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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you certainly earned some credibility when you've
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  Speaker 1: experienced things that we're experiencing now and people can look
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  Speaker 1: to that, and you know, you can kind of lean
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  Speaker 1: on certain experiences and you've done it, you've proven it
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  Speaker 1: that you could do it in that certain point. But
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, that situation is different than this situation.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing carries over, especially you know, team to team, different
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  Speaker 1: people involved in the situation. But yeah, I mean there
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  Speaker 1: is precedent that Doug can take a backup quarterback and
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  Speaker 1: win games. I mean that that's one of the big
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  Speaker 1: parts of it. I think a lot of it probably
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  Speaker 1: comes down to Doug's history as a backup quarterback and
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  Speaker 1: what he's been through, what he knows it takes to
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  Speaker 1: make that person comfortable and put him in a situation
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  Speaker 1: to succeed.
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  Speaker 2: To put together a game plan when you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: figure out who your quarterback is going to be, maybe
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  Speaker 2: how healthy Trevor is if he goes that make it
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  Speaker 2: more difficult to figure out what plays to put in
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  Speaker 2: for the week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably a little bit more difficult than a
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  Speaker 1: normal week. But at the same time, no, I mean
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  Speaker 1: there's certain elements to it. Where we have a plan
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  Speaker 1: for you know, this is what we want to be
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  Speaker 1: able to run against this defailse that puts our guys
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  Speaker 1: in the best possible position to succeed. Maybe if this
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  Speaker 1: is our quarterback, some of these elements maybe go away
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  Speaker 1: or not as emphasized, or some of these elements are
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  Speaker 1: more emphasized. But for the most part, I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: plan will maintain, The plan will be in place, and
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  Speaker 1: then we can adjust based on who the quarterback is,
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  Speaker 1: what their strengths are, or how the course of the
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  Speaker 1: game's going.
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  Speaker 3: Is it Blake as the next guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yet, we will continue to evaluate all our options in
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  Speaker 1: terms of putting the best five out there. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a number of different contingency plans that we could possibly
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  Speaker 1: get into based on what gives us the best possibility
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  Speaker 1: to go play well.
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  Speaker 3: A Cleveland a player that can switch over to the tackle.
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  Speaker 1: Or that you know, that could be one of our options. There.
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  Speaker 1: There's again there's a number of things we could potentially
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  Speaker 1: do that our ultimate goals put the five, the combination
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  Speaker 1: of five out there that gives us the best chance
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  Speaker 1: to play well.
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  Speaker 3: So what is the biggest thing, you guys, Without pushing
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  Speaker 3: the kid.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a certain trust that he has from
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  Speaker 1: the quarterbacks, all the quarterbacks. I mean, obviously he and
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  Speaker 1: Trevor have the most time on task together. Christian has
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  Speaker 1: a certain skill set that we feel like we've really identified,
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  Speaker 1: honed in on things he does well, but things the
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks can trust. So there's just that certain unknown element
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  Speaker 1: with throwing other people in these positions to do things
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  Speaker 1: that he does really well. In our system, we have
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  Speaker 1: other guys that have skill sets that will do our
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  Speaker 1: best to maximize and utilize those guys in certain situations.
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  Speaker 1: But it's it's a big loss for us with a
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  Speaker 1: player of Christian's caliber, you know physically but also mentally
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  Speaker 1: what he can do and the flexibility he has within
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  Speaker 1: the game, within the system to be able to move
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  Speaker 1: around a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Parker, I mean, Parker is a guy we've known
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  Speaker 1: from the jump mentally could handle a lot. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: different when the bullets are flying. You got ten seconds
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  Speaker 1: in a huddle and you got to get to the line.
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  Speaker 1: He got to execute and things are changing quickly like that.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, he he handled himself pretty well out there.
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  Speaker 1: It helps having you know, Evan's a guys that have
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  Speaker 1: experienced in the system can help you get lined up
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  Speaker 1: and move around a little bit. But Parking did a
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  Speaker 1: good job for himself.
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  Speaker 3: Is it rare to see a guy like Miles Garrett?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the player probably doesn't have many weaknesses or
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  Speaker 3: you know, I guess what do you see from him?
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  Speaker 1: He is a freak show. I mean, he looks like
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  Speaker 1: the Hulk. We've watched the highlights of him playing basketball,
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  Speaker 1: watched the highlights of him doing the sixty inch box jump.
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  Speaker 1: We've what I mean, It's incredible what he's able to do.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's got speed, power, quickness. They move him around.
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  Speaker 1: They do a good job of not putting them stationary
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  Speaker 1: where you know where he's gonna be, and you can
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  Speaker 1: build a plan just to emphasize that area. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he moves around enough within the system to where you
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  Speaker 1: can't ever settle into he's on the left side, he's
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  Speaker 1: on the right side. He's gonna be able to send
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. But he's he's the total package of
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  Speaker 1: being able to align anywhere, to do anything, to use
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  Speaker 1: any sort of different move to to be able to
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  Speaker 1: win a pass rush potentially. So yeah, he's a problem.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't obviously you can't really know how to defend him
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  Speaker 3: necessarily perfectly. But it doesn't help that Anton has sort
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  Speaker 3: of going up against you know, guys like Chris Joes, TJ. Watt,
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  Speaker 3: guys like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean there's there's no breaks in this league.
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  Speaker 1: So we've faced great pass rushers on either side of
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  Speaker 1: the line. So I think that helps that Anton knows
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  Speaker 1: he's been through these types of situations. But I think
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  Speaker 1: also Miles Garrett is kind of his own beast that
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  Speaker 1: presents its own certain set of challenges that will continue
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  Speaker 1: to deal with and adapt to as an offense.
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  Speaker 2: That experience with Jim Schwarts from Philadelphia, this is defense
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  Speaker 2: looked that much different on it is he just kind
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  Speaker 2: of he does what he does.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks pretty similar. I mean Jim has kind
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  Speaker 1: of for a long time operated in his system and
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  Speaker 1: kept it the way it is, you know, and then
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  Speaker 1: you're kind of just taking a peek at the personnel,
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  Speaker 1: how he utilizes personnel, what they do really well, to
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  Speaker 1: how it changes. But yeah, I mean, anytime you're around somebody,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna you're always going to dive into their history,
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  Speaker 1: study where they came from, how they got to where
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  Speaker 1: they are maybe how they'll operate in certain situations. So
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  Speaker 1: spending you know, five years worth of practice time with
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  Speaker 1: Jim as well, if that helps us, we'll see. You
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  Speaker 1: always want to confirm it on the tape before you
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  Speaker 1: get going though.
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  Speaker 3: Show into the run game lately, I mean the last
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks, you guys stick with it, but it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't seem to continue moving forward after maybe the first
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  Speaker 3: couple of quarters. What's been the challenge.
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  Speaker 1: There, Yeah, I think it's been different things throughout the
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  Speaker 1: course of the year. I think there were times where
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  Speaker 1: early on we were struggling, and then by the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter we popped a couple of big when we needed them,
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  Speaker 1: and then the other night it felt like we got
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  Speaker 1: some going early and then it kind of we hit
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  Speaker 1: our head a little bit on just some certain looks
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  Speaker 1: potentially that you know, making sure we have answers for
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  Speaker 1: every possible look we could see. That's always one of
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  Speaker 1: the hard things. I think the run game is always
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  Speaker 1: a challenge, just because they can present things that maybe
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  Speaker 1: you haven't had live reps on. We've talked through every
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  Speaker 1: possibility we think we can see, but you can't give
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  Speaker 1: every single rep. So you want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: handle everything. But you know it's really it's eleven people
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  Speaker 1: in sync running the exact same play I did the
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  Speaker 1: exact same way, doing their job really well. Or maybe
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  Speaker 1: in the past game you get surprised by something. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you've got one route that can get you out of
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  Speaker 1: the down and you can get the ball out of
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  Speaker 1: your hand. So the run game is certainly a different
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  Speaker 1: animal than the past game, but it's something we'll continue
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  Speaker 1: to work with. Different from Trevor, I think they are
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  Speaker 1: different strengths as a player. I mean they're not built
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  Speaker 1: the same. The athleticism is different CJ's experience. CJ has
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  Speaker 1: a big arm, not to say Trevor doesn't, but I
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  Speaker 1: just think, you know, like anybody player to player, there's
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  Speaker 1: there's just a different skill set that they operate with.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, depending on who the quarterback is is
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  Speaker 1: kind of the system doesn't necessarily change, but the things
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  Speaker 1: you'll emphasize that we know Trevor does well versus what
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  Speaker 1: we think CJ does well, you would just change within
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  Speaker 1: a game of what you call what you get to
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  Speaker 1: what you try to emphasize.
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  Speaker 2: The practice reps this week, first, CJ, if he does
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  Speaker 2: go with the receivers just to get that time and down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a big part of it. I mean that,
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  Speaker 1: that's certainly a huge element of the past game. And
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  Speaker 1: part of that is, you know, as Christian goes down now,
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  Speaker 1: Parker gets more reps. So whether it be Trevor or CJ,
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  Speaker 1: you want their chemistry with with Parker to catch up
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  Speaker 1: to where it is with the other guys. I think
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  Speaker 1: you're starting to see that with Calvin as it gets going,
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  Speaker 1: as the season goes and we bank all these reps
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  Speaker 1: similar to the way it was last year, where you
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  Speaker 1: kind of see a culmination of all the reps starting
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  Speaker 1: from April to now where everybody's kind of on the
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  Speaker 1: same page with how we anticipate certain things to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're trying to get make sure that Parker gets
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  Speaker 1: up to speed with that to at least where they
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  Speaker 1: trust him to be where they expect.
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  Speaker 3: Him to be. Expect that is, Uh, Trevor gonna be
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  Speaker 3: sitting out of practice again today.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't know yet at this point there. We
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  Speaker 1: haven't gotten that word yet, So we'll see whoever's out
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  Speaker 1: there practice.
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  Speaker 3: A chance to commiserate with your brother for a very
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  Speaker 3: brief done after the game.
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  Speaker 1: The other no really, I just said hi, see you later.
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  Speaker 1: That was it. So no further conversation until we see
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  Speaker 1: where we fall out at the end of the season.
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  Speaker 1: So see how it goes.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks