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Mike Macdonald: "Our Offensive Line Has Had A Really, Really Good Camp" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure where to put the water here. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It was military day to day, so we had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of folks seemed like really all branches.
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  Speaker 1: But especially the coastcard, which is cool.
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  Speaker 2: Guys doing a great job hanging out with them, and
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  Speaker 2: it was a great practice. So we're back tomorrow in
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  Speaker 2: pads and uh, just one kind of one day at
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  Speaker 2: a time. We ended up being a really great competitive practice.
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  Speaker 2: Got some good situation stuff, some things off the top
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  Speaker 2: of my head that I'd like us to be able
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  Speaker 2: to prove on. But that's how we practice, and that's
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  Speaker 2: part of the process as well.
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  Speaker 3: So the conversations with the military members out there, what
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  Speaker 3: do you want the guys to take away from that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it easily puts things in perspective, and we're so
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  Speaker 2: thankful for our military men and women. I was just
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  Speaker 2: joking with the couple of guys in the coastcar, like
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  Speaker 2: you put me out in the ocean. Man, it's not
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  Speaker 2: a good combination. So are thankful that before what they do,
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  Speaker 2: and just just just a it's an easy way for
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  Speaker 2: us to show a part of our appreciation for what
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  Speaker 2: they do. You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's just so I wish we could do more.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, We've seen de Anthony Bell get his hands on
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  Speaker 3: a lot of footballs in his camp. How have you
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  Speaker 3: seen him take a jump in his second year.
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  Speaker 1: In your system. Yeah, it's great to see him make
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  Speaker 1: a play today. He's doing a good job. He's doing
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  Speaker 1: a good job.
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  Speaker 2: There's you know, there's there's there's a lot of competition
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  Speaker 2: for the job that he's trying to earn himself, and
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  Speaker 2: so it's a process and uh, one day at a time,
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  Speaker 2: but uh d Bell is doing a really good job.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna come down to special teams, how we package
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  Speaker 2: our personnel groups, things like that. But yeah, he made
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  Speaker 2: a great play today.
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  Speaker 1: That was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen you put Andre Fulder inside some here over
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  Speaker 3: the last week or so, and what do what do
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  Speaker 3: you like about his game that projects to being able
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  Speaker 3: to maybe play that big nickel.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I told told Andre the other day, like, Hey, the
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  Speaker 2: reason you're here is because you're a big, physical, competitive,
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  Speaker 2: fast smart player. So even though that you're going through
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  Speaker 2: the the fog of being a rookie, we expect that
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  Speaker 2: on a on a per play basis and that's the
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  Speaker 2: standard here on how on how you finish plays and
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  Speaker 2: we want to see those traits come to life, and
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  Speaker 2: so there are plays where it shows and that shows
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  Speaker 2: you that he's able to do it, and we want
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  Speaker 2: to see that every time he steps out on the field.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the message to him. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good stuff, but we'd like to see
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  Speaker 2: him be the best version of him is a little
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  Speaker 2: more frequently. How do you decide how much you want
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  Speaker 2: to see Drew Locke in a piece of the game
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  Speaker 2: versus Joe no Rockne.
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  Speaker 1: We're working through that right now.
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  Speaker 2: I think we might we might we might take a
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  Speaker 2: little bit different approach this year on how we play
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  Speaker 2: our quarterbacks. But Drew needs a lot of game work too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean everybody needs work, you know, So how do
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  Speaker 2: you do it? Even even Sam? What's the what's the
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  Speaker 2: smartest thing for for him to get ready to play
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  Speaker 2: the season and our team as well as those guys.
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of a.
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  Speaker 2: Not a direct saying is we're finding out.
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  Speaker 1: We'll find out on.
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  Speaker 4: Saturday up hearing it the path he had to travel
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  Speaker 4: last year to get back, what was that? What did
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  Speaker 4: you like about the way that he kind of popped
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  Speaker 4: you last year to be able to finish the season.
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  Speaker 1: Of Weak Kid. Riley was a guy that we really.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoyed getting a o throughout the process of how he
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  Speaker 2: went about his business and his passion for the game,
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  Speaker 2: and that that really became very evident to us coaches
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  Speaker 2: very quickly when we kind of entered the process. Our
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  Speaker 2: scouts were all over it and the type of guy was.
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  Speaker 2: He was just put in a really tough situation. So
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  Speaker 2: the way he handled all the things through the recover,
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  Speaker 2: like through the rehab process, that was like Riley's style
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  Speaker 2: of going about those things. So he was himself, you know,
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  Speaker 2: which is really cool. It just shows you how a
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  Speaker 2: special of a guy is. So to see the camp
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  Speaker 2: that he's having now to have the success in the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl is just you're just you're really happy for
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  Speaker 2: the guy because of how he works and you know
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  Speaker 2: his goals as a player, and he's really carved himself
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  Speaker 2: out a role for him on our team to give
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  Speaker 2: himself a great opportunity to play good football.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, what's your interest in Terry on Austin?
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  Speaker 4: And you're possible to did.
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  Speaker 2: You then Terry on Austin, Well, it's enough right now
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  Speaker 2: to we had him in for a great visit a
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  Speaker 2: great tryout. It's not. You know, it's a situation where
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  Speaker 2: there's there's some there's other things that are surrounding it
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  Speaker 2: as well. We're aware of that, but uh, we're we're
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  Speaker 2: working through the situation right now. You know, there's but uh,
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  Speaker 2: there's a great visit. I really I really enjoyed medium
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  Speaker 2: and uh, I think I think he enjoyed being here.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see where it goes a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Evaluate situations like that where there's a lot of the deal
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  Speaker 3: stuff going on and he's got a cultug.
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  Speaker 2: You work really hard to build and just make sure
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  Speaker 2: you can check that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna do our dude diligence.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a lot of people in terry On's corner
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  Speaker 2: that that we respect on in terms of the type
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  Speaker 2: of guy is. So we're gonna work through all that
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  Speaker 2: and I think we I trust our people to make
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  Speaker 2: the best decision for us. And we also think this
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  Speaker 2: is a great place to come work too, and that
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  Speaker 2: people can be the best verson themselves if given the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: So kind of works both ways.
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  Speaker 3: How much of a voice does Carls Scott have in
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  Speaker 3: that since he was in Alabama when Yeah, Yeah, Carls.
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  Speaker 2: Carl is an example of Carl recruited him to my
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  Speaker 2: to my knowledge, but didn't coach him.
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  Speaker 1: So you know how much of how big it's not.
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  Speaker 2: It's not as big of a relationship as you might
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  Speaker 2: as you might expect, but he's definitely a person that
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  Speaker 2: we would talk to, you know, anybody that has a
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  Speaker 2: relationship with anybody that we're going to bring in, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna seat that council. So this is an example of that.
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  Speaker 4: How you feel about the kind of the backup quarterback
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  Speaker 4: or you know, find Debt and Joss or the rest.
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  Speaker 2: Of the quarterbacks. Ever, I have a ton of confidence
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  Speaker 2: in our in our defensive backfield room. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: like this is a situation of we're kind of in
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  Speaker 2: everything all the time, and so we're always trying to
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  Speaker 2: make our team the best we can possibly make it.
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  Speaker 2: And whether or not tear On ends up here or not,
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  Speaker 2: or if it works out or it doesn't, then we'll
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  Speaker 2: just we'll keep on rolling the way we know. How
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  Speaker 2: you go to I'm sorry with that number three spot
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  Speaker 2: right now?
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  Speaker 1: Right it's like, what do you see in between Tami
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  Speaker 1: and Don?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's great competition right now. I like to
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  Speaker 2: just to narrow it down to like, hey, it's the
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  Speaker 2: third corner spot. I think that's a look probably a
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  Speaker 2: little bit narrow like it's it's.
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  Speaker 1: A how we want to allocate all of our people.
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  Speaker 2: It's like whoever wins the job, It's not like they're
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  Speaker 2: just gonna they're the ones getting all those snaps. It's
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  Speaker 2: how we want to deploy how many DB's at a
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  Speaker 2: given time. We want to be able to play more,
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  Speaker 2: you know, three linebacker sets. Do we want to play
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  Speaker 2: more five down sets? It's it's kind of everybody right now.
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  Speaker 2: So it's you know, the the front guys are are
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  Speaker 2: battling for a say to say, hey, look we need
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  Speaker 2: to be on the field more. That trickles into the
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  Speaker 2: linebacker room, which affects the dB room and vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: So that's kind of where we're at right now. But
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  Speaker 2: those both those two guys you mentioned are having really
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  Speaker 2: good camps and they're definitely putting their best foot forward.
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  Speaker 4: Did the team understand that he could play in the
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  Speaker 4: entire season and availability wise, it's not an issue. He
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  Speaker 4: gets it all went his way.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think we understand that, like.
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  Speaker 2: Anything's kind of on the table, and that's that's where
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  Speaker 2: we're at in the process.
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  Speaker 1: All answer they're about the third corner.
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  Speaker 4: Eg, how much for you is the players dictating who
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  Speaker 4: gets on the gil versus And here's.
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  Speaker 1: Well, when that's aligne, that's really cool. It makes it
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  Speaker 1: our job a little bit easier. When it's not one
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  Speaker 1: way or the other, then that's when you got.
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  Speaker 2: To move and shift and and shake. And but that's
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  Speaker 2: that's why we're the coaches, you know. That's those are
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  Speaker 2: hard to sit. Those are those are some tough decisions
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  Speaker 2: that we're gonna that we have to make sometimes. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: and then once you're bought in, you gotta just do
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  Speaker 2: everything in your power to make it come to life.
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of kind of both.
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  Speaker 3: So you see this safety competition playing into that since
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  Speaker 3: you get guys.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm saying, it's all it's all connected, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So you know this week, I think giving guys some
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  Speaker 2: opportunities and some spots they might not have had up
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  Speaker 2: to this point is part of that process. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting you know, getting getting Joe Bloks at positions he
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  Speaker 2: might not have been at, and given spoon looks where
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  Speaker 2: you know he hasn't had a ton of reps where
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  Speaker 2: we feel like, hey, you know, we need to round
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  Speaker 2: out your game this way to get get you the
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  Speaker 2: exposure in case you're in these situations.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's kind of where we're at right now in camp.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like you get Neils on his way back and.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah he's on his way back. Yeah he's
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  Speaker 2: on his way back, which is exciting. We had a
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  Speaker 2: few guys that are kind of entering the ramp back
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  Speaker 2: into practice mode, which is nice.
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  Speaker 1: Harry out, Mike's the the.
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  Speaker 2: Darien was down here today again, but play with them,
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  Speaker 2: try to get him back as soon as possible. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's just you start putting days and timetable
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  Speaker 2: on it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the young guy like that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just go attack the heck out of it until
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  Speaker 2: you're until you can go come back out and practice again.
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  Speaker 4: Anything on Nick Evin worry any day.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are all over you, like we're tracking the
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  Speaker 2: boots and the scooters and the what shows up on
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  Speaker 2: hard knocks, So you're all over it.
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  Speaker 3: Mike, give me the same five guys are the most
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  Speaker 3: offensive line. What has that done for Brian? And also
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  Speaker 3: just where the offense can continue to grow.
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  Speaker 2: I just I think we have a really great opportunity to.
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  Speaker 1: Take this thing in the next level.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that the chemistry that they have, the bankrupts
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  Speaker 2: that they have.
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  Speaker 1: I think our offensive lines had.
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  Speaker 2: A really really good camp, So it's a really exciting group,
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  Speaker 2: and I think we have some great competition really, you
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  Speaker 2: know in the backup tackle spots and and the interior line.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in the backup guard spots too, so there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys that are really jocking for position there,
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  Speaker 2: which is really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thanks,