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  Speaker 1: See a good football team. Just really well rounded as
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  Speaker 1: an offense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, run them all well, physical in the front,
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  Speaker 2: they finished blocks, you know, and they've done a great
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  Speaker 2: job in pass protection too. So the quarterback is playing
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  Speaker 2: at an elite level in my opinion, you know, hard
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  Speaker 2: to bring down, but making good decisions too, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and made some incredible throws, especially the other day.
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  Speaker 1: So the receiving corps super talented.
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  Speaker 2: So really don't you don't see a whole lot of
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  Speaker 2: flaws there.
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  Speaker 3: It's a challenge with covering a guy like Court inside
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  Speaker 3: of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just such a big, physical guy, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: really wins I would say the lion's share of the
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  Speaker 2: fifty to fifty balls and just a big competitive guy
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  Speaker 2: at the catch point. So that's a challenge. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when he's isolated, he does a great job and they
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  Speaker 2: do a great job of getting them the ball. So
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of challenge there.
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  Speaker 1: He's playing some of the best ball in his career.
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  Speaker 4: He what was the turning point for him?
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  Speaker 1: Can you put your.
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  Speaker 5: Finger on it?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think Antonio a lot of that is
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  Speaker 2: just repetition, you know, it really is. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: gotten so many reps now at doing what we're doing,
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  Speaker 2: and I think he's very, very comfortable. But he's also,
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  Speaker 2: like I said last week, he's playing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: roles for us, So he's playing nickel, playing safety, you
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  Speaker 2: play some time, move around a lot, and I think
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  Speaker 2: he's doing a lot of the things that he does well.
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  Speaker 2: So he's got I think, a ton of confidence right now.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's a big difference for him as well.
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  Speaker 2: But he's see put in the work, so yeah, he's
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  Speaker 2: he's in here working, doing extra every day, so he
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  Speaker 2: deserves it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy for him.
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  Speaker 6: Cav Pig. You back to March for a second. You
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  Speaker 6: guy did a freeze and frenzy in the first statement.
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  Speaker 6: You got Murray and Jordan Lewis, And well, how big
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  Speaker 6: were those two guys to sort of set your foundation
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  Speaker 6: for what you wanted to do.
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  Speaker 2: They were a huge from a leadership perspective one. You
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  Speaker 2: know their total pros, but I think they really they
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  Speaker 2: really have driven the culture in the defensive back room especially.
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  Speaker 1: They're just highly accountable guys. They're tough guys.
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  Speaker 2: They value honestly, they value what I value and what
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  Speaker 2: we value on the defensive side of the ball here
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  Speaker 2: and just as an organization, they.
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  Speaker 1: Value toughness and accountability.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're they're guys that you often before you
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  Speaker 2: ever correct a mistake, they're they're aware of it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're correcting themselves and fixing it before you can even
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  Speaker 2: get to them.
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  Speaker 1: So from that.
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  Speaker 2: Perspective, to have guys who are in those roles and
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  Speaker 2: are super accountable for the younger guys to see that,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's been huge for us as a defense.
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  Speaker 1: That they organize the DV only meeting during the week.
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  Speaker 6: How much of a head start or just.
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  Speaker 1: You know, get a head a little bit?
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  Speaker 6: Does that help his coach?
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  Speaker 1: Is huge?
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  Speaker 2: Huge, And I think the best groups or units do that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's great to be a coach led unit
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  Speaker 2: and you can drive guys to a certain extent, but
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  Speaker 2: the best teams are player led. And I think when
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  Speaker 2: your peers are holding your holding you accountable, uh, and
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  Speaker 2: you have that culture of being able to tell the
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  Speaker 2: truth to each other, to push each other, that's when
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  Speaker 2: you're heading in a great direction.
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  Speaker 1: And that's because of those guys. You've always been really
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  Speaker 1: highly ambustered.
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  Speaker 4: You're just some gratifying is it for you as a
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  Speaker 4: coach when he makes him play like and when he
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  Speaker 4: did last week super gratifying.
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  Speaker 2: You just I'm happy for him, you know, whenever something
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  Speaker 2: good happens to him, because I know how much he's
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  Speaker 2: put into this, and I feel that way about most
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  Speaker 2: of the guys on our side of the ball. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you're just happy for him, and genuinely, I love these guys.
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  Speaker 2: I love coaching these guys. They have a great relationship
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  Speaker 2: with one another, you know, and they're genuinely happy for
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  Speaker 2: each other. We don't have any divas where guys are
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  Speaker 2: whining about this guy or that guy. It's just, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a culture guys that love playing together. They're genuinely
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  Speaker 2: happy for each other when they do well. Uh, and
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  Speaker 2: we as coaches feel the same way about them, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And that was also the other day for Buster too,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to see that it's great as the hell
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  Speaker 2: of a play.
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  Speaker 4: This year kind of looked similar kind of diving for him,
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  Speaker 4: just what you've kind of seen from him and his
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  Speaker 4: playmaking ability this year.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's aggressive, you know, He's just that's one of
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  Speaker 2: his best qualities. He's aggressive at the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: He's aggressive at the catch point, He's a tough, physical kid.
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  Speaker 1: So you love that.
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  Speaker 2: You love if you have defensive backs, Bush will come up.
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  Speaker 2: He'll he'll tack you, he'll hit you. You know, he's you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys have seen that, and he'll challenge you on the
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  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage. So that's what I love about the guy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he just keeps competing. Something bad happens, he
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  Speaker 2: keeps playing, and you really need to have that type
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  Speaker 2: of mentality. It's a defensive back, you know, you got
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  Speaker 2: to have amnesia. And if ever that's the case, if
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't make a play, he comes right back and
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  Speaker 2: plays as hard as he possibly can. So I have
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  Speaker 2: so much respect for that, you know, for him as
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  Speaker 2: a player, you have a lot of different combinations.
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  Speaker 4: You had to play in the secondary over the course
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  Speaker 4: of the year. But that's you kind of whether that
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  Speaker 4: and you get to this point, Does that give you
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  Speaker 4: some extra cards in your hand that you feel confident
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  Speaker 4: playing because these.
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  Speaker 1: Guys all of that stabs. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: One, you find out a lot too, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean. You find out who does work well, and
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  Speaker 2: then you also find out you know who's ready one right,
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  Speaker 2: and it develops to your point, I think it develops
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  Speaker 2: your your depth, because there's no there's nothing like experience.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing like repetition, you know, you said coach for
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  Speaker 2: coach Harboy at Michigan, he used to say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's only one way to get.
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  Speaker 1: Better at football. That's by playing more football. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: when guys.
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  Speaker 2: Get to play a lot of football, that's a great
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  Speaker 2: thing for it and that's how you get better. And
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  Speaker 2: in this league, I think people think like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the guys are pro. How much better are
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  Speaker 2: they're going to get? Everybody gets better, and we have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of young guys who I feel like have developed,
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  Speaker 2: they've gotten better, and they got that opportunity through getting
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  Speaker 2: a shot to play on the field.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when lights go on, a.
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  Speaker 6: Lot of coaches say, you know, they want their team
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  Speaker 6: to be player led, but.
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  Speaker 1: You seem to ta trick practices. Just where does that
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  Speaker 1: sort of come from or.
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  Speaker 2: Where did that come from from you to know that
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  Speaker 2: this was the way you.
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  Speaker 1: Have to coach teams?
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  Speaker 2: Probably growing up, to be honest with you, I grew
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  Speaker 2: up around that. My father was a high school coach,
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  Speaker 2: so I saw that a lot. You know, one challenging players,
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  Speaker 2: but loving the guys. You coach caring about them, like
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  Speaker 2: caring about people if you if you love people, you
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  Speaker 2: love being around people. It's a great business because it's
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  Speaker 2: a proactive business.
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  Speaker 1: To be in.
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  Speaker 2: But I kind of saw that in his process, you know,
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  Speaker 2: putting it in the hands of the players, that developing
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  Speaker 2: a culture first and then letting them take that.
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  Speaker 1: And run with it.
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  Speaker 2: And I've been around some other guys who I felt
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  Speaker 2: like did a lot of the same and that had
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  Speaker 2: a huge effect on me, you know, developing the culture
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  Speaker 2: of the team, because I really believe that that that's
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  Speaker 2: more important than the scheme and everything else.
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  Speaker 1: Like the scheme's great, everybody's got great players.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can run line up and empty every
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  Speaker 2: play on offense or you could be in the wishbone
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  Speaker 2: and every played.
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  Speaker 1: All it works. You know, it's all good, But it's
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  Speaker 1: who's doing it. How hard are they doing it? How
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  Speaker 1: hard are they playing?
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  Speaker 2: And I think at the end of the day, it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to give up on guys that you care about.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like the harder you work, the harder it
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  Speaker 1: is the surrender.
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  Speaker 2: Coach Lombardi said that I think that's true, that's one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent truth.
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  Speaker 1: So make it hard for him.
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  Speaker 2: Make it competitive every day, and you're going to find
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  Speaker 2: out a lot about the guys you're playing with.
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  Speaker 6: Thank care, diskuisy coverage, prestamp. What's the line where you
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  Speaker 6: want to keep that guessing, but you also wants your
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  Speaker 6: guys to play fast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to try and always be in the
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  Speaker 2: realm of simple us complex Then you know, as if
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  Speaker 2: you know what you're doing and you know what you're
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  Speaker 2: creating the response you're trying to create offensively, I think
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  Speaker 2: that helps the player so much more so, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's so much about learning offensive learning what the response
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  Speaker 2: is to that disguise, and then the players can kind
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  Speaker 2: of take that and run with it, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: they take ownership and leadership of that. So hopefully I'm
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  Speaker 2: answering your question the right way. But that I think
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  Speaker 2: is a huge part about it, a huge part of it,
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  Speaker 2: because as guys learn more and more about what the
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  Speaker 2: offense is doing, what the response is, they're actually a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more creative and you don't want I think
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  Speaker 2: Liam's done a great job he says this so much
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  Speaker 2: about you know, we don't want robots, We want want
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  Speaker 2: you to be creative, want we don't want to take
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  Speaker 2: away your creativity as a player, and that's exactly right
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  Speaker 2: for football.
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  Speaker 1: You can get it down.
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  Speaker 2: You can have paralysis by analysis, you know, but once
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  Speaker 2: they understand what to do, we want to let them
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  Speaker 2: go and play fast.
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  Speaker 1: And the guys have done a pretty good job at
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  Speaker 1: that so far. About getting back on.
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  Speaker 3: The practice field, what do you kind of want to
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  Speaker 3: see from the couple weeks?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just talking to him downstairs in the
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  Speaker 2: hallway about the same thing. I just want to see
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  Speaker 2: him play hard as hell. You don't want to see
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  Speaker 2: him go out and play like like he did in
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  Speaker 2: the summer. Uh, you know, do what got you here,
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  Speaker 2: Play hard as hell and represent the people who raise
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  Speaker 2: you to people you love the right way, and go
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  Speaker 2: out there and kick ass and practice and you know
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  Speaker 2: that we always we always watch that, and that always
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  Speaker 2: jumps out.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I talked about Matt Dickerson a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of Matt's opportunity came from one you know,
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  Speaker 2: we knew of him and watching him before he out here,
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  Speaker 2: but when he got here and and uh, he got
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  Speaker 2: out there in the practice field, to me, it was undeniable.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this guy's doing a really good job and
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  Speaker 2: he deserves an opportunity. So I think Liam does a
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  Speaker 2: great job with that. It's it's real. It's not like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you're going out there and just if you're out there,
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  Speaker 2: you're competing and you're doing a great job and you're
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  Speaker 2: playing the way we want you to with your hair
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  Speaker 2: on fire. Yeah, you're going to get an opportunity because
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  Speaker 2: that's always going to be able to help us win.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what that's what I want to see for
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  Speaker 1: him too.
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  Speaker 4: MINDI is one of the kind of a ruckus Environment's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be real loud. There is that the kind of
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  Speaker 4: environment that defenses look forward to going into.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's a lot of these are obviously
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  Speaker 2: crazy environments.
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  Speaker 1: I played there before, and it is you know, it's an
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  Speaker 1: intense place.
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  Speaker 2: I just think the opportunity to go up against a
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  Speaker 2: great team and uh, you know, play a high level
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  Speaker 2: of football.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's fired up about that.
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  Speaker 2: And like we said earlier in this uh media session,
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  Speaker 2: they got they got a great offense, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to challenge us, and uh, we're excited to
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  Speaker 2: go out and compete against those guys and we got
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  Speaker 2: do a great job. Stop and run. We got to
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  Speaker 2: do a great job in coverage. So I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody's just fired up about it. I'm fired
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  Speaker 2: up to get out there and play against a great
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  Speaker 2: football team too.
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  Speaker 5: Resulted in the six touchdowns, but there's so many great
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  Speaker 5: plays in beyond those touchdowns that just proud of the
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  Speaker 5: work he's put in and great to see that success
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  Speaker 5: come in return.
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  Speaker 6: A talking point a lot of press conferences of last
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  Speaker 6: couple of front of we have that the pure progression
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  Speaker 6: passing game versus coverage based reads and where do you
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  Speaker 6: guys stand on that and you can be in the
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  Speaker 6: progression Are you a progression team? And what Trevor and
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  Speaker 6: that place in the game.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been certainly an evolution for us and probably
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  Speaker 5: a lot of teams across the league over the years,
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  Speaker 5: and I think a lot of it is probably in
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  Speaker 5: responsible defenses are doing. They present a lot of challenges,
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  Speaker 5: so we're constantly searching for solutions to those challenges. So
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  Speaker 5: we will use a mix of both coverage reads progression
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  Speaker 5: reads depending on the play, Depending on the situation, you're
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  Speaker 5: trying to find what's best fit for the quarterback to
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  Speaker 5: let them go out there and play fast. There are
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  Speaker 5: certainly advantages to those coverage reads that have probably been
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  Speaker 5: discussed at length, with giving guys simplified looks, or they
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  Speaker 5: only have to go to one eye guy and then
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  Speaker 5: the second guy, then a third guy. But then there
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  Speaker 5: are tradeoffs to that where now there's a lot for
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  Speaker 5: them to see, and can they get through those.
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  Speaker 3: Progressions in the proper timing?
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  Speaker 5: Can the receivers get to the spacing that they're getting
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  Speaker 5: to in the proper timing Where coverage read presents you
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  Speaker 5: advantages where now I can only or I only have
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  Speaker 5: to look at one, two, or maybe three guys on
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  Speaker 5: a certain side of the field, or I only have
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  Speaker 5: to read off of one defender that could present an
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  Speaker 5: issue in this coverage in this look, but now it's
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  Speaker 5: putting an extra pressure.
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  Speaker 3: On me to be right.
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  Speaker 5: So as defenses can continue to kind of present little
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  Speaker 5: problems here and there with disguises, fronts, different coverages, we
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  Speaker 5: continue to look for solutions, but there's not really ever
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  Speaker 5: a perfect solution.
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  Speaker 3: There's only trade offs.
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  Speaker 5: So every time you find a new solution or a
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  Speaker 5: new answer, you're trading off something else, so it ends
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  Speaker 5: up being a mix of both. You're trying to balance
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  Speaker 5: all those different things, and each play will be unique.
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  Speaker 5: You bucket the reads in different aspects for the quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 5: so different ways to look at certain plays. But it's
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  Speaker 5: certainly been interesting to see how offenses like ours and
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  Speaker 5: probably everyone else's across the league have tried to evolve
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  Speaker 5: it to create answers for the problems that those defenses present.
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  Speaker 4: When you look at that those defense, what do you see?
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  Speaker 5: What you see really really really tough physical play fundamentally
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  Speaker 5: sound good at all three levels of defense, first level,
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  Speaker 5: second level, third level, the sacks, the run game. That
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  Speaker 5: success kind of speaks for itself in the stats. But
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  Speaker 5: you see guys in the back end certain and really
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  Speaker 5: all the defensive backs able to go out there and
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  Speaker 5: make plays on the ball, make plays in the run game.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just a really well rounded unit.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you can search all day for week spots,
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  Speaker 5: but you're gonna you're gonna be searching for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: It's just you don't put up that type of production.
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  Speaker 5: You don't have that disruption on the ball, you don't
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  Speaker 5: stop the run, you don't affect the pass of the
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  Speaker 5: way they do it without being good really in all
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  Speaker 5: areas of the game. You add on top of that
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  Speaker 5: the scheme. They're creative, they're multiple, they do a bunch
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  Speaker 5: of different things to challenge you. So it's a great
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  Speaker 5: challenge for our guys and we're looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: You're chain on the type of guy. You gotta know where
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  Speaker 1: he's at on the play.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, Unfortunately, they got a lot of guys that are
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  Speaker 5: like that, really, but he definitely is, not just because
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  Speaker 5: of his ball skills, but the way he can disrupt
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  Speaker 5: passing concepts and you know, cover different guys in different ways.
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  Speaker 5: There's not a lot of routes where like I said,
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  Speaker 5: with the defense as a whole, there's not a lot
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  Speaker 5: of things that he is a weakness in his game.
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  Speaker 5: So he can play inside, he can play outside. He's
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  Speaker 5: great in the deep part of the field, great upfront,
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  Speaker 5: great up and press. So you've got to be aware
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  Speaker 5: where he is, not just because the ball skills, but
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  Speaker 5: how he can disrupt a read or a timing or
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  Speaker 5: intent of a play.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously the big impact this year pass bro. Are you
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  Speaker 3: excited to see you know what an expanded on Kenny
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  Speaker 3: firm as a ball gear he's next few weeks sign.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, Yeah, We've gotten glimpses of it here and there.
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  Speaker 5: You see him on third down. He's had some carries
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  Speaker 5: when he's gone into spell TJ at times he's had
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  Speaker 5: some carries. But I think when you see the physicality
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  Speaker 5: that he plays with him pass protection or even as
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: a receiver out of the backfield, translating that into the
• 13:48
  Speaker 5: run game will be exciting to see. Really his play style,
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: his effort, his demeanor is kind of attacking, and every
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: single thing he does, so I'm excited to see what
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: he does with that opportunity.
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: Travis in three touchdown catches last week. He normally runs
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: the ball in, but to throw in three passes that
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: you have confidence and that when did you know that
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: he was could be that kind.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: Of player too?
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: Well, I think we knew he had that ability certainly
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: for a while. It's frustrating when you don't have the
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: opportunity to get and show that ability out there on
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: a Sunday. It's one of those things we talked about
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: two in a couple of weeks ago, and some.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: Of the other backs.
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: They have a lot of skills and different skill sets
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: that we don't get to show on Sunday just because
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: of the way the defense is defending you, or the
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: flow of the game, there's a lot of play calls
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: and different things that you don't get to get to.
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: You're preparing for all these different things, and there's so
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: many great options to attack defenses, but they may.
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: Play a certain way. You don't get to that stuff.
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: So it was awesome to have all that work that
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: TJ's done in the past game, and really all the
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: backs have done in the past game finally pay off.
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: It just happened to be all of it in the
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: same game, where usually we would like to get that
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: kind of spread out a little bit more, but they
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: took advantage of their opportunity, so it was no surprise
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: to me. It was kind of one of those things
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: you look at at the end of the game you're like, oh, man,
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: that really we did all those in the same game,
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: and you still felt like he had more opportunities out there.
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: So it was great to see all the they put
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: in with the quarterbacks, all the work they do on
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: their own payoff.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: What's been the challenge with the screen game.
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: Just kind of playing off that, Well, it's a couple
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: different things.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: Each screen is unique, and each instance we're trying to
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: run a screen could be totally different where some of
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: them were screening, and we're facing different fronts, we're facing
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: different pressures. Some of them receiver screens, some of them
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: play action screen, some of them drop back screens. So
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: there is a lot of facets to the screen game
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: where we've tried to improve. I think as we've had
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: some turnover in the personnel who's out there playing with
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: each other, we need to continue to find ways to
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: improve on playing together because there is so much feel
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: in the screen game.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: So guys have to play off on each other.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: So when one guy gets out and fits a block
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: a certain way, the next guy has to know that
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: that first guy fit that block that way, and I
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: have to adjust my block accordingly and on the back,
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: and an offensive lineman out in front of me is
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: now kicking out on a block because of the way
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: the defense played or because of the front, and now
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: a guard got out first. Now I got adjust the
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: way I'm running that differently. Same thing would be if
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: I'm a pressure there's a blitzer off of a side
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: getting used to Okay, Now the timing of the screen
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: might be a little bit different than it would be
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: if there's no pressure. And it's just a four man rush.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: So there's a lot of little nuance that takes time
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: and takes time on task and really takes time on
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: task working together that we just need to continue to
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: work on and try to improve to get the screen
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: game to where we want it to get to.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: During a week for going into a househol environment.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Well, there's a lot of different things.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: You hope that your work throughout the entire offseason, throughout
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: the entire season will provide some semblance of confidence and
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: ability to execute under adverse conditions where there's going to
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: be crowd noise. It's like when there's games and weather
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: you're banking on all those reps of wet ball drill
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: and doing different things in the rain. Well, it's kind
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: of the same thing here where you're out there and
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: we've been walking through and you practice with crowd noise
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: and loud music and you have other away games. Now,
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: it's tough to simulate that type of environment. They have
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: an awesome, awesome home field and crowd there. So we'll
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: do everything we can to try to simulate putting the
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: guys under pressure, putting them in pressure situations, creating that
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: crowd noise. You know, putting them up against the clock.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: We try to simulate all those things the best you can,
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: but you can only really come so close. So there's
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: a bunch of different ways substitutions make the communication difficult,
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: but it'll absolutely
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Be a point of emphasis for us going into the game.