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Speaker 1: On the TV broadcast. I guess it was a satellite
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Speaker 1: of Word who said that. I guess Reford the Heat. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they like to think they have inside information. So he
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Speaker 1: said that during the bye week, his exact movies, you
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Speaker 1: stripped defense down to the nuts and bolts.
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Speaker 2: Okay, what do you mean by that?
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Speaker 1: And what modifications have you made to the overall scheme
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Speaker 1: since by week? That has kind of led to the
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Speaker 1: success or happened lately?
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Speaker 3: Not a ton, not a ton in terms of making changes.
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Speaker 3: But I think whenever you get to buy week, you
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Speaker 3: get a chance to do that. You know, you get
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Speaker 3: a chance to really kind of quality control and see
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Speaker 3: what's been good and honestly, what's what's been called. Sometimes
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Speaker 3: you're practicing stuff and you're looking at it and saying,
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Speaker 3: all right, we really like this. Maybe you don't get
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Speaker 3: to it in the game. This situation doesn't present itself,
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Speaker 3: you know. So sometimes you can kind of pair things down,
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Speaker 3: and I think that's something that has helped our guys.
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Speaker 3: We've done that a little bit, and I think the
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Speaker 3: guys have done a good job with it.
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Speaker 1: Maybe he tosses things and you know, you kind of
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Speaker 1: streamline things.
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Speaker 3: Let's say is that. Yeah, sure every year, I say
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Speaker 3: this a lot, but the season so long, you're gonna
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Speaker 3: have different stuff that you do, and there's some stuff
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Speaker 3: that makes it and there's there's so many great ideas,
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Speaker 3: and like any time you're with a bunch of guys
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Speaker 3: who have been around, and we got a bunch of
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Speaker 3: coaches who have been around are really good football coaches
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Speaker 3: in that room, they have a lot of great ideas
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Speaker 3: or assistant coaches. So what makes it into the game
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Speaker 3: plan what you end up keeping. That's always a hard decision.
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Speaker 3: But as the season goes, you kind of figure out
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Speaker 3: who you are as a defense, and you really gravitate
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Speaker 3: more to the skill set of the players, what they
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Speaker 3: do well, and putting them in those positions where you
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Speaker 3: could play fast and be most successful as a defense.
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Speaker 1: Kind of things that for the life or yesterday, that
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Speaker 1: kind of the sack production picked up the stads of
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Speaker 1: simplified for him of the past couple of leaks and
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Speaker 1: what change.
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Speaker 3: Just short of stuff that we're probably uh, you know
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Speaker 3: with with groupings, maybe even you know, rotation of guys
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Speaker 3: and stuff that's been a little bit different. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: really we haven't changed a whole lot, but I think
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Speaker 3: as things are going and you're like anything else, when
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Speaker 3: you're doing things over and over and over again. Now
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Speaker 3: you get to this point in the season, I think
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Speaker 3: guys are very comfortable with what they've been doing. You've
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Speaker 3: been working the same techniques or running the same games
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Speaker 3: or whatever it may be.
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Speaker 2: Uh, it really simplifies for guys. You know, you.
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Speaker 1: Side given offensive a little something different look moving him around.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, we've tried to do that.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I mean to cut you up, but yeah,
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Speaker 3: we've we've done that a little bit, moved him around,
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Speaker 3: moved some other guys around, and I think that gives
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Speaker 3: us some versatility in the rush and trying to manipulate
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Speaker 3: matchups as best we can, you know, with certain different
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Speaker 3: points in the game. But the guys have done a
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Speaker 3: really good job, uh in the foreman rush especially, so
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Speaker 3: you know, they really kind of when I when I
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Speaker 3: refer to the pass rush, I just think it's more
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Speaker 3: so about our guys the detail they've been practicing with,
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Speaker 3: like just being downstairs with them, you know, in the
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Speaker 3: meeting room. They're so dialed in and and I think
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Speaker 3: we're really picking up there and doing a good job
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Speaker 3: of that.
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Speaker 2: Over the last few weeks, you think that that's a
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Speaker 2: good question.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, uh, you know, certainly a lot of
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Speaker 3: ideas that float around, and Trey gives you more versatility too,
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Speaker 3: you know, And I think Dennis has done a great job.
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Speaker 3: I think some of the young guys have done a
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Speaker 3: great job and guys you know, even stepping in last
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Speaker 3: week for Eric, I thought Smooth did a great job too.
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Speaker 3: So we feel good about all those guys in there
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Speaker 3: in the versatility that they have to move around in
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Speaker 3: the front, which is that twenty.
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Speaker 4: One years per kesh for Colts. Is that a quick
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Speaker 4: game guy or is deep thread some of both?
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Speaker 2: He's some of both. But he really can run.
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Speaker 3: You know, He's generated a lot of big plays down
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Speaker 3: the field for them. I think they do a great
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Speaker 3: job of trying to get him isolated and you know,
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Speaker 3: for one, you know, stretched the defense with him. He's
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Speaker 3: an impressive guy because, like I said, not only can
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Speaker 3: he run, but he's a bigger target for them, and
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Speaker 3: he's done a really good job for them the whole year.
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Speaker 2: Safety is obviously well lately, but we're been getting Eric back.
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Speaker 1: Is his leadership experience mean, for he has.
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Speaker 3: Eric's a great leader and I've said before he's a
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Speaker 3: great communicator. Anytime you get a guy like that that
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Speaker 3: has that veteran presence, the toughness that he brings to
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Speaker 3: the game.
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Speaker 2: You know, he's a physical guy. Uh.
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Speaker 3: You know, he's tackled his Uh, he's.
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Speaker 2: Tackled his asshole.
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Speaker 3: This year, he's done a great job being physical in
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Speaker 3: the middle of the field and really separating guys from
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Speaker 3: the football.
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Speaker 2: So I love that about his game.
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Speaker 3: You know, I love you know when he's out there
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Speaker 3: because like I said, he's always bringing an edge to us.
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Speaker 2: And uh, he is a great communicator back there.
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Speaker 1: And then Tyler Warren, the man you prepared against her,
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Speaker 1: kind of utilized the.
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Speaker 2: Way he is.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, getting a lot of these tight ends are good players,
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Speaker 3: but you know that's that's kind of the InVogue thing
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Speaker 3: in the league. And he's another one who's really really
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Speaker 3: super talented, can do a lot of things for them.
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Speaker 3: They use him in a myriad of different ways. You know,
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Speaker 3: he's in the backfield, he's out there at receiver, he's
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Speaker 3: in at the tight end hole, and he's really done a.
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Speaker 2: Great job for them this year.
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Speaker 3: He's I think, you know, he's really got all the
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Speaker 3: skills that you're.
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Speaker 2: Looking for in a tight end.
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Speaker 3: Physical on the line of scrimmage, you know, like I said,
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Speaker 3: they're moving around isolation block with him and they'll get
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Speaker 3: him down the field as well. So he's uh, he's
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Speaker 3: definitely a guy you got to know where he's at,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 5: And he and James are talked about jaguarsky and today.
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Speaker 2: What is that to you and how does that kind
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Speaker 2: of show up on Sundays? Being tough and being team first.
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Speaker 3: I think those are things that I think about right away,
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Speaker 3: being a great teammate and a lot of that you
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Speaker 3: asked about.
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Speaker 2: The past rush earlier, you guys had asked about that.
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Speaker 3: I think there's a certain selflessness, you know, when you're
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Speaker 3: selfless in the rush, there's a team rush mentality, you know,
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Speaker 3: and executing the plan. I think the guys have done that.
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Speaker 3: They want to see each other's success. That gets him excited.
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Speaker 3: So when we talk about Jaguars DNA, you know, being
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Speaker 3: physically and mentally tough, loving your teammates and trying to
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Speaker 3: be a great teammate, those are the things that come
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Speaker 3: to mind for me.
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Speaker 4: Hamilton a good run defender.
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Speaker 3: Honestly, like I just said, extremely selfless. He's a guy
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Speaker 3: that if you really value defensive line play and you
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Speaker 3: love to watch d Lineman work in the run game
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Speaker 3: and you know, transitioning in the past game. He's about
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Speaker 3: as good as I've been around. He's such a great teammate.
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Speaker 2: That guy. He's a tall dude.
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Speaker 3: You know, he plays through it all the time, plays
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Speaker 3: through everything. You look at the other day. I mean
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Speaker 3: he jumped in at long snapper, you know. So one
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Speaker 3: of the great two way players in the league obviously
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Speaker 3: right now. So but uh no, he's he's you watch
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Speaker 3: him in there and he's you know, he'll play zero nose,
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Speaker 3: he'll play shade. We move him around, but grinding blocks
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Speaker 3: and you know, tearing off blocks, not staying blocked. He's
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Speaker 3: a big guy obviously, but he does not stay blocked,
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Speaker 3: and he does great jobs and double teams and he
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Speaker 3: keeps people clean in the run game.
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Speaker 2: So he's a huge part of everything we do.
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Speaker 3: We're hoping to get that line got that, Yeah, I
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Speaker 3: mean he is man. He's like Chuck Benewick, the guy.
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Speaker 4: Run game your face so far of this year because
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Speaker 4: of Taylor and also they're in the front.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're very good obviously, the running back is explosive,
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Speaker 3: but he's also explosive because you know, he don't go
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Speaker 3: down easy.
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Speaker 2: Now he's he's not a guy that you can arm tackle.
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Speaker 3: It's got to be a team tackling mentality with him.
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Speaker 3: He's a physical back and they're physical in the front.
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Speaker 3: You know, they got guys that finished blocks. When you
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Speaker 3: have that many explosive or long runs, it's because guys
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Speaker 3: in the front are finish finishing blocks. They do that
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Speaker 3: on the perimeter, they do that in the front. So
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Speaker 3: that's something we gotta do. You know, we got to
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Speaker 3: stay after it. Uh do a great job with our eyes.
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Speaker 3: They challenge it with all the schemes that they run
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Speaker 3: in the run game. They probably have the most multiple
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Speaker 3: run game of anybody we played in terms of scheme variation, motion,
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Speaker 3: pre snap. They do a great job of it. And
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Speaker 3: I think they've done a great job offensively with their
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Speaker 3: run game and matching up and marrying their play action
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Speaker 3: pass game to that. But yeah, that's that's definitely the
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Speaker 3: challenge this week because he's a great back and they
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Speaker 3: got a great front.
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Speaker 2: Thanks appreciating the.
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Speaker 1: Only offensive line.
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Speaker 4: I mean, last week you can got Wyatt Wilam in
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Speaker 4: there for a little bit.
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Speaker 2: It puts up is it?
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Speaker 4: I mean that continuity playing.
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Speaker 2: Next to a guy and build that repertoire hot top
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Speaker 2: is it?
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Speaker 1: The keap just kind of in certain different pieces.
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Speaker 5: It's definitely a challenge. Those guys have embraced that. It
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Speaker 5: is tough though, because you get later in the year,
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Speaker 5: you're gonna have less and less practice reps. You'll notice
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Speaker 5: we're not you have only so many days in full pads,
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Speaker 5: and then even the days when you're not in full pads,
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Speaker 5: you can't always get out there and truly get practice reps.
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Speaker 5: Can't go full speed because guys get banged up. It's
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Speaker 5: the nature of the beast a little bit at this
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Speaker 5: point in the season. So you start to try to
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Speaker 5: work a guy like wy It in at guard at tackle,
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Speaker 5: and he's playing both sides. Got to be ready to
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Speaker 5: play multiple positions because when a guy's are seven through
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Speaker 5: eighth lineman, they can't just say I'm the backup right
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Speaker 5: guard and only the right guard. They got to be
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Speaker 5: the backup right car, back up left tackle, and backup
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Speaker 5: left card. So you go into the week and you know,
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Speaker 5: I might only have a couple of reps during the week,
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Speaker 5: Where do I take those reps? Do I take all
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Speaker 5: three at right guard? Do I take one at left tackle?
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Speaker 5: So you get in situations like that where thankfully White
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Speaker 5: had gotten some reps in that situation. But you're kind
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Speaker 5: of banking on the whole body of work over the
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Speaker 5: whole offseason, the whole training camp, even during the spring
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Speaker 5: of those guys being in meetings together, being out there
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Speaker 5: at practice together. Because there's things in that game plan,
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Speaker 5: plays in that game plan that they may never have
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Speaker 5: done together. So it's a challenge to be able to
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Speaker 5: go out there and then do it in full speed
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Speaker 5: when it's a play you've only walked through or only
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Speaker 5: talked about in a meeting. But I love their approach
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Speaker 5: to it.
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Speaker 2: It's like the goals.
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Speaker 1: There are so many different books out there, any kind
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Speaker 1: of simulated in practice.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's another thing that I mean that that is
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Speaker 5: a challenge with limited reps. You have to have rules
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Speaker 5: to the offense, to your system, and you have to
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Speaker 5: kind of rely on things that you've practiced over the
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Speaker 5: course of the year. You know that not only you
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Speaker 5: need to have a plan for everything they've done, but
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Speaker 5: you know that they're going to have something new that
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Speaker 5: they haven't done. They're going to game plan something to
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Speaker 5: attack us, our protection schemes, our routes, our concepts, our
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Speaker 5: run game. So you kind of have to take a
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Speaker 5: principle's first approach and say, what are we trying to do?
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Speaker 5: What are they trying to do from a broader view,
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Speaker 5: and then how can we conceptualize this to let the
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Speaker 5: guys still go out there and play fast where they're
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Speaker 5: not paralyzed by five thousand different rules of five thousand
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Speaker 5: different looks. They do a great job of scheming things up,
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Speaker 5: being creative, attacking all those different things. So it's a
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Speaker 5: great challenge for us to simplify things back down and
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Speaker 5: let our players go play.
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Speaker 1: Got right.
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Speaker 5: Tom was back last week and you see golf there
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Speaker 5: Ja Googhy Myers as cats and Brian goes to the
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Speaker 5: block down. Yeah, I mean seeing them put in those
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Speaker 5: kind of effort plays maybe plays as other guys.
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Speaker 4: What's that say about the kind of guys and players
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Speaker 4: that brands.
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Speaker 5: It means a lot, And I know it means a
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Speaker 5: lot to me personally, it means a lot to the
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Speaker 5: guys in the room, and it means a lot to
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Speaker 5: him to go out there and prove that he's that
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Speaker 5: type of player he's bought in. I mean, it's one
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Speaker 5: of those things where you love the touchdowns, you love
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Speaker 5: the catches, you love the big plays, and that was
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Speaker 5: a huge play. But like those types of plays are
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Speaker 5: plays you look back on and you feel like that's
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Speaker 5: representative of the identity of our offense, and that's representative
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Speaker 5: of his identity as a player. So there's so much
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Speaker 5: in just that play that doesn't show up. Like we
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Speaker 5: just talk about the stat sheet, there are all these
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Speaker 5: different plays and things that show up that don't show
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Speaker 5: up on the stat sheet, that show up on tape,
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Speaker 5: and that means so much. You know, play like that
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Speaker 5: is so special. We talked about the LeQuinn Allen some
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Speaker 5: of those plays earlier in the year. That's right up
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Speaker 5: there with like the type of things that like, damn,
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Speaker 5: you bring a tear to your eye as you're watching that.
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Speaker 4: Grant, you have twelve games of Colts tape to look
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Speaker 4: at this week. How do you prevent over analyzing? Do
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Speaker 4: you go back four or five games or do you
11:43
Speaker 4: pick snippets from the whole season.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a challenge you face really at the end
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Speaker 5: of the season. It starts to become a big challenge
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Speaker 5: because there is so much tape to go through, But
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Speaker 5: it's kind of one of those challenges you face all
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Speaker 5: year because most of these coordinators you're playing have been
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Speaker 5: coordinators last year or two years ago, or in this
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Speaker 5: case for a long history all the way before that.
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Speaker 5: So you have a library and a body of work
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Speaker 5: that you can study and basically drown yourself in data.
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Speaker 5: So you try to pull out once again the main principles,
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Speaker 5: the concepts, the things that are issues for you, and
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Speaker 5: hope that your rules in your system can handle everything else.
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Speaker 5: So you might not get to go over every pressure
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Speaker 5: that they've done with the players since twenty twenty one
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Speaker 5: or even since week one. You might not get to
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Speaker 5: show them every single blitz that they've shown. But if
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Speaker 5: you have good rules and you have a system and
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Speaker 5: a foundation that the guys can rely on, then you
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Speaker 5: trust in that that it can handle different things like pressures, fronts,
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Speaker 5: run schemes, things like that.
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Speaker 4: The cults change their coverages a lot when they got gardnered.
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Speaker 4: But now he's out, dude, how is it a guessing
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Speaker 4: game of what they go back to?
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Speaker 5: Well, there's certainly always an adjustment when you have an injury.
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Speaker 5: But I think it's pretty rare for an offense or
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Speaker 5: a defense to totally scrap an identity. So if a
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Speaker 5: team is playing man coverage and they lose a guy
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Speaker 5: who was a great man defender, they still had four
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Speaker 5: other guys on the field who are really high level
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Speaker 5: at executing man coverage. Same thing when you have zone
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Speaker 5: guys and different guys who are great pressure players, are
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Speaker 5: different rushers. You know they've lost a great rusher, but
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Speaker 5: they still can run some of those same pressures or
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Speaker 5: same rush patterns that they were running when Buckner was
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Speaker 5: in there, so you don't lose kind of the identity.
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Speaker 5: I think that you kind of make adjustments typically. Now
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Speaker 5: everybody's different, so you know, it's kind of week to
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Speaker 5: week based on the game plan. How much do you
13:31
Speaker 5: need to adjust based on missing that guy. It's the
13:34
Speaker 5: same thing for us when you miss a wide out.
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Speaker 5: You know, some games you may have heavily relied on
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Speaker 5: that guy because the matchups presented themselves favorably for that guy,
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Speaker 5: and then some weeks you kind of move along business
13:44
Speaker 5: as usual because running your normal core plays or running
13:47
Speaker 5: things within the flow of the game, you don't need
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Speaker 5: to change. So it is a little bit weak to week,
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Speaker 5: but I don't think you ever really totally stray from
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Speaker 5: the identity of an offense or defense.
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Speaker 2: The building with Dan.
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Speaker 4: Jones a little bit last year. What if you learned
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Speaker 4: your time with I mean, there's no like, did.
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Speaker 5: You see then that the light might come home to
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Speaker 5: this guy? I think it was evident pretty immediately. I mean,
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Speaker 5: you talk about a guy who's talented and pretty much
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Speaker 5: all aspects of what you're looking for in a quarterback,
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Speaker 5: where it's mental processing, physical ability, and then the ball
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Speaker 5: coming out of his hands can make every single throw.
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Speaker 2: All over the field.
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Speaker 5: You add on top of that getting to be around him.
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Speaker 5: What an unbelievable person he is, his work ethic, the
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Speaker 5: guy he is in the locker room with the teammates,
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Speaker 5: the camaraderie, the relationships that he builds with the guy.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't have enough positive things to say
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Speaker 5: about Daniel Jones. I mean the way he works. So
14:34
Speaker 5: it's easy for me to say now hindsight right, I'm
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Speaker 5: a little bit biased, but no surprise to me at
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Speaker 5: all the type of success he's had.
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Speaker 1: The Cole Van Lamon has been shown, and the way
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Speaker 1: he plays, and last week in a little bit of
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Speaker 1: an emergency situation, moving ever through a pretty key position.
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Speaker 1: You know, when you first got here and you started
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Speaker 1: he started watching the film and you got to know Cole.
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Speaker 2: You know, did.
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Speaker 1: You to check that, I guess willingness to do whatever
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Speaker 1: is necessary for the team.
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Speaker 5: You certainly got to know by talking to him, getting
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Speaker 5: to know him, that he would be willing to do
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Speaker 5: what we needed. He's one of those guys or whatever
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Speaker 5: you ask, he's going to attack it with his absolute
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Speaker 5: maximum effort. But there's a lot of guys that are
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Speaker 5: willing and able to try those things. But for him
15:21
Speaker 5: to actually go out there and do it in a
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Speaker 5: game and move from right to left. We talked about
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Speaker 5: doing it from a week to week basis, and say
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Speaker 5: last week you were playing left tackle, now you're playing
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Speaker 5: right guard. But to do that within a game is
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Speaker 5: truly exceptional. So not only is it exceptionally physically, but
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Speaker 5: exceptional mentally. To know how we're hitting combinations that left tackle,
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Speaker 5: not only left versus right, but outside versus inside. What
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Speaker 5: are the calls out there, what are the looks we're getting.
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Speaker 5: It's different fronts, totally different surfaces. Now I'm working with
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Speaker 5: tight ends and I'm not working with the center and
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Speaker 5: a guard. So for him to do that and to
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Speaker 5: continue to kind of do a week to week is
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Speaker 5: a testament to his preparation as work ethic. Thank you guys,