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Aden Durde: "The Talent Level Is High Here" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How are we doing.
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  Speaker 2: To take questions the camp and you've got more of
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  Speaker 2: an extent to look at some of the undrafted guys
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  Speaker 2: Carlton Johnson today it seems like you had a million
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  Speaker 2: past breakups and.
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  Speaker 1: At a quarterback group's got so much talent. How are
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  Speaker 1: you seeing him fit into that group now? I think
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  Speaker 1: like when you're young, when young players like that, it's
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  Speaker 1: like how do they develop?
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  Speaker 3: Like you're doing a great job to David's then it's like,
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  Speaker 3: how does he move on from that? We're going to
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  Speaker 3: see him in pads, We're see him in a different situations.
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  Speaker 3: But I think for those young guys, it's like constant development.
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  Speaker 3: Where do they need to improve? What's there one thing
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  Speaker 3: they need to improve on? So you're doing a great
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  Speaker 3: job at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about the transition sort of two weeks. You're
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  Speaker 1: get to.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe the first real test for you guys this week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think really and truthfully, in these preseason games, you
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  Speaker 3: want to really you really want to compete, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and see what your guys have. You know, like, how
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  Speaker 3: do we simplify it for them, how do we allow
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  Speaker 3: them to play really fast?
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  Speaker 1: How do we see their talent?
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  Speaker 3: You know, you're still in this evaluation phase of the team,
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  Speaker 3: the defense.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like that's how we're looking at the moment
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  Speaker 1: you take to get out of the exactly what I said.
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  Speaker 3: I think like we're really working on fundamentals. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's the first time to establish like how you play
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  Speaker 3: your play style, see the first look of your players,
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  Speaker 3: and then you're built from there. You know, in a
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  Speaker 3: live event by in Dallas last year, what's similar and
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  Speaker 3: different with the defensive line you're seeing coming together in
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  Speaker 3: your own.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question, Like.
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  Speaker 3: It's quite similar, but the players have very different attributes.
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  Speaker 3: So like we have some really good edge players here
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  Speaker 3: in Dallas, we had a lot more of edge players,
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  Speaker 3: like in here we have a lot more of interior players,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so like it's how you roll those players,
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  Speaker 3: like how you complement the edge players with the interior
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  Speaker 3: players and give Like really we're still in that phase,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like right now where we're working out what
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  Speaker 3: some people can do and what they're best at. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to get them those spots. That's really like
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  Speaker 3: once you get out of training camp, you want to
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  Speaker 3: know that. And we're getting close.
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  Speaker 1: Just without Jerome Baker's being out there a whole lot.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's coming together. Yeah, I think it's coming together.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, like you think, like you can't discount
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  Speaker 3: the reps that Dot and Jerome missed, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: so as they come into the system is a new
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  Speaker 3: system for them.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a really valuable time.
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  Speaker 3: And you're seeing growth in t You were seeing growth
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  Speaker 3: in Baker when he was out there, and then the
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  Speaker 3: young guy t Night and Patio and Rap those guys
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  Speaker 3: are coming on, you know, like it's.
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  Speaker 1: The process and you've just got to keep going with
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  Speaker 1: it and moving with it.
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  Speaker 2: What's what about Byron when you had him pull pads
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  Speaker 2: out here and kind of con see it's the combination
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  Speaker 2: of feeds.
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  Speaker 1: I think some of the things we can't discount.
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  Speaker 3: What stands out for Byron is like the person that
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  Speaker 3: he is, you know, like he's he's detailed, like he
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  Speaker 3: he carries himself like a professional, and he's mature.
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  Speaker 1: And then what happens is that spills out onto the field.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like on the field you see as low
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  Speaker 3: as you see his quickness, there's still a lot of
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  Speaker 3: growth in his game, you know, so like here keep developing,
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  Speaker 3: but you see like the talent, you see the raw talent,
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  Speaker 3: you see some some polished things too, Like he has
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  Speaker 3: an array of things that we've got to keep honing
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  Speaker 3: and keep working out where he can best be used.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he.
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  Speaker 1: Talked about he's been working on him off coverage. He's
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  Speaker 1: talking about his development there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he spends time with Kase Scott and Casett's doing
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  Speaker 3: a great job with him.
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  Speaker 1: Les works with him there. And and I think, like with.
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  Speaker 3: People like that, like I said to you, like we
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  Speaker 3: we talk about all the time, like with the coaches,
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  Speaker 3: like how we developing these guys, how we moving them forwards,
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  Speaker 3: and where are their areas of development. So he spends
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  Speaker 3: those eras of time with the coaches and then we
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  Speaker 3: kind of review those errors and see how we can
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  Speaker 3: keep improving them.
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  Speaker 1: But he's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 3: You just talk about Julian love this leadership and what
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  Speaker 3: he provides for you overall.
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  Speaker 1: The defense, not just with that kid. Yeah, Juni is
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  Speaker 1: like he's a great leader.
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  Speaker 3: Like and I think when you're in when you're in
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  Speaker 3: the growth phase of your defense, when you're trying to
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  Speaker 3: develop who you are, some of your best players being
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  Speaker 3: made of the right stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Is important, and Julian is doing a great job there.
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  Speaker 3: He comes to work every day, he takes the field
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  Speaker 3: the right way, he goes about his business the right way.
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  Speaker 3: And there's other guys on the defense, like Jaron's doing
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  Speaker 3: the same thing, Leo's doing the same thing, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Like there's other guys that are leading this defense in
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  Speaker 3: by their actions, you know, and that speaks way louder
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  Speaker 3: than words for.
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  Speaker 2: Your communication, because it communications party part of its defense.
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  Speaker 1: And how's that progressing again? You know, like it's again
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  Speaker 1: it's the second week of.
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  Speaker 3: Camp, and there's days when the communications through the roof
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  Speaker 3: and sometimes that happens on a lower instill day and
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  Speaker 3: the guys can think and they can process in it.
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  Speaker 3: Some things clear up them like in a few days time,
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  Speaker 3: and then other days it's lower as they're thinking. You know,
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  Speaker 3: that's as you're building a new system. You see what
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  Speaker 3: you can put in, you see what you need to
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  Speaker 3: take out to allow them to play as fast and
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  Speaker 3: be as loud as they can be on the field.
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  Speaker 2: You know, today like there's a lot of high communication
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  Speaker 2: hyberbal energy. How would you describe the personality of the
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  Speaker 2: defense right now?
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  Speaker 1: It's a great, good question.
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  Speaker 3: I would think like the personality of the defense is
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  Speaker 3: like a growth mindset right now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're still in.
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  Speaker 3: Like our kind of like phase where we're growing, we're
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  Speaker 3: understanding each other, we're developing our ident It's easy to
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  Speaker 3: say what we want to be, but we have to
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  Speaker 3: become it, do you know, Like we're going to a
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  Speaker 3: place where teams will have to deal with us, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like and as we go through camp and as we
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  Speaker 3: go through the start of the season, we're building that
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  Speaker 3: and Mike's doing a great job of building that with
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  Speaker 3: the team mentality, and in the moment, that's where I
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  Speaker 3: see us is we're still just growing and growing. We're
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  Speaker 3: learning from our mistakes, we're looking at some of the
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  Speaker 3: stuff we do really good, and we're just growing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the energy was great today.
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  Speaker 2: I know you guys headsets at the stadium on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: How do you guys feel the communication between you guys
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  Speaker 2: as a coaching staff and starting to develop the chemistry
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  Speaker 2: with you guys what you want to hear on the
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  Speaker 2: headsets which you don't kind of have that or process.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just exactly what you just said.
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  Speaker 3: It's like we're new stuff, so we're learning just like
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  Speaker 3: the players are, and so as we're out there, it
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  Speaker 3: gives us a chance to kind of I think everything
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  Speaker 3: has to be game relatable, the way people practice, the
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  Speaker 3: way people drill, the way we go about practice, where
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  Speaker 3: we stand, where our eyes are, and the more might
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  Speaker 3: puts us in game like situation.
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  Speaker 1: This helps us all grow and connect. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: and you and Mike obviously really connected your two roles
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  Speaker 1: since you got hired.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen that relationship grow between you and make
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  Speaker 2: mcgond as you're working together.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just organic, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, like like we're we're very different, but we're quite
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  Speaker 3: similar as well, if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: It's like.
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  Speaker 3: I think understand how each other work, how each other
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  Speaker 3: carry themselves. I'm there to support Mike, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: I'm there to make his life easier so he can
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  Speaker 3: be a better head coach, and then whatever needs to
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  Speaker 3: be done around that, I'm just gonna do it. If
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  Speaker 3: it's coaching some of the ends one day, if he's
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  Speaker 3: coaching some of the linebacker's making the calls, like, whatever
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  Speaker 3: needs to be done, I'm going to do that to
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  Speaker 3: make his life easier at the moment so he can
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  Speaker 3: be the head coach he needs to be, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and as we go through that, we kind of I
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  Speaker 3: can start seeing stuff ahead, like that's starting to happen,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and that's just that's part of the learning process.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're very different.
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  Speaker 3: Like I would say, just I'm not different to a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people from a different country, so like culturally
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  Speaker 3: I'm different. He says things it makes me laugh and
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  Speaker 3: like maybe he didn't mean to make me laugh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Like I say things and he's like, what did you say?
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  Speaker 3: You know, Like, but there's other things. I think there's
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  Speaker 3: some principles we have that are very similar, and beliefs
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  Speaker 3: we have that are very similar.
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  Speaker 1: You know that you've had to explain to somebody who
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  Speaker 1: hadn't heard it before.
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  Speaker 3: It Like I'm used, Like I kind of got through
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  Speaker 3: that phase in Dallas because like when you're the difference
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  Speaker 3: here is I'm a defensive coordinate, so I work with
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  Speaker 3: a lot more people, so I don't talk to them
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  Speaker 3: as much.
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  Speaker 1: Like when I was in Dallas, it was d Lane
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  Speaker 1: was in the room every single day.
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  Speaker 3: I relax and I start talking more of an English
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  Speaker 3: accent so they understood me.
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  Speaker 1: But here I might say something that I said sign
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  Speaker 1: in the D.
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  Speaker 3: Line room the other day and they did not have
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  Speaker 3: a clue what I was saying.
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  Speaker 2: How special teams could be different this year terms with
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  Speaker 2: the players that are gonna be kept on.
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  Speaker 1: The roster, and obviously every coach is involved that process.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the.
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  Speaker 2: Depth, Do you have any interior with the new kickoff
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  Speaker 2: for trips? Do you find yourself potentially being at the
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  Speaker 2: table pushing for what or two of those guys to.
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  Speaker 1: Make a team that maybe wouldn't have been in the passes?
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  Speaker 1: Because what's there?
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  Speaker 3: To be honest, If I'm really honestly, I don't really
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  Speaker 3: think like that. I think, like to make say, if
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  Speaker 3: you're talking about the front, I think any position in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL on defense is like the competition level needs
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  Speaker 3: to be at its highest. So like these guys understand
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  Speaker 3: if like John and those guys do a great job
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  Speaker 3: of bringing us players, like the talent level is highest,
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  Speaker 3: so like these guys have to compete for a spot,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like that. That's what makes the NFL the
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  Speaker 3: greatest league to me is that it's hard to play
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  Speaker 3: in it, you know, and these guys are competing every
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  Speaker 3: day and let let the players show what they can do.
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  Speaker 1: And then see where it falls from there.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: First and second, No, it does. Now we play a
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  Speaker 1: base front.
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  Speaker 3: He knows how to play nose tackle, and I think
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  Speaker 3: that position is a very like the more you understand
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  Speaker 3: block recognition and you understand how to use people's leverage
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  Speaker 3: and time and of that, the better you can perform
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  Speaker 3: at times. And I think his his experience in the
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  Speaker 3: game and his ability allows him to do some of
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  Speaker 3: those things and that will show up for us hopefully.
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  Speaker 1: It's good and it's a learning process to have people
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  Speaker 1: like hang to learn off. I think that that that's
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  Speaker 1: like a plus for him with just the approach he
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  Speaker 1: seems to be taking in the mindset that he has
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  Speaker 1: going into this year.
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  Speaker 3: I only know him as I know him here, so
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  Speaker 3: like he's been professional. He goes about his business and
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  Speaker 3: he's focused in practice. So that what the person that
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  Speaker 3: he's shown me is that. So that's how I see him.
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  Speaker 1: Just mentioned he was learning like six different positions along
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  Speaker 1: the line.
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  Speaker 2: How does that make your defense more adaptable?
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  Speaker 3: I think as Lendon goes through that, like if he learned,
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  Speaker 3: like if he learns positions, other people learn positions. I
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  Speaker 3: think at times there's there's times in games where Leo
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  Speaker 3: might have to be in a spot because someone else
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  Speaker 3: might have to be in a spot, And as you
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  Speaker 3: go through that, when you're teaching different positions, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: just you've just got to give him the looks and
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  Speaker 3: understand the tools to use in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: D line is happening now. It's on you now. So
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  Speaker 1: like the more he gets reps of that and he's
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  Speaker 1: getting it in practice, the more he start to understand it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks very much,