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  Speaker 1: No, Europe, South America, Yeah, Canada and Peru.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: All right, nice little change up from Jacksonville, Canada. Was
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  Speaker 1: snowing first tig guys out there. I think I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: to somebody got snowed on pretty bad and they got
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  Speaker 1: caught in another snowstorm after that, so.
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  Speaker 2: It was definitely a different environment. Yeah, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be back though.
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  Speaker 3: No issues with trying to get in touch with you
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  Speaker 3: while you were.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm not gonna say that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say that necessarily, but I tried
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  Speaker 1: my best to stay in touch. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: they would say that there was no issues, but I'll
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  Speaker 1: just say I tried my best.
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  Speaker 4: Well, just the days of camp in the boats, just
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  Speaker 4: how would you assess how the offense is win?
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  Speaker 1: So far, it's been encouraging to see the growth of
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  Speaker 1: the guys. I think day by day you see little
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  Speaker 1: pieces here and there improved. You know that the progression
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  Speaker 1: is never going to be linear by any stretch of
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  Speaker 1: the imagination, so you see some steps forward, some steps
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  Speaker 1: back in different areas. But the encouraging thing is the
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  Speaker 1: work that the guys are putting in and the development overall.
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  Speaker 2: Whether it's the scheme, the skills.
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  Speaker 1: The techniques, the operation, all of those things. The improvement
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  Speaker 1: and all the different phases of the game is what
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  Speaker 1: it is so exciting.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit of a bounce back day for BTJ
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  Speaker 4: today after you know, kind of the rook one he
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  Speaker 4: had a few days ago. Just what was it like
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  Speaker 4: seeing him kind of get back in the grove.
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  Speaker 1: It was good to see that, see him get his
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  Speaker 1: opportunities and come down with some of those catches. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think when you have those off days, when you're
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  Speaker 1: a player like BTJ, you kind of expect that bounce
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  Speaker 1: back day a little bit. You know, the anticipation is
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  Speaker 1: that he will make those plays. So there was never
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  Speaker 1: really any worry or doubt that he was a guy
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  Speaker 1: that could come down with some of those catches that
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  Speaker 1: he didn't come down with. It was just a matter
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  Speaker 1: of time and execution. So it was it was good
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  Speaker 1: to see. But I wouldn't say that there was any uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, any concern leading into the day that we
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  Speaker 1: needed to see that.
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  Speaker 2: What is it about him that sort of gives you
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  Speaker 2: that confidence where he's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to bounce back, Well, it really comes down to
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  Speaker 1: the way he works and for all the guys you
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  Speaker 1: can have that type of confidence. That confidence comes from preparation.
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  Speaker 1: So the way he works and approaches his skill in
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  Speaker 1: his craft not only from a receiver position, but from
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  Speaker 1: mastering the scheme and his job what he's.
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  Speaker 2: Supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: So when he's dialed in and working and studying and
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  Speaker 1: doing the things he's supposed to do the way he
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  Speaker 1: does to prepare to come out here and play and
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  Speaker 1: come out here in practice, it gives us as confidence
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  Speaker 1: as coaches, but more importantly, it gives him the confidence
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  Speaker 1: to come out here and play fast and do that.
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  Speaker 4: It seems like Tank Bigsby has gotten a pretty good
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  Speaker 4: amount of run lately in practice, just what you've seen
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  Speaker 4: from him, and how much more can he improve.
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  Speaker 2: On what he has done the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: I think everybody knows that they have room for improvement.
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  Speaker 1: That's the exciting part about this group on offense specifically,
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  Speaker 1: is that nobody has probably performed at their maximum potential
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  Speaker 1: on a consistent basis. I think guys have hit that
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  Speaker 1: glimpses of it here and there, but what we're working
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  Speaker 1: for is to get that on a consistent basis. So
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  Speaker 1: seeing Tank in the run game or even in the
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  Speaker 1: past game in protection. See those improvements and trying to
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  Speaker 1: reach that level that he can perform on a down
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  Speaker 1: in down out, series in series out basis is what
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  Speaker 1: we're working towards.
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  Speaker 5: I know pads are on yet, but Walker Little hasn't
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  Speaker 5: had many camps where he's gone in as the guy's
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  Speaker 5: left tackle.
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  Speaker 2: How have you just kind of seen him embrace that
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  Speaker 2: role in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 1: I think his play style has started to pop off
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  Speaker 1: the tape when you see the way he's working to
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  Speaker 1: strain and finish in the run game and kind of
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  Speaker 1: the ownership he's taken of his craft in the past game,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's the sets, the communication, working with Ezra, working
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  Speaker 1: with Hainsey. It's just good to see him really embrace
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  Speaker 1: that role and build his confidence that's really well deserved
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  Speaker 1: as he plays better and better and better.
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  Speaker 5: And then I love the guys. You guys add it
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  Speaker 5: on the offensive line this year, played inside outside, How
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  Speaker 5: much does that depth help or in the early days
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  Speaker 5: of camp.
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  Speaker 1: Like this, it's absolutely helpful the flexibility of those guys
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  Speaker 1: to be able to fill different spots. I think you
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  Speaker 1: probably saw Chumas play tackle, played some guard past couple
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  Speaker 1: of days, and really we have a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 1: who can play different positions. It's a testament to their
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  Speaker 1: work and their ability to be able to play in
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  Speaker 1: those multiple spots. It's not easy to go from playing
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  Speaker 1: on the left side to playing on the right side,
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  Speaker 1: let alone from the left side outside to the right
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  Speaker 1: side inside, So that takes a lot of work, not
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  Speaker 1: only in the drill work with Coach Surrett and the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the staff, but from studying and knowing my
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  Speaker 1: calls at guard are different than my calls at tackle.
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  Speaker 1: So to have that group that has the flexibility mentally
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  Speaker 1: and physically is really nice for us to know. It's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of depth and security blanket, but also
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  Speaker 1: we can mix and match different groups of guys and
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  Speaker 1: see that chemistry kind of build out throughout camp.
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  Speaker 5: Ran Where do you think you guys are at, or
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  Speaker 5: specifically Trevor at thinking through the offense and playing for
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  Speaker 5: the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great point. That's something we're working on
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  Speaker 1: that will probably will always be working on. I would
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  Speaker 1: love to say that at some point we'll be there
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent and everything is just automatic. But we
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  Speaker 1: know football is a game of many variables. So it's
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  Speaker 1: never going to be the case that he can go
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  Speaker 1: out there and just play turning your mind off completely.
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  Speaker 1: But we are certainly moving closer and closer to that state.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he mentioned something about that too, that
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  Speaker 1: pre snap and post snap, both of those start to
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  Speaker 1: get faster and faster and faster as he's gotten there.
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  Speaker 1: So we're not there yet, and we know we have
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  Speaker 1: work to do. But his work over the course of
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  Speaker 1: the summer, over the worker, excuse me, over the course
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  Speaker 1: of training camp, has led him to a spot where
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  Speaker 1: there's a noticeable difference in the way he plays, or
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  Speaker 1: even just the way he approaches a given play. When
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  Speaker 1: you see a rep or when you yeah, you can
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  Speaker 1: tell on some certain reps and really certain operations when
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  Speaker 1: you're standing up there at the line and trying to
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  Speaker 1: make decisions and protection calls, or you're trying to make
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  Speaker 1: an adjustment, just the timing of it and the confidence
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  Speaker 1: with which you do it. That's the real ownership of
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  Speaker 1: a play, and typically when you have that type of ownership,
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  Speaker 1: the result ends up being good.
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  Speaker 3: Liam Elan and Josh Seehus for two of the young
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  Speaker 3: wide receivers that you spoke about on Friday. What have
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  Speaker 3: you seen from some of these young guys since obviously
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  Speaker 3: you guys brought a lot of them in put the
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  Speaker 3: goal of them competing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot of young guys. It's been encouraging
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  Speaker 1: to see Josh be able to make plays and get
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  Speaker 1: on the same page with Nick and John and the
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  Speaker 1: guys throwing them the football. Same thing with Eli, who's
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  Speaker 1: who's worked really hard at knowing the playbook, knowing his role,
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  Speaker 1: embracing his role, doing different things that maybe don't always
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  Speaker 1: flash in terms of some of the catches and big
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  Speaker 1: plays that you see with other guys. But thirty work
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  Speaker 1: with blocking, motioning, shifting, setting things up, things that influenced
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  Speaker 1: the offense and the run game in a significant way
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  Speaker 1: but might not always be seen by you know, on
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  Speaker 1: a surface level. I guess what energy you stick to
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  Speaker 1: more offensive line?
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  Speaker 2: Who adds on.
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  Speaker 1: That might be a question that might be a question
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  Speaker 1: for them. I know my energy will be pretty high.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be pretty excited, but I think I think the
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  Speaker 1: group will be excited to get out there with pads
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  Speaker 1: on and play play football a little bit more for real.
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  Speaker 2: Can you see Travis.
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  Speaker 5: Runner on the defensive side of the ball making the
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  Speaker 5: plays like he was today.
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  Speaker 2: How does that make you feel as the offensive coach
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  Speaker 2: who had not yet the ball is not good?
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  Speaker 4: But is that like just a very unique situation for you,
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  Speaker 4: And how does it make you feel out there about it?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 1: That is the ultimate bit or sweet because it is
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  Speaker 1: miserable seeing him make plays on the ball during practice,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a team game, so it is exciting in
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  Speaker 1: the end to see him make plays and you see
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  Speaker 1: the ball skills that show up on defense, same thing
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  Speaker 1: translates to offense, so it's exciting to see him flourish.
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  Speaker 2: Have you felt about his progression in the offense so far?
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  Speaker 1: Really encouraging? I think even from the end of the
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  Speaker 1: spring last year to the start of training camp this year,
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  Speaker 1: you notice the progression not only from a mental standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: but from of the techniques excuse me, from a technique
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  Speaker 1: and release standpoint at receiver position. I only expect with
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  Speaker 1: the way he works and approaches it that progression can
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: It schedul have.
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  Speaker 1: Been for you.
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  Speaker 4: I know Liam has talked about is down to the minute,
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  Speaker 4: so just work an extra with him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's down to the minute.
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  Speaker 2: It's been great.
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  Speaker 1: Defense has been awesome to work with. The staff has
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  Speaker 1: been unbelievable. He's been great focus, locked in. It's a
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  Speaker 1: lot to manage and a lot to juggle, but he's
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  Speaker 1: been a real pro at handling it. It's a long
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  Speaker 1: training camp, so we know he knows we have a
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  Speaker 1: long way to go, but so far it's been been
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Random you've seen anything like it?
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  Speaker 6: The issues wise, for man, everybody talks about it's just
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  Speaker 6: going forever.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, any kid it how rare? Is that part
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  Speaker 2: of it? Just the condition that's unbelievably rare.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that I've seen anything with that level
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  Speaker 1: of conditioning before. I mean, obviously he's expected to do
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  Speaker 1: something that I have not seen another play that none
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  Speaker 1: of us have seen before. But it is once again
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  Speaker 1: a testament to his work, his training and the heat
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  Speaker 1: in the summer to be able to come out here
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  Speaker 1: and do this. I mean it is hot, no joke.
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  Speaker 1: There are guys out here struggling to just do one,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and he's doing multiple things, juggling different things
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  Speaker 1: mentally physically. So yeah, it's a testament to his work.
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  Speaker 1: The conditioning is definitely a pair.
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  Speaker 3: Un let's start with this Obviously it's been a typical
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  Speaker 3: last few months for you, both on and off the field,
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  Speaker 3: with the transition here and obviously everything going on at home.
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  Speaker 3: How did you guys decide this past Friday was the
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  Speaker 3: right time to tell Wesley's story and getting the word
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  Speaker 3: out there about what four one par all is going
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  Speaker 3: to be.
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  Speaker 2: Doing this fall.
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  Speaker 7: Definitely, I think our our main goal was to make
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  Speaker 7: sure Wesley was healthy first, to really if he wasn't
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  Speaker 7: in a room of like, all right, he's getting better,
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  Speaker 7: to kind of hold it a little bit. So we
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  Speaker 7: wanted to make sure that he was in a good
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  Speaker 7: position for us to speak about it, because I know
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  Speaker 7: once the word gets out that he's in remission, it's
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  Speaker 7: gonna be very It's more uplifting or positive. And also,
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  Speaker 7: you know, I get to be in front of you
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  Speaker 7: guys and talk about it and spread more awareness as
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  Speaker 7: much as I can. So so our goal was to
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  Speaker 7: really wait until you know, he got healthy, and it
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  Speaker 7: was just timing was just perfect and we're here. Did
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  Speaker 7: they talk about it?
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  Speaker 2: What's the message that you want to sort of get
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  Speaker 2: out there?
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  Speaker 4: I I know you put it out yesterday, but just
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  Speaker 4: expand upon it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, is that everybody. You know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people go through it.
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  Speaker 7: UH, A lot of people that you may not know
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  Speaker 7: in your daily life has had some type of cancer
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  Speaker 7: at a young age or probably getting in now that
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  Speaker 7: you can.
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  Speaker 2: Always be there to support them, care for them, give
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  Speaker 2: them love.
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  Speaker 7: Cause I think that's really the the main focus on
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  Speaker 7: people that's going through that they have people that can
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  Speaker 7: help support them and give them love and UH. And
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  Speaker 7: again for my foundation, it is just to show support.
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  Speaker 7: We're gonna we're contributing to four different organizations throughout the year,
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  Speaker 7: So each month is gonna be different, you know, something
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  Speaker 7: that you know, a organization that we're targeting to help
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  Speaker 7: spread more awareness for them and for us as well.
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  Speaker 7: So I'm excited about that journey. And this first month
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  Speaker 7: is the moors and then we'll start you know, agging
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  Speaker 7: on and when the when the UH season goes on.
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  Speaker 4: How has it been sort of with the support around
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  Speaker 4: with coaches players?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have you seen that? I Mean they text
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  Speaker 2: me Dare every day, like especially during the off season.
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  Speaker 7: How's Wesley? Not even Josh, how are you doing? How's
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  Speaker 7: your mental? How's Wesley? Which I respect, you know what
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  Speaker 7: I'm saying because you know they kind of message family
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  Speaker 7: first at all times, and they really truly mean it.
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  Speaker 7: The last staff they did as well, like and I
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  Speaker 7: told Doug, they were all, you're okay, take your time,
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  Speaker 7: and even coming in hearing for them to embrace me
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  Speaker 7: as you know, how's Wesseley, how's your family, how's your wife,
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  Speaker 7: How's how's your family doing?
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  Speaker 2: And then how's training? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 7: So they really care, man, and they really truly cared,
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  Speaker 7: not just acting.
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  Speaker 2: To act, just acting to really see how I'm really feeling.
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  Speaker 2: So it's super cool.
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  Speaker 3: What was your training resident of this home season? Because
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  Speaker 3: obviously we know you've gone to Arizona in the past,
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  Speaker 3: so work with the guys, ries and grind knowing what
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  Speaker 3: was also going on off the field. Were you just
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  Speaker 3: here pretty much throughout?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I was. I was. I trained here.
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  Speaker 7: I did a lot of events, as you follow my
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  Speaker 7: social media, so I did a couple of events.
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  Speaker 2: You know, with the you know, Paris fashion Meek and
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  Speaker 2: inn SB.
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  Speaker 7: So I've been moving but you know, regardless of that,
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  Speaker 7: I still got my work in even when training. So
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  Speaker 7: I mean even when even in Paris, I'm getting training
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  Speaker 7: and you know, La, I'm getting training, So I never
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  Speaker 7: really stopped the grind, but when I was settled, I
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  Speaker 7: was settled here. I want to stay close to fam
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  Speaker 7: kids in summer school, so I just want to stay close.
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  Speaker 7: You can't really travel as much now they're in school now,
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  Speaker 7: so kind of keeping this more stationary and you know,
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  Speaker 7: I get, you know, getting my routine a little bit quicker.
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  Speaker 3: You've talked about the fact that there isn't an exos
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  Speaker 3: here in Jacksonville, but you guys have kind of created
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  Speaker 3: this little community, especially along the defensive line and the
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  Speaker 3: defensive players with the training. Describe what that community has
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  Speaker 3: become in the last five years, in particular for you
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  Speaker 3: guys to all get to stay in Jacksonville and work
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  Speaker 3: out together in the off season.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it's awesome. I think, you know, camaraderie is
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  Speaker 7: the main thing. And obviously, you know, I know that
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  Speaker 7: I'm pushing myself to the limit that I can, you know,
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  Speaker 7: help lose guys on the field. But when you can
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  Speaker 7: train outside of the building and talk to them and
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  Speaker 7: you know, work out and push each other and know
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  Speaker 7: that I also know that you're sacrife and running this
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  Speaker 7: hill with me, you know what I mean, It's it
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  Speaker 7: means a lot more so when you step out on
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  Speaker 7: the fields, like, I know, you're gonna give me everything
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  Speaker 7: you got, and then if you don't, I can tell
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  Speaker 7: you that you're not giving me everything you got because
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  Speaker 7: you showed me a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. So it's it's really cool just to work.
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  Speaker 7: Out with everybody and you know, stay in contact and
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  Speaker 7: you know, just you know, we're brothers at the end
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  Speaker 7: of the day, and brothers stick together.
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  Speaker 6: So Josh, how hard was it for you to kind
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  Speaker 6: of separate and keep folks training? And then you know
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  Speaker 6: the family situation in Wesley situation, was that hard to
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  Speaker 6: kind of balance that?
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  Speaker 7: I mean again, uh, timing is everything. So he got sick, right,
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  Speaker 7: you know, towards the end of the season. Right aft
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  Speaker 7: the end of the seasons, the first couple of months,
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  Speaker 7: you're really not doing nothing.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta have your body kind of relax.
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  Speaker 7: And kind of come back, and then like three or
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  Speaker 7: four months later then you start kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 7: working out here and there. So again, timing was everything.
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  Speaker 7: And I got to just sit back and be full
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  Speaker 7: time dad and which I love to do, to sit
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  Speaker 7: back and just indulge my life. Those myself in their
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  Speaker 7: life and really commit to them.
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  Speaker 2: And so training then.
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  Speaker 7: Start picking up until he got a little better, until
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  Speaker 7: he got out of the hospital, he started going back
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  Speaker 7: to school, and then that's when I started to kind
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  Speaker 7: of okay, I can.
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  Speaker 2: Start going around.
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  Speaker 7: I can start going to Jason, you know, I can
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  Speaker 7: drive the Orange Park in the morning, put up stuff,
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  Speaker 7: be able to take him to school, you know, make
• 13:21
  Speaker 7: sure he takes his medicine in the morning, and then
• 13:24
  Speaker 7: you know, just kind of adapt back to normal.
• 13:27
  Speaker 6: Where did you guys get the news that he was
• 13:30
  Speaker 6: gonna be okay?
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: And what was that?
• 13:32
  Speaker 6: That must have been a huge mental lift. So when
• 13:34
  Speaker 6: did we or yeah, like, at what point in the
• 13:37
  Speaker 6: treating process did you know, okay and the doctors say
• 13:40
  Speaker 6: he's gonna be he's gonna recovery, he's gonna be fines
• 13:42
  Speaker 6: on his way to full recovery. And what was that
• 13:44
  Speaker 6: lift off your in the mind?
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, what kind of settle my set up my mind?
• 13:49
  Speaker 7: Obviously it's scary to think about, but when they talked
• 13:53
  Speaker 7: about the type of cancer that he did have, it
• 13:57
  Speaker 7: was a six month h kind of treatment phase. And
• 14:02
  Speaker 7: so when I thought about the like six months, like
• 14:05
  Speaker 7: six months, this is a long time, but it's not
• 14:08
  Speaker 7: twelve months or it's not two years, it's not three years,
• 14:12
  Speaker 7: which families do have to you know, go through as well.
• 14:15
  Speaker 7: So knowing had uh, he had that.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: That cancer, it's kind of like, all right, we're gonna
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: get through. We can get through this. We're going to
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: get through this.
• 14:25
  Speaker 7: And so once three months came in four months and
• 14:28
  Speaker 7: then realizing that you know, his levels were rising, everything
• 14:30
  Speaker 7: was coming back to normal, and then he was like
• 14:33
  Speaker 7: nothing was dropping, and then everything is kind of like, oh,
• 14:36
  Speaker 7: he's well, he's good. When we took him off the
• 14:39
  Speaker 7: medicine for a month, all the levels were you know,
• 14:42
  Speaker 7: the same, they weren't dropping, So it's like it's working.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: His body's coming back to normal. And once you're hearing these.
• 14:48
  Speaker 7: Type of words and you know, you're seeing a smile
• 14:51
  Speaker 7: on his face, and now everything kind of seemed normal.
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: And he wasn't having any fevers. That's a telltale sign
• 14:56
  Speaker 7: of you know, something happening to his body. So he
• 14:59
  Speaker 7: stopped getting fever and so now everything was just was
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: normost possible.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: And when it gave us that, you know, he's in
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: full remission.
• 15:08
  Speaker 7: Man, it's you know, we kind of we kind of
• 15:11
  Speaker 7: prayed for it, and we kind of knew we keep
• 15:13
  Speaker 7: praying that it's gonna happen.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: God was looking over him.
• 15:16
  Speaker 7: He had so many prayers for him at that time,
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: and uh, we knew that it was gonna happen at
• 15:21
  Speaker 7: some point. And when it did happen, you know, just
• 15:24
  Speaker 7: keep going track into the next phase.
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: Did you guys celebrate and got that news or news?
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: Hundred per I mean we didn't like, we definitely celebrated, uh,
• 15:37
  Speaker 7: you know, one of those type of celebrations. But uh,
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: everything that we can do for him we made special,
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: you know, taking these late trips.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: I'm usually not a late trip guy cause I like.
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: To kind of be be where I'm at and just
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: kind of focus on that. But you know, to really
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: sacrifice that time away from him, you know, because we
• 15:56
  Speaker 7: couldn't travel early on, so it's kind of like put
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: that a whole.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: But we also gotta not make it normal and special
• 16:02
  Speaker 7: for him. So let's go to the Mahamas, you know
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: what I mean. So Okay, Josh, I'm freaking out, but
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: we need to do it.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: How am I gonna make it work?
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: Found the trainer out there and I was training with him,
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: so it was like, you know, I'm having fun with
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: my family, but I'm also fo making keeping the main
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: thing the main thing.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: So yeah, good Josh. We'll go the next two days
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: and pads show your.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: At the end of the day, we have to still
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: protect each other, so you know how it is like,
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: you know, as soon as you get pads on, you know,
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: maybe the fundamental fundamentals go down. So to know that
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: we're a good defense and we're a good offense, and
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: we we like to take care of ourself, but be competitive.
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: Let's not try to kill each other. Like, let's focus
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: on our technique, you know what I'm saying, and h
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: have our technique catch that when you see here we're
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: still being physical with no nothing on. So we can
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: continue to still practice like this. But in pads, I
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: think we'll be able to take care of each other
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: a lot more. You know, we don't need anybody hurt.
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: Obviously that comes with the game, but if we can
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: kind of prevent as many injuries as we can, but
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: it's still being physical, knowing we're doing communicating and uh
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: running to the ball post sides of the ball. Think
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: I think it's just a good building point. I think,
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: uh We're gonna be good. I'm excited about UH pads tomorrow,
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: more physical upfront. I think it really affects the back,
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: the front, the front, four front seven more than anybody else.
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: But I'm ready to put my face in. You know,
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: I'm ready.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I'm ready for contact. Better what you mean by that, Noddy?
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: You know I'm ready to, like, you know, have some
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: contact and really and really see what's it about.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: So I'm excited.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: John, How do you feel playing whiter now more two
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: years ago? I know you talked about it a couple
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: of months ago, but uh, twenty pounds later.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Than you know what, it feels good? You was good,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: you talk about you can see you a lot.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: You like I see your specifically, I I have a
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: feeling you're not gonna want to talk about it. But
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: being this close to the franchise sec record, what is
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: kind of your mentality going into this season?
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: Twenty three sacks? You know that's you know, that's the
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: NFL record. I think all pass rushers should strive for
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: that goal, like every team strives to win a Super Bowl.
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: So I think, you know, my goal is to break
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: the record and not really focus on it. Just know
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: that if I handle what I need to handle, stay healthy,
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: you know, know what I'm doing, Communicate, anticipate what's happening
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: to me, participate, pass, and kind of be quicker on that.
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: You know, then everything's going to play off the where
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: it's supposed to.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: I don't think we've thought to use his book, especially signed,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: or at least not at the podium. So having your
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: guy back, but also just having Odd both the depth,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: how does that change strategically? Then you don't have to
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: give anything away, but having those guys and it's not
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: just necessarily you and Trey perhaps being the two main guys,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: and then maybe it's a question mark behind you think.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I think having better Edgy depth matters.
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: I think moving Eric to the inside is also gonna
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: open us open us.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Up a lot more.
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: And and I'm excited to rush with the four we got.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: If you're putting Mason in there and Mason gets healthy,
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: you put Mason in there, Eric, smooth myself, Trey Ogba.
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying that the rotation can kind
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: of be endless. We can kind of line up anywhere.
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: But right now it's just how do you like to
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: rush like me and smooth me and smooth of you
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, Like we know, like go you
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, So like it's it's very natural.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: And I called him, I was talking, I was talking.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: Smooth every day, not every day, not gonna be exaggerating,
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: but I talk to him a lot during the all season,
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: especially during the come back. You know what I'm saying,
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: what are you waiting on? You're gonna have a role here?
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: You come on? You know, it was a lot of
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: those calls, and he can say that I did that
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: to him.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I didn't call him every day. Where's a lot of
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: those conversations.
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: And and also he just vibes with everybody. You know
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: what I'm saying, Like he just he fits what we're
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: he fits what we're trying to do. He fits the
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: players around him, and he's unselfish, like he if I
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: need a pocket push, I'm gonna pocket push the hell.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Out of this guy.
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: If you need me to to buy this guy so
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: you can make it inside the beat gap, I'm gonna
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: do exactly that, you know what I mean. So having
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: him kind of frees up everybody helps Eric as well.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: You know, you you got these two being selfless. You
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: got Eric, you can you can rush a little bit
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: more free because you know you have a guy that's
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: in tune to the rushes. You have a guy that, Okay,
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: if you take inside, I'm gonna wrap under him. So
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: it's cool having a guy like that.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: I love him, you know, as a brother, and I
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: respect him as a player as well. And you know,
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: I can't wait to really see tomorrow and obviously when
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: the preseason, you know, the preseason games and all that,
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: we can compete against somebody else.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I can't wait one of the days because somebody.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Working out with him mr.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Season his health, best knows in the game. Hell, right now,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: he's the best news in the game.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: That's DM is the best defensive nose tackle whatever you
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: want to identify him in the NFL right now, and
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: he's showing it, improving it every single day.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: And when you can have that.
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: You know, you have that confidence that you they're not
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: gonna run the ball right here.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Not everybody else has to pick their level up, you
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: know what I mean.
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: So again, Devon Hamilton is the best nose in the
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: game and he's gonna prove it. And I can't wait
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: to be out there to support him at the every
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: play he makes. You talked about it last potentially breaking
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: the single season Zack record.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Do you think this defense is gonna allow you, the
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: players to be able to pus for that? I mean,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: don't asks me.
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: You can ask the coaches, you know, because they tell
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: me all the time, this is what we want to do. Okay,
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: But they're the ones that's gonna call the plays. And
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: you talk to Coach Camp. You have to you have
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: guys that can go get the pass, go get the passer.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Cool, So now let's do it. Let's show it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: Let me prove to you. But I've already proved it.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: Treys proved it. Let's just continue to do it. You know,
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: the more reps we get, the more ops we get,
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: the higher percentage that we're gonna get pressures, we're gonna
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: get it's we're gonna get sacks, we're gonna get bad
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: at passes. We're gonna get more plays even in the
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: run game. Hell, it's gonna affect us in the run game,
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: more attackle for losses. So yeah, I think Coach Camp,
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: Coach Matt Edwards, Coach LeBlanc, those are the guys that
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: you need to ask us questions too.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: But I like where you had at and it does
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: help one more.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: NFL Top one hundred. Just what do that honor mean
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: to you? And where they really trying.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: It that day?
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: I mean, uh, at the end of the day, I'm
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: you know, a minor to be on the list with
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: my peers.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I just know where I was at the year before.
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: Now knowing where I'm at the like last year after
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: a down Yere, it's time to go back, Goup, and
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: it's time to not only for me to get in there,
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: it's time for Trade to get in there. It's time
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: for Jordan Louis, it's time for you, It's time for
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: We have guys that can be on that list and
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: really rack that real list up. But you know, the
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: most guys that be on there, they have the number
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: one defense, number two defense. They play deep in the playoffs.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: So we wanna get that recognition. We gotta be able
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: to well, we have to be able to get that far.