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Press Pass | Offense Coaches Address the Media at OTAs · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Obviously, you know, physically he's very gifted. But I think
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  Speaker 1: the maturity that I've seen this offseason is the way
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  Speaker 1: he approaches the game and the way he's been studying
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  Speaker 1: and understanding and just his vision, you know, being able
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  Speaker 1: to see the bigger picture of things and not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: just his one role in that particular player, whatever that
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  Speaker 1: may be. So I think that's gonna be the main thing,
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  Speaker 1: that maturity from off the field and how he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: come into the building more prepared than than you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe in the past.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, and.
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  Speaker 3: Was yesterday, I was one hundred and fourteen receptions is
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  Speaker 3: hard to match. But he said very very good at
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  Speaker 3: intermediate stuff last year. He thinks there's more to his
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  Speaker 3: game downfield. Potentially feel the same way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, But again it's like, you know, what does
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  Speaker 1: the offense call for? If I had a crystal ball,
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  Speaker 1: we'd love to say, yeah, it's gonna happen, But that's
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  Speaker 1: the plan, I mean obviously, So it's you know, we
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  Speaker 1: see the same stats you guys do, and we know
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  Speaker 1: he can do it. He's very valuable that way. So
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  Speaker 1: but like I said, it's just part of the evolution
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  Speaker 1: of the offense. You know, kind of let that happen,
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  Speaker 1: the let it take place kind of organically, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it will.
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  Speaker 4: He's always been a high level obviously.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna where did you see him grow the
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  Speaker 3: most last year?
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  Speaker 1: Yea last year honestly, uh the understanding of what he
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  Speaker 1: was about to see, you know, having the uh where,
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  Speaker 1: the knowledge to to anticipate looks, and being able to
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  Speaker 1: to do things and get himself open and and and honestly,
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  Speaker 1: not only that, but just helping others and bringing.
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  Speaker 4: Others with him.
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  Speaker 1: He's you know, he's obviously one of the hardest working
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  Speaker 1: guys on the team, so be just being able to
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  Speaker 1: see that influence on not only our rooms but just
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  Speaker 1: other guys on the team was pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a time late last season worded about after
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  Speaker 3: Christian got heard day was out, it seemed like Trevor
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  Speaker 3: had to lean on Evan a lot more. How impressed
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  Speaker 3: were you with how Evan handled that situation.
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  Speaker 4: It's hardened.
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  Speaker 5: Guy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, if you've been sort.
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  Speaker 1: Of a compliment for a while, yeah, absolutely, And he's
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  Speaker 1: always felt like the guy. You know, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these players do, honestly, it's just a matter of opportunity
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  Speaker 1: of when that happens. But the great thing is is,
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  Speaker 1: like what people don't see is, you know, him and
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  Speaker 1: Trevor are sitting in the meeting room when after practice
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  Speaker 1: suft everybody's gone and they're watching film together. So that's
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  Speaker 1: really where it starts from, you know, that trust And
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  Speaker 1: like I said, those are just the benefits that everybody saw,
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  Speaker 1: but from all the hard work that they put in
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  Speaker 1: when no one was looking and they were here in
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  Speaker 1: the room by themselves and no coaches around, taking that
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  Speaker 1: time to do that. So it's pretty awesome to see
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  Speaker 1: that and see the results from that.
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  Speaker 6: Which is Evan bring to the room obviously his leadership,
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  Speaker 6: but you know, I mean he's here in ots he's
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  Speaker 6: here working out before OTAs. Is that a huge help
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  Speaker 6: for you to have someone like that in.
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  Speaker 7: The room with you?
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  Speaker 6: What do you guys?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know, because as a room you want to
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  Speaker 1: set your standards and your culture. But it's one thing
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  Speaker 1: for the coach to say it, and it's another thing
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  Speaker 1: for the veteran in the room to do it. So
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  Speaker 1: to me, it just it makes my job a lot easier,
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  Speaker 1: but it's also just so much more influential when you
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  Speaker 1: get a guy like Evan who's you know, proven playmaker,
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  Speaker 1: an important role on the team, and he's willing to
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  Speaker 1: do all the things that he has others to do.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's obviously a huge value not only
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  Speaker 1: for me in my room, but for the offense and
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  Speaker 1: the team.
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  Speaker 6: So what's the carry over been like? Obviously things didn't
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  Speaker 6: end the way anybody wanted last season to kind of
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  Speaker 6: turn the page, but also use that as your motivation
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  Speaker 6: because you don't want it to repeat itself.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and again it's like it's how you approach things.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, we could have went through
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  Speaker 1: Phase two and OTAs and and kind of just you know,
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  Speaker 1: at another year type of attitude, but definitely not. Something's
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  Speaker 1: got to be different. And that was our main focus
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  Speaker 1: in the tight end room is you know, what are
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  Speaker 1: we going to do to give ourselves an edge and
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  Speaker 1: not only that, but to just take every opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: try to get better. And and that's what they did.
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  Speaker 1: They did a good job with that and looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to that care and overhe to their training Camper.
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  Speaker 6: Want back at page last year, what is something that
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  Speaker 6: came and you were like, this is area number one
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  Speaker 6: we need to addressed or.
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  Speaker 1: You were talking about honestly, as a tight end room,
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  Speaker 1: we definitely need to dominate the C and D gaps.
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  Speaker 1: So that was probably my first thing that I told
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  Speaker 1: the guys that's coming off season being able to help
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  Speaker 1: the run game more than we did last year for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So that's partly number one that we're gonna We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make sure we get that pick. So yeah, I would say.
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  Speaker 8: That going into his fourth year.
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  Speaker 7: You know, remember last year someone asked, Doug, just coming
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  Speaker 7: from year two to your three, there's improvement now from
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  Speaker 7: your or from your three to or four.
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  Speaker 3: What's the improvement you'd like to see from him?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I think if you see what he's done out
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  Speaker 9: there this offseason program, he's done a phenomenal job of
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  Speaker 9: running the show. And I think right his biggest thing
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  Speaker 9: this offseason was really getting to know his new teammates.
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  Speaker 9: I think you could see the progress he made the
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  Speaker 9: last two years in our system and just how comfortable
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  Speaker 9: he was of doing, you know, running the show last
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  Speaker 9: year and.
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  Speaker 4: Getting us in and out of plays.
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  Speaker 9: And the big thing is is the key this offseason
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  Speaker 9: was really with the new players of just really learning,
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  Speaker 9: you know, how you know, and just really talking with
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  Speaker 9: these guys and how he wants them.
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  Speaker 4: To run routes and you.
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  Speaker 9: Know, certain adjustments he's going to make and little just
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  Speaker 9: little things we've worked on, you know that we've talked
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  Speaker 9: about about, you know, how he can play better, you know,
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  Speaker 9: come up.
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  Speaker 4: This year.
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  Speaker 6: Done talked a little bit about kind of making that
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  Speaker 6: transition for Trevor of going from learning, but now he's practicing, right,
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  Speaker 6: he knows it, Like the back of the sandwich is
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  Speaker 6: what you want in a quarterback. Do you feel he's
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  Speaker 6: made that jump effectively and he can kind of become
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  Speaker 6: that person that when anybody else comes to him, he
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  Speaker 6: already knows what's going on.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, he's Trevor's really I mean, all the quarterbacks I
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  Speaker 9: think have done a great job this offseason. You know,
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  Speaker 9: obviously Cjy and Trevor have been in it from day
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  Speaker 9: one with us, but Trevor's done a phenomenal job of
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  Speaker 9: just really going out there.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, leading the team.
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  Speaker 9: And it's you the more you play in the same
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  Speaker 9: system with the same teammates, it's a lot easier to
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  Speaker 9: go out there. The first year you look at it
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  Speaker 9: and it's you know, you're not. You're learning the system
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  Speaker 9: and you may not be executing like you know in
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  Speaker 9: the off season. You look get the first off season
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  Speaker 9: program and you want to say certain things, but you
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  Speaker 9: might be making a few mistakes and you're not comfortable
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  Speaker 9: or you may not be sure of all the little
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  Speaker 9: details of everything because you're still learning. And now you
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  Speaker 9: look at the year three and now he knows he's
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  Speaker 9: like another coach on the field, and you see him really,
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  Speaker 9: you know, whether it's in meetings or maybe just be
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  Speaker 9: sitting downstairs in a general conversation. Something comes up with somebody,
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  Speaker 9: whether it's sitting at eating someone might come up and
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  Speaker 9: ask a question and it's just so easy for him
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  Speaker 9: to spit.
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  Speaker 4: Out the answer.
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  Speaker 9: And that's the way it's been, you know, through practice
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  Speaker 9: of if a formation might come up and he might
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  Speaker 9: say something to Press about, hey can I run it
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  Speaker 9: out of this, and it's just so easy for him
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  Speaker 9: to change because he might want to see Gabe run
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  Speaker 9: a certain route instead of have you know, he might
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  Speaker 9: know how Christian runs this route, so he wants to
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  Speaker 9: switch him to learn just to kind of see how
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  Speaker 9: that his.
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  Speaker 4: New teammate runs it. And it's been ready to see.
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  Speaker 8: As much as you.
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  Speaker 3: Want to rush that, you just can't rush that process,
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  Speaker 3: can with I mean, you can't get there first year
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  Speaker 3: in system, you know.
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  Speaker 9: What you're talking about, but there's just so many things
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  Speaker 9: and you know that that's when you first come into
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  Speaker 9: a system. You run certain play and I tell like,
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  Speaker 9: I'd say the same thing to Mac today. It's it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 9: if there's something you're not comfortable with, come the first
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  Speaker 9: preseason game, tell us let's run the things that you
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  Speaker 9: really feel confident. And the first year here with Trevor
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  Speaker 9: and CJ here, it's like, okay, hey, listen, we're gonna
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  Speaker 9: be calling plays and you're gonna see it. We're practicing
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  Speaker 9: against a certain coverage, and then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 9: you get to the game as something completely different. That's
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  Speaker 9: on me as a coach. We didn't practice against certain coverages,
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  Speaker 9: so you may not see it as quickly as you know,
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  Speaker 9: or you're in a progression you may not get you
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  Speaker 9: reset and get to the backside as quick as you'd
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  Speaker 9: like to, and then all of a sudden, you run
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  Speaker 9: those plays against the same coverage over and over again.
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  Speaker 9: You know, after from year one to year two, now
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  Speaker 9: we're in year three. There's not a lot of things
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  Speaker 9: that may surprise them anymore. And you know in there,
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  Speaker 9: don't get me wrong, during the season, we're going to
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  Speaker 9: play a new coordinator. There's gonna be some things that
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  Speaker 9: are different. They're gonna make changes, and they're gonna try
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  Speaker 9: to you know, play differently against.
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  Speaker 4: Us, and uh, you know, protection issues, things like that.
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  Speaker 9: But just the more you're in a system, the easiers
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  Speaker 9: is do all those things.
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  Speaker 7: What is it for him? The inside outside versatility that
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  Speaker 7: maybe last year with the cast of wide receivers that
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  Speaker 7: were here, maybe that creates even more opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just being able to handle it mentally creates the opportunity. Now,
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  Speaker 2: whether he's you know, best outside, inside or both, we're
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  Speaker 2: still figuring that out, just.
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  Speaker 8: Giving them opportunities and everyone in every way we can.
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  Speaker 2: But again, we're able to do that because of this
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  Speaker 2: ability to retain all the improviation. So he's moved really
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  Speaker 2: fast in that aspect and so now it's just you know,
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  Speaker 2: taking advantage of all the time we have on the
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  Speaker 2: field to put him in those positions and see what.
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  Speaker 8: He can do for it.
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  Speaker 7: At what point did you find out Gabe Davis was
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  Speaker 7: on his way to Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 8: That's probably his first call.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 8: We were lucky to have spent time together in Buffalo.
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  Speaker 8: Drafted him up there.
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  Speaker 2: Another guy he's him and v Trre definitely the two
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  Speaker 2: smartest guys, you know, as rookies that.
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  Speaker 8: I've had in my young career coaching. So he's he's
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  Speaker 8: been a sponge as well as he's easy. He was
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  Speaker 8: easy to teach.
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  Speaker 2: The offense too, and now he's just in his way
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  Speaker 2: leading the group even though he's you know, coming back.
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  Speaker 8: From insurance Brian, that blend of size and speed.
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  Speaker 10: Just how much can he threaten defenses just by being
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  Speaker 10: on the field.
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  Speaker 8: You can't. I mean you'll see it.
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  Speaker 2: I Mean it's almost like he's guy like that little
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  Speaker 2: Mike Vickson' drome where he's running but he doesn't look
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  Speaker 2: like he's running fast.
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  Speaker 4: But he is a movie you know.
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  Speaker 2: So uh, I just told him, you know, Trevor a
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  Speaker 2: couple first couple of practices, we had a couple of
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  Speaker 2: go balls thrown and he either you know, caught it
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  Speaker 2: back shoulder, had to slow down a little bit, and
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  Speaker 2: I just told him.
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  Speaker 8: Go tell Trevor to try to outthrow it.
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  Speaker 2: Yet I'll see if we can do that, see if
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  Speaker 2: he can do that. But you see it in college
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  Speaker 2: faces everything down, he's.
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  Speaker 3: Fast and dogs mentioned it, but I guess his rout
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  Speaker 3: running because that's nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he didn't get enough credit for coming out of college.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they asked him to do too much.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's something we work on every day after releases,
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  Speaker 2: we're out running his breakpoint mechanics. He can bend well
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  Speaker 2: for a bigger guy. It's just trying to put it
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  Speaker 2: all together.
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  Speaker 8: So we're working on that speech.
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  Speaker 4: It's just exposing him to more things.
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  Speaker 8: Basically didn't went to college.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we're giving more opportunities, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: also perfecting his craft.
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  Speaker 8: I think you know, at this level, it's just.
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  Speaker 2: More intense every part of every step he takes after
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  Speaker 2: the ball snap?
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  Speaker 10: How much how much conversation was there before the first
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  Speaker 10: odate of saying we're gonna get this guy, We're gonna
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  Speaker 10: throw him in there on deep routes, and because we're
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  Speaker 10: seeing it, like every ot, we're seeing these him Brian
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  Speaker 10: getting these deep routes thrown his way.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry, I'm confused on your question. What's your question? I'm sorry?
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  Speaker 6: How much.
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  Speaker 10: How much was a concerted effort to say, we're gonna
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  Speaker 10: we're gonna take this guy first round, picking his throw
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  Speaker 10: him in the mix, and see what he's got from
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  Speaker 10: a deep ball standpoint, which is, you know, what was
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  Speaker 10: his calling card in college, like see it at the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think that's transitioned over well. I
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  Speaker 2: mean he can track the ball well, he sees the
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  Speaker 2: ball well downfield, he can chase it down.
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  Speaker 8: He has good body.
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  Speaker 2: Flexibility where he can turn for back shoulders. So I
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  Speaker 2: think that part of his game we knew we had,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's really developing. The other part of
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  Speaker 2: his game is intermediate route running, his releases, and again,
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  Speaker 2: like he likes to work, he likes to learn, he
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  Speaker 2: likes to get better. So he's been he's been fun
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  Speaker 2: to coach so far.
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  Speaker 7: One thing we've heard from Doug and from Press is
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  Speaker 7: the need to simplify the offense from a year ago.
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  Speaker 7: How would you describe that process over the last two months.
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  Speaker 7: I know Press used the terms that it was ripped
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  Speaker 7: down to the studs the offenses.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we kind of wanted to see who we are
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  Speaker 2: and how can we be best offensively? And then focus
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  Speaker 2: on our strengths and get better and better and better
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  Speaker 2: at them. I think PRESS does a great job, you know,
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  Speaker 2: making the offense easy to learn, putting everything in families.
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  Speaker 8: But it's been great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're just getting reps after reps after reps,
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  Speaker 2: putting people in different positions, and.
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  Speaker 4: It's been great.
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  Speaker 7: Did it feel like, you know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 7: changing plays, alerts to the line. Did it feel like,
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  Speaker 7: especially down the stretch of last season, that maybe that's
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  Speaker 7: what complicated the offense at times?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure about that, you know, I think you'd
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  Speaker 2: have to ask the players more about that.
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  Speaker 8: But you know, that's our job. That's that's the player's job.
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  Speaker 8: We teach it from day one.
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  Speaker 2: Again, like you're talking about different kills, different alerts, different checks.
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  Speaker 8: So that's UH.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of the day, coaches our responsibility to
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  Speaker 2: give to the players, and the players have you know,
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  Speaker 2: they have a job to do and it's their responsibility
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  Speaker 2: to get the plays and if we change them at
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  Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage, they know what to do.
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  Speaker 8: They just need to run the playoff.
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  Speaker 11: The defensive line as a whole, UH does a good
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  Speaker 11: job of connecting with one another and helping each other
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  Speaker 11: with UH, with that, and and at the end of
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  Speaker 11: the day, you know, Mitch is at a point in
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  Speaker 11: his career where he's still playing really good football, but
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  Speaker 11: he could help younger players develop, not.
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  Speaker 4: Just Luke, but Cooper.
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  Speaker 11: Hodges and UH and Vaughn and and Stephen Jones and
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  Speaker 11: the young guys. I think that they a guy like
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  Speaker 11: Mitch really helps UH bring the unit together even more so,
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  Speaker 11: I don't you know, Luke has handled this like a pro.
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  Speaker 11: He's done a great job. And and we all have
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  Speaker 11: to play better, you know, we all have to do
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  Speaker 11: a better job coaching playing.
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  Speaker 4: For us to be successful.
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  Speaker 11: So it was good to bring Mitch in and his
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  Speaker 11: leadership and whatnot. But we all we all know that
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  Speaker 11: we got to do things the right way.
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  Speaker 5: About his Walker a little and kind of the contract
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  Speaker 5: year hasn't really had a shot at really locking up
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  Speaker 5: a starting job.
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  Speaker 4: As tough is it for Walker in the spot.
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  Speaker 11: You know, Walker, Walker's done a great job with the
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  Speaker 11: role he's been asked to do. But since I've been here, Uh,
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  Speaker 11: but that doesn't mean that the competition is locked up
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  Speaker 11: in any way, shape or form for this upcoming year.
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  Speaker 4: He's done an excellent job.
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  Speaker 11: In OTAs so is so is uh, so is Cam
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  Speaker 11: and Anton really hasn't done much just because of what's
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  Speaker 11: been going on with him. So he's been he's been
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  Speaker 11: getting a lot of reps and showing what he can do.
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  Speaker 11: And you know, Walker has uh has played a lot
• 14:37
  Speaker 11: of positions for us and and to his credit, he's
• 14:41
  Speaker 11: he's handled that like a pro. But we're excited for
• 14:45
  Speaker 11: the direction of where he's going because he is a
• 14:47
  Speaker 11: really good football player.
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: And Uh, once we.
• 14:49
  Speaker 11: Can get him settled in and playing one spot more,
• 14:52
  Speaker 11: I think he's going to take off.
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: He seemed like Rodgers was really heading in the right
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: direction last year. Injury kind of derailed him for a minute,
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: picked up where he left off.
• 15:01
  Speaker 11: Coop has done a really nice job coming back. I
• 15:05
  Speaker 11: think that the first week or two he was a
• 15:07
  Speaker 11: little bit how's my knee going, where's my knee going?
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: Kind of thing?
• 15:11
  Speaker 11: And now he's really Uh, he's in a position where
• 15:14
  Speaker 11: he's playing some pretty good football. We've we've moved him around.
• 15:16
  Speaker 11: He's playing both guard positions in center and he's playing
• 15:19
  Speaker 11: some confidence and he's doing some good things.
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: So he's working at center because that that's new for him,
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: he's played all over the line. He hasn't played center
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: before the West year.
• 15:26
  Speaker 11: If you if you're not a starter on the interior line,
• 15:30
  Speaker 11: you got to play center. So I mean in order
• 15:32
  Speaker 11: to get a jersey on game day, because I mean
• 15:34
  Speaker 11: just with the way the injuries and different things, I mean,
• 15:36
  Speaker 11: he's got it. So he's he's he's taken that role
• 15:39
  Speaker 11: and kind of runs it a little bit.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: So it's been from the watchout to try to get.
• 15:44
  Speaker 8: To make sure.
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: I think we'll see a different Ezra Cleveland. Like obviously
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: to come in in the middle of the season kind
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: of you thrown in there, I know'd some injuries as well.
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: Do you feel like we'll see a lot more from
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: him this year?
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I think.
• 15:54
  Speaker 11: I think that Ezra came in and he was he
• 15:59
  Speaker 11: was a little banged up, and then it kind of
• 16:01
  Speaker 11: a couple of things snowball on him. But I think
• 16:03
  Speaker 11: that he's right now looking as good as I've ever
• 16:06
  Speaker 11: seen him. And uh, I mean I was with him
• 16:08
  Speaker 11: in Minnesota for a couple of.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: Years and he was playing some really good football we
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: were there, and.
• 16:13
  Speaker 11: I think that he he's to a point now where
• 16:16
  Speaker 11: he's going to play some really.
• 16:17
  Speaker 12: Good football game.
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: One of the things that I mentioned that you want
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: to accomplish here in OTAs was that the O line
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: have one heartbeat.
• 16:25
  Speaker 13: Do you feel like the on line will be able
• 16:27
  Speaker 13: to accomplish.
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: That your OTA?
• 16:30
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think that that is OTAs wrap up. I
• 16:33
  Speaker 11: think the camaraderie, ship, the unit play and whatnot have
• 16:39
  Speaker 11: really uh uh.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: Moved forward. But I think that like training camps, the
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: true test.
• 16:46
  Speaker 11: I think that that you get you're in pajamas in OTAs.
• 16:51
  Speaker 11: I mean, you can't. You can't hit anybody, really, you can't.
• 16:54
  Speaker 11: When you put on the pads. That's when you develop
• 16:56
  Speaker 11: a heartbeat. That's when you develop identity. And we got
• 17:00
  Speaker 11: we we have to do a better job for me
• 17:03
  Speaker 11: an identity we got. We got to be a unit
• 17:06
  Speaker 11: that is respected and months the league. And I think
• 17:09
  Speaker 11: Mitch comes from a unit that's like that manual. And
• 17:11
  Speaker 11: I think that that's what he's getting at when he
• 17:14
  Speaker 11: makes a comment like that, is that we have the
• 17:16
  Speaker 11: opportunity to start of who we're going to be, but
• 17:19
  Speaker 11: that ends in February, so we can build through.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: There a way to build that effectively with the entire line,
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: because obviously you get five people working together, but to
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: have so that if one person does go down, maybe
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: it's not as difficult to kind of get back to
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: where they were at their best form.
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: I think that, yeah, I yes, and but I think
• 17:40
  Speaker 11: that there is a way, and I think that as
• 17:45
  Speaker 11: we go forward, we're playing people at other positions that
• 17:51
  Speaker 11: they're uncomfortable with, so that if there are things that
• 17:55
  Speaker 11: happen like what happened last year where we just had
• 17:57
  Speaker 11: injuries to kind of.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: Just snowball on one another.
• 18:00
  Speaker 11: People are not doing things for the first time in
• 18:03
  Speaker 11: a game where that they've they've experienced it in O ta's,
• 18:06
  Speaker 11: they'll experience it in training camp. And that's what Doug
• 18:09
  Speaker 11: has really done with the There is no depth chart.
• 18:11
  Speaker 11: I mean, if you went out and saw the offensive
• 18:13
  Speaker 11: line they went out there at practice today, the five
• 18:15
  Speaker 11: guys who started were five different guys at five different
• 18:19
  Speaker 11: spots have never done like and that's how training, that's
• 18:21
  Speaker 11: how OTAs has been. I mean, we've just been shuffling
• 18:24
  Speaker 11: the board to make sure that, like we're finding out
• 18:27
  Speaker 11: who could do what the best of different spots, and
• 18:30
  Speaker 11: that's so that if there's anything that were to happen
• 18:33
  Speaker 11: where we we snowball and we end up having to
• 18:35
  Speaker 11: play as many combinations as we did last year. It's
• 18:39
  Speaker 11: not uh as much shocking on as it was.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: When you talk about your rookies so far, they're great.
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: Their rookies, they're uh, they're they're learning.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 18:50
  Speaker 11: We had to teach them who was in the division
• 18:52
  Speaker 11: that was that was, We had to teach them what
• 18:55
  Speaker 11: the AFC and NFC was. That was new for me.
• 18:59
  Speaker 11: They're learning, So it's no, they're good. Vaughn's been great.
• 19:03
  Speaker 11: Vaughn's been been really studying. He's been playing both tackle spots.
• 19:08
  Speaker 11: He's been doing a really nice job. And then Steven, Yeah,
• 19:12
  Speaker 11: Steven's got a chance of.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Being pretty good football player.
• 19:14
  Speaker 11: He's a solid inside guard. He's a little heavy right now.
• 19:19
  Speaker 11: He's just got to cut some weight. I think up
• 19:21
  Speaker 11: in Oregon he packed on some pounds. They call him
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: Grizzly Bear, so he had to stay warm up there.
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: He can lose a couple of pounds of training camp
• 19:28
  Speaker 11: down here and it'll be fine.
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: Obviously we're here last year. But when you guys have
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: sat down and looked at where the run beam struggles
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: occurred last year, where do you change things? Perhaps from
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: a running backs perspective.
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: To improve that in twenty.
• 19:41
  Speaker 12: Twenty four, I think just being more intentional about talking
• 19:44
  Speaker 12: to the final details of playing at the running back position,
• 19:47
  Speaker 12: like I said before, pressing the heels at the offense
• 19:49
  Speaker 12: of line and make sure we do a great job
• 19:51
  Speaker 12: of delivering those blocks when we're supposed to, making sure
• 19:53
  Speaker 12: that you know, we're supposed to be as far as
• 19:56
  Speaker 12: tracks so those line and you know, can actually make
• 19:58
  Speaker 12: it get to that second level that will help our
• 20:01
  Speaker 12: line up front tremendously. I think you talking about a
• 20:04
  Speaker 12: lot of yards left on the table just cause those
• 20:06
  Speaker 12: guys were predetermining some of the runs last year based
• 20:09
  Speaker 12: off maybe successes that they had or just not a
• 20:11
  Speaker 12: trust level that they had sometimes uh a front And
• 20:14
  Speaker 12: that's one thing we've been talking about as we you know,
• 20:16
  Speaker 12: watched the field from last year, as we go out
• 20:18
  Speaker 12: there and practice right now.
• 20:21
  Speaker 13: I appreciated to meet you, Carry pleasure, welcome to Jacksonville.
• 20:27
  Speaker 13: Of course, I know limited film study when it comes
• 20:30
  Speaker 13: to Tank, but when you evaluated him as a rookie, uh,
• 20:35
  Speaker 13: what did you see? And you know, do you feel
• 20:38
  Speaker 13: that two point six yards to carry an automat is fixable?
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Heading into this year. I really do. You know, obviously
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: I remember Tank when he was at Auburn.
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 20:46
  Speaker 12: Just having the chance to watch him play a lot
• 20:48
  Speaker 12: through crossover film more than anything else. And you know, uh,
• 20:51
  Speaker 12: that's not the same guy sought weekend a week out
• 20:53
  Speaker 12: when I was turning the film in Jacksonville. Uh, I
• 20:55
  Speaker 12: think a lot of that is fixable. To be honest
• 20:57
  Speaker 12: with you, I think, you know, getting used to the
• 20:59
  Speaker 12: speed of the was all new to him. Just understanding
• 21:02
  Speaker 12: the final points of the offense was also something that
• 21:04
  Speaker 12: he needed to improve. And he's he's tact at this offseason.
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: He's Yeah.
• 21:09
  Speaker 13: I spoke with him last week and I really enjoy
• 21:12
  Speaker 13: He seems like a young, intelligent guy. There's some sort
• 21:15
  Speaker 13: of a perception that he's not always focused because of
• 21:19
  Speaker 13: some plays that he made last year that came back
• 21:22
  Speaker 13: and hurt the team. Your opinion on him, you know,
• 21:25
  Speaker 13: classroom work, not only on the practice field, but just
• 21:30
  Speaker 13: him in general.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: What type of worker is?
• 21:32
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I've been extremely impressed by his work and how
• 21:34
  Speaker 12: your taxed every day. You know, you talk about coming
• 21:37
  Speaker 12: in the meeting and he's asking questions. He's learned some
• 21:39
  Speaker 12: things that he really didn't know before, and I think
• 21:42
  Speaker 12: that's really good as well, But it's really about him
• 21:44
  Speaker 12: getting intentional as far as making sure you understood this
• 21:47
  Speaker 12: is different in college. And like I said before, like
• 21:50
  Speaker 12: he was always the guy, you know, whether his high school,
• 21:52
  Speaker 12: whether it was college, he was the number one guy.
• 21:54
  Speaker 12: You know, everybody leaned on Tank. And then he comes
• 21:56
  Speaker 12: into this situation and he's kind of the he's the
• 21:59
  Speaker 12: rookie again and he's the freshman again, and he has
• 22:01
  Speaker 12: to kind of start from scratch, and there was some
• 22:03
  Speaker 12: growing things like it is with anybody that's new coming
• 22:05
  Speaker 12: in the door. And I think that's the one thing
• 22:07
  Speaker 12: he's learned and he understands that he has to go
• 22:10
  Speaker 12: about and fix it. He has done it on the
• 22:13
  Speaker 12: field this offseason, like the way he goes out there
• 22:16
  Speaker 12: and prepares like he is. He eliminated a lot of
• 22:18
  Speaker 12: his busts and missed the signics. If we all that.
• 22:22
  Speaker 13: Talks about Truvor and this you know, passing offense. I
• 22:25
  Speaker 13: don't think you can win in this league unless you
• 22:26
  Speaker 13: can run the football. And obviously, even though Travis went
• 22:30
  Speaker 13: over a thousand yards last year, things were not the
• 22:32
  Speaker 13: way they were in twenty twenty two. Just your group
• 22:36
  Speaker 13: and what you have the ability to be able to
• 22:39
  Speaker 13: turn that around this year.
• 22:40
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think we all need one another. I think
• 22:43
  Speaker 12: Travis Lee's tank. I think tanks leave bearnest. I think
• 22:45
  Speaker 12: those guys more than anything else because they've had experience
• 22:48
  Speaker 12: playing in this league and obviously Travis has had a
• 22:51
  Speaker 12: lot of success. But if we're gonna try to make
• 22:53
  Speaker 12: a run of this thing, we got to make sure
• 22:54
  Speaker 12: that Travis is healthy down the stretch, and the tank
• 22:57
  Speaker 12: is a big part of that. I do think he
• 22:59
  Speaker 12: can be a really high caliber back in this league
• 23:01
  Speaker 12: as well, you know, especially now going forward, he's had
• 23:04
  Speaker 12: a year to sit back and kind of see, uh
• 23:06
  Speaker 12: he's got his feet wet a little bit with about
• 23:07
  Speaker 12: fifty carriages or so. But I do think that, like
• 23:10
  Speaker 12: going forward, like that room right there, they're gonna all
• 23:13
  Speaker 12: need one another because it's a long season and and
• 23:15
  Speaker 12: the wear and tear on their body sometimes, uh, you know,
• 23:18
  Speaker 12: it catches up to you.
• 23:19
  Speaker 13: Thanks sharing, It's not no problem.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Kill you Now you're kind of the new face on
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: this side of the All right, so how's the transition
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: been to to the program and joining the stuff.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: It's been good.
• 23:33
  Speaker 12: You know these guys that they joke with you a
• 23:34
  Speaker 12: lot cause you know the new guy now only a
• 23:36
  Speaker 12: new guy on this side, but also to new guy
• 23:38
  Speaker 12: in the league as well. So, uh, it's been fun.
• 23:40
  Speaker 12: But you know, just got a lot of you know,
• 23:42
  Speaker 12: good smart coaches, uh that I can lean on, like
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: Coach McCoy, Coach Prince and those guys out there. Feel
• 23:48
  Speaker 12: like they all try to give us great advice and
• 23:50
  Speaker 12: into the little things that is different about the National
• 23:53
  Speaker 12: Football League of College.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: How how do you.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: Feel like your coaching south fits really well here? Obviously
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: the way you've coached throughout your career at different places,
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: different stops you've had, how you how do you translate
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: it here? And what are the players kind of seeing
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: from you so much?
• 24:07
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think it's cool because you know, coach twenty
• 24:09
  Speaker 12: years in college and I've coached so many multiple positions.
• 24:12
  Speaker 12: I get a chance to give these guys a different
• 24:14
  Speaker 12: viewpoint from a quarterback perspective, from a receiver perspective when
• 24:18
  Speaker 12: they're flexed out. I think that kind of comes out
• 24:20
  Speaker 12: in the way I coach. When you talk about just
• 24:23
  Speaker 12: trying to compare different learning styles as well, because you
• 24:26
  Speaker 12: go to college, you don't always get the five star players.
• 24:28
  Speaker 12: You get guys from all the different backgrounds. They want
• 24:30
  Speaker 12: all draft picks or how you end players. So it's
• 24:33
  Speaker 12: been fun just to kind of listen to those guys.
• 24:35
  Speaker 12: And one of the first things I did was ask
• 24:37
  Speaker 12: them what they need from me, you know, individually, what
• 24:40
  Speaker 12: do they all need? So just taking that information and
• 24:42
  Speaker 12: then applying it every day as we go into the
• 24:44
  Speaker 12: clayss room.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: We went into the field as well.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: How do you kind of build that trust? Obviously it
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: was a tough finish for them here, you know, just
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: the losing streak and whatnot. It was tough for them
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: to go into the offseason. How do you kind of
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: build that because you need that going into the section year.
• 24:56
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think it's about consistency. I think the trust
• 24:58
  Speaker 12: is build consistency. And we're still building the trust because
• 25:02
  Speaker 12: we have to have I think, to get the the
• 25:04
  Speaker 12: ultimate trust that you need that to face a little adversity.
• 25:07
  Speaker 12: You know, it's not gonna always be roses. It's gonna
• 25:09
  Speaker 12: be times where they come back to the sideline and
• 25:10
  Speaker 12: and it didn't work out like they sin they're supposed to.
• 25:13
  Speaker 12: Right now, it's the time which is just kind of
• 25:15
  Speaker 12: trying to stay consistent in the process as far as
• 25:18
  Speaker 12: how you're teaching them, you know, getting to know them,
• 25:20
  Speaker 12: they getting to know you, building that just current relationship
• 25:23
  Speaker 12: so when you do following those hard times, you're able
• 25:25
  Speaker 12: to overcome 'em with the cho you know, the relationship
• 25:27
  Speaker 12: that you're built.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Tell us things going with try bess, Like, what's maybe
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: the next step you see for him? Is it getting
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: involved in the passing game a little more? Is it consistency, Like,
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: what's something you guys are kind of working towards right now?
• 25:38
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think one like you you know, you mentioned
• 25:39
  Speaker 12: it getting involved more in the past game is extremely
• 25:41
  Speaker 12: important and uh, you know he's open to that. You know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 12: he wants to be flexed out more. He wants to
• 25:46
  Speaker 12: catch more balls out the backfield.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 25:48
  Speaker 12: I think the next part is making sure he understands,
• 25:51
  Speaker 12: you know, the the finer points of running in between
• 25:54
  Speaker 12: the tackles.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 25:54
  Speaker 12: He has to become a better in between the table runner.
• 25:57
  Speaker 12: And that's a toughness thing and that's a mindset more
• 25:59
  Speaker 12: than anything. And if he stays healthy, like that's gonna
• 26:02
  Speaker 12: be really more consistent for him. That's why we need
• 26:04
  Speaker 12: Tank to make sure that you know they can be
• 26:06
  Speaker 12: the one two combination plans that you really want.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: Is that hard to work that combo correctly? Cause obviously
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: you want to use Travis aspunch as you can, but
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Tank needs is reps as well to kind of play
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: that little tango with the two of them.
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: Is that difficulvid, Nah, It's not as difficult as it
• 26:20
  Speaker 12: it seems. You know, I did. I did it the
• 26:21
  Speaker 12: Tennessee for the last two years, To be honest with you,
• 26:23
  Speaker 12: we had a really good combination of a jailing writing
• 26:26
  Speaker 12: and you know, Jabari Smalls.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: That was really productive.
• 26:28
  Speaker 12: So I'm kind of used to playing you know, both
• 26:30
  Speaker 12: of those guys, you know what, they need the hot
• 26:32
  Speaker 12: hand obviously gonna backs to get in the rhythm. So
• 26:35
  Speaker 12: it may be some games where a tang is really
• 26:37
  Speaker 12: good and maybe some games where Travis is really good.
• 26:39
  Speaker 12: I think that's what we're trying to get it to.
• 26:41
  Speaker 12: When we can have the ultimate tru ultimate trust and
• 26:43
  Speaker 12: both of those guys going through that.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: Do you feel like Tank's at a point where he
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: can do that now? Obviously after a rookie season. Is
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: it's sometimes tough? He said, to always trust the rookie,
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: So you feel like he's at a point.
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: Where he can be there.
• 26:52
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think I think he's working there. Uh, and
• 26:54
  Speaker 12: we're there yet. No, it's not a fished product by
• 26:56
  Speaker 12: no stretching imagination. But I do think he understands what
• 26:59
  Speaker 12: he has to do to earn our trust. He understands
• 27:02
  Speaker 12: what he has to do to earn uh the respect
• 27:04
  Speaker 12: of his teammates and and everybody understands he he's the talent.
• 27:07
  Speaker 12: He has to stack days consistently on top of one another,
• 27:10
  Speaker 12: and we talk about that a lot.