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Jay Harbaugh Talks Competition In The Special Teams Unit · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Everyone see you. What's your focus at this point in camp?
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  Speaker 1: And what do you want to see from the guys
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  Speaker 1: you know, get you folks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the uh just improvement every day, building a foundation
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  Speaker 2: of fundamentals and and the uh the last part of
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  Speaker 2: that of like who you're going to be coaching stuff
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  Speaker 2: you don't you really don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's coach everybody and develop everybody.
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  Speaker 2: And uh yeah, be a resource for everyone on the
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  Speaker 2: team to improve their skill set. So at this point,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's all we're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: How Lily, you'll have more land rasheets he be available
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  Speaker 1: as return.
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  Speaker 2: Will you have those guys health before an entire year
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  Speaker 2: at the points is that that'd.
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  Speaker 1: Be pretty cool? Uh, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: It's exciting though, that that'd be that'd be a great
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  Speaker 2: thing to have both those guys available to us.
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  Speaker 1: One of your guys and what.
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  Speaker 2: He's uh showing a lot of great stuff. He's learning
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  Speaker 2: getting better. You see him. You see the movement skills,
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  Speaker 2: the speed, the twitch and excelleration.
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  Speaker 1: And all that stuff. So uh yeah, he's been really
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  Speaker 1: fun to work with and and.
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  Speaker 2: All those young guys is just especially up to this point,
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  Speaker 2: there's every day. There's things that they're trying to figure out,
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  Speaker 2: and so they just got to stay positive and keep
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  Speaker 2: making improvements and try not to mess the same stuff up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, two days in a row and he's had
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  Speaker 2: a great attitude. So it's been it's been fun working
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  Speaker 2: with them.
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  Speaker 1: You get obviously less time and special teams during practice
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  Speaker 1: than maybe some of the other units. How do you
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  Speaker 1: maximize that time? And what are you watching when special
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  Speaker 1: teams isn't out there and it's offensive defense?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're really blessed just time wise, maybe compared to
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  Speaker 2: what some other teams do.
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  Speaker 1: So really thankful for that.
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  Speaker 2: We have adequate time to work our that volume of
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  Speaker 2: players and work them through drills and everything like that.
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  Speaker 1: So thankful for that.
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  Speaker 2: And then when that's over, you know, I just love
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  Speaker 2: watching our coaches coach, I love watching the players play.
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  Speaker 2: There's special teams is just offense and defense you know,
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  Speaker 2: wrapped into one. So it's fun to be able to
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  Speaker 2: watch and see, you know, different techniques come to life
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  Speaker 2: on both sides of the ball, and andrew those pairs
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  Speaker 2: les uh, you know, at different position groups and all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So stuff during offense and defense that figures into your
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  Speaker 1: evaluation for special duas.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say so much that figures into the evaluation
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  Speaker 2: in the sense of like you're not gonna you know,
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  Speaker 2: upgrade or downgrade anyone or anything like that, because it's
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  Speaker 2: something you see. But sometimes there's things that you notice
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  Speaker 2: that are interesting of Hey, you know when you did this,
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  Speaker 2: it was, uh, it was exactly like what I'm asking
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  Speaker 2: you to do, and on this punt return of this
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  Speaker 2: kick return. So sometimes being able to relate something on
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  Speaker 2: special teams to to what they do in their day
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  Speaker 2: job can be can be helpful for certain points. Resonating there,
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  Speaker 2: there weren't fair of any real changes this year, but
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  Speaker 2: one on kickoff a return they're now allowing an extra
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  Speaker 2: flow back there.
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  Speaker 1: How did you see that change? Is it's something that
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  Speaker 1: you guys feel like maybe even treake advantage of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so pretty minor change. I'm not sure it
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  Speaker 2: makes a huge deal.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I think like with anything you try to you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: try to learn it and and you know, do a
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  Speaker 2: better job than other people.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think it makes a huge difference.
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  Speaker 2: Probably the kind of thing that some people might make
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  Speaker 2: might try to do too much with Some people may
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  Speaker 2: not take advantage enough, so try to figure it out
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  Speaker 2: and then and then find that sweet spot.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of crowdnizer. It's exciting, it's great.
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  Speaker 2: What what do you work on with Jason and Michael
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  Speaker 2: and you know kind of with having that unit, have
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  Speaker 2: you been together for a couple of years now, what
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  Speaker 2: do they work on during.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, they have a pretty pretty set routine and
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  Speaker 2: they're working on getting their their chemistry fully back. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a substantial amount of time after the season where
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  Speaker 2: they're not working together and then they build that chemistry
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  Speaker 2: over time.
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  Speaker 1: The timing, the expectation.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, they're so so good with each other about the
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  Speaker 2: standard of you know, hey, this is exactly what I'm expecting.
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  Speaker 1: And they can correct each other.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, they correct themselves before they even really
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  Speaker 2: need to correct each other.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a it's really fun watching work. You ever
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  Speaker 1: get it for several years now? How much does that
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  Speaker 1: help that it's not a holder? Yeah, yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 1: big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, there might be a sense of you know,
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  Speaker 2: in a in a over the course of a couple
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  Speaker 2: of months.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to get back into the groove.
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  Speaker 2: But when you have that underlying chemistry and the relationship
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  Speaker 2: and the trust. Uh, it doesn't take quite as long
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  Speaker 2: to get in sync as maybe if it was a
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  Speaker 2: new group of three guys or or one new guy
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  Speaker 2: added specials get into like, yeah, that's uh, that's pretty interesting.
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  Speaker 1: There. There's a variety. Some specim coaches.
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  Speaker 2: Are like, I mean really really really expert in that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Some are more no, like just the bigger picture and
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  Speaker 2: not as like the fine fine details. So, uh, you
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  Speaker 2: see a little bit of everything, and like with anything,
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  Speaker 2: there's so many good coaches out here. Yeah, you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: stay in within your your realm of expertise or kind
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  Speaker 2: of circle of competence and not try to coach guys, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know offered you know, suggestions and stuff that you
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  Speaker 2: don't really know about.
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  Speaker 1: And those guys are highly highly knowledgeable.
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  Speaker 2: They really have tremendous self awareness of their own body,
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  Speaker 2: uh and and great chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: With each other.
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  Speaker 2: So it's pretty rare that there's something that you're going
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  Speaker 2: to offer them that they haven't you know, already considered
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  Speaker 2: or tweaked or improved on their own.
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  Speaker 1: Was saying how much pride he took in special teams
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  Speaker 1: last year. How did guys show up. What'd you notice
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  Speaker 1: about him on your years? Yeah, he got better and
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  Speaker 1: better as the year went on.
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  Speaker 2: I can recall a bunch of plays that he made
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  Speaker 2: and and uh, I mean it starts with him with
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  Speaker 2: the willingness, like he's about the team. He loves to compete,
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  Speaker 2: and he's really open to feedback and improving.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to know how to get better.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to know exactly what to do, how to
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  Speaker 2: do it, and he's really comfortable, you know, asking those questions, Uh, hey,
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  Speaker 2: tea night, you got this? And he'll he'll be ask
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  Speaker 2: if he's not, and then he'll come back and ask again.
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  Speaker 2: And he really gets to like gets clarity and what's
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  Speaker 2: expected to of him and how to do it. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's a really simple recipe for improvement. And
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  Speaker 2: he was great for us last year. So excited to
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  Speaker 2: see him like pick up where he left off. Towards
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  Speaker 2: the end of the year. Seems like there's a battle
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  Speaker 2: as a gunner for the positions and I'm curious, like
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  Speaker 2: what do you look for and help separating one gunner
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  Speaker 2: another back?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's a not to disagree with the question,
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  Speaker 1: but there's I mean there's battles.
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  Speaker 2: There's battles everywhere at the gunner position. I mean just
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  Speaker 2: in general. You're looking for guys that can that can
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  Speaker 2: force fair catches. Obviously you want guys can go down
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  Speaker 2: and make tackles, but you don't have to do that
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  Speaker 2: if you can just.
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  Speaker 1: Force a fair catch and there is no return.
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  Speaker 2: So guys are tremendous speed down the field, efficient at
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  Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: And then highly competitive.
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  Speaker 2: You got to you gotta be wired up to compete
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  Speaker 2: for for ten fifteen seconds if need be. And the
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  Speaker 2: guys that can dig deep and do that play after
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  Speaker 2: play from a competitive standpoint, uh, they'll they'll separate themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So right now, it's a bunch of guys that.
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  Speaker 2: That have put good things on tape or have shown
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  Speaker 2: good things uh in the past, and we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: help them all uh get as as good as they
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  Speaker 2: possibly can for for you know, the joint practice, preseason
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: When when you're really going to find out, thank you,