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Press Pass | Ryan Nielsen Meets with Media Ahead of 2024 OTAs · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, early impressions at Tyson Campbell.
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  Speaker 2: Goody good, Yeah, No, we're excited about him. Heck of
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  Speaker 2: an athlete, Like there's nothing he can't do athletically, really
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  Speaker 2: smart player, picked the stuff up. Guy's done a great
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  Speaker 2: job of teaching them and fundamentals technique and then you
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  Speaker 2: know how he can operate within the scheme. Obviously, we
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  Speaker 2: haven't played any plays yet, so it's not you know,
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  Speaker 2: so it's still you know, today's day one, so we'll.
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  Speaker 3: Go out and we'll evaluate them again. But we're excited
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  Speaker 3: about him.
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  Speaker 1: How quickly can you tell if the classroom work is
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  Speaker 1: carrying out to the field the.
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  Speaker 4: Way it needs to.
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  Speaker 2: We'll find out today like that'll be that'll be a
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  Speaker 2: huge and we'll evaluate where we're at with it. We've
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  Speaker 2: kept it, you know, base installations and things that we've
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  Speaker 2: done so far and give the guys an opportunity tolign
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  Speaker 2: a sign, get their eyes right and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: respond once the balls snapped. So there's some things that
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  Speaker 2: we're focused on today. Obviously there's no pads, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so it's hard to evaluate in terms of making plays
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. But we want the guys pre
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  Speaker 2: snap down and stand is communication, things like the important
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  Speaker 2: things in the game that we can really practice, and
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  Speaker 2: then you know we're not we're not getting around the quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: We're not you know, making tackles and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: So we want to be in a good football position.
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  Speaker 2: We want to make it look like football, be in
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  Speaker 2: the right spots and evaluate from there and then have
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  Speaker 2: really a good opportunity to grow every day.
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  Speaker 3: That's what really what we're looking for, grow in all
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  Speaker 3: those areas.
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  Speaker 1: You may not be able to evaluate this until August,
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  Speaker 1: but in terms of Venturo Miller, have E've been around
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  Speaker 1: him enough to be able to have an opinion that
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  Speaker 1: if he stays healthy and if he progresses, what kind
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  Speaker 1: of contribution he can make?
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  Speaker 2: So yes, yes, but I think that's that it's universal,
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  Speaker 2: It's it's the whole defense, it's every player, you know.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's kind of where we're at right now. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we told the guys this morning, there's no depth chart.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're going to get your reps out there.
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  Speaker 2: And so for Ventrel it's what he does with his
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  Speaker 2: opportunity and that's going to be what's important. And so
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  Speaker 2: what are we looking for? Just like we talked about
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  Speaker 2: the pre snap, the stance, the community cation, the adjustments.
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  Speaker 2: But again, we don't have pads on, and so we'll
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  Speaker 2: evaluate as much as we possibly can. And no one's
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  Speaker 2: making the team today. That's not what we're we're out there.
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  Speaker 2: We want to just get better as a unit, individually,
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  Speaker 2: position groups, things like that, and then get everybody as
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  Speaker 2: good as we possibly can going into camp when the
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  Speaker 2: pads get put on preseason games.
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  Speaker 3: And this thing with this is a long process, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with him and so but so far, so good.
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  Speaker 1: You're hearing and seeing and your communications with him and
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  Speaker 1: your meetings with him.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, absolutely, Devin voids or I know, obviously, nothing
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  Speaker 2: really on the field in terms of full contact.
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  Speaker 5: We're just getting to know him, his kind of mindset, interact.
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  Speaker 3: John, how's married life. Yeah, you're making it all right.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you, man, because last time you hadn't been
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  Speaker 2: married yet. So but yeah, all good. Excited about our
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  Speaker 2: linebacker group. They've done a really good job communicating. We've
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  Speaker 2: got some really good leadership in that position. And really
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  Speaker 2: important is we haven't aligned just a couple of times
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  Speaker 2: against the offense, and so we've done a lot of
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  Speaker 2: self work together and just their communication part how they're
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  Speaker 2: handling it in him as well, break the huddle, get
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  Speaker 2: guys a line, making the proper calls. It's been good,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and so today will be another good test
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  Speaker 2: because we're actually going to be able to respond post snap,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And so we'll take that evaluation. But excited
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  Speaker 2: about the player. He's doing a really good job. Here's
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  Speaker 2: a guy that loves football. I mean, he's around all
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  Speaker 2: the time like he he can't get enough of it.
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  Speaker 2: And so as a coach, you're man, You're like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: this is awesome. And so we'll take today and then
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  Speaker 2: you know, we'll work on tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: How would identify what position Ryan that Devin and you
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  Speaker 4: see her play in your scene?
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  Speaker 2: You know, again their linebackers and where we play them
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  Speaker 2: and where we put them is it's gonna this part
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  Speaker 2: of the year and then up in a couple of
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  Speaker 2: first couple of weeks in camp. We have an idea,
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  Speaker 2: we have a really good idea, but we're still we're
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  Speaker 2: still in that process of moving guys around. The more
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  Speaker 2: you can do, you know, and I think you can
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  Speaker 2: play a lot of years in this.
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  Speaker 3: League if you can do more jobs.
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  Speaker 2: And so we don't want to just pigeonhole guys right now,
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  Speaker 2: and hey, this is this now. There are certain guys
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  Speaker 2: on our defense that you know are going to play
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  Speaker 2: a certain position. You know, Devon Hamilton, he's going to
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  Speaker 2: play defensive tackle.
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  Speaker 3: We know that, right. But some of these guys that.
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  Speaker 2: Can play two or three positions, we're going to put
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  Speaker 2: them at these different positions in these OTAs. It's a
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  Speaker 2: great opportunity to see what guys can do. And then
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  Speaker 2: as we see their job and if they can do
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  Speaker 2: certain jobs, and we'll start to fine tune the package
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  Speaker 2: and more for you know, their skill set. But look,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be on the ball and off the
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  Speaker 2: ball at the linebacker position, and so you'll see them
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  Speaker 2: if you're out there today, they'll be moving around Mike,
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  Speaker 2: will Sam, you know, all over the place. So it'll
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  Speaker 2: be a good value. I'm excited. I'm really am excited
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  Speaker 2: about and I think our staff is really excited about
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  Speaker 2: that position group. And because we've got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: good players our defense, but guys can do a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different jobs.
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  Speaker 4: What are you sort of the same way with the
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  Speaker 4: saturd are terms of putting pieces together of those guys.
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  Speaker 2: You know, yeah, yes, Uh, you know, our staff is
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  Speaker 2: here's here's what kind of where we're at with it
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  Speaker 2: is the depth chart. There is no there's none right now.
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  Speaker 2: So you're gonna see a bunch of different combinations when
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  Speaker 2: you're out there, because we want to see guys line
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  Speaker 2: up safety corner nickel like, we want to see them
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  Speaker 2: line up at all these different positions and give everybody
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: As we go through the OTA practices, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Really important, you know, see the growth, what they can handle,
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  Speaker 2: you know, playing different alignments and techniques and positions, pressure, blitzing, covering.
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  Speaker 3: You know, fitting the run game, things like that.
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  Speaker 2: And so in the secondary we've got really good depth,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and we'll see how it goes out there.
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  Speaker 2: But really, you know, Play one today and Play eight
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  Speaker 2: is going to be a totally different group of guys
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  Speaker 2: out there and Team Period one and TV just so
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  Speaker 2: we want to see what the guys can do.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what this part of.
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  Speaker 2: The year is is, uh, see how much they can
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  Speaker 2: handle their alignments, assignments, some of the techniques that they're using.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, we're excited. I mean, it's it's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's day one and it goes by fast, but
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  Speaker 2: guys have done a really good job up until this
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  Speaker 2: point in.
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  Speaker 4: Terms of evaluating Mason Smith and George Jefferson. How important
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  Speaker 4: are your ties to coach Oseron and Jinkin and getting
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  Speaker 4: a good sense of what those two guys can do
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  Speaker 4: in your team.
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  Speaker 2: Sure there's some some phone calls being made to those
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  Speaker 2: guys for sure. And look at everything that they they
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  Speaker 2: said was exactly who these guys are in terms of character, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: the type of people.
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  Speaker 3: That there are.
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  Speaker 2: They love football, really good guys practice hard. I mean
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  Speaker 2: they're out there going as hard as they possibly can.
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  Speaker 2: We're excited about them. So the future is bright for
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  Speaker 2: those guys.
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  Speaker 5: Kind Of building on the on the secondary point, Darnold Savage,
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  Speaker 5: you see a guy that you guys see as a
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  Speaker 5: personatal weapon, he could be used as a nickel as
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  Speaker 5: a safety.
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  Speaker 3: How do you evaluate and so far?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just like you said, like he's all he's aligning
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  Speaker 2: at nickel at safety in a pinch. I mean he
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: can run and so you know, we can put him
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  Speaker 2: in some man coverage situations. So he's a great guy
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  Speaker 2: to have. Really happy that our front office and Trent
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  Speaker 2: those guys and they brought him in. The guy's been
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  Speaker 2: fantastic in terms of just being around, learning the system.
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  Speaker 2: Where does he fit in? And so today you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know he's uh, he'll he'll be all over the place,
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  Speaker 2: which is which is fun and so really looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to getting out there with him and see where, you know,
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  Speaker 2: where he's at and going from there.
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  Speaker 5: How much of that did he do in Green Bay
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  Speaker 5: and were he able to get anything from that tape
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  Speaker 5: in terms of his versatility.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we looked at the athlete, the type of player
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  Speaker 2: that he was, and then the positions that he was playing,
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  Speaker 2: but a little bit different system, but felt that he
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  Speaker 2: can really fit what we're doing here and have success.
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  Speaker 4: He spoke to Josh after he got his contract extension.
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  Speaker 5: He specifically mentioned that in.
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  Speaker 4: Conversations with you, he knows the best player has to
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  Speaker 4: line up both inside and outside. He has to line
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  Speaker 4: up against the guard sometimes if you can just elaborate
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  Speaker 4: on why that's important in your philosophical.
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  Speaker 2: Perspective, It's just matchups, like it's a matchup game, right,
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  Speaker 2: and so we want to have the best matchups for
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  Speaker 2: our guests to have success, and so we'll manipulate the
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  Speaker 2: front and coverage some things that we're doing for to
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  Speaker 2: put our guys in the best matchups for them and
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  Speaker 2: then ultimately play our best defense and win games.
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  Speaker 3: And so that'll it'll always be designed around winning.
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  Speaker 2: And then a lot of that is is football is
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  Speaker 2: a lot of is one on one game, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and so during pass rush and things like that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we want him to be And the other thing that is,
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  Speaker 2: we don't want him just to be on the right
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  Speaker 2: side and they know he's right here all the time
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  Speaker 2: and they can chip or put a tight end.
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  Speaker 3: To his side and take what he does away. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we've got to beat two guys to get to the quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: and so.
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  Speaker 2: If we move them, it makes it a little bit
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  Speaker 2: harder for an offense to find out and identify where
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  Speaker 2: he's at every snap.
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  Speaker 1: How intriguing as it goes, even at this level to
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  Speaker 1: see a guy in miles cold with all that you know, measurables, sure,
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  Speaker 1: but it.
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  Speaker 5: Hasn't really done on the field. Bay maybe me a.
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  Speaker 1: Little bit of a project kind of guy and be
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  Speaker 1: a little mold in a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when you grind the tape on him, he's there
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  Speaker 2: are some things that really like he's made some plays
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  Speaker 2: now you just it's it's get you got to grind
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  Speaker 2: through it a little bit and find out. But we're
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  Speaker 2: excited about him. The measurables and things like that. But
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  Speaker 2: what he was doing on his tape is very similar
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  Speaker 2: to the type of the defensive end position that we like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and so when you take that measurables and
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  Speaker 2: some of the things on the tape, and yep, he's
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  Speaker 2: a he's a young guy that has got to learn,
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  Speaker 2: just like all the rookies. But we're excited about his growth.
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  Speaker 2: And he's uh, he's been a really good in terms
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  Speaker 2: of putting the extra time in right now.
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  Speaker 3: Uh in the rookie you know, he's been.
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  Speaker 2: And he's done a good job and being in the
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  Speaker 2: right spots on the field. And so today's his first
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  Speaker 2: day against the NFL offensive lineman and so we'll see, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they we can move guys all around, So I mean,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you're going to see three and some you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's so many multiple things that you can do with
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  Speaker 2: with guys like that. You never can have enough good players, right,
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  Speaker 2: and so we'll take all those guys and and like
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: we're talking about the matchups and who's got the best
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  Speaker 2: matchups in terms of the offense line, third down things
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 5: So Trent, but one.
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  Speaker 4: Of them said, you banged the table for Miles and
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  Speaker 4: kind of give us the backstory of how you can
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  Speaker 4: to find him.
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  Speaker 2: Well really, uh, Mario Jebriel and Bill Shuey had him
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  Speaker 2: uh in their set, and those guys actually came and said, hey, let's.
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  Speaker 3: Take a look at this guy. So the credit goes
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  Speaker 3: to them. Those are the guys that really get the credit.
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  Speaker 2: And we started watching the tape and we're like, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, this guy's got a chance now, Like he's measurable,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we like that that type, and then he
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  Speaker 2: can run. He's a really good athlete for a guy
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  Speaker 2: that big. And so but yeah, those guys Bill and Mario,
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  Speaker 2: they they're they're the one that did it. And we
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  Speaker 2: just you know, I'm like, yeah, see it, I could
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  Speaker 2: and so you're fired up and we had a conversation
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  Speaker 2: about it. But yeah, they did a good job finding him.
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  Speaker 1: Trevissin coming in here to Competa for some raps mine Josh.
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  Speaker 2: Experience, he has history with Coach Chewey and so uh,
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  Speaker 2: Coachu was real big on bringing him. Hey take a
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  Speaker 2: look at this guy, and I have some history with
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  Speaker 2: him within our what we do. He fits the fits
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  Speaker 2: the Mold. Haven't played to play yet, but excited about
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  Speaker 2: what we've seen on the tape. He's a tireless worker,
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  Speaker 2: intelligent player. I think he's got a bright future. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: thank you guys, appreciate it. Okay, have a great day.
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: Thank you.