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Press Pass | Meyers & Miller on Setting the Tone Early, Roster's Talent & Toughness · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Touchdown it was that pattern thing where you'd like put
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  Speaker 1: on your cloaking device stand in the end zone and just.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody sees you it sounded like it honestly it felt
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  Speaker 2: like it too i mean i was it was nobody
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  Speaker 2: back there i'm like i'll just go back here then
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  Speaker 2: where everybody didn't where everybody ain't so it worked out
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  Speaker 2: it was really just the ball though the ball was
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  Speaker 2: crazy for him to even get it back there rolling
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  Speaker 2: left like that trevor was hooping yesterday for.
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  Speaker 1: Her Liam talked earlier today about how when Trevor has
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  Speaker 1: to go off schedule a.
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  Speaker 3: Little bit and run around a little bit and scramble,
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  Speaker 3: do you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys actually like that because there's more of an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to make a play when he's on the run?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I would say it's pros and cons to it, right?
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  Speaker 2: Like you got to be in shape for it. So
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  Speaker 2: the effort got to really be there once he gets moving.
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  Speaker 2: But if you had an effort and you had the
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  Speaker 2: energy to get back there and stay with him, he
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  Speaker 2: going to give you a shot.
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  Speaker 3: So it does help us too.
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  Speaker 4: That's what the offense can really be right in terms
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  Speaker 4: of ball spread around like every single person it makes
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  Speaker 4: it so much more dangerous harder to stop is that
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  Speaker 4: kind of the way you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys envisioned it yeah i mean i think that's how
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  Speaker 2: football should be played right like everybody eat it's hard
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  Speaker 2: when there's one person out there trying to do everything
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  Speaker 2: and people people know who to focus on you know
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  Speaker 2: and defenses once they figure that out they try to
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  Speaker 2: take it away and they good at it too so
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  Speaker 2: Everybody eating that will keep us unpredictable.
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  Speaker 4: But it takes a level of unselfishness from everybody too.
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  Speaker 2: I would say so. I would say so. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's more so like after the game. In the game,
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  Speaker 2: it's like you can't do nothing because you can't throw
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  Speaker 2: yourself the ball. But after the game, it's cool when
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  Speaker 2: the guys are supporting each other. Like everybody was happy
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  Speaker 2: for everybody who scored, everybody who touched the ball, everybody
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  Speaker 2: who played. It was just cool just to see how
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  Speaker 2: much the guys really rocked with each other.
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  Speaker 3: So it's cool.
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  Speaker 1: How did a guy like Josh kind of just earn
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  Speaker 1: the trust of the rest of.
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  Speaker 3: The offense so quickly? One bite at a time, man.
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  Speaker 2: He'd show up, he'd do everything right every single day. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when you're that consistent throughout camp, camp isn't easy,
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  Speaker 2: especially for a younger guy. Like, they get a lot
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  Speaker 2: of reps, a lot of situations that they probably aren't
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  Speaker 2: used to. But even when he made mistakes, he came back,
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  Speaker 2: made it right. He's just been making plays consistently, and
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  Speaker 2: it showed when he got out there.
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  Speaker 1: How crazy was that touchdown when you saw, like, the
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  Speaker 1: end zone?
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  Speaker 5: His?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I was out there. So I could
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  Speaker 2: see him kind of, like, catch the ball. First off,
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  Speaker 2: it was a crazy throw again. But, nah, the way
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  Speaker 2: he snagged it and just brought it in and protected himself,
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  Speaker 2: that play for real. That was talented.
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  Speaker 4: Is that better than Parker's diving catch?
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  Speaker 2: I can't say better, but it was both difficult touchdowns, man.
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  Speaker 2: Full speed dive and a catch that in that tight.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question. I can't pick, though.
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  Speaker 5: Easy compared to those two, though, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of just got to take a deep
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  Speaker 3: breath in awe. Thank you, God. I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 5: Jacoby, I cheated a little bit on looking at this.
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  Speaker 5: It took you three years in the league before.
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  Speaker 3: You got your first touchdown. Yeah, my fourth year, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: In November, against the Browns, by the way.
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  Speaker 5: Against the Browns, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you recall the feeling of your first NFL touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: and is that kind of a feeling shared by anybody
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  Speaker 1: who does that?
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  Speaker 6: What was it like?
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  Speaker 3: How's your mind, do you think?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure it's surreal, for real, because, like,
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  Speaker 2: you dream of being in that moment, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean? And for it to actually happen, it's like, oh, dang,
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  Speaker 2: it can't be real right now. But I'm here, everybody
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  Speaker 2: rushing you. You really don't get a chance to think
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  Speaker 2: at all, man. It's just, it's hard to explain. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you're just really happy, man. You're so happy. All the
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  Speaker 2: guys are happy for you. It's just a moment you
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  Speaker 2: want to remember forever, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: You still have the ball from your first touchdown?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody got it painted for me, and they painted the
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  Speaker 2: touchdown on there and the date.
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  Speaker 3: It was real cool. Keep that at your house.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a little man cave type area. Are you
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  Speaker 2: trying to break in? No, it's like a little man
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  Speaker 2: cave area for sure.
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  Speaker 7: Your ability to kind of be versatile, like you got
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  Speaker 7: the reverse and then Williams moving you around and blocking,
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  Speaker 7: just kind of that level of unselfishness, where did that
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  Speaker 7: come from?
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  Speaker 3: I just like to play ball, man, honestly.
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  Speaker 2: And I done played so many different sports in so
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  Speaker 2: many different positions growing up. It's just like the blessing
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  Speaker 2: is just being out there. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: And Bill Belichick used to say, the more you can do.
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  Speaker 2: And as a guy who was trying to make it
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  Speaker 2: in the league, the more I bet. I'd do whatever.
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  Speaker 3: What else? What else do you need me to do?
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  Speaker 3: So it just stuck with me.
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  Speaker 7: When you have that mindset and then you're seeing, like
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  Speaker 7: you said, the rookies come in and you have Park
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  Speaker 7: and you have BT, what does it say about the
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  Speaker 7: receiver overall?
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  Speaker 5: Talented.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we really got some guys who can make plays, man,
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  Speaker 2: like on any given Sunday. I really, it's hard to
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  Speaker 2: pick who's going to do it, in my opinion. And
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  Speaker 2: we all do it different ways. So it's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of talent, man. It's a lot of variety in there too.
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  Speaker 2: But the guys are tough too. I think that kind
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  Speaker 2: of goes unnoticed about them. Like all of them willing
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  Speaker 2: to put their face in there and block for the
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  Speaker 2: running backs, block for whoever got the ball. They all
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  Speaker 2: work hard and they all super smart too. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: just happy that it's showing because they put a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work in this offseason, man.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really proud of them guys, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: After you got here, did you kind of realize that
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  Speaker 4: Liam's mind is a little different in the way it
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  Speaker 4: works and game planning and coming up with stuff?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, within them first couple weeks, I would say,
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  Speaker 2: because I started to understand the plays a little bit more. First,
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  Speaker 2: it took me a minute to learn their system, but
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  Speaker 2: then once I realized it a couple weeks in, I
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  Speaker 2: just thought, oh man, that was a pretty good call there.
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  Speaker 2: And I like his guts, man. If he sees something,
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  Speaker 2: he'll hunt it, and when he have his moment, he'll
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  Speaker 2: take the shot.
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  Speaker 3: So I respect that a lot.
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  Speaker 4: And is it important to have an aggressive head coach
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  Speaker 4: like that?
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  Speaker 2: Situation, I would say so. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: It depends on the situation. But I think it's important
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  Speaker 2: to have a coach who, when that moment does come,
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  Speaker 2: he's not afraid to do it. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, if it's not the moment,
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  Speaker 2: I'm willing to be calm and let the game come
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  Speaker 2: to us.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's what he is, so.
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  Speaker 7: I see the thumbs are still wrapped up. Is that
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  Speaker 7: something you're just going to have to fight through and
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  Speaker 7: grind through?
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  Speaker 3: I'm loving it. I'm loving the process, man. It's football.
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  Speaker 4: You have such a different outlook on things now at
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  Speaker 4: this time this year than you did last year. You
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  Speaker 4: look back and go, man, a year ago, holy cow,
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  Speaker 4: I've come a long.
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  Speaker 5: Way, and things are so different now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like, my life changed so fast, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: kind of still riding the high for real.
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  Speaker 3: Like, it just.
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  Speaker 2: Boom, boom, boom, the next thing. But, I mean, now
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  Speaker 2: these days I feel like I just focus on the guys, man.
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  Speaker 2: Like those, they all got goals. They all got missions
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  Speaker 2: they trying to obtain. And I'm just the old guy
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  Speaker 2: trying to help them get there.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? So it's been cool. But
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  Speaker 3: you're not that old? I'm not, but like, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I'm just the guy trying to help them get there. No,
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  Speaker 2: for sure, the older guy trying to help them get there.
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  Speaker 4: You take a lot of pride in doing that, in
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  Speaker 4: like helping.
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  Speaker 5: These guys out?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I just take a lot of pride in
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  Speaker 2: being reliable for them. And whatever they need, like, it's
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  Speaker 2: not like they sitting here asking me for help because
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  Speaker 2: they're their own men. Like, they're doing a great job
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  Speaker 2: by themselves. But whatever it is I can do to
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  Speaker 2: help them, I'm just like, here, sub me in, bro.
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  Speaker 3: I got you. Just let me know. Who did that
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  Speaker 3: for you when you were first coming in the league?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was bits and pieces here and there.
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  Speaker 2: It was a bunch of people, man. I'll be here.
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  Speaker 2: Naming it all day. But the Patriots, when I first
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  Speaker 2: got there, they were blessed. I was blessed to have
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  Speaker 2: a great vet-led locker room. Guys like Matthew Slater, Benjamin Watson,
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  Speaker 2: James White, Jules. I had Tom for a year, Bill.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we'll be here all day. I just try
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  Speaker 2: to steal a little bit from everybody. We're just going
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  Speaker 2: to keep doing that until I ain't here no more.
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  Speaker 5: Benjamin Watson, you are an old guy. You better run.
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  Speaker 2: I told you I was old. You was trying to look, look. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're getting there, man.
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  Speaker 4: Good?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, guys. What kind of a game like yesterday where
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  Speaker 1: the defense gets a turnover early, gets the sacks early,
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  Speaker 1: you establish yourselves?
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  Speaker 5: It's what you want to do, but how much fun
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  Speaker 5: is that?
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  Speaker 6: It's still good when everybody's flying around, making.
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  Speaker 5: Plays, getting to celebrate with each other. But, yeah, just.
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  Speaker 6: we emphasize just coming out, setting the tone. Um, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: it was driving the first drive and it ended up
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  Speaker 6: getting to pick off that and said, I had a
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  Speaker 6: lot of momentum for us.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: And do you, yeah, in a lot of ways you
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  Speaker 1: picked up from where you left off last year, turnovers
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  Speaker 1: stopping the run. So was there an emphasis at the
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  Speaker 1: off season and the training camp of, okay, don't, don't,
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  Speaker 1: don't stop now.
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  Speaker 5: Let's continue this formula.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, most definitely.
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  Speaker 6: Um, they've been preaching. Um, Last year was last year.
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  Speaker 6: We got to come out and try to do the
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  Speaker 6: same thing. That's the way we practice, how we prepare
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  Speaker 6: for the game. So still the same, still the same mindset.
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  Speaker 6: Stop trying to stop the run, create takeaways, limit big plays.
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  Speaker 6: But just coming out the door this year again.
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  Speaker 4: Will you take some time this week and get with
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  Speaker 4: Cam Little and work on some tackling there?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, his job is to kick it out.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, our job as the kickoff unit is to
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  Speaker 6: go out there and make the Tigers fun, make his
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  Speaker 6: job easier.
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  Speaker 5: So I'll put that more so on us. as a
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  Speaker 5: kickoff team. But we can definitely get with him now.
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  Speaker 3: Josh said in training camp.
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  Speaker 5: That you would lead the league in punch-outs this year.
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  Speaker 7: What is it about that play that makes you so.
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  Speaker 3: Good at that? I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I just think it's a natural instinct. I'm always trying
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  Speaker 6: to get the ball out. I feel like you always
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  Speaker 6: got to have an awareness of it when people are
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  Speaker 6: running the ball. But I don't know. I have a
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  Speaker 6: nap for it, a good nap for it. So that's
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  Speaker 6: probably why I said that, though.
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  Speaker 5: You hit that one with your foot, though, right?
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  Speaker 3: Because I thought it was.
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  Speaker 6: That was a little punch. It was like a punch
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  Speaker 6: coming into a tackle, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it was guard.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 4: What's it been like watching Josh and Trayvon be as
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  Speaker 4: dominant as they have been.
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  Speaker 5: Out there on the edge?
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  Speaker 6: It's fun to watch them in the run game, setting edges,
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  Speaker 6: not staying blocked. And then to see them get out
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  Speaker 6: there to quarterback is exciting as well. Makes our job
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  Speaker 6: easy on the back end, not covering. But, yeah, those
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  Speaker 6: guys are always– flying around up front. So we love
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  Speaker 6: to see that, though.
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  Speaker 8: How frustrated do those guys get?
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  Speaker 4: Because if you turn on the tape, you can see
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  Speaker 4: them just getting held a bunch.
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  Speaker 3: Do they come back to the huddle, and are they.
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  Speaker 4: Complaining, or do they say anything or anything like that?
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  Speaker 3: How frustrating do you.
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  Speaker 5: Think it is for those two?
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  Speaker 6: It might be frustrating for them. I would say, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: get out the block. I mean, you know they ain't
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  Speaker 6: going to call it.
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  Speaker 5: I don't ever hit on complaining. We just got to,
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  Speaker 5: like I said, get out the block. If they call it,
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  Speaker 5: they call it. But those guys are– Yeah, pretty good
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  Speaker 5: at what they do.
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: People got to hold them. But continue to get off blocks.
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  Speaker 3: Kemp's a linebacker coach at heart. How much has he
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  Speaker 3: kind of just helped you.
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  Speaker 7: You know, with mastering the position since he got.
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  Speaker 3: Here and since you guys got together?
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  Speaker 6: For me, Coach Kemp has been good to be in
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  Speaker 6: my corner. I'd say he has a high standard for me,
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  Speaker 6: so he expects a lot out of me. Always has
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  Speaker 6: a sense of urgency when he coaches me. I got
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  Speaker 6: to have things correct right now.
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  Speaker 3: So, just that.
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  Speaker 6: I would say he's just been on me, so it's
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  Speaker 6: been good. Just trying to make me be great, I
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  Speaker 6: would say.
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  Speaker 1: You got that one play where I think you were
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  Speaker 1: rushing free and then.
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  Speaker 7: You get chipped and you spin around and somehow still
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  Speaker 7: end up on your feet right in the face.
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  Speaker 3: Does that let us in? Is that natural?
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  Speaker 5: Is that something that you can even practice, like avoiding
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  Speaker 5: getting chipped?
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  Speaker 6: Nah, for me, I know I wasn't expecting the little
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  Speaker 6: cut block, but he caught me good. But I don't know,
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  Speaker 6: just being able to stay on my feet and continue
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  Speaker 6: to try to affect the quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: So I don't know, it was in the moment, for real.
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  Speaker 4: Was there a sense that you guys, whoop, sorry Dylan.
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  Speaker 8: Was there a sense that you guys wanted picked up
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  Speaker 8: right where you left off in terms of forces of
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  Speaker 8: turnovers and then when Foye gets it on like the
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  Speaker 8: fifth snap you realize okay yeah we're.
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  Speaker 6: Gonna be fine um I mean it is the mentality
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  Speaker 6: uh I know we just got out of meetings we
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  Speaker 6: just want to be the most physical uh smartest unit
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  Speaker 6: unit in the league right now so continue to build
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  Speaker 6: on things that practice a lot of things we can
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  Speaker 6: correct uh from just watching the film.
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  Speaker 5: But it was a good start uh we're just trying.
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  Speaker 6: To continue to get better I think the first third
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  Speaker 6: down stop of the game, Charlie was that linebacker to
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  Speaker 6: have a guy that can be that versatile.
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  Speaker 5: He comes in as.
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  Speaker 7: A nickel and then he's playing outside and now he's
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  Speaker 7: able to line up as a linebacker.
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  Speaker 5: Just what does that say about him as a player? Uh,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, versatile.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, that, that, that's, that's a good ability to
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  Speaker 6: have in his league, uh, where we can stick and
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  Speaker 6: put you anywhere. Um, you can still make plays and
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  Speaker 6: still know what you're doing. So, uh, I guess the
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  Speaker 6: only place we haven't put him at is D-line. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I know he always said he could do that too,
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  Speaker 6: but it's good to have just being unselfish, being sticking
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  Speaker 6: man wherever he needs to be at.
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  Speaker 5: So, I mean, it's good.
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  Speaker 7: And then that unselfishness is kind of across the whole unit,
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  Speaker 7: like even in camp where you're splitting reps or races
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  Speaker 7: coming in, just kind of, what does that say.
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  Speaker 5: About the defense as a whole?
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  Speaker 6: Just that, I mean, like I said, we're in the NFL, so...
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  Speaker 6: things can happen on next man up mentality. Uh, everybody,
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  Speaker 6: everybody's got to be ready. So I think everybody takes
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  Speaker 6: that approach, even if you're not starting, uh, always being
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  Speaker 6: ready to go. And whenever your numbers get caught, show up.
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  Speaker 3: Do you ever reflect on like.
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  Speaker 1: Your early part of your career?
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  Speaker 7: Like you come in as a rookie, you have to
• 13:42
  Speaker 7: have basically the red shirt year to now be a
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  Speaker 7: starter in the league. Just what has that.
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  Speaker 3: Journey been like for you?
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  Speaker 5: Uh, I mean, it's always, it's a grind. I would say, uh,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. It's a grind. Good question.
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  Speaker 6: I guess now that I think about it, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: it's a grind. I feel like I'm always confident, feeling
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  Speaker 6: like I was supposed to be here.
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
• 14:03
  Speaker 6: But just the process, I feel like the process has
• 14:05
  Speaker 6: been a good process for me, and I was able
• 14:07
  Speaker 6: to really build and grow and become the player who
• 14:09
  Speaker 6: I am today.