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Seahawks Draft Day 2 Press Conference: "We Added Two Seahawks Through and Through" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Got a great day added to UH Seahawks like through
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  Speaker 1: and through guys like competitors, UH athletes tough. Uh just
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  Speaker 1: great job by Josh and Ryan, like really getting to
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  Speaker 1: know the the the the people, the competitors and and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was a it was a it was
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  Speaker 1: a fun day and and.
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  Speaker 2: And we were able to make a trade.
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  Speaker 1: So you give Pittsburgh a lot of credit for doing
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  Speaker 1: a great job and working with us. We had a
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  Speaker 1: number of I can't wait to get these guys crowd.
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  Speaker 1: We had a number of teams like you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of go away on us. But anyway, yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was, it was. It was a great day.
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  Speaker 3: We've heard you talk about wanting to get draft picks,
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  Speaker 3: that we're gonna come in and come in with the
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  Speaker 3: mindset of wanting to compet.
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  Speaker 2: With guys and just raise that level absolutely. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: From talking to these guys for five minutes on a.
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  Speaker 1: Conference of that, Yeah, yeah, it's interesting. Dave told us that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Julian was like that with you guys too. In reputation wise,
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  Speaker 1: he's just been a fairly quiet guy, but like he's
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  Speaker 1: a really confident athlete, and you know, he's been through
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Uh, the the young hip or Scouts, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they have a saying for leveling up and this guy
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  Speaker 1: has done it. You know, we went to Fresno and
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  Speaker 1: rolled it stand for a minute and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: want to challenge himself in the sec.
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  Speaker 2: And he did it. Performed at a high level and uh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they're they're both really confident guys. Bud, Bud's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be you guys are Bud's gonna be fun too.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's he's a blast.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking, Mike and I were talking about like
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  Speaker 1: the personalities like throughout the process, Like, man if we
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  Speaker 1: put Bud and Spoon in the same room, Like what's
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: Nick in the second year? You know, so.
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  Speaker 1: How much much more to do to find that his qualities?
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  Speaker 1: And the.
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  Speaker 2: Deep dive? Yes, yeah, go back and do a deep dive.
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  Speaker 1: No. Uh, our guys just do a great job of
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  Speaker 1: getting to know the people and we have a great
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  Speaker 1: cohesion in our in our room.
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  Speaker 2: You know all the guys that go you know, over
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  Speaker 2: the top to the schools too.
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  Speaker 1: You know Aaron and uh JB and Jason Barnes and
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  Speaker 1: you know Matt Berry and Trent and all the cross
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  Speaker 1: checking that goes on, and and then all the I
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  Speaker 1: interviews we have with the guys, you know, at the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Games, throughout the spring with the scouts, and
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  Speaker 1: then when the coaches come in, all those zoom meetings
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  Speaker 1: are just so important, and and.
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  Speaker 2: Then having the guys in here as well. Bud came
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  Speaker 2: in on a thirty and ever we had a blast
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  Speaker 2: with 'em. J Well, I I think.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're there's a clearly like a competitor and
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  Speaker 4: a confidence in there. Takes a lot of pride in
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  Speaker 4: how physically he is, you know, at the corner position.
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  Speaker 4: He's played safety as well. But yeah, it looks like
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  Speaker 4: a pretty smart guy. It's pretty cool. But turns out
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  Speaker 4: Leslie's pretty knows what he's doing.
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  Speaker 5: Regarding But how important was it to replace Kobe and say, oh,
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  Speaker 5: like let's have similar attributes in that regard or did
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  Speaker 5: that not steer your your thinking with.
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  Speaker 2: Him at all? Yeah? I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we think through like in those terms
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  Speaker 4: that were like, we're not trying to replace anybody, We're
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  Speaker 4: just trying to find like the best people for us,
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  Speaker 4: and uh and but has like a really great, cool,
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  Speaker 4: like exciting skill set and personality, competitive spirit to him.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, but like the thing, you know, we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: we're not just gonna play with safety.
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  Speaker 2: You can play Nickel could probably play corner for us.
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  Speaker 4: We'll figure that out kind of as we go and
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  Speaker 4: how how the how the team kind of you know,
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  Speaker 4: shapes out. But we got we got some some really
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  Speaker 4: great players at safety two that are going to compete.
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  Speaker 4: To me, Tay Cot won a lot of games, helped
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  Speaker 4: win us a lot of games last year. Rodney Thomas
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  Speaker 4: is a guy that we're really high on a lot
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  Speaker 4: of guys, so you know, it's a lot of gonna
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  Speaker 4: be a lot of great competition. But Bud has the
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  Speaker 4: skill sets that we're looking for in our secondary play
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  Speaker 4: with the competitiveness, the ball skills, uh, the mand a
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  Speaker 4: mandability that that's that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 6: You go obviously didn't know at the end of day
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  Speaker 6: one who you're gonna be able to get on. Now
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  Speaker 6: that you have that behind you, like, how did the
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  Speaker 6: draft fall relative to how you're hoping to fall through.
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  Speaker 5: For two days?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Matt Perry sent me a text on Friday morning
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  Speaker 1: with these three guys names. It's like, okay, so and
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  Speaker 1: we did we did like kind of like you know,
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  Speaker 1: like just kind of scrimmage us out a lot, like
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  Speaker 1: you know through okay as at a runner or corn
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  Speaker 1: corner runner, you know what I mean, all the way
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  Speaker 1: through it like that. And no, we're just we're really excited. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just to be able to you know, that balance of
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Best player, team need really really helped your.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, it was exciting last Friday he text you
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  Speaker 1: that or is that sorry? Apologized Thursday morning?
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday morning? Huge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we always had another one too, but we we
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  Speaker 1: decided to stay in and pick.
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  Speaker 2: Which sorry, which was which.
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  Speaker 6: Was the third?
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  Speaker 1: No, well, I'm not gonna tell you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's a great drive. I'll tell you later
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  Speaker 2: from a different program across the country and how they
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  Speaker 2: were doing. What do you consider you try to move
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  Speaker 2: the culture? Uh?
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  Speaker 4: I mean I know, I don't actually I don't know
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  Speaker 4: how much it's changed, you know. I mean, like I
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  Speaker 4: think I think, uh, I think the way that we've
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  Speaker 4: been able to like bring our coaching staff like kind
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  Speaker 4: of in concert with the way that we've done it
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  Speaker 4: here for a long time and our personnel people. And
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  Speaker 4: it's not like we came in and said this is
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  Speaker 4: what we want it was like we came together and
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  Speaker 4: we both sides said, like, this is kind of how
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  Speaker 4: we want to build it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's grown.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's evolved since we since we got here,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, it's just like that makes it a really
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  Speaker 4: fun process, and so it's easy to trust when when
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  Speaker 4: guys like Ryan Florence is saying that, you know, he
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  Speaker 4: believes a certain guy or our scouts and stuff. So
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  Speaker 4: like that, it's a really fun process. You know that
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  Speaker 4: we can get aligned and have have buy in kind
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  Speaker 4: of across all levels, which is really.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is a great example of that.
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  Speaker 4: It's like he asked yesterday about about JD, Like his
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  Speaker 4: personality is way different than Julian's, which is way different
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  Speaker 4: than Buds. But they're all like we all believe that
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  Speaker 4: they're i mean spoons different personality than Leah. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's just but they have thatose core like competitive fundment.
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  Speaker 4: They got swagged, they got confidence, they but they have humility.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: I mean they play an exciting brand of football, you know,
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  Speaker 4: which we feel like we're excited to work with. So
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the common denominator.
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  Speaker 2: And they understand it's the ultimate team sport. They have
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  Speaker 2: that like self awareness, self sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: Like like all the lessons every he's whoever in the
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  Speaker 1: room is played football is learned from the game. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Where do you him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: We see him playing corner. And I think that's one
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  Speaker 4: of the exciting parts about where he is is like
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  Speaker 4: there's so much room for growth. I mean, he's already
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  Speaker 4: playing a really good brand of football. His great traits,
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  Speaker 4: got a great work ethic, super competitive, he smart. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: those are all the ingredients that we believe can add
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  Speaker 4: up to, you know, playing even better footballs as his
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  Speaker 4: career growth. So it's it's pretty cool when you guys talk.
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  Speaker 5: About the attributes. What's the YouTube won a Super Bowl together?
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  Speaker 5: Is that in any way leave you more convicted about this?
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  Speaker 5: Like double down on this because it works. Was there
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  Speaker 5: some stamp of certainty that that winning the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 5: gives you with regards to your your.
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  Speaker 2: I think this one.
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  Speaker 4: Not to like go all like wax pudding, but like
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  Speaker 4: whether or not we won, how the game, like what
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  Speaker 4: the super happened in the Super Bowl last year, I
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  Speaker 4: think we all felt that our process was like worth
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  Speaker 4: chasing and and like and like and preserving honestly, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and and uh, like, we're really proud of the team
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  Speaker 4: that we were able to build last year and how
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  Speaker 4: we did.
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  Speaker 2: It and the people on the team.
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  Speaker 4: And I say team, I'm saying like everybody in the building,
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  Speaker 4: all seventy guys, coaches, staff. So I think it's more
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  Speaker 4: of a product of just kind of tacking the like
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  Speaker 4: what we want to like the vision of who we
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  Speaker 4: want to become over the course of two years. I
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  Speaker 4: think we're more calm, you know. I think it's having
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  Speaker 4: their results for it definitely helps.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think if we won the game or loss
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  Speaker 4: the game, we.
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  Speaker 2: Would have we would have changed anything. It stops, It stops,
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  Speaker 2: and it all starts again.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like this, Okay, well that's the last game,
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  Speaker 1: no matter if you made the playoffs, they made the playoffs, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and now okay, here you go, like, here's our next
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  Speaker 1: round of the process.
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  Speaker 6: Mike, you talk about how having the same guys in
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  Speaker 6: the field that can get into different structures is an
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  Speaker 6: important like evolution, and these two guys you've got to
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  Speaker 6: today have experience a different positions.
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  Speaker 2: How much does that versatility.
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  Speaker 6: Play into defense?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, it's really important. It's really important. I think when
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  Speaker 4: you've gotta be careful when you say versatility, because to
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  Speaker 4: be like a jack all trades master and none is
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  Speaker 4: not really our brand of ball. Like, so we got
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  Speaker 4: to be intentional on how we play our players. But uh,
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  Speaker 4: but as we've seen like last year, like you need
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  Speaker 4: guys to be able to do different things, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: like attrition you know, over the course of the season
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  Speaker 4: or you know, as you build out your systems on
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  Speaker 4: like the things you need to be able to do.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously being able to do more is better, you know,
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  Speaker 4: but it's a responsibility as coaches to make sure it's
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  Speaker 4: you know, refined and focused enough that it's still in
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  Speaker 4: like our guys wheelhouse so they can go, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they can go play their best their best ball and
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  Speaker 4: let their talents shine. So that but that's why you
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  Speaker 4: go through the process, you know, that's why you do
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  Speaker 4: your tack phase one like crazy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you just respect those.
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  Speaker 4: All those the importance of each day because that kind
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  Speaker 4: of bring everything to focus.
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  Speaker 6: Clark Clark had fifteen reso the TC just kind of
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  Speaker 6: his playmaking a villay.
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  Speaker 2: Is that good? It's pretty good. We'll give him crowd
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  Speaker 2: when he's here. But he probably should have had thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he like, you know, he dropped. He dropped like
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  Speaker 1: he's gotta gets his hands in a lot of balls,
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  Speaker 1: let's put it that way.
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  Speaker 6: So I think he played really well the Senior Bowl too,
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  Speaker 6: just kind of his tape there, the kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I thought the coolest part about the Senior Bowl was
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  Speaker 4: like he just took a ton of one on one
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  Speaker 4: s net or a ton.
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  Speaker 2: Of one on one reps.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I don't know how they do it, but
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  Speaker 4: it seems like he was a guy and every other
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  Speaker 4: every other rep and he's you know, he's covering people,
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  Speaker 4: and so that that was for me.
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  Speaker 2: That was that was really cool. That was that was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Opportunities get his hands to the football. He's really aggressive
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  Speaker 3: jump is there? I guess how much of a balance
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  Speaker 3: he act?
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  Speaker 2: Is there?
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  Speaker 3: When you're doing NFL quarterbacks and at the offense, is
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  Speaker 3: with you wanted to play aggressive, but you also yeah, yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 2: A good point.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's a balance, right, It's I mean, we we
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  Speaker 4: want to train him the way we we train our
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  Speaker 4: our people and play within the system, but you can't
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  Speaker 4: can't coach the player out of the player. So I
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  Speaker 4: think that's gonna come again.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta go through the process. You gotta get a
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  Speaker 2: good feeling for the things that.
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  Speaker 4: He's seeing, and and uh, you know, and then like
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  Speaker 4: that's why you practice, you know, just you know, go
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  Speaker 4: make those decisive decisions and practice and and then kind
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  Speaker 4: of go through the process that way and and coach
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  Speaker 4: him up and go.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's one play at a time, you know.
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  Speaker 4: But the thing you can't coach is his ability to
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  Speaker 4: go get it, you know, so that you don't you
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  Speaker 4: don't want to take that away from him.
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  Speaker 5: For the most part, it's still getting these guys, those
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  Speaker 5: kind of guys.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to him about.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it was the wrong scoutinger for it. He's a
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  Speaker 1: confident sucker. That's their question, you know, stor we.
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  Speaker 2: Get these guys. Yeah, that's great. I mean it's like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Brian Fleury would say, it's very enjoyable, enjoyable, enjoyable tape
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  Speaker 2: to watch. He has funny thing. He's like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: really enjoyed watching this guy's tape. It's very enjoyable. We're
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  Speaker 2: getting to learn, Brian, it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: I think it.
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  Speaker 4: I think it just speaks to the prod like trust,
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  Speaker 4: the process, you know, like I think, and not cause
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  Speaker 4: he's sitting here, but like just to see how John
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  Speaker 4: operates the old draft and with all with the rest
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  Speaker 4: of our our staff and just how well they work together.
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  Speaker 4: And it's, uh, it's really really cool to see it
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  Speaker 4: happen in real time.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe how do.
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  Speaker 6: You balance that self confidence and then.
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  Speaker 3: The team evaluation is that how is that change over years?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, instead of yeah, your self awareness that yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: get it. Yeah, I know, We've learned a lot over
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  Speaker 1: the years, you know, and that's our that's our our
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  Speaker 1: character process.
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  Speaker 2: Our are evaluating.
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  Speaker 1: The the person and uh, the connections that everybody has
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  Speaker 1: to that our scouts work their tails off to reach
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  Speaker 1: out to uh you know, have their connections and spend
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  Speaker 1: the extra time to figure out true who that person
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  Speaker 1: truly is, you know, the competitor of the swag but
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  Speaker 1: yet having like a a.
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  Speaker 2: H an awareness of not you know, putting yourself in
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  Speaker 2: front of the team for a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we said we had plenty of time to get
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  Speaker 1: ready for rookie free agency. We could have had our
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  Speaker 1: meetings tomorrow. You know, I think that are estimated our
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  Speaker 1: estimated time to pick at one eighty eight.
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  Speaker 2: Is like twelve o three or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: So that's gonna freak blast to sit there and watch
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  Speaker 1: all these names comeing off.
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  Speaker 2: It's really fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's actually, that's cool that he said. That's actually
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  Speaker 1: the number one thing that stood out to me when uh,
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  Speaker 1: when I first like when when the gays were presenting
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  Speaker 1: we first started studying, it was like this guy like
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  Speaker 1: he brings it, it's important to him, and he wants yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he wants he wants to be physical. If you're into
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  Speaker 1: up you know, six two corners that have length and
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  Speaker 1: want to tackle.
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  Speaker 5: Is there any adjustment in any way that you make
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  Speaker 5: going through.
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  Speaker 3: A draft with Mike as.
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  Speaker 2: Opposed to with Pete.
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  Speaker 1: Any adjustments, Well, just kind of approach, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously there must be some different.
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  Speaker 5: In their personality.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, it's not, there's no difference. No, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's getting to know that. It's getting to know obviously
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  Speaker 1: the head coach, but getting to know the the guys
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be spending time.
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  Speaker 2: You know that the position coaches.
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  Speaker 1: I guess we're spending time and you know what kind
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  Speaker 1: of buying are they going to have? And and they
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  Speaker 1: want to coach the player and yeah, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: know the mistakes that I've made personally in the past
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  Speaker 1: and what that looks like, and so we've we've learned
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  Speaker 1: from those things, and.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we don't want to repeat it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean so, but no, it's a it's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: not it's it's different with all the assistant coaches, I
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  Speaker 1: would say more than because you're always going to have
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  Speaker 1: those private conversations like Okay, you're good, you're good. You
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  Speaker 1: know so, except in pregame. Mike doesn't want to talk
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  Speaker 1: to me, Pete want to talk