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Press Pass | Liam Coen & Trevor Lawrence on Readiness for 2025 Regular Season · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Stands out about Tim Patrick and why is it important
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  Speaker 1: to kind of have different body types struck and receiver
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  Speaker 1: a room.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that the thing that stood out for
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  Speaker 2: us of Tim was a guy that had really gone
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  Speaker 2: through a ton and throughout his career to come in
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  Speaker 2: last year and step up for the lines in a
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  Speaker 2: big way. You know, had about four hundred and some
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  Speaker 2: yards receiving four touchdowns. But it's what he does without
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  Speaker 2: the ball that is is really cool to watch. His
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  Speaker 2: sense of urgency, physicality, a guy that you know, it
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  Speaker 2: kind of is the word tough that comes to mind.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty obvious and both mentally and physically. So that
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  Speaker 2: was kind of what went into that decision was getting another,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a bigger type body guy that can give
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  Speaker 2: us quality snaps and a guy that can you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's physically he's played a lot of football in the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: He's had a lot of success, and he brings another
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  Speaker 2: you know, veteran maturity coming from a successful organization and
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  Speaker 2: and had has had a lot of personal perseverance in
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  Speaker 2: the last few years to get where he's at.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of young guys in the receiver room.
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  Speaker 1: How much value can he bring just from that veteran presidency.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Huge.
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  Speaker 2: I mean how much that he's been able to see
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  Speaker 2: throughout his time in the NFL, you know, coming from
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  Speaker 2: working with those guys with Amara and JMO and those
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  Speaker 2: guys in Detroit, and what the stories to tell me
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  Speaker 2: about Amen Roan, how we practiced and how he did
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  Speaker 2: things was pretty.
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  Speaker 3: Cool to hear.
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  Speaker 2: And if some of that can continue to rub off
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  Speaker 2: on our guys, that's only a positive, it's only a
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  Speaker 2: good thing.
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  Speaker 3: So it's great to have Tim with us.
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  Speaker 5: There is planning for him to play a lot on special.
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  Speaker 3: Teams or no on special teams. I'd have to talk
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  Speaker 3: to heat.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's necessarily why he's that's not
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  Speaker 2: why he's here, Yeah, yeah, yeah, but he may have
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  Speaker 2: to back up a couple of positions or something like
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  Speaker 2: that down.
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  Speaker 4: To fifty three.
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  Speaker 1: Now, just in terms of the roster, how do you
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  Speaker 1: feel about the overall shape of it and.
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  Speaker 3: Just where you guys are at as a team.
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  Speaker 2: You feel solid about it. It's We've talked about this
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  Speaker 2: a few times. It's it's always being evaluated and and
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  Speaker 2: you know the way that you're continuing to find ways
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  Speaker 2: to create an edge or fill a hole or or upgrade.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that those things do occur throughout. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: proud of the guys that made it for sure, and
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  Speaker 2: really happy to have some of the guys on practice
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  Speaker 2: squad that we're able to keep because you know, we
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  Speaker 2: all know that show team is such a huge important
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  Speaker 2: part of this thing.
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  Speaker 3: So h you know, please with it. We have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of work to do.
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  Speaker 5: How would you evaluate the defensive line, the decision to
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  Speaker 5: keep a couple of extra edges, and the story of
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  Speaker 5: Danny and Bijik.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so the ability that right with both Agba and
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  Speaker 2: Smoot give us the ability to reduce a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: so you can go a little heavier on the edge
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  Speaker 2: because those guys can reduce down and play a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of you know, four I a little three technique
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  Speaker 2: if you need so. And obviously Trayvon does that as well,
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  Speaker 2: So that's kind of the reason for a little bit
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  Speaker 2: heavier on the edge.
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  Speaker 3: And then bj And and Straggau both earned it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they earned it throughout their performances since they
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  Speaker 2: got here, continuing to improve, and then once especially once
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  Speaker 2: we got the pads on, you were able to see
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  Speaker 2: both of those guys specifically Bjy show up and in
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  Speaker 2: the pressures and in the relentless play and the way
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  Speaker 2: that he kind of goes about it. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: please with them in two undrafted free agents make your
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  Speaker 2: fifty three and you know we're gonna we're gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Need him at some point.
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  Speaker 2: But also they will do a phenomenal job giving our
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  Speaker 2: offensive line a look every week because they're relentless, the
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  Speaker 2: way they practice, the way they compete, all of that
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  Speaker 2: kind of goes into it as well. Not yet, next Monday,
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  Speaker 2: I believe Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a combination.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they vote and you take that all into
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  Speaker 2: consideration and you guys, you sit down with the staff
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  Speaker 2: and decide, you know what it's the best for the team.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll announce that we voted today. Well, I have
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  Speaker 2: the data now to go look at and talk to
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  Speaker 2: the staff about and we'll make that decision.
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  Speaker 3: We'll announce on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: If you think back to kind of the early parts
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  Speaker 1: of spring, where's the biggest growth from Trevor to this point.
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  Speaker 2: I think, with the exception of today, you know, was
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  Speaker 2: taking care of the football. Like in the spring, there
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  Speaker 2: was a little bit more maybe errant, maybe misses and
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more it was daily almost in some
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  Speaker 2: ways where you're getting used to the scheme, you're getting
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  Speaker 2: used to your footwork, you're getting used to new receivers.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's not as clean. It's still not where
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  Speaker 3: it needs to be, which is the beautiful part. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it shouldn't be. We don't expect it to be that
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  Speaker 3: way right now.
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  Speaker 2: But for the most part, like just taking care of
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  Speaker 2: the football is a huge thing, and if we can
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  Speaker 2: run the football more effectively, obviously create more turnovers defensively
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  Speaker 2: and be able to take care of the football, you're
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  Speaker 2: not beating yourself. And so I think from a ball
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  Speaker 2: security standpoint, I've seen some growth. There is going to
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  Speaker 2: throw a pick here and there in practice, like it's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen, but it hasn't been as much at
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  Speaker 2: all since the.
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  Speaker 3: Spring coming in. Was that something that you were concerned
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  Speaker 3: about just looking.
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  Speaker 2: At his film, It wasn't more that it would look
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  Speaker 2: like it was a guy that was, you know, at times,
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  Speaker 2: trying to do too much. You know, like, man, the
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  Speaker 2: run game's not really hitting here, and every throw becomes
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more magnified when when maybe you don't
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  Speaker 2: have balance and so I think it was a matter
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  Speaker 2: of you don't have to like every throw is not
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  Speaker 2: going to make or break the game. Like we got
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  Speaker 2: to take care of the football. We want to be
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  Speaker 2: efficient inaccurate in the past game, but we have to
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  Speaker 2: know when to throw the thing away, knowing to maybe
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  Speaker 2: eat it and have to take a sack, which we
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  Speaker 2: never want to really do.
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  Speaker 3: But it's better than giving them the ball. If you end.
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  Speaker 2: Every drive with a kick, usually you'll be okay. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: obviously don't want too many of those three punts, but
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  Speaker 2: we're the biggest theme for us has been not beating
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  Speaker 2: ourselves because before we can really start to beat other teams,
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  Speaker 2: we cannot beat ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: And that has been an issue here.
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  Speaker 5: That plan that you put together for Travis and getting
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  Speaker 5: them ready to go both sides and split into certain practices,
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  Speaker 5: would you call it a success even if you take
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  Speaker 5: out you've taken out obviously to practice this.
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  Speaker 3: Because yeah, that was a bummer to not have them
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  Speaker 3: for ime issue. What's it been ten days or so.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe a little bit more so, that's obviously a bummer
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  Speaker 2: to lose that time because it was doing this for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But I think from a scheduling standpoint, I do think
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  Speaker 2: that it's been a success. I mean, he's he still
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  Speaker 2: wants more, which is good, but he's got also hone
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  Speaker 2: in on the details and get back to that after
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  Speaker 2: being away for ten days. So but I've I do
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  Speaker 2: believe it was a success. I think we'll have a
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  Speaker 2: good aar about it after to really look at all, right,
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  Speaker 2: was that the best plan?
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  Speaker 3: How do we look at it for next offseason? And
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  Speaker 3: how does that look like for a next training camp.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe now's not the time to have that, but that's
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  Speaker 2: what we will do and kind of reevaluate how he
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  Speaker 2: handles a game plan on both sides of the ball,
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  Speaker 2: because so much of it's going to be training camp plays, right,
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  Speaker 2: you want to go out and execute what you do
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  Speaker 2: best in the first game because you don't have truly
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  Speaker 2: any scout tape on what they are right now.
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  Speaker 1: And Ransa will still get something out of his rooky
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  Speaker 1: year just being in meetings, being around the guys.
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  Speaker 3: He has to.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, those guys have to stay and it's really
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  Speaker 2: difficult when you're heard and you know it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a tough go so you've got to and he's
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  Speaker 2: the type of guy that will handle it the right way.
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  Speaker 2: He's had injuries in the past, you know, he's been
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  Speaker 2: hurt before, he's been able to stay locked in and
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  Speaker 2: come back from that. So I have the confidence in
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  Speaker 2: him that he'll be in there doing the right things.
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  Speaker 2: Why I mean the guy I remember hearing a story
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  Speaker 2: when he had surgery, he had tulane he had he
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  Speaker 2: was waiting to get surgery and he had his or
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  Speaker 2: he just had surgery and he had his iPad with
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  Speaker 2: him and he had the video guy download all of
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  Speaker 2: the best nickels in the NFL and he was watching
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  Speaker 2: all their tape while he was, you know, out of
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  Speaker 2: post ops. So he's got that right mindset and he
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  Speaker 2: has to take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 4: A little talk this a little talk topic, but are
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  Speaker 4: you push push guy.
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  Speaker 3: Or oh man?
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  Speaker 2: I do believe in quarterback sneaks and we do have
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  Speaker 2: a push variation, you know, so it obviously the rule
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  Speaker 2: is what it is, so you do need to probably
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of it at times. We do have a
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  Speaker 2: bigger quarterback that you know, can get a couple of
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  Speaker 2: yards you hope, or a yard or two. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we do have that in our scheme. It's hard to
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  Speaker 2: simulate it. Out here in these settings, but we do
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  Speaker 2: have it, especially if you need it based on maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's a backed up you're on the one yard line
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  Speaker 2: or you know, one inch line and you need to
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  Speaker 2: go out and get it there, and we'll look at it.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, I think we were I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: we were in short yardage in the NFL, but I
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  Speaker 2: think we're.
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  Speaker 3: It was good.
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  Speaker 2: It was just we didn't do a ton of que
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  Speaker 2: sneaks because Baker was not the biggest even though he
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  Speaker 2: would probably bust my chops for saying that, but he can.
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  Speaker 3: He can get them too though, so it'll be a
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  Speaker 3: part of this game.
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  Speaker 1: Back to Caleb, was that story you shared he had
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  Speaker 1: surgery at Tulane.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was surgery at Tulane or something
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  Speaker 2: when he had had an injury at some point in
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  Speaker 2: his career.
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  Speaker 3: And that's right. It was during college.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, he was during college, and he was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, really starting to get ahead and just look
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  Speaker 2: at how he could improve his game by watching nfls
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  Speaker 2: do it, NFL players do it.
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  Speaker 3: So he's got that makeup.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm very good friends with his college coach, John
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  Speaker 2: summer All and you know the way he's always spoken
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  Speaker 2: about him, has always been pretty consistent with what we've
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  Speaker 2: seen so far. And Doctor Travis in terms of workload
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  Speaker 2: and actice, what is your expectation Obviously you know.
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  Speaker 4: Not to give away game plan, but in terms of
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  Speaker 4: how you manage him now week to.
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  Speaker 2: Week, it'll be very similar to where you know based
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  Speaker 2: on how we do it, because the one offense goes
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  Speaker 2: and then the one defense goes separate, so that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of you can get him in on both of those
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  Speaker 2: based on the rep count and if he's in with
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  Speaker 2: whichever group, whether it's the first of the second group
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  Speaker 2: to get reps. It's about maximizing, especially now because those
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  Speaker 2: reps trimmed down in the course of a practice, so
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  Speaker 2: we're not gonna get maybe those forty to fifty reps
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  Speaker 2: in each practice that we've been kind of consistently getting
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  Speaker 2: through our training camp, so we have to maximize exactly
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  Speaker 2: every before every practice, Eb and Milo are gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to go through each and every play and highlight which
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  Speaker 2: ones he specifically needs to get so that we're very
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  Speaker 2: intentional about his reps.
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  Speaker 3: All right, a day one install.
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  Speaker 2: That we've run four five, like you know, fifty times now,
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  Speaker 2: or whatever it is. He doesn't probably need that rep
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  Speaker 2: on a Wednesday. You know, it's let's make the most
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  Speaker 2: of his reps and make sure that he's getting the
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  Speaker 2: quality work that he needs.
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  Speaker 5: It's been a long offseason, but personally, how excited are
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  Speaker 5: you to finally get to the starting line.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really it's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you take the job and so much has
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  Speaker 2: kind of occurred since, but you haven't been able to
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  Speaker 2: play a game yet. And that's ultimately what we are
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  Speaker 2: judged by, right is wins and losses at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day. But you're really more excited to see
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  Speaker 2: these guys go play and you know, win or loss.
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  Speaker 2: You want to just see, Okay, what's our resiliency, Like
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  Speaker 2: what is our response? Like get guys in games, and
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  Speaker 2: typically you know, you see one thing.
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  Speaker 3: Or the other.
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  Speaker 2: Right, there's guys that will impress us that may we
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  Speaker 2: might not have seen yet. I mean, that's just game day.
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  Speaker 2: Anything can happen. So I'm just excited to see these
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  Speaker 2: guys go out and play with with joy, with urgent enjoyment,
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  Speaker 2: and go play with each other, you know, and see
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  Speaker 2: how they respond to adversity, how we all respond to adversity.
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  Speaker 5: Can you look at the runs one trying to find
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  Speaker 5: balance this year? Do you feel like you're making progress
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  Speaker 5: towards being that type of balanced offense that can help
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  Speaker 5: the quarterback out.
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  Speaker 3: We're making progress, you know.
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  Speaker 2: It's so hard to truly judge it going into week
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  Speaker 2: one because you've only had the really the one joint
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  Speaker 2: and then the few preseason reps.
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  Speaker 3: That you get with the first group.
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  Speaker 2: But I think if you look at the entirety of
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  Speaker 2: it throughout training camp, the physicality in which I think
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  Speaker 2: we practiced for the majority of the time when we
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  Speaker 2: would go, I do believe was showing progress throughout that time.
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  Speaker 2: And then you look at some of the preseason ops,
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  Speaker 2: even with maybe the second and third groups in there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being able to be physical in the run
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  Speaker 2: game and finish people and the backs doing some different things.
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  Speaker 3: So are we there yet? It's hard to say.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't get good in the run game in Tampa
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  Speaker 2: really until after Week four last year, where I think
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  Speaker 2: we rushed for about like ninety yards almost one hundred
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  Speaker 2: yards Week one, we rushed for like forty yards Week
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  Speaker 2: two against the Lions, and we weren't really moving it
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  Speaker 2: running the football at all and it was getting better.
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  Speaker 2: You could see it kind of trending. But after week
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  Speaker 2: four we kind of made a tweak and started doing
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  Speaker 2: a few things.
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  Speaker 3: Differently and it kind of took off.
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  Speaker 2: So ultimately it may take a few games to truly
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  Speaker 2: see what that evolution is because running the football takes
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  Speaker 2: all eleven. Takes all eleven, whereas a pass play, yes
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  Speaker 2: it takes all eleven, but you just sometimes you just
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  Speaker 2: need the protection of work the quarterback to throw it
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  Speaker 2: to the guy and you need him to catch it right.
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  Speaker 3: You need everybody to be the right spot at the right.
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  Speaker 2: Time and execute their routes and concepts exactly right. The
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  Speaker 2: run game, it takes a little bit more detail and
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  Speaker 2: all eleven being involved.
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  Speaker 6: I did love how college football used to be, so
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  Speaker 6: not to be one of those guys and there's all
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  Speaker 6: exactly no no, I think just whatever it is, it is.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm happy for the guys that are getting money.
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  Speaker 6: I think that's great, especially for you look at some
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  Speaker 6: people that their NFL careers don't pan out the way
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  Speaker 6: some people think like you just never know, and there's
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  Speaker 6: guys that have opportunities to make a lot of money
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  Speaker 6: in college and then don't end up making that money
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  Speaker 6: in the NFL, So it's great for those situations. I
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  Speaker 6: do think there is something special about college and you know,
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  Speaker 6: not being professional and all those things.
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  Speaker 4: It's like the great experience. But who knows. I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: these kids are having fun and I'll stack of money
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  Speaker 4: in the front.
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  Speaker 6: No, oh, thank you, thank you. No, I didn't get
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  Speaker 6: the brown paper bag. Some people will call it.
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  Speaker 3: But what kind of report?
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  Speaker 5: What kind of report? Trying to establish for Lee, I'm
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  Speaker 5: be able to play calling during this training camp.
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  Speaker 6: Just constant communication throughout practice. Obviously there's a lot of
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  Speaker 6: breaks between series and all that stuff where we can
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  Speaker 6: catch up on some plays or even right after a play,
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  Speaker 6: I'll kind of give me his feedback on what he's thinking,
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  Speaker 6: what he sees. So all that stuff I've just been
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  Speaker 6: taken in for the last really, i mean four months
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  Speaker 6: or month whatever it's been since the spring. So that's
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  Speaker 6: been great, I'd say too, like in the meeting rooms
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  Speaker 6: and now game planning, like that's a.
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  Speaker 4: Big part of it.
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  Speaker 6: Week to week, it's gonna change, and we have such
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  Speaker 6: a good staf. It does a great job of breaking
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  Speaker 6: down you know, whether it's defenses, our scheme, our plan,
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  Speaker 6: why we're doing things a certain way, and I think
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  Speaker 6: just talking with Liam throughout the week and making sure
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  Speaker 6: once we step on the field Sunday, we're just in
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  Speaker 6: lockstep as far as what he's seeing, why he's calling
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  Speaker 6: certain things. Obviously, it's my job to get the ball
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  Speaker 6: to the right guy, and that coverage has changed, so
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  Speaker 6: it's not always going to go to who you're setting
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  Speaker 6: the play up for. But there's a ton of options
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  Speaker 6: out there, so I got to play the play out.
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: But knowing what he's thinking, why he's calling certain things,
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: is certainly valuable, and we want to be on the
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: same page.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: I feel like.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: We're, you know, on a great jectory on that, but
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: it's week to week. You got to continue to communicate.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: I guess it was.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Yesterday, but that first day where you walk out, it's
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: the fifty three smaller practice, different feeling.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Way, different feeling.
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: That's always it's always one of the weirdest days of
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: the year. You know, you've had these guys around since
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: spring and you've kind of built those relationships. You're used
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: to having a full locker room, full practice field, and
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: then all through training camp, guys are competing guys are
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: trying to earn roster spots. You're just building your team,
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: and it's all it's just a weird reality of this
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: that not everyone's gonna make it along for the whole way.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: And uh, that's the tough part about it.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: Is you know, you have friends that come and go,
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: guys you build relationships with that have done a great job,
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: that have worked hard to try to earn a spot,
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: and it just doesn't work out.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: And so that's always the hardest part.
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: But you know, for our team, for the guys, it
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: is you know, the fifty three plus the practice, but
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: those guys are those guys are on this team as well,
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: and they're a.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Huge part of it. So this is the group we
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: have and I'm really pumped about it.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: But it is the tough part of the business is
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: you know, you see guys coming go a lot, but
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: you also know it's good for sure, Yeah, exactly. And
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: then we're that's also the same time we transition out
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: of camp and we start kind of supplementing, like some
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: of the Carolina and stuff, and you're getting ready for
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: week one, start the game plan, so you start to
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: narrow in your scheme a little bit because in training camp,
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: everything's an option. The whole playbook's in as you're trying
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: just to get everything in and run it. But now
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: it's more focused on the defense we're gonna see and
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: what we want to run against.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: It look like a good day with BT or you
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: seeing him kind of sharpen up as the opener gets closer.
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you know, it's just a testament to
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: the amount of work that he's been putting in and
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: out here on the practice food and you guys seen
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: every practice, so it's you guys have a good perspective
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: on just the whole thing. It's not every day is
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: going to be clean and perfect, and just because whether
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: it's me, BT, Travis, you know, group up front tight ends,
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: whatever it is, there's gonna be days where you have
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: stuff you got to figure out and there's a new system,
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: there's new plays you're running, and so there's been some
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: stuff that me and BT have kind of had to
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: iron out. But through reps, whether that's after practice, in practice,
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: in the film room, talking about every single look. I
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: really think we've taken some huge steps because we tried
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: to do this last year and obviously it was a
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: different system.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: I get hurt, so we didn't get a full year.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: And then now it's a new system and trying to
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: build that you know, chemistry and the rapport again, and
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: it's been awesome. I like where we're at right now,
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: but it's about the whole season getting better. It's not
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: about just where you're at week one.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: We got a long year. Do you guys have lu
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Clemson friendly wager? That's a great point. I know.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: I don't know if I'm allowed to do that, actually,
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: so it's a terrible point. Actually, I'm gon't to talked
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: to him about it. I haven't talked hibout the game.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: I'm sure, I'm sure I'll be watching.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Where's the culture change come from?
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Where the culture building come from for this year's team?
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: And isn't that very important? With so many new guys?
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: It's really important, you know.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: I think obviously the energy that coach Cohen's brought in
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: and the whole staff, the coaching, the just level of detail,
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: all the things that they're that they've done up and
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: up until this point has been awesome. And they brought
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: a lot of energy every day and coach is hard
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: and the expectations have been really high, which has been.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Good for our team.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: I think we've grown a lot, but ultimately it has
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: to be from the players, you know, until you really
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: own it from a players standpoint and push each other,
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: push each other, you know, that's really where the difference is.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: And I think we've taken some big steps in that
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: we have. We have some more work to do, but
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: I really like even the new guys we brought in
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: from different places, just like Hainsey, Jordan Lewis, just to
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: name a couple, Eric Murray, a bunch of other guys
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: could be named too. But those guys we brought in
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: good players, really good players, but really good leaders too
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: that handle their business right way.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: And that was part of it right there.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: They brought those guys in and part of the reason
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: they brought them is because of the guys that they.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Are, right. Yeah, that's a huge that's a huge part
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: of this. That's what.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: You gotta be able to perform on the field, right,
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's our job. You got to you gotta
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: be able to produce. But who you are in the
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: locker room and the example you set for the younger guys,
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: especially when we have a younger team, Uh, that's important.
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: And when you have a guy that leads the room
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: that's not a guy that whatever it is on a team,
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: whether it's complaining negativity, that stuff like festers and a
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: team and it grows. And I think we've had a
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: good group of leaders have been super positive this camp.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: So it's been great.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: If we think back to the spring to now, where
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: do you think your biggest area of growth has been.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: I think there's there's a lot of things with my
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: footwork that I wanted to work on. I've seen some
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: growth with that. That's still something like I've said since
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: the beginning, you got to continue to work every day.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: That's a big part of it.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: I think just my eyes progressions, really mastering the offense
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: as far as all the checks, all the protection changes.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: I really like the the growth that we've honestly had
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: since the spring, and not just myself, but the group
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: because it takes all eleven of us. It's the group
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: up front, it's me, it's the back, especially in protections.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: You know, if I know it and but I can't communicate,
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: it doesn't do any good. So all of us working
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: together have taken some big steps. Yeah, obviously has the size,
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: has experience, He's played a lot of meaningful football, made
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: a lot of big plays. I think just having a
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: guy that's older in the room, a veteran presence, that's valuable.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: But yeah, as far as the.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: Receiving type, something that we don't really have, the big body,
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: rangy guy. So I think that's valuable for us just
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: to continue to make that room better and better. And
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: we got some really good ones and he's just another
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: addition that's gonna help.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Us for sure training camp.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Now in the rear view, how would you evaluate Travis
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: and the process of him playing both.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Positions up to this point? Yes, why, I love that song.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: That was awesome.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: It's great.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: It's just unfazed Jean's ghost. Anyways, I gotta focus back
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: in Travis. Yeah, it's been it's been impressive, like we've
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: said since the beginning, to see him go both ways
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: and then uh that's it, oh miss Gene. Uh yeah,
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: it's just to see the amount of you have to
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: put in to do that. It's hard enough to play
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: one way in the NFL, much less two ways. I
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: mean to learn offense defense. It's it's a lot, and
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: he's done a really good job. So what's probably was it?
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: What's it? Like for you though, like you know, the
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: fact that you do it. For one minute he's at
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: wide receiver, Yeah, throw him.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: The next minute he's oppositely just you.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: Know, always trying to you know, it's his responsibility to
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: know what to do and when he steps in huddlee.
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: He's done a great job with that. But also being
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: conscious of he's a rookie, he's a lot going on,
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: he's playing both ways. Trying to help him as much
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: as I can with little reminders or different things with
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: the formations or concepts or whatever. Just trying to give
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: him a reminders so it's not hey, you're on your own.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: I'll figure it out, you know, And he's done a
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: good job of knowing it. But as much as we
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: can help him out, I think that is important.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: When you add a guy like him as close a
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: week one, what do you have to do to kind
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: of build that chemistry and just keep damn.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Ready with him?
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just get some throws.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: I think you know, all the timing routes, that stuff
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: that you can see and you don't have to throw
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: it before they break, like certain routes it's a little different,
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: but the routes where you're throwing it early, anticipating all
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: those things.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Just got to get those throughout next week.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: You know, we'll have an extra practice on Monday, so
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: we'll have some time to get some of those routes
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: and just gonna get him throughout the week and then
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: for him, you know, obviously just has to put the
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: time in this weekend, has some time to learn. It
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: a big offense to learn and over the weekend. But
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: obviously I'm gonna be there to help him anything he needs.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: And he's got my number. Now we'd already linked up
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: in the locker room and excited to have him, So
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: we'll get him up to speed. Obviously, we're we're gonna
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: we're gonna have him ready. If he goes on the field,
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: he's gonna know what to do. He's gonna be ready,
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: and he's a pro, so he knows how to handle
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: all that.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Feel like excited and ready to finally get out there
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: and actually play a meaningful game.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Super excited.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you kind of training camps exciting at first, and
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: then after a couple of weeks pricing against each other,
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: you're like, all right, let's you know, you're ready to
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: get to the common opponent. Let's all come together as
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: a team and go play somebody so excited. Yeah, it's
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: just you know, I think just all the excitmen about
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: all the possibilities of a new year. It's a clean
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: slate and all starts next week, so you know, obviously
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: gonna kind of reset, recharge this weekend and be ready
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: to go for week one.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: That was been strange. Throughout over training camp, he's been awesome.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: I think this master in the system knowing what to do.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: There's a learning curve for everyone in the spring, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: I think the steps he's taken from the spring coming
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: into training camp, you see him able to make so
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: many plays just because he's playing fast.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: He knows what to do.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: He's a great matchup for us at tight end and
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: I'm excited for him, and he's gonna have a really
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: big year. And he's another weapon that I think some
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: people don't really ask enough about sometimes because he's It's
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: just we have a lot of weapons on offense, a
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: lot of guys that can play, so he's a guy
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: that's really valuable to us what he can do, run game,
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: pass game everything.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: He's a great player. Thanks