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Speaker 1: Going into his third year in the league, Your third
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Speaker 1: year in the.
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Speaker 2: League, what what's kind of the biggest change that he've
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Speaker 2: noticed in him as he's.
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Speaker 1: Fer I mean, I think a lot of a lot
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Speaker 1: of things.
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Speaker 3: Obviously, like the talent's always been there, and he's always
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Speaker 3: had a knack for the game and been a great
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Speaker 3: runner and done a lot of things to you know,
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Speaker 3: create explosive plays, all that all the way back to
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Speaker 3: college and last year. I think he's just getting, you know,
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Speaker 3: more and more like football savvy and understanding defenses and protections.
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Speaker 3: I think that's just growing a lot right now and
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Speaker 3: I think he's gotten That's one thing I think he's
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Speaker 3: I think he's taking a huge step in from last
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Speaker 3: year this year is all that. And I think he's
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Speaker 3: really sharp with protections and that was one thing that
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Speaker 3: I know he wanted to work on and I think
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Speaker 3: he's done a great job. So that's one thing I've
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Speaker 3: been impressed with. And just making his game, you know,
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Speaker 3: really well rounded, and I think he's doing a great
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Speaker 3: job of that. And obviously the more he can do,
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Speaker 3: the more he's on the field, the more he helps us.
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Speaker 3: So that's that's what we all want and him as well,
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Speaker 3: So it's been good to see him grow in all
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Speaker 3: those areas.
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Speaker 2: Like a number one pick overall pick question real quick,
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Speaker 2: you know, for Bryce Young, what what would have for
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Speaker 2: successful season for the number one overall picks coming into
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Speaker 2: the league.
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Speaker 3: Look like might be asking the wrong guy. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 3: hopefully it goes a little better for him. No, I
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Speaker 3: think it's it's hard to say. It's a hard question.
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Speaker 3: Every team's different. Obviously, you know, someone told me this before,
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Speaker 3: and like there's some truth to it no matter the situation.
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Speaker 3: But typical, well it's a little different actually with Carolina
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Speaker 3: because I guess they traded up for it. But typically
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Speaker 3: whoever has the number one pick, you're going somewhere that
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Speaker 3: struggled the year before. So the expectations, you know, are
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Speaker 3: gonna be what they are, and you know it's gonna
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Speaker 3: be it's gonna be some tough challenges, but different actually
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Speaker 3: a little bit different in Carolina. So I know they
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Speaker 3: got they got a really good team. It seems like
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Speaker 3: they have a great coaching staff. I think just managing
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Speaker 3: those expectations, because I mean, what are expectations any Like,
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Speaker 3: it doesn't really matter what other people think you should do.
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Speaker 1: Or you're gonna do.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't really matter at the end of the day,
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Speaker 3: as long as the guys in the locker room, you know,
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Speaker 3: trust and have faith in you, and you keep getting
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Speaker 3: better every day. I think that's what success looks like.
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Speaker 3: And obviously winning as many games as possible, but it's
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Speaker 3: hard to say you know how many that's gonna be,
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Speaker 3: and you don't know the set of obstacles that are
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Speaker 3: gonna be in front of you, and you just have
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Speaker 3: to go with that mindset every day of getting better
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Speaker 3: and not letting bad plays, bad games get in your
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Speaker 3: head and just continuing to turn the page over, learn
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Speaker 3: from the good, learn from the bad, and continue growing.
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Speaker 3: I think that's the biggest thing and the most success
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Speaker 3: you can have is.
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Speaker 1: By doing that.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know if you're asking the best
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Speaker 3: candidate for it. Yeah, but no, I think it for sure.
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a learning experience.
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Speaker 1: Definitely, just kind of getting.
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Speaker 2: Through it, you know what I mean, just like get
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Speaker 2: through this.
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's never the mindset of getting through it.
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Speaker 1: You know. I think you wanta you wanna thrive, You want.
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Speaker 3: To find success win wise, and you know, obviously you
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Speaker 3: want to play well and put your team in a
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Speaker 3: situation to win. But there is part of it that
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Speaker 3: you just have to learn by experience. There's some things
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Speaker 3: that you're gonna have to make mistakes on to learn,
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Speaker 3: you know, no matter who you are. Maybe there's fewer
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Speaker 3: than other guys with Bryce, who knows what that'll be,
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Speaker 3: But there's gonna be things that you're just gonna have
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Speaker 3: to experience it and learn learn it. And obviously the
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Speaker 3: NFL in and of itself is just different in the
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Speaker 3: schedule and the season. It's a really long season. And
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Speaker 3: obviously he's used to playing at a good school where
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Speaker 3: they play a lot of games. That'll help him. But
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Speaker 3: it's just all different. And you know, I think he's
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Speaker 3: seems you know, I know Bryce a little bit. He
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Speaker 3: seems great. I think he's gonna he's gonna do just fine.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just, you know, it's different for everybody,
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Speaker 3: but definitely a learning experience from.
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Speaker 4: Your one to year three. Doug just came in here
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Speaker 4: and said, there's so much confidence in the locker room.
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Speaker 4: You get a sense that you guys are are at
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Speaker 4: a different level confidence. Why and why is it because
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Speaker 4: of the way you finished last season? Because the carryover,
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Speaker 4: the number of starters back, all those things.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I think it's a lot of things.
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Speaker 3: I think it's obviously, you know, you have you have
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Speaker 3: confidence from a little bit from past success. But I
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Speaker 3: also think preparation and knowing our system and feeling more
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Speaker 3: comfortable in what we're doing, just speaking from an offensive standpoint,
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Speaker 3: and I'm sure defensively the same way. I mean, guys
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Speaker 3: look great, but I'm obviously not in those meeting rooms,
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Speaker 3: but I would say they feel the same. Just being
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Speaker 3: in the system. You just know more. You can react faster,
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Speaker 3: you can play faster, you communicate better with the guys
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Speaker 3: around you. Uh So I think that gives you confidence too.
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Speaker 3: Obviously the way we finished the year, that gives us confidence.
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Speaker 3: But it's a new season and that doesn't carry over.
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Speaker 3: You know, everyone starts at the same in the same
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Speaker 3: spot at the end of the year, so you can't
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Speaker 3: you can't think that it's gonna be like that. You know,
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Speaker 3: you got to go out and earn it. And I
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Speaker 3: think we also have confidence from the training camp that
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Speaker 3: we've had. OTA's how we've worked all that plays into it.
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Speaker 3: But now we get to go play for real, and
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Speaker 3: you know, see what we got, see what type of
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Speaker 3: team we are, and prove it on the field. Just
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Speaker 3: how different is this team at in the Week one
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Speaker 3: this year than it was last year? Maybe it's a
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Speaker 3: lot different, you know, like the confidence piece, and just
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Speaker 3: you know, you know, there's gonna be things that come
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Speaker 3: up along the season. There's gonna be some hiccups. It's
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Speaker 3: never gonna go perfect. But I think just the confidence
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Speaker 3: we have in our guys, in our system and our staff,
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Speaker 3: and just over all the relationships and the kind of
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Speaker 3: the storms that we weathered last year, it gives us
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Speaker 3: confidence too that you know, we know everything's not going
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Speaker 3: to go perfect this year. It's it's never going to
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Speaker 3: no matter how good your team is. So understanding that
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Speaker 3: and also realizing we've been through some of that adversity
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Speaker 3: before and we know how to handle it and when
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Speaker 3: it comes, you know, I think we'll be able to
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Speaker 3: bounce back even quicker than we were able to last year.
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Speaker 3: So I think that's everyone has confidence in that.
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Speaker 5: Christian mentioned on Monday, you know, the issue came up
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Speaker 5: about stats and he just he immediately downplayed, you know,
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Speaker 5: anything with regarding stats, that the only thing that mattered
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Speaker 5: was getting better every day and winning as a quarterback
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Speaker 5: who's got a lot of really quality weapons, who are
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Speaker 5: capable of putting up big numbers. How sort of liberating
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Speaker 5: is it for you that you seem to have a
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Speaker 5: core of weapons around you that aren't caught up in
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Speaker 5: their individual glory.
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Speaker 1: That's big.
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Speaker 3: I think it takes a lot of pressure off me.
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Speaker 3: You know, that's one less thing to worry about, because
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Speaker 3: that is a that's a real thing. You know guys,
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Speaker 3: and you know certain teams and positions that you know
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Speaker 3: they want, not that they're not that they don't care
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Speaker 3: about winning, but they're they also really care about, you know,
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Speaker 3: getting there, getting their touches, getting the ball, getting their stats.
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Speaker 3: And of course we all wanna we all want to
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Speaker 3: have good stats and we want to play well. Like
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Speaker 3: that's that'd be ideal you do that and win the game.
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Speaker 3: But when we're talking about guys like you should always
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Speaker 3: if you win the game, doesn't really matter what your
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Speaker 3: stat line is, even if you have one catch, no catches.
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Speaker 3: If I you know, through a pick through two picks
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Speaker 3: and we win, obviously I'm not gonna be happy with
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Speaker 3: my performance, but I'm gonna celebrate with the team. I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna be happy we won the game. That's what this
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Speaker 3: league's about. It's hard to win. So when you find
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Speaker 3: ways to win, you know, that's That's the cool thing
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Speaker 3: about our team is we enjoy it. You know, we
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Speaker 3: we understand that it's hard to win, and we have
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Speaker 3: that perspective of it's not really about personal stats, individual stats,
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Speaker 3: it's about the team and you know, but with that,
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Speaker 3: you know, guys take pride in their performance. So I
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Speaker 3: think there's a fine line. You don't want to you're
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Speaker 3: not happy with, uh, you know, mediocrity, Like you want
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Speaker 3: to play well and you want to.
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Speaker 1: Put your best stuff out there. But there's a fine line,
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Speaker 1: for sure.
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Speaker 5: You said earlier that it doesn't matter what everybody else
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Speaker 5: thinks about or what the outside perceptions are.
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Speaker 1: What have you?
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Speaker 5: So do you do you? Is there not any kind
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Speaker 5: of feeling in the locker room? Obviously the givers are
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Speaker 5: getting a lot of good positive attention here in the preseason.
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Speaker 5: Would you almost rather not? Would you rather be under
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Speaker 5: the radar instead of having people acknowledge you hate the Jags?
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Speaker 5: This is a this is a super Bowl contending team.
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Speaker 3: I don't really care to be honest, you know, I
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Speaker 3: think it's I think it's more dangerous to have people
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Speaker 3: praising you than than to not have any expectations. But
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Speaker 3: with the group we have, it doesn't worry me at all.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think we know how to work, come
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Speaker 3: to work every day with the same mindset. But that's
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Speaker 3: the biggest thing. Is that's why I don't really Everyone
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Speaker 3: always asks about expectations and how you deal with them,
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Speaker 3: Like you don't really deal with them, you just don't
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Speaker 3: listen to them. Like, what doesn't matter what you know
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Speaker 3: this guy said over here, he's not in our locker room.
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Speaker 3: He's not a part of our team. I mean, even
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Speaker 3: if you said something good, we go out and lose Sunday,
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Speaker 3: everyone's going to be like, oh, I told you they
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Speaker 3: weren't gonna be and against It doesn't really matter, you
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Speaker 3: know what people say or you know, so we just
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Speaker 3: have to keep our ship tight. And I think that's
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Speaker 3: the biggest thing that Coach has done a good job
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Speaker 3: of is is making sure we do that and and
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Speaker 3: managing all those expectations, because that's just it's they're not real.
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Speaker 3: It's not a real thing.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: We have to go play every Sunday and put our
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Speaker 3: best foot forward and you can't do that if you're
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Speaker 3: listening to what other people are saying.
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Speaker 1: What's the challenge of facing a defense week one?
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Speaker 2: It's the same coordinator, maybe some new players out there
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Speaker 2: for the coach.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's definitely some challenges, you know, facing these teams
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Speaker 3: in the first two, three, four weeks of the season
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Speaker 3: when there's not much tape out there and it's I'd
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Speaker 3: say it's more challenging when it's a new coordinator and
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Speaker 3: everything's changed, that's definitely more challenging. And but same here
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Speaker 3: with this with this team, you got a lot of
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Speaker 3: new players and there's a little bit of preseason film,
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Speaker 3: but you never know if that's what they're gonna do
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Speaker 3: or they gonna do more, do they show something they're
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Speaker 3: not gonna do? Like who knows, and you got you
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Speaker 3: gotta go play the game. But I think obviously with
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Speaker 3: this coordinator, coach Bradley, he's done a great job and
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Speaker 3: all the places he's been, you know, he does what
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Speaker 3: he does, he has his system, and of course he's
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Speaker 3: gonna have I'm sure some wrinkles and some new stuff
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Speaker 3: being a division opponent, especially and we played him twice
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Speaker 3: last year.
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Speaker 1: But They're a really disciplined group. They do what they do,
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Speaker 1: they do it well.
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Speaker 3: You know, that's kind of where he makes his money
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Speaker 3: is by doing that. And the guys are really well coached.
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Speaker 3: They're in the right spot. So even if it's one
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Speaker 3: of those things like even if you know what they're doing,
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Speaker 3: you still got to go beat them and vice versa.
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Speaker 3: If they know what we're doing, they still have to
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Speaker 3: cover rest of stuff to do all that. So I
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Speaker 3: think that's how the game's played too. There's you know,
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Speaker 3: sometimes not as much trickery as you might think. Obviously
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Speaker 3: you're gonna have some some plans and some secrets, some
9:43
Speaker 3: stuff up your sleeve. But the end of the day,
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Speaker 3: you know, you coach your guys to do something and
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Speaker 3: to you know, play assignment football, and they do a
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Speaker 3: really good job of that.
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Speaker 1: So we got to go beat them a lot about
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Speaker 1: getting off the fast start.
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Speaker 4: How important is that for Sunday, for the first chance
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Speaker 4: to go and show you can do that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's big every week, you know. Obviously we'd
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Speaker 3: love to go out there and score first drive. That's
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Speaker 3: the plan. So that's you know, that's what we're gonna
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Speaker 3: try to do. That's what we've worked on that a
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Speaker 3: lot this this offseason. I mean, no matter what series
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Speaker 3: it is, what drive it is just being efficient. And
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Speaker 3: I think we've gotten a lot better in a lot
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Speaker 3: of areas. And we get a chance to go prove
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Speaker 3: it Sunday and some one counts and excited and I
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Speaker 3: know all the guys are pumped to get out there.
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Speaker 1: Thing or is that just an execution early in the game.
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Speaker 1: It's both. I think it's a mindset. It's execution. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: you got to execute.
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Speaker 3: You got to keep your you know, you got to
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Speaker 3: keep it in manageable situations. You don't want to get
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Speaker 3: in second and third and long early. I think that's
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Speaker 3: the biggest thing. You don't want penalties, just all that,
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Speaker 3: like play clean, especially to start the game, getting a rhythm,
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Speaker 3: and then we can settle in and and and go
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Speaker 3: after them. So I think that's the that's the key.
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Speaker 3: And so we'll see.
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Speaker 2: Specifically there a couple of missus from last time out
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Speaker 2: there and said, you know, you guys lost nine.
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Speaker 3: And tenant Indy, I don't even realize and really seem
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Speaker 3: to have a sour case and that last trip.
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Speaker 1: What do you remember from that loss? And perhaps how
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Speaker 1: you guys can change things this time.
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Speaker 3: And now, yeah, I know I haven't I know I
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Speaker 3: haven't won there. You know since the last two years.
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Speaker 3: We didn't win either of those games. So definitely bad
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Speaker 3: taste of my mouth going going there, and you know,
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Speaker 3: we want to write the ship there, that's for sure,
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Speaker 3: just didn't execute. I know that game was it was
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Speaker 3: one of those one of a handful from last year
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Speaker 3: where could have, should have would have you know, could
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Speaker 3: have had, could have won the game, should have won
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Speaker 3: the game, had opportunities and didn't and they ended up winning.
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Speaker 3: So you know, we all remember that, and I think
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Speaker 3: it's good to not forget that. But you know, also
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Speaker 3: coach sends us the message of we also are you know,
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Speaker 3: we gotta move on. It's a new year, but I
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Speaker 3: just want you all to remember kind of the history
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Speaker 3: and what's been there and haven't played well there. So
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Speaker 3: I think that's something to you know, add a little
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Speaker 3: motivation for us. But the end of the day, it
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Speaker 3: is a new year and a new season and can't
11:47
Speaker 3: carry too much of that over. But definitely we have
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Speaker 3: the right mindset going in this week.
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Speaker 1: Sequille Leonard's healthy and ready to go.
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Speaker 2: Kind of players, see what kind of problem can he be.
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Speaker 1: He's a great player.
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Speaker 3: Obviously didn't didn't play against him last year, but my
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Speaker 3: rookie we did. And you know, just a guy that
12:02
Speaker 3: you always have to know where he's at. He's got
12:04
Speaker 3: a knack for you know, one forgetting takeaways, punching the
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Speaker 3: ball out or in coverage, you know, reading quarterbacks, eye,
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Speaker 3: you know, making plays in the ball and just really athletic,
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Speaker 3: can move sideline to sideline, diagnose his plays really really quickly.
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Speaker 3: He's a great player, great instinct. So you know if
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Speaker 3: he if he ends up playing, obviously it's a guy
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Speaker 3: you you know he's out there. You always know where
12:24
Speaker 3: he's at. But you know, we got to be prepared
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Speaker 3: for whoever it is. But he's a he's a great player.
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Speaker 5: As a professional, you play a good team every week,
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Speaker 5: doesn't matter, and you play division games.
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Speaker 1: Are there is there such a thing as a as
12:37
Speaker 1: a rivalry? And in professional football I think so?
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Speaker 3: I mean you have your division rivals and you got
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Speaker 3: teams that I mean honestly though, I feel like every
12:46
Speaker 3: division game feels that way. And it's almost like the
12:50
Speaker 3: division games are worth double, you know, because we all
12:53
Speaker 3: know how important it is to win your division, and
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Speaker 3: when you can start with one, it's a big opportunity,
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Speaker 3: you know, to either get ahead or fall by a
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Speaker 3: little bit in your division. So we understand how big
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Speaker 3: this game is, and like I said, the history of
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Speaker 3: us playing the Colts there and what we need to do,
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Speaker 3: and we understand all that and it is a big game,
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Speaker 3: and just excited to get out there and play when
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Speaker 3: I know we've been chopping at the bit and the
13:15
Speaker 3: team's ready. So but yeah, I mean all those games
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Speaker 3: feel like rivals.
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Speaker 1: I mean you look across the line of script. You
13:22
Speaker 1: get to know these guys over the years.
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Speaker 3: Oh you play them, yeah, I mean twice a year.
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Speaker 3: You get to know these guys, You talk to them,
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Speaker 3: see them after games, all that stuff, and you get
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Speaker 3: familiar year to year. So this is my whatever, fifth
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Speaker 3: time playing the Colts, and so I've played some of
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Speaker 3: these guys. This will be the fifth time, so you
13:40
Speaker 3: get to know how they play, things they like to do.
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Speaker 3: Obviously have a different coordinator the last two years, and
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Speaker 3: they did my rookie year or this year, and.
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Speaker 1: Last year they did my rookie year.
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Speaker 3: But you remember players and you keep things saved and
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Speaker 3: you go back on notes and all that stuff, and
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Speaker 3: you remember all that.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Chris,