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Mike Macdonald: "It Was A Great Day" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Great to see everybody. Thanks for coming out. It was fun.
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  Speaker 1: It was fun first practicing under our belts. So uh,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll see a big jump.
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  Speaker 2: From you know, first practice to the second practice. Guys
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  Speaker 2: are enthusiastic, they're into it. A lot of things will
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  Speaker 2: get cleaned up. You know, it's a big jump for
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  Speaker 2: these guys coming from all the combine training to now
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  Speaker 2: being here in the building and doing actual football. So
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  Speaker 2: tempo was good, stay it off the ground, guys are healthy.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good day. It's a great day.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll we'll kick it off with some meetings later
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  Speaker 2: and walk through and get back after it tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: Like obviously you're you're limited what you guys can do
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  Speaker 3: out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's new.
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  Speaker 3: But when you get through this in three days, that's
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  Speaker 3: the one thing you want to get out of it together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're training these guys to be pros, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so when the when they you know, get merged of
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  Speaker 2: the vets that they're ready to roll and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of evaluation period too. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of cool tryout guys and and see where you know,
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  Speaker 2: see if there's a role for these guys long term
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  Speaker 2: and if they can stick around. So a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things going on out there, but yeah, it's a good start.
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  Speaker 3: It's just poking any camp practice in May, but for
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  Speaker 3: you personally, it's probably something to looking forward to.
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  Speaker 2: Expect and how Yeah, well Ad was calling the plays
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  Speaker 2: on defense because I was like, I think I need
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  Speaker 2: to figure out how to.
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  Speaker 1: Run a practice first. So yeah, it was fine.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, there's definitely things that are you know,
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  Speaker 2: you taking notes on what you want to fix, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, things that we you know, we felt like
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  Speaker 2: we could do a little bit better job of, but overalls,
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  Speaker 2: great effort. Coaches are into it, a lot of enthusiasm,
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  Speaker 2: so uh yeah, good first start.
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  Speaker 1: Fire Murphy as advertised.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm happy he's in a Seahawks uniform
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  Speaker 2: for sure, but all the things we expected. Explosive, uh, smart,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just just all around good football player. But
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  Speaker 2: a long way to go, you know, one day in
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  Speaker 2: the books.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, definitely as we expected.
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  Speaker 3: I did you go about figure out how you want
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  Speaker 3: to wish?
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  Speaker 4: Drills are prayers? How long do you want to.
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  Speaker 3: Do things like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably a longer answer than you than you want,
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  Speaker 2: right now, I mean a lot of it's from a
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  Speaker 2: blueprint of things that we've done in our path, that
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  Speaker 2: we've tweaked, things that some coaches have done. So just
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  Speaker 2: some meetings over the you know, over the course of
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  Speaker 2: the time that we've been here, and try to come
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  Speaker 2: up with a good flow and then obviously like the
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  Speaker 2: load and how you want to you know, structure that
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  Speaker 2: or how you expect it. So these are all things
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  Speaker 2: that we're gonna we'll go back to the drawing board
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  Speaker 2: and see how it comes out as we design O
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  Speaker 2: tas and in training camp and try to get into
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  Speaker 2: a good flow there.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think it's you know, you're trying to get group work, teamwork,
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  Speaker 2: individual sessions, so trying to find the right mix. And
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  Speaker 2: we ended it with like a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: walk through there just to get some cheap reps at
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  Speaker 2: the end, so you won't see the exact same thing
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  Speaker 2: every time. You know, we'll be mixing it up. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know this, we'll work through it. But it's a
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  Speaker 2: fun process to you know, to schedule the whole thing out.
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  Speaker 5: I kind of now understanding that this is one practice
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  Speaker 5: in day you seem to be very kind of observation
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  Speaker 5: all the day, sort of bounce around it to res possible.
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  Speaker 5: You think that's the way you want to try and
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  Speaker 5: operator you want to get more involved.
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  Speaker 1: Lets you maybe have there?
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I think right now, I'm I'll be
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  Speaker 2: as we get gone, I'll be more involved with the
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  Speaker 2: whole team, and then when we get in down to
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  Speaker 2: the nitty gritty with the defense, and I'll probably spend
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  Speaker 2: more time with those guys.
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  Speaker 1: When we're separate. Uh, working through all that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's adjustable, and right now, I just want
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  Speaker 2: to get a great feel for the team and the
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  Speaker 2: guys and what we're coaching. And it's it really cool
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  Speaker 2: to see, you know, how it all comes together.
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  Speaker 1: From individual the team. And but yeah, I mean I'm
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  Speaker 1: observational guy. But that's the that's the thought.
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  Speaker 4: With the practice play and said, just how tricky is
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  Speaker 4: it when you have a lot of your new Stadver
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  Speaker 4: guys that you haven't work with previously, and it would
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  Speaker 4: what does that element add here? How much of a
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  Speaker 4: voice do they.
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  Speaker 5: Have right now?
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  Speaker 4: And trying to figure out how you get drinking structure business.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's just those are conversations that we're we've
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  Speaker 2: been having and we'll have and just like with the
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  Speaker 2: all aspects of the program, we have a vision of
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  Speaker 2: like the principles that we want to abide by, but
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  Speaker 2: the methods will be adjustable.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll figure it out, you know, and make twigs
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  Speaker 1: as we go.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're if you're not willing to shake
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  Speaker 2: and move and and and and evaluate what you're doing
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  Speaker 2: and making sure that on the right track, then you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's doing service the right you know,
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  Speaker 2: justice to the team.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's how we'll operate. That's how it'll always be.
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  Speaker 4: But as any evaluation guy, how excited of looking forward?
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  Speaker 1: You look forward to looking at the film today? Just
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  Speaker 1: what happen Bomb Juice? Anytime we're doing football, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's the best part of the job for sure.
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  Speaker 2: So but just to see it come together and see
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  Speaker 2: the guys move and compare that to what you expected
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  Speaker 2: on taped, you know versus what's what's actually showed up
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  Speaker 2: will be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: With the coaching staff, we talked to you kind of
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  Speaker 3: early on about building the staff and how you're bringing
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  Speaker 3: in all these different people with different ideas. Yeah, how
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  Speaker 3: now that you're at this point of being on the field.
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  Speaker 3: Just how's the process been of getting to know each
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  Speaker 3: other and a football with each other and then seeing
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  Speaker 3: it translate. Just how's that process over there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is the next step of it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's really exciting. I think we got an awesome staff,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of different talents. People are bringing to the table,
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  Speaker 2: different experiences, and we're leaning on those things, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and trying to figure out what's best for us and
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  Speaker 2: at all times, and we're not going to waste good
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  Speaker 2: ideas for sure.
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  Speaker 5: We need get to.
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  Speaker 3: See you as a coordinator in Baltimore, what were you
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  Speaker 3: kind of a real vocal, get involved in everything kind
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  Speaker 3: of guy.
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  Speaker 1: You take a guess.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean it's as needed, you know, But like
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  Speaker 2: my personality right now, observational mode. As we get going,
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  Speaker 2: you see things, you'll address them, and you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: coaching everybody all the time. But yeah, it's just it's
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  Speaker 2: just fun to see football being done. But we want
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  Speaker 2: to do it the right way. We want to do
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  Speaker 2: it up to our standard. So you know, we'll address
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  Speaker 2: those things. But when we're cooking, I mean, let's not
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  Speaker 2: getting the guys way, let them go play football.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned observing any catcher Ian Stickulard day out there,
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  Speaker 3: seeing a guy move a certain way, anything that kind of.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of things.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I thought our offensive operation was pretty dang
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  Speaker 2: good for the first day at rookie camp.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's some hiccups in there.
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  Speaker 2: But defensively, I think they settled down just once they realized, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're just practicing football. You know. I think you saw
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  Speaker 2: the execution go up, and there's a lot of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of cool, cool things. But really excited about the
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  Speaker 2: guys who brought in and it's fun to see our
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  Speaker 2: coaches coach, you know, for real for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: Took up my lows obviously a pretty big name. How
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  Speaker 1: did you guys get involved with him?
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  Speaker 3: I guess I'm getting it out here.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure the actual details of it, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited he's here and he had had a good first day.
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  Speaker 3: Look like, yeah, I under you know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of Shiner's been in here before.
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  Speaker 1: They've always kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of taken pride in developing known drafted guys. Given those
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  Speaker 3: guys a shot. Just how's your view always been in
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  Speaker 3: your Pasita Yeah, we're very.
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  Speaker 1: Much aligned with that.
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  Speaker 2: Take a lot of pride in the UDFA process. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter, I told the guys last night, doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: where you start. You know, everyone's got an eqal opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: There's levels to it, you know, in draft picks there's
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  Speaker 2: a little different levels. But that's something we take a
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  Speaker 2: lot of pride in developing our guys. But like I said,
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  Speaker 2: if you're gonna be here, we're coaching you, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just like you're on one of the ninety and you know,
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  Speaker 2: just like we would you know, roster spots one through five.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, absolutely, we're we're excited about those guys for sure.
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  Speaker 2: AJ has a he's got a little hammy that nothing
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  Speaker 2: major will be you know, be out a couple of
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  Speaker 2: days if that.
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  Speaker 1: But we're just in a planet safe right now.
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  Speaker 5: Did you have music in Baltimore something?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we did.
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  Speaker 2: We did, probably not as much as we'll have here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we'll kick it up a little bit, but
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  Speaker 2: trying to frighten the right balance.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have anything popp? No, that was it the music?
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  Speaker 1: The music or a j both of them? Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: suit questions.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you