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  Speaker 1: Two days. It's been good. Yeah, it's nice to get
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  Speaker 1: out here on the grass, get these guys back, kind
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  Speaker 1: of see where they're at. Um, it's been cool. What's
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  Speaker 1: been cool to see is like the retention, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what they brought over from the spring and the things
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  Speaker 1: we went through and then we're able to kind of
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  Speaker 1: accelerate the learning process here early on label. Do you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you have installed at this point? Um, I
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  Speaker 1: mean through spring? I would say of it was put
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  Speaker 1: it in the spring, and then here we kind of
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  Speaker 1: start back over. So we're still this is day three
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  Speaker 1: we're on. We just put an install three last night,
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  Speaker 1: so we're still working our way through it of kind
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  Speaker 1: of what's introduced now they're responsible for what they learned
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  Speaker 1: in the spring, so we do go quicker through these
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  Speaker 1: install meetings. But in terms of what we're practicing today,
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  Speaker 1: it's still you know, a third of the offense right now.
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  Speaker 1: Just in terms of it's day three. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: a game ready to QBC, a game ready QB sneak?
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  Speaker 1: We'll see obviously, umre early in this process, but do
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you have the piece is in place
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  Speaker 1: to run the offensive you want to run? Yeah? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: we're you know, we're really excited about the talent and
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  Speaker 1: the type of team we have, UM, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's our job as coaches to utilize what we have.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously you always have an idea of what your
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  Speaker 1: offense would look like someday when you get you know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's Calvin Johnson or Bo Jackson or whatever. It might
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  Speaker 1: be like when I have all those guys, here's what
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to be. But you know, in the process,
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  Speaker 1: you take all the guys you have, you take their strengths,
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  Speaker 1: you take what you like to do, what they're really
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  Speaker 1: good at, and you build something, um that reflects that
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  Speaker 1: and puts everybody in the best possible position. And so
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we've been able to do that. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like it's things that um, you know, Coach Peterson's
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with, things we all have experience with as a
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff, but also things that are gonna put Trevor
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  Speaker 1: in a great position and then the guys around him
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  Speaker 1: and utilize their skill sets the best. But what do
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  Speaker 1: you like about your offensible one and sort of what
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  Speaker 1: group do you have back there? I think what's pretty
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  Speaker 1: cool is there you've got the experience you've got guys
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  Speaker 1: that have been around with Schurff and Shatley and even
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  Speaker 1: a Cam Robinson, and you've got some young guys that
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  Speaker 1: you know are hungry and eager to learn. And there's
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  Speaker 1: there's great leadership, there's good experience, there's youth, there's talent.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a lot of of cool things to
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  Speaker 1: work with and see. And what's been cool is to
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  Speaker 1: see kind of the culture they've created in their room,
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  Speaker 1: the way they communicate, um, the way they interact with
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  Speaker 1: one another. And that's been pretty good to see. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's out here hungry to learn and get better at it,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what's cool. But what challenges are there to
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  Speaker 1: have a rookie like partner back there and why is
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  Speaker 1: he the guys sort of to be able to do that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, well, the biggest thing obviously is the lack
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  Speaker 1: of experience in the NFL. Now, he played a long
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  Speaker 1: time in the SEC and obviously has been exposed to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things, and you know, he was I think,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, is fortunate to play under Liam Cohen
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  Speaker 1: his last year Kentucky and be exposed to a similar
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  Speaker 1: pro style system, if you will, UM but obviously he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't seen a lot of the packages that you're going
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  Speaker 1: to see an NFL game, and so it's just the
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  Speaker 1: process of getting introduced all that, what the communications like.
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  Speaker 1: He's very fortunate to you know, lean over and Brennan
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  Speaker 1: Schurf's right there, Tyler Shatley's right there, guys that can
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  Speaker 1: communicate well with them. Phil has obviously been exposed to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things and does a great job coach
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  Speaker 1: in that room up But you know, we're we're doing
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  Speaker 1: our best to try to challenge those guys. We put
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  Speaker 1: them and walk through situations. We have a second year
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  Speaker 1: quarterback and you know, potentially a rookie center, and those
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  Speaker 1: are two guys that are in charge of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the communication identification process. So we're trying to kind
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  Speaker 1: of overwhelm them a little bit and walk throughs and
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  Speaker 1: see where they're at and we can go down and
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  Speaker 1: talk it through and make sure we're all on the
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  Speaker 1: same page and do what's best for us. That brought
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  Speaker 1: you aboard, did you know Phil was coming aboard at
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  Speaker 1: the at the same time, or did that come to
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  Speaker 1: like maybe a few days later, a week later. I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember the exact timeline, but Phil was definitely a guy.
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  Speaker 1: Phil and I did not directly know one another, but
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  Speaker 1: I knew who Phil was. We have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: similar friends, and so I'd always known his name, and
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  Speaker 1: then once I did get a chance to speak with Phil,
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  Speaker 1: we kind of hit it off from the jump. And
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  Speaker 1: that's been a great process. When you when they brought
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  Speaker 1: shut finn, Uh, how much comfort that that bring knowing
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  Speaker 1: that you might have two relatively new vies as are
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  Speaker 1: in right back? Yeah, I mean certainly that that is
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  Speaker 1: definitely a calming factor for us, knowing we have a
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  Speaker 1: proven guy that's you know, number one, He's I would say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm comfortable saying he's a leader in that room. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: does a great job set in the tone for those guys, um,
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  Speaker 1: but he's a great communicator. He's got a good presence
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  Speaker 1: about himself. You can kind of feel that edge that
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  Speaker 1: he has, but he's calm, He's able to handle himself
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  Speaker 1: in those situations, and he does. I think it's probably
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  Speaker 1: gonna give the right tackle and the center some comfort
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  Speaker 1: knowing I've got this guy next to me working with me.
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  Speaker 1: Slash What led to decision to begin camped with him
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  Speaker 1: at center? And Tyler at left card. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: an ongoing process of finding the best five. So we're
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  Speaker 1: going to continue to work with guys. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: may see him starting one day, and you may see
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  Speaker 1: somebody else starting a period that day, starting whatever. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fluid process. We're fortunate we don't
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  Speaker 1: have to release a depth chart right now and figure
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  Speaker 1: that out. So we're still in the process of figuring
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  Speaker 1: out who our best five Isn't that you know, the
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  Speaker 1: best five I think works together. You know, you may
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  Speaker 1: have a guy that's very talented this but he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: communicate well and it doesn't help this guy play his best.
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  Speaker 1: So you're kind of working through that process. Um, even
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  Speaker 1: in walk throughs in the afternoon, we'll mix and match
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  Speaker 1: rotations to see who communicates well, who gets the best
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  Speaker 1: out of each other playing next to one another. So
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  Speaker 1: ctdn't have a similar skill set to Brian Westbrook and
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  Speaker 1: will be sort of used that way. So Brian was
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  Speaker 1: a little bit before I was like really studying the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles and all that, but obviously being there for a
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  Speaker 1: long time, I got to watch him a lot. But
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  Speaker 1: certainly he's a weapon out of the backfield in the
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  Speaker 1: past game. So Travis from that standpoint, yes, I would
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  Speaker 1: say so. Obviously, Doug having his background under coach read
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  Speaker 1: you know, the screen games a big part of it, Um,
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  Speaker 1: and we we hope to have the success throwing the
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  Speaker 1: football to Travis like the Eagles did for such a
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  Speaker 1: long time with with Brian Westbrook. Yeah, room, we know
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  Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, Marvin Jones, the veteran guys can talk about
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  Speaker 1: some of the guys behind them, Channel Treadwell, Jones, what
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  Speaker 1: have you seen from those guys through these first couple
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  Speaker 1: of days of games. Yeah, that that whole room has
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  Speaker 1: done a like I talked about the aligne They've done
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  Speaker 1: a great job of working together in communicating and you
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  Speaker 1: can see the kind of veteran presence from the guys
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  Speaker 1: that have been around the Marvin, the z the Christian
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  Speaker 1: tread even of bringing these guys along UM kind of
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  Speaker 1: creating their own tight knit culture in that room. And
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  Speaker 1: I think some of the veterans, I say veterans, guys
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  Speaker 1: that are four years in or so, have done a
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  Speaker 1: great job of kind of being that veteran presence for
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  Speaker 1: these young guys and talking them through things and hyping
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  Speaker 1: them up when they need to be hyped up, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe pulling them aside and saying something that
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  Speaker 1: Chris Jackson didn't say or doesn't need to say because
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  Speaker 1: they can handle it themselves in that room. So definitely,
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  Speaker 1: those guys that have been around have done a great job,
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  Speaker 1: and that's kind of the focus of the way we've
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  Speaker 1: built the roster. I think you'd say you could kind
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  Speaker 1: of look at every position group and say, there's a
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  Speaker 1: veteran presence right there. There's a guy that has leadership
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  Speaker 1: ability to them that we're excited about and his role
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  Speaker 1: in your office. Yeah, you know, it's fluid, it kind
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  Speaker 1: of goes week by week, but obviously you want to
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  Speaker 1: feature his skill set and his skill set he's a
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  Speaker 1: great ball carrier, um So there's ways you want to
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  Speaker 1: hand it to him, you want toss it to him,
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  Speaker 1: you don't throw it to him in the flat. But
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  Speaker 1: then within that you have to compliment everything you do.
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  Speaker 1: So he's got the ability, he's got the speed to
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  Speaker 1: still get down the field and make some plays. Um So,
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  Speaker 1: as long as it kind of fits the package and
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  Speaker 1: the things we're trying to build around it, then we've
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  Speaker 1: we've planned to utilize him when he's in there and
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  Speaker 1: has an opportunity not being listen. How big is that
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  Speaker 1: to you? And just knowing the progress he's made and
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  Speaker 1: that you know he's not back yet, but that he's
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  Speaker 1: getting closer and closer. Right, Yeah, I mean it's obviously
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  Speaker 1: a huge benefit to know, you know, there's there's right
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  Speaker 1: now it's looking like he's going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: be active at some point in time in the near future. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So that's fine, and that's the credit to the work
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  Speaker 1: he's put in throughout the spring through the summer. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: coming off that injury, you never really know the timeline.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of I know, there's been experiences where guys
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  Speaker 1: have come back quicker and some guys haven't, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. So I think that's a testament to James,
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  Speaker 1: the training staff, the work he's put in. What are
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  Speaker 1: the challenges Slash, how do you look at Yeah? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: again they're keeping score, so so we'll we'll certainly treat
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  Speaker 1: it that way. Um. But at the same time, we
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  Speaker 1: you know, we we kind of have a process so
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  Speaker 1: for what we intend to get in as an offense,
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  Speaker 1: how we want to work this thing. So We're not
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  Speaker 1: going to accelerate just because we have this game. We're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna go crazy and cram everything in and try
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  Speaker 1: to get the overwhelm the guys where they don't have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to learn the foundation of the offense or
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  Speaker 1: the progression of how we want to teach. So there's
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  Speaker 1: kind of the fine line of how do you how
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  Speaker 1: do you massage these situations? And then at some point
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  Speaker 1: there will be discussion of who's gonna play all that,
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  Speaker 1: how do how do we feature these guys? And then
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  Speaker 1: it's still training camp. It's an evaluation process. We have
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  Speaker 1: questions on some guys in the roster and we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to build this like we talked about earlier, the building
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  Speaker 1: the top five. Well, maybe we want to expose a
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  Speaker 1: guy is something to to test him in a game
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  Speaker 1: against a guy he does not know well, and how
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  Speaker 1: is he gonna hold up? And um, can he handle
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  Speaker 1: when it's not a scripted session and we're calling plays
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  Speaker 1: and you know he doesn't have a chance to it
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  Speaker 1: there on the sideline with his coach, go over the play,
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  Speaker 1: go out here to play in the huddle, breakout, No,
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  Speaker 1: you know you got forty seconds and the plays called
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  Speaker 1: and you're walking the line. You gotta figure it out
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  Speaker 1: and maybe the quarterback changes it. Like we want guys
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  Speaker 1: exposed to that. So it's it's a game. They're keeping score.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna do what we can to try to win
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  Speaker 1: the game. But at the same time, this is still
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  Speaker 1: an evaluation process for us, and we're trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out some some answers on some things we have learning
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  Speaker 1: and all that you guys won't will only really have
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  Speaker 1: three padded practices before it comes time to play that game. Yeah, so,
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  Speaker 1: I mean definitely when you haven't put guys in situations
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  Speaker 1: where you can see full speed, you can get cut,
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  Speaker 1: you can tackle the ground, you know those situations. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: we haven't been able to go through those yet, so
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  Speaker 1: you're all there's always a little bit of concern of
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  Speaker 1: how's this going to play out, But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you guys have been doing this their whole lives. They
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  Speaker 1: understand we've done our best to put them as close
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  Speaker 1: to those situations as we can within the rules of
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  Speaker 1: the league, so that you have For Trevor, really the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing is consistent improvement. Every single day. We want
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  Speaker 1: him to get better, and you know, that's not always
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  Speaker 1: going to show up on a stat sheet if you're
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  Speaker 1: stat in practice, But we want the decision making. Like
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can think back to Day one, there
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  Speaker 1: was a you know, a movement play we had we
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  Speaker 1: talked about. I think it was actually the one he
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  Speaker 1: made the throat of Christian on the sideline. We talked about, hey,
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  Speaker 1: when you get out to the edge, you could probably
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  Speaker 1: progress it like this. Then day two kind of had
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  Speaker 1: a it was a different play, similar situation. He did
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  Speaker 1: kind of exactly what we talked about in the meeting room,
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  Speaker 1: and so that's just good to see. Now it went
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  Speaker 1: from a twenty yard completion to Christian to maybe a
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  Speaker 1: nine yard completion to Chris Manherts. But for us, he's
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  Speaker 1: taking the coaching to the field and he's getting better.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really all we're looking for at this point.
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  Speaker 1: We want Trevor. It's coming out whatever today is Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: we want Trevor to come out here and have the
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  Speaker 1: best Wednesday possible. That's all we really care about. Is
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  Speaker 1: he better today than he was yesterday. That's what we're
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  Speaker 1: looking for from Trevor and all our guys. Already. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: i'd say so, you know, to steal a phrase that
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  Speaker 1: I've heard Doug say forever is we want him to
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  Speaker 1: know where all the bones are buried. So when we
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  Speaker 1: called this play, first of all, what's the intent? What
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  Speaker 1: is Doug one out of this thing? What are we
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  Speaker 1: hoping to get coverage wise? And then something I've heard
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  Speaker 1: coach McCoy say a million times is do the next
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  Speaker 1: best thing. There's gonna be times where the defense gets us.
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  Speaker 1: They got a play call better than we got a
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  Speaker 1: play call, but it's still the quarterback's got the football.
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  Speaker 1: What's the best thing for the team in that situation?
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  Speaker 1: And so you kind of you want to work through
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  Speaker 1: all that with Trevor. You again, like I talked about,
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  Speaker 1: we see progress every single day with him in the
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  Speaker 1: way he's learned it. So, um, yeah, we're very comfortable
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  Speaker 1: where he's at in terms of his knowledge of the system. Thanks, thanks, well,
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  Speaker 1: good Thanks you guys,