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O-Zone Podcast: Charlie Strong · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the ozone Podcast, presented by by Star Credit Junior,
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  Speaker 1: featuring Jaguar senior writer John Osier and executive producer Dave
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  Speaker 1: to Candice, It's our first chance to start to get
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  Speaker 1: to know the new Jaguars coaching staff. I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people listening will be very familiar with the
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  Speaker 1: name of the person that we're talking to. Hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to get to know that person a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. I'm excited about it. Jaguars Assistant head coach
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  Speaker 1: Linebackers Charlie Strong. I hope I got the title right.
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  Speaker 1: Are you that worried about the title at this point? No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about this title, Johnny. I'm you know,
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  Speaker 1: really excited about being here, you know, having a chance
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  Speaker 1: to reunite with Coach Meyer again. You know we both
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  Speaker 1: have since our Florida days. We both have went on
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  Speaker 1: different journeys and you know he is is uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: leaving Aaron and going to uh, you know, ended up
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  Speaker 1: at Ohio State, and then me having a chance to
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  Speaker 1: go to Louisville, to Texas to South Florida and now
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  Speaker 1: we're back in Jacksonville. There's so much they want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to you about. But I think I think the
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  Speaker 1: relationship with Urban is the most fascinating to me. Um,
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  Speaker 1: is that the biggest reason that you're here in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, all right, but the chance to do
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  Speaker 1: that again obviously was an appeal. Well, I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: our relationship started back at Notre Dame. I was at
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  Speaker 1: the Universital of Notre Dame working for Lou Hotes, and
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  Speaker 1: then Urban came on as an assistant coach and we
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  Speaker 1: um actually he stayed with me, live with me for
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  Speaker 1: about a month or two till his house was completed,
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  Speaker 1: and then he ended up going to a boat. I
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  Speaker 1: ended up leaving to go to South Carolina as a
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator with coach Hotes. He ended up going to
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  Speaker 1: Bowling Green, then the Utah and then the Florida. So
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  Speaker 1: when he came back to Florida, I was already there
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  Speaker 1: with Run's Uck and then uh, you know, we got
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  Speaker 1: let go and then Urban came in and I was
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  Speaker 1: one of the coaches that he retained, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of success at the University of Florida.
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  Speaker 1: But just our relationship, you know, we built it over
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  Speaker 1: the years and uh, just having a chance to come
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  Speaker 1: back and work with him again, was you know, very appealing.
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  Speaker 1: And I just feel like sometimes you you just know
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  Speaker 1: coaches and you've been in this professional long time, and
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  Speaker 1: some guys just have a way of of how they win,
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  Speaker 1: how they build programs, and I just wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: a part of it. What is it about you that clicked?
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  Speaker 1: Are you like minded? Is it opposite the tract or
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  Speaker 1: how would you say here? Well, I think it's more
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  Speaker 1: of opposite of tracks because I I'm more outgoing than
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  Speaker 1: he has. And but um, you know, you you think
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  Speaker 1: and you kind of think and you go down the
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  Speaker 1: same path because you had the same training where you know,
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  Speaker 1: like where we started at and so you know the
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  Speaker 1: training is is the same. But you know, we're all
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we all want to win,
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  Speaker 1: and we all want to build programs. We all want
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  Speaker 1: to impact young people, and we just want to want
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  Speaker 1: everything to to uh happen where you know their success
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  Speaker 1: and you look at a program and you want to
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  Speaker 1: to leave your imprint on that program. Mentioned holds you
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  Speaker 1: worked under Spurrier, you worked under Meyer. That's starting to
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  Speaker 1: be like Rushmore type stuff. How big of an influence? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: How special has resume. I guess if you will just
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  Speaker 1: talk about their influence on you, Well, I tell you
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  Speaker 1: my journey. I've had an amazing journey and this profession
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  Speaker 1: has been really good to me because you know, I
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  Speaker 1: started really with Charlie Pale as a g a back
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  Speaker 1: back during the day and uh at the University of Florida, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a coach pell you know, and and at that time,
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  Speaker 1: if you think about it, and and that's kind of where, um,
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  Speaker 1: just where I have so many friends because you know,
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  Speaker 1: from Gary Road and Neil Anderson a Crawford career, to
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  Speaker 1: Altt must Brown. You know a lot of those guys
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  Speaker 1: are colleges. A lot of those guys. We we still
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  Speaker 1: stay in contact with one another. And you know, it
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  Speaker 1: start it started, Brett Wigman has just started building from there.
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  Speaker 1: But I had I you know, in this profession, I've
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  Speaker 1: worked for Coach Burger, I worked for Lou Hotes, I
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  Speaker 1: have worked for Urban Meyer, I've worked for Nick Saban
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  Speaker 1: and so and then uh, there's Ron Zuck that I've
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  Speaker 1: worked for Zooker. Gary Dornell had taken over a year
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  Speaker 1: to in Florida. I was at Old Miss with Billy Brewer,
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  Speaker 1: I was at G eight with Jackie Sheryl so and
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  Speaker 1: I've had some different personalities and what you try to
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  Speaker 1: do with each one of those coaches, you try to
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  Speaker 1: take a piece from him because you can't be them,
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  Speaker 1: you have to be yourself. But it's always where when
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  Speaker 1: either whether you're building a program or you've been around
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  Speaker 1: coaches that have had a lot of success, you try
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  Speaker 1: to just you know, you watch them, like I had
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  Speaker 1: a chance some just last season to spend it at
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  Speaker 1: at Alabama with coach Saban and you can see why
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  Speaker 1: he's successful, and you can see why he's probably he
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  Speaker 1: will go down as one of the best coaches to
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  Speaker 1: ever coach in college football because it is he has
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  Speaker 1: he knows what he is, a process, he knows what
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  Speaker 1: he wants to do, and he does not deviate from
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  Speaker 1: that process. And you have and you know yourself what
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  Speaker 1: they expect, because a lot of times you've seen it
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  Speaker 1: where you don't know what to expect, and you kind
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  Speaker 1: of every day's acting a question what we're gonna know
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  Speaker 1: every day? You know, at this time we're gonna do this,
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  Speaker 1: at this time, we're gonna do last. And the players,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's so and and know and being with
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  Speaker 1: Coach Spurrier, always say this about Coach Spurrier, he changed
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  Speaker 1: college football because you can remember when he came in
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  Speaker 1: the Southeastern Conference, it was three yards in the cloud
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  Speaker 1: of dust. You know, you know they round the ball,
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  Speaker 1: jam the ball jam the ball you run, run, run,
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  Speaker 1: And then coach came in and he started spreading people
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  Speaker 1: out and he made you he made you defend the
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  Speaker 1: wind of the field and the length of the field
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  Speaker 1: and he just opened it up. And and that's the
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  Speaker 1: first time, you know, people always talk about, you know, matchups, matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Coach has started that back in the nineties because you
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  Speaker 1: think about when we had Ridale and you had Ike,
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  Speaker 1: and you had Chris Dorn, you had Danny Warfoll, you
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  Speaker 1: you had all those different mckens. You had all those
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  Speaker 1: different players, but they were making plays and and he would,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he would flex guys out like Aubrey Hill.
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  Speaker 1: He would put Aubrey in it tight end and flex
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  Speaker 1: him out into the boundary and and and uh see
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  Speaker 1: the mismatch with the linebacker. But he changed college football.
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  Speaker 1: And it was just happened. A chance to just work
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  Speaker 1: with different coaches with different personalities, but they all were
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  Speaker 1: winners and and they had a way about themselves, the
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  Speaker 1: way they wanted to get it done. I covered a
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  Speaker 1: couple of those teams, as we talked about, and I
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  Speaker 1: can remember a game. We're all off track here, but
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  Speaker 1: I can remember a game where the opposing team, because
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  Speaker 1: in the SEC, didn't have enough cornerbacks to cover five
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers because they had not recruited because the game
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  Speaker 1: was different. And after that, all teams always had cornerbacks.
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  Speaker 1: But I forget what it was. And Chris Doring had
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  Speaker 1: a monster game and when you looked at the depth
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  Speaker 1: start you realize they don't have enough guys to cover
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  Speaker 1: this many guys, you know, so o yeah, but you
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  Speaker 1: just saw that because he would spread people out, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, a linebacker would have to walk out, and
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  Speaker 1: then was it. Linebacker walked out, You know where the
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  Speaker 1: ball is going, and you know what a mismatch And
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  Speaker 1: nobody was doing that at that point. Getting back to
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  Speaker 1: Urban a little bit. What you know you talked about stabing,
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  Speaker 1: Take me inside Urban a little bit in terms of
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  Speaker 1: everybody knows he's been successful. Why the unbelievable success and
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  Speaker 1: the confidence that everybody on the staff, everybody's around Urban
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  Speaker 1: friendly believes that he's gonna be a successful any level.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a trait that gives him that? You know,
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  Speaker 1: what Urban does is that he he builds confidence within
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  Speaker 1: his coaches first, and then he wants the coaches that
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  Speaker 1: take the confidence that he has built within them and
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  Speaker 1: pass it to the players. Like he gets you, like
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  Speaker 1: he is not and he's not selling you. It's just
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  Speaker 1: that you know what he talks about when he talks about,
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  Speaker 1: there's a standard here and guys, this is our standard
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  Speaker 1: and this is where it's when and then he talks
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  Speaker 1: about the culture. You know, it's relentless effort is you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's four to six seconds, it's plus two it is
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's having a competitive excellent aboutsha and
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  Speaker 1: then where you own it. Where he builds it within
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  Speaker 1: his coaches, and then the coaches take it and and
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  Speaker 1: they take it to the players, and it's and it's
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  Speaker 1: one voice. It's one message. You know, everybody's not off
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  Speaker 1: trying to you know, it's where hey, the defensive line
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  Speaker 1: coaches got you know, he's telling his players this, or
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  Speaker 1: the or the offensive line coach. No, No, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: what's built already within the culture. And when he's it's
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  Speaker 1: very simple because you know, any anytime you're you're looking
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  Speaker 1: to re establish or just developing identity, you is you
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  Speaker 1: still gotta have standards and you have a discipline and
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  Speaker 1: attitude about you. But it's it's it's you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's something that he has built over the years and
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  Speaker 1: he's been successful doing it. And so when you have
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  Speaker 1: had success, it's not hard to sell coaches on what
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to do. I'm not gonna probably strong podcast
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  Speaker 1: not Urban, but one more question about urban um because
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  Speaker 1: you've seen it. He has not been a stagnant coach
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  Speaker 1: on the level that you're saying, meaning he changed the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio state, he changed from Bowling Green to Florida. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: there's an ability to change in there and adapt to
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  Speaker 1: that I assume will be shown at the NFL level
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  Speaker 1: in the transition. Well, what he does is he looks
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  Speaker 1: at his roster and he finds out, you know, what,
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  Speaker 1: what are we going to be good at? What do
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  Speaker 1: I have? And you're right from him going from Bowling
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  Speaker 1: Green to Utah when he had Alex Smith at quarterback
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  Speaker 1: and he did a lot of different things, and then
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  Speaker 1: from Utah to Florida where you first had Chris Leak
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  Speaker 1: and and then then you transition from Chris to Tim Tebow.
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  Speaker 1: Were just two totally different quarterbacks in two year right
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  Speaker 1: because because Chris, uh, you know, Tebow comes in as
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  Speaker 1: a freshman and Chris was a senior. So then, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that transition. And then he goes Ohio State and all
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  Speaker 1: the different quarterbacks that he had there. So he finds out,
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  Speaker 1: he sees what he has within his roster, and then
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  Speaker 1: he builds it. He builds his team within at roster,
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  Speaker 1: and he gets his coaches to accept what we have. Now, guys,
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  Speaker 1: let's go coach him and and and he's you know,
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  Speaker 1: his motto is that you know, there's greatness and everyone
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  Speaker 1: you know, don't tell me that a guy can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: If there's if a player can't do it, there's a
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  Speaker 1: reason why he can't do it. Now, let's find out
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  Speaker 1: why he can't do it. And that's where the importance
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  Speaker 1: on coaching and importance on messaged right in terms of
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  Speaker 1: that's where the assistant coach has to come in, who's
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  Speaker 1: over those players every day every day, and and he
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  Speaker 1: an assistant coach a little when he's talking to him
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  Speaker 1: about the culture. He wanted that assistant coach Hey, to
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  Speaker 1: take this from the meeting, from our staff meeting, and
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  Speaker 1: they let's relay it to our players where they understand,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is what this is who we are,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what we're all about. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: standing there and there's a way. And would I expect
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  Speaker 1: you to perform up to this level? Urban last week
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  Speaker 1: said you were maybe or definitely the first higher, but
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  Speaker 1: perhaps the most important higher. Uh, how do you envision
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  Speaker 1: or how do you guys envision your role? How do
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  Speaker 1: you see that breaking down? And what do you think
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  Speaker 1: it will be? Well, I I just look at it
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  Speaker 1: like this, He's a head football coach and there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be some times where you know, he's gonna do some
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  Speaker 1: things that he's gonna ask me to do and and
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind doing them. And and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I was his first hire, but I
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  Speaker 1: can remember us having a conversation and we were just
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  Speaker 1: talking about, Hey, one more time, let's go get it
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  Speaker 1: done one more time. And where that like, did you
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  Speaker 1: have a couple of wines in him at that point
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  Speaker 1: trying to get to him or No, I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a couple of wines, and he's one of those guys
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  Speaker 1: that you just know this that he wasn't done coaching,
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  Speaker 1: like like okay, like you know we we um took
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  Speaker 1: us a break from a house state. Then we became
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  Speaker 1: a commentator. Then you know, if it's just some people,
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  Speaker 1: you just know that, um, they they have it in
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  Speaker 1: them and and they they still want to go coach.
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  Speaker 1: And and it's just our nature is our attitude, like
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  Speaker 1: there's no way I can sit down right now. I
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  Speaker 1: can't do it. And and I knowing him and that
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  Speaker 1: he for sure can't do it. So we we were
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  Speaker 1: just sitting around. I can't even remember where it was,
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  Speaker 1: but we were just sitting around talking and he's like,
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  Speaker 1: he said, come on, I said, yeah, one more time,
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  Speaker 1: let's let's go do it. Because because when you've seen
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  Speaker 1: someone and they've had success and you're knowing what they're
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  Speaker 1: all about, then you want that person. Like I look
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  Speaker 1: at him and I just say this that you need
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  Speaker 1: this profession needs you. You. You need to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of his profession because you're you're all about like
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  Speaker 1: changing young people lives, You're all about being in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of it, and you want to see them growing
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  Speaker 1: develop and become someone special. And and that's why it
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  Speaker 1: was so important for him to get back on the field.
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  Speaker 1: And it really does matter to him. And I've talked
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  Speaker 1: a couple a couple of different people about urban Um
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  Speaker 1: in the second chance theme. All aways comes up, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: for better, sometimes for worse. But it matters to him
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  Speaker 1: seeing the players developed. That's at the core of it,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it. Oh, he doesn't want to leave a young
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  Speaker 1: person or somebody that he's responsible for he has trusted
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  Speaker 1: him behind. Oh, he doesn't. And and as he is,
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  Speaker 1: he's one of those guys, he is self driven. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're self driven and and so you want to
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  Speaker 1: see that within the guys that you coach and the
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  Speaker 1: guys that you're gonna be around, and even with your coaches,
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  Speaker 1: you you want to make sure that that they are
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  Speaker 1: they have the right attitude about them. But he Um,
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  Speaker 1: he's he is always gonna, you know, not not only
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  Speaker 1: push himself, but he's gonna put push you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna push the players. Well. Being in front of the team,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned that there'll be times you're in front of
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  Speaker 1: the team. Uh, how often you anticipate that? Is it?
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  Speaker 1: It toughs to know what that'll mean and will that
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  Speaker 1: be different in the NFL than it is in college. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think it would be different. But
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  Speaker 1: you're dealing with what's gonna be different is that you're
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  Speaker 1: dealing with elite players that are older. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: comparative when you're in college where you have freshmen that are,
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  Speaker 1: you know, seventeen eighteen years old. But but when you
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  Speaker 1: have the message and they hear your message and you
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  Speaker 1: knowing what you want to say to them, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't I don't know how many times how it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, been a head coach, I've been in
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  Speaker 1: front of the team, so that's not gonna bother me
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  Speaker 1: at all. But when you have a message form and
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  Speaker 1: you want to hear where it's important where you're just
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  Speaker 1: not going there just to you know, waste their time
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  Speaker 1: or take up their time. But it's always something to
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  Speaker 1: be sad and you want to say the right thing
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  Speaker 1: so that you can make sure that they're heading in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction. We laughed for this podcast started. I
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  Speaker 1: covered you back seven years ago. There were a lot
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  Speaker 1: different than we used to be. But in the last
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  Speaker 1: eight or nine years as I was googling and reading
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  Speaker 1: about you a little bit. You've been through a lot, Charlie.
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  Speaker 1: I mean this has been a long right, last seven right.
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  Speaker 1: How are you different as a coach leader then you
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  Speaker 1: were before that first head job? How is that whole
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  Speaker 1: process changed? You improved? You ready to you for this step? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you're right, and your change and every job is a challenge,
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  Speaker 1: and it's always a different challenge for you. And but
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  Speaker 1: what you do is you take every experience and it
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  Speaker 1: is a learning experience for you. And we all want
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  Speaker 1: success and it doesn't always happen. But when it doesn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: it does, you don't quit or you don't you just
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  Speaker 1: keep you know, sometimes you do. You got to pick
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  Speaker 1: up the pieces and move on. But um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: coming back, I can remember, you know, from the success
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  Speaker 1: we had at Louisville and then not doing so well
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  Speaker 1: at Texas and even in South Florida. But uh, you still,
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  Speaker 1: what you have to look at is you take a
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  Speaker 1: step back and you say, you know what, I know
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  Speaker 1: him a good football coach. I know I can see
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  Speaker 1: impact young people like young man lives, and I know
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  Speaker 1: I can do those things. And so That's where you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people would be like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm done, But I was. I was never gonna say
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  Speaker 1: I'm done. And I was and I was going to
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  Speaker 1: continue to coach. And and I think that going to
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  Speaker 1: Alabama last year really helped me because, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: there and seeing his success and why he's been successful,
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  Speaker 1: you consider and say, you know what, I do things
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  Speaker 1: like this and miss the kind of way I ran
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  Speaker 1: my program. I just didn't have the success that he had.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: That was my here's my final question, why keep at it?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you wouldn't have to. It still drives you,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: it says, it's a drive within you, and and you, uh,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: you know, for some reason, we have that attitude that
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: we we want to continue on and we have so
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: much more to give. When you feel like you have
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: so much more to give, then you just knowing that
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I want to continue to coach. I look at it
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: sometimes and I probably look at look at things some
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't even go. You know, I look at the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: big picture, as we call it, and I look at
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  Speaker 1: our country and I just say, you know what, We're
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: in a country now where leadership is is critical, and
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  Speaker 1: we haven't had the leadership that we need in this country.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: And sometimes and that leadership can be provided from coaches,
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  Speaker 1: and it can be provided where you try to impact
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: lies where you feel like, hey, I can still teach,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: you know, where I can still teach and I have
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: a lot to learn also, but I can still teach
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  Speaker 1: people how to do things and do things the right
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: way and and and be a part of some special
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: because when you come together as a team, you know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: now you have to feel like that. You know it's
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: not only not only is it affecting you, but it's
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: affecting everybody on that team. So when you make decisions,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: you want to make the right ones. And people needing
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: that doesn't stop when they leave college. Meaning what you're
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: talking about translates to the NFL. Well, I think that
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: once they leave college and then it really becomes a
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: very important form because you think about it. You know,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: you leave college and now you have some of them
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: end up with a family, some of them end up
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: with more than they ever have had. And so now
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: that them having more than they've ever had, you they
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: still need to learn how to manage what they have
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and and they still need to you know, people think
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: sometimes that hey, because a person is in a certain
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: position that that they still don't know. They have stopped
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: growing and they have stopped learning, But it doesn't stop you.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: You have to continue to teach people. And you have
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: to because I was look at, I got a twenty
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: three year old daughter, and sometimes I'm sitting there like
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: scratching my head like wow, I cannot believe she did that.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: But but but you know, you said, would be like, well,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: but that's why I say that it doesn't stop because
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: they're they're professionals and and sometimes they need your help
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: more than anything because you know they're they're looking at Okay, well,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I'm playing professional football now. I may play this game
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: for five years. I may lucky to be fortunate enough
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: to play it for ten. But when I'm done playing,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: life still goes on. So there's still decisions that I'm
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: gonna have to make. And probably if someone has already
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: lived at life, they can offer me some advice. How
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: deep are you guys into the process now? I guess
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the staff is in place, so the wheels are turning.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Where are you right now? And how fast has this
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: gotten started? If you follow and there's the process coming together, now,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: you gotta go to work. Yeah, we and we have
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I think that, uh, we've probably completed the staff last week.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: So we have been meeting some on defense and and
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: uh and offensively we're meeting and plus now is also
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: you're looking at what we're doing now is really looking
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: at our team and trying to get to know scouting
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it's just se scouting, but we we have to build
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: relationship with the players we have. And and because it's
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: gonna come nex tough, because it's tough because t s
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and they're not in here and you're and some of
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: them kind of have a feel for who you are.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: But you still got to pick up the phone and
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: try to build that relationship and and just talk to
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: them and ask them how they're doing. Because what's gonna
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: be important is that you gotta know who they are.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: And and sometimes guys are not so quick to open
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: up to you. You know, it's it's there's there's a
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: trust issue there. And if they trust you, then they'll
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: start giving you a little more each and every time
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: you speak with them. But we just we gotta get
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to know who we are and then we'll start looking
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: at you know, and football is gonna be here and
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: we're gonna know what we're gonna do, but I think
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: they're really is key now is let's get to know
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: our team and know the guys that are here. The
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: final thing we do on this I'm looking every David Wolf.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: If we have time for it takes about three minutes.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: We call it the ozone five. It's by a very
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: fast questions answer as fast as you want. Okay, your
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: last binge watch if you binge watched television, no TV
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: and no TV. I don't know TV. I haven't had
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: a chance to. You know. I think the last thing
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I watched was the super Bowl, and as the first
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: half I watched, I got you your first job you
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: ever had, if you can remember that far back, pumping
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: gas at a server station. Teach you anything, Well, no, no,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I had to go out there and pump that guys.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: That's when it wasn't no uh what you're talking about,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: That's right, it was. It was full service. So you
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: walked up there and somebody give me three dollars raw
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: for gas. You took that gas cap all, and you
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: took that knowledge you're sucking there, and you pumped three
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: dollars in. They pay you, and then you walk back
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: there I got you your first car, a green Chevy Impalla,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: like a nineteen. I don't remember the year. I'm assuming,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: wasn't it, Oh it was not? No, no, no, no
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: no no. I got you your best sport other than football, baseball.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: A uh, how good were you? That's pretty good. I
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: was a center fielder, so I love baseball. Probably should
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: have stuck with her final question, person in your life
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: who you wouldn't be here without. I had an uncle
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: about the name of any Strong, and he owned the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: service station. He was actually probably if I can remember,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: he was the only black. He was the only black
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: home business in our time. And I worked for him,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and he just taught me so much about I assume
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: life and life and how to work and you know,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and how to appreciate everything that you have, so not
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: really sports, but life, just because he would. I mean,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I only even know if he ever cared about play
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the sport, because I would go to work on Saturdays
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: at like six o'clock in the morning. He would bring
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: me home just seven o'clock to night. So so pumping
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: up gas Washington Cars, Charlie, I can't thank you enough
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: for joining us during what I know is a very
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: busy time and giving enough fans a chance to get
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: to know you a little bit. I look forward to
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: working with you and thank you for being on the
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: ozone podcast. All right, thank you and thank you for
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: having me all. I appreciate you, Charlie