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Press Pass | Liam Coen Rookie Minicamp Press Conference · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It's been good to get out here.
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  Speaker 2: I mean really just having them in the building. It's
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  Speaker 2: a new couple of days for everybody. Right just where
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  Speaker 2: they go, where's this meeting room, where is this located?
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  Speaker 2: I mean that all starts to creep in. It's like
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  Speaker 2: being a freshman in high school all over again for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of these guys.
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  Speaker 1: And but the energy has been good, you know, the guys.
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  Speaker 2: I heard we're doing walkthroughs at the hotel the night
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  Speaker 2: before and you know, hopefully some of the leadership out
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  Speaker 2: of these guys will continue to rise.
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  Speaker 1: But the energy was good for the last two days.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's early. But this Travis Hunter, as advertised, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, I would assume, you know, and just watching ran
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  Speaker 2: a route yesterday where a shoe came off and didn't
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  Speaker 2: quite affect him, made a great catch. And it's more
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  Speaker 2: just his presence, right and the energy that he does provide,
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  Speaker 2: you know, both in the classroom, in the meeting rooms
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  Speaker 2: and also here on the field.
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  Speaker 1: So really hard to tell in this kind of setting,
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  Speaker 1: though we seen him get we saw him get some
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  Speaker 1: extra work after practice, right during practice. Just how important
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  Speaker 1: is that good to be just working with Edgar and
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  Speaker 1: you know about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, building camaraderie between the two of those guys is
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  Speaker 2: going to be really important. The amount of time that
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  Speaker 2: they're obviously being able to spend during this time has
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  Speaker 2: been really beneficial. And at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: it's about relationships.
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  Speaker 1: So for him to be able to get.
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  Speaker 2: Relationships with all the coaches, right, but specifically the extra time.
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  Speaker 2: And he's the type of guy that puts it in
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  Speaker 2: on his own when he is away from the building,
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  Speaker 2: and so the more he can do and continue to
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  Speaker 2: do that will only benefit us moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned energy a couple of times. Just how about this.
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  Speaker 1: How many people are here for rookie anything. I know,
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  Speaker 1: this is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I you know, thank the fans and everybody for putting
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  Speaker 2: this on within the organization.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great to have the fan base out here.
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  Speaker 2: You could definitely feel the players yesterday there was a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of nerves, right it's their first day out
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  Speaker 2: on the grass with new coaches, and so the sense
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  Speaker 2: of urgencies up and as when the guys are there,
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  Speaker 2: you start to see some mistakes and miscommunications happen. Today
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  Speaker 2: a lot cleaner. You could feel the energy from the
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  Speaker 2: fans and uh, you know, they were obviously gassed up
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  Speaker 2: to have the people around coach. You're a quarterback coaches
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  Speaker 2: kid head against quarterback coaches, Kah, Is there.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit of a bond there, uh that that
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  Speaker 1: you sent Sord? Yeah? Not quite.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I mean we'll get there, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, still getting to know him, just just met him,
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  Speaker 2: hadn't I'll be honest, I hadn't watched a ton of
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  Speaker 2: his tape before we ended up bringing him in, and
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  Speaker 2: then once we did, I.
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  Speaker 1: Got to talk to him.
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  Speaker 2: John Gruden actually hit me up about him, shot me
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  Speaker 2: a text. I think they spent some time together during
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  Speaker 2: the off season, and so you can definitely see the
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  Speaker 2: coaches kid mentality. He did a great job of calling
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  Speaker 2: the plays having command. I mean we weren't just out
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  Speaker 2: there calling one play. I mean we were canning plays
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  Speaker 2: to play calls. He was handling all that stuff. Well, so, uh,
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  Speaker 2: time will tell, but you know, definitely a good guy
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  Speaker 2: to start off with. I know we talked about Travis
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  Speaker 2: starting on offense, and that's obviously what he's done for
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  Speaker 2: two days.
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  Speaker 1: When is when does he get start getting reps on defense?
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  Speaker 1: Next week? Next week? Yeah, next week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll be able to get integrated next week on
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  Speaker 2: the defensive side of the ball. We just kind of
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  Speaker 2: ended up making a decision that from yesterday to today,
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  Speaker 2: we wanted to be able to clean up some of
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  Speaker 2: the things that we may have been able to miss yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: get extra reps on the offensive side of the ball,
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  Speaker 2: and next week he'll start to roll on defense.
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  Speaker 1: Sort of a feel for the defensive ste the playbook.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah, he's been able to dive in and learn
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  Speaker 2: some of our three deep coverages what do we call
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  Speaker 2: our three deep coverages?
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  Speaker 1: On the outside?
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  Speaker 2: If he has to be manned up on the back
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  Speaker 2: side of a three by one, he knows all those
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  Speaker 2: calls already. So at the end of the day, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be about on the defensive side of the ball,
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  Speaker 2: communication right. The technique and fundamentals we will continue to
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  Speaker 2: harp on, but it's really about being on the same
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  Speaker 2: page as the rest of the guys in the back
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  Speaker 2: end from a communication standpoint, and the rest will kind
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  Speaker 2: of take care of itself. Is the most important thing
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  Speaker 2: for him and maybe for all the he's too just
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  Speaker 2: a kind of play yeah, get yeah, as much as
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  Speaker 2: they can do. It's like for every position how much
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  Speaker 2: can they handle right, how much can they do? How
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  Speaker 2: many different positions can you actually end up playing and learning?
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  Speaker 2: And for Travis specifically, he's obviously having to learn both
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  Speaker 2: sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: While you know, he's a football smart guy, man, he
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  Speaker 1: is a smart dude. The game makes sense to him.
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  Speaker 2: And so now it's just about putting in that time,
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  Speaker 2: that extra time that he's going to have to do
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  Speaker 2: in order to be successful to play even one side
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  Speaker 2: of the ball at this level. And so he knows
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  Speaker 2: what's cut out for him coming up. You guys spent
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  Speaker 2: a ton of time with him before draft. Are you
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  Speaker 2: learning about his giant, over the top personality or did
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  Speaker 2: that show up in some regards leading into the draft? Now?
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  Speaker 2: You know when he when he got here after after
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  Speaker 2: the draft, you know, we got to hang out with
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  Speaker 2: him for for a little bit there, and you felt
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  Speaker 2: it right away, right you did.
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  Speaker 1: You felt that infectious.
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  Speaker 2: Smile that he has that he pro es and brings
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  Speaker 2: into the building, very serious about football, very serious about
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  Speaker 2: his process in order to uh put himself in a
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  Speaker 2: position to ultimately just be in a physical shape to
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  Speaker 2: be able to do this and to run forever and
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  Speaker 2: to have.
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  Speaker 1: The stamina and strength to be able to do this
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  Speaker 1: at a high level.
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  Speaker 2: But you see him out there dancing and having fun
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  Speaker 2: and that's really cool to see. You know, we want
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  Speaker 2: to see some more of that. And when he goes
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  Speaker 2: out there and he's doing his thing, he is serious
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  Speaker 2: about this process.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see Danny struck out out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he went for a wedding. I think
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  Speaker 2: he had a wedding to go to, so he was here. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he was here and he had to go take off
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  Speaker 2: for a family wedding.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oxle versus Benn again.
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  Speaker 2: Other than tracks, of course, what are the other rookies
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  Speaker 2: that are really impressed here? I think Jack Kaiser first
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  Speaker 2: and foremost on the defensive side of the ball. Just
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  Speaker 2: from a diligent standpoint, you could tell he's already had
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  Speaker 2: some of those leadership qualities that you look for. He
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  Speaker 2: is in really good physical shape coming into camp here
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. I think Caleb Brandsaw as well stood out
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  Speaker 2: on the defensive secondary. Wyatt Milam did a nice job
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  Speaker 2: and the drills over the course of the last two days,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, really all these guys did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we'll be able to go watch the tape
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  Speaker 2: from today. A lot of mistakes and things that did
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  Speaker 2: happen to occur yesterday, but that's part of it. But overall,
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  Speaker 2: really appreciate their energy and enthusiasm with the with the
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  Speaker 2: phases that you've already had with the veterans in this
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  Speaker 2: group right here.
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  Speaker 1: How important is it to set the tone for a you.
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  Speaker 2: He's the coach of what you're trying to get across,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just a big time in terms of those
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  Speaker 2: meetings and messages. Yeah, I think over the course of
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  Speaker 2: the last few weeks with the vets, we've been able
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  Speaker 2: to kind of install not only the playbooks, the schemes,
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  Speaker 2: the fundamentals and the techniques, but also our culture and
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  Speaker 2: our modes of operation, the way.
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  Speaker 1: That we want to communicate, the way that we end
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  Speaker 1: up wanting to play the game.
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  Speaker 2: And so we've now been able to have those same
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  Speaker 2: meetings with the rookies over the last two days, and
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  Speaker 2: so the goal is to be able to continue to
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  Speaker 2: catch them up on some of those, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: the way we want to act, the way we want
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  Speaker 2: to talk, the way we want to communicate if maybe
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  Speaker 2: something comes up, and how these things end up carrying
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  Speaker 2: out onto the grass those That's really been the main
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  Speaker 2: focus with the team meetings with the rookies. That was
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  Speaker 2: also the emphasis with the vets before we ended up
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  Speaker 2: breaking here for this weekend. So once we get back
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  Speaker 2: into Monday, these guys will be integrated and be rolling
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  Speaker 2: and we'll have a lot more players in that meeting.
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  Speaker 1: Room before William, Will you guys be doing joint practices?
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  Speaker 1: I hope, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: It all kind of depends on the schedule and the
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  Speaker 2: league and all that. We haven't been able to get
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  Speaker 2: that information quite yet. We'll continue to utilize any asset
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  Speaker 2: we can to be able to make that work.
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  Speaker 1: But we've had some communication comes out comes out Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have a lot on the West Coast trips.
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  Speaker 2: Did you request to the league to do anything back
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  Speaker 2: to back or do you want to avoid that now?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I kind of haven't really requested much. I
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  Speaker 2: let Tony Boselli handle that stuff. But no, it's more
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  Speaker 2: so just hey, let's remain fluid, right. We have to
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  Speaker 2: understand that, yes, we can ask for some things, but
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  Speaker 2: ultimately it's the league's decision and we got to have
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  Speaker 2: the mindset to go play anybody anytime, anyplace, everywhere, I.
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  Speaker 1: Can see eleven on eleven team periods. Why it was
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  Speaker 1: important for you guys to make sure you can see that, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just more.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we call that an alignment assignment period where
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  Speaker 2: you know we can we've installed plays right on both
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  Speaker 2: sides of the ball, concepts, formations, motions, shifts defensively, you know,
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  Speaker 2: calls right adjustments to these formations and motions and shifts,
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  Speaker 2: and so it was just a good op to kind
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  Speaker 2: of get out there, get the huddle or I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's wild when you pull these guys on how many
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  Speaker 2: of the been in the huddle recently and how many
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  Speaker 2: have heard of verbal cadence recently?
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  Speaker 1: It's very minimal. So we are actually teaching.
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  Speaker 2: This is the huddle, this is where you line up
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  Speaker 2: in the huddle, this is how we break the huddle,
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  Speaker 2: and this is a verbal cadence. And so that is
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  Speaker 2: like starting at you know, ground zero in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of ways. So didn't really feel like it was fully
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  Speaker 2: necessary to come and do true competitive eleven on eleven,
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, I think we
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  Speaker 2: got something out of it.
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  Speaker 1: All good Thanks guys,