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  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask about Evan. He's normally the first
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  Speaker 1: one on the field. Pres said, he's the last one
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  Speaker 1: off the field, and just I think he called him
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate professional.
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  Speaker 2: He's still out there just being.
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  Speaker 1: That dedicated to the work. That's not guided how much
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  Speaker 1: of a player is or I'm losing it, but.
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  Speaker 2: No, I know what you're saying. Yeah, no, it's uh.
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  Speaker 3: I think it just it rubs off on your teammates
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  Speaker 3: and when they see that over time, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: everyone has their own process and does things completely different.
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  Speaker 3: Like I don't do things same way Evan does, but
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  Speaker 3: everyone has what they feels best to get them ready
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  Speaker 3: for whether it's practice, a game, anything during the week
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  Speaker 3: to get themselves ready for the game. And Evan is
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  Speaker 3: just very committed to his process and what he does.
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  Speaker 3: And I think when people see that, especially young players,
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  Speaker 3: they see a guy who is Evan, who's on year.
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  Speaker 2: It's on eight, I don't know, I think it's eight.
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  Speaker 3: He's on year eight, and he's still you know, has
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  Speaker 3: that drive and that hunger to be the best player
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  Speaker 3: you can bees out there, the first one out there
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  Speaker 3: warming up. Like I said, he's staying late, all those things,
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  Speaker 3: he's doing all the extra things, and I think that
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  Speaker 3: just is a good example for the younger guys and
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  Speaker 3: also just for our team. It's about being a leader
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  Speaker 3: on the team, a guy that comes to work every
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  Speaker 3: day with that mindset. It's not he doesn't change either.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like I don't feel like doing it today,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm not gonna you know, I've done it every
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  Speaker 3: other day, but today I'm just gonna not go out there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, He's very consistent, does the same thing every day,
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  Speaker 3: and it shows in the way he plays too, and
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  Speaker 3: he practices very hard, you know. And during the season
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  Speaker 3: he sits in there with the quarterbacks after practice when
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  Speaker 3: you watch tape. I mean I've mentioned that in the past,
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  Speaker 3: but he sits in there once sometimes twice a week,
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  Speaker 3: and we're in there late on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and
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  Speaker 3: he hangs out. And there's some weeks where you know,
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  Speaker 3: we'll throw a couple of things back and forth and
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  Speaker 3: talk about some stuff. And there's some weeks where he
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  Speaker 3: just watches it with us and sits there. Then you know,
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  Speaker 3: he rolls at the end. But either way, it's that
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  Speaker 3: constant communication. I think that's helped our relationship and our
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  Speaker 3: communication and be on the same page our chemistry on
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  Speaker 3: the field, just because we're always talking. He's sitting in
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  Speaker 3: there seeing the looks with us, whether it's third down,
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  Speaker 3: red zone. So I mean that's been something too that
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  Speaker 3: just goes to your point of seeing the stuff he
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  Speaker 3: does here. But he also does that when there's not
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  Speaker 3: people watching on the field. He does it in you know,
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  Speaker 3: meetings and after practice and after all that stuff when
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  Speaker 3: no one's here.
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  Speaker 4: So I talked a lot about at the beginning you camp,
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  Speaker 4: that'd be more comfortable, experience, adhesion, all that.
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  Speaker 1: Have you felt that during camp?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely?
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  Speaker 3: I think every day we've built that chemistry more and
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  Speaker 3: more as an offense. And I think most of the
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  Speaker 3: time you think of you know, skill players, the quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: skill players, running back, all that, you know that dynamic
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  Speaker 3: just because in the passing game it's so important just
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  Speaker 3: the timing and you know, route technique and the way
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw it, and you know what I expect
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  Speaker 3: different looks to look like. So I think that's where
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  Speaker 3: you see most of it. But also up front, I
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  Speaker 3: think the guys up front are gelling great. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they're playing really well together, communicating me and Mitch. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: it's a new center that I'm playing with this year,
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  Speaker 3: so that communication has been awesome, just to talk about
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  Speaker 3: different protections and whether it's protections or run game or cadence.
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  Speaker 2: All those things.
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  Speaker 3: You learn something new every day and you kind of
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  Speaker 3: just add it to you know, or whatever, throwing the
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  Speaker 3: memory bank just for moving forward. So I think you
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  Speaker 3: can't get enough of those looks, and that's why camp
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  Speaker 3: is great because you get to iron out a lot
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  Speaker 3: of stuff that otherwise you wouldn't get to see.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been a really good camp, like learning the offense,
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  Speaker 2: really more comfortable in the offense.
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  Speaker 4: How does what you want to get out of preseason
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  Speaker 4: gays sort of change and evolved.
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  Speaker 2: Over the years. I mean, I think it's all. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it's changed too much.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, I think the biggest thing is just
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  Speaker 3: you want to feel you want to play clean, and
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  Speaker 3: obviously it's never gonna be perfect.
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  Speaker 2: It's football.
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  Speaker 3: There's going to be some mistakes and things are going
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  Speaker 3: to happen. But that always feels good. You know, when
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  Speaker 3: you go into come out of a preseason game and
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  Speaker 3: you felt like whether it's one series or it's four
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  Speaker 3: or five series. You just feel like you were sharp,
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  Speaker 3: on the same page, communicated. You know, the ball went
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  Speaker 3: where it was supposed to go, You're on time. If
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  Speaker 3: like I'm seeing the field, well, you know, it's probably
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  Speaker 3: different for everybody and based on their position of kind
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  Speaker 3: of what they want to accomplish. But treat it like
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  Speaker 3: a real game. I think that's one of the bigger
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  Speaker 3: things is, especially this week I'm gonna be playing more,
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  Speaker 3: treat it like a regular season game, where just your
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  Speaker 3: prep throughout the week because it is a different process
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  Speaker 3: compared to camp of you know, it's a weird week.
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  Speaker 3: So if the game was on Sunday, you know, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's first second down, third down, red zone
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  Speaker 3: and then you go in and you finish your prep
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  Speaker 3: after that. So trying to treat it that way because
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  Speaker 3: camp isn't that way. Really, it's just good on good.
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  Speaker 3: You're practicing against your defense, seeing a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 3: So it is good to kind of get back in
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  Speaker 3: the mindset of all right, that we're prepping for another team.
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  Speaker 3: And I like to use it more mentally, I think
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  Speaker 3: than anything obviously physically on the field. You want to
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  Speaker 3: play well, but that has always been good for me,
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  Speaker 3: just to feel that game week routine and leading up
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  Speaker 3: to the game and going out there and when you're
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  Speaker 3: playing a half or whatever it is, it's gonna end
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  Speaker 3: up being you know, you kind of get a groove
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  Speaker 3: and get to settle in the game. Against Kansas City,
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  Speaker 3: you just kind of get a little taste. You don't
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  Speaker 3: really get to settle in and feel out the game.
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  Speaker 3: So now we'll get to do that. So I think
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  Speaker 3: it's really valuable.
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  Speaker 4: The personality of your surrounded casts, your offensive mind.
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  Speaker 2: And all your still players.
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  Speaker 4: How much how much better do you feel about this
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  Speaker 4: surrounding cast from a depth standpoint and just from a
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  Speaker 4: pure talent slash development standpoint?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's the I think the key is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the last few years we've had we've had
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  Speaker 3: good teams, and last year injuries unfortunately kind of heard
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  Speaker 3: us in some different positions. And so that's always going
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  Speaker 3: to be important to stay healthy because you need your
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  Speaker 3: guys out there and that's not.
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  Speaker 2: Always something you control. But as far as depth, I
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  Speaker 2: feel great.
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  Speaker 3: As far as talent, I mean, I think this is
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  Speaker 3: this is the most talented team for sure since since
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  Speaker 3: I've been here that we've had, and I think you
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  Speaker 3: guys that watch it every day could probably say that
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  Speaker 3: as well. So I feel really good. Obviously, that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: win you the games, though. You got to go out
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  Speaker 3: and play well and execute and put your best foot
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  Speaker 3: forward every Sunday and keep your in safecas on. The
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  Speaker 3: main goal is to go out there every series, every
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  Speaker 3: play and go earn it. But as far as a
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  Speaker 3: talent and depth standpoint, I think this is the best
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  Speaker 3: team we've had definitely since I've been here.
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  Speaker 5: It looks like the connection with Brian Thomas Junior has
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  Speaker 5: grown throughout practice, throughout training camping. Yeah, you're looking to
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  Speaker 5: continue that into a preseason game here this Friday for sure.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think as many live reps with him
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  Speaker 3: too as I can get just that's that's valuable. Things
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  Speaker 3: move a little faster in the game, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's done a great job last two weeks playing well
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  Speaker 3: and creating separation and being open.
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  Speaker 2: He's done a great job. But you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's those reps.
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  Speaker 3: Are really important for us, just to continue to build
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  Speaker 3: that chemistry to get his timing, because like I said,
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  Speaker 3: everything does speed up, especially for those guys once the
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  Speaker 3: game hits, So as many as many reps as we
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  Speaker 3: can get together is going to pay off for us
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  Speaker 3: and for his development moving forward. I mean, he's a
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  Speaker 3: guy that when he sees something, he learns from it
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  Speaker 3: and really remembers things moving forward and how he plays,
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  Speaker 3: and you can tell he takes in a lot of
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  Speaker 3: information and does well with that. So I think the
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  Speaker 3: more experience he gets, he's just going to get better
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  Speaker 3: and better. Right Like about Gabe David, just a personality standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the guy's nuts. He's I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: y'all spent much time around him, but he's he's a
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  Speaker 3: funny guy. Uh and the guys just it's it's funny
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  Speaker 3: to how everybody responds to him. Everybody just opens up
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. He brings a lot of energy, so that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, from a personality standpoint, that's awesome. As a player,
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  Speaker 3: I think just he's really smart. Understand space, he's really
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  Speaker 3: good and in zone he's really good at going and
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  Speaker 3: getting the ball, whether it's high pointing it or being physical,
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  Speaker 3: really physical receiver, receiver, great hands, tough, good in the
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  Speaker 3: run game. He can really do do it all. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that in Buffalo. Obviously they had a really
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  Speaker 3: good receiving corp and they had Stefan Diggs and so
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  Speaker 3: there's only one football. So I think it's it's helped
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  Speaker 3: him because his game is he can do everything. Because
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  Speaker 3: he's had to do everything and wherever he can fit
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  Speaker 3: in there, he did it and was successful.
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  Speaker 2: And then now I think having a.
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  Speaker 3: Little bit more of a primary role here, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be great for me. And he's Ford and he
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  Speaker 3: can make he can make all the plays, you know,
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  Speaker 3: run every route and he's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: We're out of Atlanta head. Their starters aren't gonna go.
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  Speaker 5: Can you still get the same thing out of this
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  Speaker 5: if you're taking on a team that isn't playing their starters.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, obviously it's everybody's every team's own decision
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  Speaker 3: decided they're gonna play for us. It doesn't change anything.
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  Speaker 3: He's still got to the same job to do. It
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  Speaker 3: don't matter who's out there. There's there's a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: good players, whether they're starters or not. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: we gotta we gotta bring our best game on on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: So we're preparing the same way and we're gonna be
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  Speaker 3: ready to go regardless who's on the field. That doesn't
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  Speaker 3: really change our plan any Yeah, so before.
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  Speaker 4: You starters, but Gabe Davis and Bryan Thomas Junior for
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  Speaker 4: the smartest ROOKIEC has ever coached, How how quickly did
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  Speaker 4: you sort of pick up on the fact that they
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  Speaker 4: these guys they get it, They could, they can they
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  Speaker 4: process information really well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean obviously Gabe, you know, I didn't see him
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  Speaker 3: when he was a rookie, but seeing how he plays ball,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously there's going to be a learning curve
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  Speaker 3: with a new system. He's probably ran all these plays
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  Speaker 3: in his career or very similar ones, but you got
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  Speaker 3: to get used to what we call them and what
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  Speaker 3: our signals are and what our calls and checks are.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's different. He knows all the stuff though, because
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  Speaker 2: he's done them all.
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  Speaker 3: But as far as just when the play's going and
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  Speaker 3: the decisions he makes on different routes, whether it's a
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  Speaker 3: zone look or finding a void, he's just very aware,
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  Speaker 3: very just savvy nos football, no space, quarterback friendly, all
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  Speaker 3: those things.
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  Speaker 2: Than Brian.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I've been blown away just by how smart
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  Speaker 3: he is and how quick he's picked up the offense
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  Speaker 3: as a rookie, because I know I've said it before.
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  Speaker 3: When I was a rookie coming in it was hard,
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  Speaker 3: especially he was very sharp in the spring just getting
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  Speaker 3: here too, and that's hard to do. I know when
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  Speaker 3: I got here, I was swimming a little bit, just
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  Speaker 3: trying to get the play call out. So I've been
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  Speaker 3: impressed with him, and he just continues to get better,
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  Speaker 3: especially now we've gone through our system three or four times.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's getting better and better and not even
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  Speaker 3: thinking anymore. He's starting to be able to play and
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  Speaker 3: just go out there and react instead of thinking about
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  Speaker 3: what he's got to do.
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  Speaker 2: He can just go play free. I haven't seen all
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  Speaker 2: of them. What is uh?
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  Speaker 3: You're talking about something in the locker room. You talking
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  Speaker 3: about firehouse and pub subs. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 3: said that to you guys. I said something about I
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  Speaker 3: haven't seen he doesn't like biscuits or corn bread. It's
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  Speaker 3: a pretty bad take. I like, I like biscuits, I
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  Speaker 3: like like this sugar and still is that was that his?
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  Speaker 3: He likes sugar and spaghetti. I like biscuits a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Corn bread it has to be like the sweet corn bread.
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  Speaker 3: Sugar and spaghetti. I've never done that. Do you guys
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  Speaker 3: drink milkless spaghetti? You know some people do that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't do that. That's disgusting. Anything else, I think.
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  Speaker 5: It's important to get reps, live reps behind your starting
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  Speaker 5: CVE offensive line before the regular season comes around.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely, just everybody. I mean, especially the guys up front
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  Speaker 3: and feel in the pocket and get that's you know,
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  Speaker 3: because I don't get hit out here and there it's
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  Speaker 3: it's in the game. It's a different sense of urgency
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  Speaker 3: as far as my time clock getting the ball out,
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  Speaker 3: and also just seeing different pressures and stuff, because there's
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  Speaker 3: sometimes in practice you'll get you you'll get beat on
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  Speaker 3: a pressure like I don't see it, and they bring
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  Speaker 3: they may make us hot, and in practice it's like
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  Speaker 3: I'm hot. In the game, it's like I gotta get out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna get smoked if I don't get out of here.
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  Speaker 3: So all those different things, it just feels different. So
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  Speaker 3: I think it's good to have your starting line and
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  Speaker 3: to feel the pocket and to move around and kind
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  Speaker 3: of test some of your protections as well, Like you
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  Speaker 3: do some new stuff and you want to see how
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  Speaker 3: it holds up against a live look so awesome. Thank you, guys,
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  Speaker 3: appreciate