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  Speaker 1: Robert was able to get a full practice in yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: What would it mean for him to be able to
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  Speaker 1: play on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean having Hanesy out there is not always
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  Speaker 2: just the physical It's obviously the mentality, the toughness, the
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  Speaker 2: physicality of the leadership, the standard and command.
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  Speaker 3: That he continues to push.
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  Speaker 2: Having him out here there, having him out there, excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: would be really important for us this week. I thought
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  Speaker 2: Jonah played really well last week. Have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: confidence in Jonah. He's continued to get better week in
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  Speaker 2: and week out, so but having Hainesy would be really
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  Speaker 2: important for us.
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  Speaker 4: That's the biggest thing to from Sean in terms of
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  Speaker 4: building team culture, sort of personality, dealing with players.
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  Speaker 2: As a head coach, I think sometimes that collision communication
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  Speaker 2: at times to not always insert yourself, but making sure
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  Speaker 2: that you're communicating with everybody as much as you can
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  Speaker 2: in the building, not just the players, the coaches. So
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  Speaker 2: much of that get you live in that world so
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  Speaker 2: often that you're with those guys. Is making sure that
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  Speaker 2: you're being intentional about your relationships or just communication with
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  Speaker 2: everybody in the building, the video staff, the equipment staff,
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  Speaker 2: the training staff.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that was something that I thought. He knew everybody's.
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  Speaker 2: Names, he understood what it meant when you told people
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  Speaker 2: they did a good job or you appreciate them being
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  Speaker 2: in the building, and what that did for people every
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  Speaker 2: single day and not just as I mentioned the players
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  Speaker 2: and coaches, everybody in the building feeling excited to come
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  Speaker 2: to work every day. And that was the whole thing
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  Speaker 2: with the players, is the vibe in the building, even
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  Speaker 2: when we had a tough stretch, was always pretty confident.
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  Speaker 2: Was never like you felt like you were going to
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  Speaker 2: live in hard moments for long. You just knew you
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  Speaker 2: had to figure out a way to get through tough moments.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought Sean did a great job handling adversity.
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  Speaker 4: I think before about him kind of being the example
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  Speaker 4: of just being who you are and being genuine. Was
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  Speaker 4: that something that you know you really wanted to continue.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely that was feeling that from I remember, like the
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  Speaker 2: first team meeting being in was just different than anything
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  Speaker 2: I had ever been a part of in terms of
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  Speaker 2: the way he communicated, the way he interacted, but also
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  Speaker 2: his the honest like his ability to stand in front
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  Speaker 2: of a group of dudes take ownership when maybe things
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  Speaker 2: didn't go our way, or making sure the players knew,
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  Speaker 2: like I can do a better job as a coach,
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  Speaker 2: putting you in a position to be successful. Yes, you
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  Speaker 2: need to execute better, or we got to make that play.
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  Speaker 2: But I have a responsibility as as the coach for
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  Speaker 2: ultimately the whole thing, and so so much of his accountability,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's in the media, whether it's with the players,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's with the coaches. Anytime we would go through
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  Speaker 2: adverse situations, typically he would point to himself first, and
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  Speaker 2: I always respected that a ton and the juice in
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  Speaker 2: the building. You felt it for a long time that
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  Speaker 2: I was there. You felt it every day you came
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  Speaker 2: to work. So he was pretty consistent that way.
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  Speaker 1: Andy's actually four six against the most existance in his career.
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  Speaker 4: What if you told the team about what they can
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  Speaker 4: expect from this.
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  Speaker 2: Round defense, Yeah, we've tried all week.
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  Speaker 3: Look we we these guys all watch the tape.
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  Speaker 2: Right They're they're in meetings, in their individual meetings watching tape.
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  Speaker 2: They're in unit meetings watching tape, they're in special teams
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  Speaker 2: like all that. There's a lot of film being shown
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  Speaker 2: of their good players or things that we can attack
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  Speaker 2: and exploit we've really just tried to focus so much
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  Speaker 2: more on ourselves as opposed to all right, Jared Verse
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  Speaker 2: or these guys, and we know what they can do
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  Speaker 2: in so many ways. And look, you've you've got to
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  Speaker 2: come ready to buckle your chin strap against this team.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's ultimately what it's coming down to for us.
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  Speaker 3: About this football game.
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  Speaker 2: Right, there's our level of detail, our level of fundamentals, technique, discipline.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna need it because this is a this is
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  Speaker 2: a team that typically doesn't hurt themselves very often, one
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  Speaker 2: of the least penalized teams in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to do a good job of winning the
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  Speaker 2: field position and the turnovers. We've got to get better
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  Speaker 2: in that where if we can win that and use
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  Speaker 2: some of the field position to our advantage based on
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  Speaker 2: what the elements are going to look like on Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: that's what it's going to be about for.
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  Speaker 1: Us to that point.
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  Speaker 4: Coach, he talks about diversity being an opportunity in the
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  Speaker 4: wake of last week's defee, and let's believe this week
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  Speaker 4: you've watched to take yourselves, not just the opponents. What's
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  Speaker 4: the message you're trying to get the place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, when when we play the best that we plays,
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  Speaker 2: when we're playing with our hair on fire, with energy, confidence, excitement,
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  Speaker 2: getting guys going flying around, right, that we're just we
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  Speaker 2: got to get back to flying around, whether it's in
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  Speaker 2: all three phases offense, defense, and special teams, flying to
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  Speaker 2: the football, not staying blocked on defense. Offensively, better combinations
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  Speaker 2: and coming off the rock, throwing our hands in pass
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  Speaker 2: pro like. There are so many things that we can
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  Speaker 2: improve upon as a as a team to focus on
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  Speaker 2: that will serve us well going into this football game.
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  Speaker 2: So there was Look, we've our style of play which
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  Speaker 2: are both fast, right, fundamentally sound attacking, situational master is tough. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: this week is a great opportunity for us to really
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  Speaker 2: display how fundamentally sound can we be and really for
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  Speaker 2: us that the last part is the mentally tough were
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  Speaker 2: the handling adversity, responding to a loss and being mentally
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  Speaker 2: tough in our preparation and in our play on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: Because coach Robert, what what kind of confidence does he
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  Speaker 4: bring to the offense And having worked in your scheme
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  Speaker 4: and at full practice, it assumes good to go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Robert.
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  Speaker 2: Last year in Tampa before we had drafted him. But he,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was our starting setting. He was our
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  Speaker 2: center competing all the way through through training camp. So
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  Speaker 2: I had so much interaction with him, and him and
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  Speaker 2: Baker are like this, so so much of our collaboration
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  Speaker 2: on working through an offense was run through Hainsey, even
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  Speaker 2: when he wasn't the.
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  Speaker 3: Starting center for us.
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  Speaker 2: Throughout the entire year, You're bouncing protection ideas off of him,
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  Speaker 2: run schemes, ways of targeting runs, and how he sees
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  Speaker 2: defensive structures. We had a lot of that collaboration and
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  Speaker 2: communication last year and that was what made it pretty
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  Speaker 2: easy to say, hey, let's bring him on in and
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  Speaker 2: pro free agency, and since then just had his leadership,
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  Speaker 2: the room, the accountability that he has every single day,
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  Speaker 2: that's really what he helps bring. And then when he's
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  Speaker 2: playing and feeling good, he's playing at a high level.
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  Speaker 1: Because well, you know Sean and the Rams offense and
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  Speaker 1: just all that sort of going on. How important is
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  Speaker 1: it for you maybe to overthink things, you know, knowing
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  Speaker 1: like he knows that, I know that he knows.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's a great point. Honestly, it's look this, it's
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  Speaker 2: not ever about you know, me and him. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that's not what it's about it. But when you can
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  Speaker 2: get into some of that, like you know, there's a
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  Speaker 2: playout at practice yesterday and you're like, I'm like, they're
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  Speaker 2: not gonna run it like that, you know, and I'm like, wait,
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  Speaker 2: shut up, just doesn't matter, you know, we all run
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  Speaker 2: plays and so you can kind of get into that like, well,
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to do that out of this, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe well they they could do this out of that,
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  Speaker 2: and you start maybe overdoing some of the information, overcooking it.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great point, honestly. That's something that has gone
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  Speaker 2: through my mind over the last probably twenty four hours,
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  Speaker 2: is like, man, they know so many things about our system.
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  Speaker 2: We know obviously a little bit about their system. Man,
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  Speaker 2: just let these guys go play. It's it's truly going
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  Speaker 2: to be about the execution, the energy, the focus, being
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  Speaker 2: able to just go play and execute at a high
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  Speaker 2: level and let these guys just go let a rip.
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  Speaker 2: It's still very early coaching tenure, but what's the most
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  Speaker 2: valuable lesson you've taken from these owning six weeks? Would
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  Speaker 2: you say, Man, that's a good question, really good one.
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  Speaker 2: I think trusting your staff, trusting the people around you.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a really good coaching staff that I believe
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  Speaker 2: in that have done a really nice job so far.
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  Speaker 2: We're learning more and more about each other every week,
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  Speaker 2: about us as coaches working together and working with the
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  Speaker 2: players and what works, what does and how people respond,
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  Speaker 2: how we're coaching and teaching details every week and you're
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  Speaker 2: constantly trying to evaluate that as a head coach, Right,
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  Speaker 2: what's working, what's not? How is the communication between each
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  Speaker 2: other and the players. And I think they've done a
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  Speaker 2: really nice job of getting our guys prepared every week
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  Speaker 2: and bringing energy at practice every day.
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  Speaker 3: I think they've done a nice job with that.
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  Speaker 2: So just trusting the people around you and knowing that
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  Speaker 2: when you make decisions to hire people, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: be firm on those.
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  Speaker 1: Like you guys arrived on Tuesday, The Reds will only
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  Speaker 1: get in tonight.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think is the better way to do
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  Speaker 2: it for an international game? Yeah, we we talked about
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  Speaker 2: this the other day, Like we went through this all
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  Speaker 2: in the spring and decided, Okay, let's get the information,
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  Speaker 2: let's get the data. Got with Chris Bach and ferg
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  Speaker 2: and Eric Ciano on our on our strength staff and
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  Speaker 2: sports science, and we got all the data right that
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  Speaker 2: supports both ideas right to either come early or to
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  Speaker 2: come later on. And it's always been Shawn's philosophy, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's going from the East coast to the West coast
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  Speaker 2: or just travel in general. They've they've kind of gotten
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  Speaker 2: to the point where it's spend the least amount of
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  Speaker 2: time as possible in that time zone so that when
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  Speaker 2: you do come back, it's not as effective on you.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if it's going to truly matter.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think this was an easy decision for me because
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  Speaker 2: of this the job. Have done it so many times
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  Speaker 2: here and done it at a high level, been successful,
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  Speaker 2: great opportunity for us as a team to you know,
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  Speaker 2: come together and spend some time together as family. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it'll be an edge or not.
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  Speaker 4: Coach, it's obviously still early in the season, but Travis
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  Speaker 4: seems like he's having kind of bounce back year from
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  Speaker 4: last year. Why do you think that is?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think he had the skill set this
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  Speaker 2: whole time, right, You've seen the skill set and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: maybe based on the things you're doing and emphasizing in
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  Speaker 2: the run game or a pass game. It might not
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  Speaker 2: work to everybody's or somebody has a down year. It
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  Speaker 2: happens like sometimes other guys as send and end up
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  Speaker 2: doing some good things. I don't think. I think he
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  Speaker 2: came in with the right mindset and mentality right from
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  Speaker 2: the beginning. Man, Like there was some days early on
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  Speaker 2: that hey man, you got to get your butt in
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  Speaker 2: this facility and come meet with us, and he did,
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  Speaker 2: And credit him. He spent a lot of time with
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  Speaker 2: our coaches, with Chad Moreton all throughout this whole offseat
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  Speaker 2: in they talked as much as humanly possible, and I
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  Speaker 2: think they've got a really good relationship. TJ has really
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  Speaker 2: been on the screws with the details of our offense,
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  Speaker 2: the why, and then you're seeing it show up in
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  Speaker 2: his play. And so I think he's excited about get back,
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  Speaker 2: get some more carries, get some things going, get him
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  Speaker 2: keep going in the past game, and get those guys
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  Speaker 2: going in the running back room.
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  Speaker 1: I have another one. So the league seems to be
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  Speaker 1: pretty even this year.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you think that is just in terms of records?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, there's a lot of good coaches, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of good players in this league, like you talk about.
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  Speaker 2: I remember in twenty twenty when I was with the Rams,
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  Speaker 2: we were a darn good team. We ended up winning
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  Speaker 2: the division that year, and we played at home and
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: lost to Own thirteen Jets that year at home. It's
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  Speaker 2: like any Sunday, any given Sunday in this league, anything
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  Speaker 2: can happen, anybody can win, right. You have all these
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  Speaker 2: just fantastic athletes, football players. Got a lot of really
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  Speaker 2: good football coaches in this league. And so I think
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  Speaker 2: it's sometimes you say, you know, when your creatures get
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  Speaker 2: a little bit better sleep than my creatures, sometimes good
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  Speaker 2: things happen.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's the way it works. It's this league.
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  Speaker 2: I think it shows how how good this league is
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  Speaker 2: and how competitive this league is.
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  Speaker 3: You look at last night what.
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: Zach Taylor was able to do and with the Bengals,
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  Speaker 2: how to text with him this morning. I mean, that
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  Speaker 2: was pretty cool win for those guys. And so you know,
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  Speaker 2: Zach Robinson will be another good friend of mine. In
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta two weeks ago, they're all calling for his job
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  Speaker 2: and now he's, you know, lighting everybody up.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just this league.
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  Speaker 4: Man, when you were thinking about taking the job, or
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  Speaker 4: took the job. At what point in time do you start
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  Speaker 4: thinking about this. This is going to involve travel every year,
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  Speaker 4: you know, this London trip most likely, and sometimes maybe
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  Speaker 4: back to back yeah games like the team's done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially with you know, obviously the stadium build.
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  Speaker 3: And no, I knew that fairly early in the process.
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  Speaker 2: That is something that Shot had communicated was a part
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  Speaker 2: of the plans and and something that he felt strongly
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  Speaker 2: about in terms of the presence here and the ability
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  Speaker 2: to play here and how I don't want to say
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  Speaker 2: seamless because I'm saying I'm making it. These guys make
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  Speaker 2: it look easy with the operation, So you know, I
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  Speaker 2: was I thought that was really cool. Like I said
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  Speaker 2: the other day, my wife's favorite city is London. And
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  Speaker 2: I mean, aside from Jacksonville, Jacksonville right now, she loves London.
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  Speaker 2: She loves this this whole country's she took some time here.
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  Speaker 2: I think after college she spent some time here or
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  Speaker 2: maybe during college. So I mean, I think it was
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  Speaker 2: a cool opportunity, right, Like, as a human being, take
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  Speaker 2: away the coach part of it, the operation, the process,
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  Speaker 2: just as a human being to be able to travel
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  Speaker 2: and see different.
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  Speaker 3: Parts of the world.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's really cool to have that opportunity as
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  Speaker 2: a person and having these guys be able to have
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  Speaker 2: the same opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Yeah, thank you guys.