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Press Pass | Mitch Morse on Advancing the Run Game, Advice To Younger OL · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: This offensive line the last couple three days and pads
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  Speaker 1: for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: Any things stand out, well, I thought just the resilience
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  Speaker 2: of the group. You know, we had a few guys
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  Speaker 2: go down, as is the nature of training camp, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, guys stepped in, didn't bat and I worked
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  Speaker 2: when they had to. And the great thing about that
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  Speaker 2: is and when you go off the field, you have
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  Speaker 2: this huge kind of lax feel because you know, you
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  Speaker 2: put your work in and then we can make the
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  Speaker 2: adjustments and feel free to run and fly around make
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  Speaker 2: mistakes because we're just trying to hear to get better.
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  Speaker 2: And I think this group does a very good job
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  Speaker 2: of that. What's it I was gonna say early impressions
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  Speaker 2: of the run game. I mean, I know, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: it's really early.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's they know what they want to run,
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  Speaker 2: and the nice thing is they're going to stick to it,
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  Speaker 2: and that gives us the freedom to ask questions, work
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  Speaker 2: on the techniques that they want, not be afraid to
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  Speaker 2: make mistakes out here so that we can correct those.
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  Speaker 2: In the film room, we can have open dialogue, talk
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  Speaker 2: about what we see, what we like, what we don't like,
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  Speaker 2: and then at least, no matter what, we're on the
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  Speaker 2: same page. So I think just sticking to that. It's
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  Speaker 2: not going to be pretty every day. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: might not be pretty early on in games, but just
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  Speaker 2: to have the confidence in the fact that hopefully we
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  Speaker 2: can continue to call those even if they aren't hitting
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  Speaker 2: at first, so we can make those in game adjustments
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  Speaker 2: of the sideline adjustments and not ride a roller coaster
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  Speaker 2: at times. Can you ever be sure until the regular
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  Speaker 2: season starts.
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  Speaker 1: Probably, you know.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of things you're not sure about until
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  Speaker 2: the regular season starts. You don't know who's going to
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  Speaker 2: be suited up, you don't know who's going to be
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  Speaker 2: healthy for week one or whatnot, or there's so many unknowns, right,
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  Speaker 2: But it gives you the confidence when week one comes
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  Speaker 2: that you've banked reps, that you've seen most every look
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  Speaker 2: that you've talked about it, that we're all five on
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  Speaker 2: the same page, or even Trevor of the backs are
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  Speaker 2: on the same page, so that when stuff comes up
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  Speaker 2: and we have to make adjustments in game, or we
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  Speaker 2: get strange looks like we've seen it before and we
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  Speaker 2: and they might get us once, but we can make
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  Speaker 2: those adjustments in not panic between OTAs and camp.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of dozen factses with Trevor so far. What's
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  Speaker 1: been your oppression is just.
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  Speaker 2: Working on Yeah, I think just the confidence in the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not like a you know, it's not like
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  Speaker 2: a standoffish confidence or anything like that. If anyone knows Trevor,
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  Speaker 2: that's not him, right, It's it's just he's got a
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  Speaker 2: little moxy about him. I think it's just he's well
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  Speaker 2: aged past twenty age of twenty four twenty five. Like
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  Speaker 2: his his confidence in the play call, his confidence and
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  Speaker 2: commanding what he wants in the huddle or on the
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  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage. It permeates to the rest of the guys,
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  Speaker 2: like everyone feels that. So you have a guy like
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  Speaker 2: that who's a steady presence at that position, but when
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  Speaker 2: he needs to open up the and have a little
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  Speaker 2: swagger about him, he does. It's that's what you need
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  Speaker 2: in a quarterback. Always talk about the continuity along the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line, building chemistry with the same group.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, the guys banged up this part of camp can't
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  Speaker 1: get done. But when does that Does that really have
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  Speaker 1: to be all five together? Is that really like the week.
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  Speaker 2: Before or Yeah, I don't know if there's a if
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  Speaker 2: it's fair to put a specific timeline on timeline on
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  Speaker 2: this is when you have to have something. This is football, man,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like, rarely are you going
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  Speaker 2: to have that five work together from the start of
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  Speaker 2: camp through the end of February or whenever your season ends. Right,
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  Speaker 2: So for us, we have to understand that in games,
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  Speaker 2: people might go down, there might be a switch up
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  Speaker 2: of things. So it actually is nice right now to
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  Speaker 2: have the confidence working with other dudes, right like, see
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  Speaker 2: how they tick, see what their thought process is, and
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  Speaker 2: for vice versa. So yeah, for us, we're just gonna
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  Speaker 2: get our work in, hopefully those guys get back as
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  Speaker 2: healthy as possible, and then we'll roll from there and
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  Speaker 2: just kind of take the next swing that comes with
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  Speaker 2: it knowing what they want to run.
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  Speaker 1: What do you like about what they do it? Well?
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  Speaker 2: I think I thought I like the definitive rules, right Like,
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  Speaker 2: football is a game of rules, not only for official sakes,
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  Speaker 2: but protections and run game and such. There's not much
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  Speaker 2: gray area, so you don't have to think. Like if
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  Speaker 2: you can eliminate as much thinking as possible, you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have that inherently thinking throughout a play, but when you
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  Speaker 2: can kind of just let your fundamentals run free and
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  Speaker 2: you have answers for stuff. So they're giving us answers
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  Speaker 2: to things that we might see different fronts or uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, different checks to get into, which I think
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  Speaker 2: is a great, great thing to have. Travis, Travis guy
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  Speaker 2: runs and he's always smiling. We'll know it is. And
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  Speaker 2: he's a young guy, always smiling.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to see.
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  Speaker 2: And thoughts that if.
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  Speaker 1: You've been a big help to him, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: off the board and everything, what what's that kind of
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  Speaker 1: relationship and like how it's important? How important is it
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  Speaker 1: to you?
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  Speaker 2: Just kind of passed on to you any that listen,
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  Speaker 2: I think, uh, you know, you lose mobility as you
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  Speaker 2: get older. Football is a is a very frustrating game
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  Speaker 2: in which you learned it. By the time you really
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  Speaker 2: learn to appreciate it, you can't quite do the things
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  Speaker 2: you used to anymore. And it's just a circular thing
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  Speaker 2: in time where it's the older guys saying, don't blink
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  Speaker 2: because it'll end, and the young guys thinking, you know,
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  Speaker 2: kick Rock's old guy, and like, you know, my body
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  Speaker 2: feels great, and so on and so forth, and you
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  Speaker 2: know it's it's I'm sitting here at year ten remembering
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  Speaker 2: the older guys telling me how fast this thing's going,
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  Speaker 2: and me going through my first training camp thinking these
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  Speaker 2: days never end.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So just with that time, you've accrued a lot of football,
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  Speaker 2: You see stuff, and and most of the time it's
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  Speaker 2: just continuing, like, hey, continue what you're doing. Don't second
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  Speaker 2: guess yourself, right, you have so many tools, you have
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  Speaker 2: the keys to the castle, man like you are such
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  Speaker 2: a talented player, and that don't doesn't only go for him,
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  Speaker 2: it goes for a lot of the guys. And for me,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to give the guys confidence to go
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  Speaker 2: out and play, get them in the right position, and
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  Speaker 2: then hopefully able to do my job to a certain extent.
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  Speaker 1: Goal Line has been a focus to this team moving
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  Speaker 1: ahead after last season. So what do you bring to
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  Speaker 1: that equation and seeing it out here for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: Where can this team make strides there? Well?
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  Speaker 2: I think you know you can only do so much
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  Speaker 2: short yard goal line while you're practicing against your own guys, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like you have to balance between getting those reps where
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  Speaker 2: there is a certain violence and physicality to it, but
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  Speaker 2: you also want to have guys be able to play
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  Speaker 2: on Sundays or ensuing practices. So I think that's when
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  Speaker 2: you coach has these few days where we do that
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  Speaker 2: and we take those seriously and then I'm just banking
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  Speaker 2: reps and mentally and then understanding that when push comes
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  Speaker 2: to shove and we have these opportunities in the game,
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of them, and then you work on them.
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  Speaker 2: Like hopefully you're better in short yards goal line at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the year than you are at the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: Not to say you want to be terrible at at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning the year, but you know, I think coaches
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  Speaker 2: have to balance a delicate line, and ours do that
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  Speaker 2: pretty well. What have you seen from the distensive minement. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think Mason's got Mason's got such a bright future
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  Speaker 2: in this league. You know, he's got the physical tools,
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  Speaker 2: of course, but you can see that he's got these
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  Speaker 2: spurts of just you know, not only athletic power, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's really working some moves. And I think
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  Speaker 2: your first year is such a monumental growing experience in
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  Speaker 2: the football realm, right Like, so it'll just be fun
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  Speaker 2: to see him and work with him as these weeks progress,
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  Speaker 2: see him get better as a football player, immersed in
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  Speaker 2: this Nielsen defense and come out and hopefully have a
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  Speaker 2: celebration of those moments on Sundays. And yeah, the other
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  Speaker 2: guy is great too, you know. Unfortunately he's been out
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  Speaker 2: with an injury for a bit, the other d LSU guy.
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  Speaker 2: But I really like him, I really do. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's got a bright future ahead of him. If he
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  Speaker 2: gets back healthy, it'll be a fun guy to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks guys, Thank