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  Speaker 1: Eric arm said, just not being able to work and
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  Speaker 1: then having the packinger.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's you know, he's a veteran who you know,
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  Speaker 2: ultimately he'll probably know how to get himself ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: I would, I would hope.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the key is just making sure that he's
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's healthy and ready to go for the
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  Speaker 2: first game. And ultimately, it's a long season, as we
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  Speaker 2: know now, not to say that early ones aren't obviously
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  Speaker 2: as important as late ones, but it is a long
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  Speaker 2: season and we're really just trying to.
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  Speaker 3: You know, get him to be as healthy as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Do you expect him to be good to go by
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  Speaker 1: week going?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think show. I would think show. It's
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  Speaker 3: hard for me to say right now though.
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  Speaker 1: And then last times the just and with Mason Smith
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  Speaker 1: out as well, that kind of creates a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a depth issue. I would imagine, just just one
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  Speaker 1: of the challenges you guys are working through.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we just signed Austin Johnson, so made a
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  Speaker 2: nice play already in the team run today, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: brought in some depth and competition. We'll continue to get
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  Speaker 2: those guys some great reps. I felt like I felt
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  Speaker 2: the D line a little bit more today, you know, impact,
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  Speaker 2: whether it was in the run game or and some
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  Speaker 2: of the protection stuff. I just kind of felt more
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  Speaker 2: of a presence in a rush. So that was encouraging, right,
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  Speaker 2: And it's great to get those guys some reps, but
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  Speaker 2: we absolutely need to continue to improve.
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  Speaker 4: Today.
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  Speaker 5: Once he brought to the steplet.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, as you guys see, it's every day something right.
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  Speaker 2: It's every day it's making a play right, And there's
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  Speaker 2: only so much right within a scheme that you can
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  Speaker 2: teach and coach. Ultimately, they have to go out and
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  Speaker 2: make plays. And he just continues to be a steady,
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  Speaker 2: consistent professional that communicates at a high level. He brings
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  Speaker 2: a calmness to our back end, he brings a playmaker
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  Speaker 2: to our back end, and a great leader for the
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  Speaker 2: guys to be able to continue to listen to back there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, guy every day.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you guys have seen him many diving either
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  Speaker 2: pass breakups or interceptions he's had. I had, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I had so much respect for him coming when we
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  Speaker 2: played him in Tampa this year, he made a unbelievable
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  Speaker 2: interception that basically sealed.
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  Speaker 3: The game in their favor. And he's just come here.
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  Speaker 2: From the moment we sat down and talked to my office,
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  Speaker 2: from till till now, it's been exactly what he has
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  Speaker 2: said he wanted to do and what we actually and
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  Speaker 2: what we also wanted from him from a veteran leader,
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  Speaker 2: professional show some of these guys the way, and he's
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  Speaker 2: taken that role on and ran with it.
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  Speaker 6: Evaluate first day of Travis having the penny, going back
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  Speaker 6: and forth and that final team period we didn't see him.
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  Speaker 3: Was that a situation a four minutes stuff?
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  Speaker 2: We weren't playing in any eleven personnel, So you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's still learning twelve personnel other positions so that
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  Speaker 2: he can continue to get in right in some of
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  Speaker 2: those personnel grouping, you know, because he plays the F
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  Speaker 2: in eleven, to go and play the Z and twelve
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  Speaker 2: is just you know, it's just another added learning curve
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  Speaker 2: that we need to continue.
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  Speaker 3: To work on. But you know, I think he'll say it.
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  Speaker 2: Was probably it was a little bit more tired than
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  Speaker 2: he you know, usually gets, but I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 2: still showed up, made some plays across the middle as
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  Speaker 2: he's kind of continued to do, and it's just good
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  Speaker 2: to get into that, you know, habit of we mentioned
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  Speaker 2: we wanted to get to this point of post scrimmage,
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  Speaker 2: just starting to let him roll in between racks to
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  Speaker 2: get them some extra work.
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  Speaker 3: It's good to be the new normal, very similar.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we might not be every single day, but
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  Speaker 2: I would say it would probably be a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more normal than not.
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  Speaker 7: We would how much the starters are gonna go on
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  Speaker 7: Saturday yet.
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  Speaker 3: Not yet, We're still working through.
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  Speaker 2: We wanted to kind of get through these padded these
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  Speaker 2: next two padded days to evaluate see where we're at
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  Speaker 2: as a group before making that decision. We've obviously had
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  Speaker 2: conversations as the staff and with Tony and James as well,
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  Speaker 2: but we're gonna let these next these two days play out,
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  Speaker 2: see what it looks like, and make a decision from there.
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  Speaker 7: It makes sense to talk with the other team about
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  Speaker 7: ones or it's just just something that it almost feels
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  Speaker 7: like it's not a perfect science with three games compared
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  Speaker 7: to four.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I texted coach Tomlin the last night, So we're
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  Speaker 2: touching base today at some point here to just get
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  Speaker 2: on the same page, you know, about what they're doing,
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  Speaker 2: what we'd like to do. Ultimately, you know, we'll have
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  Speaker 2: to ultimately make that decision tomorrow, but we're gonna touch
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  Speaker 2: base today.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Is that a hard decision as a head coach to
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  Speaker 4: figure out this because you want them to play, you
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  Speaker 4: want to see them, you see what you got, but
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  Speaker 4: you don't want to risk injury.
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  Speaker 3: Right, That's right?
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  Speaker 2: That is the ultimate uh debate. Oh you know it's
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  Speaker 2: not uh obviously came from being in LA It was, shoot,
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  Speaker 2: you're you're ones and twos don't really play right, and
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  Speaker 2: so you're you're ultimately uh playing with a lot of
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  Speaker 2: younger guys, which is kind of the that's the whole
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  Speaker 2: selling point in LA is you do that and it
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  Speaker 2: helps you get you know, CFAs and get guys to
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  Speaker 2: come in because you know you're going to get a
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  Speaker 2: lot of great quality reps in film, whereas in Tampa
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  Speaker 2: we played some of the guys and and got some
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  Speaker 2: quality work. So it's it's definitely a difficult decision that
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  Speaker 2: we've been wrestling.
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  Speaker 3: Back and forth with a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll we'll have a better idea tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Finally going against finally going against an opponent because.
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  Speaker 1: Pump porch is that for you guys in your evaluation
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  Speaker 1: processing the whole Roshington.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's big, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we don't know what you have ever, right,
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  Speaker 2: you really don't. I mean you have a feel, you
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  Speaker 2: know what you're doing against each other.
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  Speaker 3: But as we saw even.
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  Speaker 2: In the scrimmage the other night, like we'd be lying
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  Speaker 2: if we didn't see some you know, bright eyes and
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  Speaker 2: and maybe getting into guys doing some things that maybe
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  Speaker 2: they hadn't been doing in practice settings because.
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  Speaker 3: We were in the stadium and there were some fans there.
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  Speaker 2: Right, It's just it is different to go through the
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  Speaker 2: pregame routine, to get into your routine of getting ready
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  Speaker 2: to go play a game. But also, like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: going and competing against somebody else, especially Pittsburgh specifically on
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  Speaker 2: the defensive side of the ball, plays a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a different structure than we do. They play differently
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  Speaker 2: with their D line than we do in some ways,
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  Speaker 2: So it might be great for us to get some
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  Speaker 2: of that work.
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  Speaker 6: A couple of the drink questions, just Jaylen McLeod kind
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  Speaker 6: of his status and always a week.
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  Speaker 3: To week but yeah, I think he's more week to
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  Speaker 3: week than day to day. Okay, Yeah, as far.
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  Speaker 6: As then what that means for that competition and Sam Linebacker,
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  Speaker 6: what have you seen from guard E since he came back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's still just getting into the swing
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  Speaker 2: of things.
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  Speaker 3: I think he'll.
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  Speaker 2: Start to probably feel more and more like himself as
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  Speaker 2: the next probably weaker and a half go. I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: to see him be able to go and come off
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  Speaker 2: the edge and get him some more team reps. He's
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  Speaker 2: just a little bit limited in some ways still right
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  Speaker 2: now within the team setting. So I'm excited. I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: to actually see who can step up. It's a bummer
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  Speaker 2: because Jalen was doing some good things in some of
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  Speaker 2: the pass rush actually when he was going and four
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  Speaker 2: down and playing the end and getting some of that
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  Speaker 2: stuff going, which is what he did a lot in college.
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  Speaker 2: So that's you know, it's a bummer, But the competition continues.
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  Speaker 6: And then a lot more. Just whyatt I feel like
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  Speaker 6: why it is almost every position is that he came
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  Speaker 6: to you guys and said that.
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  Speaker 2: Or not, that's our I mean, you guys just kind
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  Speaker 2: of seen it since the spring. It's kind of our
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  Speaker 2: philosophy is moving guys around. We did at the other
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  Speaker 2: night as well. I mean that's something that I thought
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  Speaker 2: we did a nice job in LA when you know,
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Kromer was our offensive line coach. It was constant
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  Speaker 2: moving guys around. You ultimately want to make sure you
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  Speaker 2: set your groups as close to game as you can
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  Speaker 2: to have the time right like where you can have
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more time to work. But it's great
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  Speaker 2: because you just don't know, especially at the old line
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  Speaker 2: guys right, it's when you don't have depth or guys
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  Speaker 2: have experienced playing specific positions and a pinch happens, it
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  Speaker 2: is the worst fing in the world. And so I
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  Speaker 2: went through it in twenty twenty two and we had
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  Speaker 2: thirteen different starting o lines, which was an NFL record.
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  Speaker 3: Not a record do you want to be known for.
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  Speaker 2: So since that we have just really tried to make
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  Speaker 2: such a conscious effort of adding depth in there while
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  Speaker 2: also cross training.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, what are you looking for specifically?
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  Speaker 5: These xt couple of practices before Pittsburgh rules in the town.
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  Speaker 2: Less penalties, you know, I mean it was great. We
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  Speaker 2: got Alex Kemp out here, a great you know referee
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  Speaker 2: crew out here that did a great job. We met
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  Speaker 2: with them as a staff at seven am this morning.
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  Speaker 2: They will meet with our players, excuse me, this afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: They'll also meet with the rookies and explain some of
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  Speaker 2: the rule changes from college to pro this evening. And
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  Speaker 2: so we are making a conscious effort, and the league
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  Speaker 2: is making a conscious effort. Detailing formations, alignments, assignments and
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  Speaker 2: motions is.
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  Speaker 3: A huge part of the rule.
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  Speaker 2: The rules this year, the two men in motion and
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  Speaker 2: illegal formation, shaving the line of scrimmage is show all
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  Speaker 2: showed up today, all the things that they are trying
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  Speaker 2: to emphasize. So long winded way of answering your question,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like a little bit more discipline.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, a couple more real quick.
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  Speaker 4: Coach Crewd and Coach Coughlin both here this week.
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  Speaker 5: What's it like just happening those guys around and yeah,
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  Speaker 5: really cool.
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  Speaker 3: I mean those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Shoot, Coach Coughlin, I grew up, you know, a Patriots fan,
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  Speaker 2: so broke my heart a few times. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: Victor Cruz, being my college roommate, obviously very close with
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  Speaker 2: Coach Coughlin, and he's been such a support for me
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  Speaker 2: since I've been able to have the opportunity to take
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  Speaker 2: this job and live here. And then Coach Gruden and
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  Speaker 2: I were neighbors in Tampa, so we lived in the
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  Speaker 2: same neighborhood, and so that was great.
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  Speaker 3: I actually saw it, ran into him a few times
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  Speaker 3: last year in.
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  Speaker 2: Tampa, and right before I actually got hired here, I
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  Speaker 2: ran into him and you know, we were having a
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  Speaker 2: conversation about that. So it's great to have him here.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking some ball. I mean, there is a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the evolution of our offense comes from him in
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  Speaker 2: so many ways. Right when Seawan was with him in Tampa,
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  Speaker 2: Sean was in Washington with his brother, and there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of similarities.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty cool, that's sure.
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  Speaker 4: Robert Little has been consistent. Now I left tackle at
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  Speaker 4: close to other Tran Camford has really moved around a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Just kind of speaking to him, he said, it's nice
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  Speaker 4: to be consistent and feel like you can really grow
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  Speaker 4: in that position.
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  Speaker 3: What have you seen out of him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think his run blocking has improved. I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot since last year, coming off the rock, finishing better.
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  Speaker 2: I think he'll also be, you know, the first one
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  Speaker 2: to tell he's got to, you know, work a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more on some of the past pro in terms
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  Speaker 2: of just you know, timing up his hands, using his hands,
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  Speaker 2: using his length, you know, to his you know, to
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  Speaker 2: his best abilities because he does have some length. He's
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  Speaker 2: a long dude that is athletic as well, so.
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  Speaker 3: Needs to continue to improve.
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  Speaker 2: But I have been I've been pleased with, like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: some the consistencies and those guys had been I thought
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  Speaker 2: today was probably our worst day in a while up
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  Speaker 2: front in some ways or just as an offense executing
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  Speaker 2: the run game, but in some of the past protection
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  Speaker 2: I was not pleased with as a group, whether it
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  Speaker 2: was the ball not coming out on time, not getting
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  Speaker 2: open on time, whether not protecting well enough. But I
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  Speaker 2: think they, you know, had been playing with some confidence
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for the offensive line. For the offense as
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  Speaker 6: a whole couple of days. What would you how would
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  Speaker 6: you evaluate maybe where the struggles came from.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't. Today was definitely one of our worst
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  Speaker 5: days as an offense, you know, And even speaking just personally,
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  Speaker 5: I felt like I just, you know, we didn't see
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  Speaker 5: it as great today, you know, I just thought we
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  Speaker 5: were moving a little slow coming off the off day.
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  Speaker 5: Just need to bring a little bit more juice next time,
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  Speaker 5: and just you know, one play at a time, just
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  Speaker 5: takes one play to kind of get you back going.
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  Speaker 5: And I think we could have brought a little bit
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  Speaker 5: more energy. A little sluggish today coming in, So we'll
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  Speaker 5: watch the tape though and see what it was. There
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  Speaker 5: was a lot of stuff just kind of everywhere. There's penalties,
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  Speaker 5: there were some missed assignments, there were some couple of
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  Speaker 5: bad reads by me. There's just a little bit of everything.
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  Speaker 5: So we'll have to watch it and see. You know,
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  Speaker 5: it's practice you rather have or rather it happened out
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  Speaker 5: here and learn from it. And then you know, we're
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  Speaker 5: not playing yet, so we got some time to fix it,
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  Speaker 5: but we need to address the issues and you can
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  Speaker 5: kind of learn from them.
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  Speaker 6: Do you expect to play on Saturday? Do you want
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  Speaker 6: to play?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean I yes, I'm expecting to play, getting
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  Speaker 5: myself prepared myself to play. I'm not sure exactly what
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  Speaker 5: the plan is yet. I think we're still evaluating some stuff,
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  Speaker 5: but yeah, I'm ready to go. If so, you know,
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  Speaker 5: be excited to get back out there. It's been a while,
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  Speaker 5: so you know, anytime you can play, even preseason, it
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  Speaker 5: means something to get on that field. So I'll be
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  Speaker 5: ready to go if that's the case, and if not,
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  Speaker 5: the other guys be ready to roll through it. The
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  Speaker 5: last few years.
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  Speaker 1: How much is playing in the preseason kind of helping
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  Speaker 1: you get ready to week want?
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  Speaker 5: I think it does help, you know, just from the standpoint,
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  Speaker 5: especially as a quarterback. You know, you can get hit.
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  Speaker 5: It's you know, all off season, in all training camp
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  Speaker 5: you can't get hit, So there's a different Sometimes there's
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  Speaker 5: a different time clock in the pocket. Try to always
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  Speaker 5: play it real and practice, but sometimes you kind of
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  Speaker 5: hang on to the ball and take a little bit
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  Speaker 5: more chances in the pocket because there's no consequences. But
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  Speaker 5: when you're live, it's a little different. So it's nice
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  Speaker 5: to fill the time clock sped up, to feel the
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  Speaker 5: communication with the whole offense, with offensive line protection, you know,
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  Speaker 5: just live full speed reps. I think it is valuable.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 5: I think there's gonna be smart too though as far
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  Speaker 5: as how much you play and all that stuff. That's
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  Speaker 5: that's for you know, coach and all them to figure
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  Speaker 5: out and for us just to do our job. So
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  Speaker 5: I do think there's value though, the.
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  Speaker 1: Offensive comfortable guard and the scrimmage. You know, how did
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  Speaker 1: you come out from that? What did you sort of
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  Speaker 1: think of the offense and then your own performance?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought We operated really really smoothly. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I think it was still left a couple of plays
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  Speaker 5: out there. That's always going to be the case, probably
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  Speaker 5: not gonna play perfect, but I feel like there was
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  Speaker 5: a couple of plays I definitely left out there, but
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  Speaker 5: I think that's just an offense. Overall, we operated clean,
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  Speaker 5: not a ton of penalties, you know, just having the
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  Speaker 5: call it mentally to move the ball. Playing situational football,
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  Speaker 5: that's fun. You know, practice, you play situations, but they're
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  Speaker 5: all in block so sometimes it doesn't always feel like
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  Speaker 5: a game because of the flow is just different. So
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  Speaker 5: it was nice having the clock moving. You know, every
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  Speaker 5: every play is spotted about where it would have gone down.
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  Speaker 5: You play every second along third and shore, third and medium,
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  Speaker 5: you play all the situations. We got a two minute
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  Speaker 5: drive in all those things. It feels more a little
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  Speaker 5: bit more realistic as far as the game flow. So
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  Speaker 5: I thought that was really good and some stuff to
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  Speaker 5: build off of. Maybe putting to Day's side, how do
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  Speaker 5: you feel like you can total I think I've you know,
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  Speaker 5: made some huge strides from the spring as far as
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  Speaker 5: listening to the system and being comfortable playing fast, getting
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  Speaker 5: through progressions, letting it rip, especially across the middle and
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  Speaker 5: anticipating some throws. I think it's been a lot better
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  Speaker 5: than the spring, So you know, I think going into today,
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  Speaker 5: I was pleased with just my progress, you know, not
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  Speaker 5: necessarily overall performance, but just getting I felt like I
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  Speaker 5: was really just playing better every day, and I think
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  Speaker 5: that's what you want to do. And today obviously had
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  Speaker 5: a little bit of a rougher day, so we'll have
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: to watch it and just learn from it. And it's
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: the same thing, even if you don't perform you want to,
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: you got to learn from it. So just taking all
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: the coaching points and all the stuff I can from
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: each day and trying to make the corrections the next
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: day and play better considered a progress.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: And put work becoming a more.
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: Natural for sure, footwork becoming more natural, tying my feet
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: with my eyes, and then just seeing the concepts because
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: I've seen them now three or four times installed and
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: you feel more comfortable. You know what the backside is
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: going to look like, you know what gets you off
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: the front side, and you kind of just play a
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: little bit quicker. But there's still some of that muscle
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: memory that sets in from some of my old footwork
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: and drops and stuff that I just have to continuously
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: just work and indie and then team drills and you know,
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: while we're in practice and it's not live bullets flying,
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: this is the time to fix it. And we've made
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: some good progress, but there's a lot more work to do.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: How big of a jump can this team make just
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: from maybe getting rid of the dysfunction of last year?
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: We saw it from twenty one to twenty two. It
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: was a pretty big jump just by getting rid of dysfunction.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: I think that's a hard question to answer to put
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: a you know, specific measure on it. I think that
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: this is a this can be a really good team,
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: you know. I think we're talented, our schemes are really good,
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: we're well coached. We're still getting better and dialing in
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: on the details, and we need to play cleaner and
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: be better operationally and just you know, gel more as units.
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: But I really think, not to be cliche, the sky
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: is the limit for this team. I mean, I think,
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: like I said, we're talented, we're well coached, we got
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: a good scheme. You know, you can't speak on the
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: results because we have to go out and do it
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: and we have to perform. But I really feel confident
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: that we'll be prepared come September whatever it is, the
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: first first game, and we'll be ready to play. And
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: I you know, we had a lot of work to
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: do until then. The camps a long.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Time, but things happening behind the scenes in the building
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: that affects what happens on the field. Is that safe
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: to say that we've seen that?
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there's always there's always things that I mean,
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: in the NFL, it's a crazy business. There's always things
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: going on all the time. So you try to compartmentalize
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: and do your job and ignore everything else. And sorry,
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: and at times when the bigger the distraction, the harder
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: it becomes. But you still have a job to do.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: And that's the challenge we're all faced with, is to
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: do your job despite everything happening around you. And sometimes
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: it's easier than others, but that's our job and we've
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: got to do it.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: What do you see from the three rookie running backs?
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: They've been awesome. I think I think all three of
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: them have have had days and sports where they've played
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: really well. And then also as rookies, learning the system
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: isn't easy, and they've done a nice job in the
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: protections and knowing what to do and who to pick
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: up and but they've all made plays, you know, you know,
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: running the ball or out of the backfield, catching it,
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: making plays down the field. They've all had their their
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: play So we got a lot of a lot of options,
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: a lot of great options. A lot of them are young,
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: so we've got some juice in the backfield, which I'm
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: excited about. Trevor. For the short time you're going to
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: be out there on Saturday or whatever time they're going
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: to give you, what do.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: You want to see out of yourself and what do
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: you want to see out of your offense against pits
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: ready tea.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Just to play clean, you know, no penalties, operation in
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: and out of the huddle, quick up to the line, communicate,
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: just play clean ball and execute whatever's there. You know.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Obviously the plan not as much game planning when you're
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: talking about preseason games, so I'm not sure exactly the
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: plan as far as what we're going to do, but
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: whatever it is, it's stuff we've done all training camp,
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: I'm sure. So just execution at a high level with you. Also,
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: coach Colin mentioned the penalties even today. Yeah, Yeah, just
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: clean up that stuff. It's the stuff you can control.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: This game is hard enough playing against all these great players,
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: these great teams, and when you beat yourself with the
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: pre staff penalties and not lining upright or you know,
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: little stuff, maybe it's a can that I go the
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: wrong way on because you didn't see it right or whatever,
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: it's that's stuff that you can control. So if we
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: can be you know, damn near close to one hundred
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: percent on those, it's just going to put us in
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: position to make more plays and to have to be
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: more successful when the ball is now.
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: Roddy Kniver is the best combination act with you and
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: Brian Thomas Junior frustration a little bit on Sunday and
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: before that, where are you right now with Ryan?
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean this is something where timing with receivers
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: is so important. Chemistry, that connection, all that stuff, and
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: then when you change offenses, it kind of resets a
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: little bit because there's new routes and there is some carryover.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: For sure, everyone does similar things, but just the communication
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: and talking. I think we've made some big steps since
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: the spring, and you got our thing too. We didn't
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: get to play a full season together, so you know,
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: We've been trying to build that and be just in
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: lockstep and always know each other's thinking and when we
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: get those one on ones, making all those plays, giving
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: them opportunities, always getting them, giving them a chance to
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: get his hand on the ball. And there has been
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: some frustration, I think from both of us, and just offensively,
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: because there's been somewhere you know, I might miss a throw,
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: I might not make a contested catch, you know, maybe
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: they push coverage to them. And there is days where
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: it's a little frustrating, and that stuff you work through
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: in practice, and we both expect a lot out of
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: each other and I think that's the cool thing about
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: our relationship, as we expect to make all those plays,
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: so it's frustrating when you don't. Like I said, we
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: just got to keep working in and keep he's such
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: a great player, just keep giving him all the opportunities
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: and putting the ball somewhere where you can get it
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: and always giving him a chance. It's really important.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: What have you seen from a Britain Strange It seems
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: like he's really come along with the last ten tracks.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think just the same thing. More comfortable in
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: the offense, playing faster, understanding what we're doing, and that's
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: for all of us, and me seeing him quicker, getting
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: the ball to him in some different scenarios where maybe
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: in the spring all's not audition it to him and
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: getting backside or doing whatever. I think, getting more comfortable
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: seeing him in different spots in this scheme and knowing
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: what to expect, how he's gonna run certain routes. And
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: I love Britain man. I've always loved how he plays,
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: plays really hard, he's a really good blocker, and then
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: what he can do in space too. He doesn't get
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: enough credit for how good of a route runner he
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: is and very physical, great after the catch. So he's
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: gonna be a problem for us.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, are you seeing more from him
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: this year? You know, now that he has been through
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: us sort of more in that in that receiving world.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think just given more opportunities so you see more. Before,
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: you know, we had Evan, and Evan had been here
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: and been very productive. He's an older veteran player and
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: you know Britain's kind of behind him learning from him,
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: and so he just didn't get the same An opportunities.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: And now he's looked at as as the guy the
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: matchup at tight end, you know, to go make plays
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: in the passing game, and he does a great job,
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: especially what all he's asked to do between that and
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: the run game. Tight end is a crazy position. Those
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: guys are their beast, you know, physical and then they
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: go run fifty yards down the field and come back
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: and then blocking the end. It's hard to do, and
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: he's on a high level.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: I know you see intervidy in practice, but just as
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: somebody else does, how excited.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Or you to see Travis in a game setting is
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: what a cow.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Looks like, A really excited I mean, if if Friday
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: was a glimpse of it, I'm pretty right we should
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: all be excited to see him running around out there
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: wherever it's at on offense defense. Hopefully more offense throw
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: one in there for us there. But just the way
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: he plays, energy, plays with even just little things like
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: interacting with the fans and just the juice he brings
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: into the stadium like that stuff does mean something, you know,
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: and not everyone necessarily has that personality, but he has
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: something about him that's just I don't know, it's just special,
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: the way that energy brings in energy plays with and
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: the joy and all that stuff. The way he runs
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: around like it's it's fun to watch and it's fun
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: to play with a guy like that. I think he's
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: starting to play a lot faster now that he knows
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: the system and can play free. You think.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: Also one of guys that I've kept him having a
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: penny on.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it was interesting. Yeah, he played corner once
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: to everything, came back and had to run like a jet.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Sweet motion. So just we've talked about how and how
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: good a shape he's in. But it's funny to see
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: him back and forth. It's pretty crazy. Never never see
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: anything like it. Awesome