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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Prep for First Game as HC vs. Panthers · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You know, today was was clean, was cleaner than you know,
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  Speaker 1: probably yesterday. In some ways, anytime you do third down
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  Speaker 1: day for the first time, really there's just more intricacies,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more detail, a little bit more that.
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  Speaker 2: Has to go into it. So we just had some
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  Speaker 2: things to clean up from yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought the energy, the execution, the focus level was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where you wanted to be on a Friday,
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  Speaker 1: the Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: Night game, last night's game with Dallas and Philly just
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. There was some weird stuff that happened.
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  Speaker 3: Do you take like teachable moments like there was a
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  Speaker 3: guy got ejected for spitting It was a tawning penalty
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  Speaker 3: when the top wasn't even like in the eye sight
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  Speaker 3: of the player. And then obviously there was the weather delay.
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  Speaker 3: As a head coach, do you kind of kind of
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  Speaker 3: talk to you guys about stuff.
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  Speaker 1: This is a reminder it was it was shown on
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  Speaker 1: our team meeting, you know today, So we do our
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  Speaker 1: Situational Masters meeting every Friday, where you know, coach Shane
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  Speaker 1: Waldron gets up and does a presentation of around the
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  Speaker 1: league everything that kind of hers whether it was last
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  Speaker 1: night or the previous weeks and things that happened last
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  Speaker 1: year that we can educate it.
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  Speaker 2: So it's an educational meeting.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun, get some juice going, but it's an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: whether it's college, pro, high school, if it's anything we're
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  Speaker 1: showing it that could come up to potentially educate our guys.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't have.
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  Speaker 2: Anything to do with it. So it's great. I'm able to.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we will do our game management meeting tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: morning with John and Shane and a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: things that we end up coming into that meeting talking
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  Speaker 1: about Shane's you know, presenting.
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  Speaker 2: To the team.
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  Speaker 1: So he makes the cut up, he makes the presentation. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he runs the show for that deal. So it's great
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  Speaker 1: the players all get a kick out of it, and
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  Speaker 1: also it's it's a.
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  Speaker 2: Great educational moment as well.
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  Speaker 3: We can get it back in the locker room. It
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  Speaker 3: looks a lot different just with all of the designs
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  Speaker 3: and messages.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, anytime you come in and you want
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  Speaker 1: to get a message or message is to the players
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  Speaker 1: and having reminders of it throughout the building is important,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because when when you hear the players start
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  Speaker 1: to speak, the are you know, the language that we're
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  Speaker 1: talking is typically when you know they're listening and you
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  Speaker 1: know they're taking it personal, They're they're putting it into
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  Speaker 1: their vocabulary. And so ultimately it's not we're not trying
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  Speaker 1: to create robots. It's more so just you know, trying
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  Speaker 1: to get these guys to uh, for all of us
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  Speaker 1: to be on the same page and to speak the
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  Speaker 1: same language when it comes to our goals, our communication,
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  Speaker 1: the way that we want to operate on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, that was important.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it came out great, and you know, the
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  Speaker 1: guys have all been pretty positive about it as well.
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  Speaker 3: If you win the talk. So you a guy that
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  Speaker 3: likes to defer, do you like the man?
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  Speaker 1: I haven't yet. I've I was always in the defer
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  Speaker 1: world for a long time. And then this past year
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  Speaker 1: in Tampa, we kind of got to become a team
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  Speaker 1: that took the ball with having success on the first
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  Speaker 1: drive and kind of what it did for our team,
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  Speaker 1: and like the win loss percentage was something ridiculous when
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  Speaker 1: we scored first as an offense in Tampa last year.
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  Speaker 1: So each team's different, Each year is different. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about that tomorrow at that game
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  Speaker 1: management meeting.
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  Speaker 3: Is that first drive just to kind of set the
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  Speaker 3: town day for the offense.
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  Speaker 1: It is important. I mean to get on to start
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  Speaker 1: fast is always important. I used to always really worry
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  Speaker 1: about the first play, and then Matthew Stafford told me
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  Speaker 1: nobody remembers the first play. Just get the ball snapped,
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  Speaker 1: run anything, and get the game started. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a fine line of trying to you know, you
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  Speaker 1: want to start with success though, and that's really what
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  Speaker 1: it comes down to is get the guys into a
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  Speaker 1: groove early, get people touches, get the quarterback in a rhythm,
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  Speaker 1: let the old line settle in. So it is important
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  Speaker 1: to have success. But like we've been preaching this entire
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  Speaker 1: time and specifically this week, is.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just about that.
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  Speaker 1: It's all It's gonna be more about our response and
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  Speaker 1: how we respond to if we don't go down the
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  Speaker 1: field and score on.
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  Speaker 2: The first drive, what does that look like for our.
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  Speaker 1: Defense going on the grass and having to get a
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  Speaker 1: stop and then the offense having to go back out
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  Speaker 1: there and and regroup and get something going. So that's
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  Speaker 1: to me, what's going to be the difference for us
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  Speaker 1: in this game is, Yeah, I'd love to start fast.
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  Speaker 1: You know, New Orleans felt good when we started fast
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  Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball, but you got to
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  Speaker 1: sustain it, and we also have to respond when good
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  Speaker 1: things don't happen.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe doesn't get a lot of attention, maybe you feel
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  Speaker 3: like they're very good at it.
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  Speaker 1: I think that they're the runner, the runners, the combination
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  Speaker 1: of those two runners. I think it was going to be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, last year they didn't really have that second
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  Speaker 1: guy always and he had to do you know, Trube
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  Speaker 1: had to do so much of the load.
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  Speaker 2: And now they've got Rico in the mix.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's something that you know, there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be new for me to see as a coach coaching
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  Speaker 1: against them, and I think could only be something that
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  Speaker 1: they're happy about in an advantage that way for them,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of having two backs that you feel like
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  Speaker 1: can both run physically and impact the game. And then
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  Speaker 1: I think that the tight ends are two players that
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  Speaker 1: are a little bit maybe underappreciated, and I think can
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  Speaker 1: have some good years as well.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think that we don't know right the impact.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously they're Brown coming back and trade by Morigg, so
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  Speaker 1: they've got some guys that you're you definitely need to
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to understand where they are on the field
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  Speaker 1: because they can impact the game.
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  Speaker 3: His second year stands out about.
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  Speaker 1: Remember him coming out more of an f tight end
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  Speaker 1: that can can run routes.
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  Speaker 2: He could be a mismatch.
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  Speaker 1: I know, he's lost some weight and feels like he's
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  Speaker 1: you know, moving around a little bit better than he
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  Speaker 1: was maybe last year, and is healthy. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's definitely somebody that you know, anytime you have that
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  Speaker 1: type of guy in the NFL, it's it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: usually a good mismatch at times where you can maybe
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  Speaker 1: get him on a linebacker safety if you feel like
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  Speaker 1: he can, you know, make some of those matchups work
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  Speaker 1: in your favor. And then the quarterback, I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: all know the quarterback we have to contain Bryce. I've
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  Speaker 1: always had a lot of appreciation for what he can
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  Speaker 1: do when he extends plays and gets the ball out
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  Speaker 1: on time and in rhythm.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh yeah, big challenge for.
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  Speaker 3: Us this practice. Not recently too. Did you have maybe
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  Speaker 3: all for how much Travis at all?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it was more just getting up to speed
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  Speaker 1: and and look, we're gonna have to figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have to all be flexible, right, you go
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  Speaker 1: in with uh, we'll come up with that plan over
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  Speaker 1: the next twenty four hours in terms of like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: what are the exact maybe numbers we want to hit
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  Speaker 1: on both.
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  Speaker 2: Sides or usage. But yeah, he missed. He did miss
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  Speaker 2: some time, and so that's something.
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  Speaker 1: That we just need to make sure we're aware of
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  Speaker 1: and keeping engaged as coaches to make sure that if
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  Speaker 1: he's getting a little lost or you know, doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: what he's doing on a few things, well, man, maybe
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  Speaker 1: we need to reel it back a little and get
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  Speaker 1: him arrest here maybe first second. Whatever it is, we've
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  Speaker 1: got to be flexible. But I thought he's done a
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  Speaker 1: really nice job of dedicating himself to the plan on
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball over the last few days,
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  Speaker 1: and he was flying around pretty good today coming.
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  Speaker 3: Up figuring that out.
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  Speaker 4: It was not think your head, obviously, you know you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to do that addition everything else that you
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  Speaker 4: had to deal with it with the first time atroviens up.
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  Speaker 4: Has it been more challenging than he thought?
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  Speaker 1: No, Honestly, I think the staff has done a really
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  Speaker 1: nice job of taking on some of the load and
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  Speaker 1: ways and Jay Kaiser, my assistant, has done a phenomenal
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  Speaker 1: job with the coordinators of maybe getting some thoughts together
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  Speaker 1: together first and then coming to me with some ideas
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  Speaker 1: and then letting me kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Say, okay, this is I'd like to be able to
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  Speaker 2: do this, this.
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  Speaker 1: And this, and so they've done a great job of
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  Speaker 1: kind of keeping that off my plate in terms of
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  Speaker 1: obviously I'm making the final decision, but some ideas of
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  Speaker 1: maybe how we want to use his time and some
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  Speaker 1: creative different ideas that allows me to continue.
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  Speaker 2: To do my job at a high level hopefully.
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  Speaker 1: And but it's it's been fun. Honestly, it really has been.
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  Speaker 1: It's been fun. It's it's gonna be cool to see
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  Speaker 1: it on Sunday in a week with.
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  Speaker 3: Trevor and into a game plan. And yeah, did you
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  Speaker 3: see his focus elevate this week?
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  Speaker 2: Very much?
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was extremely locked in. He did a
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  Speaker 1: ton of extra work on his own this week. He's
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  Speaker 1: been studying the crap out of the plays so he can,
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  Speaker 1: you know, spit him out as quickly as possible. I
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  Speaker 1: thought he's had a really nice week of preparation. I
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  Speaker 1: thought he had a really nice day throwing the ball today.
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  Speaker 2: As well.
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  Speaker 1: You could just see some of the confidence and zip
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  Speaker 1: and you know, feeling more and more comfortable with the
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  Speaker 1: plan and hopefully we can get him off to a
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  Speaker 1: good start, get the ball, you know, spitting out of
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  Speaker 1: his hands, keep it moving, and get those guys some
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  Speaker 1: touches early.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you are. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: we've we've.
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  Speaker 2: Did you guys talk to Colorado at all about Travis
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  Speaker 2: in terms of how they coperated?
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  Speaker 3: Did you implement anything that they told you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked to them a little bit about it
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  Speaker 1: and just kind of got their rhythm and routine and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just were able to play off and play
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  Speaker 1: off of that. So we did speak to them just
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  Speaker 1: to kind of get what they were trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: And then obviously he was able to communicate a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that as well. So when we sat down and
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  Speaker 1: got with him after the draft, we really kind of
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  Speaker 1: ironed out some of the initial thoughts that weekend in person,
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  Speaker 1: and then we were able to be kind of flexible
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  Speaker 1: from there.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of oars of the depth chart here, what's
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  Speaker 2: your plans at running back and the linebacker?
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  Speaker 3: For the sweeper?
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  Speaker 1: You decided, Yeah, those guys are gonna both. They're all
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  Speaker 1: gonna play. You know, they're all gonna play and get
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of reps. And that's the way I believe
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  Speaker 1: in terms of especially at the running back position. Like
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a huge fan of the one trick pony.
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  Speaker 1: I like to have guys that can be fresh, stay fresh,
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  Speaker 1: give you different things, and I think that's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more challenging on the defense. And then both linebackers
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  Speaker 1: are going to get a ton of reps and a
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  Speaker 1: ton ton of play. Both guys do some good things
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  Speaker 1: for us and both do them things differently than the
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  Speaker 1: other guys, so they'll both all four of those guys
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  Speaker 1: are gonna play a ton.
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  Speaker 3: Please with the communication with the starting offensive.
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  Speaker 1: Line this week, you know, I thought, I know a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of them got together on Tuesday on the off
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  Speaker 1: day with Trevor and watched a bunch of tape together
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  Speaker 1: and communicated their thoughts together in terms of whether it's
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  Speaker 1: the run game or the blitz protections. They've you know,
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  Speaker 1: every time in practice where they're not up there, usually
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  Speaker 1: over doing a protection walkthrough or a run game walkthrough,
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  Speaker 1: and you know a lot of guys are able to
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  Speaker 1: kind of hang out when they're not in and the
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  Speaker 1: ole line never does that opportunity. So I've been pleased
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  Speaker 1: with their effort. I've been pleased with their commitment to
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  Speaker 1: trying to get this thing right. Obviously we've got to
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  Speaker 1: go perform on Sun Day and and prove it, but
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  Speaker 1: I have been pleased with their you know, level of
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  Speaker 1: commitment and in preparation. Man and wrap it up here
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  Speaker 1: and partner trust a couple of different coat stats over
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  Speaker 1: the years.
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  Speaker 3: What is it about him that just kind of gives
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  Speaker 3: you a confidence?
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  Speaker 1: And that's what he's Yeah, I think it's usually when
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  Speaker 1: an aldlignment isn't getting noticed all that much, they're doing
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  Speaker 1: a good job. And I don't want to say he's
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  Speaker 1: the definition of that, but that kind of happens with
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  Speaker 1: him where it's just he does his job and he
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  Speaker 1: does his job above average, so you're like, man, this
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  Speaker 1: guy can step in and be able to help us
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  Speaker 1: at multiple positions. And so you know, I've always been
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  Speaker 1: pleased with his commitment to the guys and to the
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  Speaker 1: to the plan, the way he kind of goes about
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  Speaker 1: his business. I've been pleased with He's a good dude
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  Speaker 1: to be around. So you know, it was it was
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  Speaker 1: a shame that he was playing so he was really
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  Speaker 1: playing well when he got banged up.
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  Speaker 2: But it'll be great to get him back
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  Speaker 1: Into the fold and you know, get him some quality
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  Speaker 1: reps with those guys.