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Press Pass | Coen & Lawrence on Alumni Wisdom, Final Week of OTAs · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Coach Bennett good at his job.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Man, Edgar has a way about him as a
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  Speaker 2: as a person and as a coach that is extremely
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  Speaker 2: comforting in a way. He's very much calm, cool, collected,
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  Speaker 2: has He's the same person every day. He's extremely consistent
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  Speaker 2: in his approach, and he has extremely high standards for
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  Speaker 2: your preparation. You should see his meetings. The film that
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  Speaker 2: he makes these guys every day for their meetings, specifically
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  Speaker 2: in season when we're getting ready for game prep is
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  Speaker 2: as thorough and detail that I've ever seen to explain
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  Speaker 2: to his players the defensive structure in which they're playing
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  Speaker 2: against the person.
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  Speaker 1: That they're going up against. In a lot of ways,
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  Speaker 1: he makes.
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  Speaker 2: Tapes every week of the DBS and what route you know,
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  Speaker 2: routes against the DBS, maybe not even targeted routes, showing
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  Speaker 2: the guys, man, this is how we can attack these players.
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  Speaker 2: These are the routes and stems that really work. And
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  Speaker 2: he's great for me personally, being.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit of a high low guy at.
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  Speaker 2: Times, to have somebody at the position that is consistent,
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  Speaker 2: and he truly cares about this place, about this city,
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  Speaker 2: and he wants to do his best to be here
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  Speaker 2: for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: You had a couple or a few former players here today.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, how was that?
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  Speaker 3: How was talking with them and just getting their n That's.
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  Speaker 2: Great to get mojo out here. And we'll have a
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  Speaker 2: few more over the next few days. Fred Taylor will
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  Speaker 2: come in, Mercedes Lewis. But you know, we had the
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  Speaker 2: mccordy twins out here today. Aj Green out here today,
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  Speaker 2: coach Mike Waffle the defensive line specialist, and really to
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  Speaker 2: get our guys around people, you know, players that did
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  Speaker 2: it at a high level, whether it was here or elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Just man, if they can take any nugget from them.
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  Speaker 2: Over the next three days, we got better and to
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  Speaker 2: get especially the mccordy twins, right, being in New England
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  Speaker 2: for those years, the level of consistency, their approach and
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  Speaker 2: me picking their brains of what that was like. That's
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  Speaker 2: something that's really important to me. We show our players
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  Speaker 2: a lot of examples throughout the offseason program and in
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  Speaker 2: season of the best of the best, right like Michael Jordan,
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  Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady, but then those teams that were great,
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  Speaker 2: and going into some of those details of what it
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  Speaker 2: takes to be great, what it takes to sustain success
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  Speaker 2: over the course of years, and that's why I think
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  Speaker 2: it was really important to get these guys out here.
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  Speaker 2: We did mandatory last week. We brought them back for
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  Speaker 2: these days and wanted to kind of make it worth
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  Speaker 2: their time, make it something that man, they don't feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's a grind, but we're getting good quality work
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  Speaker 2: in and they can hopefully take something from these guys
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  Speaker 2: at some point.
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  Speaker 1: Here doing that. For a while, I hadn't really it was.
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  Speaker 2: Something that kind of came up organically over the winter time.
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  Speaker 2: I believe just when we made the decision to swap
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  Speaker 2: mini camp dates, that was kind of when the wheel
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  Speaker 2: started churning as to what what can we do creatively
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  Speaker 2: for the last few days of off season program to
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  Speaker 2: where maybe these guys are going to get somebody else's voice,
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  Speaker 2: you know, listening to and just being around other guys.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, once we DeMarcus Ware will be
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  Speaker 2: here later, I mean, Hall of Fame Pass Rusher. We're
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  Speaker 2: trying to improve in areas in which hopefully that can
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  Speaker 2: help provide some of that, and I really appreciate it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Tony, Jay Kaiser, Elizabeth, they've done such a
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  Speaker 2: great job of helping organize this and get these guys here,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's just a it makes it a
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  Speaker 2: little bit different.
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  Speaker 5: I guess when you see guys out on the thirty
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  Speaker 5: forty minutes after practice, still working, what does it say
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  Speaker 5: about the hunger of those team?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's you know, this team understands that
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  Speaker 2: there was meat left on the bone, I think, and
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  Speaker 2: the way they've attacked this offseason I think is representative of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that hunger and wanting to try to put
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  Speaker 2: ourselves in the in the best position to go earn
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  Speaker 2: those ops next year. You know, I think Matta Rougio
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  Speaker 2: with the DBS, if it's become a standard, it's become
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  Speaker 2: something that we don't have to ask them to do anymore.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have to necessarily encourage it. They're doing it.
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  Speaker 2: And and they're taking the time out of their you know,
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  Speaker 2: rest and recovery to go get some extra reps and
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  Speaker 2: that's important. Like, it was cool being away this weekend
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  Speaker 2: with some of our players at Hainsey's wedding and notre
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  Speaker 2: name and seeing our guys interact and be together. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's no question that we have a close group.
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  Speaker 4: You got Father's Day coming up this weekend, and your
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  Speaker 4: father seems to play a major role in your life
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  Speaker 4: and your coaching style. What does he mean to you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man, Yeah, that's uh, that's the whole reason why
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  Speaker 2: you know, I got into this was because I was
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  Speaker 2: fortunate enough to grow up with you know, your hero
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  Speaker 2: being your father and being in the same house and
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  Speaker 2: the life lessons the football lessons that so often connect
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  Speaker 2: right life in football. And we're going away on Friday
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  Speaker 2: where I'm taking them overseas to go golf and we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do our our golf trip, so we'll be together
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  Speaker 2: for Father's Day.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, having him around here every day.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's got a locker in the in the
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  Speaker 2: coach's locker room, and uh, it's great having him here.
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  Speaker 1: It's good for me, but it's.
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  Speaker 2: Also cool for our staff, our players that you know,
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  Speaker 2: they all kind of connect with him in their own way.
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  Speaker 2: And he just has a way about him that I've
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  Speaker 2: always really respected. The way he's coach people, you know,
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  Speaker 2: very demanding, but not demeaning. And you know, when you
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  Speaker 2: play for your dad, there's there's hurdles that come along
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  Speaker 2: with it. We never really face some you know some
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  Speaker 2: of the man, I don't want to do this anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Get me away from this guy, like we would come
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  Speaker 2: home from practice and dive into it again, and I will,
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  Speaker 2: and I wanted to. I loved it and so very
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  Speaker 2: fortunate to be able to spend that time with him.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to London.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, we've got a crew of about five or six
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  Speaker 2: courses outside of London.
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  Speaker 1: We did Scotland last summer.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing London this summer and then I think Ireland
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  Speaker 2: next summer. So we'll play about five or six courses
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  Speaker 2: and then I'm meeting Ashley over there for Wimbledon. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna go watch Wimbledon for about a day and.
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  Speaker 1: A half or so, so it'll be good.
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  Speaker 2: He's uh, I've been playing golf like three days a
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  Speaker 2: week or so here and it'll be cool to get
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  Speaker 2: out there.
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  Speaker 1: This spring whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Trevor hasn't had to worry about foot work or you're
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  Speaker 4: not remaking the footwork.
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  Speaker 1: He's got the offense down. How much more calm is
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  Speaker 1: his mind now?
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  Speaker 4: And how does that help?
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  Speaker 1: Very much?
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's a great point, is that he
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  Speaker 2: can kind of just go play right. I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 2: when we get into game planning. There's always going to
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  Speaker 2: be little tweaks and things that come up, but the
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  Speaker 2: meat and potatoes of the system, what we're hunting up,
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  Speaker 2: what we're looking for out of each play.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a very calm mind.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with that, is he's able to just call
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  Speaker 2: a play, see it, visualize it, and then go and
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  Speaker 2: just play and just go play. Don't you're not thinking
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  Speaker 2: about your footwork? You know, I thinking about what is
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  Speaker 2: my footwork on this drop or on this concept? What
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  Speaker 2: is the difference in some of those drops look at
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  Speaker 2: We're still coaching it, absolutely, but he's got such a
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  Speaker 2: grasp for it that you're hopeful that it allows him
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  Speaker 2: to just go be him and go be the best
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  Speaker 2: version of himself as we saw so much towards the
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  Speaker 2: back half of the last year, and taking growth from that,
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  Speaker 2: like we should only be taking a lot of growth
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  Speaker 2: from that time.
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  Speaker 6: A couple of times you and James a South season,
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  Speaker 6: I mentioned the twenty twenty two Rams offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, shaping your thinking.
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  Speaker 1: What what Robb besides injuries that you're in hell?
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  Speaker 5: Has it team building?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean you know Andrew Whitworth retired uh after winning
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl that year, and he was such a
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  Speaker 2: presence in that locker room, specifically with that offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: You know, then you have multiple different guys playing center specifically,
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  Speaker 2: that really had some communication things that come up when
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  Speaker 2: you don't play a lot of snaps, right, and we
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  Speaker 2: were pulling multiple players off the streets. Tyan Seki, I remember,
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  Speaker 2: hadn't been playing at all, came out and had to
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  Speaker 2: start games for us. We had multiple players just literally
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  Speaker 2: come off the couch and come play. And so, look,
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  Speaker 2: there's only so much you can coach when you don't
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  Speaker 2: have continuity, mystry or a plethora of options to play upfront,
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  Speaker 2: it really screws a lot of things up right. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the run, the past, the protection systems, it's so much built.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why we're not gonna go dry there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like right now we have at
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  Speaker 2: least we got nine guys that I feel comfortable saying, Man,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna go play with them on Sundays and we'll
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  Speaker 2: have a chance to win. And the more we can
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  Speaker 2: add to that, the better. Why we're going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to invest in the draft and in free agency up
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  Speaker 2: front is because man, if we don't have our quarterback plan,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be a hard tough movie to watch.
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  Speaker 4: In the hunt, grant you Dinsky when you guys drafted
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  Speaker 4: Portrachure said he was going to change the offense. Why
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  Speaker 4: is that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it just allows some of our similar
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  Speaker 2: to like what Jakobe did in ways, allowing not just
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  Speaker 2: himself to come get integrated and do what he does well,
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  Speaker 2: but also what it allows for the other guys to do.
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  Speaker 2: And so as much as man, we love Brenton Strange
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  Speaker 2: blocking and he's.
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  Speaker 1: So tough, he wants to do it.
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  Speaker 2: He's physical, he'll bite you.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: We also miss him time last year in which our
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  Speaker 2: record and when you look at when he has production,
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  Speaker 2: what our record looks like.
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  Speaker 1: Is kind of interesting to see.
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  Speaker 2: And so allowing Brenton to continue to do what he
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  Speaker 2: does well, but also to maybe take some of that
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  Speaker 2: wear and tear some of the pounding that it takes
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  Speaker 2: when you're blocking Trayvon Walker's of the world and josh
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  Speaker 2: heinz Allen's of the world, you know, getting him matched
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  Speaker 2: up more on those linebackers and safeties, and now he's
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  Speaker 2: an advantage for us.
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  Speaker 1: Now we have an edge. So we always feel.
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  Speaker 2: Good about strange blocking at the point of attack, but
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  Speaker 2: we needed some help there. And being able to provide
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  Speaker 2: Strange an option to go maybe split out or go
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  Speaker 2: block other people that maybe keep him out of some
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  Speaker 2: of those one on one, big situation.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: I think that's going to help us tremendously. Is it easier.
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  Speaker 4: To establish the culture or maintain the.
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  Speaker 1: Culture, that's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: I think establishing is definitely a little easier.
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  Speaker 1: I think because.
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  Speaker 2: Look, they're very ready to hear something different. Right when
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  Speaker 2: you've lost or coming off a tough year. They're eager,
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  Speaker 2: their eyes are bright, they're they're you know, they want
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  Speaker 2: to hear what you got to say, because like, hey man,
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  Speaker 2: this is this is what we got, this is where
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  Speaker 2: we have to go.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that was probably a little easier than.
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  Speaker 2: Sustaining it, right, especially once we get to a point
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  Speaker 2: where maybe in a few years where you're you know,
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  Speaker 2: other guys are moving on that have been in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room, that know the culture and have the standards.
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  Speaker 2: We were very fortunate to be able to bring back
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  Speaker 2: a lot of those guys this year, and so Ross
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  Speaker 2: Matsik was telling me, you know, out there on the
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  Speaker 2: grass that he's like, man, I told my wife this
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  Speaker 2: weekend that this is the closest team you know, I've
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  Speaker 2: been around in my life. So it's pretty cool to
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  Speaker 2: hear that and to see it come to life. But
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  Speaker 2: I think sustaining it is the challenge sustaining your culture
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  Speaker 2: because now, all right, what happens if we, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we start losing some games and now you start looking
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  Speaker 2: at well, ma'am, maybe that wasn't right, Maybe we aren't
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  Speaker 2: doing the right things, but no, we are.
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  Speaker 1: You just stay the course. Process drives the results.
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  Speaker 2: But man, we can get caught up in those results
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  Speaker 2: pretty quickly, and I think that's when it goes downhill.
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: Copy Canty, especially on defense.
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  Speaker 6: If you look at defense, is this offseason, what's the
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  Speaker 6: next trend after shell coverage?
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  Speaker 2: I think multiplicity and diversity within jobs and responsibilities on
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  Speaker 2: the defensive side, I think you look at man, there's
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  Speaker 2: linebackers that are dropping out deeper in coverage than ever before.
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  Speaker 2: Or you're in some of those dime packages with multiple
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  Speaker 2: different dbs on the grass and they're spinning all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. Right you look at Minnesota, I know they
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: train their players almost just as X's like they all
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  Speaker 2: have to be able to do multiple different jobs as
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  Speaker 2: opposed to just the D line rushes and plays the run.
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  Speaker 2: The linebackers run sideline the sideline and drop a little
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  Speaker 2: in coverage in blitz.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, how can.
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  Speaker 2: We continue Antonio Johnson esque right, different jobs, roles, responsibilities
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  Speaker 2: because now it allows you to have different packages develop
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  Speaker 2: players because you're getting them on the grass a little
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  Speaker 2: bit earlier. I think that that's something that we're seeing,
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  Speaker 2: and we're seeing a lot more. What we say is
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  Speaker 2: non known rushers dropping in coverage, right, Like guys that
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  Speaker 2: you're expecting typically to rush, they're putting the protections in
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  Speaker 2: tough situations because they're lining them up, overloading in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ways and they can either rush or drop.
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  Speaker 2: So I think defenses are challenging our protection systems a
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  Speaker 2: lot more than maybe over the last few years. And
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  Speaker 2: you see so much diversity and multiplicity throughout the personnel
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  Speaker 2: on defense to be able to do a lot of
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  Speaker 2: different things. And that was kind of part of what
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  Speaker 2: we did today, Like we had all of our dbs
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  Speaker 2: today do blitz work, right, they're typically an individual or
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  Speaker 2: in circuits doing you know, ball disruption, trying.
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  Speaker 1: To catch the ball or doing dB.
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  Speaker 2: Specific drills today in this week is all trying to
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  Speaker 2: get guys to do different roles and responsibilities at a
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  Speaker 2: high level, at a career high.
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  Speaker 5: Eleven past breakups last season, how have you seen them improve?
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  Speaker 5: Obviously a fantastic tackle, but how was he improved defending
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  Speaker 5: the past years?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think it showed up actually last week as well.
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  Speaker 2: We were actually in a two minute situation and he
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  Speaker 2: gloved one of the running backs on an optional route.
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  Speaker 2: And I think Foyers obviously his brain works very at
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  Speaker 2: a high level, and he can under stand release patterns
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  Speaker 2: of whether it's a tight end or the running back.
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  Speaker 2: He understands the release and maybe what that route could
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  Speaker 2: look like. I also think vision zone coverage helped him right,
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  Speaker 2: not being maybe in man match all the time and
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  Speaker 2: having your eyes on the receiver, having your eyes on
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback and being able to kind of read his
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: eyes see the route start to distribute, and then his
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: studying and training and habits can just go allow him
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  Speaker 2: to play fast having vision on the quarterback. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was a very underrated pass defender last year,
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  Speaker 2: and I think he's getting better and better.
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  Speaker 4: There we go. How much more calm is your mind
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  Speaker 4: this year now that you're not having to worry about shoulder,
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  Speaker 4: new offense, footwork, all that stuff, and how do you
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  Speaker 4: think that will help him?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just a lot calmer, a lot more confident,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, my progressions and what I know about
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  Speaker 6: the system and stepping out, so you know, when I
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  Speaker 6: get on the grass, it's a lot less thinking. So
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  Speaker 6: I think that's the biggest thing is react play faster,
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  Speaker 6: can work on some different things of my game because
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  Speaker 6: the focus isn't as much on what to do and
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  Speaker 6: what's the play call and what are the all the adjustments.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's I know all that stuff and still
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  Speaker 6: study that and work on it because it's easy to
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  Speaker 6: forget little details. But as far as being able to
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  Speaker 6: work on more detailed things with the receivers and the
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  Speaker 6: communication with those guys as opposed to just lining up
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  Speaker 6: and running the play, you know, we're a lot further
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  Speaker 6: ahead this year, so it's a good feeling to be
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  Speaker 6: able to work on more stuff. Our installs have been
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  Speaker 6: a lot more in depth as well, because the guys have,
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  Speaker 6: you know, come ready to go and they know the
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  Speaker 6: system and Trevor last year and also just the disc offices.
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  Speaker 3: You've got a lot of success on that.
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  Speaker 2: Dagger route that you can cover. What do you like
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  Speaker 2: about throwing that route? How we can challenge Manason?
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  Speaker 6: I think, you know, the timing is something that I
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  Speaker 6: feel really comfortable with all of our guys. We've got
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  Speaker 6: a lot of guys that can rip in the middle
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  Speaker 6: of the field. Trust them to come flat and show
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  Speaker 6: up on time. And I think that's probably the biggest thing,
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  Speaker 6: is trusting guys to get in that zone. And I
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  Speaker 6: feel like, obviously there's certain coverages where they take it away,
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  Speaker 6: but in my opinion, there's not many. I feel like,
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  Speaker 6: if we're on time, I throw it early. I know
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  Speaker 6: where the window is, I know guys are going to
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  Speaker 6: get there. I think I can cut it loose in
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: almost every look. So we have a lot of confidence
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: throwing that guys running it. Guys like running that and
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: now I'm going to put it there on time. So
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: I think that's something we continue to develop and build
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: it off of. Obviously, you've got to have compliments because
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: I think teams know that it's something that we do well.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: But going to continue to build on that, and that's
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: of course going to be a big part of our offense.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Having Britain Strange be a guy who can actually go
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: out and catch the football. How much does that sort
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: of add to the offense, especially with the addition of
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: um Nate and the other tight ends.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think having a well rounded tight end room
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: is super important, just because talk about all the different
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: personnel groupings, and when you're trying to get a certain
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: defensive personnel on the field and you have the ability
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: to still throw the ball whether it's twelve or thirteen,
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: you still have a real threat in the past game.
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: And that's important just because then you can dictate what
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: happens with the defense a little bit more, and when
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: you don't, it's a.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Little bit harder.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: You get a little bit or I guess a little
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: bit easier to track what you're doing as far as
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: running the ball, tendencies all that. So I think that's
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: gonna help us with our tendencies, going to be able
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: to do a lot of different things run game, in
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: pass game with the versatile tight ends we have.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: I know you guys still have tribal Orta's left, but
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: for us as is that lost one. So just as
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: a team, how do you assess where you guys are
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: at right now compared to loss season specifically.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, we talked a little bit about last
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: year and just I think there's so much new, a
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: lot of change. Everyone is trying. It's a new staff,
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: a bunch of new players, everyone's trying to get on
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: the same page, build the chemistry within our team, but
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: also just learn the systems on both sides of the ball.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: So I think you see the comfort the confidence of
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: guys running around knowing what to do. Obviously there's still
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: mistakes that we're going to learn from and build off of,
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: but as far as guys just knowing what to do
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: and being able to take that next step on it's
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: not just about you know, what route we're running or
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: the progression, it's now how do we get to different checks,
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: how do we you know, read this against this coverage,
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: And you're just building more and more knowledge of the
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: system and how to operate faster. And I think it's
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: just going to make us better and better. And we've
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: really attacked the off season. We've got two more days
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: left to do so but it's been great so far.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Focus now with one month off hanging to training camp,
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: then you.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Know, really just continue to build off of what we
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: started here. I know we're gonna be separate and guys
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: are gonna be all over the place, and I think
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: it's an important time obviously, it's it's such a short break.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: You can't really take time off, in my opinion. You
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: might take a little bit of time off throwing just
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: to kind of reset a little bit, but you're gonna
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: be back to work pretty much right away. But it's separate,
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: so I think we have more time to work on
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: individual things that we need to work on for me, footwork, strength,
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: getting in shape, all those things, staying in shape and
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: coming back ready to go in training camp so we
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: can pick off, pick back up right where we left off.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: I think that's the biggest thing, is not having to
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: feel like you take a little bit of a step
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: back from OTAs to training camp. You want to hit
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: the ground running, and I'm confident we have a really
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: mature team and guys are gonna be ready on.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Days this weekend with us, maybe with you and Mercy
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: just as you maybe number two.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: How special Some may.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: Be, yeah, super excited. I'm gonna have another one running
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: around later this year, so uh, you know, I guess
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: I'm really excited. That's all all I can say. Having
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: a boy obviously is gonna be a little bit different. So,
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: I mean everyone says girls are a lot calmer, but
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: my daughter is pretty crazy, so I'm interested to see
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: how crazy the boy's going to be. But we're super blessed,
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: super grateful, you know, having our first she's incredible, and
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: just very grateful that our family's growing and just super
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: thankful for that.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: You briefly touched on the chemistry of this unit.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: Have there been any steps taken on your end with
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: all the new names from the draft class to garner
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: a better sense of chemistry with the young guys in
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: the building.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: I think it's trying to just learn more about those
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: guys in the small moments outside of practice, you know,
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: just catching up, seeing where they're from, just learning more
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: about them, and that's a big part of it, is
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: building that relationship. And then obviously out here is trying
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: to get as many reps as possible with some of
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: the young receivers and the new tight ends that we have.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: So I think that's a process that is going to
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: continue obviously into this break. And then training camp is
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: a big time. You spend a lot of time together,
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: So just excited to get to know those guys more.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: I think when you build that trust and that relationship,
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: that's really where you see it start to blossom on
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: the field, because that's so important off the field relationship
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: you guys.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: I know you guys do a group trip every year.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: It just kind of is that on the docor this
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: year and what's kind of important there? Why do you
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: guys typically do that?
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think trying to get guys together. Like I said,
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: everyone's in different places and just to it's really more
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: for obviously we work and we throw and we train
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: and we do all that stuff, but it's more for
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: the camaraderie and getting to know each other and especially
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: for young guys, like we were just saying, getting to
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: know these guys more than just the four hours we
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: spend together here because I mean we're in meetings most
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: of the time, we're running around. We don't really have
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: much time to catch up. So I think just getting
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: the whole group together builds that bond and that chemistry.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: And it's been great over the years doing and I
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: feel like guys get tighter and you know each other
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: a little bit better. Going into training camp and I
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: feel like it helps.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Our team was on the beat ball throughout much of
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: this offseason, Like, how did that materialize? Well, that's something
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: you brought to the staff. Staff brought to you at
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: the film review, like just how do we get to
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: that point being the next stage of growth.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: With the offense. Yeah, I think it's something that is
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: important an offense. Obviously those explosive plays down the field,
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: and we had a lot of explosives, but it wasn't
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: in the same way as you would you would think,
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: you know, it's not as many shots down the field vertically,
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: it was more across the field in cuts. Maybe it's
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: overs across the field hit and where those guys are
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: running out the back door. So trying to find a
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: way to take the top off the defense more, have
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: more explosives, and because we have the skill set, you know,
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: we have guys that can run past dbs. You know,
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: I can put the ball where I need to where
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: those guys can go get it. So I think it
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: was more about spending the time and just kind of
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: perfecting that and that's still a work in progress, but
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: we made some big steps this offseason. And you look
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: at throughout my career and even two years ago that
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: was something that we did really well with BT, and
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: we threw a lot of shots and hit a lot
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: of those and it got better towards the end of
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: season last year. But just more consistency and there's more
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: guys than just BT that can do it. So I
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: think having our whole offense where it's not just BT
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: running the shots. You know, it could be Jacoby Parker, Travis,
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: I mean, even our tight ends can run. I think
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: there's just so many different things that we can do
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: that will open up our offense to where we're not predictable.