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Michael Turner Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Turner on your radio and he has sprinted up here.
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  Speaker 1: He's coach.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. How are you? I'm doing well? Yeah? Forgive
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  Speaker 3: me if I'm breathing in No, that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you guys are doing a lot today, like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of schools. I mean, y'all are getting ready
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  Speaker 1: for Meet the Dogs tonight. You got a scrimmage tonight.
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  Speaker 1: You've been watching films, so it's been a fast and
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  Speaker 1: fearious day for you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Man, we're excited. Uh, you know, everybody's hyping it up,
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  Speaker 4: but there's just noise right now at this point. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you got so many guys that have elected to be
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  Speaker 4: a part of this team and in this community. You know,
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  Speaker 4: at Brandon and Man, like I said, no, you're.
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  Speaker 3: Good, you're good.
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  Speaker 4: But it's so cool to see these guys kind of
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  Speaker 4: buy all the in. Were just talking to about this
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  Speaker 4: off the air. It's like, man, these guys are showing
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  Speaker 4: up then and asked to show up. Who wants to
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  Speaker 4: be in at five forty five in the morning. And
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  Speaker 4: you've got parents that are trying their best to say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we're dedicated. So the fact that the kids are showing up,
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  Speaker 4: the parents, like you're seeing the whole buy in from
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  Speaker 4: the community saying hey, we're all in, let's go. So
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  Speaker 4: from a coach's standpoint, we can't be more grateful. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we're thankful for that. And so man, we're just thankful
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  Speaker 4: for parents that are allowing us to coach their little
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  Speaker 4: ones and they're to make them become you know, better men,
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  Speaker 4: you know, for the future. And we've got some athletes man,
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  Speaker 4: Like I'm excited to see what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 4: We're retired of playing ourselves, I'm sure. Yeah, Ga Tunter
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  Speaker 4: said that, Like they know what we're doing. We know
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  Speaker 4: what they're doing. We're like, all right, when can we play?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Me and Rod with Missus
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  Speaker 1: Beech Forrets Medics. We're just talking about this and this
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  Speaker 1: is not a shot at Brandon and all. This could
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  Speaker 1: happen anywhere. I was talking about. It's amazing how quickly
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  Speaker 1: you can lose it in football and then how quickly
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  Speaker 1: you can get it back. And what I mean is,
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  Speaker 1: you know and Sam Williams, you know him well, You
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  Speaker 1: and Sam, I believe were at stayed together. Sam had
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  Speaker 1: it rolling. And then when Sam left whatever whatever happened
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  Speaker 1: last year just didn't work for whatever reason, and they
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  Speaker 1: lost it. And now it feels like it's back, Like
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  Speaker 1: the energy is different here. Visiting with Tyson Robinson, visiting
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  Speaker 1: with Slaton Shack, Coach Clinton, you know, visit with coach Hunter,
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  Speaker 1: Visiting with yourself and we've talked off the air and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's weird how you can lose momentum but then
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  Speaker 1: it can shift and you can get it back.
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  Speaker 3: Leadership matters, right.
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  Speaker 4: Right, no doubt, Coach Clinton's doing a great job. He's
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  Speaker 4: given Coach Hunter and an opportunity to say, hey, do
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  Speaker 4: what you feel best. I'm putting a ball in your
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  Speaker 4: quarter on defense for me and offense for Coach Hunner,
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  Speaker 4: and he's doing some things. I love what Coach Hunter's
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  Speaker 4: doing and bring into it. For me, it's kind of
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  Speaker 4: finding out what we can attain, you know, coming from
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  Speaker 4: a college background, what can we absorb and know because
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  Speaker 4: there's no reasons and putting something out there that we're
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  Speaker 4: not gonna be consistent with. Right, But everything that we do,
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  Speaker 4: you know, defensively is all about alignment. Assignment. We're I mean,
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  Speaker 4: we're really good. We feel comfortable with that. But it's
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  Speaker 4: it's cool to see Coach Clinton kind of just say, hey, man,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to try to micro Hey, I trust
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  Speaker 4: the guys that I brought in, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I was telling them we were talk to a pearance
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  Speaker 4: this summer is like, man, you trust him, Like keep
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  Speaker 4: trusting us that we're gonna we're gonna do everything under
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  Speaker 4: his leadership and to make this thing like everybody's desiring
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  Speaker 4: to be right. And so we're excited about him, We
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  Speaker 4: really are. It's just fun. It's a it's a new
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  Speaker 4: chapter for me and my family, but it's it's it's
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  Speaker 4: really fun to see this all come to a fruition.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: So for those that don't know, talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about what kind of defense you're gonna put on the field.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned it, you come from a college background. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you obviously were with Jackson Academy last year, part of
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  Speaker 1: a state championship team. What kind of you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of your philosophy and just kind of you know, at
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  Speaker 1: a at a high level ten thousand foot what a
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  Speaker 1: coach turner defense looks like.
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  Speaker 4: Man, we it really goes back to being sound like
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  Speaker 4: I've learned this from a lot of people from being
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  Speaker 4: in so this be my third year in high school
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  Speaker 4: and it's probably the only time I actually say this
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  Speaker 4: is just talk about me like I'm not the kind
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  Speaker 4: of guy's flashy tweet, Twitter whatever, like or ex whatever
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  Speaker 4: is calling now, Like I'm not a I told somebody
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  Speaker 4: like if you know less about me, I'm doing my
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  Speaker 4: job right, But if you know me, I'm not doing
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  Speaker 4: my job.
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  Speaker 3: And so my.
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  Speaker 4: Background is more college setting. You know, almost a decade
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  Speaker 4: in junior college with the East Mississippi National championship with
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  Speaker 4: Chad Hilly and all those guys at sorry UIL with
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  Speaker 4: Napier's last year there, we won a conference championship with them,
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  Speaker 4: Delta State with Ron Roberts and Pete Golden when he
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  Speaker 4: was a d C at Delta State. You know, a
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  Speaker 4: national championship we lost, and we won a conference championship. Then,
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  Speaker 4: like I've been blessed to kind of be a part
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  Speaker 4: and then obviously our thing under coach Doug and at JAA,
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  Speaker 4: like it was a fun experience to see different ways
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  Speaker 4: and how people interpret it. But at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the day, it's always started with the player led team.
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  Speaker 4: And so here you have these caliber athletes that player
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  Speaker 4: led and they're learning their role. They might not be
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  Speaker 4: as vocal, but their action led base right, and so
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  Speaker 4: that's what's so cool. So you see the lot of buying.
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  Speaker 4: Going back to where we were talking about, like a
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  Speaker 4: lot of guys showing up the summer, pushing themselves even
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  Speaker 4: this spirit like this fall camp, Like, hey, coach, we
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  Speaker 4: hear let's go you know where these guys are gonna
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  Speaker 4: show up where they're not and like it's a different
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  Speaker 4: high school. Like I'm learning this stuff, but it's like
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  Speaker 4: like I don't know that outside noise. I promise you
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  Speaker 4: I don't. I'm off of media, Like I just a
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  Speaker 4: like the reason I'm running up here is we were
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  Speaker 4: just meeting with the defense staff, like going over things. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: how we see this? How we see that? Like are
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  Speaker 4: we on the same page? Are we teaching it the
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  Speaker 4: same way? Are we hearing the same thing? And we
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  Speaker 4: you know, are they hearing the same thing? And it's
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  Speaker 4: just fun like when you have all the sky's the limit,
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  Speaker 4: you know, so.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting to hear you say, hey, look,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that outside noise. And I believe you
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  Speaker 1: when you say that. I was reading a story on
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  Speaker 1: one of the Little League baseball team because you know,
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  Speaker 1: a Little League word series is going on right now
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  Speaker 1: or at that tournament is, and one of the schools
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  Speaker 1: or one of the teams rather said that they felt
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  Speaker 1: like their level of success is due to they have
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  Speaker 1: a policy where five hours before every game or every
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  Speaker 1: or before every game, they make their kids put put
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  Speaker 1: theirself on some backs like they're back, like you can't
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  Speaker 1: touch them. We don't want the outside of appearance. How
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  Speaker 1: important is that to teach your young men that too,
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  Speaker 1: because we know this young people. You know, we were
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  Speaker 1: talking to Jacob Vinstra earlier and he was talking about
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  Speaker 1: AI and how they're trying to teach kids in school
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  Speaker 1: that hey, you know, it's it's a tool. It's not
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  Speaker 1: a friend, it's not a social platform, but just to
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  Speaker 1: get guys to buy in and then push out all
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that's out there.
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  Speaker 4: It's funny you brought that up because most recent guy
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  Speaker 4: was TJ White that I had on my defense over
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  Speaker 4: at JAA and and talking with him, like he was
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  Speaker 4: all about the social media, and it was the old
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  Speaker 4: saying you live by the sword, you die by the sword,
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  Speaker 4: you know, And I.
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  Speaker 3: Was like, man, you can't. You can't let the.
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  Speaker 4: Outside noise motivate you because that same energy can also
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  Speaker 4: flip on you. Talking about earlier, like the change is
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  Speaker 4: like a roller coaster ride, right, and so like if
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  Speaker 4: you let that build you up, you are also going
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  Speaker 4: to let that tear you down. And where I'm trying
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  Speaker 4: to teach these guys. It's like who cares? Yeah, me,
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  Speaker 4: who cares? If they don't think I can coach? What
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  Speaker 4: who cares? Like just the coach Clinton and I were
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  Speaker 4: just having this conversation then a very high percentage, I'll
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  Speaker 4: just make it up.
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  Speaker 3: Ninety nine percent of the time.
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  Speaker 4: People were fighting with their own self conscious and their
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  Speaker 4: own thoughts and their own voices in their head when
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  Speaker 4: nobody else could care less, like, Okay, you messed up,
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  Speaker 4: keep moving, like, don't dwell on it, like I teach
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  Speaker 4: these guys, just don't let life speak louder in truth? Right,
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  Speaker 4: y'all were made wonderfully and perfect right obviously in the
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  Speaker 4: in the image of God. But like like guys, y'all
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  Speaker 4: have a platform. Y'all have a purpose. God has blessed
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  Speaker 4: y'all with this ability. And you're at a great institution,
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  Speaker 4: a great community. Go have fun, like in the means right,
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  Speaker 4: doing the right way, but like go fly around, go
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  Speaker 4: do your job. Little things matter, right, they've snowball and
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  Speaker 4: the bigger things, So we can master the small things.
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  Speaker 4: Everything else is going to handle in the big times
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  Speaker 4: when the big moments come up, right, And so that's
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  Speaker 4: what you're trying to teach these guys to say, believe
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  Speaker 4: in yourself. That's the one thing when on conversation with
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  Speaker 4: Coach Clinton before the hire, like we kept calling and
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  Speaker 4: talking to since I've been in high school, even at JAA, Like,
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  Speaker 4: I found myself teaching young men to believe in themselves
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  Speaker 4: rather than anything else. And it's cool to see these
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  Speaker 4: guys believe and say, hey, man, like, Okay, I messed up,
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  Speaker 4: but I can live the fight another day. Like let's
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  Speaker 4: keep moving forward, right, Because I'm a firm believer. I'd
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  Speaker 4: rather see you mess up and let's.
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  Speaker 3: Learn from it.
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  Speaker 4: Then you do a perfection and be like, oh, I
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  Speaker 4: ain't got nothing to learn because you can't learn from
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  Speaker 4: me in perfect You.
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  Speaker 1: Know, it's interesting because that's one of the shifts that
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  Speaker 1: I've seen here and even just today visiting with you
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  Speaker 1: and Coach Clinton and Coach Hunter is you know, we
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  Speaker 1: can talk schematics, we can put something on a board
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  Speaker 1: that looks real good. You know, we can go three
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  Speaker 1: wide on one side and go two back. Whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to drive defensively, you can twist and flip and
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  Speaker 1: moved a lot. Today has been about this culture and
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  Speaker 1: it's you can feel it's in unison, like you guys
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  Speaker 1: aren't just saying it. This is what you're walking. And
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about Chris Jones over at Hines, who
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  Speaker 1: we do. I do Hines weekly with them on our
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  Speaker 1: radio station, and coach this is a big, big culture
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  Speaker 1: guy and he will not talk to you a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot about scheme, and he will I talk to you
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot about It's like, hey man, look, it's
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  Speaker 1: way more than just what we do on a on
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  Speaker 1: a ball game night, Like I need to see what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing in the mornings, in the afternoons in the day,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like that's where you guys are here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and I didn't really answer your question
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  Speaker 4: on what's the scheme the coach turner like I mean
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  Speaker 4: point and taken right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but like at the end of the day, like.
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  Speaker 4: It's football man, Like I learned from going back to
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  Speaker 4: what I was saying earlier, like NFL guys, like I
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  Speaker 4: watched what's his name, Uh, shoot, he's the DC right now,
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  Speaker 4: you will, like I was this contact he got in
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  Speaker 4: and and from what I heard, he was like he
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  Speaker 4: was like go basic, you know, like just play simple
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  Speaker 4: football alignment and simuth keys is the number is the
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  Speaker 4: name of the game on defense, right, And so if
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  Speaker 4: we are mastering that, we're mastering over half of what
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  Speaker 4: defenses and need to know right in order to play football,
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  Speaker 4: Like if you line up, you got a chance, right,
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  Speaker 4: And so here schematically and learning all the schemes and stuff. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: what coach Hunter does. I'm a big fan of it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm hoping what we do is going to be something
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  Speaker 4: that's like a monkey wrench thrown into it. I've talked
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  Speaker 4: to coach Davis multiple times over at m RA. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's on the defense now. He's been calling me up like, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: what's your thoughts on this? And I'm telling my thoughts
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  Speaker 4: and uh, you know, and it's just like just talking ball,
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  Speaker 4: Like I got no problem talking ball. But my philosophy
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  Speaker 4: of with that is, you know everybody's Coach Dugan used
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  Speaker 4: to get messed with me about man, you you will
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  Speaker 4: you give things away rather than you're supposed to want
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  Speaker 4: to be a receiver, not a giver. And I was like, well,
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  Speaker 4: the way I look at it is it's like, at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the day, I can have my mom's
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  Speaker 4: recipe or my grandmother's recipe on making this one dish
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  Speaker 4: one thousand percent. I'm not going to get it right,
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  Speaker 4: so I can give you all this, But if you
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  Speaker 4: don't know the rhyme, the rhyming, reason, the wine, when
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  Speaker 4: what to do and why to do it, and why
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  Speaker 4: you're doing it, then I mean, good luck. It's like
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  Speaker 4: throwing stuff on the wall and hoping it sticks, and
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  Speaker 4: it's going to match the same way like Nick Saban
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  Speaker 4: you can do his defense and his philosophy, like Kirby's
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  Speaker 4: not doing the same thing as Nick. I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: heard Pete go old and say the same thing when
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  Speaker 4: he's DC. He tell you what he wanted, but then
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  Speaker 4: what he liked and what coach you know Saban liked
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  Speaker 4: and what he didn't like. You know, but at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the day, like you got to know the
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  Speaker 4: rhyme and reason, and you only learn that from culture,
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  Speaker 4: right right, being in the fox hole, if you will,
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  Speaker 4: like understanding the rhyme and reason and what you saw
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  Speaker 4: and oh this makes sense because of this and this
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  Speaker 4: and this right, So anyway, we've all been there, We've
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  Speaker 4: had our past and and our and and it all
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  Speaker 4: united us to this point of being at Brandon High School,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get you on your way, here a vision
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  Speaker 1: with coach Turner defensive coordinator here band high School. Lets
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  Speaker 1: ask you about one player, Trevion Washington. How good can
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  Speaker 1: he be?
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  Speaker 3: He's good? Uh yeah, he's he's he can do his thing.
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  Speaker 4: His is going to be the mental aspect, you know,
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  Speaker 4: forgetting moving on, Like he is a he's that guy.
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  Speaker 3: And we were watching the play a while ago.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, well, technically he's supposed to do this, but
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  Speaker 4: he did this, and he's just an athlete, is always
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  Speaker 4: gonna be an athlete, right, So yeah, it's like dang,
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  Speaker 4: if you didn't, dang, if you did a type deal
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  Speaker 4: like small things, right, you go on or to block,
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  Speaker 4: you better make the play. If you don't, you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: get chewed out, right, And so it's just he is gifted.
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  Speaker 4: He really is. Like his closing speed is I haven't
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  Speaker 4: seen I mean J T or TJ. White had some
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  Speaker 4: closing speed, but yeah, this he's got some closing speed.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: We want to comment about that just when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to tackle, like he's like in there quick. We've got
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  Speaker 4: some things for him that we're gonna kind of allow
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  Speaker 4: the offense to have to figure out what they want
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  Speaker 4: to do with that. So but at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the day, that's all it is. On offensive defense, you
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  Speaker 4: just put your athletes in position what they can do,
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  Speaker 4: and you just let them go play ball, like, don't
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  Speaker 4: overcomplicate it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, we appreciate you jumping in. I'm sorry you
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  Speaker 3: had to run and do all that. So all good,
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  Speaker 3: all good.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just ready for next week when we face off
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  Speaker 4: with Warren Central.
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  Speaker 1: So it'll be fun. Coach Michael Turner, he's the defensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator here at Brandon. One more segment to go. Daniel
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  Speaker 1: Bes should be joined to said baseball coach back in
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  Speaker 1: a minute.