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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen is high Town.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll get started. He's thirty fifth on the
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  Speaker 2: NFL stop one hundred. I imagine seeing one of your guys,
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  Speaker 2: you might think it's a little bit too low. But
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  Speaker 2: so far, what's it been like to work with Josh
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  Speaker 2: on the field in the classroom. Yeah, it's been really good.
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  Speaker 2: Totally locked in, uh everything that we're doing. Uh bought into,
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  Speaker 2: you know, our style of play, our defense, what we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be about. And so he's going out and he's
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  Speaker 2: showing it on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Coach and just it seems like the secondaries has had
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good you know the first first five days.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what do you make of that? And and
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  Speaker 2: sort of where do you see the progress in that unit? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one of our things really at all position
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  Speaker 2: groups with secondaries talk to our guys about winning every rep.
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  Speaker 2: That's really important. Winning every rep. What does that mean
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  Speaker 2: is you don't have to make every play but proper stance,
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  Speaker 2: proper eyes, fundamentals, technique scheme, just win every rep. And
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  Speaker 2: I think you're seeing a group of guys that have
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  Speaker 2: really taken to that. The coaching Chris uh Rashard, Corey
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  Speaker 2: Robinson and Mike Gray have done a phenomenal job with
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  Speaker 2: that group and just teaching them the fundamentals and technique
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  Speaker 2: in order to have success. And so they that's another
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  Speaker 2: part of it. The guys who really bought in on
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  Speaker 2: the success of the the fundamentals and technique of those
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  Speaker 2: guys are teaching them. And then they're really you know,
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  Speaker 2: the scheme that we're doing. You know, there's some checks
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  Speaker 2: and things like that, and those guys are they're smart
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  Speaker 2: players back there, and so the combination, but uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're we're a one day at a time group, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and uh, today's another day. So it'll be another
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  Speaker 2: good challenge for that group. But uh, they've done a
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  Speaker 2: good job so far.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a real benefit to having somebody like Darby
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  Speaker 3: on the roster who's played on more quality defenses and
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  Speaker 3: than anybody else on the room on the roster just.
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  Speaker 1: Having somebody like that who who knows and has played
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  Speaker 1: on defenses that are really good.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, he's been. Uh, he's been a huge help to
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  Speaker 2: the younger players. He's been a great mentor to Trey
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  Speaker 2: and and Jerryan. He's he's been from you see him
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  Speaker 2: talking to him on the side and those guys are
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  Speaker 2: just soaking up all that knowledge. But he's a savvy vet.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's made a lot of play, he's been
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  Speaker 2: a lot or good defense, and so he understands what's
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  Speaker 2: that about. And a lot of that is practice. He's
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  Speaker 2: a really good practice player. And that's something that that
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  Speaker 2: you don't know when you know you're you're doing the
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  Speaker 2: free agent about how good is he on the practice field.
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  Speaker 2: And he's phenomenal on the practice field. And so those
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  Speaker 2: guys are seeing his work ethic and how he does
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  Speaker 2: drills and his mindset and everything, and so yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: absolutely a huge help. Is there something in.
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  Speaker 4: Your experience with veteran guys that have been through and
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  Speaker 4: played on championship teams or teams that make deep runs
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  Speaker 4: in the playoffs that they're able to, you know, kind
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  Speaker 4: of grab somebody and shake him out of them the
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  Speaker 4: lais or whatever when things aren't going right. Is that
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  Speaker 4: something that you've you know, experienced a lot with some
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  Speaker 4: veteran guys.
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  Speaker 3: And how vable is that.
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  Speaker 2: For a team? Winners?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what you're describing as winners, and so
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  Speaker 2: you want to get a collection of winners on the
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  Speaker 2: same team. And bring along some of the guys that
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  Speaker 2: maybe haven't been there before, and so you can learn
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  Speaker 2: a lot from you know, how to win in this league.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of that is those guys know execution, you know,
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  Speaker 2: don't beat yourself like that's you know when you're talking
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  Speaker 2: to them, just don't beat yourself, just be in the
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  Speaker 2: right spot, align and adjust fundamentals and technique, and then finishing,
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  Speaker 2: like finishing a game. That's where a lot of those
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  Speaker 2: the what you're talking about, those guys bring that finish
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  Speaker 2: the game. Don't just hey, if you're up seven points
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  Speaker 2: with five minutes, the game's not over. Like play all
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  Speaker 2: the way through the game and how to do that. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a huge thing. It's something that you
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  Speaker 2: look for and you know in scouting and you know,
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  Speaker 2: player acquisition, and we've got some guys that have been
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  Speaker 2: there and done that before, and so they're they're really helping,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with what the calllture that we're building.
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  Speaker 4: You've got a bunch of young guys that's that so
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  Speaker 4: much stuff is getting thrown at him and they're trying
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  Speaker 4: to just play in the league. They can't know all
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  Speaker 4: that stuff until they go through it right.
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  Speaker 2: That's time. Yeah, sure, I mean, you got it. You
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  Speaker 2: have to go through it. And but then you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's other guys that are going to help lead them,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and hey, just follow these guys and they
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  Speaker 2: know how to how to do it until you learn
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  Speaker 2: it on your own, you know. And so but a
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  Speaker 2: lot of that is you know, coming to together as
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  Speaker 2: a as a collective group of defensive team, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And that's a that's a whole organizational thing that we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about, right, how to win, you know, how to
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  Speaker 2: be a winner. You don't win forever, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: and and do it better than it's ever done before.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's kind of a goal that you have,
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  Speaker 2: is you know, be a championship team and and be
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  Speaker 2: the best team that ever was. And if you strive
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  Speaker 2: for that, it's always consistently pushing a daily you know,
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  Speaker 2: push for excellence. You establish some of that mindset and
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  Speaker 2: culture that you want. And that's what we're doing this year.
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  Speaker 1: And Ryan Devin Lloyd came into the game a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago as a complete linebacker right sax interceptions
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  Speaker 1: for stumbles, stumbles recovered. What do you see from him?
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  Speaker 1: What's his role in your defense. How do you get
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  Speaker 1: the most out of a young guy that seems like
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of potential there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he had a lot of plays last year,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so there's a lot on tape. So we've
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  Speaker 2: done a good job of evaluating kind of what he
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  Speaker 2: did last year in his strengths and then through OTA's
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  Speaker 2: and what he's doing right now and putting him in
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  Speaker 2: a couple of different positions to see really where he's
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  Speaker 2: best in what we're doing here. Smart player works extremely
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  Speaker 2: hard at the game. You love his size, speed, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's a football player. He's a football guy, football junkie,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so that that combination has helped him, and
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  Speaker 2: he kind of he can do, like what you said,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of different things, you know, rush the passer,
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  Speaker 2: he's a good coverage player, man, a man on backs.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's a downhill football player in the box.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of those things. And and so we'll
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  Speaker 2: continuing to move him around a little bit. And but
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  Speaker 2: he's fine in a home and and he's having a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good camp so far.
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  Speaker 1: What next step would you like to see from Trayvon?
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  Speaker 3: What do you expect or want to seeperm in this season.
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  Speaker 2: Well he had a pretty good year last year, and
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  Speaker 2: just to raise his game just that much more, you know,
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  Speaker 2: complete complete player. What's a complete player? Defensive line, right,
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  Speaker 2: so the ability to stop the run, not be single blocked,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one of the base rules of our defenses.
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  Speaker 2: We never trade one for one, you know, So consistently
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  Speaker 2: get off the block, you know, play a gap in
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  Speaker 2: a half, those type of things which he is more
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  Speaker 2: than capable, and then continue to develop as a pass
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  Speaker 2: rusher a little bit more power, a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: of a plan, getting off the counter type, get to
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  Speaker 2: level counter back, you know, don't just continue to run
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  Speaker 2: around and then for him just the next up mentally
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  Speaker 2: kind of you know, become more of a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more of a leader. Really good football player, fantastic person,
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  Speaker 2: but he can be more in that leadership role of
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  Speaker 2: you know. But you know leadership is is action, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not positioning. So continuing to do it and the guys
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  Speaker 2: will see, hey, great practice players shows up every day,
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  Speaker 2: same type of guy, you know, continue to do those things.
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  Speaker 2: Just raise your game just a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: Run You and a majority of your defensive staff have
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  Speaker 1: been here basically six months. Yeah, you talked to the
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  Speaker 1: defensive guys that were here last year that are still here,
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  Speaker 1: there's a drastically different vibe, a much more positive vibe.
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  Speaker 1: Are you surprised that it's meshed this quick way? The
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  Speaker 1: new coaches and the players.
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  Speaker 2: It's a testament to the staff really, the guys, the
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  Speaker 2: position coaches, they've done a great job, spent a lot
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  Speaker 2: of time together. Offseason was fantastic, and just how the
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  Speaker 2: defense was put together. Again, it's not we just we
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  Speaker 2: got in there and everybody had their own ideas and
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  Speaker 2: we kind of built this thing where you know, everybody
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  Speaker 2: had input, you know, everybody had buying and everybody does
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  Speaker 2: a really good job of coaching their position fundamentals and
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  Speaker 2: technique and and that's how the scheme really works as
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  Speaker 2: each individual player, each individual coach doing his job. So
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  Speaker 2: those guys have been fantastic, and then the players have
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  Speaker 2: been really receptive the new fundamentals, techniques, you know, scheme
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  Speaker 2: type things, and and you know when they're bought in
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  Speaker 2: and they really like what you're doing and teaching them
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  Speaker 2: things like that, then you know what you're seeing on
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  Speaker 2: the fields every day is okay, what's next? What else
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  Speaker 2: can I learn? You know, things like that, and and
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  Speaker 2: so they're really energetic and but it's look, it's a
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  Speaker 2: daily thing. You know. We got to continue to grow,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's and it's just about today, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to continue to push those things today.
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  Speaker 2: You know. The effort and the energy and the positivity
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  Speaker 2: is that's just who we are, you know, it's who
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be. Coach Peterson talks about being positive,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and that's a lot from him as well.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just been a good combination. We just got
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  Speaker 2: to continue to do it.
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  Speaker 1: From the outside.
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  Speaker 2: There's this the mantra of defense is often ahead of
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  Speaker 2: offense during this portion of the training camp period, and
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  Speaker 2: I think we talk about that in the context of
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  Speaker 2: the offense, right and now, well that's you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: the excuse from the defensive perspective.
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  Speaker 4: What do you make of that statement?
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  Speaker 2: Really, be honest with you, is we're just concerned about
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  Speaker 2: us our our defense. You know, we've got good offensive coaches.
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  Speaker 2: Pressed does a great job. Coach Pearson, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: involved on both sides. Our offensive staff, they're they're all over.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, those guys are in there, and and you
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  Speaker 2: know we're We have full confidence that, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: we see him. You know, they're they're coaching there, and
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  Speaker 2: so we can focus on just us and so that
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  Speaker 2: offense defense think you know, that's you know, our job
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  Speaker 2: is defense and and that's where we're focused and helping
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  Speaker 2: our football team the best we can.
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  Speaker 3: Coach.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, Foy was described as one of like the scary
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  Speaker 2: guys on defense.
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  Speaker 3: What three were?
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  Speaker 1: Describe from your perspective.
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  Speaker 2: Smart, tough, aggressive, You see a guy who add one
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  Speaker 2: more if I could, phenomenal effort player. He's flying around
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  Speaker 2: as good as any player we have on our defense
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  Speaker 2: right now. You see him if you just watch his
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  Speaker 2: body work and you just watch him at practice today,
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  Speaker 2: the way he finishes plays. You know, he's aggressively, going
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  Speaker 2: to get the ball, punch outs and that's I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's had a really good career so far, and so
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  Speaker 2: you're seeing that. It's really cool to watch him because
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  Speaker 2: he's he's taken his role and kind of made it his.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we try to do for all the players,
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  Speaker 2: is hey, here's fundamentals technique and you know, make it yours.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what he's doing. Yeah, It's it's really cool
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  Speaker 2: when he's he's the ball goes to the other side
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  Speaker 2: and he's running thirty yards down the field to go
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  Speaker 2: finish on the play. You like, yeah, that that guy
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  Speaker 2: loves football. He's he's given everything he got for this
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  Speaker 2: football team.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds like, Ryan, you're beneficial as in the increased opportunity
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  Speaker 4: been for Mason with Eric and Roy's curing status.
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  Speaker 2: And also have in officials the coaching and for the
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  Speaker 2: extra I guess mentro show that there you will provide
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  Speaker 2: in him. Sure, part of being a rookie is you
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  Speaker 2: have a little bit more time requirements in terms of
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  Speaker 2: meetings and fundamentals, and so that's helped him get the
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  Speaker 2: guys on the staff and done a really good job.
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  Speaker 2: But one of our things is, you know, equal reps
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  Speaker 2: for everybody, and so what do you do with your reps,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter who it's against. And then those other guys
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  Speaker 2: that you mentioned, you know, they're good football players and
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  Speaker 2: they're mentoring him and how to do it, how to
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  Speaker 2: be a practice player, take care of your body and
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  Speaker 2: things like that, and so the combination is it's been
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  Speaker 2: really good for him. You know, today's the first day
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  Speaker 2: of pads, so rookiees first day of pads is It's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be really interesting to see all these guys. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's a it's a cool day. But just
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  Speaker 2: expect nothing but you know, him going out there and
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  Speaker 2: doing the best he can. So thank you guys, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: You have a great bet Yah