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Ryan Grubb: "It's An Honor And A Privilege To Be Here" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I were doing. Everybody good to be here. Who's up?
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  Speaker 1: How well this has the last month been for you? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's been pretty eventful for sure. Yeah, it's been a
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  Speaker 1: really exciting month. It's been a tough month. But end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, it's a it's obviously a privilege and
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  Speaker 1: honored to be here. How this happened, Oh, I think
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing to note on that is, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I met Mike about a year ago, started
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  Speaker 1: building a relationship and you know, not with any necessarily
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  Speaker 1: end in mind, but just just how the process goes
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  Speaker 1: in the football world, and had got to know him throughout,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a couple of different conversations and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of built that relationship over time, and you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of knew that potentially there'd be an opportunity like this
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  Speaker 1: down the line. Didn't necessarily think it happened the very
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  Speaker 1: first year, but that was really the first part and
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  Speaker 1: just stating communication. As you know, Mike obviously had a
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  Speaker 1: great season as a coordinator for the Ravens, and you
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  Speaker 1: know knew that his name would come up in some
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  Speaker 1: search opportunities and you know, luckily for me, uh, he
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  Speaker 1: ended right here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Where was where did you first meet myfe.
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  Speaker 1: We met at the NFL combine. Yeah, this will be
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  Speaker 1: your first NFL coordinating job, Bob. So what are what
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  Speaker 1: do you see is like the biggest differences or challenges
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  Speaker 1: compared during the college level. Well, I think there's the obvious,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the the hashes, things like that are important.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the personnel based scheme. Uh, there's some
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  Speaker 1: things that you have to be probably far more alert
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  Speaker 1: to as far as who's on the football field, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's base or nickel packages. You know, the identification of
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  Speaker 1: personnel problems. You have those issues in college as well,
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  Speaker 1: but I think they can be a bit more prevalent
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. And then also I think the limited possessions.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that part of the games a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different. Offensively, what was the connection, uh, offensive minded
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  Speaker 1: defensive minded guy? What was that connection with you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think just respect. You know, when you when you
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  Speaker 1: look at another guy and what they do on the
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  Speaker 1: football field, their creativity and you know, whether it's how
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  Speaker 1: you defend or how you attack, and when you look
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  Speaker 1: at that and you talk to a guy like Mike
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  Speaker 1: and you see how you know, just detailed he is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, his his ability to see the field and
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  Speaker 1: and just I think there's an instant respect there and
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  Speaker 1: you just dive into it both ways on offensive and
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  Speaker 1: defensive side, and I think that's where it all begins. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I thought about that process a lot of times, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: So I think just in the situation where're in made
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  Speaker 1: it tougher, just that he was getting getting it started
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  Speaker 1: out Alabama and you don't want to be there for him,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I knew this is what ultimately that
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do if the right situation came up. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the timing is is so difficult to really describe,
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  Speaker 1: So I think that was the hardest part, was being
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  Speaker 1: in that position where the timing wasn't gonna be perfect.
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  Speaker 1: And I think in this industry, the people that are
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  Speaker 1: in it, you just know that the timing is never
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  Speaker 1: gonna be perfect. So best possible scenario, you know, you'd
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  Speaker 1: love those timelines to marry up a little bit better.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously, you know, that was the hardest part. Honestly.
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  Speaker 1: We we knew this day would come for sure, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited for Cale and I know he's gonna do
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  Speaker 1: a phenomenal job down in Alabama and and I know
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  Speaker 1: he's excited for me for this opportunity, and you mad
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  Speaker 1: it pretty clear that you want to be the job,
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  Speaker 1: and you wanted to stay here, and.
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  Speaker 2: You reconciled that you were going to be and Tusca
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  Speaker 2: Losa at any point in this process.
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  Speaker 1: That yeah, No, that was That's where I was, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean? That was that was really the
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  Speaker 1: point was to take the job down there and be
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  Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator. And and nothing was set here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Mike was going through his process and trying to make
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  Speaker 1: the best decisions he could for the Seahawks, and so
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  Speaker 1: nothing was set and so I had to keep moving
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  Speaker 1: forward with the job that I had taken, and that
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  Speaker 1: was the album offensive coordinator job. So uh, I just
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  Speaker 1: had to trust the process and know that it would
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  Speaker 1: end up the right way. In the statement you put out,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned how much Seattle means to use. What does
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  Speaker 1: it mean that you are staying here? A man? This
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  Speaker 1: is like the unicorn event in coaching. So the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I got to stay right here and do it
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  Speaker 1: in a city and a place that I already love
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  Speaker 1: and I've had two years to you know, kind of
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  Speaker 1: let it marinate as far as you know what John
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  Speaker 1: Snyder does here and the ownership with the Seahawks and
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  Speaker 1: just how class even organization this is and how driven
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  Speaker 1: they are to success. It makes it really special. You know.
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  Speaker 1: When you think about making this step, you want to
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  Speaker 1: do it hopefully with a program organization that you believe in,
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  Speaker 1: and so to be able to do that was, you know, unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: And what are your kind of your thoughts on m.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're in a dead period right now, so really
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  Speaker 1: that's all it is, just getting to know him as people,
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  Speaker 1: So no scheme or anything like that. But he's great.
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  Speaker 1: He's a competitor, he wants to be coach. He wants
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  Speaker 1: to be the best. You know. It means a lot
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  Speaker 1: to him, you know, and just hearing his story and
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  Speaker 1: his growth as a player and a person is inspiring, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really fired up and looking forward to coaching
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  Speaker 1: him and Drew both. They're both wonderful guys and they're competitors.
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  Speaker 1: When you when you've watched you know, whether it's just
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  Speaker 1: cateugally your knowledg you're in this position, what has stood
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  Speaker 1: out to you about the.
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  Speaker 2: Way he plays?
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  Speaker 1: I think he's got good presence. I've been impressed with,
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  Speaker 1: you know, his decision making. I thought, you know, last
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  Speaker 1: year in twenty two, I think he led the league
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  Speaker 1: in completion percentage. I think that says a lot in
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  Speaker 1: this league when you talk about how hard those decisions are,
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  Speaker 1: number one, and then how tight the windows are, so
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  Speaker 1: to be productive at that level and be the best
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  Speaker 1: in the league at it, I think says a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And he pushed over sixty five percent last year, So
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  Speaker 1: it just shows that he's got the ability to be
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  Speaker 1: accurate and you know, make good decisions, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: you know. Ultimately, you need a guy that can lead,
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  Speaker 1: be smart, tough, and dependable and and make good decisions,
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  Speaker 1: and I think Gino is more than capable of doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Was it for you to bring Scotti up with you?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean I think that continuity and the
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  Speaker 1: translation up front is really important. I've I've always felt
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  Speaker 1: like Scott was a NFL caliberrow line coach. He's had
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  Speaker 1: opportunities to leave in the past, and you know, so
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  Speaker 1: to be able to do it and have our system,
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  Speaker 1: I think it really helps, you know, the installation process
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  Speaker 1: and the beginning points for the team just to be
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  Speaker 1: able to help with the translation part that you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about how things are going to be
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  Speaker 1: taught or said and things like that. So I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a huge component. The offense is that you coordinated
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  Speaker 1: that you dub and at first No State were pretty
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  Speaker 1: pass heavy. Sounds like Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Wants to lean more on the run game in Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: What's that shift's going to be like for you? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, over the course of my career,
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  Speaker 1: we've we've done both certainly. I think, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: you look at what we did, probably more specifically at
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  Speaker 1: UDUB over the last two seasons, we were you know,
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  Speaker 1: accentuating the positives and there's three receivers that are probably
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  Speaker 1: going to get drafted this year, and so I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, moving the football through the air was a
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  Speaker 1: logical choice, and we are going to be a physical
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  Speaker 1: team in Seattle, and over the years, that's something that
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  Speaker 1: we've certainly done. When the components all matched up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we ran the ball very effectively, and I look
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  Speaker 1: forward to it. I think that when you have an
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  Speaker 1: established run game, it makes calling those other players now
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  Speaker 1: auxiliary plays off of it a lot easier. Honestly, it's
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  Speaker 1: when you don't have the presence of a run game,
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  Speaker 1: that things can get really tricky.
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  Speaker 2: Line guy at heart?
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  Speaker 1: What makes that? So? You know, when when we talked
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  Speaker 1: in the interview process, I think I probably expounded on
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  Speaker 1: that quite a bit, just that I have a passion
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  Speaker 1: for what happens upfront and how it ties into the
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  Speaker 1: success of every part of the game. And I've always
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  Speaker 1: believed that, And I think that you know, when you
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  Speaker 1: have a talented and a unified group in that room,
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  Speaker 1: you got a chance every week, Ryan, how.
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  Speaker 2: That you so successful that you' how transferable is that
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  Speaker 2: to the NFL. It's not apples to apples of course, personnel,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, just the approach.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that you know, play action pass in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL is honestly where you know, we got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of our concepts, and so when we would base
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  Speaker 1: some of the things that we did, it was off
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL model. And so I think that some
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  Speaker 1: of those high read plays and flood concepts and things
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  Speaker 1: like that that most people run certainly translate really well
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: And going along with that, finding those mismatches and those
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  Speaker 2: holes and college defenses is a little I mean, how
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  Speaker 2: much tougher. Is it going to be in the NFL
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  Speaker 2: To do that at.
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  Speaker 1: Just using the same you have to adjust a lot,
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine, Yeah, I think it's it's always gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: I think every step you take in advancement in this
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  Speaker 1: you know industry, you're gonna find tougher mismatches and to
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  Speaker 1: find and you know, just the level of intelligence and
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  Speaker 1: the amount of thought put into each game plan is Uh.
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  Speaker 1: That's the part that is so intriguing about the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: the chess match that happens every week, being right on
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  Speaker 1: your math in the box and you know all the things.
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  Speaker 1: You just the room for error is so much less
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  Speaker 1: for you, you know. I would say three years ago
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  Speaker 1: is the first time I really started looking at like
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  Speaker 1: do I want to pursue NFL or being a head coach,
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  Speaker 1: And not that it was going to happen at that moment,
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  Speaker 1: but that's really when I started to kind of dive
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  Speaker 1: more into the NFL film, start talking to more people
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  Speaker 1: that were in the NFL, and started to research you know,
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  Speaker 1: what that would look like both in schematic you know,
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  Speaker 1: transformation and then just lifestyle and things like that. What
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  Speaker 1: what would be the big differences for me. So I
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  Speaker 1: would say at least about three years ago. Offense at
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  Speaker 1: that point, Well, I think you're always looking for what
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  Speaker 1: what can match your personnel, you know for sure, and
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  Speaker 1: so I would look n C DOUAA in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I I think we always look
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  Speaker 1: for you know, where the production's coming from and where
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the people are being the most unique
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  Speaker 1: and how they use their talent a position group at
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  Speaker 1: some point in your career, running backs, receiver, line, obviously quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: How does that help you as a coordinator, have that
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  Speaker 1: experience with all those different groups. Yeah, that's a that's
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  Speaker 1: a great question. I've been really blessed. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that it's was by design, you know, in my career
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  Speaker 1: and how things worked out, but certainly it helps you
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  Speaker 1: see the whole field. And I think it helps you
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  Speaker 1: relate to every position room and what those challenges are
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  Speaker 1: that are presented and how each room needs to succeed
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  Speaker 1: for us to succeed on a game day. And so
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  Speaker 1: I think when you can put especially the front end,
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  Speaker 1: and you can truly tie in the run game with
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  Speaker 1: the pass game and the protection schemes, I just think
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  Speaker 1: it makes it a lot cleaner in the development of
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  Speaker 1: the game plan. That's the part that I've probably benefit
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  Speaker 1: from the most is it's easier to tie that game
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  Speaker 1: plan together when you truly understand what's going on up
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  Speaker 1: front and what the quarterback is facing. Right. We haven't
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  Speaker 1: had a chance, I think, to talk with you since
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  Speaker 1: the Michigan game. How much does that kind of still
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  Speaker 1: sick with it? And yet a little bit today it
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  Speaker 1: hurts hurts a lot. That was one of the toughest
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  Speaker 1: losses I've ever had to endure here. So and then,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to walk away from a special season like that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, nobody wants to lose last game of the year,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what, but to lose like that, it was tough. Man.
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  Speaker 1: And I said it before, but uh, those kids left
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  Speaker 1: everything out there and it was a it was a
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  Speaker 1: challenging loss.
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  Speaker 2: And guys like Austin Mack that are Indo Tusco who
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  Speaker 2: how difficult was it to kind of leave those guys
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  Speaker 2: behind and for those conversations like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Austin's unique in the sense that when I recruited Austin,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was under the premise, you know, talking
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  Speaker 1: to Brad and Lisa's parents that he knew that this
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  Speaker 1: was a possibility, whether it was this year, next year.
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  Speaker 1: At some point I told him that, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a good chance that I wouldn't get to see the
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  Speaker 1: end of his career. And so I think honest conversations
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  Speaker 1: like that when you recruit kids help when transitions like
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  Speaker 1: this happen.
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  Speaker 2: You said, you kind of talked to Mike over the
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  Speaker 2: last year or whatever, but you're obviously still at Alabama
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  Speaker 2: last Wednesday and all that that it's still kind of
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  Speaker 2: at the end, kind of come together real.
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  Speaker 1: Quickly at the end, or yeah, that's that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: You know, things things happen fast when you're in these
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  Speaker 1: hiring cycles, and and uh, you know, I think that
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  Speaker 1: the investment parts on the front side, way before job
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  Speaker 1: opportunities happen so that some of those tougher conversations can
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  Speaker 1: happen that when you get to the finish line on something,
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  Speaker 1: you can be clean on it.
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  Speaker 2: I asked Jay Harb what the same thing. Excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: how difficult is college coaching now and what kind of
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  Speaker 2: challenges that for you personally? And did that have any.
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  Speaker 1: Factor in your choosing to go to the NFL right now? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good question. Fair question. I think what I'd say to
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  Speaker 1: that is, yeah, it was a factor. I think the
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  Speaker 1: bigger factor was just being able to compete at the
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  Speaker 1: highest level. But when I look at it, when you
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  Speaker 1: think about just if you just talking about coach and
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  Speaker 1: your profession and your craft, what I would say is
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  Speaker 1: that the more ability and time that you have to
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  Speaker 1: focus on task at hand, the better you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be at it. And I would say that the tough part,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, for college football, is when you think
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  Speaker 1: about just coaching your room and your team, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And I was just talking to some guys about this yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: and the focus that you're able to give your squad
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  Speaker 1: right now, just your team, that's all you're worrying about,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't have all these things coming in from
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  Speaker 1: the outside that you have to deal with and address.
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  Speaker 1: Just gives you more time and opportunity to be better
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  Speaker 1: at your craft and provide more resources to your team
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  Speaker 1: you have. It's sustainable for a coach in Cobaic foot
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  Speaker 1: all the way of systems right now, I would say
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  Speaker 1: that's a longer that's a longer conversation. I would say,
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  Speaker 1: they got to get it fixed. It's got to be better.
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  Speaker 1: There's too many good people, and it's too good organization,
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  Speaker 1: and it's such a special place for kids to work
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  Speaker 1: on what they love. And yeah, they got to get
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  Speaker 1: it right and they got to keep working on it,
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  Speaker 1: and I know they will.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the three guys with Jalen and Roman.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys, what do you see from DK and Tyler
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  Speaker 1: and Jackson Schi? Yeah, They're They're amazing. I'm excited. I'm
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  Speaker 1: really excited. I think those guys are focal points of
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  Speaker 1: the offense, and I think they're smart, tough and dependable guys.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that you know, Sky's limit when you
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  Speaker 1: got some guys like that and you throw Bobo in
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  Speaker 1: there and the rest of the room, I think there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of weapons that can be utilized there.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned Drew Locke as well. Do you have Do
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  Speaker 2: you know him at all much or what are your.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of No, I mean, I didn't know Drew prior
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  Speaker 1: to this, but just had conversations. He's got a new
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  Speaker 1: young son and he's down in Florida right now getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to do some training, and I was just counseling
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  Speaker 1: him through being a new dad and dealing with no sleep.
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  Speaker 1: So he's doing great. Going back to the interview process
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  Speaker 1: and knowing that Mike is a defensive minded head coach,
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  Speaker 1: did you feel like you had to convince him that
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  Speaker 1: you could make that shift from a passivy offense to
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  Speaker 1: one that runs the Baltimore No. I don't think he
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  Speaker 1: convinced Mike of a lot of stuff. I think he's
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  Speaker 1: very pragmatic in how he approaches things, and he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: ask questions that you know you're not gonna be able
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  Speaker 1: to fit on or try to adjust. You know you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to answer the question directly and be able
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  Speaker 1: to have answers for him. And I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: I loved about it. It was just, you know how straightforward
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  Speaker 1: he was, and you know his vision for this whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: You said you meant him at the combine.
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  Speaker 1: Is that common for college coaches? Is it like a
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  Speaker 1: networking thing? No? And I there was some connection, probably
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  Speaker 1: a little bit prior to that, But you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think some guys go some guys don't. You know. Last
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  Speaker 1: year I really went more to watch the quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 1: you know Michael was going to be down there going
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  Speaker 1: through an underclassman process that I wanted to be there
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  Speaker 1: for him with and really just took time to examine
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  Speaker 1: and watch quarterbacks, which was great. Right, How exciting is
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  Speaker 1: the newness on staff? First, I'm NFL head coach, your
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  Speaker 1: first offensive coordinating job in the NFL? Is that a challenge?
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  Speaker 1: Is it an opportunity? How do you look at it
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  Speaker 1: both and excited about that? I think it's absolutely a
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  Speaker 1: challenge and one that I'm really looking forward to and
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  Speaker 1: looking at just like that, that it is an opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like every time I've been given those
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  Speaker 1: opportunities and challenges that that brings out the best in
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  Speaker 1: me everything else. Thank you, Thank you, appreciate it.