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  Speaker 1: What do you say to some of these young guys
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  Speaker 1: as they get ready for their first uh NFL actions.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure there nerves.
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  Speaker 1: There, Yeah, I mean it's uh just really just tell
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  Speaker 1: them to to enjoy it, absorb, you know, take in everything. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: first time for all these guys to play, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in an NFL football game, and and uh, it's exciting
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  Speaker 1: for them. But at the same time, I want them to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, go out and play well, you know, calm
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  Speaker 1: their minds, but uh, at the same time, have fun,
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  Speaker 1: enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: Injury updates Anton cam Ezrael will start offensive.
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  Speaker 1: Line, Uh, Ezra and uh Ton won't play, just precaution,
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  Speaker 1: just keeping him out.
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  Speaker 2: But Ton is Ton's doing well.
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  Speaker 1: The other ones on offense, Keithan Robinson won't play. And
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  Speaker 1: there's four four guys Ezra, Stephen Jones, Stephen Jones, those
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  Speaker 1: four on offense, everybody else, everybody else to go.
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  Speaker 3: What about defense?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Jordan Jefferson, Eric Armstead, Dewey and saff.
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  Speaker 2: Who's a lot We'll goat you in here, the Savage.
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  Speaker 4: Have you decided who's gonna or uh be calling plays
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  Speaker 4: for Saturday and for regular season? What's that calling offensive plays?
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  Speaker 4: Cause that m Have you decided who's gonna be falling
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  Speaker 4: the offensive plays for Saturday and for regular season.
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  Speaker 2: For preseason pressures of the preseason, Yeah okay.
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  Speaker 4: And it's still up in the airs for Dolphins.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah okay.
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  Speaker 3: As far as Savage is concerned, he's been wearing the
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  Speaker 3: wearing the penny.
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  Speaker 4: How how long do you think it'll take firm he
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  Speaker 4: gets your fool skied.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's practicing full speed.
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  Speaker 4: I met fool go you know which he takes right now.
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  Speaker 2: We're just limiting his contact.
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  Speaker 4: When he's not limited tons, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we're hoping maybe next week Tampa Bay. But uh again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna not gonna rush him. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: not uh it's still early in camp. But he he's
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  Speaker 1: doing a great job with it. I know he wants
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  Speaker 1: to I know he wants to get out of that
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  Speaker 1: red jersey and and and you know, you know a
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  Speaker 1: white or a teal jersey.
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  Speaker 2: But he's doing good. So I just it's still precautionary
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  Speaker 2: over the red jersey and clear it seems like he
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  Speaker 2: really no, he does not. He may say that, but
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  Speaker 2: he does not.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna play your guys, Andy Reid said, he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: play his starters about a quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Is that something we're seeing more now.
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  Speaker 4: With him in three preseason games and even one.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That's just how I've I've treated it. I know that's
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  Speaker 1: how coaches treated it, you know. I think it's important
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  Speaker 1: that these guys play, you know, and and and.
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  Speaker 2: Especially early. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't have to be a lot or
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  Speaker 1: a long you know, a long time, but there you
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  Speaker 1: want him to get out there and and knock that
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  Speaker 1: rust off, you know, get that game feel, Uh, play
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  Speaker 1: against starters and and and go execute and and like
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  Speaker 1: I said, it's not long, but.
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  Speaker 2: It's good for those guys to get out there and
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 4: Is how long the starting offense place depends on. How
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  Speaker 4: will they do? Like they go down score first drive?
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  Speaker 1: It it's possible, Yeah, it's possible. Yeah, it's just that
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  Speaker 1: it's no set number now.
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  Speaker 5: And show a couple of days ago. You compare Josh
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  Speaker 5: to Reggie White in terms of preparation and approach to
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  Speaker 5: the game. Is that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mentioned I mentioned that a little bit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you kind of elaborate on that.
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  Speaker 1: How the similarities you see with those guys. Uh, I
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  Speaker 1: just think you know, both attention to detail, the both
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  Speaker 1: you know, how they worked before and after practice, how.
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  Speaker 2: They how they led their teammates. You know, they're just.
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  Speaker 1: It it it It meant a lot to to Reggie,
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  Speaker 1: it means a lot to Josh. And you know, those
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  Speaker 1: were a lot of the same similarities that that I
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  Speaker 1: saw or I have seen in Josh. Not necessarily, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not comparing 'em, you know, physically and all that, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm just talking about some of the other the intangibles
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  Speaker 1: you know that sometimes people don't see. But they both
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  Speaker 1: are are instrumental as far as leadership roles go. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, those were things that that I saw in
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  Speaker 1: Reggie and I see in I see in Josh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I mean it's yeah, but that's
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you want to be a Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Famer as a player, I mean I think you have
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  Speaker 1: to be you know, you want to you want to
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  Speaker 1: aspire to be like that, you know, and you've got
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  Speaker 1: to have these these types of role models and people
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  Speaker 1: that you look up to and and and pattern their
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  Speaker 1: career after.
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  Speaker 2: And things like that.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think that's something that Josh aspires
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure you played your share of off season golf
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  Speaker 5: with teammates. UH and Trevor and Christian have just you know,
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  Speaker 5: dozens of times over the off season of the last
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  Speaker 5: two or three year.
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  Speaker 2: But how much do you think of something like that
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  Speaker 2: matters in turn?
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  Speaker 4: In yes, it helps build the bond.
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  Speaker 5: But I mean when you're talking about a quarterback and receiver,
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  Speaker 5: you think something like that can be helpful on the
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  Speaker 5: on the football field at all?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I do. Plus they live in the same neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know it just they do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things together, you know, their families, And I do
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  Speaker 1: think that there's the more you spend time with people,
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  Speaker 1: That's just why I do things like in the off
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  Speaker 1: season with the team. The more we can do things
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  Speaker 1: together and share experiences together, I think it just becomes
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  Speaker 1: stronger bond, you know, with individuals and with your you know,
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  Speaker 1: with your teammates, and you begin to sort of understand
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  Speaker 1: the other person a little bit more how they think
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  Speaker 1: and and and it's you know, it shows up on
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  Speaker 1: the field.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Nielson, upstairs or downstairs? Or do you have a
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  Speaker 2: preference for an new coordinator or do you That's a
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  Speaker 2: good question I got to ask him.
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  Speaker 1: Press is gonna, I mean with him in preseason press
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  Speaker 1: is gonna try it on the field.
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  Speaker 2: I know that. I told him he'll he'll like it,
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  Speaker 2: He'll like it down there. Yeah, what do you think that?
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  Speaker 4: What do you think the benefits are of being on
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  Speaker 4: the field as opposed.
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  Speaker 5: To end the boot?
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  Speaker 2: Well, one is you get to feel the game.
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  Speaker 1: Two you're with the players, and three you get to
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  Speaker 1: make the right corrections right now. Communication wise, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's you feel you feel connected to the football game
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more. You know, I've been in early
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  Speaker 1: in my career, I was in the box as well,
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  Speaker 1: and you just you're kind of removed and it's a
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  Speaker 1: little more challenging up there.
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  Speaker 5: Get your experience.
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  Speaker 3: Is it true that guys don't like play their practice
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  Speaker 3: or are some guys that just in a game whight
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  Speaker 3: comes on?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's very few that the light just comes
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  Speaker 1: on when the lights come on. I do think you
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  Speaker 1: play like you practice.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that.
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  Speaker 1: And the more time on the grass during the week
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  Speaker 1: that you you practice and play, and it's all preparation,
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  Speaker 1: it's all you know, preparing for for a game. And
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  Speaker 1: when you're when you are prepared, you go play well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but when you don't put in that time,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's hard.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the more talented athletes can probably get away
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  Speaker 1: with it, but uh not everybody can.
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  Speaker 2: Uh do you do.
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  Speaker 1: You s in your experience figure that the communication line
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  Speaker 1: on a play call or something is better from down
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  Speaker 1: on the field or is the headset the headset? In
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  Speaker 1: that regard headsets the headset, it's the s it's the
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  Speaker 1: times when the players are on the sideline that communication
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  Speaker 1: is is vital.
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  Speaker 3: Pre season is not always a great barometer because of
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  Speaker 3: so many people not playing, but the fact that you're
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  Speaker 3: going to get a quarter it looks like against the
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  Speaker 3: defending world champions. Will that be a good barometer to
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  Speaker 3: see where you guys are at from on Saturday night?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, And and obviously I'm not gauging it
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  Speaker 1: based off of that, But at the same time, I
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  Speaker 1: want to see execution. I want to see, you know,
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  Speaker 1: guys playing hard and fat and just doing what we've
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  Speaker 1: done for the first two weeks of camp, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And and.
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  Speaker 1: I think in preseason the outcome, you know, Yeah, everybody
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  Speaker 1: wants to win the games, right, I mean, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: the bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's more.
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  Speaker 1: Still evaluate evaluating your roster, you know, especially when you
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  Speaker 1: get past your you know.
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  Speaker 2: So called starters. And and.
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  Speaker 1: But with the first group going against another first group, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you want to see.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you want to see execution.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very very few mistakes MS because you know you're
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  Speaker 1: running your training camp plays and so things could can
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  Speaker 1: that way, things can be some you know. And again
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  Speaker 1: you're not game planning anybody, so just going out and
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  Speaker 1: doing doing your job. From kickoffs in a Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame game, will you guys be the first team to
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  Speaker 1: shut your hand a little bit?
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  Speaker 4: And what you're gonna do you kick.
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  Speaker 1: Off, Well, we're gonna put it down on the you know,
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  Speaker 1: on the tee and kick it into the box and
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  Speaker 1: see what happens. But I think I think this is
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be a you know, obviously a big weekend.
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  Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of a lot of tape
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  Speaker 1: after this weekend to to to dive through. But I
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  Speaker 1: still don't think a lot of teams are gonna show
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  Speaker 1: what they're gonna do schematically, uh, you know, because and
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  Speaker 1: even some teams don't even put their starting returners back there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in preseason for for.
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  Speaker 2: You know, risk of injury and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So but it will give you an idea of of
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  Speaker 1: maybe how to prepare, how to plan and what to
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  Speaker 1: look forward to.
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  Speaker 4: Ronald Darby what kind of things that this account.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's done a great job coming in and
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  Speaker 1: really understanding you know, Ryan's scheme and and how you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Corey Robinson is coaching him over there, and
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  Speaker 1: it just kind of fits fits who he is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and he's he's done.
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  Speaker 2: A nice job.
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  Speaker 1: And definitely and definitely uh, you know, in the in
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  Speaker 1: the off season when he was available to to go
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  Speaker 1: get you know, was good and looking forward to him
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  Speaker 1: playing tonight or Saturday night as well.
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  Speaker 3: Two you guys made an empasis to work on the
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  Speaker 3: depth of the roster.
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  Speaker 5: I believe, how do you feel that is right now?
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  Speaker 3: And then how much does that show up in the
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  Speaker 3: preseason game?
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  Speaker 2: Is that validated or confirm it for you as coaches?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think you know the depth is is is good.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that we've as coaching staff focused
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  Speaker 1: on and I think in camp this year is is
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting those young guys, those depth guys more
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  Speaker 1: opportunity in practice to to see what they can do.
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  Speaker 1: And again, these games are important for that. But I
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  Speaker 1: think the depth is has been good. You know, offensive
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  Speaker 1: and defensive lines. You know, there's there's depth there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when we're healthy and a full full strength, there's there's
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  Speaker 1: depth there. Young guys in the secondary have have really
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  Speaker 1: impressed and improved, even some.
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  Speaker 2: Of the young receivers.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it makes it you know, and it's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what you want as a coach, to make it hard
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  Speaker 1: at the end of camp.
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  Speaker 2: Right with these depth guys that.
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  Speaker 1: Are that are pushing and challenging for jobs, it makes
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  Speaker 1: it harder on us to make tough decisions, not a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot, because you're still again you're still I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: you you obviously have an idea right of who you're
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  Speaker 1: starting five might be right, or you know, your defensive line,
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Quarterback, But after that, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's still some great opportunities for guys to compete
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  Speaker 1: and challenge and and you know, make the fifty three,
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  Speaker 1: make the practice squad, and I mean you're seeing with
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  Speaker 1: active squad now how those guys get elevated and activated
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  Speaker 1: each week, you know, to play, So that becomes it
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  Speaker 1: might say practice squad, but those guys are you know,
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  Speaker 1: a player two away from being you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, in a meaningful game as well.
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  Speaker 1: So right now it's early as far as the depth
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  Speaker 1: art go, depth chart goes, But you know, we'll see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when these games start playing out, it'll start
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  Speaker 1: to solidify itself as we go.
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  Speaker 4: The most competitive group among all of the units, linebacker scorers.
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  Speaker 1: And all that. I mean, the d line has been
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  Speaker 1: real competitive amongst these amongst themselves, real competitive. I could
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  Speaker 1: say the same for the offensive line. I mean, every
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  Speaker 1: position group really has challenged themselves, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: the coaches have done a great job of creating that competition,
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  Speaker 1: you know, amongst amongst the groups. And then and then
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  Speaker 1: when we we go offense versus defense, you're seeing some
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  Speaker 1: of that you know, transpire and in practice, and and
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  Speaker 1: that's encouraging cause that that, you know, that goes to
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  Speaker 1: the roster, the depth question, you know, and being able
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  Speaker 1: to fill in the that bottom third, let's say, of
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  Speaker 1: of your roster.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any difference process once a update to Shaun
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  Speaker 3: Dixon the.
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  Speaker 1: Injury, do you have any sort of yeah, he's aco,
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  Speaker 1: he's done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately, Yeah, So you guys are gonna try to
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  Speaker 2: I R.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll make a decision and you know we'll have
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  Speaker 1: to fill that spot. Yeah, he he was. He was
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  Speaker 1: having a good camp too. It's unfortunate, hated for him.
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  Speaker 2: Ya is there any difference process?
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  Speaker 4: Why is it putting together that first depth chart versus
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  Speaker 4: a regular season depth chart?
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  Speaker 1: No? I mean, y, you're dealing with ninety guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you try to get everybody in the in the game.
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  Speaker 1: You just happen to have you can only put eleven
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  Speaker 1: out there at one time. But again, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: we get further into this game, you know, that's when
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  Speaker 1: we start rolling players in and getting them in and
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  Speaker 1: want to give everybody an opportunity to play. How do
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  Speaker 1: you manage the game rup for Mac and CJ.
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  Speaker 2: So you can't control the.
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  Speaker 1: Situation instead, Yeah, no you can't. CJ will go second,
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  Speaker 1: you know in this game, Mac will go third. Again,
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  Speaker 1: you're hoping that each one, you know, if CJ's at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the first half, obviously he gets maybe
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  Speaker 1: a two minute drive. Mac maybe at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the game or a four minute drive. Thing some of
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  Speaker 1: the things we've worked on in practice. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't control it. You know as much, but that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be the rotation for this game.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks coaches,