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  Speaker 1: Is the talent of the Anthony Richardson got a little
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  Speaker 1: bang up last week, trying to prepare for him, but
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  Speaker 1: also prepare for Joe Blacko.
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  Speaker 2: Guys that have different kind of games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, almost two extremes kind of know both guys.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we saw we saw Anthony Richardson, you know,
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  Speaker 1: last year obviously first game, and we know how talented
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  Speaker 1: he is. We've seen already his ability to throw the football,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh this year. You know Flacco, we know
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  Speaker 1: from from last year being in Cleveland what he can do,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as well throwing the football. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a challenge either way, you know, and you just
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  Speaker 1: gotta you just gotta trust your game plan, stayed disciplined
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  Speaker 1: in what you're doing, and you know, no matter who's
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  Speaker 1: out there, Uh, just just execute that throw back gameless
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  Speaker 1: week and Coach Coughlin going into the Pride do you
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  Speaker 1: talk to the team about all of that this week?
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  Speaker 1: I did this morning. Just wanted to bring it to
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  Speaker 1: their attention. I think it's uh, you know, in in
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  Speaker 1: in the history of the Jaguars. I think it's important
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  Speaker 1: that they know that and and that we get to
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  Speaker 1: we get to say great coach Coughlin, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and and also getting some you know, some former players,
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  Speaker 1: some legends back this weekend. It will be be exciting
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  Speaker 1: for the guys to see and and visit. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: definitely want that uh out in front of the team.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, it's important they see that.
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  Speaker 3: You guys played Richard Senatives first ever start last season,
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  Speaker 3: because what have you seen from.
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  Speaker 4: Him kind of that natural growth and progression till now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know, obviously he's making making strides.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think he's just running the offense. But
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  Speaker 1: but it has the ability to go off schedule to
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  Speaker 1: make some make some great plays, you know, And and
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a that's a characteristic of of of really
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  Speaker 1: good quarterbacks and his ability to run. We know that
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  Speaker 1: he he's a big physical guy that that uh uh
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  Speaker 1: can can break out of an arm tackle. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's working the system, he's working the offense. He's
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  Speaker 1: letting the guys around him work and and that's that's
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  Speaker 1: what they ask him to do. What do you see
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  Speaker 1: from the weapons that he has.
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  Speaker 4: The wide receiver group.
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  Speaker 3: Item downs has kind of emerged after a slow start
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  Speaker 3: with the injury and.
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  Speaker 2: All those other guys they have.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's a it's a good solid group,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 1: I It's one of the things you see too, is
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  Speaker 1: is you know, he he trusts those guys to to
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  Speaker 1: make plays for him, you know. And and uh again,
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  Speaker 1: I think he understands too. And I think this is
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  Speaker 1: part of how he's being coached, is he doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to do it all right and just rely on these
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  Speaker 1: guys to.
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  Speaker 4: To make plays. And and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's it's I know, I know injuries are
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  Speaker 1: part of the part of the game. And and you
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  Speaker 1: know they're they're banged up a little bit, you know too,
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  Speaker 1: like we are. But you know, at the same time
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  Speaker 1: that we got to make sure that that you know,
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  Speaker 1: with this team too, you eliminate the explosive plays which
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  Speaker 1: which they can they can do.
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  Speaker 2: There's some injuries on it. That's the front for them
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  Speaker 2: with those injuries.
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  Speaker 1: And what stands out about Augus Bradley defense, What are
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  Speaker 1: they doing well in the defense? I mean it's there's
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  Speaker 1: no surprises, you know, and schemes like this are tough
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  Speaker 1: to They're gonna make you go the long haul. They're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make you go, you know, eighty eighty five yards,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and and score if you can. And
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  Speaker 1: it's always been that way, you know wherever he's been,
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  Speaker 1: and you know there's there's just no it just it
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  Speaker 1: just comes down to execution, right And you know his
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  Speaker 1: guy's now been in the system over there for three years.
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  Speaker 1: And you know they yes, they have guys you know,
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  Speaker 1: beat up, you know and injured in the in the
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  Speaker 1: D line, but the next guy steps in and does
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  Speaker 1: the exact same thing. I mean, that's just it's a
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  Speaker 1: plug and play, you know, and and and they do
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  Speaker 1: it well. And they got they got you know, leaders
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  Speaker 1: over there, and you know, we know Grover is a
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  Speaker 1: is a he's a load as a D lineman and
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  Speaker 1: he's i think him and those two linebackers twenty three
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  Speaker 1: if he plays, I mean, those are the this kind
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  Speaker 1: of life blood of that team, you know, the heart
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  Speaker 1: and soul. So that's some good players over there, and
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  Speaker 1: you know they run the scheme well.
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  Speaker 4: In terms of health for you guys, obviously you haven't
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  Speaker 4: been on the field. The expectations for.
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  Speaker 1: Devin, for darn out this week, Devin, we'll see today.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be out there, but he'll also be with our
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  Speaker 1: medical team. You know, doctors and trainers and working a
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  Speaker 1: little bit on the side.
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  Speaker 4: Darnaille's won.
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  Speaker 1: We got to get back into practice, you know, this
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  Speaker 1: week again, trying to see see if he can really
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  Speaker 1: push through you know some of the things that are
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  Speaker 1: that are holding him back right now, and just it's
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  Speaker 1: just a trust factor with him, I think just going
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  Speaker 1: out and do it.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, you know Josh obviously that we know is still
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  Speaker 4: in the protocol.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, that's that's a day to day thing,
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  Speaker 1: and and I want to make sure he's he's one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent.
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  Speaker 4: But those are the two guys, will.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it'll take the week, and so yeah, Evan's
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  Speaker 1: day to day. He'll get out and he'll do some
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  Speaker 1: of our individual stuff today and then and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: see as each day progress to see how he feels.
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  Speaker 2: There's out there that you've lost the locker room.
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  Speaker 4: You have any response to that.
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  Speaker 2: Would you even know you've lost the locker room?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I would know.
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  Speaker 1: I talk to these guys every day, I see them
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  Speaker 1: every day, and and no, I have not lost.
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  Speaker 4: The locker room.
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  Speaker 1: I think these guys have have have done everything I've asked.
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  Speaker 1: They continue to play and practice hard and battle and
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  Speaker 1: and you know.
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  Speaker 4: It's a good group.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good group, the right leaders in there, and
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  Speaker 1: that they know, they know what we need to do,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, they're not making excuses for it, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make excuses, and uh, we just gotta
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  Speaker 1: go do it.
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  Speaker 2: And then on Sunday you called it a questions about
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  Speaker 2: your job scurty, A strange question. Why did you find
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  Speaker 2: that strange?
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  Speaker 4: You own four nine of ten A quarterbacks are grassed
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  Speaker 4: and there's a lot of yeah, issues, I mean, that's
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  Speaker 4: a that's a good question, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But I think I think, uh, you know, obviously you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna go through some setbacks, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: this league, and and there's gonna be some some times
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  Speaker 1: where you know you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna come
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  Speaker 1: out some hard times. I mean, that's just that's just
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  Speaker 1: part of this game. I've been there before, I've done
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  Speaker 1: that before, and we've always you know, battled back. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, even you know, even when we were three
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  Speaker 1: and seven, you know, twenty two, we found a way
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  Speaker 1: to win a game and win win multiple games, and
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  Speaker 1: and that's all it takes, you know, And I think
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  Speaker 1: I think too when you look at it, and if
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  Speaker 1: you really look at these games, you know, like with
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  Speaker 1: a call Mai and study the tape and see, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's there's mistakes, Yeah, there's mistakes.
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  Speaker 4: Are they critical at times? Yeah? Yeah, they're critical at times, But.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of good as we talked about the
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  Speaker 1: other day, and you.
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  Speaker 4: Know that's what we have to lean on. And we
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  Speaker 4: just got to continue to work.
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  Speaker 2: You start, you needed fast start where you going to
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  Speaker 2: the offense, get on, go fast start and I know,
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  Speaker 2: you know in the muff time getting touched on by
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  Speaker 2: the way, you count that as that fast starkey you
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  Speaker 2: build on that you know.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier or yeah, I mean that's that's part of a
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  Speaker 1: fast start. It could be it could be just the defense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, three and out, you know, getting back to
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  Speaker 1: the offense.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever it might be.
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  Speaker 1: But scoring points on your opening drive three seven, whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is, however, you get it done. And and as
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  Speaker 1: you know right now, it's that's a good time to
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  Speaker 1: get that done, you know. And and uh, and it's
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  Speaker 1: something to build on, you know, something to go back
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  Speaker 1: and look at. And you know, we had an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: on third down. We didn't capitalize on that third down
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  Speaker 1: drive either, you know, in that first that first drive.
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  Speaker 1: So those are all things that we can improve. We
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  Speaker 1: know that, and we do that. We stay on the
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  Speaker 1: field and potentially score even without the punt.
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  Speaker 4: How close with you guys.
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  Speaker 2: To I guess getting to the point where there's the
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  Speaker 2: full trust in Tank, you know, especially in pass procu
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  Speaker 2: Is he getting.
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  Speaker 4: Close to that?
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  Speaker 1: Or yeah, Yeah, he's he's been doing He's been doing
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  Speaker 1: a good job, continues to improve, you know.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's one of those things too where.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that we don't have trust and Tank, you know, TJ,
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  Speaker 1: the earnest guys like that just uh have done it longer,
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  Speaker 1: I've done it more and and Tank just continues to
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  Speaker 1: see everything and process everything.
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  Speaker 4: But he's done. He's done a great job for you
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  Speaker 4: mentioned the.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty two season, you guys had that lose the street
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  Speaker 1: kind of in the middle and then caught fire towards
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  Speaker 1: the end. Are there any similarity between kind of the
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  Speaker 1: struggles you're going through now to that.
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  Speaker 2: Like lessons that can play both ways.
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  Speaker 4: I mean obviously you can.
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  Speaker 1: You can go back and look and and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: dive into into that. I think you know, nobody wants
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  Speaker 1: to be zero and four. Nobody wants to be where
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  Speaker 1: we are. We feel like, you know, we should be
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  Speaker 1: obviously further along, right.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm just.
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  Speaker 1: Sitting there thinking, you know, thinking back to to that,
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  Speaker 1: to that time where it's just you know, there was
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  Speaker 1: a play kind of kind of very similar. It was
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  Speaker 1: kind of a play here, play there. I missed assignment here,
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  Speaker 1: miss assignment there. That just kept us from either you know,
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  Speaker 1: finishing a drive or finishing game back then. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of the same thing, same thing now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and.
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  Speaker 4: It just takes one.
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  Speaker 1: It takes one takeaway, it takes one touchdown, drive, it
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  Speaker 1: takes one stop, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever whatever, you know, whatever it is, it just takes one.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you get one, one win that can
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  Speaker 1: turn into into multiple wins, which it did.
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  Speaker 4: You know back then. What's you're feeling about how the
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  Speaker 4: pass rush has been doing it?
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  Speaker 5: You know, obviously losing job you know a quarter and
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  Speaker 5: a half, you know, curricles guys in general, h are
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  Speaker 5: you getting it enough out of the pass rush right now?
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  Speaker 1: I think that's an area that we can continue to improve, right,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think we're close. When you were again
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  Speaker 1: when you really put on the on the film and look,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're when I say we're close, we're inches away
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  Speaker 1: from hitting the quarterback, hitting his arm, knocking the ball loose.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've we've played some mobile guys here too
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  Speaker 1: in these first first few weeks, you know, And and
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  Speaker 1: so that that comes into play. But you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: not for for lack of effort. We got to continue
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  Speaker 1: to to push pockets. You know, this is another another
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  Speaker 1: week depending on who plays, you know, the the the
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  Speaker 1: pass rush could be a little bit different, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, but but we're we're close.
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  Speaker 1: We we know internally that that we can improve and
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  Speaker 1: and it needs to improve, and and uh, we got
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  Speaker 1: to just continue to work.
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  Speaker 5: A different subject you mentioned the other day, talked about
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  Speaker 5: how you played at Coffland coach team. You would expect
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  Speaker 5: it to be a very physical type game. When when
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  Speaker 5: you look at at Tom's style being the old fashioned
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  Speaker 5: hard ass coach, how hard is that style to try
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  Speaker 5: to coach today's NFL that, well, you think you'll get
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  Speaker 5: a little a little bit harder, a little bit tougher.
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  Speaker 5: Just it just seems that there's less of those guys now.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's the way he coached.
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  Speaker 1: Was the way I was coached right from from my
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  Speaker 1: my coaches hard, you know, kind of in your face, screaming, yelling,
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. I mean, that's that's that's
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  Speaker 1: probably I just don't I just don't know if that works.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Look, you can you can still I think you can
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  Speaker 1: still be upset, you can still be you know, frustrated,
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  Speaker 1: all of that with with the guys. But but I
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  Speaker 1: don't I don't think they necessarily, not all of them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they all respond to that.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I think just coming to him as a man and
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  Speaker 1: just having a conversation, you know, and and and sometimes too,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe not calling a guy out in a meeting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in front of their teammates, in front of
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  Speaker 1: their peers, you know, just go to them one on
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  Speaker 1: one and have those conversations. And I think that's more
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  Speaker 1: and more what's happening, you know, with I think teams overall,
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  Speaker 1: you know, But there's still part of me that wants
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  Speaker 1: to wants to old school it every now and then,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and uh, and sometimes it comes out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: But uh, I just I just don't think everybody responds
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  Speaker 1: the same way.
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  Speaker 3: The obviously Sean mentioned, you know earlier in the season
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  Speaker 3: of talent this team be the best team. Is it
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  Speaker 3: your trans assessment that this team talent wise is better
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  Speaker 3: than the record to form what they produce.
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  Speaker 4: So for I feel that way, I feel, I feel
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  Speaker 4: that way. I feel I just feel like we're right now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, yes, we're we're a better for we're better
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  Speaker 1: football team on paper obviously than then what's on the field.
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  Speaker 4: And it's something that we get.
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  Speaker 1: We we even as coaches, we have to we have
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  Speaker 1: to find a way to tap into that and and
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  Speaker 1: get the most out of it. Leak talent like good
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  Speaker 1: and great is kind of a pine lined Everybody has
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  Speaker 1: good players.
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  Speaker 2: It's like those elite guys.
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  Speaker 4: League League's full of good players.
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  Speaker 2: You know, those elite players make diff do you guys
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  Speaker 2: haven't have elite players to make a different?
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  Speaker 4: I think we do.
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  Speaker 1: I and we need our elite players to play elite.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's it. I mean, that's that's that's
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's what it comes down to. Are they gonna
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  Speaker 1: be e lead every week? Probably not. That means the
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  Speaker 1: good players have to, you know, step up and play too.
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  Speaker 1: So but if we get if we get enough of
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  Speaker 1: that and get get enough enough guys you know, playing
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  Speaker 1: that way, uh, we'll be better off.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't mean and ask this for a few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want it to get confused at the locker
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  Speaker 1: room report.
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  Speaker 2: But why did you rearrange the locker room?
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  Speaker 3: Why'd you move some of the younger guys.
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  Speaker 5: Move their staws before we won?
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  Speaker 4: What was the process there?
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  Speaker 1: I knew you were gonna ask me one day. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't mean to ask before we Honestly, you've talked about
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  Speaker 1: it and we all just keep forget.
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  Speaker 4: Really just slipped your mind.
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't think it's a big deal. But I
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  Speaker 2: do think.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think when you get to uh a
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  Speaker 1: locker room downstairs, I think it goes to Jean's question
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  Speaker 1: earlier about being able to coach players and being hard
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  Speaker 1: on them. I think I think it's good that you
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  Speaker 1: mix your team up. I think it's good that they
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  Speaker 1: don't just pot up your old lines in this corner,
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  Speaker 1: your d lines in that corner. Your linebackers are. If
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  Speaker 1: you mix your team up, they're gonna bond. You talk
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  Speaker 1: about having a strong locker room. That's where the strong
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  Speaker 1: locker room comes in. Now, now, position groups can't you know,
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  Speaker 1: position themselves against each other.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's not O line versus D line. When
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  Speaker 4: you get the line and D line.
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  Speaker 1: Together, they work together, they talk together, they live together,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they build relationships together. And you can't do
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  Speaker 1: it over here because game day is different. Right, You've
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  Speaker 1: got to be able to be offense, defense and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but on game day. But during the week where we
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  Speaker 1: come to work every single day. I think it's important
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  Speaker 1: that And this wasn't my idea. Don't don't, don't, don't
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  Speaker 1: confuse it. It was not my idea. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: players had brought this to my attention places they had
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  Speaker 1: been colleges things like that, so U I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a great idea, and I did it right after
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  Speaker 1: you know, right after the off season program heading into camp.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, thanks coach for doing