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Speaker 1: Yeah, so just obviously a second year with the team,
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Speaker 1: just how has training camp been and how are things
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Speaker 1: coming along right now?
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Speaker 2: Can It's been great. It's been a really good first week.
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Speaker 2: We got like, what's seven seven practices in with the scrimmage,
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Speaker 2: so a lot of opportunity to get the good looks.
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Speaker 2: Just remembering that these are the times where not everything's
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Speaker 2: gonna be perfect. That's what we're working on. Picking out
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Speaker 2: the things that we can improve on and trying to
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Speaker 2: take them into that next day of practice and put
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Speaker 2: them to put them to work on the field.
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Speaker 1: How was the scrimmage for you? Just being in the
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Speaker 1: game and having a real game like feel to practice.
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Speaker 2: It was good. It was It's it was a little
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Speaker 2: different than like last year being the state and stuff,
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Speaker 2: but kind of this was nice being here and ultimately
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Speaker 2: it's just a lot of it's a good chance to
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Speaker 2: get quick live reps pretty much us versus the different
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Speaker 2: looks on defense that our defense is going to give
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Speaker 2: us because we know we're gonna get a ton and
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Speaker 2: that we have to adjust and be ready to go
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Speaker 2: with whatever we're gonna get.
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Speaker 1: Solid the offensive line shuffle a little bit, just is
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Speaker 1: that something that you can notice when you're playing or
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Speaker 1: are you just kind of zoned in and it's like
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Speaker 1: I'm just doing my job basically.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just do your job. I think everyone who comes
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Speaker 2: in and out has done a great job. Everyone's getting better,
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Speaker 2: everyone's improving, everyone's working together. That's been super helpful for
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Speaker 2: all these guys to get all the reps because you
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Speaker 2: never know when you're gonna need them. You never know
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Speaker 2: we're gonna need to lean on that experience. So it's
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Speaker 2: a great opportunity for all the guys that have come
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Speaker 2: in to get those live reps next to different guys,
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Speaker 2: myself included. Whenever we figure out how things are gonna
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Speaker 2: shake out, then you know, I've had I've had reps
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Speaker 2: with everyone that could be there. So that's helpful.
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Speaker 3: Second year for this group in this system, do you
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Speaker 3: feel a difference.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, The things are quicker, communications better, communications, even
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Speaker 2: a little bit less because we have a better understanding
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Speaker 2: of what we're doing. So that makes things smoother on
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Speaker 2: the field for sure.
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Speaker 4: Continuing off at that point, you know, more time together,
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Speaker 4: you're gonna delve deeper and deeper into the playbook as
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Speaker 4: that stuff come a lot easier now, just like with
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Speaker 4: the play calls and things becoming more and more complex
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Speaker 4: with time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you mean as a group you think? Yeah, I
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Speaker 2: think so, kind of like I was saying, it's just
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Speaker 2: there's a better under there's a better understanding of everything
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Speaker 2: we need to get done. So from checking in with
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Speaker 2: the tackles, like hey, when I say this, what are
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Speaker 2: you thinking? Their answer has been what I think they're thinking?
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Speaker 2: If that makes sense. So that's good. That's good knowledge
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Speaker 2: for me to know how I'm saying things. What I'm
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Speaker 2: doing is translating to them and we're all on the
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Speaker 2: same page.
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Speaker 4: Saw you running a couple of routes yesterday? Could we
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Speaker 4: hear a seventy three is eligible a couple of times?
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Speaker 4: It's up coming season?
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Speaker 2: Uh, per the rules of football? I doubt it unless
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Speaker 2: we get a really weird formation, but that might be
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Speaker 2: a giveaway.
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Speaker 5: There's a couple of guys obviously more more than a
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Speaker 5: couple of guys banged up.
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Speaker 6: So when's the last time you played tackle.
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Speaker 2: Practice? In twenty twenty four in a game the Rose Bowl?
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Speaker 2: So I mean, but you could do it if you
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Speaker 2: needed to. I mean, I can do I can do
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Speaker 2: it if the team d me too. We get to
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Speaker 2: that point we got I think we got problems Trevor
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Speaker 2: this year. I mean, Trevor's been doing great. I was
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Speaker 2: telling him the other day, I thought, uh, like two
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Speaker 2: days ago, I was like, I think this was our
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Speaker 2: one of our best days, best day of camp so
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Speaker 2: far for sure, just communication, rolling, getting up to the ball,
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Speaker 2: knowing what we're doing. He's done a great job leading
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Speaker 2: and commanding, and his understanding of the offense is so
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Speaker 2: much deeper than it was at this time last year.
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Speaker 2: And that's just the nature of it. He's got a
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Speaker 2: lot of snaps under his belt playing in this offense.
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Speaker 2: We all have a lot of snaps together in this offense. So,
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Speaker 2: like I was kind of even mentioned with the old line,
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Speaker 2: that translates to the tight ends and the quarterbacks too,
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Speaker 2: and even the running backs have an understanding of what
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Speaker 2: we're doing. So it definitely shows. It makes things feel smooth.
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Speaker 2: It gives us a lot of confidence to keep growing
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Speaker 2: and keep getting better than you cool guys.
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Speaker 1: Obviously you guys have the intersquatch s from it. Yesterday,
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Speaker 1: I just kind of what did you see out of
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Speaker 1: some of those young players that might not have been
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Speaker 1: in a game situation with you guys before.
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Speaker 5: Now, I thought the young guys played really really hard,
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Speaker 5: you know, the the most important part or the most
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Speaker 5: difficult part.
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Speaker 6: I would say for a you know, collegiate guy.
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Speaker 5: Coming up and playing Pro Bowls, there's probably just a
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Speaker 5: little bit more communication. So that was something that you know,
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Speaker 5: taking away from the scrimmge, some of the young guys
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Speaker 5: got to do a little bit better job with that.
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Speaker 5: But I thought a lot of guys you know that
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Speaker 5: win a thousand miles an hour. Some guys in the
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Speaker 5: front really did a good job, some guys at the
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Speaker 5: second level, so we were pleased with them.
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Speaker 2: Have you seen Jarian kind of just grow since you
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Speaker 2: guys got.
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Speaker 1: Here last year?
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Speaker 6: Yeah? I love Jarian Man love coaching him.
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Speaker 5: He's he's a really sharp football player, Like he constantly
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Speaker 5: is working at it away from the field, you know,
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Speaker 5: and that's helped him kind of branch out and play
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Speaker 5: different spots.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 5: You see, like he's in there as a nickel and
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Speaker 5: there's a dime, and there's a corner. And I've said
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Speaker 5: to you before, like he's even taking reps in here
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Speaker 5: in some settings as a safety. So he's a really
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Speaker 5: sharp football guy and he's constantly working at his craft.
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Speaker 5: I think him working with Matt just watching that, you know,
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Speaker 5: his his process. It's been a lot of fun to watch.
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Speaker 7: How much trust does that take on your guys and
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Speaker 7: just you know, as a young player putting you know,
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Speaker 7: relying on a guy to play so many different roles.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it shows a lot of trust.
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Speaker 5: You know, we have a few guys like that, and
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Speaker 5: as guys are growing, sometimes that can help a guy.
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Speaker 5: You know, it's different like sometimes hey, that's a lot
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Speaker 5: to process, but sometimes you can help a guy because
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Speaker 5: you're learning.
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Speaker 2: All the spots.
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Speaker 5: You basically know why you're doing everything in these different positions.
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Speaker 6: So to learn some of.
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Speaker 5: Those linebacker roles as a dB, I think is a
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Speaker 5: good thing, you know, and it just kind of broadens
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Speaker 5: your horizons and understanding of everything. So it definitely shows
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Speaker 5: a lot of trust. But he's really handled it well.
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Speaker 4: He's it. He doesn't feel like a veteran yet, he
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Speaker 4: doesn't keep playing more like a veteran to.
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Speaker 6: You, Yeah, I think he is. I think that's where
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Speaker 6: our goal is to get.
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Speaker 5: Everybody there, you know, and that a lot of times
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Speaker 5: does develop with communication.
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Speaker 6: Defense great defenses.
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Speaker 5: They all trust you know, and that trust is built
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Speaker 5: when you're around guys who constantly.
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Speaker 6: Consistently do their job.
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Speaker 5: You know, in our room, we say trust has gained
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Speaker 5: the drops, but it's lost in buckets, you know. So
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Speaker 5: being a guy that's out there that doesn't do his
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Speaker 5: job or doesn't communicate, doesn't make call, that can really
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Speaker 5: diminish trust, you know, amongst the players around you. And
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Speaker 5: I think what we have right now is a good
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Speaker 5: level of trust amongst all those guys, and he's developed that.
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Speaker 6: Amongst his teammates at different positions.
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Speaker 3: Now that we've also got a couple of practice, a
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Speaker 3: couple of weeks under our belt. Speaking of Matt, the
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Speaker 3: dynamic between him those defensive backs, obviously you've worked with
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Speaker 3: him before. How would you describe the early returns from
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Speaker 3: that group working together through training camp with him under
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Speaker 3: his leadership.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that definitely shows up in the aggressiveness
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Speaker 5: of their play and their ability to make plays on
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Speaker 5: the ball and camp so far. And a lot of
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Speaker 5: that comes from the pre snap communication meeting together. You know,
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Speaker 5: one I think, and he really just he has a
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Speaker 5: great process. He's super detail oriented. You guys who have
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Speaker 5: been at practice and watch them an individual. There's a
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Speaker 5: process to everything, and like you said, we have a
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Speaker 5: history and there's kind of like years behind that things
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Speaker 5: that you believe in that position that you have to
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Speaker 5: achieve and get better at. And he really does a
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Speaker 5: great job of going to work on that every day,
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Speaker 5: all of them, you know, having an action plan for
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Speaker 5: each individual. Guy, Well, before you practice against the Saints,
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Speaker 5: will you talk to their coaches and said, what do
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Speaker 5: you need to work on?
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Speaker 6: This is what I usually just I mean, most.
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Speaker 5: Of that is more so just lay out of the facility,
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Speaker 5: personnel grouping is what it's looking like, you know, and
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Speaker 5: then getting an idea of what that practice schedule looks like.
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Speaker 5: That's usually those conversations kind of revolve around that. But
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Speaker 5: there is a degree of that, Hey, you know, I
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Speaker 5: feel like, well this is stuff I want.
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Speaker 6: To see, this would be good for us.
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Speaker 5: But yeah, each each experience is different. I guess it
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Speaker 5: is the best way to say, well.
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Speaker 6: Some guys, some guys are gonna treat this like a game.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, really close to the best and no, I think
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Speaker 5: I think the best things just get the opportunity to
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Speaker 5: go out there and compete against other people. You know,
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Speaker 5: we've been going out of here against each other for
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Speaker 5: quite a while, OTAs and camp. Now it'll be good,
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Speaker 5: it'll be exciting, you know, something new, something fresh. So
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Speaker 5: we're excited to get down there everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday, what did you see out of them? And what
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Speaker 1: have you seen out of them to this point?
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Speaker 6: Point blank?
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Speaker 5: I think he played really hard, you know, and you
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Speaker 5: can have all the calls, all this, all that, that
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Speaker 5: stuff pales in comparison to the effort and energy level
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Speaker 5: that your team plays at. That's really, you know, how
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Speaker 5: you should be judged. I think as a player, as
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Speaker 5: a coach, as a unit, do your guys give everything
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Speaker 5: a guy? I think he did that yesterday. He gave
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Speaker 5: us everything he had. He hustled his ass off. Even
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Speaker 5: when the ball wasn't around him, he was getting around
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Speaker 5: the ball. So uh, just yeah, I thought he did
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Speaker 5: a great job with that top to bottom yesterday.
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Speaker 7: He said last week that he hasn't arrived yet Green,
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Speaker 7: that his what he can do is right in front
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Speaker 7: of him. Is that something that you've seen and you believe,
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Speaker 7: you know, since getting with him day one?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think BJ's, you know, the hungry guy. He's
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Speaker 5: worked himself into that position. You know, he fought for
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Speaker 5: his He has fought for everything that he's earned and
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Speaker 5: achieved to this point. But I think, you know, there's,
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Speaker 5: like I said about somebody the other day, he still
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Speaker 5: was like, there's a gap to close, and I think
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Speaker 5: that's true of everybody here, you know, and if you
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Speaker 5: if you don't take that approach, it's hard to get better.
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Speaker 5: But he has taken the right approach in that regard.
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Speaker 4: The team has recently announced signing of a linebacker, Jelani Tibi.
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Speaker 4: You've added another veteran presence to that linebacker room. What
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Speaker 4: was the inspiration behind that signing?
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Speaker 5: Obviously, you know we've had had some injuries in camp,
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Speaker 5: but I've seen Jelani play over the years. You know,
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Speaker 5: some guys who I know really really well have coached him,
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Speaker 5: been around him, so there's definitely a familiarity with him
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Speaker 5: and the way he plays.
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Speaker 6: He's been in a system that has.
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Speaker 5: A lot of the same tenants as ours. You know,
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Speaker 5: when he was in Detroit and in New England. We
9:37
Speaker 5: played very similarly in Miami when I was there, so
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Speaker 5: there's a lot of carryover, even just the verbiage to everything.
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Speaker 5: It's an easier transition for him, but He's a big,
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Speaker 5: physical guy who's played multiple roles, and he's also a
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Speaker 5: guy that you know, can play on the line of scrimmage,
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Speaker 5: off the ball and on third down, have rush value,
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Speaker 5: and like I said last year, there's guys who were
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Speaker 5: kind of three down guys, and to me, that's his
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Speaker 5: three down value as a third down rusher. He can
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Speaker 5: bring something, knows the pass rush games and has done
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Speaker 5: a good job with that where he's been.
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Speaker 6: So that's what was exciting about him for us.
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Speaker 3: So do that sam linebacker role. What have you seen
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Speaker 3: obviously Gardick at the top, but then also from Jalen
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Speaker 3: McLeod and then you see her in that competition.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm glad he asked that because you know McLeod
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Speaker 5: and Gardik, those are guys who basically played on the
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Speaker 5: line of scrimmage. You know, if you look at McLeod's
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Speaker 5: career in college, that's what he was. To me, it's
10:27
Speaker 5: really hard to do what those two guys have done.
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Speaker 5: Dennis was very similar, you know in Arizona, predominantly you know,
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Speaker 5: in an end type of role, edge role, and has
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Speaker 5: trained himself to being off the ball guy. So both
10:38
Speaker 5: of those guys have done a great job, and they're
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Speaker 5: really Dennis has done a great job I think working
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Speaker 5: with Jalen. You know, Jalen stayed around him and they
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Speaker 5: did a great job this summer. And Jalen knows the
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Speaker 5: system so he's been able to play off the ball
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Speaker 5: and play pretty well. He had a good day yesterday
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Speaker 5: and again he still gives you third down rush value.
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Speaker 5: So both of those guys are very similar in that regard,
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Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And some guys have that
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Speaker 5: third down value of they are really good cover guys,
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Speaker 5: so they stay in the game at linebacker on third down.
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Speaker 5: So they give us a little bit of variety and
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Speaker 5: give us a chance to do different things with them
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Speaker 5: in the game.
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Speaker 6: You see.
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Speaker 5: It is very very similar. You know, he's an edge
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Speaker 5: guy now now knows how to play on his feet.
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Speaker 5: He's done a lot of good things for us too.
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Speaker 5: So that's been a great kind of battle to watch
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Speaker 5: and just you know watching.
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Speaker 6: It won't work together. It's been fun. They're all great
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Speaker 6: dudes of coacho too.
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Speaker 5: They're all like physical, tough ass kids and they're really
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Speaker 5: good kids.
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Speaker 6: So they're great guys. I should say.
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Speaker 2: You've hit a couple of times and you're ten days in.
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Speaker 2: Do you like what you're saying so far?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I do. I think there's a lot of room
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Speaker 6: for growth, though.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I think everybody in our room would tell
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Speaker 5: you that, you know, never never really satisfied with any
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Speaker 5: of that. There's things from my position, I got to
11:43
Speaker 5: look at what we got to get better at, and
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Speaker 5: there's definitely a lot of things we got to get
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Speaker 5: better at, and we're trying to focus on that right now.
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Speaker 5: You know, worry about us how we develop one communication,
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Speaker 5: consistently running the ball, taking the ball away, whipping.
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Speaker 6: Blocks, you know, and how we tackle.
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Speaker 5: And as you get into these you know, kind of
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Speaker 5: meeting potatoes at camp, when you're getting away from that
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Speaker 5: acclamation period, you get.
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Speaker 2: The opt to tackle a little bit more.
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Speaker 5: And that's something that we got to be drilling the
12:07
Speaker 5: hell out of in our individual periods. You know, a
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Speaker 5: lot of destruction, tackling, h being frontal with people, and
12:13
Speaker 5: running to the football. Those are things that you know
12:15
Speaker 5: you're never going to stop working on.
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Speaker 1: Travis has had a chance to get back on the field,
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Speaker 1: he's reacclimated. What's the next step for him that you
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Speaker 1: want to see while you're.
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Speaker 5: In camp, Just like everybody else, you know, just fundamentals.
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Speaker 5: I think Matt does a great job with that, you know,
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Speaker 5: be in detailed with them, being hard on them about
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Speaker 5: that every day and critiquing.
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Speaker 6: It and watching the individual.
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Speaker 5: So just from that perspective, he just like everybody else,
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Speaker 5: needs repetition.
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Speaker 6: I feel that way about everybody.
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Speaker 3: Jorian talks about being the guy that you can be
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Speaker 3: plugging at corner nickels safety.
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Speaker 5: How are you seeing that evolutionized for him? Yeah, he's
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Speaker 5: He's done a good job with that. We're trying to
12:49
Speaker 5: get him in there, moving them around, and he's taking
12:52
Speaker 5: it to heart. You know, it's important to him. He's
12:53
Speaker 5: doing extra to learn everything, you know, all the inner workings,
12:56
Speaker 5: all those spots, and it's a lot, it is. But
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Speaker 5: he's done a really good job of him, you know,
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Speaker 5: proud of his his effort that way to this point
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Speaker 5: and hopefully I'll continue to progress, which I really do
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Speaker 5: believe he will.
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Speaker 3: What does that workload look like for him when Travis
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Speaker 3: hunters in a corner?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean for everybody.
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Speaker 5: The good the good problem there is, we got a
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Speaker 5: bunch of guys that could play, can run and cover.
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Speaker 6: I mean as far as corners I don't know if
13:21
Speaker 6: I've been around a.
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Speaker 5: Room that has that many guys that are really good players,
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Speaker 5: and getting them all on the field at the same
13:27
Speaker 5: time has been fun, you know, and just watching them
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Speaker 5: battle has been fun. So they're all really really good
13:34
Speaker 5: about working together, and you know, they're all starting to progress,
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Speaker 5: I think to a to a level that we were
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Speaker 5: hoping they would get to.
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Speaker 2: Lost a couple of ross responts.
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Speaker 7: How how is the conversation, like with Heath and Lee
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Speaker 7: and like Daniel Thomas, for example, a full course special
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Speaker 7: teams guy struggled in coverage, didn't make the team, how
13:52
Speaker 7: much of it is we need them on special teams? Well,
13:54
Speaker 7: wait a minute, he can't give us much on offense
13:57
Speaker 7: or defense compared to we got to keep this guy
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Speaker 7: special team, but he can also contribute.
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Speaker 5: To our Yeah, it's always you know, if if you're
14:04
Speaker 5: not a starter, you've got to be a contributor on
14:06
Speaker 5: special teams. And you know it's a team game, so
14:08
Speaker 5: you're always in constant communication about that, and that's a
14:12
Speaker 5: huge part of it for us. Right, We've been great
14:14
Speaker 5: on special teams because I think they have a great
14:16
Speaker 5: culture in that room. I think Heath and Luke Thompson
14:19
Speaker 5: doing an unbelievable job of getting those guys to fly
14:21
Speaker 5: down the field. And uh, you know, in every phase
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Speaker 5: of Special teams. Uh so I have so much respect
14:27
Speaker 5: for what they've done, and they've got it right. You know,
14:29
Speaker 5: we're getting the right guys out there. So it's always
14:32
Speaker 5: always a battle that way in camp, and you know,
14:34
Speaker 5: if you're not a starter, you got to contribute there.
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Speaker 3: How would you evaluate safety right now because the battle
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Speaker 3: knowing of course you got Murray at the top of
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Speaker 3: that group, but then the guys behind him.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think A J's done a good job too,
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Speaker 5: and then I think Caleb Rayon, Jalen, you know, all
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Speaker 5: the young guys, they're all doing a good job battling
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Speaker 5: it out.
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Speaker 6: So it's these next.
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Speaker 5: Few weeks will be we'll tell us a lot, you know,
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Speaker 5: and they're all competing really, really hard. So it's a
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Speaker 5: race too to see who, you know, progresses the quickest.
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Speaker 3: How would you describe Antonio Johnson and his role in
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Speaker 3: this ecosystem?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's awesome, man. He's an awesome guy to coach.
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Speaker 5: You guys have been around him as a great human being.
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Speaker 5: He's a really tough kid. And he loves football, so
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Speaker 5: like he's one of those guys why is he able
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Speaker 5: to be versatile? He loves football. You know, he's thinking
15:19
Speaker 5: about football when he's not here. It's important to him,
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Speaker 5: and I think the way he represents himself as a player,
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Speaker 5: you can see that it's important to him. So yeah,
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Speaker 5: I'm always rooting for him, and I really appreciate AJ.
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Speaker 5: So yeah, he's a fun guy to coach.