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Mike Macdonald: "We Have To Become A Championship Team" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh, first of all, great to see everybody. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's an awesome atmosphere. Man. I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 1: I'll put our training camp atmosphere of the twelves. Just
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  Speaker 1: the weather, I mean, just everything, all the above is
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  Speaker 1: just second to none. So really blessed to be out
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  Speaker 1: of here with the with the guys, great spirits locked in.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a first day back, so there's some
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  Speaker 1: things we're working through, but really optimistic, guys are in
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  Speaker 1: a great spot. So I'll go tack the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the day and we'll see tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: It's excited to see on day one.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's fun to see the progress from
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  Speaker 1: come from the spring. And you know, I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: like the guys are on it, the intents there, and
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  Speaker 1: you know it's us as coaches, like hey, let's point
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  Speaker 1: out the things where we want to grow from day
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  Speaker 1: to day. But yeah, this is great to have the
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  Speaker 1: guys you know back and you know we missed him.
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  Speaker 1: You got to see Tory Horton out there doing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the work today.
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  Speaker 2: Where where's he at physically now after this break between
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  Speaker 2: Mini camp.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know we're gonna we have a plan
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  Speaker 1: to bring him back full speed. But I mean when
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  Speaker 1: he's out there, he's full go. We're just kind of managing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, his reps right now, but doing a great job.
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  Speaker 1: He's right in the mix.
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  Speaker 2: Mike, all the mixing and matching on the offensive. Mind
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  Speaker 2: how much do I continue when doing the pads go on?
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  Speaker 2: And we'll still tryal phase right now for.
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  Speaker 1: That he'll probably he'll probably go into next week when
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  Speaker 1: we put pads on. Yeah, for sure, it was.
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  Speaker 2: A guy limited the Austins. Good to see him out
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  Speaker 2: there looking like he does.
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  Speaker 1: And he's looks great. He looks great, He's in a
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  Speaker 1: great spot mentally. Just awesome to see him, see him
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  Speaker 1: do all the things that we wanted him to do
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  Speaker 1: from the get go, so I know he's really excited
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  Speaker 1: about what's going on. And yeah, I mean great, great
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  Speaker 1: first day with Ken for you. This is your second
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  Speaker 1: mini camp. But I know it's day one, but does
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  Speaker 1: it already feel different than last year? Already? I know
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  Speaker 1: it's day one, but I mean yeah, totally. I just
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  Speaker 1: you know, second time around, I think I think it's
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  Speaker 1: the same message with the rest of the team. If
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  Speaker 1: if you don't have the mentality of Hey, let's assess
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  Speaker 1: where we were, you know, what we were thinking while
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  Speaker 1: we're doing the things, how we can learn, how we
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  Speaker 1: can grow. I'm right there with the guys, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's confident more more like just to have a better
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  Speaker 1: feel for what we're trying to achieve on a day
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  Speaker 1: and day out basis, how we message things, keeping a
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  Speaker 1: little tighter, just a connection with the guys, just being
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  Speaker 1: around for you know, for another year, whole staff really,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's really exciting. But a lot of growth
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  Speaker 1: you've got this time with the off season between a
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  Speaker 1: training camp now there's some more time studying offense or
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  Speaker 1: studying other defenses. That's a good question. Probably this like
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  Speaker 1: from from from the spring till now more offense. I
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  Speaker 1: think you're trying to understand in the time from the
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  Speaker 1: end of the season to offseason program like structurally where
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  Speaker 1: you want to where you want to try to take
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  Speaker 1: some of our defenses. So yeah, but in the summer
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  Speaker 1: it's probably more so towards our opponents.
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  Speaker 2: For me personally, you spend any time with the Kubiak whiteboarding, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you present this, we would do this.
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  Speaker 1: Back and more so over tape or just most of
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  Speaker 1: our conversations have to do with football. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of just outside of this, so
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  Speaker 1: uh but yeah, just love sharing those ideas, bouncing stuff,
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  Speaker 1: bouncing stuff off one another. You know, we're doing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of situational work out there, so we're you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're constantly going back, Hey, this gives us trouble or
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  Speaker 1: this is a pain in the butt, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: you want to keep it systematic to what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, it's great to have an insight from Clint.
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  Speaker 1: How close are not close to being a you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see it's it's where we're going to
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  Speaker 1: the season, probably throughout the rest of camp, and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll go from there. But uh, yeah, I mean I
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  Speaker 1: think I think, you know, we'll just hold onto the
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  Speaker 1: timeline right now, but we're not. We're not necessarily close
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Joke about you and Clint having a lot of outside
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  Speaker 2: of football, Like, was it clear when you were in
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  Speaker 2: that process of hiring him that you guys kind of
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  Speaker 2: saw things the same way, just the way if you
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  Speaker 2: approach football. I was a pretty obvious personality wise, you
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  Speaker 2: guys are good fit football wise.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to go back to what I was thinking at
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  Speaker 1: the time, you know, there's a there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people that Clint has worked with that I trust and
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  Speaker 1: to have those opinions about what was like working I
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  Speaker 1: mean Kennedy Palm is a great example, just working with
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  Speaker 1: him in Minnesota. Obviously you know what Gary brought to
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  Speaker 1: the table. But yeah, I mean you're looking at these
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  Speaker 1: are the guys you're working with every day, and you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna go to girro old battle with and and Clint
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  Speaker 1: is uh it's a high character guy, high integrity, great
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  Speaker 1: football acumen. Obviously we love the system that he's bringing
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  Speaker 1: to the table. But yeah, it's fun to work with
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  Speaker 1: him every day.
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  Speaker 2: How much to you relst these moments betweening in terms
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  Speaker 2: of teaching, you know, as a teacher and you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting them up to they and working with.
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  Speaker 1: The players, Well, it's critical. I mean, guy's gonna learn
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  Speaker 1: what to do and how to do it. And you're
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  Speaker 1: only allowed a certain amount of a lot of time
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  Speaker 1: on the field, and our theory is, as you know
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  Speaker 1: we can, we're trying to use that time better than
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  Speaker 1: anybody else because and be more efficient so our guys
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  Speaker 1: can play better ultimately, So yeah, it's critical this time
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  Speaker 1: of year for sure. Yeah, right now he's and I
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  Speaker 1: are I'm sorry on NFI. Excuse me my acronyms jacked up.
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  Speaker 1: But he's working through a back right now. Long term,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be fine, but working through it. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Hanks at Betty's twelve year guy. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we're taking our time with it, so we're not in
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  Speaker 1: a hurry. Griffin, Yeah, Shack just had a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of inn illments last night, so we're just playing it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being precautious back. I mean that happens between us.
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  Speaker 2: I got to talk to you, had it bring reciting
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  Speaker 2: reciting seal.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was something that we were working through. There's
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  Speaker 1: a process behind it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: We had Shock coming in and visit and hit a
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  Speaker 1: great visit, kind of twilight zone coming back into the
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  Speaker 1: building and officers are flipped around, new new faces and everything.
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  Speaker 1: But he fits in great. You know, the building, the
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  Speaker 1: staff love him, and uh, you know, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: only a couple of days with with the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the dB room, but he's gonna be a guy. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna gonna lean on being a VET presence and with
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  Speaker 1: those guys, and it's been it's been fun so far,
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  Speaker 1: but excited to get him out there working with the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the team. She had when it was the
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  Speaker 1: mandatory earlier in the summer, having everybody here.
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  Speaker 2: How you was that.
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  Speaker 1: Of training camp. I'm sorry I didn't hear it. The
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  Speaker 1: tendency when it was in mandatory back earlier in the
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  Speaker 1: spring or whatever. How much of a better position because
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  Speaker 1: that puts you in the day if they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: training camp. I think I think it's I think it's
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  Speaker 1: really important personally. I think the guys. The guys feel it.
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  Speaker 1: They feel the confidence. Uh, you know, you talk about
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  Speaker 1: our just our insults today it's like, hey, I've heard
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  Speaker 1: this three times already, you know, rather than the first
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  Speaker 1: time you're hearing it offensively. You know, I think we
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  Speaker 1: almost had one hundred percent participation the whole time. And
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  Speaker 1: so you can feel the like the execution right now
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  Speaker 1: where they're at compared to they were first day of
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  Speaker 1: the spring and then defensively, weren't a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a different timeline. But you feel the connectedness with the
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  Speaker 1: guys and and that's really important, especially on defense. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you got to play off each other. There a lot
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  Speaker 1: of chemistry that's necessary to play good defense. What are
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  Speaker 1: you the kind of conversations you have with the lives
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  Speaker 1: and position? I didn't have any conversations with him. It's
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  Speaker 1: just understood that you know, we're in what we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to he as a football team, and we love Noah Wor's
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  Speaker 1: some the best, but we also love the guys that
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  Speaker 1: are still here and they know what's at stake and
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of fun watching that competition
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  Speaker 1: of the tight end room. What happened with them?
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  Speaker 2: Why release them?
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  Speaker 1: Now? We did? We we released them a few days ago.
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  Speaker 1: We did. I'm not gonna tell you exactly why. There's
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  Speaker 1: multiple reasons. That's from the spring. We've got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of tood personnel. That's how to fall in the unoc.
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  Speaker 1: How much can you really gauge in terms of where
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  Speaker 1: they are right now before you you're You're not You're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna know. Just these things come in pieces, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's just a process. So I think
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  Speaker 1: you just have daily goals of what you're trying to achieve.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna hit a lot of them, you're gonna miss
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  Speaker 1: the target on some of them, and then you kind
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  Speaker 1: of recalibrate and go. I mean, there's gonna be stages
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  Speaker 1: to camp to. Right now, we're in a kind of
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  Speaker 1: a ramp phase and execution phase. We're not really physically competing,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, some of that evaluation is gonna take time.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, when you get into pads and you
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  Speaker 1: start doing more situational work, one of our philosophies is
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get a ton of reps over the course
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  Speaker 1: of time. Uh, all those battles will be able to eat,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of show themselves and to clear themselves
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  Speaker 1: and schematically. You know, we know who we're gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: But how we're gonna do it, how we're gonna call it,
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  Speaker 1: how we're gonna formation it. You know, that'll that'll come
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  Speaker 1: into and you know, present itself more clear. You know,
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  Speaker 1: towards the end of camp schedule, are you so far
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  Speaker 1: on offense? Yeah, we're right, we're right out schedule.
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  Speaker 2: Sam offensive guys got together during the break. I know
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  Speaker 2: that's fairly common these days. But when we have a
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  Speaker 2: new offense, a lot of new players, how important is
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  Speaker 2: that time they got spen?
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  Speaker 1: It speaks to the connection. You know, when we talk
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  Speaker 1: a lot about twelve was one around here, and it
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  Speaker 1: was it wasn't like I'm going to Sam telling them
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  Speaker 1: to get the guys together. I mean that was totally
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  Speaker 1: driven by Sam and the rest of the guys. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just I mean, I don't know how many routes
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  Speaker 1: they ran or you know how well it was, but
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  Speaker 1: it's this important for them to be together, you know,
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  Speaker 1: talk through the those things, and I think it sets
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  Speaker 1: him up to have a better start to camp, and
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  Speaker 1: that's really important.
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  Speaker 2: Jodelle's kind of played all over the.
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  Speaker 1: Place, got some restate guard.
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  Speaker 2: Is it kind of a three person race.
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  Speaker 1: There right guard? Right now? I wouldn't say so. I
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  Speaker 1: mean Jalen's right there though. I mean we up to
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  Speaker 1: this point, he won our Top Tauk program. He just
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  Speaker 1: he just keeps having great days and so, uh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited to see how it shakes out. And it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: take time, but like we're gonna it's gonna declare itself,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But I don't want to just put a
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  Speaker 1: number on on the guys right now.
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  Speaker 2: He said he wanted something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have we are strength guys. You know, Danny
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  Speaker 1: and Ivan they put together a great offseason program and
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  Speaker 1: it was bolth a like a group competition over the
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  Speaker 1: course of the off season and individual there's all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of different metrics that we keep track of. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen won it, and you know, I had a tremendous offseason,
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  Speaker 1: so really exciting. Brady Wrestaurant. Well, I think I think
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  Speaker 1: what Brady brings the table is he can do fullback
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  Speaker 1: stuff and he can do tight end stuff, and so
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  Speaker 1: that makes you just more multiple on offense, on how
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  Speaker 1: you conformation stuff. So that's kind of that's what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: whether or not Noah was here or not, that's what
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  Speaker 1: Brady brings to the table.
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  Speaker 2: Have to coach Mike Morris since mckatfish again, it didn't
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  Speaker 2: play a lot of snaps late in the season last year.
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  Speaker 1: What do you need to see from him going into
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  Speaker 1: year three to create more opportunities for him to see
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  Speaker 1: the field? Well, you know, the d line is it's exciting.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we got a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: great talent. There, a lot of great vet presence.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, us we're always trying to kind of figure
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  Speaker 1: out the pieces of the puzzle. You know, we take
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  Speaker 1: pride and the guys can play multiple spots. But the
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  Speaker 1: things that that Mike's great at just show that when
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  Speaker 1: the pads come on and when competition hits and we
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  Speaker 1: start playing preseason games, he knows that. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: a production business. And but we're excited about Mike. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that had He's he's a
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  Speaker 1: bigger guy that can play the edge, can then reduce down.
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  Speaker 1: So he's got a pretty cool skill set.
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  Speaker 2: And go down to you most about sparkins Lord's lunch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's that? I love to ask about the law
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  Speaker 1: He's he's like the best drill player I've ever seen
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  Speaker 1: in my life. I mean, like you could ask him
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  Speaker 1: to do any drill known to mankind, and just like
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  Speaker 1: the trust he has and why you're doing it, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it is one thousand percent every rep the intent
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  Speaker 1: of what he's trying to create. And that's the standard
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  Speaker 1: that he's setting for our front. So I mean, and
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  Speaker 1: the guys don't have, you know, a choice about the
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  Speaker 1: fallen line, and it's just exciting to see him out
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  Speaker 1: there working and you know what he can do on
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  Speaker 1: the field made just the tape speaks for itself. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: you understand kind of how it comes to life based
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  Speaker 1: on how he works.
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  Speaker 2: How rare is that you a veteran like that, maybe
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  Speaker 2: you would take the reps off or drills up if
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  Speaker 2: you guys see him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't speak for everybody, but you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: vets come in saying, look, I don't understand I can
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  Speaker 1: do that, or I only know he do it a
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  Speaker 1: certain way. Uh, But that's not DeMarcus. He's uh, he's
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  Speaker 1: just just just really fun to you know, work with.
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  Speaker 1: And I know our you know, Ad obviously loves him.
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  Speaker 1: Pines and CP just can't get enough of them. You
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  Speaker 1: talk about, Yo, the atmosphere of the fans here first
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  Speaker 1: day camp. It's fun and of course fans have big expectations.
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  Speaker 1: How do you and your staff manage the expectations going
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  Speaker 1: into your second year, into the twenty twenty five campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Our expectations can't be any higher than what we expect
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  Speaker 1: from ourselves. I mean, like, bring it on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we want to win the championship. But
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  Speaker 1: in order to do that, we have to become a
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  Speaker 1: championship team. We have to become the team that we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to be. We have a vision for our team,
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  Speaker 1: who we want to who we want to be and
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  Speaker 1: we believe that that vision is a is a team
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  Speaker 1: that the twelves are gonna be really proud of. But
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  Speaker 1: it takes time, you know, we gotta we got to
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  Speaker 1: put it together. We've got to do all the work.
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  Speaker 1: We got to do all the meetings, we've got to
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  Speaker 1: do all the reps. We're gonna make those tough decisions.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many things that need to happen
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  Speaker 1: between now when we kick it off. But that's why
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  Speaker 1: I just every day is so critical. You just can't
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  Speaker 1: you can't skip steps. Not Jared ivy uh playing like
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  Speaker 1: a similar role away Sam. He's one of those big
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  Speaker 1: n type bodies that we're trying to figure out what's
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  Speaker 1: the best role for him. But he's right in the
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  Speaker 1: thick of it. I mean, but it's great competition, but
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  Speaker 1: that that role is kind of unique to us on
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  Speaker 1: how we utilize those guys. So it fits in pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: And you talked about tep Iron Murphy wanted to get
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  Speaker 2: more pass rush opportunities and cares do.
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  Speaker 1: You feel like you've got a plan for how to
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  Speaker 1: get him more pass rush, create more pass rush opportunities
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  Speaker 1: for our defense and he'll be right there I mean,
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  Speaker 1: not to be a smart alect, but we have to
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  Speaker 1: play better on early downs to create those situations. We
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  Speaker 1: got to play better complimentary football, you know, to play
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  Speaker 1: with the lead more all those things as a football
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  Speaker 1: team where we can force teams to drop back and
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  Speaker 1: when we know they're gonna they're gonna pass. So but
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  Speaker 1: Burfhill earned those roles, you know. However it shakes out
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  Speaker 1: with Leo and Jay Reed and all the rushers. However,
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  Speaker 1: we can you know, put it together. Yeah, we have
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  Speaker 1: a vision for him, but we as a football team,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to create more of those opportunities for for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what are you supposed to have signed? Run off
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  Speaker 1: the rock man? Yeah, I mean yeah, we want to
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  Speaker 1: play our style ball. Let the let the whole line
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  Speaker 1: do their thing, get Sam on the move, separate the defense,
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  Speaker 1: all those things. I mean, just it's fun to watch us.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun to watch these guys put it together and
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  Speaker 1: how they drill it go from individual the group, how
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  Speaker 1: it all fits together, all the rules. It's really exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you all right, great, Thank yous