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  Speaker 1: Camp, losing Eric and DeVon, just how tough is that
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  Speaker 1: for the defense?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely tough, one, for the type of people that
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  Speaker 2: you're losing in the huddle and in the building, just
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  Speaker 2: day to day. They're such great guys. There's such a
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  Speaker 2: positive energy to both of those guys. They have such
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  Speaker 2: great leadership qualities and just good men. Anytime that happens,
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  Speaker 2: it's tough. But I will say this, I can't say
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  Speaker 2: enough good things about both guys. Just love coaching them
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  Speaker 2: and we'll miss them out there for sure. But we're
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  Speaker 2: super fortunate that we got a bunch of guys that
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  Speaker 2: can step in and we trust and feel really, really
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  Speaker 2: good about. But yeah, it definitely hurts to lose those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing Rayon step into that role, turning the pick six,
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  Speaker 1: what did you think about his performance?
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  Speaker 2: I was fired up for him. I thought he did
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  Speaker 2: a great job communicating, kind of took command. It happened
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  Speaker 2: play one, so he was right in there. He had
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  Speaker 2: a very similar situation in the Cincinnati game where he
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  Speaker 2: went in there and played a bunch of reps for us.
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  Speaker 2: Caleb got hurt, I think, the first kickoff or punt
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  Speaker 2: in that game as well. He's kind of been through
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  Speaker 2: that before, but he did a great job the other
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  Speaker 2: day and, uh, you know, we all felt he would and,
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  Speaker 2: and pleased that it, with the job that he did.
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  Speaker 2: So I was excited for him. You were talking about
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  Speaker 2: how Regis looked in practice last week.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see one of the guys you kind of
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  Speaker 3: feel confident about looking towards to help replace.
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  Speaker 2: What you're getting from DM. Yeah. I think in the season,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's, like I say all the time, such
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  Speaker 2: a long season and everybody gets better. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: vets get better. The young guys get better. Um, he's
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  Speaker 2: in the process of that right now. He's definitely one
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  Speaker 2: of those guys that, you know, we're excited about. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: He's taking a jump. So, like, you know, the point
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  Speaker 2: you're making, I talked about that last week. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's been exciting to watch him progress. So I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: for him, too.
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  Speaker 4: When it comes to, you know, replacing Eric and Devon,
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  Speaker 4: what does it say that you guys have had several
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  Speaker 4: players kind of take that next man of mentality? It's
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  Speaker 4: so many different points that they can kind of be
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  Speaker 4: prepared to take on these responsibilities now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say that's more first the players, you know,
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  Speaker 2: their mentality. the next man up approach and just being
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  Speaker 2: ready to go at all times. And also their position coaches,
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  Speaker 2: those guys work tirelessly, you know, some of them I
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  Speaker 2: think are vampires, but they're up here all day and
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  Speaker 2: they don't sleep. So they're, but they're, they're awesome. They,
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  Speaker 2: they work so hard with these guys and these guys,
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  Speaker 2: you know, do everything they can and try and get
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  Speaker 2: extract every ounce of information out of the coaches. So
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  Speaker 2: it's just, it's really like a great relationship with those
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  Speaker 2: guys to watch that. And I think that's why some
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  Speaker 2: of that's paid off for those guys.
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  Speaker 4: Is it a different kind of challenge when you're not
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  Speaker 4: real sure what the quarterback situation is going to be
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  Speaker 4: for the other team.
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  Speaker 1: Because of injuries?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always a challenge when you don't know who's
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  Speaker 2: going to be in there, but also you try and
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  Speaker 2: do as much research like we're in the process of
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  Speaker 2: doing that right now, watching everybody, you know, new guys
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  Speaker 2: that they sign or, you know, obviously with Fagnano playing
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  Speaker 2: there in the Buffalo game last week, you know, get
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to watch him and you try and go
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  Speaker 2: back and whether it's college tape or preseason tape or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: you try and watch as much of everybody as you can.
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  Speaker 2: but they have a ton of– they've got a really
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  Speaker 2: tough scheme. They've got a ton of great players there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and it's a winning tradition, the entire organization.
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  Speaker 2: So it's going to be a real challenge on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Is it hard to make sure or do you have
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  Speaker 1: to guard against making sure you just don't expect a
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  Speaker 1: ton of Derrick Henry and over-prepare for that?
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  Speaker 2: I think you have to over-prepare for everything. More is more.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you should be looking through. all the possibilities,
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  Speaker 2: and like I said, they do a ton of things
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  Speaker 2: in general offensively, and they've done a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: in the past. So you see them really leaving no
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  Speaker 2: stone unturned as an offense. They do a lot of stuff,
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  Speaker 2: so you have to be prepared for it. And then,
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  Speaker 2: like I was alluding to before, you have to be
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  Speaker 2: prepared for the people too, the ways they can play.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a challenge on a short week, so it's
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  Speaker 2: been a lot of work and not too much sleep.
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  Speaker 1: When was the first time you realized you needed a
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  Speaker 1: kickback coach?
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  Speaker 2: Like getting back coach?
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  Speaker 1: Yep, like Eric's grabbing you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, Eric. They said they're going to bring
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  Speaker 2: my wife in here and start yelling at me. Nah,
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  Speaker 2: he's the man. I don't know. I probably always did
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  Speaker 2: need one of those. But, yeah, without him, I'd probably
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  Speaker 2: be in trouble.
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  Speaker 4: And it's just because you just get so excited, is it?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what it is. It's
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  Speaker 2: my parents' fault. I don't know. I guess. I don't know. Yeah. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's my guy. We spend a lot of time together
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  Speaker 2: every game.
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  Speaker 1: He gets his steps in, trying to follow you around.
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  Speaker 2: Him and me both, no doubt. Yeah, no doubt. It's
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  Speaker 2: about the best workout I get all week. This is pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Random, so I'm sorry, but in training camp, Jarrion came
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  Speaker 1: over and introduced himself to your kids, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm your brother.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember that moment? Yeah, yeah, I remember that.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of teams say they're a family, but to
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  Speaker 1: hear it really feels like the players adopt each other
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  Speaker 1: as family kind of where did that culture come from?
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  Speaker 2: Um, I know I, I really feel that way with
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  Speaker 2: the guys in our room. Like, you know, you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about guys getting hurt and like, uh, how genuinely upset
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  Speaker 2: guys are, you know, one for, for their teammates, but
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  Speaker 2: to not be out there with each other anymore. Um,
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  Speaker 2: I always grew up around that, too. I grew up
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  Speaker 2: around high school football. My father was a coach, and
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  Speaker 2: he coached at Patterson Catholic when I was growing up,
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  Speaker 2: and then at Paramus Catholic. It was always like that.
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  Speaker 2: Guys on the team were over at our house, or
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  Speaker 2: they were living with us or whatever. I just think
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  Speaker 2: football is a much better game when it is that way,
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  Speaker 2: and we have a lot of guys who are that way.
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  Speaker 2: They genuinely love each other, love playing together, care about
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  Speaker 2: each other. Um, and I think you're at your best
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  Speaker 2: when you're, when you're doing things for people you love.
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  Speaker 2: And when you have that relationship and people care about it,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to quit on each other. That's what we're
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  Speaker 2: always working toward. And I think they are players doing
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  Speaker 2: an unbelievable job at it. They're hard guys not to love.
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  Speaker 2: They're hard guys not to love coaching because they're, they're
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  Speaker 2: really like genuine people, man. And they fight their ass off.
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  Speaker 2: So I got a lot of love and appreciation for them.
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  Speaker 1: When you put tape with Derrick Henry on, does he
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  Speaker 1: look any different than he did five years ago?
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  Speaker 2: He looks really good. Um, you know, he's, I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: he's one of the greatest running backs of all time,
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion, you know, a guy that big, that fast,
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  Speaker 2: that elusive, finishes runs, just, you know, at an elite
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  Speaker 2: level his entire career, and I would say he's still
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  Speaker 2: in that stage. How much of.
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  Speaker 3: Replacing Eric, you kind of talked about around Lane, kind
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  Speaker 3: of shifts to maybe Antonio whenever you get him back
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  Speaker 3: from the leadership, the vocal standpoint, because Eric was that, like,
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  Speaker 3: the vet in the bunch.
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  Speaker 2: For a while, right? Yeah, yeah, he, Eric's got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of great leadership qualities, and I think he has
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  Speaker 2: done a great job with A.J. too, and A.J. has
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  Speaker 2: done a great job adopting that role over the course
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  Speaker 2: of time, you know, from last year to this year.
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  Speaker 2: He is very vocal in the room. You know, when
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  Speaker 2: we step out of the room and they're together meeting,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times you catch A.J. in there with
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  Speaker 2: the remote and he's, you know, running meetings and talking
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  Speaker 2: through stuff. And, you know, Jordan's unbelievable that way too.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got a lot of guys that are like that.
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  Speaker 2: But Antonio definitely has embraced that role too over the
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  Speaker 2: course of last year.
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  Speaker 1: What makes Dave Flowers so good?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man, he's, like, super elusive, unbelievable stop-start, great hands,
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  Speaker 2: but just great burst, you know. There was some genius
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  Speaker 2: coach who recruited him to be a defensive back when
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  Speaker 2: he was in college, too, so I'm not going to–
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  Speaker 2: that was me. But, yeah, I believe he ended up
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  Speaker 2: becoming a wide receiver, and so it was a good
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  Speaker 2: thing for him. I probably would have ruined his career. But, no,
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  Speaker 2: he's an unbelievable– a great kid, great player, and super explosive. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you got to know where he is at all times.
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  Speaker 2: They do a great job moving him around. But he's
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  Speaker 2: a fantastic football player.
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  Speaker 3: It's actually Friday. I don't know if you guys know that.
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  Speaker 2: It's Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, tomorrow's Saturday. Sunday's game day. What happened on Tuesday, Wednesday,
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  Speaker 3: and Thursday? Well, they happened. They just all happened Sunday night,
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  Speaker 3: Monday morning.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Everything just happened really fast. Sunday night's Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday morning's Wednesday or Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of blends in there. You know, 1 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: to 5 a.m. is kind of your whatever, Monday morning.
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  Speaker 3: And then, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I just know today's Friday.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I know.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough.
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  Speaker 2: Fair enough.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How challenging is it, though, just to cram everything into
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  Speaker 1: this three-day period?
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  Speaker 3: It's certainly a unique challenge. You know it's coming up,
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  Speaker 3: so it's not something you're unprepared for. You kind of
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  Speaker 3: prepare for it as the season goes on, and you
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  Speaker 3: prepare for it in the offseason. We're fortunate to have
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  Speaker 3: the bye week after London, not too far before this week,
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  Speaker 3: so it gives us an opportunity to get ahead not
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  Speaker 3: just on this opponent but a couple of other opponents
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  Speaker 3: that we'll be facing throughout the year, as well as
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  Speaker 3: go back and do self-scout. Anytime you have a short week,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to rely on all of the bank reps
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  Speaker 3: and things you've worked on all season and all offseason long.
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  Speaker 3: So regardless of the challenge of putting together preparation, that
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  Speaker 3: level of execution and standard needs to maintain the same,
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  Speaker 3: that same standard and really based off of all the
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  Speaker 3: work you put in earlier in the year.
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  Speaker 4: Trevor said yesterday he thinks this is the most consistent
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  Speaker 4: he's played in his career. What do you see from him,
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  Speaker 4: just from your vantage point, or his process that's kind
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  Speaker 4: of breeded that consistency?
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  Speaker 3: I think the consistency starts with his work ethic, how
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  Speaker 3: consistent he is showing up with his process of preparation,
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  Speaker 3: the way he studies film, the way he studies the
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  Speaker 3: game plan, the way he studies an opponent, the way
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  Speaker 3: he goes out there and walks through, the way he
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  Speaker 3: calls plays. All of that stuff is so consistent, and
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  Speaker 3: that is more challenging than people probably think because you
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  Speaker 3: get into the routine of the season and And do
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  Speaker 3: you really want to repeat or walk through the same
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  Speaker 3: play you've walked through a hundred times already at this point?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe not. Maybe you don't do it the same level
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  Speaker 3: of intention and detail that you did the first or
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  Speaker 3: second time. But his ability to show up and do
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  Speaker 3: those boring things, the simple things, are things that maybe
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  Speaker 3: other people think are boring at a high level an
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  Speaker 3: exceptional level every single day is rare and I think
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  Speaker 3: that that contributes in a large part to his consistency
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  Speaker 3: that you see on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: He had one of his biggest.
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  Speaker 3: Games of his career on Sunday how much growth have
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  Speaker 3: you seen from that guy since maybe last year to
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  Speaker 3: this point? Yeah it's really really cool it's one of
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  Speaker 3: the really special parts about coaching, seeing guys like Tootin
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  Speaker 3: who come in as a rookie and they put their
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  Speaker 3: head down and work and they work and they work
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  Speaker 3: and it doesn't maybe materialize immediately. But over the course
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  Speaker 3: of time, we see it on the practice field. It
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  Speaker 3: shows up then on Sundays and he's still just scratching
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  Speaker 3: the surface and he knows and we know there's even
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  Speaker 3: so much more that he can do and accomplish. But
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  Speaker 3: it's so special to see a guy like that who
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  Speaker 3: does it for all the right reasons, selflessly, cares about
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  Speaker 3: his teammates. Runs so hard, works hard in pass protection,
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  Speaker 3: works hard in the pass game. And maybe we didn't
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  Speaker 3: always give him the opportunities, but to see some of
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  Speaker 3: those things actually materialize on Sunday is really special. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I don't have enough good things to say
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  Speaker 3: about him and that running back room between Amir, LeQuint,
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  Speaker 3: all of those guys. C-Rod, the way they work and
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  Speaker 3: have continued to improve. And I feel confident going out
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  Speaker 3: there that those guys are going to make plays whenever
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  Speaker 3: we give them the opportunity. So, you know, it's just
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  Speaker 3: all the credit to him that he deserves it.
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  Speaker 1: With Toon's rushing touchdown, what was Trevor Reed at before
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  Speaker 1: the play that made him check.
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  Speaker 2: Out of it?
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  Speaker 3: He was looking at, so we'll go into a couple
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  Speaker 3: of those plays, and like you talked about with Trevor's
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  Speaker 3: preparation process, he does a great job of distinguishing what
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  Speaker 3: looks we're getting and then getting us into the right
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  Speaker 3: looks based on the defense presenting themselves. Sometimes it's off
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  Speaker 3: of the front of the defense. Sometimes it might be
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  Speaker 3: the coverage. Sometimes it might be we're actually trying to
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  Speaker 3: run a different play, and there's an issue with that play,
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  Speaker 3: and he gets us into another one. So that was
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  Speaker 3: a look that he had prepared for really all week
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  Speaker 3: and something we've been working on through the offseason and
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  Speaker 3: and into early this season, we hadn't always gotten the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to hit that specific run. But his ability to
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  Speaker 3: identify that look and say, this specific look, we know
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  Speaker 3: we can hit these blocks this way and get this run.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get into that run. And then, too, to have
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  Speaker 3: the understanding, really all 11 guys have the understanding of
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  Speaker 3: why we're getting to that run is a big difference
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  Speaker 3: for us in being able to execute those plays. And
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  Speaker 3: it's hopefully something we'll continue to build on throughout the season,
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  Speaker 3: understanding the detail and intent of those plays that we're
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  Speaker 3: trying to check to really traverse seeing whether it's the
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  Speaker 3: front or the coverage or just a look. You guys
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  Speaker 3: haven't gotten a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Juice out of your screen game.
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  Speaker 3: You hit on a couple there. What does that do
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  Speaker 3: for the confidence for the screen? I think it's certainly
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  Speaker 3: something that, it's like anything, whether it's the screens or
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  Speaker 3: the runs, I think it's something that when guys are
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  Speaker 3: able to go out there and do it full speed,
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  Speaker 3: it's a huge difference than being able to go out
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  Speaker 3: there and do it in the walkthrough. We try to
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  Speaker 3: make walkthrough and practice and the meetings as realistic as possible,
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  Speaker 3: but there's only so much you can do to get
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  Speaker 3: the feel of defenders flying around because in screen game
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  Speaker 3: they're going to end up in so many different positions
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  Speaker 3: when it's the run game you may have guys that
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  Speaker 3: are a little bit more static or they're set in
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  Speaker 3: certain gaps or they're set on certain blocks when the
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  Speaker 3: screen game happens and those blocks happen four five seconds
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  Speaker 3: or three or four seconds after the ball is snapped
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  Speaker 3: there's more variables and there's more variety on where the
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: defense can be lined up so that's why you probably
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: have heard Liam talk about how much feel it takes
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  Speaker 3: in the screen game So to be able to go
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  Speaker 3: out there and execute that at a live level is
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  Speaker 3: such a big deal for the screens. It's always a
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  Speaker 3: big deal for runs and passes, but for the screen
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  Speaker 3: game especially, for those guys to get that executed, be
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  Speaker 3: able to identify things at top speed is a big
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  Speaker 3: difference in terms of building up the confidence and continuing
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  Speaker 3: to try to build on those things.