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Aden Durde: "I Love The Guys I Coach" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How are we doing different out there? I mean this
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  Speaker 1: type of a year ago, you're trying to get to
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  Speaker 1: know all these guys are trying to get to know you, right,
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  Speaker 1: there's a feel a little bit different.
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  Speaker 2: But your Yeah, it feels a lot different. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like just the the energy, the understanding, Like it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of there's a lot of similarities. It's just you know
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  Speaker 2: the people better. There's a lot more trust built, the
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  Speaker 2: communication smoother, yes, fun What does that allow you to do? Then?
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  Speaker 2: Giving all those things smoother and the places, what does
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  Speaker 2: that allow you to do? I just think it allows
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  Speaker 2: the defense from the defensive perspective, allows them to connect more,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it allows the coaches to connect with them more,
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  Speaker 2: like you have to go back to square one, Like
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  Speaker 2: no matter what foundation you've built, you have to go
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  Speaker 2: back to squirel round we reteach it and build it
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  Speaker 2: up again. Like we got stronger foundation this time last year.
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  Speaker 2: We was doing it from just brand new. But now
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  Speaker 2: it's obviously we're building them the same thing. So now
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  Speaker 2: it allows you to I would say connection, and then
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  Speaker 2: we can teach some of the wise within the place.
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  Speaker 1: How do you unlock the next level for Byer Murphy
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  Speaker 1: and what do you guys working on with him this offseason.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the next level for him is just consistency,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Like I felt like for him he had
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  Speaker 2: a certain role, like a first and second down role,
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  Speaker 2: some third down reps. He's truly trying to. I think
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  Speaker 2: he can make a big jump to becoming every down
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  Speaker 2: d tackle, you know, and like affect the game on
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  Speaker 2: all down and distances. You kind of saw like glimpses
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  Speaker 2: of it last year by just building that consistency, that
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  Speaker 2: mental conditioning, physical conditioning, understanding what type of situation you're
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  Speaker 2: in for that position, you know, like because there's lots
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  Speaker 2: of different things that can happen, and then he plays
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  Speaker 2: more like kind of different techniques inside.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see that nick Emen worry?
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  Speaker 2: So far? Good? He's locked in, you know, he's just
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  Speaker 2: going through the rookie process, playing a couple of different
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  Speaker 2: positions at times, but he puts the work in. Locked
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  Speaker 2: in works really well with Jeff Howard, and he made
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  Speaker 2: a couple of plays last week. It was cool to see.
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  Speaker 2: Putting back on your first year as a defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 2: What stands out to you both from things you liked
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  Speaker 2: about how and thinks you put in.
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  Speaker 1: To Okay, I need to do that better, we need
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  Speaker 1: to take this.
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  Speaker 2: Or such that. Yeah, I think I think, like from
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  Speaker 2: my own personal perspective, it's more of just a growth,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Like it was me coming into a defense
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  Speaker 2: learning a defense, you know, just like the players. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I was learning at a faster rate and then having
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  Speaker 2: to teach it. Now it's like there's certain things that
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  Speaker 2: are in your subconscious so you can talk through them,
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  Speaker 2: you can go through them. Now, we can implement some
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  Speaker 2: of the rush stuff up front that we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: in the past. We can really get a core understanding.
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  Speaker 2: And I think for myself, it's just not as you
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  Speaker 2: feel more comfortable, it's just I say, you feel like
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  Speaker 2: as you grow through this, you're a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: confident in your understand of things. So it allows you
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  Speaker 2: to like prevade to the players a lot better.
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  Speaker 1: I think, what's it tell you? The coaches that most
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  Speaker 1: of the almost the pretty much the entire rosters here
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  Speaker 1: for falling your veterans.
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  Speaker 2: So I couldn't hear what you said. I said, what's
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  Speaker 2: it tell you?
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  Speaker 1: And the coaches that pretty much the whole roster's here
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  Speaker 1: at thirty something Jared Reid.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's cool, right, Yeah, I think that I think
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  Speaker 2: it says a lot for the person that the people
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  Speaker 2: that we have in the building, you know, for the
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  Speaker 2: defense is they're people that want to want to improve,
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  Speaker 2: they want to grow, no matter what type of situation
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  Speaker 2: they are in their career. You know, Like I talked
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  Speaker 2: to Jay Reader all the time about like little things
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  Speaker 2: we can do, and he teaches me stuff that he sees.
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  Speaker 2: I talked to him about stuff Lee or the same thing, Law,
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. You know. I just think guys want
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  Speaker 2: to do it the right way here and like if
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  Speaker 2: we can keep doing that, we can make those jumps,
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  Speaker 2: especially with everyone here.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Jonathan Hankins. I'm curious if there's any of
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  Speaker 1: the other nose tackle something under Terry eyes, whether Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Peely or others that have kind of stood out to
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  Speaker 1: you or you're interested in seeing what they have done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think like hank hasn't been here for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks, so it really gives Peely and Bo
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  Speaker 2: took a little nick the other week, but both of
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  Speaker 2: them guys were doing really good, really good, like pushing themselves,
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  Speaker 2: pushing each other. I think they them too, have got
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  Speaker 2: like a little kind of competitive friendship and they work
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  Speaker 2: together and everything. So it's helping them push it because really,
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  Speaker 2: in truth for you that they're competing against themselves. They
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  Speaker 2: just have to get better, you know, like and and
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  Speaker 2: they're doing it. It's cool to see. He coached Marcus
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  Speaker 2: Off the same Dallas. Just what's together the defena just
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  Speaker 2: a dug mentality. He's gonna come out here. He's gonna
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  Speaker 2: play first second down, same way he plays down. He's
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  Speaker 2: gonna get after it. But that's one of the reason
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  Speaker 2: why he's here. I think.
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  Speaker 1: I think JOHNH. Syder said at the draft that if
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  Speaker 1: you guys didn't take Rugby Mills, you.
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  Speaker 2: Were going to be pretty I just love his detail,
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  Speaker 2: his consistency. He's understanding the game, like the way he
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  Speaker 2: plays the game. I think he's he's got a really
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  Speaker 2: bright future in our league. You know, like he's in it.
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  Speaker 2: You watch if you watch today, like he stands behind
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  Speaker 2: he takes these mental reps. He's just trying to improve.
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  Speaker 2: And you gotta respect that. You're talking like chair against
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  Speaker 2: the wall or like what would have happened if you
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  Speaker 2: didn't get.
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  Speaker 1: So DeMarcus Lawrence said he probably wouldn't have been here
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  Speaker 1: if you weren't here. What does that mean to you
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  Speaker 1: that you've kind of had that impact on a player?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, like love, I love him like
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  Speaker 2: I love the guys a coach. I really enjoyed their company.
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  Speaker 2: I really hope at times they improved me. I improved
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  Speaker 2: them and you kind of you you have these really
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  Speaker 2: intense journeys for a year, you know, Like that's what
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  Speaker 2: that's what this leagues like is like you work so
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  Speaker 2: closely together and you try and reach goals and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you get there, sometimes you don't. And I've been through
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that with him, and for him to
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  Speaker 2: come here it meant a lot to me.
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  Speaker 1: When you got this different edge group. You've got to Chenna,
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  Speaker 1: You've got DeMarcus, You've got Boy and Derek Hall, Like,
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  Speaker 1: how are those guys? How do you see them kind
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  Speaker 1: of coming together? They have different strengths. How do you
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  Speaker 1: see that working together?
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  Speaker 2: That's the beauty of having like an edge room like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think like when people have different strengths, they can
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  Speaker 2: really own separate roles and then they can help each
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  Speaker 2: other grow in the other roles that they're like kind
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  Speaker 2: of deficient in so and that's already starting to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Like Law works with the younger guys like THEO and
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  Speaker 2: boy Chenna's just got back, So it'll be exciting when
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  Speaker 2: they hold here and Jay Hines CPA doing a really
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  Speaker 2: good job like developing those guys. We just heard from
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  Speaker 2: Spoon before you. How much energy does he bring out there? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I love him and I really think like he's taking
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  Speaker 2: a step. He's conscious of his game. He's trying to
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  Speaker 2: work on little things and trying to push himself, and
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  Speaker 2: he has little goals that he wants to get and
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  Speaker 2: he's really pushing and intentional in every practice that he does.
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  Speaker 2: Is he's he's the He's one of the real leaders
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  Speaker 2: of our defense.
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  Speaker 1: Tyree's got a lot of experience the second half last year.
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  Speaker 1: What was your assessment of his play when he had
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  Speaker 1: a chance to look back and where do you see
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  Speaker 1: him making the most progress in year two?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I thought he made leaps and bounds, you know,
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  Speaker 2: from like when he started in the Miami game and
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  Speaker 2: then he came back and played in San Francisco game,
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  Speaker 2: Like he just felt calmer when he was out there,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, like he's kind of like that. He's like,
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing too much for him. He goes out there,
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  Speaker 2: and I think the growth of it is just understanding
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  Speaker 2: why we call the plays, when we call the plays,
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  Speaker 2: what's what ortunities you have, what's your true job, what
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  Speaker 2: assignment you've got, and how do you make the plays
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  Speaker 2: you can make? And then how do you guide the
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  Speaker 2: players in front of you, you know, setting them up,
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  Speaker 2: lining them up, Him and j working on that I
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  Speaker 2: think earlier.
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  Speaker 1: But with reciting artists and Jonathan, you have almost everybody
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  Speaker 1: back having that kind of continuity.
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  Speaker 2: How much guys this year hugely? I think. I think
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  Speaker 2: it can help is obviously going to help you, that's
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  Speaker 2: where your starting point is, but ultimately we all have
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  Speaker 2: to go back and we have to learn it again
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  Speaker 2: and we have to build it again. And it's like
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  Speaker 2: the continuity comes with the understanding of okay, now when
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  Speaker 2: we're going through it, the formation adjustments, they're talking them,
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  Speaker 2: they're anticipating them, and they're understand how to play fast.
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  Speaker 2: So like it's huge that we've got the guys, but
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  Speaker 2: the problem solving where they are it's already showing up,
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  Speaker 2: like when they might be as a different personnel grouping
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  Speaker 2: some there's problems they're solving. They're bringing him safety down
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  Speaker 2: to the side they want him to bring down. They
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  Speaker 2: understand whether the nickel, and there's just those little like
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  Speaker 2: in game adjustments that sometimes it's not one hundred percent right,
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  Speaker 2: but they make it right together. You know.
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  Speaker 1: You often hear about players setting goals for themselves or
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  Speaker 1: coaches setting goals for players. Do you set goals for yourself?
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  Speaker 2: For myself? Yeah, more for the defense, just like what
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna I try and like for the guys, I
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  Speaker 2: try and break it down and for us by that
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  Speaker 2: each phase we're in. I do me personally. I do
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  Speaker 2: better with short term situations, so like I can understand
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  Speaker 2: while we've got achieve in these next seven days, ten days,
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  Speaker 2: two weeks, and then like can you evaluate, because then
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  Speaker 2: you can evaluate it and you can really put some
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  Speaker 2: tangible things behind it to say, Okay, did we do
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  Speaker 2: the stuff we're saying? Because I think it's hard to
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  Speaker 2: look so far ahead, you know, because so many different
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  Speaker 2: variables can happen along that way. I've trying to taught
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  Speaker 2: myself in this league. I work kind of in short bursts.
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  Speaker 1: Set it seemed like as it Blitzer last year offense
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  Speaker 1: just kind of had to beat on it and they
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  Speaker 1: were ready for him.
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  Speaker 2: Uh what was your assessment to that? And as coaches,
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  Speaker 2: how do you counter that? What? That? What that's happening? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think at times we gotta bring him more though,
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  Speaker 2: Like I think that's that's on me, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: and putting him in better situations to kind of give
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  Speaker 2: him opportunities to blitz, cause he was a good blitzer,
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  Speaker 2: like the ones he a couple of times he blitzed,
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  Speaker 2: he did win, you know, uh, and then going through it. Mm,
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  Speaker 2: I think just that more opportunities for him to blitz. Really,
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  Speaker 2: I think that will bring him to life more. What
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  Speaker 2: is the net of life with way? But d Hall did?
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  Speaker 2: I think for boy, it's really affecting the game on
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  Speaker 2: every down and distance, you know what I mean? And
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  Speaker 2: him talk about it all the time like he he
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  Speaker 2: does it and like he really like brings the game
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  Speaker 2: to life on third down? Like can he bring the
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  Speaker 2: game to life on first and second? Just like he
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  Speaker 2: brings the game to life on third down? And then
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  Speaker 2: d Hall, it's just like consistency of play being as
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  Speaker 2: efficient as possible and sometimes he you know, he holds
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  Speaker 2: like a bull in the China shop, so like he
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  Speaker 2: wastes energy of time. So it's just like how efficient
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  Speaker 2: can he be? How can he bring his edge moves
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  Speaker 2: to life? And they're they're things we're working on, but.
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  Speaker 1: How would you see in that Rek wall and kind
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  Speaker 1: of a process.
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  Speaker 2: Offseason, And yeah, he's getting after it, like really and truthfully,
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  Speaker 2: Like I spend a lot of time with Rica and
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  Speaker 2: you watch his indie and he's so intentional and everything
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  Speaker 2: he does comes in with a plan. He's really growing
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  Speaker 2: six time. Anything else than thanks guys,