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Press Pass | Liam Coen, Eric Murray & Travis Etienne Jr. Recap Prep for Preseason Week 2 · Press Pass

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Speaker 1: Just the upper body. Uh deal, he's got a little
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Speaker 1: bit and just precautionary. Okay, so he's gonna play Saturn
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Speaker 1: or we'll figure that out. Yeah, we don't know yet.
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Speaker 2: What does that do for him going through the play
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Speaker 2: call sheet?
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Speaker 1: He was over there with that your old home practices, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: help him middle it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
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Speaker 3: You know, that's what they're supposed to do when they're hurt,
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Speaker 3: you know, like stay there, locked in and have a
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Speaker 3: little bit of they can't go.
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Speaker 1: We want him to make.
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Speaker 3: Sure that they're locked in, getting all the calls, understanding
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Speaker 3: the call, and being able to watch and execute it
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Speaker 3: as well in their minds.
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Speaker 1: Have you decided to for how much.
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Speaker 3: The starters will go?
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Speaker 1: See, Yeah, we're still kind of working through it. You
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Speaker 1: know as of right now.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna go meet about it currently here in the
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Speaker 3: next half hour, so have a better idea.
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Speaker 1: He's gotta get a full totality of the injuries.
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Speaker 3: And you know, we went pretty hard the last few
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Speaker 3: days in terms of Tuesday and yesterday, So we're gonna
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Speaker 3: go meet on that right now.
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Speaker 4: And chew Miladoga was off with the trainers today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just lower leg precautionary as well.
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Speaker 5: Lem how did you how did yours respond after pretty
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Speaker 5: big insue?
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Speaker 3: You know, I don't think we went down the field
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Speaker 3: scored on the first drive on a fourteen play drive,
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Speaker 3: you know, just I thought we did some good things.
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Speaker 3: I just thought, again, the same issue that has crept
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Speaker 3: up a number of times has been the pre snaps, right,
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Speaker 3: pre snaps, And I don't know who we have six drops.
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Speaker 1: Again, I think may may have been an eighty. I
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Speaker 1: almost thought it was eight.
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Speaker 3: So you know, that's fatigue, that's lack of concentration when
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Speaker 3: you're getting fatigued and tired. You know, again, every time
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Speaker 3: we come out like they go hard. And Tuesday was
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Speaker 3: our biggest volume day of camp thus far, and you
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Speaker 3: could see even with the off day Wednesday, some guys
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Speaker 3: were still feeling the effects of it. And I think
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Speaker 3: there was just again the lack of detailing concentration when
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Speaker 3: you do start to fatigue and it does get tired
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Speaker 3: and you do go on long drives, and you know,
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Speaker 3: I thought it was still some decent back and forth.
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Speaker 1: Is there any chance that the starters don't play somewhere? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think there's a chance. Yeah, there's a chance.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's just we got to go get this
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Speaker 3: injury report and make sure because I don't really want
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Speaker 3: to do too many you're playing, You're not playing that
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Speaker 3: kind of deal. So we kind of need to just
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Speaker 3: make sure that we're, uh, if we are putting you know, Trevor,
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Speaker 3: we make sure we're you know, we're protected and we
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Speaker 3: have the right guys in front saying with the runners,
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Speaker 3: things like that, just making sure that we're not putting
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Speaker 3: people in vulnerable spots because we are injured.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned that the team played a role in some
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Speaker 1: of the.
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Speaker 5: Maybe messy stuff you So how much of that context
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Speaker 5: or contexts that you applied to when we're trying to
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Speaker 5: evaluate just.
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Speaker 6: What you're seeing from.
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Speaker 3: The guys day to day out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a huge part of it. Obviously.
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Speaker 3: You know, there is a huge difference between being in
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Speaker 3: conditioning test shape and football shape, as we all know.
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Speaker 1: And so you know, we we still.
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Speaker 3: Have a few weeks till we have to go play
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Speaker 3: a game for sixty minutes in that stage at one o'clock,
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Speaker 3: which is kind of the goal, Like, you don't fully
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Speaker 3: I don't want to peak tomorrow, and now we'll have
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Speaker 3: to pull back on them to get their legs back,
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Speaker 3: and now we're going into week one slow or slower,
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Speaker 3: like the goal is to peak at Carolina and so
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Speaker 3: we are like, I'm not expecting them to probably be
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Speaker 3: in full.
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Speaker 1: Sixty minute shape at the moment. That's still a work
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Speaker 1: in progress.
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Speaker 3: But the point you made was the point we talked
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Speaker 3: about yesterday a lot, was when you start to get
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Speaker 3: into those moments, that's when we need to do more
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Speaker 3: to come together, like communicate more. Your legs are starting
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Speaker 3: to go, You're starting to get tired. Force communication, forced
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Speaker 3: to get my cleats in the ground and get into
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Speaker 3: the proper stance so that, man, my fundamentals, my mind
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Speaker 3: is right prior to the play. And then yeah, you're
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Speaker 3: gonna have to fight through some of these days in
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Speaker 3: camp and some of these hot days and we're.
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Speaker 1: Going in a full score image like that. So it's
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Speaker 1: great that.
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Speaker 3: We're able to kind of replicate those moments and hopefully
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Speaker 3: we can get another one this weekend. So yeah, he's
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Speaker 3: you know, he knows how to be a pro, Like
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Speaker 3: he understands the preparation, how to interact with his teammates
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Speaker 3: in the meeting room settings, the kind of questions that
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Speaker 3: he asks in the meeting room settings and then going
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Speaker 3: out on the grass and applying.
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Speaker 1: It not only to his game but.
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Speaker 3: To other people's game and trying to bring people along
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Speaker 3: and force communication, like they have to all communicate on
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Speaker 3: defense as one and that's the way it has to be.
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Speaker 1: And so that's a.
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Speaker 3: Non negotiable for Jordan and the way that he kind
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Speaker 3: of operates, and then he's made plays when when the
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Speaker 3: balls obviously come his way and he's had opportunities.
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Speaker 7: Obviously, Anton Bild really back after the Mate six guys
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Speaker 7: and then time yesterday. Why those guys.
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Speaker 3: When you see them them, Yeah, I think it's just
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Speaker 3: giving people opportunities to see what they can do with
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Speaker 3: each group and also filling in and making sure that
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Speaker 3: we're able to finish the scrimmage.
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Speaker 1: And it's not a mess. So you know, I thought
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Speaker 1: that Fred, you know, and why specifically you know, mccury,
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Speaker 1: thronsd around.
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Speaker 3: But they all had moments and they've all been able
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Speaker 3: to do some positive things, but you know, we got
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Speaker 3: to remain like the consistency of that, whether it's the
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Speaker 3: swing tackle or whomever it is, Consistency is, as you
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Speaker 3: guys know, the key, and it's one thing to have
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Speaker 3: splash plays or you dump somebody, but then we you know,
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Speaker 3: have an m A in the next play. Like that's
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Speaker 3: too much of a roller coaster for offensive.
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Speaker 1: Line play at times.
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Speaker 3: So I was pleased with the guys being able to
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Speaker 3: step up and take extra reps, especially when those two guys.
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Speaker 1: Went down Mason off b B.
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Speaker 7: What do you need to.
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Speaker 1: Keep him in the next couple of weeks A new right.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's gonna, you know, need to practice a lot,
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Speaker 3: you know, in this a lot of time. You know,
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Speaker 3: you talk about getting in Obviously he's been working out
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Speaker 3: a time, but as we all know, I just talked
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Speaker 3: about football shapes a lot different.
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Speaker 1: Than working out on the side and doing that stuff.
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Speaker 3: So we're gonna have to see him really go in
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Speaker 3: practice and feel like he's.
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Speaker 1: Getting comfortable with the calls.
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Speaker 3: Getting a line and make it through practice. I mean,
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Speaker 3: there's a lot that needs to happen, obviously, for him
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Speaker 3: to feel confident and for us to feel confident, for
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Speaker 3: him to go out.
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Speaker 1: And be ready week one. I get you, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: would think.
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Speaker 3: So, you know, I mean, I think there's probably a
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Speaker 3: little bit of a difference there with one being a
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Speaker 3: whatever it his twelve year vet and the other being
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Speaker 3: a second third year player. So you know, I think
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Speaker 3: there's maybe a little bit of a difference there, but
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Speaker 3: very similar where you know, you don't really know what
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Speaker 3: you have at the position truly, like you know, you
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Speaker 3: feel like, man, we could get better here with these
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Speaker 3: guys coming back on the grass. I actually watched the
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Speaker 3: Raiders game from last year the other day. It was
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Speaker 3: Mason's arguably one of his best games of the year,
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Speaker 3: and it was fun.
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Speaker 1: To watch him, you know, get off the ball.
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Speaker 3: Play physical and violent and you could see he was
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Speaker 3: kind of coming along towards the end there, and that's
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Speaker 3: why it's such a bummer that we haven't been able
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Speaker 3: to see it.
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Speaker 1: But it is what it is. It's still a long
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Speaker 1: season for him to get acclimated and.
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Speaker 3: Get ready to play.
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Speaker 6: Same with Eric.
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Speaker 1: He drapedup four drug a quickly.
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Speaker 7: What do you see? How a dead gloring?
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Speaker 1: What position? I'm sorry in general?
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it's a obviously when
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Speaker 3: you have you know, Caleb's down, which is kind of
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Speaker 3: a bummer. Unfortunately, he was doing some really good things.
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Speaker 3: But the rest of the class Dale Mcloud's obviously been
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Speaker 3: out as well, but I've been pleased with those guys
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Speaker 3: in terms of, you know, Rayon Lane showing up on
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Speaker 3: special teams like he did all throughout his college career.
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Speaker 1: Touton did some really.
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Speaker 3: Good things in the in the preseason game, and he's
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Speaker 3: continued to get better. Same thing with Quint, like he's
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Speaker 3: been steady and blitz puff and doing the things that
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Speaker 3: we're asking.
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Speaker 1: Him to do. And you look at Wyatt and and
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Speaker 1: Jonah as well.
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Speaker 3: I've really think consistent, you know, for rookies that's not
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Speaker 3: easy to do, is to have consistency. I think it's
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Speaker 3: a it's a group effort. Jack Kaiser, you know, probably
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Speaker 3: had one of his you know dais he'd like to
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Speaker 3: have back yesterday, but.
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Speaker 1: He's had some good days as well. And you know
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Speaker 1: they're stacking blocks.
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Speaker 3: It's just when we get out into the game, you know,
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Speaker 3: what of those eyes look like again? You know, can
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Speaker 3: we improve maybe the composure from game one to game two?
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Speaker 4: Certainly are there similarities to the way camp when a
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Speaker 4: year ago in camp.
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Speaker 8: I don't out at campoint, but.
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Speaker 4: I spoke to someone he said it took a little
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Speaker 4: while to get things going, and obviously you exploded on
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Speaker 4: spreadular season it was just comparable to that.
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Speaker 3: Ah, Yeah, I think in some ways. You know, obviously
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Speaker 3: we were a little bit more veteran on that team
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Speaker 3: in terms of just maybe a little bit more experience
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Speaker 3: from from some of the veteran players that we had.
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Speaker 3: But I would say, yeah, there's some similarities for sure.
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Speaker 3: You know, going against Coach Pole's defense every day was
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Speaker 3: hard and it took more time I think to get
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Speaker 3: the run game going just because we man, we saw
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Speaker 3: so much blitz and stunt and movements every day.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I definitely you know, it's going to continue to.
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Speaker 3: Take time, guys, you know, I mean, it's not going
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Speaker 3: to be a finished product right now by enemies.
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Speaker 7: Whe mentally physically is developed.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I saw some flashes of like we
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Speaker 3: had a good conversation you know, about a week ago
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Speaker 3: or so and just continuing to relay Man.
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Speaker 1: Like, there's you have a skill set that we really
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Speaker 1: enjoy in.
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Speaker 3: Terms of the way that you play the game. You
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Speaker 3: play your tail off, you run hard as heck. I
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Speaker 3: continue to believe that he'll be, you know, better in
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Speaker 3: games even than practice where you don't get a full
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Speaker 3: feel of if people can tackle him, like arm tackles
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Speaker 3: out here when you tag off like, that's not a
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Speaker 3: tackle on him sometimes And so I thought he had
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Speaker 3: a good day yesterday, and he to continue to take
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Speaker 3: the right steps when it comes to his progression in
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Speaker 3: blitz pop and understanding what those reads are and not
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Speaker 3: getting out too quick, and and having that protection mindset
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Speaker 3: so that when he's in there's no there's nothing we
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Speaker 3: can't do, and so that we don't become you know,
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Speaker 3: predictable in some ways.
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Speaker 2: Way off from the.
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Speaker 5: High school football starts your nest, what is your remembery
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Speaker 5: of your first startups?
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Speaker 3: Oh man, gosh, I'm trying to think, going a long
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Speaker 3: way back now, two thousand now, when I was a
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Speaker 3: sophomore starting for my dad, which was a cup of tea.
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Speaker 1: But no, we had a the first start. I just
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Speaker 1: remember not throwing them all much.
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Speaker 3: And and I think we we won by pretty handed
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Speaker 3: handedly if I remember.
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Speaker 1: But you know, high school football is like it truly
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Speaker 1: is so pure, you know, and that's the cool part
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Speaker 1: about it.
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Speaker 3: My obviously, my dad was a high school coach, My
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Speaker 3: parents were high school teachers, and there was nothing better
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Speaker 3: than Friday night lights. There really wasn't, I mean, as
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Speaker 3: much as I've loved you love Sundays in the NFL,
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Speaker 3: you love Saturdays in the SEC. But man, Friday nights,
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Speaker 3: Friday Night lights is there's nothing better. And h you know,
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Speaker 3: I just we didn't lose much. I do know that
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Speaker 3: I think lost maybe two games.
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Speaker 1: In high school.
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Speaker 9: We turnnunity just in terms of the off line.
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Speaker 1: You know how how challenging is it just.
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Speaker 9: To not have the five starters in there.
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Speaker 3: That all times, Yes, it's still competition, man, you know,
11:36
Speaker 3: until we decide it's time to put them all together,
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Speaker 3: and then that's when we'll truly build. If we can't
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Speaker 3: have depth and competition, then nothing else will matter. And
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Speaker 3: we're not just giving away spots where everybody's.
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Speaker 1: Got to earn it.
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Speaker 3: And when it comes time to solidify those five, that
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Speaker 3: that time will happen. And you know, it is what
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Speaker 3: it is. We just want to continue to see what's
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Speaker 3: the best five. That's our job as coaches to make
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Speaker 3: sure we're putting the best five out there, no matter
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Speaker 3: who it is, no matter what year.
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Speaker 1: They are and how long they've been in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: And so you know, we may take a little bit
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Speaker 1: longer on that.
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Speaker 10: Getting aclimated, everything, getting alimated to the weather and the
12:16
Speaker 10: team been going well.
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Speaker 9: You seem to, but you can sort of progress over
12:21
Speaker 9: the last few weeks.
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Speaker 10: I think in terms of our physicalities progressed mainly because
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Speaker 10: you know, we've only had a limited time in pass
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Speaker 10: so being.
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Speaker 6: Able to you know, put those on and and just
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Speaker 6: play football. I think that's where we repress the most.
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Speaker 8: Somebody with a lot of experience, like yourself, how important
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Speaker 8: is the preseason four year.
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Speaker 2: In this age?
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Speaker 6: I think, you know, live reps are always important.
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Speaker 10: You never know what rip may matter in January or December,
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Speaker 10: so you know, you just take them all, put them
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Speaker 10: all in your memory break and you just try to.
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Speaker 2: Learn from it.
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Speaker 1: More so true when you're in a new scheme.
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 10: It's always true in terms of learning and doing stuff
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Speaker 10: like that.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, you just try to make the best of it.
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Speaker 8: Campus kind to talk about it leadership and at Jordan
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Speaker 8: Lewison's leadership just kind of how have you been able
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Speaker 8: to help out some of the younger guys.
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Speaker 10: Just getting guys to do the right thing every time
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Speaker 10: instead of just you know, trying to freelance and do
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Speaker 10: their own things like that's not a probably a good defense.
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Speaker 10: Good defenses are discipline, They communicate, and then they fly around. Lastly,
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Speaker 10: so just really tapping in with guys and letting them know, like, hey,
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Speaker 10: doing the right thing is is cool sometimes, you know.
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Speaker 9: So what growth have you seen from Travis Hunter? Just
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Speaker 9: you know, being able to see him going from one
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Speaker 9: side of the ball to the other side, working with
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Speaker 9: you guys in them in the rooms.
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Speaker 2: All that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 6: I wouldn't say growth per se.
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Speaker 10: I'm just impressed just by in terms of how he's
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Speaker 10: able to do that.
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Speaker 6: Like it's y, it's unique to him.
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Speaker 10: I can't really comment on it cause I've never done it,
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Speaker 10: so uh yeah, whudos to him.
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Speaker 7: Uh In terms of the rotation opposite you, what have
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Speaker 7: you seen from the other safeties and for you? Is
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Speaker 7: it little unique that there's kind of a rotating door.
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Speaker 7: Maybe it's kind of a little bit more solidified at
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Speaker 7: this point Accamp.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean everybody has different personality type.
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Speaker 10: I'm pretty fluid with everybody in the back end, So
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Speaker 10: you know, whatever they want to do, they come in.
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Speaker 6: They sometimes they try to accommodate me.
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Speaker 10: I'll try to accommodate them in terms of you know,
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Speaker 10: who's strong, who's free, but yeah, we just you know,
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Speaker 10: it's still working progress.
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Speaker 8: Is that kind of unique just how a lot of
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Speaker 8: the different guys in the safety room can do different
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Speaker 8: things like Sap can go play Nickel, Yeah, do we
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Speaker 8: can play on the line.
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Speaker 10: No, It's definitely a unique structure that we got back there,
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Speaker 10: and versatility is always at a premium in the back end,
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Speaker 10: so it's definitely a plus.
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Speaker 9: Antonio Johnson On's been like kind.
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Speaker 10: Of just watching him kind of grow the course of
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Speaker 10: training campra it's just his high progression, getting his eyes
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Speaker 10: right once his eyes are in the right spot. I mean,
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Speaker 10: he's an amazing athlete, really tall, really rangy, and I
14:41
Speaker 10: think you see some of that flash out on the
14:43
Speaker 10: field when he's in the right spot.
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Speaker 2: So you've kind of had a couple of picks out there.
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Speaker 8: Just how has that been competing against the offense every day?
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Speaker 10: Like I said, anytime you can get good competitive reps,
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Speaker 10: you know going into the season, you just never know.
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Speaker 6: You know, most of the.
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Speaker 10: Concepts that you see throughout the year, they end up
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Speaker 10: showing up in some form of fashion.
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Speaker 8: So Meiam has said communication, just being open and all
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Speaker 8: that's is big for him as a player.
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Speaker 6: Why is it important to you guys just kind of
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Speaker 6: get that.
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Speaker 10: I think a lot of people in this league value
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Speaker 10: transparency from a player from a coach and uh and
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Speaker 10: if you can get that, uh, it just builds connection
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Speaker 10: and so you know, once that connection is.
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Speaker 6: Built, a culture can be built.
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Speaker 10: So I think that's why it's so important to him
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Speaker 10: and it's so important to the players as well.
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Speaker 1: Can you see that working now? What? What what you
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Speaker 1: guys were call the coaches? Do you guys feel about close?
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Speaker 6: Oh? Definitely, it's coming. You just gotta keep working.
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Speaker 10: Like I said, it's it's everybody's first year, so you know,
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Speaker 10: being able to jail. We're trying to jail as quickly
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Speaker 10: as possible and play our best football as quickly as possible.
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Speaker 1: Are you Are you different to it?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 2: Indifferent? I mean they call me both honestly. Uh.
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Speaker 5: I hit t J a lot, but sometimes out here
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Speaker 5: try it's really Coloch Grant, uh, whenever he's installing players
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Speaker 5: and stuff. But we know who you're talking to based
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Speaker 5: on the list and everything, so it be fine.
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Speaker 9: How was this camp going for you? You know, obviously
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Speaker 9: fifty year I guess going into the camp, just just how's.
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Speaker 2: It been it's been a really good camp. I feel
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Speaker 2: like just I feel like it's like when camp is
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Speaker 2: just ballancing the heat out here in Florida.
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Speaker 5: I feel like that is the biggest thing for me,
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Speaker 5: just coming out here, get my mindset right, just know
16:16
Speaker 5: it's will be a hot day, and just being able
16:18
Speaker 5: to push through.
16:19
Speaker 2: But I feel like, just uh, just a mindset.
16:21
Speaker 5: The mentality around here is just that growth mindset, just
16:23
Speaker 5: get better each and every day. And I feel like,
16:25
Speaker 5: I j I just love that mindset. I feel like
16:27
Speaker 5: it helps us come in here, uh just reset and find.
16:29
Speaker 2: Something to get better at.
16:30
Speaker 5: And uh, if we ain't here trying to get better
16:32
Speaker 5: each and every day, it's gonna make us just so
16:33
Speaker 5: much better.
16:34
Speaker 2: Whenever we would look.
16:35
Speaker 5: Back, just the first day from camp, I like, ya,
16:38
Speaker 5: y'all probably see it.
16:39
Speaker 2: We just so far from where he was.
16:40
Speaker 5: And now coaches keep preaching just get better, get better,
16:43
Speaker 5: And I feel like I love that.
16:44
Speaker 1: I know it's a long, weird way, but you know,
16:46
Speaker 1: you and your brother a week one, what's.
16:47
Speaker 6: That gonna mean to you and your family?
16:49
Speaker 7: Uh?
16:49
Speaker 5: I feel like it it's already a dream come true.
16:52
Speaker 5: But I feel like, uh, it'd be like a surreal moment.
16:55
Speaker 5: I feel like it's something that me and him kind
16:56
Speaker 5: of joked about, laughed about growing up as kids.
16:59
Speaker 2: But we always.
17:00
Speaker 5: Knew it was We always knew it could happen, but
17:03
Speaker 5: just just for us to be able to shame and
17:05
Speaker 5: share that same feel, I feel like that's gonna be
17:07
Speaker 5: a feeling that we knew what was happening, but we
17:09
Speaker 5: can't none, Just like it be just a surreal moment.
17:13
Speaker 3: Man.
17:13
Speaker 2: I'm just so proud of.
17:14
Speaker 5: Him and just knowing what it took for him to
17:16
Speaker 5: get to that moment, and just knowing what I had
17:17
Speaker 5: to go through the gets here to being in the league.
17:19
Speaker 5: You don't just wake up and just be an NFL player.
17:22
Speaker 2: It don't work like that.
17:23
Speaker 5: You have to put him a hot a lot of
17:24
Speaker 5: hard work, sacrifice. My parents had to sacrifice, my sisters,
17:29
Speaker 5: all my family had to sacrifice for.
17:31
Speaker 2: Us to busin this moment.
17:32
Speaker 5: So I feel it's just a testament to my family. Honestly,
17:34
Speaker 5: that's what they did that didn't want to be So
17:36
Speaker 5: I know they're gonna be there deep to support us,
17:38
Speaker 5: and uh, we're really here because of them, and Uh,
17:40
Speaker 5: I feel like it gonna be out weall just repaying
17:42
Speaker 5: them back a BYuT going out there and competing against
17:43
Speaker 5: each other.
17:44
Speaker 8: You spoken to him much during camp, not about the game,
17:46
Speaker 8: and just about at your first NFL training camp, any
17:48
Speaker 8: tips or anything like that.
17:49
Speaker 2: Ah yeah, No, we we text every day. We text
17:52
Speaker 2: every night.
17:52
Speaker 5: He just uh he me up yesterday, Uh Dan Houston
17:55
Speaker 5: right now, and he was talking about how it was.
17:57
Speaker 2: He said he had a great day, but it was hot.
17:59
Speaker 5: And uh we kind of just been snapchaintese and every
18:01
Speaker 5: day just keeping each other up with everything. And then uh,
18:04
Speaker 5: coach Bernie is he's a running back coach, and uh
18:06
Speaker 5: they had facetiming the other day and uh they they
18:09
Speaker 5: was joking and laughing.
18:10
Speaker 2: So I just feel like that kind of just give me.
18:13
Speaker 5: Just like I'm not really nervous for him because, like
18:15
Speaker 5: I know, he got somebody over there looking after him.
18:17
Speaker 5: Somebody's gonna take him under this wing because I know
18:19
Speaker 5: the coach coach Barney is about he was here three years.
18:21
Speaker 2: So I just love the fact that he has somebody
18:23
Speaker 2: to just help him and be there for him outside
18:26
Speaker 2: of football as well.
18:27
Speaker 7: Can you excited you to go back to Louisiana this weekend?
18:30
Speaker 3: Oh?
18:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now I'm always excited to go to Louisiana.
18:33
Speaker 5: I feel like the biggest thing is just a ticket,
18:36
Speaker 5: you know. I feel like everybody I think the tickets
18:38
Speaker 5: free or something. They're really not free. But I mean,
18:41
Speaker 5: I don't mind whenever I go back to New Orleans,
18:43
Speaker 5: cause it's my family, like I said, and I feel
18:44
Speaker 5: like I wouldn't be here without them and their support,
18:47
Speaker 5: So it's always a great chance to just have them
18:48
Speaker 5: in a building support me.
18:50
Speaker 7: Were you playing on the fifth year option this year?
18:53
Speaker 7: Does it feel like the antique has been opted a
18:55
Speaker 7: little bit as you get ready for this fifth year
18:57
Speaker 7: of your career?
18:58
Speaker 2: Uh?
18:59
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, But in reality, I feel like it's
19:02
Speaker 5: just the biggest season of my career because it's the
19:06
Speaker 5: next one, and I try to attack it like that,
19:09
Speaker 5: and I just understand that if I don't go out
19:11
Speaker 5: there and produce, then where we're going to be. So
19:14
Speaker 5: I feel like for me, it's attacking each and every day,
19:16
Speaker 5: and I feel like my results rely on my daily habits.
19:20
Speaker 5: So just coming in here working each and every day,
19:22
Speaker 5: let that take care of itself, and then the rest
19:23
Speaker 5: is going to just take care of itself. So I
19:25
Speaker 5: really can't worry about the end result. I'm just really
19:27
Speaker 5: focused on the process, and that's going to drop my result.
19:31
Speaker 7: Growth mindset, process, discipline. Has a lot of your perspective
19:36
Speaker 7: been shaped. Do you feel like by this new staff
19:38
Speaker 7: coming in, do they preach that that maybe previously you didn't.
19:41
Speaker 5: Have that sort of I mean most definitely, I feel
19:45
Speaker 5: like they just really enhanced my mindset.
19:47
Speaker 2: I feel like these past couple years I've been.
19:49
Speaker 5: Tapping into just like just a growth mindset, just like
19:52
Speaker 5: listening to Kobe Bryant each and every day, listening to
19:55
Speaker 5: people who just driving be better, like just knowing that,
19:58
Speaker 5: like my talent got me here, but my work ethic
20:01
Speaker 5: is going to give me so much further. And just
20:03
Speaker 5: having success in this league and then been at the bottom,
20:06
Speaker 5: I just kind of know what it takes, and uh,
20:08
Speaker 5: I know, like she I know, I don't want to
20:10
Speaker 5: be there no more.
20:11
Speaker 2: So I know I'm gonna do things differently.
20:12
Speaker 5: It changing my mindset, and I feel like Coin definitely
20:15
Speaker 5: preaches that growth mindset and he definitely enhances it.
20:17
Speaker 2: He definitely puts.
20:17
Speaker 5: It on the forefront to where I feel like, uh,
20:20
Speaker 5: maybe in a lot of years, like we knew it
20:22
Speaker 5: was there, but there wasn't really drilling and drilling and
20:24
Speaker 5: drilling to where like now it was like, ain't running
20:26
Speaker 5: from it. We all know what we're facing, so while
20:28
Speaker 5: we're acting like we're not facing this giant. So I
20:30
Speaker 5: feel like I love that mindset and only way forward
20:33
Speaker 5: is through, and I feel like that's really where I
20:35
Speaker 5: met with it this year.
20:36
Speaker 4: Why the changes in competition on the offensive line, in
20:39
Speaker 4: the in the team work where there's been contact, How
20:44
Speaker 4: are the running holes running wings?
20:47
Speaker 2: I felt that great.
20:48
Speaker 5: I feel like it's it's on us as running backs
20:51
Speaker 5: to see you to set things up. And I feel
20:53
Speaker 5: like we set things up with our shoulder pass, our
20:55
Speaker 5: tempo and our spacing and just having an understanding of
20:58
Speaker 5: the run game for real, and now just the way
21:00
Speaker 5: uh Cohen just kind of coaches that minzone, the way
21:02
Speaker 5: he switches things up, and I feel like the hole
21:04
Speaker 5: has been great, and I feel like it's just on
21:05
Speaker 5: us to continue to just keep pressing around the scrimmage,
21:09
Speaker 5: knowing we gotta go setting setting the blocks up and
21:12
Speaker 5: just hitting the hole whenever.
21:13
Speaker 2: We get it.
21:13
Speaker 5: So I feel it's gonna be a great year for us,
21:15
Speaker 5: and we just take to our keys and play within
21:17
Speaker 5: the scheme.
21:18
Speaker 8: It seems like even though the league has kind of
21:19
Speaker 8: turned past centric, Cohen's offense really relies on the run
21:23
Speaker 8: games to kind of open everything up.
21:24
Speaker 1: Just what have you seen from that aspect?
21:27
Speaker 2: I mean, it's running back. You love that, But I
21:28
Speaker 2: feel like I I mean.
21:30
Speaker 5: That the league has turned past centric, but the really
21:33
Speaker 5: great teams still.
21:33
Speaker 2: Running ball really well.
21:35
Speaker 5: Uh enough shot go fire throughout the whole league, and
21:37
Speaker 5: uh to be able to be a super Bowl contender,
21:40
Speaker 5: to be a playoff team, we have to be able
21:42
Speaker 5: to just they know what we're gonna do.
21:43
Speaker 2: We still have to be able to go out to execute.
21:45
Speaker 5: And run the ball. So it starts with the run game.
21:47
Speaker 5: It starts in the trenches, just what the game is won.
21:49
Speaker 5: And I feel like as long as we take care
21:51
Speaker 5: of the trenches, everything else will take care of itself.
21:53
Speaker 9: Seems like you're you're moving or moving around a lot.
21:56
Speaker 2: In this offense.
21:56
Speaker 9: Just how have you seen your role sort of expand
21:59
Speaker 9: another Cohens You're kind of implement.
22:01
Speaker 2: In his own thils.
22:02
Speaker 5: I mean, it just expanded. It's like he's using me
22:05
Speaker 5: as a playmaker. He's let me go out there and
22:07
Speaker 5: just do what I do best. Get the ball on
22:09
Speaker 5: my hands, be in space, make guys miss, go out there,
22:12
Speaker 5: score touchdowns, and just just using my strengths as a
22:15
Speaker 5: strength and building my weaknesses. And I feel like that's
22:17
Speaker 5: what I love and just moving around. And I feel
22:19
Speaker 5: like I like that because like now, now we have
22:23
Speaker 5: all our threats on the field at one time, you
22:25
Speaker 5: got to watch out for all the guys and obviously
22:27
Speaker 5: gonna have eyes for me. So somebody else is getting
22:29
Speaker 5: the ball or me just taking.
22:31
Speaker 2: Just doing different things.
22:32
Speaker 5: We're not predictable, I feel like, and that's gonna be
22:34
Speaker 5: really big for us moving down the line, because at
22:37
Speaker 5: at some point the season will come to a down,
22:39
Speaker 5: it will come down to just execute. And Uh, I
22:42
Speaker 5: feel like she with him moving me different places and
22:44
Speaker 5: him getting me the ball, I feel like I'm never
22:45
Speaker 5: gonna be all of the game. I always gonna be
22:47
Speaker 5: in the game and be able to make players and
22:49
Speaker 5: be a spark for the team.
22:53
Speaker 3: Uh.
22:53
Speaker 2: The Quinn, I mean, I love the Quinn.
22:55
Speaker 5: I feel like he reminded my little brother. Him my
22:58
Speaker 5: little brother. Actually there was actually room mates and uh
23:01
Speaker 5: in Alabama the moment that the senior the senior camp,
23:04
Speaker 5: the senior game, so the actually was actually the roommates
23:07
Speaker 5: and uh they're the same age that both fiery. Uh,
23:11
Speaker 5: he got that edge to him, but I feel like
23:14
Speaker 5: it's really great to have and I feel like I
23:16
Speaker 5: really needed that this year. Uh, just him being and
23:18
Speaker 5: rookie coming in here, have to fight for what you get,
23:20
Speaker 5: have to earn everything, and that kind of puts some
23:22
Speaker 5: perspective from me, like, man, like you get to play
23:26
Speaker 5: this game like we have.
23:28
Speaker 2: Just wake up and just just thank God.
23:30
Speaker 5: And be blessed like that you're here in the NFL,
23:32
Speaker 5: so stop taking it for granted. And uh, I feel
23:34
Speaker 5: like he kind of presents that mindset to the whole
23:35
Speaker 5: room and he bring that fire in this and that
23:37
Speaker 5: chipping is and it just rubbed rubus on all the
23:39
Speaker 5: guys and just we need that.
23:41
Speaker 2: We needed that fire.
23:42
Speaker 7: Well, so then you got him and that is facial,
23:44
Speaker 7: a little a little calmer, a little chiller or how
23:46
Speaker 7: would you describe.
23:47
Speaker 5: Uh, basil chill, basil chill, he more chill, calmra like
23:51
Speaker 5: you said.
23:51
Speaker 2: But everybody got their breaking point. Everybody got their breaking point.
23:54
Speaker 5: We've seen Brasil get We've seen Basia get there. And
23:57
Speaker 5: he got a little chip, he gets a little fiery
23:58
Speaker 5: up out there too, So J J J just kind
24:01
Speaker 5: of figuring out where a guy's trigger, where the guy's
24:04
Speaker 5: breaking points is, and uh, la Quinn, he just come out.
24:06
Speaker 2: There high, you know, he just come out there on fire.
24:08
Speaker 2: And that's what I love. Like, you can't you can't
24:10
Speaker 2: replicate that.
24:11
Speaker 8: Is this the most personal running background that you've been
24:13
Speaker 8: a part of it since you've been in the league.
24:16
Speaker 5: Ah, yeah, I would say yeah, I would say yeah,
24:19
Speaker 5: But I feel like I I feel like this kind
24:20
Speaker 5: of reminded my first year, but not really because.
24:23
Speaker 2: We got we got more depth.
24:24
Speaker 4: Yeah.
24:25
Speaker 5: Uh instead of instead of two guys, it it's four
24:27
Speaker 5: or five of us and we're all really good backs.
24:30
Speaker 5: But we just gotta continue to keep taking the coaching,
24:32
Speaker 5: keep getting better at each and every day, and as
24:34
Speaker 5: long as I, like I said, as long as we
24:35
Speaker 5: stayed coachable as Scott's women for all of us.
24:38
Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you,