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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: “It's all about just assignment football." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Last year, the install do new Goosie staff, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the everything.
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  Speaker 2: Now the deb's out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: In this office, you improved to solve very what what
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  Speaker 1: can you what.
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  Speaker 3: Do you work on this side of OTAs other than
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  Speaker 3: the younger guys about to get acclimated the new guys.
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  Speaker 4: But what are you.
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  Speaker 2: Freed up to do? More of the OTA.
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  Speaker 4: And the betterments in the canons?
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think the first thing is we're uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we have to continue to get better and we have
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  Speaker 3: to prove to ourselves that we can get better. Cause
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  Speaker 3: obviously the season didn't end the way we'd liked it
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  Speaker 3: to have end.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and in this time of the year right now, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's all about just assignment football.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's no there's no contact, uh, the physicalities
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  Speaker 3: out of football, you know, and and it's just about assignments.
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  Speaker 3: And we're wanting to see the young guys you know,
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  Speaker 3: incorporated in there. We wanna see the veterans just taking
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  Speaker 3: another step in leadership and just under standing, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, what we're asking them to do.
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  Speaker 3: You know, from a passing standpoint, I think you know,
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  Speaker 3: Trevor and the and the receivers tight ends running backs.
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  Speaker 3: Just being on the same page the guys that were here,
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  Speaker 3: you know, being on the same page.
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  Speaker 2: There shouldn't be any.
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  Speaker 3: What I would say, balls on the ground, right, they
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  Speaker 3: should be they should be completed at a at a
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  Speaker 3: higher percentage. And it's just a matter of you know,
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  Speaker 3: not getting anybody hurt this time of year.
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  Speaker 2: You just don't want any setbacks that way. You know,
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  Speaker 2: this close to camp last.
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  Speaker 4: Year, you saw enough from your veteran players that you
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  Speaker 4: ended up giving them mini camp. All what do you
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  Speaker 4: have to see from them this go around to kind
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  Speaker 4: of them to earn the right to have that like
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  Speaker 4: two years earo.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's just my preference, you know, to
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  Speaker 3: give them time. I do think that what we do
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  Speaker 3: in the off season matters, especially in training camp in
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  Speaker 3: the first part of the season. So you know, those
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  Speaker 3: are all things that take into consideration. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: this veteran group you gotta see, you know, you just
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  Speaker 3: got to see the leadership, you got to see the
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  Speaker 3: high energy. You know, obviously great attendance, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: know in a voluntary program, which is which is great
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  Speaker 3: to see, you know from my standpoint, and you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, just.
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  Speaker 3: It's just to matter now it's just assignments so they
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  Speaker 3: understand the work. And then you know, this is why
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  Speaker 3: the coaches have been here all off season two is
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  Speaker 3: to come up with new wrinkles and ideas and things.
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  Speaker 3: This is the time to implement those things, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so that we can get them on film and continue
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  Speaker 3: to coach those uh, coach those ideas up.
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  Speaker 4: More along is the install right now compared to where
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  Speaker 4: it was a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're we're further along because there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of repeat you know, from the season and and uh
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  Speaker 3: that's the that's the thing that I think in year
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  Speaker 3: two and beyond is there's not a lot of change.
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  Speaker 3: There are some new wrinkles here and there that we
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  Speaker 3: want to see both sides of the ball. But but
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  Speaker 3: the guys are further Guys are further along just in
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  Speaker 3: their knowledge of of the offense and defense. And that's
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  Speaker 3: that part of it. It feels good to the coaching staff,
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  Speaker 3: but as as a staff too, now we can we
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  Speaker 3: can continue to teach the finer points of of routes
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  Speaker 3: and coverages and you know, D line rush techniques and
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  Speaker 3: this is where guys like Trayvon our rookies a year
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  Speaker 3: ago can take that next step into your two.
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  Speaker 4: But are in and that in the year, and are.
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  Speaker 2: You expecting an early guy year?
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  Speaker 3: You know, listen, we're gonna coach the guys that are here.
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  Speaker 3: This is a voluntary program. I understand that. And and
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  Speaker 3: everybody has things that go on and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to it's hard to comment on a voluntary program.
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  Speaker 5: Last time you were up here, you mentioned that as
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  Speaker 5: far as the pass ruts, you were looking forward to
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  Speaker 5: seeing the competition amongst the second and third level guys.
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  Speaker 5: But when you look at when you look at your
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  Speaker 5: frontline guys, you look at Trayvon, you look at Josh,
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  Speaker 5: how much motivation do you sense on their part? One
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  Speaker 5: going into a contract year and the other one wanting
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  Speaker 5: to do a lot better than he did as a rookie.
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  Speaker 3: You know, both are in uh different stages of life,
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  Speaker 3: right and but yet both of them, you know, have
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  Speaker 3: the same goals and aspirations in mind. And and both
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  Speaker 3: of them are are you know, Josh and Trayvon are
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  Speaker 3: hard workers. Uh, They're they're leaders of the team. I
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  Speaker 3: think Trayvon taking in year two developing you know, more
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  Speaker 3: of a pass rush sort of that repertoire of rushes
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  Speaker 3: and moves and things, and and then and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: within the scheme, where does where does he line up inside, outside,
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  Speaker 3: you know, off the ball, wherever it might be, And
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  Speaker 3: how well he understands you know, those those things we're
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  Speaker 3: asking of him. And in Josh's case, I mean, just
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  Speaker 3: just continuing to to improve and get better and and
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  Speaker 3: you know, just hopefully that you know, he's obviously he's
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  Speaker 3: one of the guys that that's not here. But but
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, he's working, and you know, we
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  Speaker 3: stay in touch with him and make sure that he
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  Speaker 3: is working and and when he does come back that
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  Speaker 3: that he's he's ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: As this off season goes along, would you if you
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  Speaker 1: felt the need to upgrade this pass rush, would you
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  Speaker 1: kind of try to nudge Trent and say, hey, I
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  Speaker 1: think we need to go get a veteran guy or
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  Speaker 1: are you just gonna let that well, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, listen, we're we're always trying to improve, you know,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's schematically or you know, positionally or or personnel.
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  Speaker 3: We're always looking and and you know it's something that uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we'll take a look at. But every roster
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  Speaker 3: is pretty much set, you know at this stage of
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  Speaker 3: the game, and so it have to be something that
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  Speaker 3: you know, would have to be pretty enticing, I think
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  Speaker 3: to bring somebody onto your roster, which means you'd have
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  Speaker 3: to let somebody go, you know, and so that's that's
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  Speaker 3: a hard thing to do.
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  Speaker 4: You talk about assignments and getting guys up to speed.
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  Speaker 4: How important are these for getting a guy like Calvin
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  Speaker 4: Ridley fully into the full.
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  Speaker 2: It's important, you know, I've been been pressed with him.
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  Speaker 3: He's been here, he's he's been focused, engaged, doing the
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  Speaker 3: things we asked him to do, and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's just uh again, it's just being on the same
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  Speaker 3: page with Trevor.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, he's done a great job in the classroom and
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  Speaker 3: it will take that, you know, out to the field
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  Speaker 3: and the work he's getting done, and and we just
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  Speaker 3: want to see that continue, you know, and just continue
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  Speaker 3: to develop. We're not you know, we're not game planning
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  Speaker 3: or scheming or all that. We're just continuing to you know,
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  Speaker 3: install and and he's done a nice job, you know,
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  Speaker 3: handling all the information.
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  Speaker 4: Let's hear the guy that you talked about developing trust
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  Speaker 4: with the team and earning the trust. Now you've done that,
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  Speaker 4: how does that impact what you can do at this time?
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  Speaker 2: To hear from a coaching stample, Yeah, I mean you
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  Speaker 2: just lean on the guys. I think. I think they
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  Speaker 2: understand me. I understand them. That's why we have.
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  Speaker 3: Such a high high percentage of guys that are here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, in this in this type of voluntary in
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  Speaker 3: this world of voluntary off season program, we have the
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  Speaker 3: amount of guys that we do have here. They understand
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  Speaker 3: the type of work that we do.
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  Speaker 2: And and you know that that goes a long way.
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  Speaker 3: That goes a long way, not only just this time
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  Speaker 3: of the year, but you get into December and January
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  Speaker 3: as we talk and and that's where the trust and
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  Speaker 3: and you know, sort of that camaraderie come into play.
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  Speaker 3: And and but we're building that foundation. You know, every
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  Speaker 3: year is a different year, Every team is a different year.
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  Speaker 2: Last year is done.
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  Speaker 3: And it's in the rearview mirror and we're still trying
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  Speaker 3: to establish, you know, another team this year and putting
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  Speaker 3: all those pieces together. But but that trust factor, I
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  Speaker 3: think in having that in me and me and them
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  Speaker 3: goes a long way to the reason why I think
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  Speaker 3: we have so many people.
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  Speaker 4: Here assuming Cam proud Sad is not here.
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  Speaker 1: What does that do? What did that do for guys
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  Speaker 1: that walk a little in union Hi Yerston in terms
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  Speaker 1: of getting them a little more opportunity, a little raps.
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  Speaker 2: It's great for them, you know. And this time of year,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have a depth chart, we don't set anything.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're we're letting everybody work and getting reps
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  Speaker 3: all over the place. And and you know, uh, even
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  Speaker 3: if Cam we're here right now, he's hurt and you
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  Speaker 3: know he wouldn't be doing a lot of stuff, so
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  Speaker 3: it would still be the same situation, right, So.
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  Speaker 2: Great for both those guys.
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  Speaker 3: Great for Anton to get all the reps he can,
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  Speaker 3: you know, mentally out there, and and it'll just put
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  Speaker 3: us in a better better position heading into camp at
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  Speaker 3: the right side. But you know he's also played guard
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  Speaker 3: and you know, things of that nature. So this this
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  Speaker 3: is the time of year to really I think experiment
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  Speaker 3: you know with uh every position really except quarterback.
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  Speaker 6: Le giving you guys a timetable and when you expect
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  Speaker 6: not yet, not yet, but they will, you know eventually,
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  Speaker 6: and you know we'll deal with it when that that
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  Speaker 6: time comes. How iss h improved for it?
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  Speaker 3: Was he mentally Gosh, he's he's he's been in a
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  Speaker 3: great frame of mind. He's you know, his leadership, his
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  Speaker 3: toughness we saw last year, you know, just understanding the
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  Speaker 3: defense like we talked about.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that leadership on the field.
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  Speaker 3: I see it, you know every day that we're out
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  Speaker 3: on the grass and and you know, he's, uh, he's
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  Speaker 3: one of those guys that you lean on, you know
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  Speaker 3: from my standpoint, and you know, you ask a lot
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  Speaker 3: of those guys because they're starters and they're valuable to
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  Speaker 3: your team.
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  Speaker 2: And he's done a nice job.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned, Ota has been a chance for second year
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  Speaker 1: guys kind of take our next step. What do you
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  Speaker 1: want to see from them to really know that they're
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  Speaker 1: on that right.
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  Speaker 3: Track again, just the it's more in the probably the
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  Speaker 3: individual portions of practice where you see him working on
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  Speaker 3: different things. You know, again we're not in pads or
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  Speaker 3: just just got helmets on during phase three and so
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  Speaker 3: you you limit the amount of contact and collisions out there.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, as long as they're working on something
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  Speaker 3: and the coaches are helping them develop their talent, those
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  Speaker 3: are the things you want to see now so that
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  Speaker 3: when you get to camp you know, you're not starting over,
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  Speaker 3: and then when the pads do come on eventually, you
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  Speaker 3: know what they're working on now will pay off.
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  Speaker 2: Then O Breton was a little nicked up a working
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  Speaker 2: many camp.
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  Speaker 4: Is he expected to be full though this week?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's doing he's doing doing great. You know, those
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  Speaker 3: those young guys come in, they haven't done a lot,
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  Speaker 3: haven't done any football stuff, you know, And and uh,
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  Speaker 3: that's why I keep it small and short for them
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  Speaker 3: so they don't have to doesn't tax them too much.
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  Speaker 2: And and uh, but.
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  Speaker 3: But now that they've been in our system over a
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  Speaker 3: week and with workouts and conditioning and stuff, they just
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  Speaker 3: get stronger and better.
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  Speaker 2: And and he's he's doing he's doing a good job.
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  Speaker 4: Trevor said that last year, the effort, the practice, everything
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  Speaker 4: you guys did was good enough to get to the
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  Speaker 4: divisional round.
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  Speaker 6: You want to take it a step further.
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  Speaker 3: What are some tangible steps you're.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing from the guys that maybe it's more than what
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  Speaker 1: they did.
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  Speaker 5: A year ago.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I again, I think it falls back to the
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  Speaker 3: number of guys that are here, you know, and the
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  Speaker 3: commitment that these guys have made to be here. Again,
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  Speaker 3: I keep stressing it's a voluntary program, but to see
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  Speaker 3: these guys in the in the building every.
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  Speaker 2: Single day.
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  Speaker 3: Shows me that that that they want to win, and
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  Speaker 3: they want to win here and then want to they
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  Speaker 3: you know, I can't let them be a one and
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  Speaker 3: done season, right.
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  Speaker 2: We have to continue to build on that.
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  Speaker 3: And and you know, we talked a lot about this
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  Speaker 3: last year. Consistency in winning goes a long way, and
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  Speaker 3: that's that's what I'm That's what I'm seeing from the
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  Speaker 3: guys and the effort that they're putting in, you know
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  Speaker 3: during the Phase one and Phase two and obviously now
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  Speaker 3: start in Phase three. So it's great to see everybody.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the first step and then it's something
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  Speaker 3: that uh, you know, it just can't be lip service.
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  Speaker 3: We have to go out and prepare and work and
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  Speaker 3: put the time in in order to be where we
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  Speaker 3: want to be.
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  Speaker 6: Have you seen any indications that denn Lloyd is is
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  Speaker 6: in a better place in terms of knowing his assignment
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  Speaker 6: too early?
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  Speaker 2: No, he's done.
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  Speaker 3: He's done a really nice What you're seeing with those
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  Speaker 3: second year players that the confidence they have because they
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  Speaker 3: played last year, and again it goes back to you know,
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  Speaker 3: what we're doing schematically, they know the defense, they know
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  Speaker 3: the offense, so, uh, there's confidence in that. And and
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  Speaker 3: he's he's one of the guys that's taking a step
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  Speaker 3: in the right direction that way. And and he's just
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  Speaker 3: gonna the more reps. He's just gonna get better and better.
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  Speaker 3: And and you know, again, you know I can say
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  Speaker 3: the same for for Chad and really even Foyer.
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  Speaker 2: It was just really a second year player for us.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you see the confidence in these guys.
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  Speaker 2: You know out there on.
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  Speaker 3: The field, and that that'll carry over, you know as
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  Speaker 3: we start to start the season.
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  Speaker 5: Looking they have such continuity and the coaching staff as
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  Speaker 5: you day into the players back the coaches.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's important. I think it's huge.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. It's why I in going from sixteen to seventeen,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I blocked a couple of coaches from leaving,
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  Speaker 3: so there was continuity in your two and and you
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  Speaker 3: know times have changed obviously from from then. But but
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  Speaker 3: having the same you know, guys speaking the same language
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  Speaker 3: around the around the team and their position groups is
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  Speaker 3: huge in this second year.
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  Speaker 2: And and uh, again it.
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  Speaker 3: Goes back to the trust factor that the players having
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  Speaker 3: coaches and coaches ultimately having in them in players.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, thanks guys,