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FB HC Jason Candle - August 8 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: All of our practices this week goes so yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think that the excitement of football is back, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everything that you love about August is here,
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  Speaker 1: and our guys are doing a really good job of
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  Speaker 1: trying to get acclimated to the heat. Had a really
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  Speaker 1: good weather week. From that standpoint of things to kind
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  Speaker 1: of think, get us prepared for really good days in
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  Speaker 1: a row here and gonna catch our breath tomorrow and
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  Speaker 1: plan out what next week should really look like. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, caustiously optimistic of how things have been going.
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  Speaker 1: You know a lot of position battles, a lot of competition,
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  Speaker 1: and you know it still the learning phase of what
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  Speaker 1: preseason campus. So you know, some guys have shine, some
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  Speaker 1: other guys have not, and those those scenarios will probably
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  Speaker 1: flip this week in practice, see some all the decisions
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  Speaker 1: that you have to wait for us approach. Where does
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  Speaker 1: it rank that spect death learned?
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  Speaker 2: You have to tell in this case of the two other.
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  Speaker 1: Guys who you're not going to be deploying the spats
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  Speaker 1: people like historic hops up? Is that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean part of the job, right. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: but and these guys understand right this is they play
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  Speaker 1: the most scrutinized position in sport. They picked this. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't pick this for them. This is what they wanted.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we want to sit in that chair,
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  Speaker 1: and you want to lead another group of young men, like,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of responsibility that comes with that. It's
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  Speaker 1: more than just throwing the football in shorts. So it's
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  Speaker 1: next ends the process and they'll play itself out the
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  Speaker 1: way it's supposed to get off to a good start.
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  Speaker 2: You like what you've seen in the group so far.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, like I said, I mean, I'm caustiously optimistic.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I'm not dumb enough or notive enough to
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  Speaker 1: think that we are anywhere near a finished product. We
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  Speaker 1: have a long way to go in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 1: The acclamation part of practice and getting guys we don't
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  Speaker 1: even have pats on yet, right, so you get shoulder
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  Speaker 1: pads and helmets. We'll start to ease into that. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, once once our team starts to figure out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the key thing is hopefully you get your
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  Speaker 1: football team to understand why you're doing things right. You know,
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  Speaker 1: spring practice is what we're doing and how we're doing it,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully and get your team to why we're doing
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  Speaker 1: it and right and that continue to improve that football IQ.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a final phase, I said, is an
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  Speaker 1: extensive process to get the game.
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  Speaker 3: One is how do you accelerate team bonding with so
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  Speaker 3: many new faces guys miss some.
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  Speaker 1: Sort of fishing, some bowling, some paintball that approaches that.
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  Speaker 1: What are some of the things you like to kind
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  Speaker 1: of get the guys that got closer togain? All of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff is great, right, I mean you can do
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  Speaker 1: all the exterior things that you want to do. But
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  Speaker 1: if guys won't come into the facility and have lunch
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  Speaker 1: with one another and won't sit over a meal or
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  Speaker 1: have real authentic conversations in the locker room or the
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  Speaker 1: weight room, you don't have any chance. So I'll give
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  Speaker 1: our guys a lot of credit. I think this is
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  Speaker 1: a connected football team. You know, so many new faces
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  Speaker 1: to coming together in January. I mean everything's new, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the practice fields are new, the buildings, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things changing in the building, right. I mean
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of new faces. There's new staff members,
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  Speaker 1: there's new recruiting department, new operations. So there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of moving parts and a lot of new things for
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  Speaker 1: these guys and then for them just to say, hey, look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my energy in the right place each
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  Speaker 1: and every day and understand the importance of team. It's
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  Speaker 1: a testament to them and it's a hats off to
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  Speaker 1: them for really believing in that, because in football it's
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  Speaker 1: going to get really hard and we've got to continue
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  Speaker 1: to understand that adversity's a catalyst for growth with it. It
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  Speaker 1: is not an indictment who you are, and it's not
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  Speaker 1: does not attack your character when it puts you in
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  Speaker 1: a tough situation. So you can't always pull yourself through that.
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  Speaker 1: Your teammates got to help you do that. And if
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  Speaker 1: there's not real relationships and there's not those deep personal connections,
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't think that effect comes to.
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  Speaker 2: Like Hala mentioned that Jake's really been slinging it and
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  Speaker 2: when we ask Jake what his strength is, he talked
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  Speaker 2: about his mind. How do you see impair the physical
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  Speaker 2: with the mental side of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think all three guys have done
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  Speaker 1: a really good job, you know, understanding what we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to teach in the meeting room and how we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to apply that to the practice field. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: each guys had some really high moments, some other guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some guys really all three guys, I've had
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  Speaker 1: some low moments too, right, So a long way from
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  Speaker 1: home on any of those guys and where this thing
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  Speaker 1: ends up and where it goes, but encouraged by all
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  Speaker 1: three of them and how they've been able to apply
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  Speaker 1: the meeting room to the field.
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  Speaker 2: You talk about having a ramp up the competitive level
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  Speaker 2: from the spring to the summer to now, how do
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  Speaker 2: you challenge your team?
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  Speaker 1: What is it?
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  Speaker 2: Je and Candle training camp look like a really challenge?
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  Speaker 1: You got to play real football, you know, I mean
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  Speaker 1: all of this stuff in the summer and shorts and
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  Speaker 1: you know these practices and the underwear Olympics out here
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  Speaker 1: that we got going on. You're not allowed to touch anybody,
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  Speaker 1: to hit anybody like that's going to come to a
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  Speaker 1: hall here soon and it's going to be fourth and
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  Speaker 1: one sometimes. So we got to we've got to really
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  Speaker 1: understand the physicality and what the intention of detail and
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  Speaker 1: what that looks like of what a competitive you know,
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  Speaker 1: twelve plus game season is going to look like. Right,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, we got to do it. Now. We
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  Speaker 1: can't wait and you know, until the game till game
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  Speaker 1: day shows up. So you know, I think, just how
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  Speaker 1: can we continue to challenge our guys from a physical standpoint?
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  Speaker 1: How can we tax them from a mental standpoint? But
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  Speaker 1: yet you know, still keep that confidence going and what
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  Speaker 1: we've been able to develop in the summer, it's been
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  Speaker 1: the most optimistic point of the first week here so far. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think that, you know, I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: point to one thing. I think it's just good to
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  Speaker 1: be back in the building around the guys and being
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  Speaker 1: able to play football and practice football and and being
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  Speaker 1: able to limit outside distractions and really let these guys
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  Speaker 1: get down to doing what they love to do. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, watching young people improve is is what I
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  Speaker 1: enjoy about the sport, and watching a team come together
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  Speaker 1: is ultimately you know, I think, why he get into
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  Speaker 1: coaching some of the new cases in the second area.
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  Speaker 1: What have you like in your defensive back so far?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You know, again, if you hope that when you get
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  Speaker 1: the game day you don't see people running free in
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  Speaker 1: the secondary, because that means there's lack of communication. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, you every player can be better if the
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  Speaker 1: other guy helps you, right, if you know where your
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  Speaker 1: help is on defense. You know, you're a solid communicator
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  Speaker 1: and you understand.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like I told you before, like what am
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  Speaker 3: I doing, how am I going to do it, and
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  Speaker 3: ultimately why we're doing it. I think that you know,
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  Speaker 3: we'll we'll have some guys that can cover and stick
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  Speaker 3: to receivers, and we want to play aggressive defense, and
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  Speaker 3: we better have guys that can cover.
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  Speaker 1: If we're gonna play that way. Next is an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for fans to see the team, you know, get hope
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  Speaker 1: with practice? What are you hoping to showcase what you
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  Speaker 1: want fans take away from next act? I just want
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  Speaker 1: the excitement of football and at our stadium, right and
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  Speaker 1: I want I want people to come there and I
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  Speaker 1: want them to, you know, leave with opinions of who
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  Speaker 1: we are, what we are, good, bad, ugly. I don't
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  Speaker 1: really care. I want them to be fans. I want
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  Speaker 1: to allow them the opportunity to do that, right, and
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  Speaker 1: I want them to see this team. I want them
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  Speaker 1: to be connected to this team. So you know, we
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  Speaker 1: had seven home games this year, right, Like, we need
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  Speaker 1: that stadium full, we need it packed, We need that
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  Speaker 1: to be a real home field advantage. I'm sure practice
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  Speaker 1: will go really good in some way. I'm sure I'll
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  Speaker 1: be really upset about a lot of things in practice,
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  Speaker 1: just part of it. It'll be you know, that's part
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  Speaker 1: of preseason camp. So I don't want them to have
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  Speaker 1: a taste of what we are really start to get
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  Speaker 1: to know our team a little bit, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: have a few weeks where we kicked the ball off
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  Speaker 1: to you know, have a beer with their friends and
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  Speaker 1: talk about how good or bad or ugly we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be working with coach Mantle at first camp together. Has
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  Speaker 1: that gone? What are your taking aways on defensive? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: But I think he's a very intelligent guy, right, and
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  Speaker 1: he's a very tough guy. Played the foot plate, played
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  Speaker 1: football for a long time, played at the highest level,
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  Speaker 1: understands that the key principles of defense and what that's
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  Speaker 1: going to be. And the longer we're together and the
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  Speaker 1: longer that he's with our guys, the more that's going
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  Speaker 1: to shape itself and turn itself into what we want
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  Speaker 1: it to look like. So very please, so far, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, let's see the strength.
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  Speaker 3: In your mind and the quarto back throm.
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  Speaker 2: And what's kind of the connective personality and some words ss.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that there's a great competitive spirit, and
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  Speaker 1: I think there's that's contagious. When that room has that,
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  Speaker 1: that's contagious to the rest of the team. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that, you know, natural leadership qualities emerge, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have to say, like, look, like the opposite of
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  Speaker 1: the leader is not a follower, So I'm not asking
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  Speaker 1: anybody to follow anybody. The opposite of the leader is
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  Speaker 1: a pessimist, right, So when it doesn't go my way,
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  Speaker 1: like can I can I pick my chin up? And
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  Speaker 1: can I get back to the line of scrimmage and
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  Speaker 1: play the next play? So we continue to put those
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  Speaker 1: guys in those situations, and then if they thrive in
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  Speaker 1: those situations, some of those natural leadership qualities start to show,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where the belief the team comes. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I said this a couple of weeks ago, like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not picking who the quarterback is. That'll play itself out
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  Speaker 1: by their play on the field, right, and you'll see
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  Speaker 1: who moves the team and who moves the team well
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  Speaker 1: and how the guy's rallying around that particular person, whoever
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  Speaker 1: that may be. So yeah, I'm not you guys are way,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are excited to know who the quarterback is
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  Speaker 1: and you're way worried about it than what I am.
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  Speaker 2: Right now speaking it strength Brat. I mean we saw
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  Speaker 2: him kind of bouncing around here at you're stretching with
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  Speaker 2: the guys. What was it about you that attracted you know,
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  Speaker 2: you to Brad? And then what does he bring to
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  Speaker 2: your guys?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I think that's the most important hire
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  Speaker 1: you have. You know, he's done an amazing job since
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  Speaker 1: day one. I mean he's been trained, you know, by
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  Speaker 1: the best. And I say that like, I just think
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  Speaker 1: this is his first job and he hasn't been ultra
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  Speaker 1: successful in himself. But when you you work for Mickey Muradi,
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  Speaker 1: you work for Ben Herbert, you understand, you know what
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  Speaker 1: it looks like and how it should go. And then
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  Speaker 1: every like everybody, when you're a young coach, you're riching
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  Speaker 1: for your own opportunity to run your own program and
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  Speaker 1: do it the way you want to do it right.
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  Speaker 1: And he's done as good a job as anybody. Before
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  Speaker 1: we got to Toledo, there wasn't a guy drafted out
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  Speaker 1: of that place in ten years. And you know, we
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  Speaker 1: got thirteen guys picked and that's not I'm not lifting them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in there working out with them. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that, you know, has to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that credit goes to him and his staff, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And I think the great support that we have here
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  Speaker 1: and some of the resources that we're gonna you know
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  Speaker 1: that we put into that part of the program, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll continue to put into that part of the program.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's only up from here. You're at me
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  Speaker 1: stretching those he put me through some of this that's
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  Speaker 1: called a workout for me, And that's the extent of it.
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  Speaker 1: How long have you worked together. He's been with me
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  Speaker 1: ever since since it was my first hire, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I got the job in Toledo. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was insistent at Arkansas back in fifteen. We went
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  Speaker 1: down and played Arkansas and you know, and actually knocked
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  Speaker 1: them off when they were in the top twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: And that was a good, physical, tough, big football team.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you could see he was on an
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  Speaker 1: SEC team look like back then, right, big, fast and physical.
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  Speaker 1: So you want to try to recreate those qualities in
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  Speaker 1: your own program. And you want a guy that really
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  Speaker 1: understands how you see things, and I think when that lines,
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  Speaker 1: you know, everything else falls into place. Yeah, something else,
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  Speaker 1: all right, guys appreciate it. Thank you, Jason,