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Press Pass | Campanile & Walker on Day 2 of Pads, Competition & Goals · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Mark.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys got some pads working. Just kind of
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  Speaker 2: what did you see over the last two days.
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  Speaker 1: I thought today for us defensively a little bit better
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  Speaker 1: than yesterday. But that's what you're trying to do, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to build a callous and uh and just
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  Speaker 1: honestly entering blocks the right way, you know, entering tackles
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  Speaker 1: the right way. All the fundamental things, uh that are
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  Speaker 1: important to winning and playing good football, certainly playing good defense.
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  Speaker 1: And we got a great look at it because you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think our offensive line coaches do a great job.
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  Speaker 1: There's those guys are really firm in the front. They
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  Speaker 1: play with great pad level. Our backs run with great
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  Speaker 1: pad level. I know Chad's all over them about that
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  Speaker 1: every day. So uh, that's you know, more of that
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  Speaker 1: will continue to make us better.
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  Speaker 2: The standard that was set with the run defense last year.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen the guys come in wanting to build
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  Speaker 1: off that and be even better? Yeah, I think so,
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  Speaker 1: I think, Uh, I think we know we can be better.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's definitely some meat on the bone there
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  Speaker 1: on the bone, and they're all pretty bought into the process.
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  Speaker 1: You know, some of you guys who have been around
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  Speaker 1: here to practice. You see coach Jenkins here and you
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  Speaker 1: know Pete Jenkins here in an individual drill, and he's
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  Speaker 1: kind of been everywhere I been since I was in Miami,
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  Speaker 1: and he's the goat. You know, he's so much of
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  Speaker 1: what I believe comes from coach. And he's honest. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's come here and you know, comes in here and
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  Speaker 1: he's ripping my ass and ripping every I mean, he's
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's just telling the truth. So we got
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  Speaker 1: him in here kind of just watching everything, making sure
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  Speaker 1: we're doing a great job with the drills and training
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  Speaker 1: the guys the right way.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, he's done.
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  Speaker 1: A pretty good job for all the teams in the
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  Speaker 1: SEC less than what twenty years, thirty years, So hopefully
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  Speaker 1: having him here and I know it is gonna help us.
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  Speaker 2: You can have some bad days again. You need some
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  Speaker 2: off days back.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there's a lot of positivity, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: good things happening, but you need days like yesterday, you would.
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  Speaker 1: Think, to help continue to raise the standard, to bounce
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  Speaker 1: back to do Yeah, I mean, I just believe in
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  Speaker 1: being honest. And you know, even what anybody perceives is
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  Speaker 1: a great day is an all sunshine of rainbows. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you got to tell the truth and you got to
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  Speaker 1: see around corners and see what the problems lying ahead are.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it might not get you here, but my
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  Speaker 1: college coach, coachianos about that all the time. You know,
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  Speaker 1: gets it here when he gets you, and you got
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  Speaker 1: to be on that. And I think that's a huge
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  Speaker 1: part of coaching. So never as good as you think
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  Speaker 1: it is, never as bad as you think it is.
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  Speaker 1: But you gotta be honest. It's the only way for
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  Speaker 1: anything to get better. It's the only way anything that
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  Speaker 1: proves that what he wants you in the impact he
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  Speaker 1: can make. Yeah, I think he can make a great
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  Speaker 1: impact for us. He's playing really really hard learning our system.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the fundamental things that he's learning every day,
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, it's new to him, so in that regard,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff is fresh and now you're
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  Speaker 1: starting to see him apply it. And I think he's
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  Speaker 1: doing a good job with it. But like everybody, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's got a gap to close. You know, I'm where
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  Speaker 1: he wants to be, and that's true of everybody out here.
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  Speaker 2: But I think he can help us.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's done a really good job in the rush,
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  Speaker 1: and he's done a good job on early down so
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  Speaker 1: far in camp, you know, in the padded days, last
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  Speaker 1: few padded days especially, which is which is great when
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  Speaker 1: you were.
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  Speaker 2: A standing beyond the line of scrimmage on the given play.
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  Speaker 1: What do you watch.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: I I try to always watch him the middle out personally,
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  Speaker 1: I try to watch the game from the middle out.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the more you do that, the more
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  Speaker 1: you can see there. You know, the better you get
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  Speaker 1: it doing that, the more you can see and you
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  Speaker 1: got to really in practice, in my opinion, if you
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  Speaker 1: can relax your eyes, you can see a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you're staring at one particular spot, you
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  Speaker 1: don't see the whole picture. But I think our coaches
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  Speaker 1: do a great job of anything I miss. They're constantly
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  Speaker 1: filling me in every time I ask a question, Like
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  Speaker 1: all our guys are watching their guys and where they're
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  Speaker 1: standing in the drills and where they're standing in the practice.
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  Speaker 1: That's by design. So we talk about that a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and they're doing a really good job of that. Watching
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  Speaker 1: the player's eyes, you know, watching their entry and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. That stuff is important, I think for them
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  Speaker 1: to get.
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  Speaker 3: Better right on to kind of look like he's off
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  Speaker 3: to the starter is Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, like I said the last time I
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  Speaker 1: was up here, that's a heated competition in that room.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think competition brings competitors and Liam
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  Speaker 1: did an unbelievable job of that here last year. Like
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  Speaker 1: you know, Matt Dickerson played his ass off on you know,
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  Speaker 1: scout team last year and we ended up bringing him
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  Speaker 1: up and he did a great job for us out
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  Speaker 1: on the field. So that's real here. You know, our
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  Speaker 1: head coach believes in that. He believes in competition. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: And if you're doing a great job and you're producing,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna get an opportunity to play. So that's what
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  Speaker 1: it's all about. It's about stacking days and continuing to produce.
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  Speaker 1: But the guys in there a good are in a
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  Speaker 1: good competition, and they're all playing hard.
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  Speaker 3: You're a coach that consistently brings that fire and that
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  Speaker 3: intensity with the pads coming on. Are there any players
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  Speaker 3: that have stood out early on and just in terms
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  Speaker 3: of the physicality that they brought to the field.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we just want that for everybody, want
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  Speaker 1: to be the want that to be the culture of
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  Speaker 1: the room, you know what I mean that when we
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  Speaker 1: get together, when you andit meet, we're gonna call that
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  Speaker 1: out and we don't see it, you know, and just
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  Speaker 1: gonna be honest. If it isn't up to the standard,
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  Speaker 1: and we're not doing that, and we're not performing physically,
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  Speaker 1: and we're not violently finishing, you know, trying to whoop
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  Speaker 1: the other guy's ass on every play, it's gonna get
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  Speaker 1: called out. And if you are, it's gonna get celebrated.
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  Speaker 1: And I just think that that's a good culture to
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  Speaker 1: have and and hopefully we're trending that way. But our
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  Speaker 1: players believe in that, from the defensive backs all the
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  Speaker 1: way down to the d line, they don't believe in that.
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  Speaker 1: And they're great guys to coach honestly because of that.
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  Speaker 1: They're they're great. We have great, great dudes here, great dudes.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like the defense got in their hands on
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  Speaker 1: a lot of football's last a couple of days in
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  Speaker 1: the second aary.
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  Speaker 3: Just how have you argued with just the progression of
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  Speaker 3: that unit, especially with you know, coach.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Yeah, I think they've just continued.
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  Speaker 2: To grow from last year.
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  Speaker 1: All those guys, you know, like jar and Antonio, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and then Eric and Jordan and their their leadership and
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  Speaker 1: what they've been able to do for some of those
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  Speaker 1: young guys like Caleb Rayon, I think, Jalen Husky, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jabori Muhammad like and all those guys buster how they've
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  Speaker 1: will improved over time. And it's great to see because
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  Speaker 1: I think Matt and I have a very very similar
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  Speaker 1: coaching style. You know, we kind of coached together for
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  Speaker 1: a long time and we're damn there like like brothers,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So it's, uh, it's good to see them,
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  Speaker 1: and I think he's doing a great job at them.
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  Speaker 3: You talked a bit more about the leadership and the
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  Speaker 3: mentorship that Murray brings to those young safeties and how.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's like a total problem.
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  Speaker 1: It's like having a coach because even in the meetings,
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  Speaker 1: Eric can fill the guys in and fill in the
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  Speaker 1: spots if there's anything that he feels like he could
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  Speaker 1: clarify or you know, make easier or give past experience
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  Speaker 1: to the young guys. It's wants them to have a
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  Speaker 1: guy like that who's willing to share some veterans, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they may be closed off, he's not he's really like
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  Speaker 1: hands on with the young guys and he wants them
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  Speaker 1: to do well. And again, like he's honest with me.
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  Speaker 1: He just tells them the truth, you know, like if
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  Speaker 1: it ain't good, he's telling them why it isn't good
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  Speaker 1: and how it can be better.
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  Speaker 3: Can you see the benefit of a second year in
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  Speaker 3: the system just overall for this defense yet?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just try And honestly, I'm just I think
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  Speaker 1: we're all just trying to stay day to day and
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  Speaker 1: how we can you know, how we can get better,
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  Speaker 1: how we can improve it, and there's so much to
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  Speaker 1: improve right now. But you know, hopefully that's that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're hoping for. You know what I mean that a
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  Speaker 1: second year in the system. I think their communication is
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  Speaker 1: better overall. And that's yeah, just you know, when you're
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  Speaker 1: not learning something, you're kind of you're practicing it again
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  Speaker 1: and again there's a foundation there already, there's cumulative reps,
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  Speaker 1: so there's better communication.
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  Speaker 2: Is one thing I would say. We talked so much
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  Speaker 2: about Trayvon. What uh have you seen from him so far?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Different from last year?
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  Speaker 5: Is there progress anywhere?
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  Speaker 2: Did you see?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just like even even you watch him in
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  Speaker 1: the individual working doing the you know, the one game
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  Speaker 1: stuff and trying to be super intentional about everything he does.
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  Speaker 1: I see that stuff showing up in the practice and
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  Speaker 1: none in the pass rush.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He's looked really, really good with camp, so I think
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  Speaker 1: he's improved a bunch from even from where we were
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  Speaker 1: here last spring.
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  Speaker 2: Wrap it up here.
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  Speaker 3: What kind of option could Wesley Williams be inside on
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  Speaker 3: third down?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean less is he's a guy that's goldna get bigger,
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  Speaker 1: you could see, but he's already a big guy, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So he's got a little bit of a similar stature
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  Speaker 1: to Trey, where you know, he's a big end, a
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  Speaker 1: guy that's got a lot of strength, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: he's probably gonna be able to continue to put more
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  Speaker 1: weight on. And he's a twitchy guy. So that's what
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  Speaker 1: we really like about Wesley. He's really really smart. He's
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  Speaker 1: got great attention to detail, so he's been able to
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  Speaker 1: move around a little bit outside and inside, which as
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  Speaker 1: a young guy, that's that's tough. But he's done a
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  Speaker 1: good job of it. So we're hopeful that he's able
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  Speaker 1: to give us uh a little bit of help there
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Camp.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, does it finally feel like camp starts for
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  Speaker 4: you and pads go on or uh, camp's been started,
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  Speaker 4: but when the paths come on it it definitely take
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  Speaker 4: a toll on anybody once you get a couple of
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  Speaker 4: days in one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: How we're in the first two days and paths, how
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  Speaker 2: is that work? I feel like it went pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously you go have those a's and flows throughout camp
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  Speaker 4: days and you go wear reps.
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  Speaker 2: You gonna lose some res but I mean it's all
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  Speaker 2: a part of camping. Gotta you here to get better.
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  Speaker 3: That was so much more.
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  Speaker 2: Actable or in this system now.
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  Speaker 4: And can you see a difference when you see yourself.
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  Speaker 2: On film with that? Definitely comfortable for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Uh. And as far as see a difference obviously from
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  Speaker 4: last year. Obviously I had the injury, so I'm playing
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  Speaker 4: through some things now. I'm just getting back into that
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  Speaker 4: rhythm that I left off at him.
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  Speaker 1: I know the specific things that you work on during
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  Speaker 1: training camp for yourself or is it just trying to
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  Speaker 1: get better there?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I say for me it some it can it can vary.
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  Speaker 4: So like just coming from coming out of a practice
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  Speaker 4: like this is something I will go in the film
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  Speaker 4: room and just say, fens, we be back on the
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  Speaker 4: field tomorrow. Some if I feel like I really need
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  Speaker 4: to emphasize something from the day before on the uh
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  Speaker 4: on the during the next day, then I'll put forth
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  Speaker 4: the effort to work on whatever that is.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm always trying to iron out something.
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  Speaker 4: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: I know that you're willing to do whatever it takes
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  Speaker 2: to help the team win. But how impactful can you
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  Speaker 2: be with the movie You're around two different spots on
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  Speaker 2: the line.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, uh me personally, I think that's for anybody who
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  Speaker 4: plays the game of football. I feel like if you
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  Speaker 4: can move pieces around, uh, especially a individual player alone wherever,
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  Speaker 4: especially on the front, I feel like it can definitely
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  Speaker 4: create uh some I mean, the offense won't be able
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  Speaker 4: to id where he's gonna be every place, so I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I definitely gonna keep him guessing as well.
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  Speaker 3: When you and Josh are on the same side, how
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  Speaker 3: disruptive could that be?
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  Speaker 4: For Iman, that definitely could be disruptive. But I feel
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  Speaker 4: like if I'm with anybody on this de defensive line,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like we're gonna be disrupted regardless.
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  Speaker 3: Bouncing off of her point, when evaluating your skill set
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  Speaker 3: is there one specific facet of your game that you're
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  Speaker 3: hoping to improve upon.
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  Speaker 4: This officers, Uh, one thing that I did tell myself
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  Speaker 4: I really wanted to improve on. Obviously, I'm a big
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  Speaker 4: power player. I just feel like I need to start
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  Speaker 4: playing with my length a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. I feel like if I uh play.
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  Speaker 4: With my length a lot more, UH, keep guys from
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  Speaker 4: getting on me so much and having the bench press
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  Speaker 4: and having to use my strength all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I just.
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  Speaker 4: Start off locked out. I feel like I'll take advantage
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  Speaker 4: of a lot more.
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  Speaker 2: On my reps freaking on.
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  Speaker 5: I know you guys are attacking the end, just coach
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  Speaker 5: saying our early in camp, but when you consider what
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  Speaker 5: you guys accomplished last year, do you guys even care
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  Speaker 5: that you're not getting any respect considering you got so
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  Speaker 5: many guys coming back, you got a coach coming back,
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  Speaker 5: all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Man. I've been here five years. Throughout the five years,
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  Speaker 2: we had some up and down.
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  Speaker 4: Like we when I first came in, we had made
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  Speaker 4: a playoff run even though we didn't go deep. But
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  Speaker 4: we just sta were not worried about nothing in the past.
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  Speaker 4: We just didn't steadily trying to continuously improve every day. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: that's the main goal. Like we're not throelling on anything, No,
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  Speaker 4: sir y.
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  Speaker 1: The other day, Uh, Josh said that the more that
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  Speaker 1: he's goes through the way he learns how to watch
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  Speaker 1: tape differently.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was interesting.
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  Speaker 5: Eight same thing upont of you do you look at
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  Speaker 5: things differently now when you when.
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  Speaker 2: You watch what you did? Uh? Definitely it's alwa. You
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  Speaker 2: always gonna see different things.
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  Speaker 4: Like you can go watch the same film to say,
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  Speaker 4: for instance, we practice Monday, Say you go back and
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  Speaker 4: it's Wednesday. You go back to that Monday tape, you
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  Speaker 4: might see something that you maybe didn't pick up on
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  Speaker 4: as far as like a small little step or something
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  Speaker 4: like that. You always gonna find a little small things
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  Speaker 4: that you can always correct from film.
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  Speaker 2: So I definitely agree with him on that. You've gone
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  Speaker 2: up against him plenty. What makes Time a good offensive lineman? Man?
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  Speaker 4: At time he's he's athletic. Uh, He's he's a big
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  Speaker 4: strong Uh. That's what I really feel like, sess. At
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  Speaker 4: time to side he can be moving around and as
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  Speaker 4: what like I say, he's athlete, So I feel like
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  Speaker 4: he comes from a basketball background. A lot of guys
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  Speaker 4: that come from that background and can move well. So
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  Speaker 4: I feel like the position that he plays that's critical.
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  Speaker 2: What you heard last time, like you set foot on
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  Speaker 2: that field over there, and what do you think it'll
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  Speaker 2: be like when prec seasons?
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  Speaker 4: Man, I couldn't even put a date on probably the
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  Speaker 4: last home game where we had.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, what it's gonna feel like?
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  Speaker 4: I mean to me, is gonna feel like stay football,
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  Speaker 4: step on the football for it's.
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  Speaker 2: Time to play football.
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  Speaker 4: But obviously playing in front of a home crowd it
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  Speaker 4: give you a little extra spark, But other than that,
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  Speaker 4: it's football.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of the day.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, I don't care how fancy it is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care how old it is. We go play football.
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  Speaker 1: What Uh what was your.
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  Speaker 3: Reaction when you saw Travis back bigger, faster, Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Man, it's growth, I was That's the first thing that
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  Speaker 4: I that came to my mind when I seen him,
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  Speaker 4: specially with the offseason pitchs uh as that means he
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  Speaker 4: really was just home in on his work or he
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  Speaker 4: took the weight room serio seriously, took.
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  Speaker 2: His recovery s recovery series as well.
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  Speaker 4: So, uh, that's just something that exciting to see what
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  Speaker 4: you like, who I mean, it's it's expected man coming
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  Speaker 4: from college. Uh, that's that transition to college to coming
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  Speaker 4: to professional. So I feel like he's just in the
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  Speaker 4: right mental space as far as to where he he's
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  Speaker 4: being words fee that he's not in college anymore. He
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  Speaker 4: he wanted to improve his game, and that's probably just
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: a step to plenty more things that you can do
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: to uh, continuously grow his game, which I know he will.
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: What are you shooting for a personally this year or
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: is that even something you're taking around.
• 13:10
  Speaker 4: Sh Uh, take a one week at a time, get
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: get a win one week at a time, and everything
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: that's a work itself off from now.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks try, Thank you,