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Speaker 1: Alrighty professional mic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think every year is a great year to

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Speaker 2: just stay positive and try and gain confidence. And everyone

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Speaker 2: that I've talked to that's either been in year three

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Speaker 2: or older, you know, they just say just keep working

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Speaker 2: and and.

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Speaker 1: Build a confidence through your reps.

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Speaker 2: And it's not just confidence from last year, the year

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Speaker 2: before college, it's.

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Speaker 1: My whole life.

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Speaker 2: So just continue to do that and and working and

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Speaker 2: doing all the right things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been really good. It's been normal.

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Speaker 2: I think everything he's done so far has been really good.

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Speaker 2: I think the communication is the most important part, and trust.

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Speaker 2: I think it all starts with that. When you're with

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Speaker 2: a new coach and he's done a great job and

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Speaker 2: controlling the room, I feel like everyone's on the same page.

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Speaker 2: Just got to continue to do it. It's it's a marathon,

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Speaker 2: not a sprint, so we know that. And he's obviously

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Speaker 2: had great experience in the NFL and at Alabama where

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Speaker 2: I was at. So there's a lot of good stuff

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Speaker 2: that we've talked about and just looking forward to working

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Speaker 2: with him.

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Speaker 1: That could be brought anythink things Alabama. Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 2: I mean I'm not gonna get into specifics give it away,

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Speaker 2: but I think there's definitely things like when we talk

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Speaker 2: about lingo, it's like there's things we both say and

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Speaker 2: it makes sense.

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Speaker 1: So that's important.

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Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, football's football, and

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Speaker 2: we're kind of building our own thing here and utilizing

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Speaker 2: the guys that we have. We have a good group

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Speaker 2: of guys, veteran veteran group, and really it's about, you know,

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Speaker 2: molding together as a team. That's the most important part.

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Speaker 2: Is how do you come together and trust each other

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Speaker 2: regardless of what the plays.

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Speaker 1: Are off last year?

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Speaker 2: And how did you approach.

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Speaker 1: This off season when it came to it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think I tried to follow like a

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Speaker 2: college like off season program. Just stay on it really early,

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Speaker 2: a lot less vacations, and just work really hard like

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Speaker 2: all the other guys are doing. And that's that's really

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Speaker 2: gonna help in the future, and try to do that

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Speaker 2: every year. But it's really just identifying where you can

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Speaker 2: get better at And like I said, confidence comes from

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Speaker 2: years of practice and and doing well and also so

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Speaker 2: not doing well. You know, sometimes the most confident people

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Speaker 2: come from, you know, a year where they might not

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Speaker 2: have been their best. And I feel like that's where

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Speaker 2: I'm at and we all feel like that. So we're

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Speaker 2: all hungry and confidence comes with time. But it's also

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Speaker 2: something that you can look back on to, you know,

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Speaker 2: not just worrying about things happen in the past, but

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Speaker 2: also focusing on the future. What do you say, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think really really great people are formed through ups

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Speaker 2: and downs, like sometimes you know, you look at just

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Speaker 2: speaking for myself my sports career, like, I've always been

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Speaker 2: on really good, winning teams, and that's what this place

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Speaker 2: has been. So I'm just learning from all the things.

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Speaker 2: That's all I took from from last year's It's a

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Speaker 2: learning experience and I think I learned a lot, which

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Speaker 2: is really important. I was a second year player at

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Speaker 2: the time, and all I can do is help me

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Speaker 2: in the future. I think it can help our team,

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Speaker 2: you know, my teammates, my coaches, and the experiences that

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Speaker 2: we're going to go through.

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Speaker 1: It's it's the NFL.

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Speaker 2: It's the hardest, hardest league there is, and everyone's really good,

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Speaker 2: so you got to bring your best not only every year,

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Speaker 2: but really most importantly every day. So just focusing on that, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think you know, in college, I always reference college, right,

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Speaker 2: I didn't really play early on just got a chance

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Speaker 2: and there's a lot of familiarity, but it's a new

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Speaker 2: relationship still and we're just working on that trust. That's

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Speaker 2: what I care about. I'm very pretty much so a

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Speaker 2: I think every year is a new year, right and

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Speaker 2: it's it's a lot easier to say that after you

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Speaker 2: learn how to do that, and I think some of

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Speaker 2: the learning experiences I had last year will really help.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of things I could do better. I

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Speaker 2: know that as a person, as a player, there's things

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Speaker 2: I can grow upon. But really it's it's about this year.

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Speaker 2: You know, we got new faces in the room. It's

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Speaker 2: all about earning the respect of everybody every day. So

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Speaker 2: I'm starting fresh just like everybody else is, and I'm

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Speaker 2: think everyone else would do that too. Yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 2: think Taekwon he's done a really good job just trying

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Speaker 2: him in the off season like a lot of the guys,

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Speaker 2: and for for me and him, it's all about communication.

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, he has to grow and learn

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Speaker 2: with me and and all the other guys too, So

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Speaker 2: we're all on the same boat together. But what you

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Speaker 2: see is exactly what you're gonna get. He's fast, he's

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Speaker 2: a smart football player, he's got strong hands. I really

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Speaker 2: think it's just him continuing to grow that confidence, just

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Speaker 2: like you know, we're all working for and he's gonna

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Speaker 2: be a great player for a long time. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think Juju has done a great job also from

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Speaker 2: a leadership standpoint, just coming in. That's someone who adds

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Speaker 2: veteran leadership from different places. He just came off of

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Speaker 2: that's gonna be great because he has the experience and he.

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Speaker 1: Loves talking about football. He's just a football nerd.

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Speaker 2: he's an awesome guy and I'm looking forward to working

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Speaker 2: with all those guys in that room. I think there's

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Speaker 2: but Mike definitely has playmaking ability. He's a smart football player,

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Speaker 2: and I'm just excited to work with him and conversation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I think, first of all, nice golf hat.

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Speaker 1: I like that. I don't I can't pull off the bucket,

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Speaker 2: First of all, I think coming off as season, you know,

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Speaker 2: you have to recover, right. Your body's a little bit

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Speaker 2: beat up, and obviously that's everybody. I think there's a

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Speaker 2: mental component to it, but for me, it's just staying

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Speaker 2: like don't be afraid to ask questions. Obviously, I'm always

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Speaker 2: trying to learn from our coaches, our strength staff. They've

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Speaker 2: done a great job this off season, Moses and everybody

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Speaker 2: trying to get us stronger and faster. So I've been

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Speaker 2: really pleased with those guys. And it's like the different buckets.

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Speaker 2: I always talk about the different buckets, but there's mental, physical, emotional.

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Speaker 2: I've addressed all that and and everything from last year's

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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to fill up each bucket the right

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Speaker 2: a lot everybody. Yeah, we'll see. I mean that's a

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Speaker 2: lot of emotion, right. I think everyone's entitled to opinion.

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Speaker 2: But all I can do is, like I said earlier,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna run my race, and hopefully everybody will run

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Speaker 2: do everything I can to earn the respect of everybody

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Speaker 2: in this building again and from there go out there

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Speaker 2: and win some games.

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Speaker 1: How much similar is there now though for you compared.

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Speaker 2: To Yeah, I'm I can't get into specifics, but uh,

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Speaker 2: I think for me it's it's terminology and things like

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Speaker 2: that that have definitely, you know, things I've seen before

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Speaker 2: in the past, and and obviously ob has been around

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Speaker 2: and he's taken a lot of good things from each stop,

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Speaker 2: and I feel like for me, it's just being a

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Speaker 2: sponge whatever, you know, quarterback he's coach I can learn from,

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Speaker 2: whether that's Bryce or DeShawn or at Penn State, Like

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Speaker 2: he has such a great experience in this league and

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Speaker 2: and football in the football world. It's like a you know,

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Speaker 2: walking dictionary. Just pick his brain and see the game

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Speaker 2: how he sees, how he sees it and how I

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Speaker 2: you know, create a really good offense.

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Speaker 1: So cool. Thanks everybody, all right, m