind
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  Speaker 3: of the scheme and just kind of read everything true.
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  Speaker 3: There's not really a lot of anticipation because you're seeing
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  Speaker 3: different looks every other play. They're doing a great job
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  Speaker 3: right now. They're keeping us guessing for sure. Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna dial. Sam's doing a great job, and the skill
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  Speaker 3: players are making some plays out there, and we love
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  Speaker 3: it because we're going to compete no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: You see it from like this defense, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: how you think it's going to try.
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  Speaker 3: To attack the offense, try to attack us, I think
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  Speaker 3: just keep us guessing, not let us get comfortable. I
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  Speaker 3: think when you see, you know, teams at pressure are
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  Speaker 3: effective pressuring. You see a lot of no huddle screen action,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of misdirection, and that's I think.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like most teams are gonna try to do
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  Speaker 1: to us.
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  Speaker 3: Just not let us settle in because I thinkhen were
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  Speaker 3: our when our feet are set, cleach are set. I
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  Speaker 3: we're I think one of the best defenses in the league,
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  Speaker 3: and so I wouldn't if I was somebody else, I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't let us try to get comfortable. I mean sorry,
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  Speaker 3: I met like Kobiac's offense and like what they want
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  Speaker 3: to do, like how they're gonna have attack. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: I think, oh, just in general defense, not our defense. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I think you know, we have the personnel, we have
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  Speaker 3: some talented people on offense. But then it's just understanding that, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna be tight in our run fits or run
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  Speaker 3: not fits run scheme, Uh, run the ball predominantly, but
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  Speaker 3: then just play off of it. Understand what kind of
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  Speaker 3: what loveveries on defenses are playing uh, and then have
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  Speaker 3: buildofs off of it. I mean, we've seen just a
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  Speaker 3: little glimpse of kind of the you know, the first progression,
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  Speaker 3: the second level to it, the third level to it,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just so many.
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  Speaker 1: Layers to our offense. It's it's pretty special to see.
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  Speaker 3: And it's it's cool because right now, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: say they hit a player or something, We're like, man,
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  Speaker 3: how's how's it going like there? You can tell kind
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  Speaker 3: of you see where it's taking shape, and so they're
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  Speaker 3: it's it's some high level stuff going on over there.
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  Speaker 2: What are you learning going up against Cooper Cup every
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  Speaker 2: day in practice that you didn't know there?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he just has every tool of the trade.
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  Speaker 3: He's strong, obviously, great hands. Uh, he's just such an
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  Speaker 3: effective route runner. He is just one of the best
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  Speaker 3: receiver in the league. He's he's shown it obviously guarded
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  Speaker 3: him in games. So I know, first handle kind of
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  Speaker 3: what he has. He brings the table. But it's consistent
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  Speaker 3: work every day. He's coming in every day.
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  Speaker 1: And just he's he's locked in. He's in the zone.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, he has you know, some shit to him, excuse
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  Speaker 3: my language, but he does. And so it's it's cool
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  Speaker 3: and it's giving our our dB some great looks. It's
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  Speaker 3: give me something that you know, we weren't able to
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  Speaker 3: show really last year.
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  Speaker 4: Your head coach, you said, how you seem recandle this
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  Speaker 4: off season, especially with free agency coming up.
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  Speaker 1: But have you seen him handle this office. He's been
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  Speaker 1: locked in.
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  Speaker 3: I think, Uh, you know this part of the year,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's fresh off the off season. Uh, everyone's pretty dialed
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  Speaker 3: in the kind of setting goals for what you want
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  Speaker 3: out of the year, not just sustaining him.
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  Speaker 1: We all do it.
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  Speaker 3: We're all like, oh, this off season, this season, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna do this, this and this from the worst part.
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  Speaker 3: He's been crushing this this offseason program. He's been here,
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  Speaker 3: he's been getting after it. His numbers are always crazy.
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  Speaker 3: He's just a freak athlete. And we're just I think
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  Speaker 3: where our chemistry is really close to me and him
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  Speaker 3: because we work in tandem a lot out there, and
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  Speaker 3: so I love what I've been seeing and so not
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  Speaker 3: just sustaining it as.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Florence the NFC East.
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  Speaker 2: So you've gotten all those match ups, but but what
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  Speaker 2: is he What does he bring?
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  Speaker 4: What does he bring to the equation for this defense?
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  Speaker 1: Having post you guys back adding him.
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  Speaker 3: To the next year, and let's not mention my giant
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  Speaker 3: cowboy matchups from those days we lost a lot of games. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's just I mean, he's he's been around and he
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  Speaker 3: knows how to win football games. So you can just
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  Speaker 3: tell that when things are going right for us, he's vibing.
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  Speaker 3: When things aren't up to standard, he's like he kind
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  Speaker 3: of has to look to him like like this isn't
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  Speaker 3: good enough. And so I think he brings a standard
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  Speaker 3: to the defensive room.
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  Speaker 1: And I think just.
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  Speaker 3: Personality wise, I mean, people love to be around him. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's just he's been on the block, He works hard,
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  Speaker 3: and he just does a great addition.
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  Speaker 1: Your head coach used that same phrase about Sam Darnold,
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  Speaker 1: but he used about cups. He's got some, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, are you starting to see that, like that competitiveness in.
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  Speaker 1: Certain periods of practice? Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the first ota you guys weren't out there,
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  Speaker 3: the defense just picked up where we left off in.
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  Speaker 1: Terms of just chatter.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, just guys are just talking shit every play, it
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  Speaker 3: seems like to the offense, and some of the new
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  Speaker 3: guys are probably looking like okay, kind of set the
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  Speaker 3: tone and they kind of knew what it was. And
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  Speaker 3: then yeah, Sam just has some stuff to him. I
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  Speaker 3: changed my verbews on that one. H he has some
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  Speaker 3: stuff to him. And Coop just he grinds. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he's just a worker.
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  Speaker 1: He's a workhorse. He's gonna do it.
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  Speaker 3: But Sam kind of has some of that little swag
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  Speaker 3: to him, and he has ability and so he's he's
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  Speaker 3: making us better.
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  Speaker 1: What does that sound like? Is he talking's fack back here?
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  Speaker 5: It's like.
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  Speaker 3: Like, uh like dad jokes Like it's like it's like
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  Speaker 3: kind of the little type of kind of jabs. But
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  Speaker 3: you can tell like, Okay, he has some fire tone.
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  Speaker 3: He's used to be kind of being around the guys
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  Speaker 3: on the boys. Uh, he's just you know, he's not
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  Speaker 3: a square type of guy. He's just he's he's he's cool.
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  Speaker 1: He's cool. Addition, it back a bit good as the.
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  Speaker 2: Defense was last year, there are a couple of games
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  Speaker 2: that weren't up to your standard against the Packers, like
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  Speaker 2: he's ever had a big games for the team. How
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  Speaker 2: do you guys just change that this year?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think one obviously, just stay healthy, kind of make
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  Speaker 3: sure we sustain it. Then just don't get bogged down
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  Speaker 3: with kind of the detailed work. You know that at
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  Speaker 3: that point in the season whatever it was November December,
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  Speaker 3: like you can just let you can just start to
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  Speaker 3: float a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think coming into this offseason, we identified.
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  Speaker 3: Some of those games where we feel like, hey, like
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  Speaker 3: what were we it wasn't it wasn't clean enough, and
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  Speaker 3: just detail it. Uh, just detail out the work. I
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  Speaker 3: think you know the dB coach, you know, Jeff Howard,
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  Speaker 3: Carl Scott, they've been getting after in terms of details,
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  Speaker 3: and like those games or games that you see a
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  Speaker 3: lot more of clips on just because it just wasn't
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  Speaker 3: up to kind of the standard that we were setting.
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  Speaker 1: And so now it's the saying that's the hard part.
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  Speaker 3: It's easy kind of to do it for a few games,
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  Speaker 3: but the best defenses in the league over NFL history
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  Speaker 3: have been consistent from start to finish.
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald communicating, how has.
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  Speaker 4: That changed this year?
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  Speaker 3: I think he's just more comfortable and it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: how he wants to run our culture, run our scheme,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 1: The verbiage of everything, I think is this is just
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  Speaker 1: in tune.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's kind of talking the same talk, uh, and so
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  Speaker 3: he just seems more settled in more and more cool calm.
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  Speaker 3: But when he talks ball, he's still at a high
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  Speaker 3: level and he's talking ball.
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  Speaker 1: There's nobody better than Mike. He says, he's clear. You
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  Speaker 1: can you use a player since that or is it
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  Speaker 1: just the same.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So outside of like talking ball, I think he
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  Speaker 3: talking ball, he's he's top of the top of the whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But just in terms of like setting the kind of
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  Speaker 3: what we want around here, setting the standard kind of
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  Speaker 3: how we want to build. Just the the messaging is
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  Speaker 3: just super clear of like kind of what our goal is.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what kind of the main phrase you'll
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  Speaker 3: hear is twelve is one and so that's like everything
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  Speaker 3: we're building is off of that just kind of being
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's camaraderie, it's togetherness, it's kind of looking
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  Speaker 3: after your your brother next to you. That's kind of
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  Speaker 3: the the clear messaging. And he's been super dialbling with
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  Speaker 3: that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We got as about hunters, but yours just got a
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  Speaker 1: new contract today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what does a good un.
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  Speaker 1: It's huge.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, field position is kind of the
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  Speaker 3: name of the game right now. You see the stats,
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  Speaker 3: the analytics or whatever about when the offense starts at
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  Speaker 3: the fifteen compared to the thirty five. It's just it's
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  Speaker 3: it's the details within the details of how we play,
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  Speaker 3: and it can get overlooked. No one's really you know, say,
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  Speaker 3: oh man, our punter is awesome, Like it's that's not
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  Speaker 3: really a common thing. But we realized in the building
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  Speaker 3: that our punter is actually awesome, Like, Uh, Mike, he
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  Speaker 3: just gets after it.
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  Speaker 1: He's super consistent with his work, I mean with his
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  Speaker 1: body like he's just a pro. He's a pros pro
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  Speaker 1: And so I know we're all happy for him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you don't often get a tatted up punter
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  Speaker 3: going going to work for.
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  Speaker 1: You and dick O he uh you know, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: the best, and so we're happy for him. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: You and Spoon and and the whole crew were looking
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  Speaker 2: at the replay board and saying whether to keep in
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  Speaker 2: or over and all these kind of things. What's going
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  Speaker 2: on there? You guys trying to figure out the offense.
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  Speaker 2: You're trying to figure out how you guys play together.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mixture.
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  Speaker 3: I think the accountability is so high that we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be clear cut about like where were you on this?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: When the receiver does this is what I need from you?
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  Speaker 3: And it's just talking ball. Am I sound kind of crazy?
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  Speaker 3: If you guys are here and never if you're over
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  Speaker 3: there hearing us here, if you're in Spoon ever, but
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  Speaker 3: we all speak differently but are talking the same language.
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  Speaker 1: If if kind of that makes sense, And so that's
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  Speaker 1: all it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's I love the boards out there because then you
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  Speaker 3: get to see what happened the previous play in real
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  Speaker 3: time because.
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  Speaker 1: We're just trying to be the best, uh.
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  Speaker 3: And it's quick when you get quick feedback out there,
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  Speaker 3: and so that's all it is and DB's do at
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  Speaker 3: a high level.
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  Speaker 1: I think we really talk a lot out there, Jack.
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  Speaker 4: Those video foards are fairly new to the football sphere
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  Speaker 4: of the FIA practice school with you, how much has
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  Speaker 4: that kind of change being able to have the recipeat
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  Speaker 4: it right there and I have to come in the
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  Speaker 4: building to see.
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  Speaker 1: You later and how much what does it change for you?
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  Speaker 1: Guys are faking it's cool.
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  Speaker 3: I mean my first time seeing that was I think
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  Speaker 3: out here and it's cool because I like to get
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  Speaker 3: that instant feedback. It could be crippling if you're like,
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  Speaker 3: you made a bad play and you're going to this island.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone is looking up at the board ready for you
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  Speaker 3: to make a mistake, you know, for the young guys.
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  Speaker 1: But this kind of you shake back.
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  Speaker 3: I think we kind of callous ourselves to just getting better,
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  Speaker 3: Like if it's bad, you're still going to rep the
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  Speaker 3: next play.
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  Speaker 1: And so I love those boards out there. I think
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  Speaker 1: pretty good.
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  Speaker 5: Coach McDonald mentioned this defense feels like it has ownership,
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  Speaker 5: even more so this year just because of the year
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  Speaker 5: two with you guys. He said, it's not just his
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  Speaker 5: defense and you guys are here kind of taking over
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  Speaker 5: in your own relition. Does it feel different for you
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  Speaker 5: in terms of what this defense to do this year?
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned it better launching point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 3: I think kind of that shows itself. And like when
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  Speaker 3: we're in the defensive room, it's not about being like
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  Speaker 3: the best defense. Now we're competing of who can be
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  Speaker 3: the best position group.
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  Speaker 1: In the defense. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not just like, okay defense, we're gonna be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the top whatever in the league. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we want to be the best secondary in
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  Speaker 3: the league. And who is the tip of the speer
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  Speaker 3: for our practice that day and every day we've been
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  Speaker 3: showing who tip of the spear was, whether it StB's
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  Speaker 3: backers or or D line. And so it's just super
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  Speaker 3: competitive in there. Uh And I think it's can do
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  Speaker 3: some to just just growth. I think, you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: not shoying away from everything. Everyone's getting coach, no matter
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: if you're you know, d law Leo or the Rooks
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: we have. It's just a super accountable across all boards,
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: player to coach, player to player, coach to coach, all
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: of it is this really, really dial don
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Thank you,