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Press Pass | Doug Pederson on Tyson Campbell, Evan Engram, Foye Oluokun in Week 6 · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: License window opening today. Just what kind of optimism is
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  Speaker 1: that you know, obviously give you he's going to turn
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  Speaker 1: the next few weeks, but for the progress that he's
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  Speaker 1: made and what he can do when he comes back
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  Speaker 1: to the team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's we're excited, you know, to be
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  Speaker 2: in a position to open his window, and really it
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  Speaker 2: just allows him the player to just kind of work
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  Speaker 2: himself back into practice. Right. He's been training and rehabbing,
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  Speaker 2: and it's different than than football movements, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: way for us as coaches to to monitor that and
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  Speaker 2: keep him, you know, in a kind of kind of
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  Speaker 2: a controlled environment. But excited looking forward to him getting
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  Speaker 2: out there with the guys and you know, see where
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  Speaker 2: it goes here in the next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: What can you say to this about how he's handled
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  Speaker 1: the situation in general? I'm assuming it could be frustrating
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  Speaker 1: after happening in the first game, what he went through
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  Speaker 1: last year. Just how he's handled.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I you know, I see Tyson every day
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  Speaker 2: and he's got a smile on his face. He's he's
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  Speaker 2: it's he's a great kid. Obviously, he's handled it well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, been in a great frame of mind, he's
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  Speaker 2: attacked as rehab and he's in a position now to
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  Speaker 2: work himself back step.
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  Speaker 3: The rock, followed by Alessandra.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Doug, did you guys try and get out of
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  Speaker 4: here a little early because of the storm and just
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  Speaker 4: logistics did workout?
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  Speaker 2: You know? When when we obviously when we find out
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  Speaker 2: that we're playing in in London and and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: we we put the kind of the wheel the ball
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  Speaker 2: in motion, so to speak, months in advance of you know,
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  Speaker 2: this week, and so a lot of things were already
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  Speaker 2: in place as far as travel and and and whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously now with this storm coming in, it's not
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  Speaker 2: gonna affect us much today, but but it could affect
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  Speaker 2: just some some timing tomorrow trying to get out. But
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  Speaker 2: it looks it looks good. It looks promising anyway for
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  Speaker 2: our window to uh to get out of here sort
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  Speaker 2: of on time with with not too many you know,
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  Speaker 2: too many delays or hiccups, you know, in the next
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  Speaker 2: twenty four hours or so.
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  Speaker 4: You expecting Evan to go this week? Does it look
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  Speaker 4: pretty good for that.
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  Speaker 2: Or no, Well, it's looking good today, you know for practice.
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  Speaker 2: You know, obviously you don't want any setbacks. You don't
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  Speaker 2: want anything to happen during the week, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll limit and limit his volume, ramp him up, give
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  Speaker 2: him what he needs, and see how he is at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the week. But him being back is
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  Speaker 2: definitely a you know, a boost for the offense.
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  Speaker 4: And real quick on the London trip. How much does
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  Speaker 4: it help these young guys that this franchise is so
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  Speaker 4: used to doing this that it's it doesn't put any
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  Speaker 4: strain on the young guys that have never made the trip, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, that's the biggest thing I think is
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  Speaker 2: just you just ease their minds, ease the tension of
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  Speaker 2: most of these guys have probably never traveled overseas out
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  Speaker 2: of the out of the country. And you know, the
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  Speaker 2: Jaguars do a great job of really over communicating and
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  Speaker 2: clarifying everything and the timing of stuff. When we need
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  Speaker 2: to get our passports turned into how we're going to pack,
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  Speaker 2: what we're gonna you know, how we're going to travel,
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  Speaker 2: when we're going to travel, everything is just is ironed out,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and it makes it makes it easy
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  Speaker 2: for all of us and and particularly the young guys.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, I'm kind of Adding to that, do you think
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  Speaker 3: that the team is going to have an advantage because
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  Speaker 3: of the prior experience going back to back in London?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's familiar to the guys, the guys that
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  Speaker 2: have been there. As far as an advantage goes, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we still have to get over there and
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  Speaker 2: get acclimated quickly. But but I think, you know, staying
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  Speaker 2: at the grove, the travel, all of that is is familiar,
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  Speaker 2: you know to us, and and uh that does make
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  Speaker 2: it sort of a you know, gives you a peace
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  Speaker 2: of mind. I would say, you know, traveling over there,
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  Speaker 2: but you still have to bottom line is when you
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  Speaker 2: get there, you still have to get acclimated, keep the
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  Speaker 2: guys rolling Friday, Saturday, and and you know, get ready
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  Speaker 2: for the game on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Park Long, followed by Mia.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Doug, I got a couple first. You mentioned the
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  Speaker 5: grow is how big of an advantage is that for
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  Speaker 5: you guys to be in the same spot for two
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  Speaker 5: weeks or how much more comfortable is it that you
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  Speaker 5: don't have to change after that first game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it's it's nice you just come
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  Speaker 2: right back to the same place. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: load up you know, like we did last year, after
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  Speaker 2: a couple of days in one spot and and and
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  Speaker 2: go go to another, another hotel, another spot. But it'll
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  Speaker 2: be it'll be nice, you know, unload your bag and
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  Speaker 2: you kind of you make that home for the next
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  Speaker 2: week and a half, and and it's be great. After
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  Speaker 2: the game, you know, come right back there. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: your room and your stuff, and you know, you get
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  Speaker 2: ready for the next week.
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  Speaker 5: You did you guys get permission to bring GiB Gibson
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  Speaker 5: this week week earlier than he could have come back.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, even though you know this week is is
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  Speaker 2: his sixth week, much like Cam Robertson last year, getting
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  Speaker 2: permission because his his window is going to open after
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  Speaker 2: after this game. So yes, we did.
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  Speaker 5: Did you do you see a scenario which he could
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  Speaker 5: help you guys in week seven?
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  Speaker 2: You know that's something we gotta we got to take
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  Speaker 2: a look at. You know, we're we're week six now,
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  Speaker 2: you know you're looking at at Tyson potentially week seven,
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  Speaker 2: then you're looking at Foyer, You're looking at do we
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're looking at some of these guys that
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  Speaker 2: are that are injured to Shawn Gibson. I mean you're
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  Speaker 2: looking at these guys now, and you know, we've we've
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  Speaker 2: got to start the conversation obviously, and and and see
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  Speaker 2: we're at because you never know, I mean, week to week,
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  Speaker 2: you know, injuries are going to happen and and different
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  Speaker 2: things are gonna you know, change periodically. But but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're we're in the process of trying to figure some
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  Speaker 2: of that out now.
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  Speaker 5: And the last one for me is, I know the
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  Speaker 5: NFL investigated and found no issues on the flight to
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  Speaker 5: London last year, but did you guys change anything talk
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  Speaker 5: about things, you know, in the wake of this Brandon
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  Speaker 5: mcmahonus lawsuit.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think it's I think it's important for
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  Speaker 2: everybody that travels with us, whether they're part of the
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  Speaker 2: team or they you know, they're they're part of the
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  Speaker 2: business staff. You know, that's that's an extension of our building.
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  Speaker 2: That's an extension, you know, really of the of the
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  Speaker 2: NFL property. And and so you know, we make we
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  Speaker 2: make it clear to everybody, you know that that there's
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  Speaker 2: a certain way we travel and and you know, we've
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  Speaker 2: got to respect to our owner. You know, our owner
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  Speaker 2: allows us to travel a certain way and travel extremely well.
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  Speaker 2: And and we got to respect that. So you know
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  Speaker 2: we did. We revisited you know, back in training camp
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  Speaker 2: when we went to what Atlanta, I guess in the
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  Speaker 2: first preseason game. And and you just continue to revisit,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the policy, the NFL policy, our policies on
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  Speaker 2: how we travel, and you know we've had we've had
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  Speaker 2: good trips so far.
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  Speaker 6: Unmut myself, right there, we go, I got three for you.
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  Speaker 6: Let's just start with.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was okay.
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  Speaker 6: Oh this is okay, Yeah, right exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I got three for you.
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  Speaker 6: First, just to clarify what you just said, you I
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  Speaker 6: tyson to me back week seven, we're leaning that way, yes,
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  Speaker 6: leaning that way. And then his progressions just since you
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  Speaker 6: brought him up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Foyers Foyer is trending good. You know, he's out
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  Speaker 2: of the boot. He's uh, you know, being able to
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  Speaker 2: do more things mobility wise. You know, it's still it's
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  Speaker 2: little ways away, you know, maybe a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think you know, you're looking maybe week seven,
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  Speaker 2: week eight, somewhere in there, you know, for him. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll see. But it just depends on how we how
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  Speaker 2: we you know, how the rehab goes here. I would
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  Speaker 2: say these next you know, these next two weeks for sure.
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  Speaker 6: So will he make the trip to London.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he'll come over so we can have hands on,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with him and his rehabit.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, awesome, big picture and obviously Berg this staff, you
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  Speaker 6: guys have been at this for decades. But how much
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  Speaker 6: do you think, even for the players themselves last year
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  Speaker 6: those injuries to Christian obviously, the injuries to Trevor, how
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  Speaker 6: much do you think that changed the perspective of being
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  Speaker 6: proactive immediately putting Tyson on ir especially knowing the hamstring
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  Speaker 6: battle he had last year. How did those injuries last
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  Speaker 6: year maybe changed the approach this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and meah, that's a good question because those are
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  Speaker 2: all conversations we've had, you know, this year. I think
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you look at the history of soft tissue,
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  Speaker 2: you know, these things, these things linger. You know they
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  Speaker 2: could be you know, they could be four weeks, they
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  Speaker 2: could be six weeks, they could be longer, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know it. You don't want to be in a
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  Speaker 2: position and now that you can standard elevate your practice squad,
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  Speaker 2: I mean that obviously comes into comes into play, but
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  Speaker 2: we've got to take one the health of the player
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  Speaker 2: and at the same time, we got to look at
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  Speaker 2: the roster and we've got to maximize the number of
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  Speaker 2: number of healthy bodies we can you know, we can
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  Speaker 2: pick from you know, of the fifty three, you know
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  Speaker 2: for game day to get to forty eight. So we've
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  Speaker 2: been a little bit more proactive with this, and I
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  Speaker 2: think it eases the player's mind too, right with the injury.
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  Speaker 2: It it doesn't force him to come back too fast.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if he does go on ir then then
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  Speaker 2: you know, you've got at least four weeks there that
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  Speaker 2: they can they can rehab and be one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: when they come back, and then one for me.
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  Speaker 6: As far as the Bears go, I don't think we've
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  Speaker 6: got a question about them yet. Uh. The first three
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  Speaker 6: weeks of the season, Uh, I think probably Gelling, they
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  Speaker 6: gave up fourteen sacks. Looks like they've kind of put
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  Speaker 6: it together over the last few weeks, especially on the
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  Speaker 6: offensive side of the ball. What sort of change have
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  Speaker 6: you seen from them through the first three weeks to
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  Speaker 6: the last two.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think the quarterbacks playing better. Number one,
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  Speaker 2: I think I think he's he's seeing things, seeing the
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  Speaker 2: field better and and we know the talent that he
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  Speaker 2: is great talent, young player, and and you know, has
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  Speaker 2: the ability to move into pocket and run and escape.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's that's you know, for them. I
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  Speaker 2: think there's consistency there. The O line is playing better,
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  Speaker 2: and and again, just this whole thing takes time, right,
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a you know, a new new signal
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  Speaker 2: caller back there. They got, they got some some pieces
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  Speaker 2: that that they're all trying to gel together and and
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  Speaker 2: really kind of I guess just kind of learn, get
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  Speaker 2: to know each other a little bit, and so you're
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  Speaker 2: seeing that that improvement, you know, each week. And and
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  Speaker 2: defensive just just real quick, I mean, this is this
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  Speaker 2: is a good defense. You know, they're they're one of
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  Speaker 2: the top scoring defenses, you know, obviously since they got
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  Speaker 2: Montes sweat and and rightfully so he's a great player,
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  Speaker 2: great edge rusher. So we've got our work cut out
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  Speaker 2: for us.
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  Speaker 6: Awesome, Thanks Doug.
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  Speaker 2: Bet things will be the last two.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go to Gene and then we can quickly go
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  Speaker 3: back to John Shipley.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Doug, have you had a conversation with Ryan about
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  Speaker 7: the coverages on the back end in the last six
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  Speaker 7: minutes of Sunday's game, because it just seemed like the
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  Speaker 7: situation called for cover two and it just didn't look
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  Speaker 7: like it was cover two all the time. So I'm
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  Speaker 7: just I'm just wondering what you've heard from Ryan about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, we've We've we've had you know, look, we
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  Speaker 2: we've had conversation about that, and and you know, we
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  Speaker 2: as coaches, we got to make sure that that we
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  Speaker 2: we communicate obviously better with our players and making sure
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  Speaker 2: they understand the situation of the game and what what
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  Speaker 2: we're asking of them. So all things that are fixable,
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  Speaker 2: all things that are correctable, and we just got to
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  Speaker 2: now we just got to drill down and make sure
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  Speaker 2: the players understand those situations and what we're asking of them.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks Don Shipley.
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  Speaker 1: Last one, you talked a little bit about this last year,
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  Speaker 1: just two weeks of being around nothing but the team
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  Speaker 1: in football, But just how can this kind of London
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  Speaker 1: trip just galvanize the team and just kind of cut
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  Speaker 1: out any outside noise.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's a lot. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's great. I mean a lot in a good way.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it's positive that that we're you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're in the same hotel. We're around each other all
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  Speaker 2: the time, you know, obviously the meals and dinners and
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  Speaker 2: things like that. Guys like to you know, I do
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  Speaker 2: give them time, you know after the game Sunday and
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  Speaker 2: Monday too if they want to go into the city
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  Speaker 2: and experience London and uh and do it with their teammates, right,
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  Speaker 2: and and those are all as you mentioned, those are
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  Speaker 2: all galvanizing moments. Those those bring you closer. And the
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  Speaker 2: fact that too, you get to bring your practice squad,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and they get to kind of experience
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  Speaker 2: this whole thing too, is good for our organization, good
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  Speaker 2: for our team and and you know we've had we've
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  Speaker 2: had positive experiences doing it, so it's definitely a definitely
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  Speaker 2: a plus to do this