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Press Pass | Jaguars Position Coaches on Preparation for 2026 Season · Press Pass

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Speaker 1: I guess, first off, how's this off season slash of
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Speaker 1: work you guys have been putting in betterfit your kind
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Speaker 1: of first amazing? Look at this Jaguars staff, amazing.
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Speaker 2: I mean part of coming here is obviously the players.
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Speaker 3: You know that that you get to coach, and uh
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Speaker 3: the guys here are extremely coachable and like every single
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Speaker 3: guy just wants to get better. I mean it's it's
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Speaker 3: OTAs and everybody's been here every day staying after because
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Speaker 3: they want to learn more. The guys that have been
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Speaker 3: extremely extremely excited just to get better. So for me
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Speaker 3: as a coach, you can't ask for anything more.
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Speaker 4: It's been great.
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Speaker 1: We try to explain to people the titles on people,
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Speaker 1: how different is this from being a quarterbacks coach to.
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Speaker 3: Be the defen Yeah, my, you know, my day to
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Speaker 3: day on the field is very similar. Uh, I'd say,
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Speaker 3: you know, as as we're all together and having those
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Speaker 3: conversations schematically, a lot of what we do defensively, I
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Speaker 3: was either with coach camp, you know, in places where
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Speaker 3: we've done it. Uh, So I've been very familiar with
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Speaker 3: with what we do. So there's that conversation that goes
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Speaker 3: back and forth. But day to day it's extremely collaborative.
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Speaker 3: We're all working together for a common goal.
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Speaker 2: So the titles.
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Speaker 1: Have you noticed any difference from coach Camp the position
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Speaker 1: coach versus coach Camp the defensive coordinator.
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Speaker 2: No, not at all. Whoever he's leading, he leads the
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Speaker 2: same way.
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Speaker 3: So whether he's a position coach and he's leading his
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Speaker 3: players and whoever's working under him.
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Speaker 2: Like when I was his.
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Speaker 3: GA at Boston College, it was it's the same exact
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Speaker 3: way as it is now with him being the coordinator.
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Speaker 3: And that's why he's a success. Everyone's been this is it.
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Speaker 1: Kind of cool to have seen that that you know,
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Speaker 1: progression as it's gone.
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Speaker 2: It's awesome.
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Speaker 3: He's he's one of the greatest people I've I've ever
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Speaker 3: met in my life. He's extremely genuine. He cares about
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Speaker 3: people first and foremost. He builds relationships and he coaches
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Speaker 3: you extremely hard because he cares. So it's it's a
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Speaker 3: lot of fun to work under him because you're learning
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Speaker 3: something every day.
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Speaker 4: I'll say.
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Speaker 1: Conversely, he's seen that progression in you. Yeah, as a
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Speaker 1: coach too, So to have that connection, it's got to
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Speaker 1: be great because he knows what you can do well.
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Speaker 5: Uh, when you're out there to fill with the guy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it we've I've grown up under him and
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Speaker 3: it's been I don't know, ten or eleven years and
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Speaker 3: we this will be the third time that we've been together.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, we definitely know each other day.
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Speaker 6: What did the job come about for you?
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Speaker 7: Did Camp call one day to kind of, you know,
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Speaker 7: kick the tires on it?
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Speaker 3: No, So I was still with Miami, even though Mike
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Speaker 3: k had gotten fired. I was still with Miami, So
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Speaker 3: they they put in a slip before me and I
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Speaker 3: spoke with William first.
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Speaker 6: Uh.
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Speaker 2: And then obviously I knew Anthony was here and and
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Speaker 2: we've been close, so I always followed him.
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Speaker 8: Uh.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, to get an opportunity to to work together again.
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Speaker 2: It it wasn't something like a Passau.
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Speaker 7: What were your impressions kind of getting in here? Obviously
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Speaker 7: you have you know, you can follow a team to
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Speaker 7: think you kind of know the situation, But having worked
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Speaker 7: with Camp before and then coming in within, what were
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Speaker 7: your kind of a media impression?
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Speaker 3: Everybody from the top down is you know, steadfast on
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Speaker 3: what they and from ownership all the way down. There
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Speaker 3: is no nobody pulling in a different direction. Everybody has
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Speaker 3: the same vision on how to win. Everyone puts that
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Speaker 3: into play, So for me, it's something that I believe in.
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Speaker 3: That was through the interview process that was really exciting
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Speaker 3: for me, and like I was drawn to that everything
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Speaker 3: that I believe in is what we were talking about.
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Speaker 3: Then you take the players and how great those guys
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Speaker 3: are and you add that into the equation. But for
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Speaker 3: me being able to just see the vision understanding it's
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Speaker 3: about toughness and teaching and building something that's gonna be
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Speaker 3: able to withstand any portion of the season. Everyone from
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Speaker 3: top down feels that way, and for me it was
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Speaker 3: easy to step in and continue.
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Speaker 7: The dvs are such a unique group. I always say,
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Speaker 7: just like personality wise, and obviously there's a kind of
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Speaker 7: competition within that group, but it's there's really no infighting
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Speaker 7: at all. It's almost like they just want each other.
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Speaker 9: A little better.
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Speaker 7: I feel like that's unique in some regards because there's
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Speaker 7: always competition, but to have such a close.
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Speaker 3: Takers that you felt that, yeah, absolutely, and especially this
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Speaker 3: time of year, like that's what you're trying to build
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Speaker 3: because as much of it is a job and you have.
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Speaker 2: To win your job and you want for yourself to succeed.
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Speaker 3: We're never gonna reach where we want to reach if
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Speaker 3: we don't build that together. So that relationship building from
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Speaker 3: player to coach is more important player to player, you know,
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Speaker 3: like they have to be steadfast in the same direction,
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Speaker 3: understanding what each other is talking about, and that's built
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Speaker 3: by knowing their why, knowing their story, knowing their background.
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Speaker 3: So when they spend time together outside of here, they
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Speaker 3: build genuine relationships where these guys are going to be
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Speaker 3: their best friends forever. And then, sure, the job portion
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Speaker 3: of it, everyone's competing to win a spot.
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Speaker 2: But the better we are together, the better they'll be individual.
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Speaker 7: I know he's still working his way back, but Travis Hunter,
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Speaker 7: it's a unique situation, you say, A part of that.
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Speaker 3: Anytime you get a chance to coach a great person
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Speaker 3: and a great player in one as a coach, you
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Speaker 3: know you dream of those opportunities.
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Speaker 2: It's it's gonna be really fun.
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Speaker 3: He's been outstanding so far and he goes above and
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Speaker 3: beyond to prepare himself.
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Speaker 2: So I can't wait.
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Speaker 7: No, Camp's always talking about fighting for more timey and
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Speaker 7: be doing the same thing for Tractice.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's I do that with everybody. There's there's never
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Speaker 3: enough time. But for him, you know, he's if he
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Speaker 3: has something on a schedule that's extra, he'll.
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Speaker 2: Be there before it starts.
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Speaker 3: Like he's he's been phenomenal and uh in trying to
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Speaker 3: get the extra work to go over it.
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Speaker 10: I think everybody looks at this offseason and says that
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Speaker 10: he lost a lot of production in Devin.
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Speaker 5: Can you replace it?
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Speaker 10: Do you feel like or I guess the second part
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Speaker 10: that is how much better do you think your defense
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Speaker 10: can be even with that subtraction based on the evolution.
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Speaker 6: Of it and just grow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's one of the great challenges that we
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Speaker 2: have because.
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Speaker 11: Once again, whether it's fair or not, do I think
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Speaker 11: people gave Devin enough credit before the season started? I
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Speaker 11: don't know that that's up to him. He he obviously
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Speaker 11: felt a certain type of way about it, and he
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Speaker 11: he you know, he put he put the tape out there,
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Speaker 11: and that's that's all we're asking our guys to do
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Speaker 11: because every year is the same unless you're just one
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Speaker 11: of those perennial guys. Every year is its own year.
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Speaker 11: Forget what you did last year.
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Speaker 2: We have to prove it now.
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Speaker 11: So you know, tryna trying to think that we're gonna
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Speaker 11: replace his production. No, well we'll we'll make up for
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Speaker 11: that production in different ways. And at the end of
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Speaker 11: the day, it's really up to each individual guy of
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Speaker 11: how we're gonna do that, because as coaches, we have
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Speaker 11: a plan. We're gonna have a plan for how we're
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Speaker 11: gonna fill the so called void. Whether it's by committee
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Speaker 11: or this guy like it, We're gonna do what it
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Speaker 11: takes every.
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Speaker 4: Week to win the game.
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Speaker 11: We're not, you know it, it's our job to find
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Speaker 11: a solution.
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Speaker 7: You can go as a coach kind of having that
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Speaker 7: you know, have a player system, but that now a
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Speaker 7: new challenge for you, kind of.
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Speaker 11: Adapting the defenses year. Yes to to me, that's what
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Speaker 11: it That's what it comes down to. It's it's what
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Speaker 11: I expect. Every week's a different puzzle shoot every just
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Speaker 11: because it it's so fun to be around these guys.
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Speaker 11: As soon as you feel like you you got it down, Pat,
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Speaker 11: there's something new that happens here. Now, dang, I gotta
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Speaker 11: find it another way to get this done. And it's
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Speaker 11: a daily challenge really, you know, from day to day,
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Speaker 11: week to week, how can we be m super consistent
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Speaker 11: so that when we do look at it at the end.
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Speaker 2: Of the year, we like the results.
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Speaker 11: I I try very hard, and I've done this long
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Speaker 11: enough to n now to to to be aware that
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Speaker 11: don't judge it in the moment.
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Speaker 9: Just work every day, improve.
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Speaker 6: Every day, and then.
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Speaker 11: When we compile everything at the end, it should look
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Speaker 11: the way we wanted to.
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Speaker 5: Oh uh, how much?
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Speaker 10: How much fun is the chess match of each off season?
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Speaker 10: Now everybody's talking about twelve and thirteen personnality, so I
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Speaker 10: guess that's the hot topic. But is that on for
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Speaker 10: guys on the defensive side, you have to try to
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Speaker 10: counteract it.
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Speaker 11: It's so fun, especially for us in our building. Yeah,
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Speaker 11: because of how maniacal and crazy our offense can be
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Speaker 11: when it comes to attacking defense. Once again, if we're
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Speaker 11: not on it on a day to day basis, we
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Speaker 11: will get embarrassed. So we always have that sensor urgency
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Speaker 11: of that number one. We gotta be on it or
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Speaker 11: else it's just gonna look bad.
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Speaker 2: So it's it's really I give a lot.
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Speaker 11: I give the offense a lot of credit that they
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Speaker 11: keep us on our toes. That obviously number one first
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Speaker 11: and foremost, we gotta be fundamentally sound our schemes have
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Speaker 11: to be sound, and our preparation has to be at
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Speaker 11: the utmost because on a given practice it looks like
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Speaker 11: game day out there. I'm like, oh my god, where
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Speaker 11: where did they come up with that concept? And our
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Speaker 11: guys know that, so it's it really makes it amazing
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Speaker 11: to come to work every day.
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Speaker 10: We've been for ten minutes and I haven't asked you
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Speaker 10: about that. Taken a sense that's like, do we take
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Speaker 10: him for granted? Not me personally, but can you take
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Speaker 10: a guy for that for granted because of his consistency
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Speaker 10: and what he's done in the league for so long
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Speaker 10: that there aren't a lot of questions.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't.
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Speaker 6: I don't.
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Speaker 11: I don't blame you for feeling that way because my
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Speaker 11: experience with him, having studied him and seen him from
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Speaker 11: before I got in the building. As soon as I
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Speaker 11: got in the building, I'm like, Yeah, this guy is
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Speaker 11: taking for granted because he's he's the He's one of
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Speaker 11: the most consistent people, consistent players, most intentional people that
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Speaker 11: you'll ever see. And I hope, I hope and pray
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Speaker 11: that I have another five of them in my career.
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Speaker 11: Some guys don't have a guy that's disconsistent, and it's
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Speaker 11: just a reminder to me, a lesson to me, like, hey,
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Speaker 11: you've got one of those guys, Now, let's make sure
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Speaker 11: we're making it count while we have them.
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Speaker 7: Are your first time in like three years that the
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Speaker 7: defensive players are at consistent and coaching staff and they
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Speaker 7: talk about it, Uh, how much that means to them
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Speaker 7: to have you guys back. Do you see the defense
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Speaker 7: at an entirely different place.
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Speaker 12: Than they raced it last year?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: The reason why I agree with you on that is,
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Speaker 11: for example, a year ago, we're just learning the language.
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Speaker 2: We're like, we're learning French. We don't know what the
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Speaker 2: French words mean.
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Speaker 9: They're just saying 'em, you know.
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Speaker 11: But halfway into the season, right, we're saying bonjous and
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Speaker 11: everybody knows alright, that means hot. But here now, at
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Speaker 11: this point in the second year, it's whole paragraphs instead
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Speaker 11: of just words. Right, this word means this plus this,
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Speaker 11: and now we can anticipate and play faster. It's it's
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Speaker 11: night and day. And once again I'll give a lot
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Speaker 11: of credit to to Liam and Cam where we're pushing
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Speaker 11: not only the players, but the coach is also that Hey,
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Speaker 11: we have to.
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Speaker 2: Be way far ahead of where we.
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Speaker 11: Were last year, or else will be the same team
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Speaker 11: we were last year. You can't be what you were
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Speaker 11: last year in this league.
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Speaker 9: You'll you'll get abused.
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Speaker 13: Kind of going back to you talked about not taking
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Speaker 13: it for granted, uh, sort of using utilizing him as
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Speaker 13: much as possible. How important does he to the linebacker
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Speaker 13: room in general, just to have that guy in that room?
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Speaker 6: Yeah? How important?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 11: With him? With him, it's a complete player you're talking
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Speaker 11: about on the grass, off the grass, He does it all.
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Speaker 11: There's just things that I know as the linebacker coach
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Speaker 11: that I don't have to worry about because he's gonna
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Speaker 11: take care of it. It just allows me to to
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Speaker 11: focus on the real issues rather than you know, for example,
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Speaker 11: I've been in places where we're so young that as
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Speaker 11: a as the position coach, I'm doing step A through Z. Here,
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Speaker 11: it's all right, here's the plan. I know they're gonna
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Speaker 11: watch it. I know Foe's gonna have them watching it
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Speaker 11: together before they watch.
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Speaker 9: It, you know.
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Speaker 11: So there's just there's layers in there that that not
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Speaker 11: everybody has in every building.
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Speaker 14: I think how we use Trayvon obviously based on the
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Speaker 14: type of player that he is, gives us that flexibility
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Speaker 14: through his versatility, or we just want to put him
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Speaker 14: in the best position we can week out, whatever that
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Speaker 14: looks like.
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Speaker 2: And I think he's on the same page with us there.
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Speaker 2: How can he impact the game?
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Speaker 14: And it might be on the edge, it might be inside,
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Speaker 14: it might be standing up, it might be in a
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Speaker 14: four eye each week. The great thing about a selfless
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Speaker 14: player like him is that he's gonna do what we
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Speaker 14: ask him to do, and he's gonna do it at
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Speaker 14: a really high level.
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Speaker 10: We have the story, right, It sounds like Josh here
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Speaker 10: and wanted to move around a little bit last year
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Speaker 10: some point the season, second half the year.
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Speaker 2: How well did that work?
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Speaker 6: How big of a move was.
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Speaker 9: That from him as a player?
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Speaker 10: You guys are just staff to acknowledge that, and then
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Speaker 10: how much impact it did it provide?
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Speaker 14: I think the ability for great players to move around
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Speaker 14: and to a certain extent make the offense work. You know,
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Speaker 14: like if a guy's going to line up in the
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Speaker 14: same place every time there's a there's a significant amount
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Speaker 14: of game planning that occurs on the other team, like
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Speaker 14: how do we neutralize this guy and our ability to
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Speaker 14: move him, whether it's just versus different schemes, verus different matchups,
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Speaker 14: just allowing or forcing the offense to have to work
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Speaker 14: to find him at times. I think that's important for us,
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Speaker 14: and I think it also helps Josh, what.
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Speaker 10: Do you think Eric would give you still is twelve
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Speaker 10: years in Yeah, it's not an old guy, especially at
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Speaker 10: that position, But how much can you still give this
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Speaker 10: football team what you want.
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Speaker 2: To to give.
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Speaker 14: Let's just start with the things that he gives us
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Speaker 14: day and day out, and that's a veteran presence. That's
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Speaker 14: a lot of knowledge, not just for young players but
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Speaker 14: for everybody. And we've seen Eric impact games.
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Speaker 4: In both the run and the rush.
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Speaker 14: And the biggest thing for us is just making sure
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Speaker 14: that we are taking the proper steps and maintenance because
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Speaker 14: it is a long season, so we make sure that
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Speaker 14: we can take care of his body. But he's unbelievable,
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Speaker 14: you know, he's a true pro in that sense, and
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Speaker 14: our biggest job.
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Speaker 2: Is getting Eric the looks that he needs every week so.
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Speaker 14: That he's prepared for the game, and then getting him
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Speaker 14: to the game so that.
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Speaker 4: He can be his most effective. Let's reach.
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Speaker 14: We have an eager young player who has a skill set,
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Speaker 14: he has some explosion in his body, he has a
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Speaker 14: willingness to learn, And we have a guy that un
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Speaker 14: stands that his calling card first and foremost.
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Speaker 2: Has to be how hard are he plays?
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Speaker 14: And we can continue to develop that as a player
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Speaker 14: while he's trying to.
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Speaker 2: Carve out his work within our front.
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Speaker 13: It's kind of like thetaposition of what you saw there
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Speaker 13: and regions.
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Speaker 9: You've got to kind of handle a completely.
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Speaker 4: Different and we handle them all different.
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Speaker 2: You know, no two of those guys are the same.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, And you know what that's that's just the
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Speaker 14: nature of the league. You know, you have guys that
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Speaker 14: have been around and they've seen a lot, and there's
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Speaker 14: always an influx of new young talent and and that's
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Speaker 14: just kind of how the roster turns over. I think
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Speaker 14: our job as coaches is to develop each one of
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Speaker 14: those guys in their own way and then utilize their
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Speaker 14: particular skill sets so that they can go out there
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Speaker 14: and one help us be successful while also find personal success.
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Speaker 4: But why did you say that's his car his cling card?
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Speaker 10: He needs to know that his card is that your style.
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Speaker 14: Effort is at a premium around here, and if you
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Speaker 14: don't play hard it's glaringly obvious. And these vets they
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Speaker 14: want a guy that's gonna.
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Speaker 2: Go out there and tight hard, down then down.
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Speaker 10: Who better to learn from the Liamilton than really.
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Speaker 4: The whole room. And you know, the one thing I'm.
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Speaker 14: Really pleased about and proud of with this group is
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Speaker 14: that when people some of the compliments I get around
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Speaker 14: the leaders like quiet, your guys play hard. I don't
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Speaker 14: think there's any greater compliment, it goes to get Yeah,
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Speaker 14: we wanna we want great technique.
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Speaker 2: We strive for that every single day.
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Speaker 14: But effort can overcome.
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Speaker 2: A lot of mistakes.
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Speaker 14: How would you describe.
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Speaker 5: Person J?
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Speaker 4: Green?
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Speaker 5: So I really enjoyed DJ.
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Speaker 14: He's an incredibly hard work He's incredibly intentional. He understands
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Speaker 14: the skill sets that he has, and he also understands
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Speaker 14: some of the liabilities, and he works hard.
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Speaker 2: To overcome those things.
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Speaker 14: And I think Bjay's really set on maximizing his ability
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Speaker 14: and making sure that he excels in whatever role he
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Speaker 14: ends up with.
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Speaker 4: Hearing the jackuars, but.
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Speaker 2: Oh everybody, everybody's a little different. I'm a little different,
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Speaker 2: you know. So what I what I really enjoy.
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Speaker 14: About BJ is he is never afraid to ask he
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Speaker 14: wants questions. He has questions, he wants answers, and most of.
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Speaker 2: Those questions revolve around how can I do this better?
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Speaker 2: What can I do differently? Am I doing this well enough?
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Speaker 14: Almost to an extent of Hey, am I on the
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Speaker 14: right track?
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Speaker 5: And it's like, yeah, you are.
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Speaker 4: Hey, let's change this.
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Speaker 2: And if you give him something, he's gonna.
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Speaker 14: Go out of his way to make sure that he's
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Speaker 14: dialed in either continuing to do that or change and
18:03
Speaker 14: fix whatever it is that we gave him.
18:06
Speaker 10: As a coaching point, you mentioned the bride and guy's
18:09
Speaker 10: playing order and people telling you that how gratifying is
18:12
Speaker 10: it to see players like him strigo as Dickerson.
18:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, and your journeys.
18:17
Speaker 6: You know, not everybody's a top ten pick.
18:19
Speaker 9: That's right, Bigger, faster, stronger.
18:21
Speaker 2: You know this league is.
18:23
Speaker 14: It's full of first round draft picks, and it's full
18:25
Speaker 14: of undrafted free agents.
18:27
Speaker 2: There's no cookie.
18:28
Speaker 4: Cutter or no one route to a career in this league.
18:32
Speaker 14: And a lot of people don't realize this, but I
18:33
Speaker 14: was with Matt Dickerson in twenty eighteen in Tennessee when
18:37
Speaker 14: he was an undrafted free agent, and I'm really proud
18:40
Speaker 14: of the development that he's made, and obviously his ability
18:45
Speaker 14: to come in here, start out on the practice squad
18:49
Speaker 14: and just continue to work until the point where we could.
18:52
Speaker 4: Get him up for the game.
18:52
Speaker 2: When we got him up for the game, he made
18:53
Speaker 2: an impact.
18:54
Speaker 4: He was great for us.
18:55
Speaker 14: And yeah, if nothing else, Matt Dickerson is tough, and
18:59
Speaker 14: I love that about it. He's tough, he's reliable, and
19:03
Speaker 14: he just shows up every day. And I think for
19:07
Speaker 14: the other young guys in the room, when you when
19:09
Speaker 14: you're able to point to these examples and say, look,
19:16
Speaker 14: these guys were in your situation, or these guys weren't
19:21
Speaker 14: in as good a situation as you, they weren't drafted,
19:24
Speaker 14: But what they did is they came to work every day,
19:26
Speaker 14: they got.
19:26
Speaker 4: Better, they improved.
19:29
Speaker 14: And for all those guys, I don't know necessarily week
19:31
Speaker 14: one that maybe they were ready, but they continue to practice,
19:36
Speaker 14: they continued to learn, they continued.
19:38
Speaker 2: To grow, and then when they were called upon.
19:40
Speaker 4: By the team, they stepped up.
19:42
Speaker 14: And that was really gratifying to see as a coach.
19:45
Speaker 2: And it makes you just really proud and happy for
19:47
Speaker 2: those guys.
19:49
Speaker 7: How is the.
19:57
Speaker 4: How about that?
19:59
Speaker 15: And it just watching that.
20:01
Speaker 7: You guys are a little bit more on the same
20:02
Speaker 7: page obviously this time last year's and learning.
20:04
Speaker 4: Yeah have you seen that? Yeah, yeah, you definitely feel that.
20:07
Speaker 16: You feel it in the meeting rooms, you feel it
20:09
Speaker 16: on the grassy. It's it's been great. I think where
20:14
Speaker 16: I've noticed it the most. You know, year one, we
20:17
Speaker 16: were working really hard just trying to instill a coach
20:20
Speaker 16: or if this is how you do things. This is
20:21
Speaker 16: how you operate, this is what am is how you
20:23
Speaker 16: operate in the meeting room, this is how you operate
20:25
Speaker 16: in the weight room, is how you operate during individual
20:28
Speaker 16: periods and practice. And now our guys are fully bought
20:32
Speaker 16: into it. They're like, they know exactly what the standards are.
20:35
Speaker 16: It's been really cool to see them hold that standard
20:40
Speaker 16: on their own and it it it.
20:41
Speaker 4: It's n right now. It's not been.
20:44
Speaker 16: Coach driven, has been player driven, which is really what
20:46
Speaker 16: you want at the end of the day. And so
20:49
Speaker 16: that's been really great. And the other thing that I've
20:51
Speaker 16: really noticed is year two, I get to spend a
20:55
Speaker 16: lot more of my meeting time, not necessarily coaching what
20:59
Speaker 16: to do, but now I get to spend more time
21:01
Speaker 16: on the how the progressions of everything. I get to
21:04
Speaker 16: spend more time truly dialogue and going back and forth
21:07
Speaker 16: with these guys, being able to ask them the questions
21:10
Speaker 16: of okay, I'm doing this technique in this call, where
21:14
Speaker 16: my eyes got to be okay, my eyes are here.
21:16
Speaker 16: If that key does that, now, where do my eyes go?
21:18
Speaker 16: And just being able to truly have good dialogue conversation
21:22
Speaker 16: and have them give me the information back. I think
21:26
Speaker 16: that as you're learning something, you can only learn so
21:29
Speaker 16: much hearing it, and then you see it.
21:32
Speaker 4: You learn a little bit more, you get more retained.
21:34
Speaker 16: But when it truly sticks is when you're able to
21:37
Speaker 16: speak it back, like if I can speak it clearly
21:39
Speaker 16: out of my mind, it's clear in my head. And
21:41
Speaker 16: so that's always where you're trying to get to as
21:43
Speaker 16: you're teaching new techniques or new schemes, whatever that is.
21:47
Speaker 16: And so it's been great year two where you're not
21:50
Speaker 16: starting from the ground floor in terms of hey, this
21:52
Speaker 16: is what this means, this is what this is. But
21:55
Speaker 16: now we get a truly coach. This is how it's
21:57
Speaker 16: supposed to look. This is the progression of the play.
22:01
Speaker 16: Not that that wasn't being done last year, but now
22:03
Speaker 16: you just get to spend more time detailing everything out,
22:06
Speaker 16: and I think that's allowed these guys to truly grow,
22:10
Speaker 16: uh and deepen their understanding not just of their job descriptions,
22:12
Speaker 16: but of what's going on around them in the big
22:15
Speaker 16: picture of the scheme, how it all ties together.
22:18
Speaker 7: You were part of probably one of the unique NFL
22:20
Speaker 7: experiences with Travis hunt are playing on both sides of
22:22
Speaker 7: the football. When you get to the offseason, kind of
22:24
Speaker 7: take a look back at that. What were your takeaways
22:26
Speaker 7: at least from the first season.
22:27
Speaker 9: Of him playing.
22:28
Speaker 16: Yeah, it takes a different person to be able to
22:31
Speaker 16: do it, And for him to be able to as
22:35
Speaker 16: a rookie step in and bank quality reps on both
22:39
Speaker 16: sides of the ball and give us winning reps on
22:43
Speaker 16: both sides of the ball, that's very unique as like that.
22:46
Speaker 16: Obviously that doesn't happen every day, and so I was
22:50
Speaker 16: truly impressed and still am impressed just with his mentality
22:53
Speaker 16: that he attacks every day with to allow himself to
22:56
Speaker 16: do that, because obviously physically that takes a huge toll on.
23:00
Speaker 4: You, and you have to be a very special athlete
23:02
Speaker 4: to physically be.
23:02
Speaker 16: Able to do all the job descriptions, but then mentally
23:05
Speaker 16: emotionally like, it's it's hard, it's different, and there's a
23:10
Speaker 16: reason why it hasn't been done. And so for him
23:14
Speaker 16: to be able to attack it every single day with
23:17
Speaker 16: the right mindset, with the right mentality, and over the
23:20
Speaker 16: course of the year, truly grow on both sides of
23:22
Speaker 16: the ball as that just to me, the results speak
23:28
Speaker 16: to who he is as a person and who he
23:29
Speaker 16: is as a competitor. And so I'm excited because now,
23:32
Speaker 16: just like everybody else, year two of the same system
23:35
Speaker 16: or for him, systems, because he gets to learn both
23:37
Speaker 16: the offensive and defensive system. I know that he attacked
23:42
Speaker 16: the weight room like a maniac just over the course
23:45
Speaker 16: of his rehab, and that's been great to see.
23:47
Speaker 4: You can see him. He looks different, his body's grown,
23:51
Speaker 4: it's developed.
23:52
Speaker 16: So that's gonna pay huge dividends for him when he
23:54
Speaker 16: gets rolling here in the fall. So he's doing everything
23:58
Speaker 16: the right way and he's going to continue to do things.
24:01
Speaker 16: He's going to continue to have success, and he's just
24:04
Speaker 16: he's got to continue to stay true to that process and.
24:07
Speaker 4: He's done a great job.
24:08
Speaker 16: So it's been a lot of fun to see it,
24:11
Speaker 16: to see it play out, and I'm excited to see
24:14
Speaker 16: what year two looks like.
24:15
Speaker 7: Outside perspective, I'd say the DVS safeties and cornerback is
24:18
Speaker 7: probably one of the most competitive groups. Tons of talent
24:21
Speaker 7: there in training camp. Is that exciting as a coach?
24:23
Speaker 7: You know, you have multiple players maybe could be starters
24:26
Speaker 7: and kind of seeing how that plays out.
24:28
Speaker 16: Oh yeah, you can't replace competition like competition bring brings,
24:32
Speaker 16: brings the best out of everybody, myself included. And so
24:37
Speaker 16: the fact that we have a lot of younger guys
24:39
Speaker 16: and older guys, but we have a lot of guys
24:42
Speaker 16: that are growing, that are developing, that physically have the
24:44
Speaker 16: tools to be able to.
24:45
Speaker 4: Play in multiple roles within our defense.
24:48
Speaker 16: That's invaluable for us and that'll pay dividends. Like all
24:53
Speaker 16: the rest that we've banked this spring, great become training
24:58
Speaker 16: camp when we get back after this little break, the
25:01
Speaker 16: you know, the challenge is just gonna be starting where
25:04
Speaker 16: we picked off with the urgency of.
25:08
Speaker 4: Building the consistency.
25:09
Speaker 16: Of the confidence that come from banking winning reps.
25:13
Speaker 4: You know we talk about all the time.
25:15
Speaker 16: Uh, you know, confidence isn't rah rah, I hope or
25:19
Speaker 16: I'm I'm gonna speak it into hissistence no. Real confidence
25:23
Speaker 16: is repeated reps of the result being what you want
25:26
Speaker 16: it to be.
25:27
Speaker 4: So how do you gain confidence. You gained confidence by banking.
25:30
Speaker 16: Winning reps over the course of the spring, and then
25:33
Speaker 16: over the course of training camp, and then over the
25:34
Speaker 16: course of preseason, and then over the course of the season.
25:38
Speaker 16: And if we can continue to stay on that track
25:40
Speaker 16: of just attacking every single day like it's the only
25:42
Speaker 16: day that matters, the season will take care of itself.
25:45
Speaker 16: The results to take care of itself.
25:48
Speaker 6: How much.
25:51
Speaker 16: I can't wait. That's that's real football. That's real football.
25:55
Speaker 16: Like everything in the spring is great. There's a lot
25:57
Speaker 16: of really good things from the spring, but football is
26:00
Speaker 16: playing with pads on, and so when you get pads on,
26:04
Speaker 16: that's when it happens.
26:07
Speaker 4: I appreciate you guys.
26:12
Speaker 12: Uh yeah, for me for one, it obviously ups the
26:16
Speaker 12: amount of time we have in the room. But they've
26:18
Speaker 12: been really good. Uh, they're smart guys, they care themselves well. Uh,
26:22
Speaker 12: they take coaching very well, and they're good athletes. So
26:24
Speaker 12: obviously they have strengths in different phases. But they can
26:28
Speaker 12: do both, all right. They contributed both, So super excited
26:31
Speaker 12: to have them. You know, it's gonna make our team better.
26:35
Speaker 7: Change the room a little bit and allowance.
26:38
Speaker 2: Ar uh.
26:40
Speaker 12: You know, obviously with Nate, you know, he's a little
26:43
Speaker 12: bit more of the hy h tight end, so it
26:46
Speaker 12: kind of maybe frees him up when we're getting you know,
26:48
Speaker 12: toll personnel. But just having those two guys being able
26:50
Speaker 12: to do more, you twelve thirteen stuff hopefully, you know,
26:53
Speaker 12: we'll see can really just kind of let him do
26:57
Speaker 12: what he does well. So and again, you know strange,
27:00
Speaker 12: you know, can still do both. You know, he still
27:01
Speaker 12: does all the same thing he does. But obviously when
27:04
Speaker 12: you add talent, add more threats, and obviously in the
27:07
Speaker 12: different phase that they contribute to it, it just helps everybody.
27:11
Speaker 7: When you hear them talk about you know, twelve years
27:13
Speaker 7: and I feel like Liam talks about.
27:14
Speaker 2: It all were talking to Yeah, I love it.
27:16
Speaker 7: It has to be exciting for me to hear that.
27:18
Speaker 12: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, kind of having that ability in the
27:21
Speaker 12: off time have the more sense of more exit you Yeah,
27:24
Speaker 12: I mean, anytime you get more tight ends on the field,
27:27
Speaker 12: you love it, you know. But yeah, you know, like
27:30
Speaker 12: I said, it's not just because it's a fat or
27:32
Speaker 12: anything like that. It's because it's gonna help our team
27:34
Speaker 12: win our offense, you know, score points. So yeah, definitely
27:37
Speaker 12: excited for it.
27:38
Speaker 2: For sure.
27:38
Speaker 1: We haven't been able to see need as much on
27:40
Speaker 1: the feed this portion of the off season. But what
27:43
Speaker 1: have your impressions been ANDed him since kind of getting
27:45
Speaker 1: him in your room?
27:46
Speaker 2: For sure?
27:47
Speaker 12: Yeah, Unfortunately, like I said, you haven't seen him much.
27:49
Speaker 12: But I think he's what we want him to be. Honestly,
27:53
Speaker 12: he can, like I said, he's he's also good in
27:55
Speaker 12: the passing game, so once we get going, once you
27:58
Speaker 12: get the pads on, it'll be good to see him
28:00
Speaker 12: out there competing in both phases.
28:01
Speaker 4: So yeah, he's good.
28:05
Speaker 1: Anything surprised you about him that made you didn't expect
28:08
Speaker 1: from everything.
28:09
Speaker 12: Leading into the trip, I think honestly, I think he
28:11
Speaker 12: moves around pretty well, gets down the field well, you know,
28:14
Speaker 12: like I said, they didn't move use him too much
28:16
Speaker 12: back in text A and M. But like said, I'm
28:18
Speaker 12: very pleased with what he can do on the field.
28:20
Speaker 1: Absolutely, as far as his playbook goes, How have you
28:23
Speaker 1: seen that kind of above for a second year with
28:25
Speaker 1: Coachidinsky and Cohen kind of being able to really work
28:29
Speaker 1: on what they wanted to look like.
28:30
Speaker 12: Yeah, absolutely, and it just opens it up for them
28:32
Speaker 12: to call whatever they want. Really and just for us,
28:36
Speaker 12: especially as tight ends if we do want to get
28:37
Speaker 12: more in the twelve thirteen personnel stuff, being able to
28:40
Speaker 12: be flexible, lineup as a receiver, as a tight end
28:44
Speaker 12: in the back of whatever they need. Honestly, So just
28:46
Speaker 12: the more we can do, the more.
28:48
Speaker 2: They can call.
28:52
Speaker 7: I feel like something similar happening this year when people
28:54
Speaker 7: don't know a name right, so they're not sure wants
28:56
Speaker 7: to expect You feel that same way the way I mean,
29:00
Speaker 7: you're like it takes some time to develop or do
29:02
Speaker 7: you feel like you are kind of learning how maybe.
29:04
Speaker 14: More I feel you about Yeah, well, I mean you
29:08
Speaker 14: know you utilize the people.
29:10
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:11
Speaker 12: I mean obviously you draft them for what they do
29:13
Speaker 12: well and how it helps our offense and how they
29:16
Speaker 12: fit in our offense.
29:17
Speaker 7: Uh.
29:17
Speaker 12: But yeah, like I said, you know, sometimes they get
29:19
Speaker 12: out there and you start you you know, you see
29:20
Speaker 12: move around, you know, uh in individual perier stuff like that. Uh,
29:24
Speaker 12: and that's kind of where it's like, oh, okay, you know,
29:26
Speaker 12: maybe he can do a bit more, uh or you know,
29:28
Speaker 12: whatever it is if it goes the other way with it.
29:30
Speaker 12: So yeah, you know, it's it's always a little bit
29:32
Speaker 12: different when they get here. How quickly they can you know,
29:36
Speaker 12: learn the playbook and not just you know, run lines
29:39
Speaker 12: on the page, but you know, kind of make it
29:41
Speaker 12: their own.
29:42
Speaker 4: Uh.
29:42
Speaker 12: So it's just how quickly we can get them going
29:43
Speaker 12: with that phase. I think it's you know, it's been
29:45
Speaker 12: a pleasant prize for sure.
29:47
Speaker 7: Have you seen Brenton kind I mean he's now getting.
29:50
Speaker 2: To be the veteran of the group, Yeah, for sure.
29:52
Speaker 4: Yeah.
29:52
Speaker 2: Have seen his progression for business career.
29:55
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean yea, like uh, Strange wants to be
29:58
Speaker 12: the best, you know, obviously he's not afraid of it. Uh,
30:01
Speaker 12: he wants to be called up, you know when the
30:03
Speaker 12: games online. So for him to see that, you know,
30:07
Speaker 12: to see the hunger he's got, and really just being
30:10
Speaker 12: able to focus on the things that he needs to
30:11
Speaker 12: improve on, because again, everybody's got a bunch of stuff
30:14
Speaker 12: that we need to improve on, you know, individually and
30:16
Speaker 12: as a room. But uh, but yeah, he approaches it
30:18
Speaker 12: the right way. You know, He's always a pro helps
30:21
Speaker 12: guys out when he needs to, and you know, just
30:23
Speaker 12: to see him try to work out all the kinks,
30:25
Speaker 12: all the things that he's improved on is really exciting, and.
30:30
Speaker 9: He honestly contracts whatever.
30:32
Speaker 7: Now you're saying, but how important is he?
30:36
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean very very important obviously, you know when
30:39
Speaker 12: it comes to contracts and stuff. You know, obviously that's
30:42
Speaker 12: you know, not my department. But would love to have
30:44
Speaker 12: him here forever, you know.
30:46
Speaker 15: So how do you keep a guy like well for
30:48
Speaker 15: a little gage? You know, obviously last year comes in
30:51
Speaker 15: as a starter, kind of takes a back seat to
30:54
Speaker 15: cold wait in the years. Then he comes back and
30:56
Speaker 15: you know he's playing guard way tackle. Shoot, how do
30:59
Speaker 15: you keep him short of focus and engage with this
31:02
Speaker 15: team with all the movie?
31:04
Speaker 17: Well, hats off to that kid. I don't have to
31:06
Speaker 17: do that. That kid's bought in. He's a Jaguar through
31:10
Speaker 17: and through, and he's the type of.
31:11
Speaker 6: Guy didn't matter. He was a guy in that.
31:14
Speaker 17: Room, but he was a you know, he knew it
31:15
Speaker 17: was a WEE before me kind of a deal and
31:18
Speaker 17: it didn't matter.
31:18
Speaker 6: You know, I could say I could go to Walker a.
31:20
Speaker 17: Little right now, say man, you can go play right guard,
31:22
Speaker 17: right tackle?
31:23
Speaker 6: What got your coach? And that?
31:25
Speaker 17: And that that says something to it because there's other
31:27
Speaker 17: guys you go say that to some of these guys that.
31:29
Speaker 6: Are like I'm doing what say that again, coach, No,
31:32
Speaker 6: not this guy.
31:33
Speaker 17: You know, he's the type of guy it'll go do
31:34
Speaker 17: it and and then my hat's off to him.
31:36
Speaker 6: He's done a great job, you know, staying locked in.
31:39
Speaker 15: How special is that for him to be able to
31:42
Speaker 15: transition to guard almost so seamlessly. I mean it's not
31:45
Speaker 15: as though he's complaining in all his life he's mostly
31:48
Speaker 15: tackled to him, How how how ut or how special.
31:52
Speaker 6: Is that remembered able to do that?
31:53
Speaker 17: Well, that goes back to the flexibility of the room.
31:55
Speaker 17: You know, you know that that only helps us as coaches,
31:58
Speaker 17: but it helps the room because you know we you know,
32:00
Speaker 17: as you know on game day year, you're gonna get
32:02
Speaker 17: a limited amount of guys, but you got guys that
32:04
Speaker 17: can play three different positions. You're like, oh wow, I
32:06
Speaker 17: mean I've been in situations or we're sitting there like, man,
32:09
Speaker 17: if his tackle goes down, we're going to put a
32:10
Speaker 17: tight end in there. You know, those are the situations
32:13
Speaker 17: you just do not want to deal with, which I
32:14
Speaker 17: haven't had to deal with here because of the flexibility
32:17
Speaker 17: of that room. What have you seen from I mean, yeah,
32:22
Speaker 17: uh e man's a guy that's locked in. He is
32:25
Speaker 17: asking all the right questions. He he you know, he's
32:28
Speaker 17: from his time that from the the time he's walked
32:31
Speaker 17: in the door to now is an unbelievable growth.
32:34
Speaker 6: He really has.
32:35
Speaker 17: And and that's something that we expect the next step
32:37
Speaker 17: when once we get the training camp and he's the
32:40
Speaker 17: type of guy he sees the game and he wants
32:43
Speaker 17: to know the why why Why why are we stepping
32:47
Speaker 17: like this?
32:47
Speaker 6: Why are we blocking like this?
32:49
Speaker 5: And that?
32:49
Speaker 6: And you know, and that's a great thing.
32:51
Speaker 17: You know, it's a guy who's gonna learn not just
32:52
Speaker 17: to play, but he's gonna learn the concept. And I
32:55
Speaker 17: think that's big. You know, that's that's great for his development.
33:00
Speaker 18: And consistency and just keeping that standard going throughout the
33:03
Speaker 18: entire time.
33:04
Speaker 11: Earlier, you mentioned to drop off from the middle portion
33:06
Speaker 11: of the season.
33:07
Speaker 9: What did you attribute that too?
33:09
Speaker 5: They How did you view that?
33:11
Speaker 17: Some of that was injuries, you know, and then then
33:13
Speaker 17: some of that I mean, he, I mean, hats off
33:15
Speaker 17: to the NFL.
33:16
Speaker 6: Man, there's some aliens out there.
33:17
Speaker 17: You know, we played against some good teams and they
33:19
Speaker 17: got some really good players, you know, and that's the deal.
33:22
Speaker 17: You know, we played some really good defenses, and you know,
33:25
Speaker 17: they you know, it's that's just the way it is,
33:27
Speaker 17: you know, And that's something they know. And we we
33:30
Speaker 17: brought it up to them, and they're ready for that
33:31
Speaker 17: next challenge to go compete against them once again for
33:34
Speaker 17: this year, because like, just like I talked about them,
33:36
Speaker 17: you know, I told them it's anybody's game. No, nobody
33:38
Speaker 17: gives a about what happened last year.
33:40
Speaker 7: You know.
33:41
Speaker 17: Only thing they care about, only thing they know about
33:42
Speaker 17: you is, hey, budd, you lost the playoffs to the
33:44
Speaker 17: Buffalo Bills. Appreciate appreciate Yeah, mean time, meantime, thank you, Yeah, yeah, time, yeah,
33:50
Speaker 17: thank you.
33:55
Speaker 7: Coaching, you get into the off season, take a look
33:58
Speaker 7: back and obviously what first year here. What were your
34:01
Speaker 7: immediate takeaways when you came back. I'm sure you say,
34:03
Speaker 7: to get the players back, what do you want to
34:05
Speaker 7: work with them.
34:06
Speaker 18: On right away?
34:09
Speaker 17: Well, breaking it down, we watched each guy, you know,
34:12
Speaker 17: and we do we like I think I've said this before,
34:15
Speaker 17: we do like a three better, three best. So we
34:17
Speaker 17: just take each guy and we'll actually say these are
34:20
Speaker 17: the things you do really well, and we need you
34:23
Speaker 17: to continue to do these things. Well, now, these are
34:25
Speaker 17: three things over here we'd like you to get better at.
34:28
Speaker 17: And then we'll take it a step farther. I'll ask them,
34:30
Speaker 17: I'll be like, what do you want to get better at?
34:33
Speaker 7: You know?
34:33
Speaker 6: And those are the things we have to emphasize, you know.
34:35
Speaker 17: And we started in phase one where it's just film
34:38
Speaker 17: and there's meetings, and then we take it to phase two.
34:40
Speaker 17: Then we take it to phase straight in the training camp.
34:42
Speaker 17: And it's our job as coaches. We've got this lesson
34:45
Speaker 17: plan laid out, and it's the idea of taking that
34:48
Speaker 17: lesson plan and applying it to our players in which
34:52
Speaker 17: they do get better. And if we're not doing the
34:54
Speaker 17: right steps and something's disconnect, then we got to find
34:57
Speaker 17: the reason why.
35:00
Speaker 7: I feel like I've talked a lot of players and
35:01
Speaker 7: a lot of what they appreciate about Liam and kind
35:04
Speaker 7: of coaches that as a whole is that they practice well,
35:06
Speaker 7: they play well, they can.
35:07
Speaker 6: Earn a spot right.
35:08
Speaker 7: It's not just those guys are left tackle no matter what. Yeah,
35:12
Speaker 7: not every teams like that. Within your position group, do
35:17
Speaker 7: you feel like that breaks a good competition on the
35:19
Speaker 7: line where at any role nobody see at any spot.
35:22
Speaker 17: Yeah, And that's the funny thing about it. These guys
35:24
Speaker 17: have seen it. I mean they've seen guys get hurt.
35:26
Speaker 17: You know, we watched it last year. I mean Pat
35:29
Speaker 17: McCarey gets hurt at right guard and Truman was in
35:31
Speaker 17: there most of the training camp and until we went
35:33
Speaker 17: down to Miami, and I mean Pat felt it. You know,
35:37
Speaker 17: you know, he's coming back from injury. He's like, I
35:38
Speaker 17: gotta go, I gotta go, man, I mean Truman I
35:40
Speaker 17: was like, yeah, I understand when you gotta get you
35:42
Speaker 17: healthy first, you know. And so that's the thing. I mean,
35:45
Speaker 17: these guys see that, and you know they don't. They
35:47
Speaker 17: ain't gonna hang out and muscle beach no more. They
35:49
Speaker 17: want to get healthy and get out there and compete
35:50
Speaker 17: for their jobs.
35:52
Speaker 15: Is that something you.
35:54
Speaker 7: Was raced obviously with young guys always coming in to
35:57
Speaker 7: kind of like that at this time of year training camp.
36:01
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah. And that's the thing. I mean, that's
36:03
Speaker 6: our job.
36:03
Speaker 17: I mean, these older guys know what our job is, coaches,
36:07
Speaker 17: is to make you the best player we can.
36:09
Speaker 6: But it's also the front office's job to.
36:12
Speaker 17: Find the player that's gonna push you out just like
36:14
Speaker 17: him and I'll share experiences with him. I'm telling them stories,
36:17
Speaker 17: you know, from when I was a Steelers we had
36:19
Speaker 17: an offensive line and there Ramon Foster guard and he
36:23
Speaker 17: had a target on his back from day one. We
36:25
Speaker 17: need to replace this guy. Well I'm sitting there seven
36:28
Speaker 17: years later and the guy is still the starting left guard.
36:30
Speaker 6: You know.
36:31
Speaker 17: So just cause you say you're gonna replace somebody doesn't
36:33
Speaker 17: mean it's gonna happen. It's up to that guy to
36:35
Speaker 17: keep his spot.
36:37
Speaker 8: Is very I make fun of him a little bit,
36:39
Speaker 8: and I just say, you're like a quasi offensive line guy,
36:42
Speaker 8: like you really want to be an offensive line guy.
36:44
Speaker 5: Because he cares about the run game too. I don't
36:46
Speaker 5: think you see that all the time.
36:47
Speaker 8: Listen, I've been a couple other places now with some
36:50
Speaker 8: other coordinators, and I'm gonna be honest with you, Like
36:53
Speaker 8: William has always been about the run game, and I
36:55
Speaker 8: you know, whether it's from his playing days, whether it's
36:58
Speaker 8: his father instilling out in him, he understands how important
37:01
Speaker 8: a run game is to him being a quarterback himself,
37:04
Speaker 8: and it takes the pressure off of Trevor, you know,
37:06
Speaker 8: having a great run game. But yeah, he he not
37:09
Speaker 8: only understands the run game and who's supposed to do
37:11
Speaker 8: well and how to scheme up and game plan.
37:14
Speaker 5: But you know, he knows how to call it in
37:15
Speaker 5: the right moment.
37:16
Speaker 8: He knows how to call it at the right time,
37:17
Speaker 8: the right moment, in the right scheme. Yeah, that's yeah, exactly,
37:23
Speaker 8: or he'll get fired up, you know, make.
37:25
Speaker 18: Chris Rodriguez is like superpowers being efficient, right, yeah, what's
37:29
Speaker 18: what's where student's.
37:31
Speaker 8: I'm really you know, I said earlier about you know,
37:35
Speaker 8: old line front of the running backs, but this.
37:37
Speaker 5: Whole spring, is, whole offseason.
37:39
Speaker 8: I'm really impressed at you know, Chad obviously is on
37:41
Speaker 8: top of those guys all the time, but really was
37:43
Speaker 8: pressing his landmarks, you know that the defensive line. You know,
37:47
Speaker 8: you're trying to teach me the intent of every run play,
37:50
Speaker 8: where it's supposed to hit, how the back is supposed
37:52
Speaker 8: to read it. I'm really happy with him not being
37:55
Speaker 8: really a freelance back and listen, some of these backs
37:58
Speaker 8: in the NFL have a little bit of freedom. Hey,
38:00
Speaker 8: those guys are really unbelievable. But he's really efficient, he's detailed,
38:04
Speaker 8: he presses in landmarks, he makes his reads really really happy.
38:07
Speaker 5: With where he's at right now. But there's the other
38:10
Speaker 5: side of it.
38:10
Speaker 8: Now that we lost a thousand yard back, he's going
38:12
Speaker 8: to step his game up, which you know, I've seen
38:14
Speaker 8: a little bit of that from game tape to practice.
38:17
Speaker 8: And then with the screen game that Liam wants the
38:20
Speaker 8: screen game to.
38:20
Speaker 5: Get going again. And then the blitz pickup stuff. Blitz
38:23
Speaker 5: pickup stuff is his own anxencity.
38:25
Speaker 8: You get better at that is you get older and
38:27
Speaker 8: you understand defenses and the blitz packages, the unique blitz packages.
38:31
Speaker 8: He'll get better at that stuff. And then he has
38:33
Speaker 8: to just make sure that time and all the screens
38:35
Speaker 8: is really good. Out of the Beckers, what's to Chad.
38:42
Speaker 5: We have a good relationship Chad. Chad's awesome.
38:45
Speaker 8: We we hang out a little bit outside of the
38:47
Speaker 8: place and and we have a little bit of fun
38:49
Speaker 8: relationship here. So I really I really respect him him
38:53
Speaker 8: and Rixby and x NFL players.
38:55
Speaker 5: And anytime I have a question about something.
38:57
Speaker 8: Whether I'm getting too far outside, whether it's just paper talk,
39:01
Speaker 8: or hey, is this real? Like you play the game
39:04
Speaker 8: like they'll they'll remind me, you know, hey, just you know,
39:07
Speaker 8: be real about this and that, whether that's you know,
39:09
Speaker 8: realistic to expect the guy to do that.
39:11
Speaker 5: They'll they'll rill me back.
39:12
Speaker 1: Into some ext you see the door of an opinion
39:16
Speaker 1: that being a lot nearer than that, Like.
39:21
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
39:21
Speaker 15: Guys get along really really well, and that gels with.
39:25
Speaker 2: The rest of the run.
39:26
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think so, I think, yeah, we're naturally going
39:29
Speaker 8: his room.
39:30
Speaker 6: We have a few laughs.
39:30
Speaker 8: I think you got to keep it light every now
39:32
Speaker 8: and then because it gets you know, the season gets long,
39:35
Speaker 8: you grind it out. But yeah, they connected with him early,
39:37
Speaker 8: and he's just an easy guy to get along with,
39:39
Speaker 8: the easy guy to get to know.
39:41
Speaker 19: And like I said, we've found grab some dinner and
39:43
Speaker 19: some you know, a couple of drinks here and there,
39:45
Speaker 19: and like, really good dude, that's an important issues. Absolutely
39:50
Speaker 19: got it, absolutely And we talked about that earlier and listen,
39:54
Speaker 19: you know, and the relationship between who line and and
39:57
Speaker 19: and the run game and coordinating and thing running backs
40:00
Speaker 19: being detailed and pressing that landmarks and all that stuff.
40:04
Speaker 5: Like he's really hard on these.
40:06
Speaker 8: Guys and he's creative with those guys, but at the
40:08
Speaker 8: same time, he holds the McConell.
40:09
Speaker 5: He knows what it's supposed to look with so much better.
40:17
Speaker 7: One year of experience, sort of lating the game coming in.
40:20
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think he could, you know, carry the torch here,
40:24
Speaker 8: you know, but you know as far as number one,
40:27
Speaker 8: who knows. I mean you look at Tampa, we used
40:30
Speaker 8: all three of those dudes. But I could say just
40:33
Speaker 8: from Tampa watching Bucky or watching Tuck from year when
40:36
Speaker 8: I was at Tampa to the second year David Wold
40:38
Speaker 8: and I expect the same thing on two just a
40:40
Speaker 8: elevator game even more so.
40:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a great of you sing from both of
40:44
Speaker 1: them over the past year.
40:46
Speaker 9: A lot a lot.
40:49
Speaker 18: In terms of just like not just on the field,
40:53
Speaker 18: obviously the improving on the field, but it's just really
40:56
Speaker 18: off the field stuff that I'm more impressed with, just
40:59
Speaker 18: a maturity level of just understanding what it's taken to
41:01
Speaker 18: be a pro.
41:03
Speaker 9: Just amount of the stuff that they're studying now, you know.
41:05
Speaker 18: And then it's even the off season, how they take
41:08
Speaker 18: care of their body, the questions that I can just
41:11
Speaker 18: tell about the questions that they're asking. They're just trying
41:14
Speaker 18: to figure out more of the overall concept instead of
41:16
Speaker 18: not just what they're supposed to do.
41:18
Speaker 9: So I'm really proud of those guys.
41:20
Speaker 18: We have a great room and now we're just trying
41:23
Speaker 18: to do better than we did last year.
41:28
Speaker 9: He's pretty he's pretty good. I'm excited.
41:30
Speaker 18: Obviously, you guys cauldn't see him out there, but for
41:33
Speaker 18: a bigger guy, he's like.
41:34
Speaker 9: He's got great beat.
41:36
Speaker 18: I think that sometimes we can't get the sense that
41:40
Speaker 18: just because he's bigger, that he's just like straight.
41:42
Speaker 9: Lined guys, just gonna put his hand down run everybody where.
41:44
Speaker 20: It's very nifty and the old you can make guys miss,
41:48
Speaker 20: you know what I mean, can he has some long
41:49
Speaker 20: run So I'm really excited to work with them and
41:54
Speaker 20: just then all have that versatility where we can have
41:56
Speaker 20: a bigger guy, you know, knock.
41:58
Speaker 9: Some people back, but also like and great yards too.
42:01
Speaker 9: So he's efficient A good way to describe him. He's
42:03
Speaker 9: very efficient.
42:03
Speaker 18: Yeah, he's very efficient, and uh he's he can break tackles,
42:08
Speaker 18: you know, make guys miss a little bit, and I'm
42:10
Speaker 18: and then make miss not the sense of he's just
42:12
Speaker 18: kind of completely just Barry Sanders the guy and just
42:15
Speaker 18: completely joke him, but like enough just to make small
42:18
Speaker 18: movements where you know he's gonna run you over a
42:20
Speaker 18: few times, just the way you know, to decorate and
42:21
Speaker 18: trying to tackle him. He's gonna side stick and get
42:24
Speaker 18: more yards so and he's just hard to bring down
42:26
Speaker 18: because he's so big.
42:27
Speaker 9: So he has all he brings all that to the team.
42:29
Speaker 9: So we're great to have him.
42:32
Speaker 7: Do you have any changes in that room obviously off traveling.
42:38
Speaker 9: That as a coach?
42:39
Speaker 7: Is that a fun challenge for you to have guye.
42:45
Speaker 18: Oh, that's that's the best part now, like him leaving,
42:48
Speaker 18: like I missed him to depth.
42:50
Speaker 9: I mean just the amount of time I spent with him,
42:52
Speaker 9: his growth and like what we're able to do for him.
42:55
Speaker 18: And you know he's able to get life changing money
42:58
Speaker 18: and opportunity like there's been I'm so proud of that.
43:01
Speaker 18: But like I told him too, we don't we don't
43:04
Speaker 18: do better than you, Like that's our goal, Like I
43:07
Speaker 18: told him that, Like we're gonna put try to put
43:09
Speaker 18: a better numbers in you have more success, like outrush you.
43:13
Speaker 9: That's just how we are at We're all competitive. But
43:15
Speaker 9: like that's the fun part of like having a new.
43:17
Speaker 18: Group, Like oh yeah, we're trying to crush you and
43:20
Speaker 18: we're trying to have people forget about you, like that's
43:22
Speaker 18: the best.
43:22
Speaker 6: Part is that process or that philosophy.
43:25
Speaker 11: We're going to do better on an individual basis or
43:28
Speaker 11: the aggregate is going to be better than everything.
43:30
Speaker 18: Everything, everything, everything that we do, we're gonna try to
43:33
Speaker 18: do better than you. So the team, you know, for
43:36
Speaker 18: the team obviously, have better rushing stash for the team,
43:40
Speaker 18: be better on the screen, game, score much more touchdowns
43:43
Speaker 18: and passing whatever, like, make more guys miss.
43:46
Speaker 9: That's our goal.
43:47
Speaker 6: He knows that.
43:48
Speaker 9: So now we're gonna get there. It's a tough challenge.
43:52
Speaker 18: I mean, you know, he put us some good numbers
43:53
Speaker 18: for us now it's very productive, which are very proud of. Like, yeah,
43:57
Speaker 18: you're not here now, so we're trying to we're trying
43:59
Speaker 18: to beat you.
44:00
Speaker 7: Brand Thomas Junior uh talk a couple of weeks ago.
44:03
Speaker 7: Feels like his energies, mentality is.
44:06
Speaker 18: A little bit different.
44:07
Speaker 7: How are you seeing him at least so far where
44:09
Speaker 7: you're compared to last year. Anything.
44:11
Speaker 21: He's healthy, that's the number one thing. He's healthy. He's
44:15
Speaker 21: ready to go. I'm excited. He's excited. Trevor is excited.
44:21
Speaker 21: You know, they're making plays on pushing the ball down
44:24
Speaker 21: the field and he's making the most of every opportunity. Uh,
44:28
Speaker 21: from a from a mental standpoint, a physical standpoint.
44:30
Speaker 5: We love where he's a when you get Jr.
44:34
Speaker 7: Kobe's mid season right and he's only get to learn
44:36
Speaker 7: so much as the season's going along. But having about
44:40
Speaker 7: very smart to pick him up. Excited to sets you after.
44:44
Speaker 21: I am because he is He's a he's a VET,
44:49
Speaker 21: he's a leader, and I think all of our guys
44:52
Speaker 21: have benefited by.
44:54
Speaker 2: Him being in that room.
44:56
Speaker 5: He says the tone.
44:58
Speaker 21: He's continued to build relationships with He to each and
45:00
Speaker 21: every one of those guys, especially BT the park.
45:05
Speaker 6: So I mean I'm excited as.
45:06
Speaker 21: Far as you know now you know moving forward, you know,
45:10
Speaker 21: spending more time those guys, get an opportunity to do
45:13
Speaker 21: things together and just continue to grow and mention the two.
45:17
Speaker 7: Is this the kind of thing you were expecting him
45:19
Speaker 7: to add of those splashing.
45:20
Speaker 21: Plane, Well, the goal is to every every opportunity, every
45:26
Speaker 21: day that we get an opportunity to come in here,
45:28
Speaker 21: just continue to improve. And that's that's been his mindset,
45:31
Speaker 21: you know, when you know every day there's something that
45:34
Speaker 21: we're focused on and wanna make some improvements. And I
45:38
Speaker 21: think he's had that approach since you know, coming back
45:42
Speaker 21: and being healthy, and I think he'll continue.
45:44
Speaker 2: To as we move forward.
45:46
Speaker 7: You're part of kind of an unique experiment with Travis
45:48
Speaker 7: Hunter playing on both sides of football. When you look back,
45:51
Speaker 7: I know you got engined how about Halfway Club? But
45:53
Speaker 7: what were your takeaways.
45:54
Speaker 6: From the first year of that?
45:55
Speaker 21: Kayle competitor, ball skills out of this world, a guy
46:05
Speaker 21: that truly loves football, and so being around people like that,
46:09
Speaker 21: you know they're gonna put everything they can into it.
46:12
Speaker 21: And you see that now as he works his way
46:16
Speaker 21: back with the rehab. You know he's pouring so much
46:19
Speaker 21: into it, going back to the activation room and even
46:25
Speaker 21: his rehab and coming out of the activation room to
46:27
Speaker 21: actually going out.
46:28
Speaker 6: In the field.
46:28
Speaker 21: He's just trying to make the most of every opportunity
46:31
Speaker 21: gets so he can be literally the best version of himself.
46:34
Speaker 7: So park of Washington really all fell last year and
46:37
Speaker 7: whatever role he was kind of putting in your mind,
46:39
Speaker 7: can you be a number one with Europe and you
46:41
Speaker 7: can play any role on.
46:42
Speaker 21: These I wouldn't put any limitations to Parker Washington. I
46:46
Speaker 21: think last year his mindset coming in was to just
46:51
Speaker 21: I just want to keep improving day by day and
46:54
Speaker 21: and and that's really all of our mindsets, because you know,
46:57
Speaker 21: whenever we feel like, you know, we've kind of made it,
47:00
Speaker 21: and and and feel like we can't grow as we
47:03
Speaker 21: continue in our journey, that's usually when something negative happens.
47:06
Speaker 21: But he's never had that approach. He always comes in
47:10
Speaker 21: and it's almost like he just wants to continue to
47:12
Speaker 21: just get better and evolve and put itself in a
47:16
Speaker 21: position where you know he's he sees somebody that you're
47:19
Speaker 21: gonna continue.
47:19
Speaker 2: To talk about it.
47:20
Speaker 9: I think this is the worst off season in Trouble's
47:23
Speaker 9: career where.
47:23
Speaker 21: The receivers that started in the end of one season,
47:26
Speaker 21: I'm protected to start calling into the next season. How
47:29
Speaker 21: beneficial can that familiarity in between him and.
47:32
Speaker 9: Out of those tasks mean?
47:34
Speaker 6: It can it?
47:35
Speaker 21: It can only help, you know, when you have that
47:37
Speaker 21: type chemistry and those guys put a lot into it,
47:40
Speaker 21: you know, the throwing that they do, the conversations that
47:45
Speaker 21: they have, it's only gonna help us be found at
47:48
Speaker 21: our chain of high level For.
47:50
Speaker 10: What do you think chemistry looks like between QB and receive.
47:54
Speaker 10: But we've per I think with Liam said earlier this year,
47:56
Speaker 10: he wants to be intentional about some of that chemistry
47:59
Speaker 10: with Brian and the travel.
48:00
Speaker 6: What does that look like a fast game place?
48:03
Speaker 21: Well, also, it's just everyone being on the same page
48:06
Speaker 21: from a timing standpoint, spacing standpoint, understanding. It's a feel
48:11
Speaker 21: as far as when you're getting certain looks, certain coverages,
48:14
Speaker 21: the anticipation knowing that, okay versus this particular look, I
48:19
Speaker 21: can anticipate him taking this maybe this angle, or using
48:23
Speaker 21: this technique to put itself in the best position to
48:25
Speaker 21: make a play.
48:26
Speaker 10: Is that what we saw the cold that year, where
48:29
Speaker 10: he's so consistent in the way he does things even
48:31
Speaker 10: though they hadn't been around each other.
48:33
Speaker 21: Well, you're Bill Maze. As far as when you when
48:36
Speaker 21: you maybe not being around each other, as far as
48:39
Speaker 21: initially coming in but then the time put into it
48:43
Speaker 21: once he got into the building, the conversations, all of
48:46
Speaker 21: those add up as far as being on the same page.
48:49
Speaker 5: What do you see. I know you've probably been asked,
48:51
Speaker 5: so sorry you kept in about Brian.
48:53
Speaker 4: Do you notice that you're different?
48:55
Speaker 10: Uh, we've heard some He just feels like there's a
48:58
Speaker 10: chess pumped out, a little bit of wars or confidence
49:00
Speaker 10: about him that back here.
49:02
Speaker 5: Well, he's healthy.
49:03
Speaker 4: He's healthy, and that helps.
49:04
Speaker 21: That helps with everything, you know, being healthy and just
49:07
Speaker 21: he has a great attitude coming in here and and
49:10
Speaker 21: similar to some of the some of our other guys,
49:12
Speaker 21: his approach has been, you know what, I'm coming in
49:14
Speaker 21: here and I want to I wanna get better in
49:16
Speaker 21: this particular, maybe this technique or that technique, or maybe
49:20
Speaker 21: learning the system. So he's doing everything he can to
49:23
Speaker 21: put himself in a position to be the best person
49:25
Speaker 21: of himself.
49:26
Speaker 2: How much does he change, you guess officially?
49:29
Speaker 21: You know, anytime you got a guy that's you need
49:31
Speaker 21: you can push the ball down the field and make
49:33
Speaker 21: big plays in the explosive player, I mean it helps everybody.
49:38
Speaker 15: Can you tell his lock chair and maybe any fag
49:43
Speaker 15: and he's quiet or in his mind a.
49:45
Speaker 21: Little well, I mean he's quiet as far as his demeanor,
49:52
Speaker 21: but once he generally steps out on the field, he's
49:55
Speaker 21: he's he's another person that's very loud in his play
49:58
Speaker 21: as far as he's explosive and he can make big plays.
50:02
Speaker 21: But I think going back to just him being healthy,
50:04
Speaker 21: I think that definitely makes