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Mike Macdonald On The Team's Early Training Camp Progress · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, I love this cadence. You know, every other
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  Speaker 1: day pretty good, another grade day. You know, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Those days when the twelves are all out here, it's
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  Speaker 2: really special. But today is still great. Well, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Guys are in good spirits. A lot of stuff where
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  Speaker 2: you need to work on. We're not uh a long
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  Speaker 2: way to go, but you know, just let's focus on
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  Speaker 2: what we gotta do next, you know. So I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to finish practice little bit better, uh tomorrow, to finish
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  Speaker 2: out this ramp period, and then we'll get a day
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  Speaker 2: off and be back in pads on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you got?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's a I mean, there's always things you're finding
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  Speaker 2: that you want to that you want to do a
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  Speaker 2: better job of. I think we have a pretty clear
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  Speaker 2: vision about how we want to operate, you know, given
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  Speaker 2: the circumstance and uh, you know, you hit it, that's great.
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  Speaker 1: What's you know, Let's go hit it again the next day.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't, then you know we fall short. What
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  Speaker 1: can we do better to to go go hit it
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  Speaker 1: the next day?
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's just there's these there's all these
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  Speaker 2: little you know, benchmarks that you're that you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: hit and uh, and you know.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing a good job. We're doing a good job.
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  Speaker 2: It's we're trying to refining ourselves. We got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of young guys getting a lot of good reps, so
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good stuff going on. The tempos are
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  Speaker 2: a little funky right now. It's not a lot of
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  Speaker 2: like challenge at the catch point. You know, it's not
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  Speaker 2: as not as physical as it will get, which is
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  Speaker 2: which is good. You know, the guys are getting their
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  Speaker 2: legs underneath them another store right now. So and we're
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  Speaker 2: dealing with a few things. But uh, kind of part
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  Speaker 2: for the course on that front.
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  Speaker 3: I don't talk about Liz's versus as non sending people,
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  Speaker 3: but you guys also just send different people. How do
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  Speaker 3: you think about blitzing versus rush variety.
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  Speaker 2: Of actually about like on like dropback situations. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: think you need to have the threat of bringing people,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if if you're if you're not uh, if
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  Speaker 2: you're not able to bring second and third level players.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that probably makes offenses job a little
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  Speaker 2: too easy. But it's kind of like what's what are
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  Speaker 2: we really good at?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: You know, how do we want to attack this offense.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's a little bit more, a little bit more pressure.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's a little bit more for man rush. But
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  Speaker 2: it's not like we're going into a game saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we have to operate in a certain like cadence or
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  Speaker 2: pattern or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: I think that kind of limits to a little bit
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  Speaker 1: too much like a blitzer. Good. Yeah, he's done a
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  Speaker 1: good job.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he didn't have any opportunities during last year's
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  Speaker 2: last season, but I remember in the preseason he did
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  Speaker 2: a good.
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  Speaker 1: Job when he got those ops. And he's an athletic, guys,
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  Speaker 1: He's powerful. You know, he's not as big as a nick,
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  Speaker 1: but he's he's pretty pretty dang strong too, and he
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  Speaker 1: can he can run.
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  Speaker 2: And he's really good near the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: So he's been doing some of that stuff. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Just to follow up on Bell well, answers claimed it, Well,
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  Speaker 4: you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty said that you were going to target him or
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  Speaker 3: was it one of those deals where you thought you
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  Speaker 3: lost him and that was tough luck deals before he
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  Speaker 3: came back.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't remember specifics.
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  Speaker 2: I just remember being bummed that, uh, that he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: going to be here, and I think with those things,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you've seen times where it's kind of a
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  Speaker 2: week to week thing, you know, like he gets claimed,
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  Speaker 2: he might be might be ready the next week. So
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to make too much of the situation. Just
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  Speaker 2: kind of make the best decision at that point. Now
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  Speaker 2: that and he got claimed. Unfortunately, it happens more than
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  Speaker 2: you want when we when we lose some of our
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  Speaker 2: own guys.
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  Speaker 4: Was talking with us earlier about how good he's seeing
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  Speaker 4: the tally. Yeah, the kind of shouting out the strengthen condition,
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  Speaker 4: just now what.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen that Dawn. Yeah, you can definitely feel him today.
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  Speaker 1: Uh it's you.
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  Speaker 2: Want to affect the quarterback, but not too much at
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  Speaker 2: this point. It's part of the training camp. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's doing great. He's doing great. He's getting used to
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  Speaker 2: how we roll here, and I think I think he's
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  Speaker 2: enjoying his time, which is a positive. But uh, definitely
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  Speaker 2: definitely seen flashes for sure, So we're excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: This is the first time you get to see Riley
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  Speaker 2: Mills out here for training camp practices.
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  Speaker 1: It had a couple of splashy plays today. Their lateness say,
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  Speaker 1: how have you seen him progress here? Now he's actually
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  Speaker 1: get to be on the field that saying, I'm really
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  Speaker 1: happy for him. I know he's excited.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's a type of guy that you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: feel his spirit out here in his competitiveness and again
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  Speaker 2: there's there's things part of his game that we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: always be attacking and he's he's gonna take advantage of
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  Speaker 2: opportunities and he's putting in the extra work.
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  Speaker 1: He's kind of like a.
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  Speaker 2: Football junkie, you know, the whole processes, which honest is
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  Speaker 2: probably the most what you respect about him the most
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  Speaker 2: is the amount of work that he's willing to put in,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of behind the scenes to come out
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  Speaker 2: here and and uh and perform and execute.
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  Speaker 1: So he's off to a good start. Julian Neil that.
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  Speaker 2: We saw, Yeah, I had a couple of guys today
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  Speaker 2: that we we just took in that didn't seem like
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  Speaker 2: anything major, but we're gonna get checked out and see
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  Speaker 2: what you need to do.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned, how do you like having Jack here and has.
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  Speaker 3: A change perspective at all, our help perspective to have
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  Speaker 3: a zone around that probably cares more about the trucks
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  Speaker 3: out there and then the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that was the that was That was the way
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  Speaker 2: Jack was about five minutes after to the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: So nothing's really changed on that front.
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  Speaker 2: He's a little bit more like aware of what's going
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  Speaker 2: on this training camp than he was last training camp.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty cool for him to kind of see stuff
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  Speaker 2: rounding and get excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know how it is in your parents.
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  Speaker 2: Just see your kid light up about anything, You're like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is the coolest thing ever. They're joking me like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you need to buy one of those trucks now. For him,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, relax, not so fast.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously came in learning the last year.
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  Speaker 1: Draking camp for the offense.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think, uh, for the folks that watched
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  Speaker 2: our practices in the spring, just like to see the
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  Speaker 2: improvement in the timing between him and Sam is uh
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  Speaker 2: was really exciting going into into the off season. I
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  Speaker 2: think they've picked up right where they left off. And
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  Speaker 2: I know they put some work in this off scene
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  Speaker 2: as well, like throughout you know, throughout the summer. So
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  Speaker 2: that's definitely paying dividends. And look, it's something that we
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  Speaker 2: just have to keep attacking, you know, like what what's
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  Speaker 2: what are the ways that we can get him the ball,
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  Speaker 2: whatever his top routes, How does the timing work out?
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  Speaker 2: All those types of things. That's why you know these
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  Speaker 2: reps you can you have a great understanding of that.
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  Speaker 2: And so when when it's you know, we're when we're
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  Speaker 2: playing our real games, it's just we're just doing what
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  Speaker 2: we've been practicing this whole time.
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  Speaker 1: Is gonna get up in a second, get a rare year?
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  Speaker 1: Last year? What can you say about hips last year,
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  Speaker 1: all the interceptions just the beginning. Yeah, uh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't say. I mean, we love e J. He's
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  Speaker 1: just he's the best.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like he's just kind of the alpha
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the defense, and he has such
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  Speaker 2: a great temperature and understanding of like when to push,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what what do our guys knee and when
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  Speaker 2: in terms of messaging and like attitude and just kind
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  Speaker 2: of sets the tone for the whole operation, let alone
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  Speaker 2: like patrolling the middle of our defense in the run
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  Speaker 2: game and the pass game.
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  Speaker 1: So he's just he's the man. He's the man.
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  Speaker 2: He's having a great camp, is in great shape, So
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  Speaker 2: we're excited to keep that going.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe to under that bro you were talking about a
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  Speaker 4: minute ago on the entry front, but like, is he
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  Speaker 4: pretty well ready to go for you guys here at
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  Speaker 4: the start a camp, Like do you feel like you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to manage him through it or.
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  Speaker 1: What he has?
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  Speaker 5: People?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're managing him right now.
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  Speaker 2: And I think for all those guys that didn't participate
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  Speaker 2: much in the spring, they're all on their kind of
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  Speaker 2: independent plan.
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  Speaker 1: You know, think of it as a ramp, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Just.
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  Speaker 2: Give more exposures until until their body is ready to
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  Speaker 2: go one hundred percent, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's the plan right now. But everything we
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  Speaker 1: want to plan.
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  Speaker 2: Having Zach orr Andre and Thomas Hammicks. Having having those guys,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a little bit of a It's been
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  Speaker 2: an eye opening experience for it. You know, when you
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  Speaker 2: haven't been in a lot of places, you assume that
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  Speaker 2: everywhere is the same. And I think they've realized that
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  Speaker 2: we have our own way of doing things here, which
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  Speaker 2: is an interesting forum. But they've been tremendous assets, all
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  Speaker 2: three coaches. It's kind of like kind of like our
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  Speaker 2: new players on our teams, it's, uh, hey, we want
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  Speaker 2: you to come and be yourself.
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  Speaker 1: But like there's also we want you to contribute.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the reason that we want you here is
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  Speaker 2: to be is you know, to take part in our
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  Speaker 2: growth as a team and who we can become.
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  Speaker 1: And so, uh, they're not shy about that, which I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that about him.
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  Speaker 3: You were you were here obviously when Nick Coodet was
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  Speaker 3: here before, but just bringing him back, what kind of
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  Speaker 3: what you've seen.
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  Speaker 1: That out either join Nick Benette done a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I know we've gone against him plenty of times and
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  Speaker 2: he's not an easy guy to get out of the
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  Speaker 2: sea gap.
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  Speaker 1: He can he can block, and he's got a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good rouchery and right after the catch. He's a big dude.
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  Speaker 2: So just get talking to him briefly. So far, he
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  Speaker 2: seems like he's excited to be here. He's locked in
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  Speaker 2: in meetings and stuff, which I always appreciate to see that.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, it's doing a good.
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  Speaker 4: Job from Jarian over the first three days.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's.
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  Speaker 2: It's like is is is it tough to evaluate right now?
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  Speaker 2: Kind of you know, without with the tempos and things
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  Speaker 2: and see how like the runs finish. But you can
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  Speaker 2: see the decisiveness, you can see the uh, the movement ability,
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  Speaker 2: like the quickness, the speed, doing a lot of great
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  Speaker 2: things and pass protection, which I you know, I appreciate.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, it's positive right now. Just really excited
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  Speaker 2: about him. He's got a great opportunity in front him.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know Ham's coaching his tail.
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  Speaker 1: Off and and so I think we're in We're just
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  Speaker 1: in a good spot right now, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But it'll be interesting to see how how it shakes
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  Speaker 2: out and we start getting some some more you know,
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  Speaker 2: more realistic type looking reps.
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  Speaker 3: On his past protection of Notre Dame, he said he
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  Speaker 3: didn't do much of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough. It's touff.
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  Speaker 2: You just still you don't know what they're being taught,
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  Speaker 2: and you know the looks and the timing of plays
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  Speaker 2: and things like that, and so it's just really it's
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  Speaker 2: just an attention.
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  Speaker 1: And detail and being able to think on your feet.
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  Speaker 2: And he can do those things and you know, I'll
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  Speaker 2: throw his face in there too, which you appreciate, like
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  Speaker 2: that you've seen there, Yeah, he's I mean, you guys
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  Speaker 2: have seen it. He has caught a lot of passes.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's some variety to the things he can
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  Speaker 2: do out of the backfield. Again, we'll see we'll see,
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  Speaker 2: But right now, there's not a lot of things that
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  Speaker 2: you're you know, checking off the stuff that he can't
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  Speaker 2: do or you think that he can't do. So that's exciting,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're not there's a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of opportunity out there, Mike, with.
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  Speaker 4: Bryan Furry, a couple of months to getting to know
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  Speaker 4: him now a couple of can't Well, what's kind of
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  Speaker 4: how what's that process been like for you? What have
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  Speaker 4: you kind of learned about him in a couple of
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  Speaker 4: months spent here, what's kind of stood out there at
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  Speaker 4: the comers or what you've had.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been great, He's he's been really, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's been tremendous.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's not an it's not an easy task to
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  Speaker 2: come into a staff that's mostly been here and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of players that have been here that are used
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  Speaker 2: to doing a certain way, and you know, how do
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  Speaker 2: you how do you mold you know your how do
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  Speaker 2: you make your vision come to life within the framework
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  Speaker 2: of all the things that have been here? Is probably
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  Speaker 2: easier said than done. And we want to encourage him
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  Speaker 2: to keep you know, bringing his visional life and his
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  Speaker 2: you know, being himself and like like I said, the
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  Speaker 2: guys that we brought in from from you know, Thomas
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  Speaker 2: and the guys from Baltimore. It's like, hey, we we
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  Speaker 2: brought you in for a reason and uh, and like
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  Speaker 2: contribute the way that that you see fit and be
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  Speaker 2: a part of this thing.
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  Speaker 1: And he's done that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's been great. It's been great, and I've
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  Speaker 2: learned a lot from him. You know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things that.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing, you know, post snap and how we're teaching
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  Speaker 1: detail in terms of the run.
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  Speaker 2: Game and the past game after we catch, what we
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  Speaker 2: do with the ball, things that I definitely haven't heard
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  Speaker 2: the way explained like that. And then I think it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a huge benefit for us. And then when
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  Speaker 2: we get into game planning and stuff, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be you know, it's gonna be a new process
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  Speaker 2: for all of us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we we've done some simulations, but there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: like until you get into the fight. And he's just
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  Speaker 1: been great to work with.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's a problem solver, he thinks three dimensionally,
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  Speaker 2: he's communicator really well, So all those things have been
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  Speaker 2: really fun to work with.
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  Speaker 5: You might going back to tempo, the importance of creating
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  Speaker 5: it on offense, and then also the flip side defense
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  Speaker 5: is kind of stopping that tempo.
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  Speaker 1: And disrupting the temple defense. What's the question.
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  Speaker 5: So the question is how do you create tempo on
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  Speaker 5: offense and on defense and defensive group? How important is
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  Speaker 5: it to disrupt tempo.
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  Speaker 1: Tempo or timing you google?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I think it just goes like okay, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: offensively in terms of tempo and how we operate, that's
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  Speaker 2: really important to us. That's something you can practice and
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  Speaker 2: a walk through. It's something that we want to be
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  Speaker 2: able to you know, be able to do from here
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  Speaker 2: until they tell me that I'm not welcome here anymore.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's it's kind of a non negotiableut. How we
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  Speaker 2: play offense and defense is the same way. So I
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  Speaker 2: think there's like principles with how you want, you know,
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  Speaker 2: your football team to play and whether whatever phase you're
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  Speaker 2: on offense, if it's they're special teams, there's different ways
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  Speaker 2: for that to come to life, you know, And so
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  Speaker 2: that's that's what we Uh So we try to coach
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  Speaker 2: the stuff that I can coach, you know, like I'm
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  Speaker 2: not coaching quarterbacks throwing mechanics, but I can I can
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  Speaker 2: coach decision making and how we take the ball, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, how we get out of the huddle and
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  Speaker 2: things like that.
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  Speaker 3: How was the conditioning of these guys and they came back.
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  Speaker 4: From the break.
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  Speaker 1: It had been great, It had been great.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of guys had to run it a couple
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  Speaker 2: of times, but everyone passed and with flying colors, which
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  Speaker 2: is exciting everything else okay, all right, thank you,