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  Speaker 1: All right, fire away, and what have you thought about
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  Speaker 1: the offenses?
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  Speaker 2: First we can camp.
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  Speaker 1: We'relling four days in, right, four days in, so uh,
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  Speaker 1: still installing, still learning, still teaching, you know, progressing. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's obviously we're not a finished product, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: and we just continue to continue to learn and grow
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  Speaker 1: and work in different combinations up front the line, working
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  Speaker 1: different combinations at receivers and running backs. Just we're still
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  Speaker 1: in this developmental phase, you know, developing all our players.
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  Speaker 1: As we get going deeper into camp, we'll bit you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get more specific on you know, lineups and things.
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  Speaker 2: Like that for concern at all, or they just grow up.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, it's it. We're four days in and
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna happen. Typically at this time, y you know,
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  Speaker 1: you would say defense is probably ahead of the offense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I mean it's it's always been that way
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  Speaker 1: and and any turnovers can be you know, cause for
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  Speaker 1: con but uh, we continue to coach and teach and
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  Speaker 1: but on the other side of it, that's what you
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  Speaker 1: want your defense to do. So I'm kind of stuck
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  Speaker 1: in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: And injury Upka's dog.
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  Speaker 3: I know, if Tyson was limited.
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  Speaker 1: Game jar and Yeh Jarring and Tyson should be out
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  Speaker 1: there today, you know, just ankle. Ankle got rolled up on.
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  Speaker 1: Both guys should be fine, probably more limited today. You'll
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  Speaker 1: see Roy back Uh out there. He's been cleared to
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  Speaker 1: he'll he'll be limited though, We're gonna monitor his his reps.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Proctor Dewey had illness last week, so they both
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  Speaker 1: missed a couple of days. We've had a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of illness going around. But I think that's that's everybody.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's UH that we've talked about. He was
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  Speaker 1: gay was limited last week with the knee, so we're
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  Speaker 1: just you know, he also went through rookie camp, so
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  Speaker 1: we got a ton of reps there, so he he
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  Speaker 1: had an early start. So we're just gonna keep monitoring
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  Speaker 1: that and and making sure he's he's good to go good.
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  Speaker 4: Some of the UH changes that you've made along UH offers.
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  Speaker 2: In mind, how let's more comfortable. Do you feel about
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  Speaker 2: the money he being able.
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  Speaker 4: To convert in those third and fourth and short situations
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  Speaker 4: this year? The the numbers just didn't see one seemed
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  Speaker 4: to be something that you were satisfied with life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I mean we you know, we we know
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  Speaker 1: we can improve there, get better. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: once we get the pads on uh this week and
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  Speaker 1: we really start, you know, kind of buckling down. I
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  Speaker 1: guess I I in that that part of it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see where where we are. But I like where
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  Speaker 1: we're headed. You know right now what I've seen so
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  Speaker 1: far and in the first four days, and and it's it's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I I just gotta you know, we we'll we'll have
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  Speaker 1: a short yardist period coming up later this week, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in pads and and you see you see exactly you
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  Speaker 1: know what can be. And I think, uh, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's the the thing. You gotta really realize that right now,
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  Speaker 1: being in in in shorts, you can't get can't get
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Done vehicle out of Tank this year with him having
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  Speaker 4: a year behind him and just being able to drag
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  Speaker 4: him in there, particularly in the middle of its fer
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  Speaker 4: it's personically like mentions your is your center.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think Tank has a has a
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  Speaker 1: has a bigger role, you know, this year going into
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  Speaker 1: year two, and and you know it's it's uh something
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  Speaker 1: that that you know we've been we've been looking at.
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  Speaker 1: We we definitely know we gotta take take a little
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  Speaker 1: bit off of Travis and and and keep him healthy
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  Speaker 1: for an entire season, and and Travis does a great
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  Speaker 1: job with that. But yeah, I think Tank's role can
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  Speaker 1: can definitely increase, especially in in those short yardist situations.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you guys are doing like red till last week,
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  Speaker 4: for example, the offense knows exactly what defense is gonna show.
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  Speaker 2: Over the defense that is exactly what the offense is
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  Speaker 2: gonna show.
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  Speaker 4: So m m, this is just like what's the benefit
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  Speaker 4: of that, Like, what can you learn from that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're right, it's we're not game plan on our
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  Speaker 1: defense and they're not game plan in the offense. So
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: we are installing plays, they're installing defenses, and we just
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  Speaker 1: we just go out and execute, you know, and want
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  Speaker 1: to see what our guys know and can they play fast.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of a lot of situations are not conducive.
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  Speaker 1: A route combination may not be conducive to the coverage
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  Speaker 1: that they're playing, right, I mean, those are all and
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  Speaker 1: we don't care about that. Again, we don't. I want
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  Speaker 1: to see what guys know, are they running the right routes?
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  Speaker 1: I want to see if Trevor's going through the progression
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  Speaker 1: I want to see, you know, if we're if it's
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  Speaker 1: a team situation, protection aspects of that that that's the
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  Speaker 1: teaching part of training camp. We're we're not in week five,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's day five really of practice. So
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  Speaker 1: we're not again, we're not you know, we're not scheming,
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  Speaker 1: and so it does make it look awkward that the
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  Speaker 1: offense may not, you know, be scoring every touchdown. Every
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  Speaker 1: time we put the ball near it is the.
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  Speaker 2: Result of the play is almost irrelevant or no.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, yeah, you want to score on every play,
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  Speaker 1: and we're competitive on the field, but you know, if
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  Speaker 1: we're not scheming and game planning, it's hard to just
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  Speaker 1: go you know, you want to you know, a touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown. It's just it's it's a weird dynamic. It happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's every year in training camp. It's just the way
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  Speaker 1: it is. Every all thirty two teams are going through
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. You know, this time it's early. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: putting in their offenses, everybody's putting in their defenses, and
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  Speaker 1: and you know there come to time in camp when
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  Speaker 1: it's it's so like they know exactly what's coming and
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  Speaker 1: we know exactly what defense is going to be, but
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, we want to see, you know
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  Speaker 1: what our guys.
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  Speaker 2: Know, what do you like about the defense? So far?
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  Speaker 1: They're playing fast, they're playing with some speed and you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously we'll find out excuse me, the physicality of it
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  Speaker 1: this week, you know, when the pads come on. But
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  Speaker 1: just like how they're lining up there, they've been more
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  Speaker 1: aggressive on the corners, you know, with with the alignments
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  Speaker 1: and and different things, so and moving some guys around.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not it's not the same guys where
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to figure out pieces right and who can
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  Speaker 1: fit where and who can play in different spots. So
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  Speaker 1: it's been good.
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  Speaker 4: What is the process that you go through as head
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  Speaker 4: coach of determining who is best to call the play?
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  Speaker 4: Is like, what's stuff you need to see in training
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  Speaker 4: camp to help you make that decision?
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  Speaker 1: Well, training camp is hard too because it's all scripted.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's what days off are for coaches. We
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  Speaker 1: script the next three, four, five, six, seven practices. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, again we're not we're not scheming, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're going down the list and it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: I determine what the period is, what we're going to
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  Speaker 1: work on, and then the coordinators, you know, we just
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  Speaker 1: basically give we offense gives the defense down distant personnel
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  Speaker 1: and we go from there.
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  Speaker 2: Are there are there days and I know there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of high balls on practice, but are there days
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  Speaker 2: where you just don't practice well? And was Saturday one
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  Speaker 2: of those for the offense?
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  Speaker 1: I mean you're gonna have those days. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it happens, you know, and again defense is typically ahead
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  Speaker 1: of offense, but it's gonna, it's gonna happen. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you just work through it. You know, that's what today's for.
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  Speaker 1: We're not playing a game for a while, so it's
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  Speaker 1: it's as coaches, it's time to make the corrections and
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  Speaker 1: then as players you learn from that and you move
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  Speaker 1: on and get better. Today.
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  Speaker 2: How quick the defense is picking up what Ryan's trying
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  Speaker 2: to do or.
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  Speaker 1: Is I mean not really? I mean we got smart
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  Speaker 1: guys on defense, you know, picking up everything. You know,
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  Speaker 1: simplicity is nice because they're they're doing the same things
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  Speaker 1: both in and nickel defense. And you know, it's what
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  Speaker 1: walkthroughs are for in the afternoons to to get a
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  Speaker 1: lot of repetition there. So, but they haven't put everything
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  Speaker 1: in yet either. I mean you're not seeing we're not
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  Speaker 1: seeing everything. We're not seeing a ton of third down
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  Speaker 1: exotic pressures and different things like that. So the base
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  Speaker 1: stuff has been good.
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  Speaker 2: What have you seen from Brian Thomas at this point there?
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  Speaker 2: You said before, he's picked up stuff pretty pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: It's camp's a different level.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, he's been doing he's been doing a good job.
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  Speaker 1: He's competing, He's still he's still learning, he's still growing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, learning the offense, but but in a good place.
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  Speaker 1: You know, takes coaching well not only from us, but
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  Speaker 1: from his from his peers on the field, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: from Trevor and and and it's just it's right where
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  Speaker 1: he needs to be.
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  Speaker 3: Coming up on a year for Devon Hamilton, do you
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  Speaker 3: get a sense that he's back to where he was
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  Speaker 3: pretty pretty back issue?
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  Speaker 1: Yep, I do. He's healthy, strong, you know, he's uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's doing some really good things out there. It's coming
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  Speaker 1: off the ball. I mean, yeah, it's uh, it's good
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  Speaker 1: to see him back you know, to where to where
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  Speaker 1: he was that pre pre back injury.
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  Speaker 3: W How big of a loss was that for you
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  Speaker 3: guys last year, especially a little of that defense.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's big, it's a he you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: he's a he's a stout player. He's a big player
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  Speaker 1: in there. And that that that was a that was
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  Speaker 1: a piece that was really missed cause now you're having
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  Speaker 1: to do it with maybe two other guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh with him, you know, he can play
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  Speaker 1: all th all three downs for you if you need to.
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  Speaker 1: And and so that was a big, big loss.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously you're a little busy right now. But Thursday night
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  Speaker 2: at the new kickoff rule is gonna be shown.
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  Speaker 4: I guess a little bit with the preseason opener. How
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  Speaker 4: much will you guys look at that, maybe look at
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  Speaker 4: some games next week before you play it to get
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  Speaker 4: a sense of what that's gonna look like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll definitely watch it. I don't know if we'll
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  Speaker 1: gain a lot from it, cause I don't think teams
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  Speaker 1: are gonna do a lot with it. I think you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna see, you know, hopefully we as coaches, uh that
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  Speaker 1: are watching it that maybe we see some different kick
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  Speaker 1: types of kickoffs, you know, whether they wanna you know,
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  Speaker 1: missile a kick down there, put it on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: You know, put it in the corners, down that or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe some of that, But I don't think
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  Speaker 1: from a scheme standpoint, we'll see a whole We'll see
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot, not right now in preseason anyway?
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  Speaker 2: Is that for everybody?
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  Speaker 3: You think everybody's inn to treat the preseason super vanilla special.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they will. I'm sure they will, cause it's
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  Speaker 1: all new, and you don't wanna. I don't think tip
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  Speaker 1: your hand right now, you know, and let let teams,
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  Speaker 1: especially teams early in early in the season that we
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  Speaker 1: play that they can scheme you up.
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  Speaker 2: You learned, uh, you learned a lot week one by
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  Speaker 2: watching the league in general. Or is this going to
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  Speaker 2: be an instance where this is so drastically different, where
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  Speaker 2: there's gonna be a lot of education on what people
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  Speaker 2: are doing.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about the kickoff still kick off?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean probably where I mean people try to
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  Speaker 2: throw newbrinkles in on off. It's a defense every year
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  Speaker 2: or two. But is this about as drastic as an
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  Speaker 2: educational experience?
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  Speaker 1: It is because it's different for everybody, right, It's the
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  Speaker 1: the strategy is different, the approach is different. The obviously
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  Speaker 1: the alignment is going to be different. You know, people
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  Speaker 1: are gonna look up and if they haven't been following it,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be like whoa, you know, what what are
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  Speaker 1: we doing? And and I think I think each week,
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  Speaker 1: as we as we watch all the games, I think
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  Speaker 1: we'll just continue to learn, you know, and and grow
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  Speaker 1: and and really I think it comes down to that
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  Speaker 1: the maybe that even the types of players that you use,
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  Speaker 1: you know in your kickoff team, your kickoff return team.
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  Speaker 1: You know who's back there returning the k you know,
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of things can take place. Now is they
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  Speaker 1: call your eye Over the first four days, that's been
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  Speaker 1: a surprise. Not not, not really. I think I think
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  Speaker 1: it's it's kind of where we picked up from OTAs
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  Speaker 1: right now. I think the first four days too, it's
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  Speaker 1: at acclimation phase and just kind of getting their legs
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  Speaker 1: kind of back under them a little bit. This next
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  Speaker 1: three days and then really four after this next break
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be a big test for this team, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because the pads are coming on, practices get longer, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that's when you're gonna start seeing some players
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  Speaker 1: maybe start separating themselves.
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  Speaker 2: I'll piggyback kind of rephrase it a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned off the top, you'll kind of change up
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  Speaker 1: some of the lineups a little bit of practice today. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we've been doing that the whole time so far. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you're rotating this week that you're excited to see, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not Sacred Swem necessarily. No, I mean, there's not one
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  Speaker 1: particular player. My message to the staff has been we
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  Speaker 1: need to get them all in there right and get
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  Speaker 1: them all to play, and and even get them in
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  Speaker 1: there with with the first unit, you know, more see
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  Speaker 1: how just see how they respond with the with the
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  Speaker 1: first unit, you know, playing with Trevor, you know, playing
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  Speaker 1: alongside of you know, uh, Mitch or Brandon or one
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  Speaker 1: of those guys, or even on defense if you're in
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  Speaker 1: the second day playing you know, with with Tyson Darby,
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  Speaker 1: just mixing all those guys up. You know, So not
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  Speaker 1: one particular guy. But but we'll find out here in
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  Speaker 1: the next you know, seven eight days kind of where
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  Speaker 1: we're headed.
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  Speaker 2: How have you said any last one?
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  Speaker 4: Have you seen Christian Kirk progress from that injury last year?
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  Speaker 4: And how important is he gonna be just because you
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  Speaker 4: have Brian Thomins, Gape Davis kind of new new guys.
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  Speaker 2: In the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Christian came back healthy. He he's been doing some
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  Speaker 1: really good things. You know, it's good, good four days
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  Speaker 1: for him, feels good, feels strong. So he's definitely a
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  Speaker 1: piece that both Brian and Gabe really rely on out there,
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  Speaker 1: I think, and uh, you know, I think another one
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  Speaker 1: that's maybe to your point, you know, Parker Washington is
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  Speaker 1: kind of taking another step. And plus he's healthy too,
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  Speaker 1: coming off that injury from college last year and and
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  Speaker 1: all of that. He's another one. But Christian has done
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  Speaker 1: a nice job.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a question of it? Yeah? Is part of
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  Speaker 2: what you do with Cam little testing range? I think
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  Speaker 2: you know you had to get at a ten to
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  Speaker 2: fifty seven year early last week or whatever? Do you
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  Speaker 2: Is that something you do with Camp too? Or is
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  Speaker 2: that more stuff?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: I mean those are things we wanna, you know, with
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  Speaker 1: two kickers, we just wanna we wanna put 'em under
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  Speaker 1: some stressful situations, you know, and and and see what
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  Speaker 1: they can see what they can do, you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: but you know Cam's obviously got the leg to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And but yeah, we're gonna continue to find ways of
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  Speaker 1: putting both guys in more stressful, you know positions, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the next uh few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you coach Y