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John Schneider Discusses The Roster Heading Into The 2025 Season · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How are we doing. Yeah, thanks for coming out. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, we want to thank uh, we want
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  Speaker 1: to thank everybody in Football Ops support staff for a
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  Speaker 1: great uh training camp pre season. Uh you know, Jeremy
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  Speaker 1: Young and and uh e K and the trainers and
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  Speaker 1: everybody that uh, you know supporting our trip to Green Bay.
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  Speaker 1: There's a big undertaking and there's a lot of work
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  Speaker 1: and logistics that goes up into that to pick up
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  Speaker 1: the group and pick up the whole you know, football
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  Speaker 1: operation and bring it to uh a beautiful city for
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  Speaker 1: a week. But uh yeah, you know we're excited to
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  Speaker 1: uh get going here and and uh we like what
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  Speaker 1: we've done, and you know, we want to thank the
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  Speaker 1: guys you know in the scouts. Last you know, forty
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  Speaker 1: eight hours, everybody's been jamming upstairs and you know, working
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  Speaker 1: their connection, studying, getting to know uh a lay of
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  Speaker 1: the land as best we can. We'll be doing a
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  Speaker 1: lot a lot tonight too, as we see everybody else's
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  Speaker 1: initial practice squads and uh, you know, trying to set
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  Speaker 1: up you know, our initial practice squad and then you
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  Speaker 1: know maneuvering off of that, you know, adjusting someone on
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  Speaker 1: the fifty three. But uh yeah, really excited about our
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  Speaker 1: our seventy and uh, you know, we'll keep working our
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  Speaker 1: you know that ninety group too that you know, and
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  Speaker 1: then all the guys that have been let go, bringing
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  Speaker 1: in guys for workouts, having a nice ready list together
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  Speaker 1: for the season and uh yeah, bringing guys in for workouts,
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  Speaker 1: getting physical and see where we are, see where we
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  Speaker 1: can go to so uh we can keep the competition
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  Speaker 1: going throughout the season and make our team as strong
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  Speaker 1: as we possibly can. And uh you know this what
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  Speaker 1: first the opening game against San Francisco as well is
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  Speaker 1: into February, So uh yeah, with that, take questions.
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  Speaker 2: Excited about your draft class. It's back on the draft
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  Speaker 2: weekends now you've had all this time. Every draft pick
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  Speaker 2: is either on the fifty three or on the practice squad,
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  Speaker 2: and you got to udfas, how do you feel about
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  Speaker 2: the rookies and how they performed so far?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's uh, you know, I think we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: that before. It's kind of like, you know, like we
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  Speaker 1: feel like we always feel like, you know, like we're
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  Speaker 1: talking to surgeons or doctors after I'm sure you guys
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  Speaker 1: feel that way talking to us, right, You're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: everything was great, you know it was a phenomenal surgery, right, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you always feel great about it. I guess I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: I think we're all excited about the players. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're all excited about the development of the players as well.
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  Speaker 1: Uh watching the uh the education, the clarity, the teaching
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  Speaker 1: that's going on on the field, and uh the intensity.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's uh, that's what stands out and and
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  Speaker 1: uh to watch these guys uh improve week by week,
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  Speaker 1: some of them day to day quite on, so uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and watching them have some stepbacks and then respond to
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, we're we're we're excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: That was the second year working with Mike and fuming
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  Speaker 2: the team together.
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  Speaker 1: Was it any different this year? Kind of what the
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  Speaker 1: gun you guys th tind of maybe a little bit better?
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  Speaker 1: Best timber are, Well, sure, we're you're always you know
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  Speaker 1: Pete and I every year too. You're you're always trying
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  Speaker 1: to improve your process. And so I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with with uh with Mike coming in last year, Baltimore
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  Speaker 1: as a as a great personnel staff, you know, starting
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  Speaker 1: with Ozzy years ago and then uh now Eric Tacosta.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so he's they have a really good process there.
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  Speaker 1: So he's used to, you know, a specific process. He
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  Speaker 1: had to get used to it last year, but I
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  Speaker 1: think there was a pretty strong level of trust, uh
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  Speaker 1: with Mike, and uh this year was more you know,
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  Speaker 1: I would say with the defensive staff was was clean.
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  Speaker 1: And then the offensive staff has coached you know, in
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  Speaker 1: the in the league for a number of years as well,
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  Speaker 1: so being able to you know, get with those guys
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, uh having that experience that they have
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  Speaker 1: really helped, and so we're just we're just really excited
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we're we're really proud of like how
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  Speaker 1: smooth it was and the interaction that we can have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, cruising in and out of each other's offices,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the no walls experience is uh was great,
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  Speaker 1: especially over the last three days because you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: these guys are you know, they're game planning, the coaches
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  Speaker 1: their game planning, they're getting ready for San Francisco. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they get extremely attached, which they should to the guys
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  Speaker 1: that you know, for you know, they're that they've been
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  Speaker 1: coaching the ninety guys, and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the next day there's you know, fifty three
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  Speaker 1: and then now we're back to seventy and you know,
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  Speaker 1: guys are in and out. We're asking about guys and
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  Speaker 1: other teams. We're asking them to evaluate other guys from
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  Speaker 1: other teams and if they like them and and if
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  Speaker 1: they want to work with them and what they've heard
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  Speaker 1: and you know, work in their relationships and so they're
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  Speaker 1: they're they're extremely busy. But I just we just we
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  Speaker 1: just really love the pliability in the in the uh
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  Speaker 1: communication that was going on, and uh, it'll continue to
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  Speaker 1: go on. But yes, wow, sorry long answer. Yes, it
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  Speaker 1: was it was it was better, uh and and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: every year it continues to get better as well. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, we we have trust in each other.
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  Speaker 2: Jaylen's development and where do you do you feel like
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  Speaker 2: his readiness is to come in and kind of fill
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  Speaker 2: that role that you would envisioned.
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  Speaker 1: Form you know, might have plays the game. Yeah, Jalen,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like we talked about at the draft time
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  Speaker 1: that those guys are very well coached, you know in
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  Speaker 1: at at at uh North Dakota State and okay, so
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  Speaker 1: okay in here the last part they took sorry, Jalen Milroe, Well,
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  Speaker 1: those guys are very well coached at Alabama as a
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  Speaker 1: damn good coaching staff there too, right. Uh no, he
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  Speaker 1: did great. His work ethics outstanding. He's got a great,
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  Speaker 1: you know, live personality. He's got a lot of juice,
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  Speaker 1: he's got swag. He uh he studies like crazy, and
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, you know he's he's following Drew and Sam
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  Speaker 1: Rown and spending a ton of time working on his
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  Speaker 1: craft and and doing the extras on his own. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure as you would have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like things go his way with the you know, ball
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  Speaker 1: security of other day a little bit better, but uh,
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  Speaker 1: really exciting to see. Excited to see what the uh
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  Speaker 1: you know, what the offensive staff is gonna do, like
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  Speaker 1: how how we work them in and you know what
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  Speaker 1: the plan is going to be. But yeah, very excited
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  Speaker 1: about his development. Yeah, thanks, sorry, man.
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  Speaker 2: He's gone brave from signment of the progressing the OFFENSI
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  Speaker 2: since bron Cantons and kind of what you get out
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  Speaker 2: of the staff gets one pre Sason actually.
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  Speaker 1: Seen him for the Sason. Yeah, absolutely, they and you
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  Speaker 1: know Jalen came in as a versatile player as well,
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  Speaker 1: good athlete, great brain, great work ethic and uh we
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  Speaker 1: talked about smart, tough, reliable, all the time. He legitimately
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  Speaker 1: is that so uh jb en Rico, those guys done
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  Speaker 1: a great job with him coach out and I mean
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  Speaker 1: those guys just there's there's buy in there, right, there's
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  Speaker 1: a legitimate scheme that you know, they're running off the ball,
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  Speaker 1: they're gaining confidence and uh you know they're confident what
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  Speaker 1: they do and and uh yeah, he's he's done a
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  Speaker 1: really nice job, and he's he's a smart guy. He's
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  Speaker 1: he's you know, he's gonna have command of what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: How decisively or bounced back?
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  Speaker 2: How much that change your plans? I'm sorry, Hot Tory orton?
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  Speaker 2: How decisively he bounced back right away from the knee
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  Speaker 2: and took over?
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  Speaker 1: How did how much that change your plans? On offense?
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  Speaker 1: Is prosper in terms of the roster? It? It didn't
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  Speaker 1: really quite honestly, how do you know about that? The
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  Speaker 1: whole line we like it again, it comes back to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the developers, the teachers. Uh there's an attitude they can
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  Speaker 1: have in this scheme where they can come off the
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  Speaker 1: ball and and uh feel confident about themselves. Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think they're They're they're spending a lot of time
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  Speaker 1: together I think you've seen a lot of growth within
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  Speaker 1: the group, Like there's a camaraderie that's starting to come
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  Speaker 1: together too. That's the whole team, not just not just
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line, but uh, you know that group is
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  Speaker 1: kind of a group you'd like to see kind of
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  Speaker 1: spending a lot of time together, you know, because they
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  Speaker 1: have to work as one. So uh yeah, we like it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're like every other position, we're gonna keep
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  Speaker 1: trying to work it. Uh We'll be we'll be looking
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  Speaker 1: at practice squads, looking at tryout guys, trades, whatever we
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  Speaker 1: have to do. You know, we'll be continued to uh
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  Speaker 1: to uh work that position. But this group of particular,
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  Speaker 1: it's here right now, is uh they're doing They're doing
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  Speaker 1: a really nice job.
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  Speaker 2: Can't direct kicking might have got way, what do you like?
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  Speaker 1: Try him? Yeah, so, uh, you know WILLI did a
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  Speaker 1: great job. You know, it's one of his teams, and
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  Speaker 1: he was a guy he identified that we really wanted
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  Speaker 1: to spend time with. You know, we've competed against him, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Coop knows him, Ernest. Uh, he's a competitor. Uh, really
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  Speaker 1: nice mover, really good ball skills. Came back from his
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  Speaker 1: ACL strong had. We thought he had a very nice preseason,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, he was a guy we we identified last
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  Speaker 1: night and you know, trying to you know, trying to
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  Speaker 1: work with that group to have as many corners as
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  Speaker 1: you possibly can. And again, it's not just for San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: it's for later in the season.
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  Speaker 2: John, you haven't yet at least announced any extensions for
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  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty two class. How do you kind of
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  Speaker 2: what your philosophy on kind of paying ahead of the
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  Speaker 2: final year and extending versus waiting and seeing them do
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  Speaker 2: what they're gonna do in the final year and then
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  Speaker 2: potentially a higher price afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, great question. It's it depends. It depends on the
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  Speaker 1: individual and where they are and how they're performing or
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  Speaker 1: what their story is. Everybody has a different story. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot that goes on behind closed doors that
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're proud that we can keep that in house,
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  Speaker 1: and we love our guys and we'll keep we'll keep
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  Speaker 1: working with them, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't,
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  Speaker 1: and if it doesn't, you just have to move on
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  Speaker 1: to the next guy. And and uh, we won't ever
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  Speaker 1: stop stop trying to do that. But there isn't like
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  Speaker 1: one just standard you know, philosophy other than the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you know, since you know, since we got here,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, mister Allen, his philosophy is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we don't do anything without you know, one year out.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll continue, we'll continue that route.
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  Speaker 2: There's potential to still get any extensions done or just
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  Speaker 2: what's the preseason's kind of over? Is that kind of weight?
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, it's always going on. Yeah, yeah, it's constantly
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  Speaker 1: going on and and it's just it's kind of in
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  Speaker 1: flux again depending on an individual, depending on the representation.
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  Speaker 1: How's it going that the uh, you know what kind
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  Speaker 1: of mood Joey Lane's in, you know that sort of
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  Speaker 1: thing that's a joke, Yeah, funny. How do you feel
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  Speaker 1: that receiving corps?
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  Speaker 2: And obviously the decision, but without that scantling and kind
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  Speaker 2: of the way he came together.
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  Speaker 1: And I take umbrage with that, you know question about
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  Speaker 1: I'm kidding that was for a friend of mine as well.
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  Speaker 1: I was supposed to say that. You just happened to
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  Speaker 1: be the person that asked the question, how do I
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  Speaker 1: feel about m VS? The signing and receiving corps is
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  Speaker 1: really strong? We really like it. You know, especially the
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  Speaker 1: physicality of it. The look, the there's a there's a
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  Speaker 1: really nice combination of receivers. I think I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: if if if Clint's talked about it with with the all,
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't know that there's a really there's
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  Speaker 1: a really cool uniqueness to all of them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and there's a there's a there's a cool physicality
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  Speaker 1: with you know, with Bobo and Dereek and and and
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  Speaker 1: Cody and uh really important you know, and in this
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  Speaker 1: scheme you have to be able to block. And so, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we liked the group MVS. He came in and did
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  Speaker 1: a nice job. He competed. Those guys were just they
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  Speaker 1: just were ahead of them. And uh yeah, so that's
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  Speaker 1: that's the way it goes, you know. Unfortunately, you got
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  Speaker 1: to you gotta get down to it at a certain time.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a very good signing for us at
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  Speaker 1: the time. You know, we had a we had a
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  Speaker 1: Tory in the draft and that you know, is a
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  Speaker 1: guy that could kind of take the top off and
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  Speaker 1: so that that's his kind of MVS specialty. So very
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  Speaker 1: similar to Tory in that regard with thinkings still kind
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  Speaker 1: of have you see that those spot ran with a
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  Speaker 1: generated fire and both play with maybe at their approgram
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  Speaker 1: f have you see whether they're at you the quote
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  Speaker 1: when you get back, Yeah, it's huge. You know, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get tired of us talking about seventy, but it's legit,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You know, it's it's it's hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard for those guys. You know, yesterday is a
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  Speaker 1: hard day when they're you know, those guys that they've
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  Speaker 1: both worked so hard to you know, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like they've earned a spot like on the you know,
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  Speaker 1: initial fifty three. But honestly, you guys have seen how
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  Speaker 1: many transactions we make. It's it's really just another day.
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  Speaker 1: It happened, that happens, just happened to be eleven hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty four guys out there. So we're really excited
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  Speaker 1: that that that Bo and Peey are back. And now
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, who's you know, which one's going to
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  Speaker 1: be elevated for the game if the coaches decide either
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  Speaker 1: you know, are we going to have a guy up
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  Speaker 1: are we not? You know, both like like to your point,
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  Speaker 1: Jay Reid and buy Renk and player as well. So
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  Speaker 1: it's really goingna fluid until you know, we get to
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  Speaker 1: next week and see how the coaches feel about you know,
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  Speaker 1: the game plan and defensive game plan and what that
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  Speaker 1: looks like.
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  Speaker 2: From Bohanna John He's a free agent, could have signed anywhere,
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  Speaker 2: and he's signed for the practice squad.
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  Speaker 1: Just I would have to say, you know, the coaches
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  Speaker 1: and and our support staff, you know, like well Kelly
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  Speaker 1: and Soup and every in this building that you know
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  Speaker 1: his like his his one thing. We have a plan
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  Speaker 1: for him. You know. Uh, he knows, he knows that
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  Speaker 1: we want to keep developing him and working with him,
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  Speaker 1: and uh yeah, I mean I don't know if there's
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  Speaker 1: necessarily buy in. I mean we're just he knows what
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  Speaker 1: his role is and you know, it's you know, it's unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: until he's elevated, you know, he's not going to get
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  Speaker 1: the same you know, paycheck those guys, right, But once
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  Speaker 1: they're elevated, they are being paid. So it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's a darn good chance he could get elevated. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna at some point, you know, seventeen games hopefully,
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  Speaker 1: you know a number. More So, it's the same thing
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  Speaker 1: with Peeley. I mean, Peely had a really nice preseason
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  Speaker 1: as well. Those guys were doing a really nice job competing.
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  Speaker 1: When you're putting together that that group to try to
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  Speaker 1: get through, uh, you know, the way guys get get
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  Speaker 1: through getting through guys in the waivers is is actually
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and and it's hard for players. I
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  Speaker 1: understand that, but it's it's a strategy to try to
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  Speaker 1: figure out how to have seventy seventy really good players
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  Speaker 1: instead of you know, just you're not necessarily taking the best,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whatever you want to call a top fifty
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  Speaker 1: three players. You're you're you're trying to take, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the best group of seventy that you can get to
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  Speaker 1: collect as quickly as possible. Initially, now you'll see us
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  Speaker 1: we'll make some transition transactions off of our practice squad
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  Speaker 1: as well as as we move forward here in next
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  Speaker 1: several days. And you know, when we have guys in
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  Speaker 1: for workouts and this that you guys have seen it,
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  Speaker 1: it'll never be totally totally settled. But uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as guys we had on our ninety, we expect those
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  Speaker 1: guys to be ready as well to jump on our
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  Speaker 1: practice squad if we have you know, deficiency throughout you know,
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  Speaker 1: a week or a specific game plan and all that, so.
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  Speaker 2: You make more out of the claiming because it's maybe
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  Speaker 2: not as common, especially in the last few years because
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  Speaker 2: the practice squad rules being liberated.
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  Speaker 1: And use that and you talk to guys like that. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: and and you know the elevations have really helped. And
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  Speaker 1: that's a great point about you know, the waiver claims
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  Speaker 1: as well. You can protect your team a little bit better,
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  Speaker 1: you know, veterans being on a practice squad, you know,
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  Speaker 1: going right to it. So yeah, you're you're you're on it.
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  Speaker 1: What's impressed you most about what Santon's done on the
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  Speaker 1: field and you some Sam Darld, Yeah, I think I
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  Speaker 1: think we've you know, just the U I'd have to say,
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  Speaker 1: coming in in the leadership and and being a guy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just being a teammate and a leader and
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  Speaker 1: working his tail off and studying and and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think you had asked about the San fran the
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  Speaker 1: background and with San Francisco before and you know what
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  Speaker 1: happened to him there, and that's a that's a whole
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  Speaker 1: That learning curve for him was huge. He had never
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  Speaker 1: experienced anything like that until he got too to Kyle's
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  Speaker 1: you know background, uh, with his father and so being
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  Speaker 1: able to when we were in Kansas City, our primary
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  Speaker 1: role was I was advancing from already shot and avers
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  Speaker 1: to be able to study you know, his father work
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  Speaker 1: and his zone scheme and all that, and then the
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: footwork and the timing. And it was also so important
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: to coach Homer and and Andy and John Gruden and
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: all his guys, so be able to see him work
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: his feet. These guys call it listening to their feet.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: So it's kind of cool. I have a cool They
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: give me a cool lid says listen to your feet.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: So but uh, yeah, yeah, I think just if you
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: just said okay right away, it's it isn't and it's
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: not like that he's not talented. I think it's just
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: like coming into a new place like this after having
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: a great year like he did, and just buying into
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: everything we talked about with you know, like what we
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: look like as an organization, the staff, the building, his
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: coaching staff, his position coach, and then just just being
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: a leader and pulling guys aside and working with guys
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: and you know, sitting down having lunch with different position
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: groups and stuff like that. You know, So what do
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: you feel what do you feel.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Better about this year's roster compared to last year when
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: you started the season.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Oh? Man, Yeah, I think it has to be the
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: offensive line, but it has to be more you know,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: more the uh, the unit and the cohesiveness of the
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: group than guys like individually, if that makes sense. You've
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: worked with Mike now for a year and.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: A half, or how have you seen Jenner job grow
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: with the head coach of the first year on that job?
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Get the yard on guy like I've seen grows now with.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just he can just absorb information and
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: he has a you know, a huge brain, and he
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: can go from like zero to one hundred really fast.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: He can be laughing, you know about whatever, like something silly,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: and then he can be super aggressive, like wanting to
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: fight you, you know, And I like that about him.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: But he has a it's a very clear He's a
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: very clear thinker and a clear communicator. And so I think, uh,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: there's a natural comfort that comes with natural comfort and
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: confidence that comes with standing in front of a team
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: all the time, having a full off season to kind
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: of digest, like what you want your team to look like,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: what you want your culture to look like and he's
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: been able to to to really bite into that and
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I think express that to the to the to the
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: players and his staff and all football operations and in
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the whole building quite honestly, and so I think just
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: it's just a natural progression. But it's it's it's it's
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: happening fast for him. I mean, it's a hard question
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: because I thought he came in, did a great job
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: in his first year, you know, you know, right away,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and nothing was too big for him or freaked him
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: out or you know, like the sky's falling and you
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: know makes how you're more excited about that? He said,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: you've been in the room. Uh've been in the weight room? Nice?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Is that your son's shirt or the little brother's shirt? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: but you know, let's the individuals. But Gray was your
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: number one pay Yeah. How much has he done too?
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: He's great question, It's been awesome. I mean, that was
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: a it's a huge piece. And he's the fact that
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: he played with Jalen too. Uh, not no ro sundew Uh.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: The fact that he those guys played together. So you
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: got two guys that are you know, there's a familiarity there.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: So that team or that unit bonding and that cohesiveness.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: But he's he's a tough guy, he's got a great personality.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: He's he's not he doesn't act like a and Jalin
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: didn't either. These guys are it's a it's a really
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: cool program to have there. And so they came in
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: and they both acted like pros. And he's done that
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: right away. He hasn't acted like anything's too you know,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: too big for him. But yet he's still you know,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: doing all the rookie hazing stuff and carrying helmets and
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: doing all.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: That undrafted free agents on the roster with Jared Ivy,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: conra O'Toole and Nick callraup. Kind of curious your thoughts
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: on those guys and how they performed.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: They they did a great job. They earned it, and
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: it's also it also comes back to you know, talent, yes,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: work ethic. Did they earn it, Yes, But it's also
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: who's going to be able to get through waivers and
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: how do you navigate this initial wave whenever he's you know,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: setting their rosters. So you know, all three of those
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: guys flashed huge in preseason games. They all did things
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: that really stood out on film. So and you know
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: we had we had a vibe that you know, we
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: we may not get guys through. So again, it's kind
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: of how you're you're you know, we're we're building this thing,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: and so it's hard to you know, they did a
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: great job. It's also how you're how you're building your team.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Initially said the more because obviously, as you said that,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: when you watched this, you take to play live. You
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: look at the defensive and offensive line. When you look
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: at those two right.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Now, and you feel like they're where you want to be,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: getting mutim where you.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Want to go this year. I never I never feel
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: like that. But I don't know. It's not like a
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: bad thing. But I think they're both doing a I
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: think they're both doing a great job. I know it's
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: very hard for these guys, these young offensive linemen to
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: come in and you know, be going against Jay Reed
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and Leonard Murph and like that whole group of guys.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: So to be able to see those guys, you know, uh,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: compete against each other, I would say yes, but I
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: can't you know, like say, like like Strouling used to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: ask me, like, well, how many games we're gonna win
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: this year? And i'd be like, I I don't know,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: you know, like we feel good about it. I can't
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: tell you, like better than previous years and all that
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. I can't. I can't tell you. I'm
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: just I'm excited that for both sides of the Paul
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: and I think they're doing a really nice job so far.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: So the whole season right there off, it's huge and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: they'll continue to I mean, that'll be continuing, you know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: throughout the whole year. And we're just looking at this
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: group today, you know, out the window watching these guys,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: these guys practice and and uh the one on ones
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and watching all the guys on both sides of the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: ball kind of coaching each other up on what just happened.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: And it's a great group. I mean, you know, Leonard's
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: a great leader channel all these but like Jay Reid is,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you know, he's always been even in his you know,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Alabama days, they always talked about him being a great
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: leader before he even before he left to go back
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: to JC and then he came back to Alabama and
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: was the alphadel leader. And he's he's he's a huge,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: huge piece of what we got going on here.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: You're back, just can you talk about that unit, and
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: then the importance with Josh George Klan he stepped up.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: The running back unit. Fans, I'll speak.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: A little louder, but mecintosh goes down and Halani steps up,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: and you also had competition Jacardi Wright.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Yea ten courting is for that what team that wants
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: to light, It's it's immense. You know, KPT does a
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: great job coaching that group. He's a great teacher. He's
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: hard on those guys. He demands a lot of that group. So,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: you know, George has always been a player that's been
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: a very well rounded player, whether it's pass protection, hacked.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: First game I saw him play, he was like saw
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: him play live. He was returning punts and kickoffs and
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: and then they had a and he was like the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: every down back and then they had gent come in
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the game once in a while. You know. So he's
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: always been a really talented guy and he's just very
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: very well rounded and and uh, you know, I know
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Coach Harborough and those guys and uh fits those guys.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: They love him on special teams as well, bringing in
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: chests growing up. I cannot gonna make Yeah, that's that's
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: a group that's uh, you know, we gotta get tarrese gohing.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: You know, you know, I'm sure Ernest wants some more
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: traction behind him as well. Uh Drake and PATTYO did
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: a great job in the preseason. If we wanted to
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: add to the group, we will will continue to be,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: you know, working at that position. Yeah, I thought, I
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: thought Patty and and uh Drake both had really nice, nice,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: uh preseasons. They really carried the defense all throughout the preseason,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: making the making the calls. And so alright, Sequille Griffin,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I move with him today? Was that? I mean, obviously, guys,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: you know, well was that hard at part? Was Shaquille?
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Or is their chance he stays around? Or yeah he'll
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: he'll stick around for sure. We love Shack all right,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, guys,