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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a lot of explosive plays. Guys
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  Speaker 1: made plays, had made some contested catches that we hadn't
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  Speaker 1: really been making at times. A ton of explosives on
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  Speaker 1: both sides. Had the interception obviously with Jay Lou great play.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought it was cool to see all groups
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  Speaker 1: make a play, make some sort of a play guys.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was well executed for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: had some fall stars, couple holds. It wasn't perfect, but
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a good start handled it. He
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  Speaker 1: did have the one interception. Yeah, I thought he played
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  Speaker 1: awesome big He's been something he really see that playing
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  Speaker 1: the lead pitch very much, so very much. So that was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, really up until tonight. You know, it was
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  Speaker 1: like I had a little bit more just general confidence
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  Speaker 1: running them, not confidence, but we were running the ball
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  Speaker 1: well on offense in general kind of over the last
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  Speaker 1: six practices and then tonight just to see the past
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  Speaker 1: game open up a little bit more and guys get
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  Speaker 1: out in space and you know, protect fairly well. So
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  Speaker 1: that would definitely something that I was pleased with seeing
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  Speaker 1: because it really not to say that it hasn't showed up.
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  Speaker 1: It's just hard sometimes in those controlled settings to always
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  Speaker 1: when scripted to be able to get those off. He
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  Speaker 1: did like Trevor threw it. Well, you just said awesome.
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  Speaker 1: You know what did you see that you really like?
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was making sharp, fast decisions. The ball
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  Speaker 1: was getting driven constantly. I thought he was getting driven.
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  Speaker 1: He missed a few, for sure. He missed Travis down
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  Speaker 1: on the goal line behind when Ben Trel made a
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  Speaker 1: great play. But that ball's got to be out in front.
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  Speaker 1: The interception is a tough one. Parker took a little
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  Speaker 1: long on the route. We had an out in a
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  Speaker 1: corner combination down here. Then the guy that had the
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  Speaker 1: out covered fell off. He lobbed in in the back
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  Speaker 1: of the end zone. Just move on progress or throw
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  Speaker 1: it in the back of the end zone. But I
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  Speaker 1: just thought he made good, sharp decisions. He drove the ball.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he ran the show. Well. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a good night for him, knicks Travis on you
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  Speaker 1: guys saw it. I mean, pretty cool in space, isn't he?
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I thought it was great. We got
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  Speaker 1: him the work that we wanted to get with him
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  Speaker 1: on offense early on, and then able to get him
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  Speaker 1: on defense and get him enough reps I mean that
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  Speaker 1: was what we were hoping to do tonight in terms
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  Speaker 1: of just get him on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Quality work. I know he doesn't get much because of
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the one D line was getting a
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  Speaker 1: good rush, so it was a little hard to see.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought when he had the ball in his
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  Speaker 1: hands and he operated, he operated at a high level.
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  Speaker 1: It's fat for you to get acta maybe inside here
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  Speaker 1: as the head coach and the play calm confidence. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I thought the guys came out with with great energy.
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  Speaker 1: It was great to have the fan base here tonight
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people supporting our organization tonight. And
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  Speaker 1: so you know, last time I was in here was
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky Clemson Bowl game. We lost in the final minute,
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  Speaker 1: so it was cool. I think it's a fast track too.
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  Speaker 1: I just kind of noticed that being out here. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was it did a great job with the
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  Speaker 1: surface and I thought our guys felt fast tonight, which
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  Speaker 1: I was really pleased with all the stuff. The mechanism
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  Speaker 1: was freaking out. It was yeah, yeah, it was. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Shane Walder and Heath far while we're out
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  Speaker 1: there with me really helping with the operation, the refs.
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  Speaker 1: We did like a we did a full operation pregame
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the ref meeting with me in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room going through that. That was my first one,
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  Speaker 1: so that was cool. You know, we did the whole pregame.
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  Speaker 1: Was it perfect? No, but it was great to just
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  Speaker 1: get this, uh operation in before the first game. So
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  Speaker 1: for all of us just to know where your locker is,
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  Speaker 1: where's my stuff, where do I go, how do I
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  Speaker 1: handle this? And the communication throughout with penalties declining accepting.
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  Speaker 1: Not a ton of true situational ball came up that
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  Speaker 1: we had to stress, although we got the two minutes,
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  Speaker 1: the third downs, the red zone, some of that. So
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  Speaker 1: it was a great first start. You think it'll be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit easier once a game that that could
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  Speaker 1: being played. Yeah, I don't think it ever be easier.
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  Speaker 1: You'll have TV timeous, you know what I mean. Like
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  Speaker 1: this was kind of a fast Yes, it is. This
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  Speaker 1: definitely felt fast. I actually looked up at one point
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  Speaker 1: and it felt like we were kind of going on
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  Speaker 1: for a while and it looked it was like seven forty.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh geez, like we still have a
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  Speaker 1: lot more plays to go through. So it was moving
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  Speaker 1: much faster as you mentioned, so I do agree, like
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  Speaker 1: even for the guys are two to zero line, A
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  Speaker 1: lot of those guys are on the three oerd line.
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  Speaker 1: They're dying. We're trying to get them more, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more arrest. Where you say those TV
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  Speaker 1: timeouts coming, the natural stoppages of play come in, It
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  Speaker 1: definitely slows it down. Whereas tonight did feel a little fast.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get to spend enough time talking to Kimp
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  Speaker 1: and then a defensive league when you know what I
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  Speaker 1: mean calling plays on a match, Yeah, I only called
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  Speaker 1: the grant Mic was cutting out, so I called the
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  Speaker 1: first and second group for the first I don't know
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  Speaker 1: six drives and then he took the rest, so I
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  Speaker 1: was able to be on the defensive side of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: hearing his communication with his staff, just hearing the communication
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  Speaker 1: to the players. I thought they did a nice job
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  Speaker 1: with the exception of that one drive. The first defense,
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  Speaker 1: Uh did a pretty nice job. I thought, Hey, stopping
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  Speaker 1: the run and also getting some pass rush. I thought
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  Speaker 1: Jarion Jones had another a good night tonight as well.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I thought their their communication and operation on
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  Speaker 1: defense was clean as well. I thought I felt it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you definitely felt it. We were chipping, we
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  Speaker 1: were trying to help, and you know, it was getting home.
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  Speaker 1: We definitely felt it. He wasn't pressuring much either. There
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  Speaker 1: was this was being played kind of like a Pro
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  Speaker 1: Bowl from a scheme standpoint, specifically on defense, just trying
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  Speaker 1: to let them go get lined up and go play.
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  Speaker 1: So he was only bringing really single back or pressure.
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  Speaker 1: And then in the red zone he brought the one zero.
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  Speaker 1: But so we didn't you guys didn't see any of
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  Speaker 1: the blitz packages or any of that stuff, which was
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  Speaker 1: nice for nobody to see. How do you think the
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  Speaker 1: young guys handled the first time out here under the Whites? Yeah? Good?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I thought, you know, you think okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I would just say okay, I think you know you
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  Speaker 1: definitely saw some bright eyes in some ways. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think le Quinn Allen continues to show up in
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  Speaker 1: terms of just doing the right thing all the time.
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  Speaker 1: He just plays hard, he plays fast. He made a
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  Speaker 1: great move in space over here, and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: some of those younger guys need to get used to it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the lights do get a little bit brighter
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  Speaker 1: in here for them, and so just some like breaking
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  Speaker 1: the huddle formations that they haven't been jacking up. They
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  Speaker 1: did a little bit tonight, but that's kind of to
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  Speaker 1: be expected in some ways, and we'll clean this tape
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  Speaker 1: up and move on. We have a better feel for
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  Speaker 1: cam Little's range now maybe Oh my gosh, yeah, I mean, dude,
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  Speaker 1: it's I didn't even blink. I mean, it was just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna hit it. Like That's how we all felt.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have obviously seen it more than I have,
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  Speaker 1: but got a ton of confidence in Cam and obviously
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  Speaker 1: saw some of the you know, kickoffs, and I did
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  Speaker 1: a good job with that, and you know, I thought
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  Speaker 1: that the operation on special teams was as sharp as
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  Speaker 1: it usually is. Anton gets some rep to at left tackle.
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  Speaker 1: Was that hard to play? And are you just trying
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  Speaker 1: to get them some more work? Yeah, we're just we
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  Speaker 1: were trying to mix and match. With cold being out,
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  Speaker 1: we got to figure out who our swing tackle is
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  Speaker 1: going to be for the short term right now. Specific specifically,
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  Speaker 1: we still have obviously competition going on at all spots,
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  Speaker 1: but specifically that position. We want to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: we're giving guys the opportunity to be on the right
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  Speaker 1: side and the left side that's why Anton moved over there,
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  Speaker 1: so that we could kind of get a good evaluation
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  Speaker 1: of all those tackles being able to play on both sides,
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  Speaker 1: because you don't know what's truly which side they're best at,
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  Speaker 1: and they got to get good at both if they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be our swing tackle. Ten days, little sleep,
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  Speaker 1: are you? Are you on track? I think probably about
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  Speaker 1: where I expected us to be in some ways. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think tonight was maybe a little bit more explosive
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  Speaker 1: than I expected us to be in some ways. So
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  Speaker 1: that was just a pleasant surprise, not surprise, but it
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  Speaker 1: was just pleasant to see, you know, we have guys
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  Speaker 1: that can make explosive plays and do it. It's just
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  Speaker 1: tonight maybe happened a little bit more than it has.
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  Speaker 1: And then really just from a physicality standpoint discipline, we
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  Speaker 1: got to continue to become more disciplined as a team.
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  Speaker 1: With the penalties, jumping off side, formations, alignment, assignment. That's
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  Speaker 1: never going to stop getting critiqued, probably, but once we
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  Speaker 1: get to a point where we do stop having to
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  Speaker 1: worry about that, maybe we can start worrying a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more on the fundamentals, techniques and kind of the craft.
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  Speaker 1: If you will. It seems like Mas has kind of
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  Speaker 1: come on the last couple of days. How pleased have
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  Speaker 1: you been with them? Yeah, I think like you said,
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  Speaker 1: it's been really the last three practices, I'd say he's
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  Speaker 1: kind of taking another step. Right. He had a great
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  Speaker 1: spring and then was just maybe a little quiet early
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  Speaker 1: on in training camp. And it's not like he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: doing his job, just maybe either wasn't coming his way
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  Speaker 1: or you know, didn't come down with a couple one
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  Speaker 1: on one ops. And tonight was just great to see
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  Speaker 1: him get out in the open field because you can see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he can run. He can run. He was
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  Speaker 1: coming in the middle of the field fearlessly multiple times.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of been consistent throughout the spring as well.
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  Speaker 1: So been pleased with him. He's never really miss aligns,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't jack up formations or motions like he's just
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  Speaker 1: a good pro. He's done a nice job and been
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  Speaker 1: happy with him. Thank you, Thank you very much.