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  Speaker 1: Tonal two.
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  Speaker 2: So in terms of you know teams, we know your tendencies,
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  Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff, how do you sort of
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  Speaker 2: avoid that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's a big part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, we're hoping for the first part, the second half jump,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that kind of started at the end
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  Speaker 2: of last season. A big part of it was the
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  Speaker 2: player's comfort level. Part of it was you you're in
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  Speaker 2: this working relationship with coaches players of building trust and
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  Speaker 2: establishing trust with one another. Them trusting we're going to
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  Speaker 2: put them in the right spot, us trusting that they
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  Speaker 2: can accomplish things we're asking to accomplish in a certain times.
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  Speaker 2: So as you learn your players better, you kind of
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  Speaker 2: reach that level of trust within the scheme, you continue
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  Speaker 2: to grow and evolve. It's it's obviously critical for us
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  Speaker 2: that we self scout everything we do. We do that
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  Speaker 2: week to week. There's times where you know, you may
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  Speaker 2: put a motion on a play just to break a tendency,
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  Speaker 2: whatever that may be. There's certain times there's tendencies you
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  Speaker 2: want we are this is what we do in this situation.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's something we hang our hat hat on, we
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  Speaker 2: believe in, or we're creating these tendencies, because a lot
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  Speaker 2: of explosive plays come off tendency breakers. So you kind
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  Speaker 2: of want to be this is who we are, this
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  Speaker 2: is what we do, and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: in a critical situation a game, we have the compliment
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  Speaker 2: and it becomes explosive play for So there's kind of
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  Speaker 2: always this this give and take balancing act of it all,
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  Speaker 2: but we're certainly aware of all of it. How different
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  Speaker 2: as this team looked hard to, I guess we're comfortable
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  Speaker 2: this time around, I opposed to last year. I think
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  Speaker 2: the biggest thing is, like you said, the comfort level.
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  Speaker 2: We're able to go so much faster in our installs.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we cram a lot of plays in now
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  Speaker 2: to an hour and a half meeting.
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  Speaker 1: We're rolling really fast.
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  Speaker 2: We don't show as much video because we know the
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  Speaker 2: guys have seen it, they're accessing it, but we can
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  Speaker 2: get a little bit more in a little quicker as
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  Speaker 2: we go. And then you go into a training camp
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  Speaker 2: situation where we're just running plays. We're not scheming our defense,
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  Speaker 2: they're not scheming us. We're just putting in plays and
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  Speaker 2: running them and you see guys, maybe the quarterbacks get
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  Speaker 2: through progressions a little bit quicker. Guys adjust to things
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  Speaker 2: a little quicker just because they know they've been through it.
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  Speaker 2: We've been through this install essentially the sixth time through
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  Speaker 2: most of this, and then obviously we have our additions
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  Speaker 2: off that that we build on and continue to add to.
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  Speaker 3: Afraid for Rically, did you have any realistic expectations from
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  Speaker 3: what you thought he would be on the field and
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  Speaker 3: has that change now that you've had you know, okas
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  Speaker 3: and a little bit of hand.
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  Speaker 1: When it all happens. I didn't think anything of it. Honestly.
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  Speaker 1: We're in the middle of the season.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it is great, that'll be something fun to
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  Speaker 2: look forward to as we start in the offseason. Then
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  Speaker 2: when you sit down and watch everything he's done, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I obviously I knew who he was, had seen him
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  Speaker 2: play at the end of the year. You always watch
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  Speaker 2: kind of the top guys, how they get open, what
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  Speaker 2: they do. So I was very familiar with his tape.
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  Speaker 2: We'd played against Atlanta a couple times, so I'd seen
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  Speaker 2: him play and had my perception of what I thought
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  Speaker 2: he was. And then you start to watch it and
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  Speaker 2: you really try to hone in on this is what
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  Speaker 2: he's done, really well, here are some things that maybe
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  Speaker 2: we do that you don't see on his tape, but
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  Speaker 2: you think his skill set translates to that would be
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  Speaker 2: fun to try. And now's kind of the time where
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  Speaker 2: you're getting to dig into these things. Now, what I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know was him as a person. He's very serious
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  Speaker 2: about his craft.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he is. He's in walkthrough.
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  Speaker 2: He's grabbing Chad Hall the whole time they're sitting over
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  Speaker 2: there going through the install. Obviously he's a different point
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  Speaker 2: in his learning of our system than say a Zay
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  Speaker 2: or Christian are. So he is hungry and it's just
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fun. It kind of adds a little
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  Speaker 2: spice to the room of just this guy that you know,
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  Speaker 2: wants to prove to everybody what he's gone through, where
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  Speaker 2: he is, and what type of player he's in this league.
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  Speaker 2: So it's another element we've added. Yeah, it is, oh absolutely, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think for a guy like him, he just wants
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  Speaker 2: to prove that he belongs, you know, at the at
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  Speaker 2: the top of this group of receivers across the league.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's important to him. You know, for us,
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  Speaker 2: we open him with welcome arms. We want to do
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  Speaker 2: whatever it takes to make him feel comfortable, to understand,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's another he's another key piece of this
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  Speaker 2: offense that we tend to utilize. Lawrence from this time
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  Speaker 2: last year, I think it's his offense. I think just
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  Speaker 2: the power, the the empowerment that he feels too. You know, yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: Day one, we have a play on, they play different coverage,
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  Speaker 2: he checks it to a different play. He would not
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  Speaker 2: have done that at this point last year. And part
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  Speaker 2: of his just knowing what we like for certain looks,
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  Speaker 2: what he likes, what he can get to, what the
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  Speaker 2: guys outside can handle as he's doese certain things.
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  Speaker 1: So just that that next step where that.
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  Speaker 2: Was kind of how the offense took off in the
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  Speaker 2: second half of the year last year was we didn't
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  Speaker 2: have a perfect play on.
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  Speaker 1: He got us to a better play.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we had a bad play on, He got
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  Speaker 2: us to the right player, got out of a bad play,
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  Speaker 2: whatever that may be. Just understanding what we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: do and trusting the guys around him that they can
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  Speaker 2: handle that as well. So as we have more of
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily a veteran offense, but a veteran in this scheme,
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  Speaker 2: we continue to evolve and try to try to continue
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  Speaker 2: to match or maximize Trevor's ability.
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  Speaker 4: Focus on those details and being able to communicate that
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  Speaker 4: to the receivers, the tight.
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  Speaker 1: End and everyone. That's the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 2: His communication with the skill group around him has been fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you throw a ball, well, I thought he
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  Speaker 2: was going to do that. We'll kind of talk about
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  Speaker 2: it first, then hey, go talk to him, Then he'll
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  Speaker 2: go over talk to the guy. They'll get on the
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  Speaker 2: same page. Just because you can't have enough of that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we we have a route, we run it
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  Speaker 2: like this, we install like this, We got teach shapes
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  Speaker 2: of this, but all of a sudden they play different
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  Speaker 2: coverage or a different technique. We don't want surprises on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: We want everybody to know this is how I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to react, this is what's going to happen. That comes
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  Speaker 2: from communication on the practice field in the meeting room.
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  Speaker 2: That's where Trevor really has taken a huge leap from
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  Speaker 2: this time last year.
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  Speaker 4: Is it to be able to just communicate to all
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  Speaker 4: the different guys the way they need that message to
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  Speaker 4: get across. The coaches have to do what the quarterback
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  Speaker 4: does too.
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  Speaker 1: That's huge and that's leadership.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you want to reach everybody where they are.
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  Speaker 2: You can't have the same conversation with you know, a
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  Speaker 2: rookie that's in you know, his tenth practice with us
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  Speaker 2: versus Christian Kirk who's in his whatever year this is
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  Speaker 2: in the league for Christian and whatever day this is
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  Speaker 2: in our system.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of installs when you were in Philly
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  Speaker 3: all those years. When you look at what Calvin brings
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  Speaker 3: to this offense, how much does he change the dynamic
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  Speaker 3: of your install in your play calling a player of
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  Speaker 3: that caliber versus maybe anything you might have seen in
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  Speaker 3: Philly with a dead arriving.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the biggest thing is just his skill set,
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  Speaker 2: maximizing his skill set what he does well. He across
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  Speaker 2: his career has played really well outside the numbers, done
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things when you get space and you
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  Speaker 2: get him free access, running at guys and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, I don't know if necessarily change
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  Speaker 2: the offense. I think we have a system in place
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  Speaker 2: that we feel like can do a lot of things.
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  Speaker 2: You may utilize certain things different ways to get guys
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  Speaker 2: in a position that maximizes their skill set best. And
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  Speaker 2: that's something we felt like we did a good job
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  Speaker 2: with Christian Evans a Jamal last year, Marvin Jones a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, and then so now you're just taking another
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  Speaker 2: skill set that's a little different and adding different wrinkles
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  Speaker 2: or different features within the system that we feel like
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  Speaker 2: fits his skill set the best as well as matches
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  Speaker 2: up with what Trevor does well, throws well, sees well.
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  Speaker 3: Player obviously has. There are different levels of motivation, many
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  Speaker 3: of them just to be able to stay in the league.
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  Speaker 3: When you see what it is with Calvin Worth, have
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  Speaker 3: you ever seen a player who seems to be a
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  Speaker 3: supremely motive bed as he appears to be for this
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  Speaker 3: coming year because he's been idle for so long.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, certainly it's a different situation. So I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that I've seen a guy coming off, you know,
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  Speaker 2: such a hiatus if you will, from playing. So it's
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  Speaker 2: certainly a unique situation. But there's a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: in our room that are motivated by different things, motivated
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  Speaker 2: up different different levels. All I can say is I'm
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  Speaker 2: very happy with the group. We have, the maturity, they have,
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  Speaker 2: the focus, this group has. It's a fun group for
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  Speaker 2: us to work with. Every single day.
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  Speaker 3: Any reason to think that there will be any kind
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  Speaker 3: of let them.
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  Speaker 2: At all this year, well, I mean that's what you're
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  Speaker 2: always fighting against. Anything could happen in any given time.
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  Speaker 2: It's any given Sunday you have to show up for
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  Speaker 2: three hours. And it's not even always that the best
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  Speaker 2: team wins. It's the team that plays the best for
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  Speaker 2: those three hours wins. And so all we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: do is play as good as we can. We want
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  Speaker 2: to get better every single time out. We want to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, grow in our system. We want to grow
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  Speaker 2: in the way we adjust to people, we want to
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  Speaker 2: grow in the way we handle things on the field.
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  Speaker 2: So anything can happen to give in time. That's the
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  Speaker 2: fun part about this league.
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  Speaker 1: Where were you.
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  Speaker 5: When you heard about Evan Ingram's extension and mentally emotionally
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  Speaker 5: obviously you know you knew you would have them for
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  Speaker 5: this upcoming season, but where were you in terms of
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  Speaker 5: your optimism that a long term deal would be reached.
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  Speaker 1: I was very confident.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously I'm not in the behind the scenes
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  Speaker 2: of it all of talking about the money and all
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  Speaker 2: that type of stuff, but we obviously as a coaching
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  Speaker 2: staff communicated how we felt about Evan. I know we're
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  Speaker 2: Doug and Trent stand about Evan. So I was confident
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  Speaker 2: and it was going to get done. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: the behind the scenes of how it happened, what the
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  Speaker 2: struggles were, where it went. If it ever felt like
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't going to happen to us, we always believed,
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  Speaker 2: We've communicated clearly that this is a guy we envisioned
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  Speaker 2: in our system, fits us really well, we can utilize maximize,
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  Speaker 2: help Trevor play better, and so we obviously wanted to
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  Speaker 2: get that done. We were very confident in Trent and
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  Speaker 2: Doug and Trent staff that they would get that done.
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  Speaker 2: So I can't say I ever felt like it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: going to happen. I never let myself go that way,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, because you know, we were confident that we
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  Speaker 2: made it clear where Evans stands. Yeah, I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just I think somebody sent me a tweet right away
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  Speaker 2: and I called Evan just to congratulate him and all
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  Speaker 2: that and welcome him back.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously. Yeah, maybe a.
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  Speaker 2: Relief in some sense. Now, Again, like I said, I
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  Speaker 2: think I was always optimistic he was going to be here.
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  Speaker 2: We'd always planned for him to be here. We hadn't gone,
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  Speaker 2: We hadn't let ourselves go to what's this going to
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  Speaker 2: look like if we don't have Evan?
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  Speaker 6: Have you set your.
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  Speaker 5: Personal goals for yourself this year with this year's offense.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: But now I don't think you know in this in
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  Speaker 2: this game, in this sport is it's a team sport.
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  Speaker 2: So ultimately it's about I want to do whatever I
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  Speaker 2: can to make sure our offense is in the best
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  Speaker 2: possible position to attack a defense that we've talked through
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  Speaker 2: every situation, that guys aren't caught by surprise by anything
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  Speaker 2: that could potentially happen. Just making sure we stay connected
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  Speaker 2: as a unit, we continue to grow in our system
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  Speaker 2: and evolve a little bit Evan in the tight end.
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  Speaker 6: Room obviously, knowing he wasn't here during the off season
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  Speaker 6: workout period, what sort of opportunity did that create for
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  Speaker 6: the rest of that depth chart and maybe has there
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  Speaker 6: been a little bit of a movement behind him in
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  Speaker 6: the tight end room.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, it's huge that he wasn't here, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: gives Luke Ferrell has a huge opportunity to step into
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  Speaker 2: a role here. But then Garrett Prince, you know, had
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity. Brent and Strange probably gets more reps immediately
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  Speaker 2: than he would have had Evan been here. So I
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  Speaker 2: think for those guys it was invaluable for them to
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  Speaker 2: get that opportunity to get that experience with Trevor, to
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  Speaker 2: get that experience in our system in meetings, whatever it
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  Speaker 2: may be, and then for us to know, now you
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  Speaker 2: add Evan into that mix and they get a chance
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  Speaker 2: to see the way Evan has done things as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to just washing him on tape. I think that was
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  Speaker 2: huge for the growth of the room. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: those guys, It's gonna be an ongoing battle throughout to
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  Speaker 2: see how that room shakes out and who steps into
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  Speaker 2: what opportunities. But I think the spring was very beneficial
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  Speaker 2: for that group.
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  Speaker 4: How much has the playbook evolved over the past year.
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  Speaker 4: You talk about like putting in plays that Trevor likes,
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  Speaker 4: taking out ones he doesn't like. But now you have
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  Speaker 4: the receivers that have been there, They know the offense,
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  Speaker 4: so you can kind of expand things or you shrinking
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  Speaker 4: it and just fine tuning the things that fit everyone.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, honestly, I think we're kind of expanding
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  Speaker 2: right now in training camp, we're gonna get through these
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  Speaker 2: insults that we've had mapped out for a long time now.
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  Speaker 2: And once we get through those insults, then it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of let's sprinkle in some ideas that we think fit.
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  Speaker 2: Whether it's something we've done and maybe didn't invest much in,
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  Speaker 2: or something we've seen that we think it came from
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  Speaker 2: Calvin's tape, it came from tape across the league, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's just an idea somebody had of let's see
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  Speaker 2: if this fits us, and let's spend the time now
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  Speaker 2: really digging into it, see what works, and then if
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  Speaker 2: we decide that it makes it through the season to
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  Speaker 2: the season, we'll continue to invest in that. But we're
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  Speaker 2: really kind of getting in the meat and potatoes early
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  Speaker 2: in training camp, probably the first two weeks, and then
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  Speaker 2: beyond that, maybe we start to evolve and test some
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  Speaker 2: new things, try some things out, be it in a
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  Speaker 2: walk through, be it in seven on seven period, whatever
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  Speaker 2: that may be, where the stakes are low, and see
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  Speaker 2: kind of where this thing goes. But I think our
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  Speaker 2: our offense is in a constant state of evolution. Week
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  Speaker 2: to week, we're gonna look different, and that's a big
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  Speaker 2: part of what we want. We want our playbook and
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  Speaker 2: our system to be built in a way that we
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  Speaker 2: can evolve quickly. Our guys understand based on the way
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  Speaker 2: they're taught context now the presentation we have defense, whether formation, motion, personnel.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's something we spend time scheming throughout the week.
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  Speaker 4: When you have the like consistency of the nucleus on
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  Speaker 4: the offense like you do, how much does that help
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  Speaker 4: that evolution? I guess pick up the pace because you
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  Speaker 4: kind of have to go slower when you have everybody
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  Speaker 4: learning initiative a lot a lot.
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  Speaker 2: You know, obviously we have the rookies, and then beyond
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  Speaker 2: the rookies, it's really Calvin's the new guy. There's not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of new new guys learning the system, so
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys have a great foundation to start from.
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  Speaker 2: We're kind of talking about that the other day of
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe looking at it next year, who's going
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  Speaker 2: to be here whatever that maybe maybe next year the
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  Speaker 2: install is even more plays. You know, I think our
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  Speaker 2: guys would say there's a lot of plays when we
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  Speaker 2: get into an install meeting and talk through it. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, just the recall, the recall, the response. They
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  Speaker 2: have two questions we bring up in the install. It
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  Speaker 2: certainly appears that it's clicked really well with the guys.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously the vets have a good understanding of it, but
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  Speaker 2: even the new guys and the way the systems built
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  Speaker 2: and communicated, it feels like there's good retention of it.
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  Speaker 1: Than I do't appreciate your BA appreciate