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  Speaker 1: Hey, you're talking a little bit about now that you've
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  Speaker 1: gone through the entire training camp, what would you say
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line has made more progress and protection or
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  Speaker 1: in the runs locking.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question because again, still you don't have
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  Speaker 2: all these live periods, so it's always hard to really
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  Speaker 2: get an evaluation of where we're at with things. But
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  Speaker 2: we do feel very good about the progress we've made
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  Speaker 2: in both aspects, but particularly the run game of just
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  Speaker 2: our targeting, our identification of what we're trying to get accomplished,
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  Speaker 2: of getting essentially eleven guys on the exact same page
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  Speaker 2: with every single look we see now in terms of
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  Speaker 2: moving a defender from point A to point B. That's
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  Speaker 2: the part that you're not one hundred percent sure you've
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  Speaker 2: been able to see yet other than when we getting
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  Speaker 2: these games, and we haven't played all five of our
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  Speaker 2: guys together at the same time yet or our anticipated
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  Speaker 2: five too many snaps at the same point yet.
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  Speaker 3: So that's something that we'll continue to see.
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  Speaker 2: Again, we have time moving into week one before we
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  Speaker 2: get ready for that, but we're confident and where we're
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  Speaker 2: headed with that.
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  Speaker 1: One of the common threads with Bigsby and his camp
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  Speaker 1: seems to be that. He's pretty consistent in terms of
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  Speaker 1: not going down on initial contact.
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  Speaker 4: Is that the guy that you envision when you drafted him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's tough to tackle. I think that's the
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  Speaker 2: biggest part of it. And he just continues to grow
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  Speaker 2: and be more consistent in what we're looking for. I
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  Speaker 2: think Jerry Mack has done a great job coaching him
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  Speaker 2: on what the expectation is with each single scheme, what
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  Speaker 2: the looks are, you know, Phil and Rich and those guys,
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  Speaker 2: Greg Austin.
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  Speaker 3: This guy's done a great job just trying to simulate
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  Speaker 3: as many looks as we could.
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  Speaker 2: Possibly see and give those to all, not just the
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  Speaker 2: line but the backs as well. It's very important that
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  Speaker 2: they get a chance to see what these combinations look
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  Speaker 2: like in their zone schemes, what these down blocks, what
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  Speaker 2: the pullar looks like in certain looks. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: value of the joint practice too. Now we all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden saw a lot more five down fronts and
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  Speaker 2: some different looks from Tampa that we're able to kind
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  Speaker 2: of test our schemes against.
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  Speaker 1: Evan Ingram is always the personal appeld.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like he's always working extra I mean just
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  Speaker 2: from your perspective, what have you seen from him in
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  Speaker 2: terms of his workout that just what he's been able
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  Speaker 2: to do with his.
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  Speaker 1: Little extra moments.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just you know, he's kind of the ideal professional,
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  Speaker 2: just the time he puts into his craft, from his
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  Speaker 2: you know, physical maintenance to just getting his body ready
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  Speaker 2: to go for practice. And then I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: if you guys see it, he's the last one off
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  Speaker 2: the field as well most times. And now it's cool
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  Speaker 2: to watch. You look outside and Brenton Strange right there
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  Speaker 2: next to him. So Evan's still the first on the field,
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  Speaker 2: he's the last off field, and he's bringing people along
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  Speaker 2: and so and I think part of it we try
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  Speaker 2: to tell our young guys watch the right guy in
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  Speaker 2: your room. There's somebody in every single room that we
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  Speaker 2: think those guys can model their game after or just
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  Speaker 2: their approach to work after. And so it's cool to
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  Speaker 2: see the young guys. You know, Parker was kind of
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  Speaker 2: Christian shadow all last year, Brenton's become Evan's shadow as
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  Speaker 2: it moved forward, the Anton and those guys falling, Brandon
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  Speaker 2: and Cam and you know, it's just cool to see
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  Speaker 2: the young guys follow the older guys that have done
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  Speaker 2: it for a long time have had success in this
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  Speaker 2: because I mean, there's no secrets to success in terms
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  Speaker 2: of just the work ethic that it takes to be
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  Speaker 2: a consistent pro and we have guys that can model
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  Speaker 2: that well.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, you know, you guys are familiar with EJ.
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  Speaker 2: Familiar with how you guys operates, what they can kind
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  Speaker 2: of make sense to burn him in for him in particular,
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  Speaker 2: kind of what steps did you guys go through, what
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  Speaker 2: went into the evaluation process of saying we need to
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  Speaker 2: add another quarterback. Part of that was just the CJ's health,
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  Speaker 2: just moving forward to make sure as we go into
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  Speaker 2: this next game, just not limiting our ability to play
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  Speaker 2: this game.
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  Speaker 3: Out as we go.
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  Speaker 2: And so Hej's a guy we we obviously have trust
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  Speaker 2: in and he's been around us. He's a guy that
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  Speaker 2: we can bring in in the very last minute and
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  Speaker 2: he is gonna know fifty to seventy five percent of
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  Speaker 2: the terminology from the jump. Guys are familiar with him,
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  Speaker 2: which I think that's a part of it as well.
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  Speaker 2: Not everybody's played with him, but a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: have been here just through his time on and off
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  Speaker 2: the roster. So a guy that that we have confidence
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  Speaker 2: and as a coaching staff can help us through a
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  Speaker 2: game situation.
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  Speaker 3: Here, you mentioned the.
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  Speaker 1: Starting five offensive line that reps together.
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  Speaker 4: How big will that be this weekend, just for them
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  Speaker 4: to finally get in a game and play next to
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  Speaker 4: each other.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a big thing of just breaking
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  Speaker 2: the huddle, aligning in the huddle next to each other,
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  Speaker 2: breaking the huddle, communicating next to each other. And then
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  Speaker 2: there's still the timing of game reps of how fast
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  Speaker 2: things happen. And I would still say preseason is not
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  Speaker 2: quite the step that regular season is going to be,
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  Speaker 2: but it's just one more step in the progress that
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  Speaker 2: we want to take to get ready for Week one.
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  Speaker 4: Cool and Land been one of those guys they had
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  Speaker 4: like a quietly good camp that we probably would notice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's fair to say.
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  Speaker 2: He's done a great job really since the spring of
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  Speaker 2: kind of just buying into everything we're trying to coach
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  Speaker 2: in the run game and protection world as well. He's
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  Speaker 2: really flashing the run game for us on the backside
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  Speaker 2: of a lot of concepts and we've kind of noticed
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  Speaker 2: that from way back when. So it's cool to see
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  Speaker 2: him play well, you know in these preseason games as well,
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  Speaker 2: getting that.
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  Speaker 4: The two new IR, but the two new IR will
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  Speaker 4: we put two guys on you don't have to lose
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  Speaker 4: it for the season before. Is that impact? How much
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  Speaker 4: is that any pact decisions you guys might make, You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's some spots you particularly like running back with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's certainly a tool that you know you kind
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  Speaker 2: of use as a roster building tool. So now it
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  Speaker 2: changes a little bit of the formatting of how you're
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  Speaker 2: maneuvering guys on cut day, because you know, there's always
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  Speaker 2: different ways people do things to try to keep guys.
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  Speaker 2: There's kind of the first wave of cuts, the last
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  Speaker 2: wave of custs to trying to different different ways that
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  Speaker 2: people will massage the roster building aspect of it. So
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a tool that can be utilized that
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  Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to.
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  Speaker 3: See how we use it.
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  Speaker 2: Necessarily Brian Thomas Junior in a couple of preseason games
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  Speaker 2: and obviously all of camp. Where's the progress at there
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  Speaker 2: with him?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's it's similar we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: It's just you keep seeing these sets that you want
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  Speaker 2: to see, and again, I don't think he's where he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be when we kick off whatever day or first
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  Speaker 2: game is September something. I don't think he's there yet
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  Speaker 2: and so, but he's a lot further ahead than he
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  Speaker 2: was when we came together at the starting train to camp.
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  Speaker 2: So and then for that to carry over, for him
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  Speaker 2: to make a play in that first preseason game, you
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  Speaker 2: just saw his confidence rise, for him to perform well,
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  Speaker 2: and joint practice against Tampa, you just see this progression
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  Speaker 2: and you see a little bit more of him becoming
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  Speaker 2: who who he knew he would be. And again, I
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  Speaker 2: think he's he's a long way from where he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be in two weeks to let alone eighteen weeks from now.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just been cool to see him build the
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  Speaker 2: confidence in himself, build the confidence and the work he's
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  Speaker 2: put in, and I think, you know, he's just gonna
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  Speaker 2: continue to grow from here.
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  Speaker 1: On Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of bit highlighted a little bit this week.
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  Speaker 3: How impressive of a play catch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's kind of what you see is
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  Speaker 2: a guy that when he's gonna get free access, has
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of route technique to him that that
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  Speaker 2: does a good job. And then being friendly at the
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  Speaker 2: top of the route, breaking the sideline, catching the ball
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  Speaker 2: on the sideline. I thought there was a good catch
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  Speaker 2: going out of bounds. But that's something you know, always
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  Speaker 2: using the threat of speed, that's something you want all
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  Speaker 2: these receivers to do. But we've talked about guys get
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  Speaker 2: to based on the reputation. People are going to know
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  Speaker 2: he's a four to two guy, and so he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: get that respect in some aspects.
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  Speaker 3: So it's how does he utilize it every single route.
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  Speaker 2: It could be a six yard route, can we get
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  Speaker 2: him to sell speed from the jump, and then it
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  Speaker 2: could be some of those routes where it's a stutter
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  Speaker 2: comeback that get him up to eighteen yards I mean
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  Speaker 2: something like that. So it's just kind of him owning
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  Speaker 2: each route and what it looks like. It's gonna look
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  Speaker 2: different on one side than it does on the other
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  Speaker 2: based on who's running the route, what the offense.
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  Speaker 4: Does dictate how long they'll play or is it just
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  Speaker 4: going to be the full first half of those As
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  Speaker 4: the first team.
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  Speaker 2: Offense, Yeah, coach will always kind of give him expect
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  Speaker 2: to play this amount of time, and then I think
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  Speaker 2: that's always just leaves it to be determined. If he
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  Speaker 2: wants them to play longer, they're ready to play longer,
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  Speaker 2: and we just tell the guys be ready.
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  Speaker 3: To play and so for however long that is.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you get into a game like the other night,
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  Speaker 2: and we had an eleven play drive, I think the
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  Speaker 2: first time, and you know, coach will go on the
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  Speaker 2: headset I've seen enough from so and so, he's out,
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  Speaker 2: or let's get some so and so a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more and keep going. So we kind of give him
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  Speaker 2: a general idea, but they know it could be shorter, longer,
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  Speaker 2: or whatever it is. And I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: these guys, once you tell them they're gonna play, they
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  Speaker 2: get themselves ready to play. They don't, I think, concern
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  Speaker 2: themselves with I only need to be ready to play
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  Speaker 2: ten plays, twenty plays, whatever that is.
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  Speaker 3: I think they'd be willing.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of guys that will pull them out
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  Speaker 2: and they're like, I was just getting ready to go,
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm fired up, let's keep going. Because I think
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  Speaker 2: it takes a certain mindset and a certain physical preparation
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  Speaker 2: to get yourself ready to play a game, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: ten plays or you don't know, if it's seventy five plays,
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  Speaker 2: and so these guys are always pretty geared up to play.
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  Speaker 1: What did you take.
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  Speaker 2: From Elijah tim on Saturday? I thought both those guys
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  Speaker 2: has done a great job and a lot of those
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  Speaker 2: guys kind of competing on that back end for this
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  Speaker 2: down the line receiver spot. And again it's there's an
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  Speaker 2: aspect of it that his offense. There's a major aspect
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  Speaker 2: of it that the special teams as well. So there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot that goes into the evaluation. We will give
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  Speaker 2: our opinion, I'm based on where we anticipate using these
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  Speaker 2: guys in the offensive role, and then he luke, those
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  Speaker 2: guys will provide their input for the special team's role
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  Speaker 2: and so sometimes that's it can change week to week
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  Speaker 2: based on who's avail throughout the course. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: you're missing one of your top three, maybe there's more
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  Speaker 2: value in an offensive role for that player, versus if
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  Speaker 2: we have everybody available to you, or it's a game
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  Speaker 2: where we anticipate more twelve personnel thirteen personnel, then maybe
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  Speaker 2: there's not much of an offensive role expected for that
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  Speaker 2: player and now somebody else gets it. So those guys
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  Speaker 2: who've done a great job just being consistent and understanding
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  Speaker 2: what the role is with each give and play. There's
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  Speaker 2: sometimes where you're a primary on third and ten. There's
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  Speaker 2: sometimes where you're a point block on first and ten,
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  Speaker 2: toss crack to you, or you have to go out
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  Speaker 2: of safety on the backside of a run. So there's
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  Speaker 2: all these certain looks that I think those two guys
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  Speaker 2: really understand and embrace what they're being asked to do,
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  Speaker 2: and then that's a valuable role for us as well.
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  Speaker 4: You look at who's been added and who's been subtracted
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  Speaker 4: from your skilled position players and the offensive line. Do
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  Speaker 4: you feel like Trevor as his best surrounding cast since
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  Speaker 4: he's spent here taking account that you would expect progress
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  Speaker 4: to be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a big part of it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if i'd get into comparing
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  Speaker 2: year one to year two to year three personnel wise,
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  Speaker 2: but I think I mean, when you look at the
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  Speaker 2: guys that are continue to be around, like Christian is
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  Speaker 2: so much better than he was two years ago when
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  Speaker 2: we started the system, to Evan is to I think
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  Speaker 2: just the knowledge of or Trevor's relationship or knowledge with
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  Speaker 2: those guys that are playing and how they play and
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  Speaker 2: what they bring, and what he likes to throw to
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  Speaker 2: them or how they like to see certain things. I
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  Speaker 2: would think that there's progress in that aspect. In terms
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  Speaker 2: of player to player, I don't know if i'd get
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  Speaker 2: into that comparison it all to begin with.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, thanks by