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  Speaker 1: Can you just tell us a little bit about the
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  Speaker 1: staff and why you made the moops, you made no
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  Speaker 1: Kays coordinator, that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously, you know, you make tough decisions at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the season and you evaluate as a head coach,
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  Speaker 2: you evaluate a lot of different things, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: made some tough, tough moves, tough decisions. I appreciate what
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  Speaker 2: those guys have did for me and and for the
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  Speaker 2: Jaguars the last two years.
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  Speaker 3: And and then and.
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  Speaker 2: Then it my focus was, you know, to get the
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  Speaker 2: next next group of guys in there. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I sat down myself, h Trent Balkey, Ethan Wall, Regis Eller,
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  Speaker 2: we all just sat down and and you know, we
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  Speaker 2: interviewed a really a really good group.
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  Speaker 3: Of men, you know for defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 2: And it was a really good process for me to
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  Speaker 2: go through. And you know, we came came away all,
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  Speaker 2: you know, feeling really good about about Ryan and what
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  Speaker 2: he brings and and where he's been, who he's been around,
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  Speaker 2: the players he's coached, uh, and what he can what
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  Speaker 2: he can bring to our defense. And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: just just kind of from there, just uh, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, Matt House been in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: You know with Kim City Chiefs, he's won a Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: been a defensive coordinator. You know, just a great history
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  Speaker 2: there to to be the inside backer coach.
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  Speaker 1: UH.
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  Speaker 2: I kept Bill Shouey as the outside backers. Roy Segress
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  Speaker 2: is still assistant d line. You know, Chris Rashard been
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL, has been on a Super Bowl team.
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  Speaker 2: So guys that have had these these backgrounds of success
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  Speaker 2: and and UH coach players at a high level are
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  Speaker 2: all guys that I wanted, you know, you know on staff.
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  Speaker 2: And Corey Robinson, who coached with Ryan in New Orleans,
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  Speaker 2: obviously came from the University of Tennessee again helping helping
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  Speaker 2: in the secondary there as well. And you know, I
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  Speaker 2: look at Jeremy and Jeremy Garrett, you know, the defensive
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  Speaker 2: line coach I I. You know, he obviously has a
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  Speaker 2: really good background. It's a collegiate background. But but he's
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  Speaker 2: been in the NFL. He's been a you know, been
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  Speaker 2: an in turn, been an assistant different places, Cleveland, stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that, so he knows he's been around great players.
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  Speaker 2: He's had a chance to be around Miles Garrett and
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland and and Olivier Vernon in Cleveland, and so you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good group of men.
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  Speaker 2: And then the assistant guys, you know, I think of Mario,
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  Speaker 2: I think of Mike, you know, guys that have guys
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  Speaker 2: that have been in this league.
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  Speaker 3: You know, kept pat Riley.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously I love Pat and and what he can bring,
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  Speaker 2: and it just just kind of gives.
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  Speaker 4: Me a.
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  Speaker 2: Group of men that that number one, you know, are
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  Speaker 2: gonna get gonna get the most out of our players. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, scheme might change just a little bit, but
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  Speaker 2: I think the look of it's gonna change probably the most.
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  Speaker 3: You know what you see. But but it's all for
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  Speaker 3: the for the better. And again, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Excited for the future, excited to work with these guys,
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  Speaker 2: you know, coming up this offseason.
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  Speaker 1: Following up you mentioned on Jimmy Garrett's time in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: But I guess you know, in Collin, what do you
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  Speaker 1: assume at augur Major he was actually ready to put.
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  Speaker 2: Back Yeah, you know, when I sat down and interviewed him,
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  Speaker 2: the thing that that that stood out right away was
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  Speaker 2: his confidence, his attention to detail, and and those are
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  Speaker 2: things that that's who I am as a.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, right you pay attention to the little things.
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  Speaker 2: And and uh that that's what kind of drew me
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  Speaker 2: to him, and you know, allowed me to hire him
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  Speaker 2: and and get him on staff.
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  Speaker 3: So again another one that you know, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: To work with and and uh and he's got a
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  Speaker 2: great teacher in Ryan obviously a former D line coach
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  Speaker 2: who who I know will have his hand on on
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  Speaker 2: the defensive line and making sure that's going in the
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  Speaker 2: right direction. There's a lot of winner backs out here
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  Speaker 2: early to day, Jack Collins Gellan in the NFL talent,
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  Speaker 2: you know when you try to look for.
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  Speaker 3: And write, you know, I think the number one thing.
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  Speaker 2: That that that again, how does how does the collegiate
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  Speaker 2: game trans translate to the NFL game? You know, and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time, there's a lot a lot of situations. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, college quarterbacks just aren't in a huddle. They're
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  Speaker 2: everything is at the line of scrimmage, right, it's always
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  Speaker 2: an up tape or up tempo, fast paced style of
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  Speaker 2: offense and just getting guys in the huddle and communicating
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  Speaker 2: him play.
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  Speaker 3: I go back to our guy Trevor just a few
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  Speaker 3: years ago. You know, it's kind of a foreign deal.
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  Speaker 2: Right I mean just getting in a huddle, calling a play,
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  Speaker 2: getting to the line of scrimmage, doing cadence, being under center.
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  Speaker 2: But it doesn't take away from the fact that they're
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  Speaker 2: they're proven winners. Uh, they got a great skill set.
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  Speaker 2: They throw the ball extremely extremely well. Their football intelligence
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  Speaker 2: is high. Those are things that you can see and
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  Speaker 2: those are things that you can take away from players,
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  Speaker 2: especially the quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 3: When you're when you're visiting with them, Howard's getting a
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  Speaker 3: better averon No, because you know they're doing what's best
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  Speaker 3: for them.
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  Speaker 2: They're trying to win a national championship, right Obviously we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to win a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: So you've got to be very precise.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to turn over every stone, you know, at
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  Speaker 2: the NFL level to make sure you've got the right
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  Speaker 2: guy for your system.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, the evaluations, how you doing. I think the hashmarks
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  Speaker 3: play a big part of it.
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  Speaker 2: The field, they've got more space in college football, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and you know the other the other thing too
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  Speaker 2: is at our level, you know, we've got we've got
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  Speaker 2: draft picks at every position. We got the best of
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  Speaker 2: the best at every position offense, defense, and the special
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  Speaker 2: teams where you know, this is not a knock on
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  Speaker 2: college football, but they don't all have blue chip athletes
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  Speaker 2: at every position.
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  Speaker 3: So space and time the speed element right, uh, can
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  Speaker 3: can can play a big factor in that. Why did
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  Speaker 3: they keep getting the quarterback right time? You were there
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  Speaker 3: as a player.
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  Speaker 1: To how they keep getting it right?
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  Speaker 3: Man, that's a that's a great question.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, you know, you think of about coach Reid was
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  Speaker 2: there right and Mike Holmgren, you know, was there. I
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  Speaker 2: think about the Brett farvdays, and obviously with Andy and
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  Speaker 2: you know, Andy seems to have gotten it right here
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  Speaker 2: in Kansas City. He got it right in Philly with Donovan,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and.
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  Speaker 3: And it just takes time. It just takes time.
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  Speaker 2: You have to, you know, you have to invest the
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  Speaker 2: time in these players to find out who they are
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  Speaker 2: and if they're gonna be the best ones for your organization.
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  Speaker 2: I know in Green Bay they actually traded for Brett
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  Speaker 2: right Brett. Brett was in Atlanta, and who knows what
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  Speaker 2: would have happened if if he had stayed in Atlanta
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  Speaker 2: at the time. But you know, Ron Wolf saw something
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  Speaker 2: in Brett and made the trade and obviously the rest
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  Speaker 2: is history. Aaron, you know, Aaron Rodgers came in on
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  Speaker 2: the heels of that. And and now you know Jordan Love,
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  Speaker 2: so we can all take a take a piece out
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  Speaker 2: of their their puzzles, so to speak, in evaluating quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, no quarterbacks, do you have the right quarterback? And
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  Speaker 4: one of the conversation has.
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  Speaker 2: Been, like with Trevor over the last we do have
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  Speaker 2: the right quarterback. I'm excited for the future with Trevor.
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  Speaker 2: He's excited the conversations we've had since the season, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and and I don't get into the contract stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's I leave that for for Trent and
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  Speaker 2: the agents and stuff. But I just know that our
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  Speaker 2: guy is the right guy. He's got the right demeanor,
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  Speaker 2: he's got the right leadership, and it's our job as
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  Speaker 2: coaches now to make sure he takes that next step.
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  Speaker 2: And this will be another big off season for him
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  Speaker 2: and and his development and growth.
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  Speaker 3: By no means is he where is he? Is he
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  Speaker 3: where he wants to be or where we want him
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  Speaker 3: to be? But really looking forward to to work in
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  Speaker 3: another year with with Trevor a step or for Trevor,
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  Speaker 3: what is that next step?
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  Speaker 2: I just think, you know, continuing to understand our offense
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  Speaker 2: right get better with the scheme and and really still
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  Speaker 2: put more of an impact to his voice in our offense,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because he's the one out there executing and
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  Speaker 2: calling to play. So you know, I want him to
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  Speaker 2: speak up and and and really take ownership in that
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  Speaker 2: with us. And and just you know, the the situational
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  Speaker 2: part of football too, just understanding game situations, you know,
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  Speaker 2: managing the game in a certain way at certain times
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  Speaker 2: throughout the.
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  Speaker 3: Course of the game.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, these are all areas that we can
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  Speaker 2: continue as a staff to to assist him and help him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, gets where we want to be in terms
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  Speaker 2: of you know.
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  Speaker 5: We're down at two point diversion posisions.
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  Speaker 2: How is the leaguevolved in sixteen to seventeen, I start job, well,
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  Speaker 2: I think I think teams are viewing that now as
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  Speaker 2: a just another offensive play. I mean, it's a it's
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  Speaker 2: an important play, it's an impactful play. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: offensive lines are getting getting good, the quarterback positions getting better,
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  Speaker 2: the skills you know.
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  Speaker 3: The running backs are it's just a.
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  Speaker 2: I just think in analytics, you know obviously have a
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  Speaker 2: big part of this, you know, and in helping us
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  Speaker 2: decide to go for these you know, fourth downs and
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  Speaker 2: two point conversions, and and I I do, I do
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  Speaker 2: think that it's it's it's helping offenses stay on the field.
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  Speaker 2: It's helping them, you know, score points eventually. And and
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  Speaker 2: I think the trend is going to continue to be
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  Speaker 2: even more, you know, year in and year out.
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  Speaker 4: Ever, as far as the protection of this past year,
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  Speaker 4: you obviously retain Phil Rauscher's your offensive line coach. You
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  Speaker 4: have a lot of guys expected to come back, maybe
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  Speaker 4: some decisions to make. When you evaluated the offensive line,
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  Speaker 4: where does it need to improve and personnel schematically, what.
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  Speaker 3: Were the biggest things I would say yes to all that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, our offensive line obviously you know, and I
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  Speaker 2: think if you, if you, if you talk to these
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  Speaker 2: guys individually.
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  Speaker 3: They know and we know that it wasn't our best right.
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  Speaker 2: And as a coaching staff, I put I put a
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  Speaker 2: lot of this on us and making sure that we're
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  Speaker 2: doing the right things to put our players in position.
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  Speaker 2: You've heard me say this a lot put our players
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  Speaker 2: in position to be successful, give them an opportunity, and
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  Speaker 2: that that falls on us as coaches through through game
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  Speaker 2: planning and scheming and not having too much just have
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  Speaker 2: the right amount of plays to execute and then and
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  Speaker 2: then in.
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  Speaker 3: Turn that falls back onto the player, right the player
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  Speaker 3: has to.
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  Speaker 2: Go out and play and use his God given ability
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  Speaker 2: to go execute the play. So we're going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to look to improve. We always talk about competition. We
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  Speaker 2: want to bring in players to add value in depth
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  Speaker 2: at every position, and then we have to coach it better.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to teach it better, and we've got to
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  Speaker 3: detail it. It all starts in the offseason.
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  Speaker 4: Please, you have the guys in the offensive line room
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  Speaker 4: right now, where do you feel like you need to
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  Speaker 4: go out And I know Trent reference needing maybe an identity,
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  Speaker 4: more physicality.
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  Speaker 3: I think it goes towards that more than anything else.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's the addition of Ezra. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: thought was going to be that that left guard.
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  Speaker 2: If you think about it, Cam, Ezra, Luke, Brandon, and
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  Speaker 2: Ton played one game together last game of the regular season, right,
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  Speaker 2: So we've had that kind of revolving door on the
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  Speaker 2: left side. You know, we it for whatever reason, injury, performance,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it might be. And you know, Cam the suspension
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  Speaker 2: and then the injury late in the season, so he
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  Speaker 2: missed eight games.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't have consistency.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't have continuity, and that affects five guys up front, right,
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  Speaker 2: And so that's where we have to get back to.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to get back to a little more consistency there.
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  Speaker 2: But we can also help them as coaches and prepare them.
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  Speaker 3: Better, and I know we will starting this offseason.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you don't do personnel, but you do have
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  Speaker 5: a lot of experience with quarterbacks. I'm wondering, you know
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  Speaker 5: what the intelligence tests that these guys stay and all
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  Speaker 5: players day pre draft, have you ever found much correlation
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  Speaker 5: between you know, some of those results if you look
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  Speaker 5: at them at all, and and what you see when
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  Speaker 5: you get the player in house.
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  Speaker 2: No, okay, now, I mean I know those are all
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  Speaker 2: good metrics to go off of, and and how players
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  Speaker 2: learn and and and the way they process and all that.
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  Speaker 2: To me, the bottom line is you got to you
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  Speaker 2: gotta go spend time with these guys. You got to
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  Speaker 2: put the film on you gotta Can he make play?
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  Speaker 2: Can he stand in the face of adversity and throw
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  Speaker 2: a twenty yard dig route and get hit and then
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  Speaker 2: get up and go to the next play. That's playing
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback position in today's game, And and you know,
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  Speaker 2: can he make guys miss? You know, not everybody's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a Lamar Jackson, right, You're gonna make everybody miss
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  Speaker 2: and and and be able to scramble and run and
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  Speaker 2: do the things that he does. He's a tremendous player.
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  Speaker 2: Pat mahomes tremendous player. The things he you know, the
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  Speaker 2: things he can do. But all those guys can stand
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  Speaker 2: back there and make throws in the face of adversity.
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  Speaker 2: And that doesn't come from a test, right, that comes
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  Speaker 2: from doing it week in and week out. And and
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  Speaker 2: so to me, I lean more towards that than than
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  Speaker 2: you know, an assessment.
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  Speaker 5: So sat snipers first year with the coat, Seque has
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  Speaker 5: a play card.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he did a heck of a job.
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  Speaker 2: I mean a heck of a job with the with
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  Speaker 2: the guys that he has, that he he got those
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  Speaker 2: guys to play and play at a high level. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: Gus Bradley on defense and and and you know they
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  Speaker 2: got you know, Jim Bob Cooter who was with us
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  Speaker 2: and and.
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  Speaker 3: Those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Are Our division is in is in good hands right now.
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  Speaker 2: Right I think about where we are obviously, where Houston's at,
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  Speaker 2: Where where INDI's at Tennessee is the same way. Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: is always a tough team every every single time you
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  Speaker 2: play them. But but coach s Tichen did an outstanding
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  Speaker 2: john of leading those guys, motivating those guys, a play caller,
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  Speaker 2: putting those guys in position to be successful. And and
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  Speaker 2: you know, and then when Gardner came in and played,
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  Speaker 2: there was a there was an enthusiasm in that stadium, right,
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  Speaker 2: there was a level of excitement that you know that
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  Speaker 2: they needed.
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  Speaker 3: And and he's done a great job of doing that work,
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  Speaker 3: bringing in the staff.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how that big guys wanted to get out
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  Speaker 1: of the college game because everything going some of the
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  Speaker 1: college guys, Uh.
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  Speaker 3: There was there was a few comments of that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I just you know, guys are always looking.
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  Speaker 2: They they love the NFL, they love football, and obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at our game, you don't have this much
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  Speaker 2: recruiting and you know and all that kind of stuff
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  Speaker 2: that you're dealing with. But a few guys had made
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  Speaker 2: that made that comment, Yes, yeah, you know, And look,
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm not going to dive into all the.
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  Speaker 3: You know, all the all the contract things and all that.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's for another another day.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, when it comes to free agents on
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  Speaker 2: our roster, you know, we definitely want to sign them
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  Speaker 2: all back if we can, right, I mean, that's the
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  Speaker 2: nature of the game.
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  Speaker 3: Keep keep the core, and we're gonna do everything in
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  Speaker 3: our power to to make sure that we can do that.
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  Speaker 2: And it was unfortunate last year because Christian got hurt
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  Speaker 2: late in the season, Zay was banged up for the
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  Speaker 2: majority of the season. So again that was another position
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  Speaker 2: group that that didn't have all their you know, their
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  Speaker 2: horses so to speak, week in and week out. Calvin
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  Speaker 2: would the one that was kind of the healthiest at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the season, and and.
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  Speaker 4: He was.
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  Speaker 2: He was a great addition to our to our offense. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: would love to get him back if possible. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think I think he adds an element of of
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  Speaker 2: uh a speed you know down the field that that
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  Speaker 2: that we need. Uh Trevor felt more comfortable as the
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  Speaker 2: season went on, so you know, we've got him again.
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  Speaker 2: Much like the offensive line, you got to continue to
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  Speaker 2: add value, continue add talent, continue to add depth, and
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  Speaker 2: and feel like we're we're gonna you know, execute our
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  Speaker 2: plan this spring and and you know, see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: In the future, in the same fate what has been your.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Honestly, it's hard for me to comment on
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  Speaker 2: that because I wasn't in either one of those two buildings,
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  Speaker 2: you know, So I just don't I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: expect Honestly, It's just it's difficult for me because I
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  Speaker 2: just don't know the whole dynamic of what was surrounding
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  Speaker 2: both players.
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  Speaker 3: I like Bryce, I like Bryce. I like C. J.
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  Speaker 2: Stroud too, you know, Anthony Richardson, you look at the
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks we have in our in our division, Will Levice
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: and Tennessee. I mean, these are some young athletic guys
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: that that uh you know, and then you throw Trevor
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: in that mix too, right, So.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: A f C. South, I think is in good hands
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: when it comes to the quarterback position. Thanks thanks having
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Thank you,