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  Speaker 1: Practice.
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  Speaker 2: When it gets real, for lack of a better term, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it amps it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say real.
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  Speaker 2: I mean real is it's full go tackle the ground,
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  Speaker 2: everything's in play, and that's that's not necessarily something we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do. Even even when we have our live periods,
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  Speaker 2: it's still jags on jags. So we tell our guys
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  Speaker 2: it's competitive, but it's not combative. We're not going to
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  Speaker 2: take blow up shots on our guys. They're not going
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  Speaker 2: to do it to our guys. So it's there's still
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  Speaker 2: an element that is not you know what's gonna happen
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  Speaker 2: come September week.
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  Speaker 1: One when it all it all starts up.
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  Speaker 2: So but there's certainly another intensity and that's that's what
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  Speaker 2: you want to see from both sides as it gets
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  Speaker 2: going with pads on, I know much about the the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line during padded practices. I think, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: you you gain more information. I mean you're you're starting
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  Speaker 2: to establish an identity at least of what you want
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  Speaker 2: to be and what you hope to see. And really
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  Speaker 2: all we hope throughout camp is that every day we're
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  Speaker 2: improving on the things we try to try to put
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  Speaker 2: our intentions towards you know, there's there's a goal every
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  Speaker 2: single day, whether it's the type of period we had,
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  Speaker 2: the situations we script in it, the plays we're trying
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  Speaker 2: to run, the looks we're trying to see from the defense,
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  Speaker 2: anything like that. We just want to continue to grow
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  Speaker 2: in that. And then you see, you want to see
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  Speaker 2: your individual period carry over to you know, the half
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  Speaker 2: pod groups, to the team reps and see if that
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  Speaker 2: grows every day.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody talks about Trevor taking.
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  Speaker 2: More ownership of the offense, kind of shaping the offense
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, and how does that process going, And
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  Speaker 2: you know over the last couple of years, And is
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  Speaker 2: there a ton out of the offensive playbook now that
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe you guys thought would.
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  Speaker 1: Work a couple of years ago or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Has he trend that much out or whatever? No, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I think it ebbs and flows every single year to
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  Speaker 2: where we'd like to do this, and then you either
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  Speaker 2: never get the looks for it, we just don't invest
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  Speaker 2: the time. There's some reason that keeps us from it,
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  Speaker 2: or we just weren't as good as we thought we'd
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  Speaker 2: be at something, or certain player maybe not. So there's
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  Speaker 2: things that are always kind of changing every single year.
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  Speaker 2: Our offense is not the same as it was two
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  Speaker 2: years ago. It's not the same as it was last year.
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  Speaker 2: It won't be the same come week. Twelves get rolling.
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  Speaker 2: It just there's a constant evolution. I think with your
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  Speaker 2: skill set, which you're really good at the looks presented
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  Speaker 2: to you. But as far as Trevor's ownership, it's more
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  Speaker 2: just mastering the little details of things. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: why do we like a certain look? And it may
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  Speaker 2: be he checked to a play that threw the ball
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  Speaker 2: to the flat because that's going to get us a
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  Speaker 2: quick completion to a ball carrier in an advantageous situation.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe it was a bad situation for us.
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  Speaker 2: We had a bad play on, we had a bad look,
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  Speaker 2: and the best thing for us right there, with the
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  Speaker 2: time permitted, was suspit the ball to the flat and
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  Speaker 2: get somebody going. I mean, there's little things like that.
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  Speaker 2: And then as we continue to build and grow and
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  Speaker 2: evolve and everybody gets on the same page, it may
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  Speaker 2: be we have a run call, they line up in
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  Speaker 2: a look that we just know is not right and
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  Speaker 2: he gets us to something completely different and it sometimes
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  Speaker 2: that's the best call for us. Sometimes it's getting out
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  Speaker 2: of a bad call, and those are the things you
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  Speaker 2: want to see from your quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's no like set time limit on when
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  Speaker 1: a guy gets good at that, but when do you
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  Speaker 1: expect a guy to.
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  Speaker 3: Get really good at that?
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody's kind of on their own journey and
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  Speaker 2: where they're I think you see a lot of quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: now in this league from late twenties early thirties really
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  Speaker 2: start to master their position and really get really really
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  Speaker 2: good in their system and what they do.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean.
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  Speaker 2: There's certain guys where it's kind of Peyton Manning wherever
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  Speaker 2: he went Indie Denver, it was Peyton Manning's offense, and
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  Speaker 2: it kind of Aaron Rodgers. You kind of see that
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  Speaker 2: with these great ones, the offense kind of goes with them.
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  Speaker 2: This is what they know really well. Now that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean you're not gonna introduce new things, have new ideas
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  Speaker 2: and concepts and things like that, But I mean there's
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  Speaker 2: guys like that that this is kind of the offense
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  Speaker 2: they run, how they do it, how they operate, and
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  Speaker 2: you let them go when they're really rolling like that.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like now that we're six plus days in
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  Speaker 3: we can ask wide receiver room, competition depth, describe the
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  Speaker 3: competition beyond the three up at the top where they're not.
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  Speaker 2: Obvious, right, those guys are all doing a great job
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  Speaker 2: and it's good to see, you know, Devn. We feel
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  Speaker 2: like Devon's gonna have a role on this team as
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  Speaker 2: a returner, so getting him mixed in and whether it's
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  Speaker 2: inside out, all the different ways you can use a
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  Speaker 2: guy like that, because these odds are he's gonna have
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  Speaker 2: a jersey on game day, so how do we use
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  Speaker 2: all the people that are available to us and getting
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  Speaker 2: him mixed in there, and then seeing Parker, Elijah, tim Seth,
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  Speaker 2: William Cephas, all these guys competing for the spot. Skates
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  Speaker 2: has made a couple of players in the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of days. All these guys just competing and that's all
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  Speaker 2: you want to see.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: We're very intentional with what we're trying to do, with
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  Speaker 2: what we envision a role being for these people in
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  Speaker 2: the red zone or third down or in the run game,
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  Speaker 2: and then special teams periods are critical for those guys.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's it's hard for those guys at times
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  Speaker 2: because you're going from seven on seven where you're competing
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  Speaker 2: your butt off to special teams. All of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: you're in team reps and you've got to block defensive
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  Speaker 2: ends and toss crack crack schemes. But that that's that's
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  Speaker 2: what comes with the job. That's how you earn jobs
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  Speaker 2: around here, and so you want to you want to
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  Speaker 2: develop that trust in them that they know what they're
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  Speaker 2: doing and they can do it. Uh, and then really
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  Speaker 2: see that that skill set flourish. But that as you
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  Speaker 2: look at the back end, a lot of its special
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  Speaker 2: teams value. And then trust, can we trust you to
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  Speaker 2: go in and play the slot, the outside, whatever, based
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  Speaker 2: on what happens in a game, because that's that's typically
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  Speaker 2: how game day goes for us. It appears Brian Thomas
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  Speaker 2: has had a couple with pretty good days practice.
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  Speaker 1: Would you agree with that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we've seen from the day he got here,
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  Speaker 2: he's gotten better every single day and that's all we're
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to. I mean, we don't need him ready
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  Speaker 2: to play week one today. We need him ready to
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  Speaker 2: play week one week one. So we just want to
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  Speaker 2: continue to see little bits of growth every single day
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  Speaker 2: with him, with his understanding, with the way he plays
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  Speaker 2: the physicality he's seeing from our dB group. So he's
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  Speaker 2: getting challenged. He's getting challenged physically, he's getting challenged mentally,
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  Speaker 2: and so far, every day he's gotten a little bit
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  Speaker 2: better and that's what we just want to continue to
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  Speaker 2: focus on with him and all our guys as well.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see him from.
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  Speaker 2: Gabe Davis so far, you know, as he develops and
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  Speaker 2: gets more comfortable in this system, yeah, I think you
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  Speaker 2: can see him do a lot of different things. He's
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  Speaker 2: been involved in the run game in terms of blocking,
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  Speaker 2: first level, second level. You've seen him over the middle
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  Speaker 2: of a couple couple times in the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: Is where you like to see that big body presence
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  Speaker 2: rolling through the middle of the field there on whether
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  Speaker 2: it's a third down or just a backside reset concept.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think he's going to have a role
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  Speaker 2: as an outside receiver in contested catch situations obviously down
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  Speaker 2: the field situations as those things start to commit themselves,
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes it's hard to get those situations. You know,
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  Speaker 2: our defense plays certain coverages that we want to install,
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  Speaker 2: certain concepts to get them installed in the offense, get
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  Speaker 2: everybody comfortable with it. But you know it takes time
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  Speaker 2: to research them to get into it against the looks
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  Speaker 2: we want in practice when we're in competitive situation, so
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  Speaker 2: sometimes we're installing a lot of stuff in a walk
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  Speaker 2: through that we may not get the rep for a
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  Speaker 2: few days out here.
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  Speaker 1: Have that annoying little brother relationship with Mac Jones a.
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  Speaker 2: Little bit, you know what I mean, Like exactly, you're
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  Speaker 2: annoying little brother.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a good way to describe it. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a good way to describe it.
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  Speaker 2: What I love about Mac is that Mac loves football.
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  Speaker 2: He loves playing football, he loves talking football, which I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm very similar in that way. So we have
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  Speaker 2: a good rapport in that sense. Max is always having
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  Speaker 2: a good time, always talking. We talked about that before,
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  Speaker 2: so I got no problem talking. We like to chirp
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  Speaker 2: back and forth every once in a while, so it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: It's fun being in his headset, being able to talk
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  Speaker 2: to him and kind of rib him a little bit
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  Speaker 2: that you may not see or hear, and he gives
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  Speaker 2: it right back. So, uh, I think we just have
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  Speaker 2: a good time competing and talking football.
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  Speaker 3: You've asked you before, Travis that.
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  Speaker 2: I guess how much more production do you feel like?
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  Speaker 2: God can be in the Arizona Yeah, he's. Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 2: been very productive in the two years he's played for US.
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  Speaker 2: But I think too a guy like Travis, I would
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  Speaker 2: never put a ceiling on what he's capable of. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's got a skill set as a receiving running back.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be growth in his understanding of
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  Speaker 2: the run game, what we're trying to accomplish, and I
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  Speaker 2: think it. I think we can put him in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of good situations to be able to maximize his
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  Speaker 2: value to our offense. Do you think Tank is ready
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  Speaker 2: to take on more of the load this year and
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  Speaker 2: what does he have to do to get on the
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  Speaker 2: field to help take the load off.
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  Speaker 1: Of Travis more breast? I think so.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just his understanding of the offense, the way
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  Speaker 2: things flow, what the expectations are when he comes in
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  Speaker 2: the game. Uh so, yeah, certainly. And Tank was you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think Tank had a lot of under lucky situations
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  Speaker 2: last year that the first game of the year, he
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  Speaker 2: had a play that I'm sure was a teach tape
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  Speaker 2: across the league of picking up a ball that he
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  Speaker 2: thought was a dead ball and getting punched out and
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's just some things that I guarantee you
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  Speaker 2: anybody that was in the room the next day will
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  Speaker 2: never have that situation happened to them again in our
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  Speaker 2: offense or our team because of his coaching situation. But
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  Speaker 2: we trust Tank and we talked about this at the
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  Speaker 2: end of last year that Tank is just going to
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  Speaker 2: continue to get better, like we like we talked about
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  Speaker 2: Brian our other young guys every single day, and obviously
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  Speaker 2: it's going to come down to producing on the field
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  Speaker 2: to really really develop that trust across the unit.
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  Speaker 1: But we like where Tank is heading.
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  Speaker 3: Is he particular players on this roster who are you know,
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  Speaker 3: pretty low profile, don't don't have don't have a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of note riot or anything coming that have stood
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  Speaker 2: out to you on offense at all, regardless of position. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean in terms of I don't know what you
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  Speaker 2: guys deemed not to riot or not. But like Sean
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  Speaker 2: Bowman is a guy that the day he got here,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't know a whole lot about Sean, honestly, but
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  Speaker 2: the day Sean's got here, he does things right, he
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  Speaker 2: does it the right way, he tries.
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  Speaker 1: To be physical. He's where he's supposed to be.
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  Speaker 2: But he's a guy that you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that there were a lot of expectations on Shambo, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where this is going to go for
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  Speaker 2: him as it moves forward, But he's a guy that
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  Speaker 2: just continued that when you ask that question, he's the
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  Speaker 2: first name that popped the mind of a guy that
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  Speaker 2: probably didn't have a lot of notoriety but just does
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  Speaker 2: things the right way. He's fun to coach when a
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  Speaker 2: guy does that, somebody like Josiah Diguar because he looks like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like a couple.
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  Speaker 1: Times in practices he's splashed a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: He's another guy that just does the right thing. He's
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  Speaker 2: in the right spot, doing it the right way, and
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  Speaker 2: he was a good accusation for the acquisition for the room.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's got experience playing in this league. He's
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  Speaker 2: been in some similar systems in some way, shape or form,
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  Speaker 2: but just finds a way to get things done and
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  Speaker 2: be productive out there in his opportunities. It's probably normal
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  Speaker 2: to you, but it looks like you've had like extensive
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  Speaker 2: conversations with Doug Christian during practice.
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  Speaker 3: Why is that important? Why is it.
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  Speaker 2: Important to make sure everybody's you know, on the same
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  Speaker 2: weight in the middle of practice.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think we're always as an entire staff.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're always involved in communicating with our players,
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  Speaker 2: getting feedback from them. We talked about that the other
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  Speaker 2: day of you know, asking them why they did certain things,
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  Speaker 2: what are they seeing out there, what do they like,
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  Speaker 2: how do they like to do certain things.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's always part of it.
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  Speaker 2: I think we need to be in constant communication. And
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  Speaker 2: then you know, as far as Doug and I we
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot you probably don't see because it's not
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  Speaker 2: always out on the field, but in here every single
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  Speaker 2: day we're all working side by side. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think I think communication is the most critical thing, especially
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  Speaker 2: on as an offense. We always tell our guys we
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  Speaker 2: just want eleven people running the exact same play, seeing
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  Speaker 2: it the exact same way, I ding who the front
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  Speaker 2: side point is, how we're blocking a certain look. As
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  Speaker 2: long as we do that, whether it's right or wrong,
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  Speaker 2: if we have eleven guys on the same page, we
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  Speaker 2: got a very good chance to be successful.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think since you've been here and I know,
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  Speaker 3: I know you might not necessarily want to speak.
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  Speaker 1: To the defense and people is this the hardest roster
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  Speaker 1: for an undrafted free agent?
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  Speaker 3: Probably may if it's a free.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's certainly a very talented roster. I I
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  Speaker 2: would agree with that as far as I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think every situation is different every guy, whatever their
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  Speaker 2: opportunities may be. You know, you never want injuries to happen,
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  Speaker 2: but injuries happen, and that presents opportunities for other people.
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  Speaker 2: And I think, at least on the coaching side of it,
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  Speaker 2: you want it to be a meritocracy where you play
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  Speaker 2: the best, you get the most opportunities, and you get
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  Speaker 2: a chance to contribute to this roster. And I think
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  Speaker 2: we've done a good job of giving guys that opportunity
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  Speaker 2: where you get a chance to compete, and if you.
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  Speaker 1: Earn more reps, you'll get more reps.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just kind of the way it goes and
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  Speaker 2: gives everybody an opportunity to build the best team possible.