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Press Pass | Press Taylor on the Vision Behind Scenarios Practiced at Training Camp · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: From what you saw Davis before now and that you
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  Speaker 1: got your hand on in this offseason.
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  Speaker 2: What does he showing you in the first he wants
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  Speaker 2: and now in tras game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you really never know. We obviously Chad and
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  Speaker 3: Heath had a close relationship with him as a player,
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  Speaker 3: having coached him in Buffalo, so they're kind of vouching
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  Speaker 3: for the character and personality and things like that. But
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  Speaker 3: he's been a lot of fun just to add to
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  Speaker 3: the group. He brings a lot of humor, and obviously
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  Speaker 3: he brings experience, so he can communicate with those guys
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  Speaker 3: of kind of telling them what it's like because we
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  Speaker 3: do have a pretty young room. I mean, for the
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  Speaker 3: most part, besides Christian and Gabe, most those guys are
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  Speaker 3: first or second year players. They haven't played a lot
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  Speaker 3: of football in the NFL, so I think that kind
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  Speaker 3: of experience he brings to it. And then just being
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  Speaker 3: able to see I think you've seen the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of days, the different catches he's had, the different situations
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  Speaker 3: he's been in, whether it's outbreakers and breakers down the
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  Speaker 3: field type stuff, contested catchability. Those are the things you
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  Speaker 3: probably thought you saw, but we hadn't seen him yet
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  Speaker 3: live firsthand right here, and then Trevor just getting a
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  Speaker 3: feel for that timing of how things work with Gabe
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  Speaker 3: for us.
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  Speaker 2: Luke Wardner has been put into kind of a unique
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  Speaker 2: position to your starter. Obviously, Mitch Morse comes in to
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  Speaker 2: basically take his job. How has he reacted to that
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  Speaker 2: and how will Mitch help them moving forward?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Luke's been awesome. I mean, just understanding that what
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  Speaker 3: we did in terms of developing our roster and improving
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  Speaker 3: the talent on the team overall, and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: these guys, I mean the lineman especially, A lot of
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  Speaker 3: these guys have to be cross trained. I mean you
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  Speaker 3: have to be able to play multiple positions. So for
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  Speaker 3: a guy to play center and now take more reps
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  Speaker 3: at guard as we've gone in, I mean that just
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  Speaker 3: makes him more valuable to the team. And these guys
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  Speaker 3: really they have done whatever we've asked if we can
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  Speaker 3: present the vision of helping the team, and so across
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  Speaker 3: the board in the line we've had, I mean Walker
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  Speaker 3: Little's played left tackle, right tackle, guard, He's done a
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  Speaker 3: number of things. Blake Hans plays every position imaginable for us.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of those guys in that room
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  Speaker 3: that have that ability to do that, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: we appreciate that and it brings again an extra value
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  Speaker 3: to the room itself. But our team as well.
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  Speaker 1: I know Steven Jones han't gotten on the field yet,
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  Speaker 1: but Javon Foster in particular, maybe some of the other
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  Speaker 1: younger offensive lineman knowing too that they may need to
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  Speaker 1: be next fan of with a couple of injuries.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, those guys, I mean with Javan you kind of
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  Speaker 3: see his experience flash. The guy played a ton of
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  Speaker 3: games in the SEC, so he kind of has his
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  Speaker 3: way to win. Now, there's times where we're still trying
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  Speaker 3: to get certain techniques out of him as we go,
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  Speaker 3: but when the bullets are flying, a lot of times
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  Speaker 3: you just kind of see he knows what to do
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  Speaker 3: and he gets it done his way, which works for him.
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  Speaker 3: And that's ultimately that's what we're trying to do, is
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  Speaker 3: get it done. But you see he's got he gets
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  Speaker 3: a number of reps and you know, fortunately unfortunately it's
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  Speaker 3: some of it's due to injury, but he's getting a
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  Speaker 3: ton of opportunity to play and show what he can
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  Speaker 3: do and flash that experience for us to where he
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  Speaker 3: can become at some point in time for us, whether
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  Speaker 3: this season, early in the season, late in the season,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a trusted resource for us in there.
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  Speaker 2: You guys brought it to Quell and turning around to
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  Speaker 2: be a rehirt guy.
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  Speaker 3: But when you when you look at his speak, can.
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  Speaker 1: You envision a day where he can be a part
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  Speaker 1: of the offense, even though you.
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  Speaker 2: Know from a size standpoint, you know, I'm just wondering
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  Speaker 2: if you see a role for him, maybe not this year,
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  Speaker 2: but down the line.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly, I mean, and that's something that kind of
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  Speaker 3: utilized with him in college as well of being a
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  Speaker 3: guy out of the backfield carrying the football, some gun
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  Speaker 3: run stuff and things like that that you know, we
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  Speaker 3: we just want to see him continue to develop and
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  Speaker 3: we'll figure out what that is as it kind of
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  Speaker 3: expresses itself. Obviously, the first thing is him getting healthy
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  Speaker 3: and getting himself an opportunity to take reps throughout practice so
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  Speaker 3: we can kind of see where that goes, get him
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  Speaker 3: experience during certain things. We do think he can be
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  Speaker 3: a weapon out of the backfield in the past game,
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  Speaker 3: and then figuring out what that looks like as a ballcarrier,
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  Speaker 3: what types of run he's good at kind of where
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  Speaker 3: it falls in situations within a game of how we
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  Speaker 3: can use him. But the biggest thing, especially these guys
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  Speaker 3: that are offensive guys that play special teams, they have
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  Speaker 3: a jersey on game day, So we want to use
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  Speaker 3: everybody available to us, and so if they provide a
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  Speaker 3: value to us, we'll find a way to try to
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  Speaker 3: use them as a.
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  Speaker 2: Part of uph Trent talked a lot in the off
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  Speaker 2: season about improving the physicality of this football team on
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  Speaker 2: both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Is it you, uh, I know it's early.
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  Speaker 3: Do you do you feel like.
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  Speaker 2: Offensive way that this offense will be better in that
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  Speaker 2: department this year?
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  Speaker 3: You know that that's something we think we're good heading
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  Speaker 3: in the right direction. That's something I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you necessarily know until it's live action we're playing football,
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  Speaker 3: but we're encouraged about where we're heading with that aspect
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  Speaker 3: of our of our game and our unit as well.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, that's something we want to see continue
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  Speaker 3: to develop as we get rolling. That's not just Trevor
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  Speaker 3: as like Travis thinks, Christian and have played together doing
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  Speaker 3: in a thirty year and now in your system, do
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  Speaker 3: you see that sort of manifesting yourself cohesion whatever. I
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  Speaker 3: think so, and I think a lot of it is
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  Speaker 3: kind of when we get in these competitive situations against
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  Speaker 3: our defense, as competitive as it can be. You see
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  Speaker 3: Trevor kind of pull out different tools within the offense,
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  Speaker 3: and those guys don't flinch at all, particularly Christian and Evan.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, those guys are right there communicating really well.
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  Speaker 3: And then it helps to add an experienced guy like
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  Speaker 3: Gabe that kind of understands what that looks like, and
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  Speaker 3: then a smart guy like Brian being able to get
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  Speaker 3: in that situation. Now we're just trying to kind of
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  Speaker 3: over expose them to everything this could come up. We'll
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  Speaker 3: show them video clips of hey, we had this play called,
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  Speaker 3: Trevor got to this, the ball was snapped two seconds later.
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  Speaker 3: How quickly you have to communicate in this league. But
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  Speaker 3: that's something you know, we talk about Trevor growing within
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  Speaker 3: the system and taking ownership of it, and you know
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  Speaker 3: you kind of want to. Trevor can get you into
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  Speaker 3: whatever you need to depending on the look or the
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  Speaker 3: situation as it goes, and we don't want the guys
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  Speaker 3: around them to flinch. We want them to just kind
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  Speaker 3: of react naturally or even anticipate that stuff as it goes.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas is Brian Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: You're kind of kind of coming out of his shell
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  Speaker 2: these days.
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  Speaker 1: I mean from OTAs to now, what have you seen
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  Speaker 1: as far as his personality if you've seen it at all?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and his personality's pretty consistent. He is who
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  Speaker 3: he is. He's not a guy that gives you a
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  Speaker 3: ton of juice a ton of energy at times, but
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  Speaker 3: he's very locked in. He's very serious about what he does.
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  Speaker 3: He continues to develop. I mean, you see Gabe kind
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  Speaker 3: of ribs him quite a bit to where you get
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more out of it at times. You
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  Speaker 3: see him laughing, smile and joking around with the guys
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  Speaker 3: quite a bit. But I do think he's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more comfortable in his environment as he goes. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, we just encourage him to be who he is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're not trying to change him at all.
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  Speaker 3: We're very happy with the person he is. We understood
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  Speaker 3: the person he is that we brought into the team,
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  Speaker 3: and like any of our young guys, we just want
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  Speaker 3: him to feel accepted to where they can let their
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  Speaker 3: personality show as they get going. And you know, we
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  Speaker 3: encourage everybody to be who they are Trevor from.
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  Speaker 2: The early part of camp to now.
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  Speaker 3: I mean a couple of the turnovers early in camp.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he's had any in the last four
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  Speaker 3: or five days.
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  Speaker 1: Or is that just how.
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  Speaker 2: Training camp goes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's just kind of how training camp goes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, again, I know coach has mentioned it. We
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  Speaker 3: encourage him to kind of see what you can get
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  Speaker 3: away with. Not in a reckless way, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: if they play certain look maybe we're not necessarily thinking
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  Speaker 3: a certain route, but right here, let's take a shot
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  Speaker 3: at it, and well kind of there are times will
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  Speaker 3: tele receiver, if they play this, try this, He's gonna
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  Speaker 3: let this thing go. And so there's some of those situations.
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  Speaker 3: There's some scenarios where we're working you know, maybe yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: I think we had some seven on seven where it's
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  Speaker 3: third and goal from the eleven, twelve, whatever it may be,
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  Speaker 3: and we're telling Trevy this is a chance to either
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  Speaker 3: extend a play where you're gonna scramble in the red
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  Speaker 3: zone or you try to be aggressive right here because
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  Speaker 3: this is a potential four point play and you may
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  Speaker 3: rip this ball a little bit sooner than you would
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  Speaker 3: in other scenarios. But let's see if we can get
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  Speaker 3: this going, see if we can get the timing of
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  Speaker 3: how this looks against certain coverages.
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  Speaker 1: I know you said, Christians said it. Trevor has said
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  Speaker 1: that when you guys started training camp, the goal was, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's maybe start with those short intermediate routes before we
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  Speaker 1: start airing and out downfield. Is that frustrating, especially knowing
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  Speaker 1: Brian's skill set, that you're like, all right, we see
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  Speaker 1: the flash on this play or that play or a
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  Speaker 1: route on air and then you say, Okay, maybe we've
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  Speaker 1: got to pull back a little bit, not be doing
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  Speaker 1: that because we want him to learn other rests.
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  Speaker 2: Of the game.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's an element to that. I think part
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  Speaker 3: of that, too, is just coach's vision for how to
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  Speaker 3: start training camp. I think just the experience of him
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  Speaker 3: planning training camp schedules and things like that. You want
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  Speaker 3: to think guys are ready to come play football the
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  Speaker 3: day they get here, Well that's not necessarily the case.
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  Speaker 3: And I think part of it's the way the NFL's
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  Speaker 3: adapted with the acclamation period as we go, and so
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  Speaker 3: just trying to be smart of you know, these guys
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  Speaker 3: haven't played football in three months, So to come out
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  Speaker 3: and a normal install and ask guys to run forty
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  Speaker 3: five yards downfield, I don't know that their bodies are
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  Speaker 3: ready for that. And then you start getting the soft
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  Speaker 3: tissue injuries that set you back throughout the course of camp.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, it's frustrating at times because you've got this
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  Speaker 3: new tool that you want to get down the field
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  Speaker 3: and really expose to certain things. But is that the
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  Speaker 3: best thing for the player, for our team as we
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  Speaker 3: get going in the long run of camp, because camp
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  Speaker 3: is really just a ramp up to Week one. That's
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  Speaker 3: how we view it. And yes, we'd love to win
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  Speaker 3: every single day, including day one, but ultimately we want
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  Speaker 3: to be ready to play week one.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of impression is Jalen Jackson bade.
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  Speaker 3: Jalen's done a good job. You know, all those guys
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  Speaker 3: as they get reps, particularly these young guys, you start
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  Speaker 3: to see him understand blocking schemes path. You know, there's
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  Speaker 3: some runs, there's some zone runs where you'll see a
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  Speaker 3: guy try to make two cuts and we'll try to
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  Speaker 3: explain that this is a one cut run. Right here,
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  Speaker 3: you know you've got one opportunity to cut vertical and
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  Speaker 3: then you got to roll and you got to see
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  Speaker 3: it and some of that. Exposing him to the live periods,
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  Speaker 3: which we did a little bit of the other day,
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  Speaker 3: I think that really helps because now if you make
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  Speaker 3: a mistake, you feel it, and so guys like that
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  Speaker 3: really settle in. And he's done a good job catching
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  Speaker 3: the ball in the back fields well with some of
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  Speaker 3: the running back routes that we've tried to incorporate.