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Press Pass | Coen, Oluokun and Lawrence Discuss Start of Offseason Program · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Pretty cool. Players are in. It starts now.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: A little bit more.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Oh man, it's been it's been really fun for me
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  Speaker 1: personally to actually be around the guys right to.
• 0:16
  Speaker 3: Be doing a little bit of football. When you you know, you.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Take a job coming from a position of only doing football,
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  Speaker 1: and then you take a job in this position, you're
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: you're doing a little bit less of that. And so
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  Speaker 1: today and really, uh, today for sure was a day
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  Speaker 1: where I was able to get into the coaches meetings
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  Speaker 1: with the players, hearing them communicate, us all communicating.
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  Speaker 3: At a high level.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what really matters, is when getting the players
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  Speaker 1: get in and that's been a blast.
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  Speaker 2: How would you want to see this sort of playout
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  Speaker 2: over weeks?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think right now we're trying to establish really two
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  Speaker 1: things are the fundamentals and techniques of the schemes, right,
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  Speaker 1: we're not truly diving into this scheme at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: funundamentals and technique, and then as well, our culture, the
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  Speaker 1: way that we're going to play the game, our style
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  Speaker 1: of play. Those are the two things that would like
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get out of this, especially in
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  Speaker 1: phase one where you're not on the grass with the
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  Speaker 1: players we're really installing our basic core fundamentals and principles
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  Speaker 1: and techniques, and then also the culture, our style of play,
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  Speaker 1: and our commitments as well.
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  Speaker 5: You guys, you guys the option entrevon Are there any
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  Speaker 5: plans with that on the wid right now.
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  Speaker 2: To pick up the options?
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  Speaker 1: No plans right now in terms of we're having those
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  Speaker 1: conversations getting used to the player, right, We just got
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  Speaker 1: to get used to them a little bit and get
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  Speaker 1: to know them a little bit. We're excited about them
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  Speaker 1: guy that we we see we can do some things with,
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  Speaker 1: Like we do feel excited about some of his versatility
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  Speaker 1: and experience. So some of those conversations they'll be open
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  Speaker 1: and honest and communicated.
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  Speaker 2: About this franchise you sent have.
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  Speaker 5: Can you get that now?
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  Speaker 1: That's a great We actually had that conversation today with
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  Speaker 1: the players. Was I know that this is not a
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  Speaker 1: physical time. It can't be and it isn't. But the
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  Speaker 1: establishing of the mindset, the way that we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do things the way that we wanted. The meetings, like
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  Speaker 1: Coach Camp brought up today, our meetings should be tough, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like we're learning new information. It's all very new for
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  Speaker 1: everybody that's hard. It's hard to do for a coach,
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  Speaker 1: for a player, it's hard to learn. So when you
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  Speaker 1: do hard things and you come out on the other end,
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  Speaker 1: usually you say, well I got tougher from that. So
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  Speaker 1: we do believe that we can start to establish that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that was similar in Tampa last year. When
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  Speaker 1: we got to the off season program and got into it,
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  Speaker 1: you could start to see the toughness come out, and.
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  Speaker 3: The way that we broke the huddle, the way that.
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  Speaker 1: We communicated, the way that we actually ran off the ball.
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  Speaker 3: You could see some of that stuff come to life.
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  Speaker 5: You talked a little bit about the decision.
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  Speaker 4: I think what No.
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  Speaker 5: Top thirty is it's here that maybe a change in
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  Speaker 5: philosophy of that.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I can let James detail that a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more. It's more so just, hey, we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to keep everything that we're doing in house and you know,
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  Speaker 1: trusting we'll do some things possibly virtually and things like
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  Speaker 1: that with guys that we need to have another touch
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  Speaker 1: point with, but ultimately it's not something that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be interested in doing at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Through the draft process now as a head Coutch just.
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  Speaker 1: Pushing, Yeah, I mean, special teams matter, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for you have to look at the whole, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's starting anew for me in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways. Right where you're you've been used to
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  Speaker 1: evaluating offensive players, and then naturally, when you're evaluating offensive players,
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  Speaker 1: defensive players shine, right, and you start to see that.
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  Speaker 1: And then in recruiting and college you're recruiting defensive players
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  Speaker 1: as well. But the whole entirety, how they fit into
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  Speaker 1: the puzzle, the vision, what we're trying to establish, and
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  Speaker 1: how those players end up fit into those situations.
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  Speaker 3: It's different. It's just a different perspective.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to listen to the collaboration between personnel and
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  Speaker 1: coaching when it comes to some of these meetings. So
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  Speaker 1: it's been great to listen. I've been doing a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more listening than talking right now.
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  Speaker 2: You find it.
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  Speaker 6: Hard to strike a balance between marrying lining up in
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  Speaker 6: twenty twenty five, what's better for the franchise down the road, evaluate.
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  Speaker 2: A draft prospective.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think ultimately in this world that we're in,
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  Speaker 1: it's what have you done lately?
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  Speaker 7: Right?
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing in the now in order to
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  Speaker 1: show success in the show that we're going in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction. So ultimately, you know, we have ten picks.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to lean on some of those guys to
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  Speaker 1: play early on and ultimately we can't be.
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  Speaker 3: Afraid of that.
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  Speaker 1: Right We had three of them in Tampa last year
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  Speaker 1: play and have a lot of success for us. We
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  Speaker 1: can't be afraid of that moment and to play some
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  Speaker 1: young players.
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  Speaker 3: So the goal is to get better quicker, right.
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  Speaker 1: With having a vision to having long staying success, long
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  Speaker 1: sustained success, that's important to us. But at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're looking at winning right.
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  Speaker 5: Now, the culture supporting thing for right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the building, that's right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We had you know, a team meeting about rules and
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  Speaker 1: regulations introductions.
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  Speaker 3: We had a team meeting.
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  Speaker 1: As well about our style of play first and foremost,
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  Speaker 1: really before we dive into the culture, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: dive into the way that we're going to play out
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  Speaker 1: on the grass. We also had a culture meeting with
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  Speaker 1: the entire building which was really cool where it was
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  Speaker 1: all departments, everybody was involved and it was just a
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  Speaker 1: cool way of getting together, establishing the communication lines and
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  Speaker 1: how we want to do things and operate.
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  Speaker 3: So it is very important at this moment in time
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  Speaker 3: for us. Yeah, are you.
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  Speaker 8: Putting Trevor on any kind of a news growing schedule
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  Speaker 8: or anything like that for the spring.
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  Speaker 1: He's been working on it himself right now in terms
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  Speaker 1: of like monitoring that with the doctors and with Will
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  Speaker 1: and ferging those guys downstairs. We haven't had anything to
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  Speaker 1: do with it at the moment. As we lead in.
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  Speaker 1: We're optimistic that we'll get there, you know, in terms
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  Speaker 1: of where we need to go. He'll be on a
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  Speaker 1: pitch count for those things, in terms of the where
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  Speaker 1: he has to get to because he has little touch
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  Speaker 1: points he needs to reach before he can obviously get
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  Speaker 1: out onto the grass and do it full speed. Everything's
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. He feels really good right now, so excited
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 2: Time your friends strength and conditioning staff.
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  Speaker 4: I know with this Rosh's really not having.
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  Speaker 2: Her hands on the tool right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think it could be looked at it as a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: I think it could also look it's like a blank
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  Speaker 1: slate for these guys because there's no pre existing you know,
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  Speaker 1: just thoughts about anybody. It's just hey man, this is
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  Speaker 1: how we're doing it. These are the things that we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do while also gearing it towards at some point
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  Speaker 1: here individual development plans for each player. So as we go,
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  Speaker 1: we're setting the standards in the weight room, how we
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  Speaker 1: want to operate. Skills will lift this way, the big
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  Speaker 1: big skill here and the bigs, well, they all have
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  Speaker 1: different weights and things that they're doing, but the mode
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  Speaker 1: of operation, the standard, the communication will all be similar.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's actually great that they are starting
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  Speaker 1: from scratch and having those relationships be able to be fostered,
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  Speaker 1: and then as we grow get to know each other
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more, those IDPs will become a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more common.
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  Speaker 5: This portion of the off season is obviously evolu Terry,
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  Speaker 5: how would you evaluate participation right now if your ninety
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  Speaker 5: man roster?
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  Speaker 1: Very high, very high, Please, very pleased, Very appreciative of
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  Speaker 1: the guys for being here, taking the time, knowing that
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  Speaker 1: it is voluntary.
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  Speaker 3: But it's definitely setting a positive standard right now.
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  Speaker 1: The free agents kind of start to integrate themselves.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's big.
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  Speaker 1: We've signed ten, right and that's a large number of
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  Speaker 1: guys to be able to come in. We've got all
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  Speaker 1: the players faces downstairs in the lobby. As you walk
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  Speaker 1: in new and you know former players and really just
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, most players that do
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  Speaker 1: come in, it's like it is a little bit like
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  Speaker 1: being a freshman back in high school again, reintegrating.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, the.
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  Speaker 1: Goal is for these guys to be able to come in,
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  Speaker 1: work their tails off, earn respect throughout the way that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be able to, uh, you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of get through this program and planning. And they've been
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  Speaker 1: positive so far.
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  Speaker 2: Though this is a feeling process.
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  Speaker 9: You get to know guys, the guys getting to know
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  Speaker 9: you very.
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  Speaker 1: Much, so, you know, but before we can do anything,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to be able to show them at least
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  Speaker 1: we do. We care right, We care first, and we
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  Speaker 1: care about not only the success of the organization but
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  Speaker 1: also the development of the player. And when they know that, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're here to truly help see you become the best
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  Speaker 1: version of your self both on and off the field.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: Once we establish those lines start to have more intimate conversations,
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  Speaker 1: well that's usually when you feel them start to maybe
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  Speaker 1: let the guard down and say, Okay, hey, I'm open
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  Speaker 1: to hearing maybe a new way of learning or a
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  Speaker 1: different way of doing this, and vice versa for coaches
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 10: The o line. Do you are you satisfied with the
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  Speaker 10: free agents or are you still looking at that room
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  Speaker 10: a little bit more?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think from that standpoint, we're always looking.
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  Speaker 1: To add to the roster, whether it's through the draft,
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  Speaker 1: free agency, things like that. But I do believe we
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  Speaker 1: brought in some some players to come help compete in
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  Speaker 1: that room, a couple you know, obviously with Hainesy knowing
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  Speaker 1: the system and McCary playing a lot of football and
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  Speaker 1: guys coming in, Uh, it's only gonna help, right, help
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  Speaker 1: add competitiveness to the room, and also just some accountability
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  Speaker 1: to uh, knowing the system, that'll help everybody in that room.
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  Speaker 1: So it's cool both of our you know, both of
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  Speaker 1: our centers actually know a version of the system in
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  Speaker 1: different ways. But it's only going to help bringing those
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: guys in.
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  Speaker 2: To go back to it, I know you said.
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  Speaker 5: You guys are still evaluating with Devin, but why were
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  Speaker 5: you so confident in hacking up a fifth year options
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  Speaker 5: portrayed on at this point?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's just the type of guy getting to
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  Speaker 1: know them a little bit and knowing that, hey, this
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  Speaker 1: is something we we know we want to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of, right, we want to have this relationship and
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  Speaker 1: now once we get them into the building under our
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: roof getting to know each other a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: and creating those conversations.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was really what stood.
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  Speaker 11: Out I think last week or whatever it means, the.
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  Speaker 2: Power of touch in that study? Did gott intrigue when
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  Speaker 2: you first learned about that? Is that something you really
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  Speaker 2: want to incorporate here in the cultures established?
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  Speaker 3: That's right?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you just look at connection and nowadays connections
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  Speaker 1: so hard to actually create because so much of our
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: lives are you know, on the phone and just having
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  Speaker 1: interpersonal conversations. And also you know, just the old fist bump,
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: the high five that you know, chess bump, like just
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  Speaker 1: that helps bring people together. You look at every free
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  Speaker 1: throw a basketball player shoots and it's here, and so
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  Speaker 1: how do we continue to add that into Like as
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: a kid, when you were taught to celebrate, what did
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  Speaker 1: that look like? And that's what we're ultimately trying to
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  Speaker 1: get to is bringing the team together, bringing the coaches
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  Speaker 1: and staff together to do something that that ultimately we've
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  Speaker 1: never done before.
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  Speaker 9: So Money came out last week and it showed you
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  Speaker 9: going back home and being able to spend some time
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  Speaker 9: with your family.
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  Speaker 2: Just how much does that mean to you? Just being
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  Speaker 2: able to do that after you know a your dream.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that question. Yeah, that was really cool.
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  Speaker 1: It was It was when you've wanted something for so
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  Speaker 1: long and the people that helped raise you and that
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  Speaker 1: we're around that saw that from a young age and
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  Speaker 1: we're able to support you throughout those times and getting
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  Speaker 1: to that goal, Uh, to share those moms in that
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  Speaker 1: time that we don't usually get it was really special.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard when you move around in this profession or
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  Speaker 1: in any profession that we live in, it becomes hard
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  Speaker 1: to become closer with family.
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  Speaker 3: And that was a really special weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Coach.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of people like this time of year looking
• 12:18
  Speaker 6: for tennisies, right you guys don't have any yet.
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  Speaker 4: They want to go to the rams over the Bucks
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  Speaker 4: to pre baby.
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  Speaker 6: Camp and either what's the process been like for you
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  Speaker 6: to make this and create this as your own individual thing?
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  Speaker 1: That's a great one. You're always pulling, right, everybody's pulling
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  Speaker 1: from different places to ultimately make it ours right, And
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: we've got to watch those tapes of where we all
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: came from and Okay, find out what is the twenty
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  Speaker 1: five Jags, though, like, how does this fit us? If
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  Speaker 1: we may not have that answer right now. That's the
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  Speaker 1: kind of cool part is we're going to throw as
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  Speaker 1: much at these guys mentally in this offseason as much
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  Speaker 1: as we can handle, and probably more, much more.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, because it's not a physical.
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  Speaker 1: Time of the year, it's the time of the year
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  Speaker 1: we can stress the mentally ultimately throw that as much
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  Speaker 1: at them as we can from Minnesota, from Tampa, from
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  Speaker 1: LA from Green Bay, whatever it is, and see what
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  Speaker 1: we can handle. We're not going to know who we're
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  Speaker 1: truly going to be for a while, but it's more
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  Speaker 1: so testing to see how much they can handle and
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  Speaker 1: if maybe some of those concept schemes fundamentals fit our players.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question because that's something that we're constantly
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  Speaker 1: working through right now as the staff.
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  Speaker 5: You said on Sirius XM.
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  Speaker 10: In building Trevor into what you guys ultimately wanted to be,
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  Speaker 10: the footwork has to be something where you start kind
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  Speaker 10: of aground zero.
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  Speaker 5: Can you work on that now? Nobody's injury was to
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  Speaker 5: his shoulder as much as you can kind of illustrate.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe right, I mean, as we've gotten him now in
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  Speaker 1: the building. We are trying to create black and white
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  Speaker 1: lines when it comes to footwork in ways, so that
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  Speaker 1: understanding that the game is played in the gray.
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  Speaker 3: There's so much that occurs on a play.
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  Speaker 1: If you can have core fundamentals in footwork and that
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  Speaker 1: you believe in and that you trust in those times
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  Speaker 1: of crisis, you have something to actually fall back on
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  Speaker 1: and play with a quieted mind. And so this is
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  Speaker 1: a great opportunity now that he is a little limited
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  Speaker 1: from a throwing standpoint, that we can dive into the footwork.
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  Speaker 1: He can dive into it on his own time and
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  Speaker 1: really work at this thing.
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  Speaker 3: So he's committed to it.
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  Speaker 1: It's something that we feel strongly about that can help
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  Speaker 1: him continue to get better and ultimately on Sundays, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we hope that shows up.
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  Speaker 2: That's one from what you've seen with Trevor over the
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  Speaker 2: last few years on.
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  Speaker 11: Tape, just how much does he need to push to
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  Speaker 11: change that footwork.
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  Speaker 6: Or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: It's not really a change, just tweaking.
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  Speaker 1: He's extremely talented, and he's made some unbelievable plays and
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: critical moments and led some huge comebacks. He's played hurt,
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  Speaker 1: He's done so many good things now, it's just about, okay,
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  Speaker 1: how do we fine tune it and just tighten it
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit to get him in a place
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  Speaker 1: where he's comfortable to cut the ball loose on time
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  Speaker 1: and in rhythm, regardless of the circumstances. And that's really
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  Speaker 1: what it comes down to, being able to give him
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  Speaker 1: some balance around him so that he can feel like, man,
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  Speaker 1: not every play is on me, right, not every play
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  Speaker 1: I got, Every throw I have to make is going
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  Speaker 1: to have to be life for death man. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to create some balance for him so that he can
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  Speaker 1: just go play quieted with a you know, free of
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  Speaker 1: failure and just go let it rip.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Yeah, thanks guys, really bad.
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  Speaker 12: Fine excited a lot of good energy in the building,
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  Speaker 12: righty to all improve together and get the same rolling
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  Speaker 12: for sure. It's like I said earlier, it's exciting for real.
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  Speaker 12: They come in with their own energy kind of Yeah,
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  Speaker 12: new energy to the team. Obviously a little bit younger,
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  Speaker 12: but I feel like this resonates a little bit better
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  Speaker 12: in the room and everything right now. But just you know,
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  Speaker 12: the passion that they speak with every time they're speaking
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  Speaker 12: definitely rubs off on us the right way.
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  Speaker 4: And just take that into all of our workouts.
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  Speaker 12: Take that and you know, when we get on the
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  Speaker 12: field together, a lot of guys are all willing to improve
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  Speaker 12: and get better together as a team.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: What do you think the challenges for you guys this year?
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Just with all the new, with all the new, I.
• 16:31
  Speaker 12: Think that's a challenge every time you step into a
• 16:34
  Speaker 12: new system or new coordinators, new coaches. One just embracing coaching.
• 16:39
  Speaker 12: Two just trusting what they have in store, trusting their plan.
• 16:43
  Speaker 12: And then three just you know, understanding whatever the scheme
• 16:47
  Speaker 12: is or whatever the plans are, and playing you're still
• 16:49
  Speaker 12: your best football. I think that's always gonna be a
• 16:51
  Speaker 12: challenge when you got new teammates, new coaches and everything.
• 16:54
  Speaker 12: So just really embracing everything and trusting that everything's meant
• 16:57
  Speaker 12: for the better of the team.
• 16:59
  Speaker 10: Are there any coach you've previously had that you could
• 17:02
  Speaker 10: compare communications style, energy, coaching camp too?
• 17:06
  Speaker 12: I don't think so. I mean, he he in Northeastern
• 17:08
  Speaker 12: do I've ad to maybe in like college and stuff it.
• 17:11
  Speaker 12: You know, I don't think of coach though, but I
• 17:13
  Speaker 12: I've I've seen personality similar, but not you know, at
• 17:17
  Speaker 12: the coaching level. It's It's really cool though, Like I
• 17:20
  Speaker 12: love his energy that he brings in the passion that
• 17:21
  Speaker 12: he talks with.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: I feel like it's gonna be contagious for the defense.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: The follow up question is have.
• 17:26
  Speaker 10: You seen the Hard Knocks Club about ask what big
• 17:29
  Speaker 10: is a international language?
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: I have? I don't watch hard not so now it.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: Was on the internet. Family your apparently you in a
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: s in a speech to the entire team.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Really her too, I m'a have to go watch that
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: to night.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: There were the votor.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Boat or coach go and talk about its stiling this
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: culture and all of other stuff?
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Did was there a badly needed culture change here?
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: Did you guys badly be in culture here?
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: We didn't win last year?
• 17:51
  Speaker 12: So I think whatever changes that are coming are accepted
• 17:54
  Speaker 12: because obviously we didn't play up to the standard that
• 17:56
  Speaker 12: we needed. So whatever was going on, right, you know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 12: if it's if it's we can't really promise more wins.
• 18:02
  Speaker 12: But obviously we needed maybe a new way to attack
• 18:06
  Speaker 12: the season, a new way to attack the off seasons
• 18:08
  Speaker 12: and stuff. So I think everybody is very accepting of
• 18:10
  Speaker 12: everything new that's in store for us. You know that
• 18:13
  Speaker 12: that equates to more wins.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Where did you play. I'm sorry, right where do you play?
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Does a linement really matter?
• 18:21
  Speaker 11: Do you do?
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Is it better for you to have a zero or
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: a nose tackle? In some schemes they don't have that
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: way they have.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: I think it depends on the team that we're playing.
• 18:28
  Speaker 12: For real, I think I want my lineman to eat
• 18:31
  Speaker 12: more than than me, because if they're getting that, they're
• 18:34
  Speaker 12: disruptive giving off the ball. If I feel like that
• 18:36
  Speaker 12: we have a zero that can beat up their center,
• 18:38
  Speaker 12: he can disrupt every play, it's gonna make my job easier.
• 18:41
  Speaker 12: So at the end of the day, I feel like
• 18:43
  Speaker 12: what's best for them is gonna be the best for me.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Obviously, sometimes you want your guard.
• 18:48
  Speaker 12: If they have good guards, they get up to that
• 18:49
  Speaker 12: second level if we can maybe disrupt that. But at
• 18:51
  Speaker 12: the end of the day, it's still the line of
• 18:53
  Speaker 12: eating first. And I feel like, whatever long we got
• 18:56
  Speaker 12: linean doing everything, I feel like I'm good to go.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Coaching stuff before. Does it wear on you at.
• 19:03
  Speaker 12: Some point it's like another system like I've learned and it's.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: What trained for years.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, I can be real with you.
• 19:09
  Speaker 12: I think that that might be a something that's not
• 19:11
  Speaker 12: talked about A lot. But I think going through a
• 19:13
  Speaker 12: lot of coaches, a lot of systems, whether offensively or defensively,
• 19:16
  Speaker 12: can can take a toll. But you know, I think
• 19:19
  Speaker 12: if you go about it with the right mindset of
• 19:22
  Speaker 12: learning and understanding that it can make your game better,
• 19:25
  Speaker 12: accepting what they're trying to coach you on and stuff like.
• 19:28
  Speaker 12: After that, being in so many different schemes, you kind
• 19:30
  Speaker 12: of seen everything, so you know, these guys are gonna
• 19:33
  Speaker 12: push me, and I feel like it's coming at a
• 19:35
  Speaker 12: great time in my career. It's like get better or
• 19:37
  Speaker 12: you know, obviously better than what I had last year,
• 19:38
  Speaker 12: or you know, you don't know what's gonna happen after this,
• 19:41
  Speaker 12: So I'm taking every challenge on, you know, ready to
• 19:46
  Speaker 12: go attacking everything.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: But I'm I'm definitely very.
• 19:49
  Speaker 12: Excited to accept new coaching and and and new understandings
• 19:52
  Speaker 12: of defense.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: When did when did you kind of get to that realization?
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Is that something that you're kind of always known.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Or nah, I definitely didn't always know that. Yeah I
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: had to.
• 20:02
  Speaker 12: You know, I think if you're new in the league,
• 20:05
  Speaker 12: being in the same system gonna benefit you for for
• 20:07
  Speaker 12: for like, let's say that rookie contract because now you're
• 20:10
  Speaker 12: not you know, always second guess and stuff like everything's
• 20:12
  Speaker 12: kind of set in stone.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: You're just playing.
• 20:14
  Speaker 12: Football based off with the offense does instead of worrying
• 20:16
  Speaker 12: about what you do. I had a new coach my
• 20:19
  Speaker 12: last my last year in Atlanta, that was, you know,
• 20:22
  Speaker 12: learning something on the fly, and the contract year is
• 20:24
  Speaker 12: like get better or get out to me.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: That's kind of pressure I put on myself. Uh.
• 20:28
  Speaker 12: Fortunately I was able to play well and I came here,
• 20:30
  Speaker 12: had a new coach. You know, it was meat expectations
• 20:33
  Speaker 12: or they're gonna move on, you know, and then all
• 20:35
  Speaker 12: of a sudden you get a new coach. Now it's
• 20:37
  Speaker 12: like rockster, the expectation, rochter, raise your level of player.
• 20:41
  Speaker 12: You know, you know know what's gonna happen. So I
• 20:43
  Speaker 12: think it's always cool. Challenges that I feel like are
• 20:46
  Speaker 12: good for the growth of individually, but they they are
• 20:50
  Speaker 12: hard in the moment to like maybe unlearned and relearn.
• 20:54
  Speaker 12: But you know, I'm a professional football players my job,
• 20:57
  Speaker 12: so that's what I gotta do.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Young guys in the linebacker room with you, maybe on
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: their first contracts, have been going through different coaching, They've
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: been leading on you heavily through.
• 21:08
  Speaker 12: I think we all got pretty we're all pretty bright,
• 21:10
  Speaker 12: very talented. I definitely always offer my advice because the
• 21:16
  Speaker 12: better we all play, you know, it's gonna be good
• 21:18
  Speaker 12: for the room, gonna be good for the team. But yeah,
• 21:22
  Speaker 12: if they have questions about what I'm seeing, for sure,
• 21:25
  Speaker 12: I'm I'm always offering my expertise. I say, but we're
• 21:30
  Speaker 12: very they're very bright, the rest of the guys and stuff.
• 21:32
  Speaker 12: So like you know, I got all the comments to
• 21:34
  Speaker 12: them to pick up new stuff. I've seen it two
• 21:36
  Speaker 12: times now, being able to uh play at the high level.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: To see Trayvon get the fifty year option picked up
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: for I mean you I I had a feeling smile
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: when I say that. For you guys, you've been here
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: a couple of years.
• 21:48
  Speaker 12: What does he mean to that collective or you know,
• 21:51
  Speaker 12: I I've seen his growth from his rookie year to
• 21:54
  Speaker 12: now and even last year when you know, things were
• 21:57
  Speaker 12: kind of going awry and stuff, he was still putting
• 21:59
  Speaker 12: this as foot forward. I like his work ethic as
• 22:01
  Speaker 12: a player, you know, schemes whatever, I just like his
• 22:04
  Speaker 12: work ethics. So I feel like, uh, and the scheme's
• 22:07
  Speaker 12: gonna benefit him as the coaches who you use his
• 22:10
  Speaker 12: his talent and hard work and his mentality to his
• 22:12
  Speaker 12: the best of his ability. He only discouts a limit
• 22:15
  Speaker 12: for him, so I always you know that he's athletics
• 22:18
  Speaker 12: specimen and stuff, but he also got that hard work
• 22:20
  Speaker 12: and mentality, so I I just love being around him.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: He talked a little bit about getting a coach camp,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: but he.
• 22:25
  Speaker 12: Tuld aboutetting he's cool. I mean, like I said, these
• 22:29
  Speaker 12: coaches got they they got a great personality and a
• 22:33
  Speaker 12: lot of good energy.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: So I think they're very direct.
• 22:37
  Speaker 12: I think they're you know, they're very relatable, but they
• 22:41
  Speaker 12: always give it that they shoot it straight.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: That that makes sense. So I'm excited to.
• 22:45
  Speaker 12: Be around people like that because I don't like shying
• 22:47
  Speaker 12: away from what needs to be said or what I
• 22:49
  Speaker 12: need to do.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: But also like allows for a growth mindset.
• 22:53
  Speaker 12: Like if I feel like I'm seeing something I don't
• 22:56
  Speaker 12: feel because it's so honest of a relationship between us
• 22:59
  Speaker 12: or will be, I can go to them say what
• 23:02
  Speaker 12: I'm and they're really gonna take that uh into account
• 23:04
  Speaker 12: and uh but they're always mean. They always want the
• 23:07
  Speaker 12: best for me cause they want the best for the team.
• 23:08
  Speaker 12: They're always gonna relay exactly what they're meaning. So I'm
• 23:11
  Speaker 12: excited to be right here kind.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Of building off of that. Do you feel like this
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: isn't just here? Just like at large? Conflict aversion? Is
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: that something that people like run from conflict when sometimes
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: having confrontation and like discussing your problems.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Is that people do that. I don't know what the
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: what their backgrounds are.
• 23:30
  Speaker 12: I just know how always raised like you couldn't escape us,
• 23:33
  Speaker 12: you might as well go go get your punishment shit
• 23:36
  Speaker 12: or shoot.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: So uh yeah like it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 12: Whatever the conflict is, it's gonna be there tomorrow unless
• 23:41
  Speaker 12: you go attacking now. So I I like going to
• 23:44
  Speaker 12: see what it like, what's really being thought, what I
• 23:47
  Speaker 12: really need to do? Let me fix that right now,
• 23:50
  Speaker 12: or know what I need to fix that way I
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: can go do it.
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: The younger guys uh lean on you and you can
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: offer your advice to them. But are there guys that
• 23:57
  Speaker 10: you lean on, maybe more veteran guys or in tours
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: that he's still keep in contact with whenever you.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Might have any questions or anything like that.
• 24:04
  Speaker 12: Very close with Josh Trayvon uh Eric has been a
• 24:08
  Speaker 12: good good piece to add cause he's he's done it at.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: A high level for a long time.
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: I got a lot of friends around the league.
• 24:16
  Speaker 12: Really, any teammate that I was close with and played
• 24:19
  Speaker 12: with back in the day, uh one of my stables
• 24:21
  Speaker 12: I I just watched really like I'll hit.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Him up sometimes. But Grady Jarrett uh in Atlanta.
• 24:27
  Speaker 12: I mean just how he came in the league late
• 24:29
  Speaker 12: round pick and then what he's made himself into and
• 24:31
  Speaker 12: he always working and and you know a staple of
• 24:34
  Speaker 12: the defenses that he's on. Definitely try to emulate my
• 24:37
  Speaker 12: career off of what I saw from him. So that's
• 24:40
  Speaker 12: always like a good role model. Obviously, got sometimes some
• 24:43
  Speaker 12: linebackers come here joint practice. I went to talk to
• 24:45
  Speaker 12: Levont David uh last year and stuff. He gave me
• 24:48
  Speaker 12: good advice on how to attack off seasons and stuff
• 24:50
  Speaker 12: to be able to be playing at a high level
• 24:52
  Speaker 12: all the way through the season as you as your body.
• 24:54
  Speaker 12: You know, is he older in the league, So I'm
• 24:58
  Speaker 12: always looking for for advice and tidbits on how to
• 25:01
  Speaker 12: get better and stay better.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: So yeah, there's a new strike coach.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Just in terms of your first.
• 25:06
  Speaker 11: Impressions of of of him and and sort of the
• 25:09
  Speaker 11: team and what does that What does that mean for
• 25:12
  Speaker 11: you guys or from execuities.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's good energy.
• 25:14
  Speaker 12: Like that's one thing all the way, Like, especially after
• 25:19
  Speaker 12: the first two days I just worked out with him.
• 25:20
  Speaker 12: You know, if they're that same person every day, it's
• 25:22
  Speaker 12: gonna be great for the team. He's gonna grind us.
• 25:25
  Speaker 12: I think it's gonna be so good for us going forward.
• 25:27
  Speaker 12: We just gotta have a growth mentality to understand that.
• 25:30
  Speaker 12: Just cause we feel a little tired today, we keep
• 25:32
  Speaker 12: on this path, like you gonna be amazing by the
• 25:35
  Speaker 12: end of Ota, by end of training camp. You know,
• 25:38
  Speaker 12: I'm excited for where this team can go. Uh lifting
• 25:41
  Speaker 12: with him and stuff. But he's working us, so I'm
• 25:45
  Speaker 12: I'm excited.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Yup.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I don't think your put your work.
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: Do you think your position of flexibility from your time
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: in Yale playing corner, playing safety, then playing linebacker, does
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: that give you a benefit in like learning all these
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: different new systems like you said, uh, you know, in
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: in putting all these different systems every time you get
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: a new coach.
• 26:02
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think so, just because one you can understand
• 26:06
  Speaker 12: what other positions are doing, is you're going or you
• 26:08
  Speaker 12: can understand the why whatever your job responsibility is so important.
• 26:12
  Speaker 12: Maybe it's to help out the safety, maybe it's help
• 26:14
  Speaker 12: out a corner in their job responsibility. But I think
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: it's going forward, like or going through the NFL. As
• 26:20
  Speaker 12: soon as I came to the NFL, I changed position
• 26:22
  Speaker 12: to a linebacker. I'm always learning new concepts, new playbook
• 26:26
  Speaker 12: in order to not have.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: To do well in order to be successful.
• 26:30
  Speaker 12: So like coming into a new coordinator, like, it's nothing
• 26:32
  Speaker 12: new for me in terms of like adapting and learning
• 26:35
  Speaker 12: and having to execute on the fly. But like as
• 26:40
  Speaker 12: you said, maybe that flexibility all the way through my
• 26:43
  Speaker 12: college career has kind of geared me to start thinking
• 26:45
  Speaker 12: like that, always be able to be able to adapt
• 26:48
  Speaker 12: with it whatever comes.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you saw over the weekend to
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: Mario Douglas give it his mom a brand new car.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Did you do something like that when you were drafted
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: or under that rookie contract?
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: You're doing something like that for someone from my parents, parents, siblings, got.
• 27:02
  Speaker 12: Yeah, we're pretty frugal, so especially being Nigerian, Like if
• 27:06
  Speaker 12: you give them something they don't need, they're gonna be like,
• 27:08
  Speaker 12: why do you do that? So I've definitely been blessed
• 27:13
  Speaker 12: to not have people that needed that per se. I
• 27:15
  Speaker 12: think my parents, you know, they didn't have a lot,
• 27:17
  Speaker 12: but they did a lot to get me to to
• 27:18
  Speaker 12: square zero. I'd say, able to pay off my student
• 27:22
  Speaker 12: debts in college, but they haven't handed me in terms
• 27:24
  Speaker 12: of needing a lot. I've helped people out along the way.
• 27:27
  Speaker 12: That's our personal relationship. I'm not gonna sit here and
• 27:31
  Speaker 12: brag about people live health and stuff, but I didn't
• 27:33
  Speaker 12: have no like even for myself. I think for the
• 27:35
  Speaker 12: first two years, my biggest expenditure was or expense was
• 27:38
  Speaker 12: a couch in my apartment. So I got my two
• 27:40
  Speaker 12: thound Toyota twenty twenty Toyota Camri and that was my
• 27:46
  Speaker 12: biggest one. But I'm not spending a lot for real,
• 27:48
  Speaker 12: So I got a house throughout my career. I got
• 27:52
  Speaker 12: one of those. So that's about it. That's really all
• 27:54
  Speaker 12: I need.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what's up you guys?
• 28:02
  Speaker 10: Good?
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: Good, awesome, good great. Have to worry about multies feels great.
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: It feels great being able to unrestrict it, hold shay
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: and help out around the house. And obviously the football side,
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: like work out and throw I'm able to do all
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: that now. And I'm getting there, which feels feels really good.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: What exactly is the plan as far as you can
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: as much as you can explain as far as your
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: return to play right now, what you are able to
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: do right now.
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: Well, I mean, there's not really a set like deadline
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: on it, just because you know, we don't we don't
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: play a game till you know, this fall. So obviously
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna be ready sooner than that. But so I'm
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: very optimistic I'll be perfectly good for the season. But uh,
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: as far as just right now, I think just kind
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: of pacing ourselves as OTAs go and working myself up
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: to where I'm in shape as far as throwing, and
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: so just the I guess the amount of throws might
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: be a little lighter to start and work our way
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: up just until I get really fully back, but I
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: imagine that and then maybe just some handoff stuff will
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: be a little limited. But besides that, I think that
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: won't last too long, so I don't have a you know, yeah,
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: I'm throwing, and obviously I'm kind of progressing and working
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: my way up further distance more throws, just trying to
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: be smart and not just jump off the you know
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: end of the deep end, you know right away, just
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: trying to work up to it.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Most of the guys in attacking the ability to get.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: To come back to it feels great. Just the energy
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: and the building.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: You know, I've been here a lot just because of
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: rehab and stuff and trying to get my shoulder healthy,
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: and so I've been around this off season a lot
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: more than maybe even typically, So just to have all
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: the guys back in the building and just bring some
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: energy and some juice. And I know, from from a
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: player standpoint, everybody's excited. Everybody in the locker room's pumped
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: to be back. And then you know the coaching side,
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: you can feel the energy and the excitement, and those
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: guys are up here working all off season trying to
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: get everything ready, so they're chomping at the bit by
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: the time we get in because they get to actually
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: do what they love and coach and have the players around.
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: So I think there's a good balance of just everybody's
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: excited and very optimistic and a lot of energy.
• 30:08
  Speaker 12: Talk a little bit about working with footwork, and you
• 30:11
  Speaker 12: talk about what that kind.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Of looks like along the way.
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, just there's some things that you know, there's some
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: things I've known about my footwork over the years of
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: playing that I felt like have been a little bit
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: of a weakness. So there's some things that we've talked
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: about of just what are those things, what are we
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: identifying as things to excuse me as things to work on.
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: And then the system is built around timing and tying
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: your feet to your progression and playing on time, and
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: so so it allows you to get backside, allows you
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: to get to checkdowns or whatever it may be, and
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: you can feel comfortable playing on time. And more than
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: any system I've ever learned, it's structured and based on that,
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: and it's so everything's tied exactly to all, right, this
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: route is on this timing, so then your next progression
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: is off of this footwork, off this timing, so it
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: all ties in perfect. You don't have multiple routes declaring
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: at the same time, which is hard as a quarterback
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: because then you're sitting back there and you got to
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: make a decision before really the guys open or covered,
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: you know. So I think they've done a really good
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: job with the system of really thinking through how does
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: it tie into a quarterbacks feet And that's what we've
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: been talking about, and it takes some work and you know,
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: flipping my stands, just some little things like that that
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: are small that many people wouldn't notice, but it is.
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: I have so many banked reps of the other way.
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: I got to just get all these on my own
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: and and and work them. So once camp comes around,
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: I'm ready to go. I do you know, I think
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: it's I just I really believe in it. I believe
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: in the process, you know what. Obviously it's early, but
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: as far as just what the main I guess priorities
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: are going to be for us, and how they see
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: the game and our offense, what we want to build
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: it around, like all those things I'm in alignment with.
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: I think just the few things that we've talked about,
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: as far as sinking the feet to the progressions into
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: all these things is really important as a quarterback, you know,
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: I think I'm gonna be able to to play even
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: faster and get through progressions and feel confident and trust that.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Really learned from clean take Glasstown. It is a little
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: bit different from making previous to be learned about that,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: and how different.
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: Is It's a lot different. I think it's hard to
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: it's hard to compare just the energy and obviously younger guys.
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: It's just different, a different setup than we've had in
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: the past. Not to say you know one thing or
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: the other, it's just it is very different. And I
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: think all around the coaching staff too, is majority younger guys.
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: And but the one thing I will say is everyone
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: is is in alignment and uh, it's the same message
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: and it's very clear of what's being preached and what
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: is what the culture is going to be about for
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: our team, and the messaging is crystal clear. And I
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: think that's obviously important. And even starting with with James,
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: you know, having as much time with him, but obviously
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: I've got to talk to him and really enjoyed that.
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: And but but from him all the way through all
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: the whole staff is it's all the same and I
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: think that's a great starting point for us. Obviously, time
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: will tell and we have to we have to, you know,
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: win on the field.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: That's most important.
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: But I like where we're at to to not have
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: or are you or other guys frustrated like we got
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: to go through another oh should change another new system?
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Like guests, where are you guys were just like five
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: six years stability.
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, it's he is. It's challenging for sure,
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: but I think we're past that point as far as
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: I don't know if frustration is the right word, but
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: just starting over is always hard. And obviously, you know,
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: we had a we had a good year in twenty
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: two and then things just turned on us over time, unfortunately,
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: and and didn't play well enough and didn't win enough
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: games the last two years, and we found ourselves in
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: this position. So I think going from that to where
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: we were at and obviously not having a coach and
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: now we have Liam and we're kind of I'm past
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: that point of feeling like, gole, you gotta start over again.
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: But I mean, just to be honest, there is a
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: little bit of that at first, because it is, you know,
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: doing it again, and you've done it before and you've
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: done it a few times, so there's a little bit
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: of that at first, but I think we're way past that.
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: I know, guys are really excited. I'm really excited. I'm
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: just excited to learn this system and to dive in
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: and put as much work in as I can to
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: have a great year. And I have a lot of
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: confidence in the group that we have here. Sure after
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: the draft, teams in a change even more and what
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: they're doing upstairs and down the locker room. I really
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: believe in what we're doing, and so I think that's
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: where the excitement comes from. Seeing what was said initially
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: and how it's being carried out. I think is exciting
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: for me because you're you're seeing that you know, they're
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: doing all the things that you wanted them to do
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: and that they said they do from from the beginning.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: So it's exciting.
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: Can you see a difference since you've known him now
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: for four years but with Tony now being in the
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: role that he's in, so is it?
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: Did is there a difference?
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: Is that?
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: Know? Liam talked about how there was a culture meeting
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: not just with the team but with the entire staff
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: in every department.
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I've I've known Tony for a while now.
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: Obviously he has that role, so it's part of his
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: job description. For I wouldn't say this is his opinion,
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: but for his input, you know, with the with the staff,
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: with the team, and he's way more involved like than
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: he than he was before. But I knew We've had
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: brief conversations throughout the years, and I can always tell
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: that that Tony had a lot on his mind, for
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: one and had a lot that you know, he might
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: not have been in the role to to voice all that,
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: but just on our brief interactions, you know, we've had
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: a great relationship and I feel like I've always could
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: always be honest with him, and we've been very candid
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: with each other over the years. And it's been brief,
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: but it's it's nice seeing him in that role and
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: being a former player and sitting in our seats, and
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: how much he cares about this team. You know, that's
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: why he does it. It's a guy that you know.
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: I I wouldn't say it was probably his lifelong dream
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: to be in that role, since he's a kid, like
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: he's been a player, and he wants to see this
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: team be great in this city be better too, And
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: I think that's like, that's what's cool about it is
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: he's doing it from from that standpoint, not for any
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: other reason for.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Diving into a new system now for the first time.
• 36:22
  Speaker 13: As like a dad, how do you balance now having
• 36:27
  Speaker 13: to know the difference between a cry when they have
• 36:29
  Speaker 13: to get changed or their teving they're hungry. How do
• 36:33
  Speaker 13: you balance having all of that new stuff to know
• 36:35
  Speaker 13: and they're doing this getting are getting used to a
• 36:38
  Speaker 13: new system for the first time.
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's uh, it's definitely an adjustment because when you're
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: home it's not as much. You know, you're not just
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: sitting around doing doing nothing and have all that time necessarily,
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: and in some ways you have more time I think
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: because you make less plans just being a dad. It's
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: like you don't have as many plans to go out
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: and do stuff or take trips or whatever. So I
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: think just in between when she's down for napps, you know,
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: trying to trying to get into the stuff as much
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: as I can. Uh, start with formations, motions, all that stuff,
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: just the base stuff and then starting with some of
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: the concepts and stuff now and we're gonna start installing
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: more as a team that we're back in o TA.
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: So we have this set time here now which is
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: nice and get to talk with the guys through it.
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: But yeah, no, it's definitely different. You got a manager
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: time well, and also you got to be able to
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: to audible and adjust because Shae wakes up and it's
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: not hold on, I need like ten more minutes to
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: finish this, it's it's right then. So it's an adjustment.
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: But thankfully I got a great wife and uh Shae's mom,
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: Marissa to to help me with that. She's I mean,
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: she she does more than I do, so I can't complainer.
• 37:42
  Speaker 11: Maybe since you this is your third NFL playbook, just
• 37:46
  Speaker 11: to learn to all of this substance that you've sort
• 37:49
  Speaker 11: of done it over the last.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Couple of years.
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there's some things you know, you're you're used to,
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: You're used to finding ways to like make everything stick.
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: I think the hard part is when you hear things
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: that are the same words that mean something different like that.
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: You've got a lot of systems that kind of go
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: through your head and you got to really differentiate it
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: in everything and find a way to to learn it
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: that way. I think that's maybe the only challenge more
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: challenging part knowing multiple systems. But for the most part,
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: I think the formations and motions, all the basic stuff
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: like that was really hard for me to learn my
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: rookie year and the play calls, the length, all that
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: stuff because I just wasn't used to any of it.
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: Now being in multiple systems like that, that's a lot
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: that comes more second nature and it's easier to pick
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: up about playing.
• 38:35
  Speaker 10: And I haven't yet.
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: You know, I know Baker, I wouldn't say, well, but
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: we're buddies and every time I see him, you know,
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: we try to catch up talk. I really got a
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: lot of respect for him. I haven't got a chance
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: to yet, but I need to. I've heard through other
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: people that I've talked to, Baker had different things throughout
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: the off season that he's just says great things about
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: him and how much helped him and said I'm gonna
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: love playing for him. So I've kind of heard that
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: through I guess mutual friends and stuff.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Is it gonna be this season without Chrishan? I mean
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: not just on the field, but those are.
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: Your friends, Like, yeah, it's tough. Yeah, it's it's hard.
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: You know, you build relationships with guys, and you know, unfortunately,
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: I've I've seen those two guys are a little different
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: because we spent three years together and I guess the
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: majority of my time here besides my rookie year. So
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: it's hard seeing guys go, and it's it's part of
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: the business, unfortunately, you know, it's just you got to
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: kind of take it for what it is and move on, honestly,
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: and but the relationship piece of it will always be there.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: We we built special relationships and friendships that thankfully will
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: last outside of this and being on the same team,
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: you know. So I think that's the the good thing
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: about it, because there's certain people, you know, when when
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: they leave as my guy, but you kind of lose
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: touch a little bit. But those are two guys that
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: will always stay in touch. We'll be we'll be close friends.
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: And obviously I wish nothing but the best for him,
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: except for twice a year with Christian, and I think
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: we played the Broncos this year too, so once once
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: for Evan. So no, those guys, they do it the
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: right way, and obviously it's it's disappoint they're not here.
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: Obviously there's a lot that goes into this other than
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: just than than friendships and relationships, and you know that
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: part is always gonna be hard. But over the years
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: you kind of get used to, you know, dealing with
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: all that stuff. And I talked to I talked to
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: those guys a lot still, so we're keeping in touch.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: I asked Foy this I'm not gonna tell you, was
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: answered just you had to clear answer it. But over
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: the weekend, local guy Tomario Douglas surprised his mat with
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: a new car. Did you do anything like that when
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: getting drafted or under your rookie contract or anything like that.
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: Nothing that big, not yet. There's stuff I like to
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: keep private, but no, I haven't done then, haven't done
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: the car yet?
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: Or that's awesome you said in your season ending press conference.
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to remember. It was obviously after Doug was gone,
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: Trent was gone yet, but you said that you felt
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: that a concerted effort to run the ball was needed
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: and that was what was lacking the.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Last two and three years.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: Do you feel like there are steps that have been
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: taken and that are being taken to rectify that.
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: Definitely, one hundred percent. You know. I think it's it's
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: not only it's yeah, it's it's not only just trying
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: to run the ball, it's what's the plan. I think
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: everyone tries to run the ball. I think everybody knows
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: and in football it's important. I mean there's not if
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: you know football at all, you know that's important. So
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: I think everybody knows that. But just from the little
• 41:33
  Speaker 7: that we've gotten into the plan to run the ball
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: well effectively, efficiently, the way we can adapt throughout games.
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: Start the season figuring out what we're what we're good at.
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: Naturally we're gonna be better at certain things than we
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: are at others. Those things, how you you know, determine
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: what the defense is going to do, how you see
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: what they're doing to get yourself in the best play.
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: There's just so much stuff that I'm excited to learn
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: and get into that is kind of new for me.
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: And it's it's more, i think right now for us,
• 42:03
  Speaker 7: it's gonna be more to learn. It's gonna be more
• 42:05
  Speaker 7: work put in for all the guys of gonna learn
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: the system because it's a it's a it's a tough
• 42:09
  Speaker 7: system to learn, but it's gonna help us play faster.
• 42:11
  Speaker 7: It's gonna help us be in the right play more
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: than we're not. It's gonna set us up for success.
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: But you gotta put the time in and.
• 42:17
  Speaker 10: Study, Kirk or heavan those gaps.
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: Diffens and stuff. But do you hope how do you
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: adjust without them?
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: Now?
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: Do you hope that you have some more targets coming
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: in soon? Or how do you adjust to the to
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: losing that.
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: I've learned throughout this, uh my time here, just you
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: can't control who's Honestly, you can't control who's here, who's
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: gonna be here, who's who's not gonna be here, who's
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: gonna get traded, who's gonna get released. You don't know
• 42:45
  Speaker 7: any of that, really, and those are decisions that are
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: not in my realm. So from what we have here
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: right now, I know those guys, and obviously Diami's a
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: new guy, and we got you know, Hunter and Johnny
• 42:59
  Speaker 7: to two new tight ends as well. I know what
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: we have to work with, and I'm sure there'll be
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: additions from the draft.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: Who knows what those are gonna be.
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: But I like what we have to be honest, Obviously,
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: losing Christian and Evan are two big losses. So I
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: think we got some good guys in free agency, and
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: I'm sure we'll supplement the draft as well. But it's
• 43:19
  Speaker 7: a different system, so it's hard to compare apples to
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: apples of what their usage is gonna be in this system,
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: and kind of it's just really hard to compare because
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: they're total two totally different offenses. So I really like,
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: like I said, Diami and the speed and obviously Brian
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: is I thought he had some great experience last year
• 43:35
  Speaker 7: with all the injuries we had of having to just
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: step up and everyone you were targeting Brian and he's
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: gonna get majority of the targets, and he still shined
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: and played well and produced every game. So that was
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: great practice for him because that's what's gonna happen now
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: that he's shown that the rest of his career. So
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: I really like where we're at. Obviously we're gonna keep
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: getting better, We're gonna have pieces and but yeah, it's
• 43:56
  Speaker 7: kind of a hard, hard question to answer. I hope
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: that helped.
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: Seems like his role increasing fan this year.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: What have you seen from last year even since he
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: got drafted.
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: Just.
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: Britain is beyond ready just the way he practices, the
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: way he works, I think, you know, I I do
• 44:12
  Speaker 7: give a lot of credit to Evan. I think him, Uh,
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: Britain's a hard worker naturally, but coming in and being
• 44:18
  Speaker 7: behind Evan and having that kind of guy to look
• 44:21
  Speaker 7: up to, and as as far as Evan's work ethic
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: and being out there early, staying late, putting in all
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: the extra time, I think Brenton really fell in line
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: with that and has kept that going.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: So that piece of.
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: It makes you feel really good about him because you
• 44:33
  Speaker 7: know he's doing everything the right way. And then obviously
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: his talent on the field. I mean he's a great blocker,
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: he's nasty, physical, likes blocking like that's something that that
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: he's good at and likes doing. And then when he
• 44:44
  Speaker 7: gets the ball in his hands, breaks tackles, he can run,
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: great hands, he's physical, he really can just he can
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: do everything you need him to do. So I think
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: he's beyond ready for this opportunity then, And that's that's
• 44:57
  Speaker 7: the give and take, right You're you're disappointed, and the
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: thing with Evan losing a friend, losing a great player,
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: but Britain gets an opportunity to step up even more,
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: which which he did a lot at times last year.
• 45:07
  Speaker 7: So he's gonna he's gonna do great and I'm just
• 45:10
  Speaker 7: excited to keep building that relationship with him.
• 45:12
  Speaker 11: How much do you feel like you put on your
• 45:14
  Speaker 11: shoulders some of the last couple of years, both mentally
• 45:17
  Speaker 11: and physically, just feeling like you might have had to
• 45:21
  Speaker 11: make a play here and there versus maybe now with
• 45:23
  Speaker 11: the new coaching staff, how they're talking about emphasizing the
• 45:26
  Speaker 11: ground attack, all the different things that you can kind.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Of take that off of you. How do you use
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: sort of compare it to you.
• 45:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's uh, there was definitely times I did that,
• 45:34
  Speaker 7: and you know, I wouldn't say that's That's part of
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: playing quarterback. You know, you have those those feelings sometimes
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: and you gotta be able to play the game the
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: right way at all times and make those calculated risk
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: decisions whatever it may be. That there'll be time to
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: do those too. But no matter the offense, you're gonna
• 45:51
  Speaker 7: have those situations come up where it's like you might
• 45:54
  Speaker 7: feel like you need to make a play, but you
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: don't just make the smart play.
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: Depends.
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: It's all situational based, right if it's fourth down, the
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: fourth and ten at the end of the game, and
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: that's different. You know, you're thrown into traffic, You're trying
• 46:03
  Speaker 7: to make something happen. But that's part of playing quarterback.
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: And I've grown a lot over the years of learning
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: when's the right time to take those risks, when is
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: it when's it worth it? But you're always gonna have that.
• 46:15
  Speaker 7: But I you know, the hope and the plan is
• 46:17
  Speaker 7: to have less of those because you're on schedule, you know,
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: you make the game easier. I think you think a
• 46:23
  Speaker 7: QB friendly, it's it's how you what's the game plan,
• 46:26
  Speaker 7: how you call it, what's the sequence of the calls,
• 46:29
  Speaker 7: how the game flow goes, all all those things like
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: that's what I think helps a QB out in this league.
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: It's it's honestly, it is just hard to drop back
• 46:39
  Speaker 7: every play and make it happen because the pass rush
• 46:42
  Speaker 7: is so good, the disguises are so good, and it's
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: just hard. So I think the more variety you can
• 46:47
  Speaker 7: have just helps you as an offense. App Okay, thanks,
• 46:51
  Speaker 7: appreciate y'all