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Speaker 1: Welcome to the twenty in the Huddle podcast presented by Microsoft,

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Speaker 1: and I am very happy to welcome in former Lion

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Speaker 1: safety Glover Quinn Glove.

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Speaker 3: Man, you look like you can still play a little

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Speaker 3: bit here. You're keeping yourself pretty fit.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: I try to man. You know, that was one of

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Speaker 2: the things that I always said that I don't want

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Speaker 2: to be one of those guys that ten years after

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Speaker 2: they played the five or whatever, they look at you

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Speaker 2: and it was like, bro, you never played football, or bro,

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Speaker 2: you wasn't a defensive bag. You three hundred pounds. How

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Cause you see those guys

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Speaker 2: all the time that go from smaller guys when are

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Speaker 2: So you know, I go through phases and now I'm

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Speaker 2: cuting my workout.

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Speaker 3: For your big face right now. This is crazy.

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Speaker 2: I was telling some guys earlier today, I'm like thirty

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Speaker 2: pounds heavy day I was when I played.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, you're like a box safety down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm a linebacker right now. I mean I'm probably.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm like two forty five. I got on

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm like a Mike linebacker in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Good for you.

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Speaker 2: How the kids doing the doing good? Yoing well, busy, busy.

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Speaker 2: I mean we're doing football, basketball, baseball. My youngest son

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Speaker 2: with soccer, really fell in love with Christiano Ronaldo. Just

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Speaker 2: watches like soccer every day. I took him to account

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Speaker 2: this summer and they fell in love with him. They

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Speaker 2: playing club select soccer. Okay, he's never we play hey,

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Speaker 2: but he's he's gay.

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Speaker 3: That sport needs more athletes, you.

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Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying, And needs more guys that maybe

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Speaker 3: And that's how we grow the same.

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Speaker 2: And I believe that, you know, a lot of this

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Speaker 2: if you're an athlete, because I feel like, you know,

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Speaker 2: I grew up playing football and basketball, but I truly

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Speaker 2: I had played golf, because I feel like I could

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Speaker 2: a professional level. Right. So with my kids, I'm like,

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Speaker 2: you guys are athletes. You guys are athletes, you're athletic,

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Speaker 2: You're you are that you need to learn. We're gonna teach.

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Speaker 2: I'm gona teach you how to play at a young age.

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Speaker 2: So I started them in baseball and now they're phenomenal

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Speaker 2: you grow up around football. We can get the football,

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Speaker 2: but they kind of they kind of do it all.

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Speaker 2: And so we end this soccer and it's fun.

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Speaker 1: My son plays baseball, and when he's playing baseball, he

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Speaker 1: it sounds like you're enjoying retirement, but it's not full

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Speaker 1: and you do your own framing as well. Right, yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: He lit up when we started talking about that.

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Speaker 2: You're you're into this, you know, I love it and

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Speaker 2: That's kind of how I looked at it. And so

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Speaker 2: an NFL interception. You know, it's NFL inception is probably nice, right,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feels good, man.

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Speaker 2: And so it's cool, that's awesome.

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Speaker 3: Good for you.

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Speaker 1: But you are in Allen Park. You took in practice

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Speaker 1: But maybe three things, and it's a preseason obviously you've

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Speaker 2: Number one, well, I mean the atmosphere for one, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And I think the team, I think last year the

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Speaker 2: it looks like they're ready to handle that. It looks

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Speaker 2: Jamier Gibbs is somebody that I liked in college and

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Speaker 2: You know, Jamison, I like him. I think he got

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned the turnovers because you love this

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Speaker 1: Kirby's another guy like that. You saw the four interceptions

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Speaker 2: You do, and you know, you know, doing the hard

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Speaker 1: Well you're busy, man, You're in great shape. You've got

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you, glove, Appreciate you man. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the twenty in the Huddle podcast presented

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Speaker 1: by Microsoft. I'm very happy to welcome in new Detroit

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Speaker 1: Lions starting outside Corner Sutton Camp. Two weeks into Camp

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Speaker 1: House Camp. Been treating you, it's been it's been ecstatic.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, into that into that unit for sure.

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Speaker 2: You know.

437
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Speaker 3: The biggest thing is obviously just just appreciating the days.

438
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Speaker 4: You know, you know, some days, I obvious say more

439
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:26,920
Speaker 4: better than others, you know what I mean.

440
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Speaker 3: And that's the growing pain.

441
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Speaker 4: You know, who's who's you can't fight, you can't fight

442
00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,520
Speaker 4: or shy away from, you know what I mean, the

443
00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,320
Speaker 4: growth within obviously a new situation. And like I said,

444
00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:38,359
Speaker 4: the more that we keep coming together, the more we

445
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,480
Speaker 4: keep spending time together, they kind of being able to

446
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Speaker 4: help me flush that all out and like I said,

447
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Speaker 4: just settle my feet in a little bit, you know,

448
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 4: even within the scheme, you know, just being able to

449
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,320
Speaker 4: see the game the same way, like I said, to

450
00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,399
Speaker 4: eliminate the mishaps that happened out on the field. You know,

451
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Speaker 4: some things are going to happen, some things are going

452
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Speaker 4: to you know go, you know, based upon coverage or

453
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Speaker 4: whatever happens out there in the field. And obviously offenses

454
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Speaker 4: and teams get paid to make and stuff too, you

455
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:02,440
Speaker 4: know what I mean. But our job is obviously to

456
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,159
Speaker 4: defend the ball, you know, not give up explosives like

457
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,760
Speaker 4: again little man hitting and being physical, flying around and

458
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:09,000
Speaker 4: obviously make plays on the ball.

459
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Speaker 1: So have you seen this defense evolve? You know, speaking

460
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Speaker 1: of the front seven to now you've got to see

461
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Speaker 1: it again. Four joint practices, you know, and that's a

462
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Speaker 1: pretty good look. That's a good tape sload. What do

463
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Speaker 1: you like about the defensive unit as a whole? Maybe

464
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Speaker 1: what's one thing you guys need to maybe shure up

465
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Speaker 1: a little bit or you'd like to see it continued

466
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Speaker 1: improvement for the.

467
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Speaker 3: Next Yeah, just just an individual continued growth.

468
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Speaker 4: You know, everybody has something to work on in their game,

469
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Speaker 4: you know, and just fine tuning, you know, so just

470
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Speaker 4: being that consistent player, rep band rep out day in

471
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Speaker 4: day out, you know, just understanding your job, no mental

472
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Speaker 4: eras and and not being not being aligned in the

473
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Speaker 4: right spot, you know, not having the pre communication, the

474
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Speaker 4: post communications, like those little small things that we have

475
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Speaker 4: to keep keep building on and and let that kind

476
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Speaker 4: of flush.

477
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Speaker 3: Yourself out as it goes.

478
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Speaker 4: You know, that's something that shouldn't be happening, especially going

479
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 4: into week one and then obviously later later down into

480
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Speaker 4: the season.

481
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:03,439
Speaker 3: We shouldn't have the same problems.

482
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Speaker 4: We should be finding new problems necessarily week in, week

483
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Speaker 4: out or day and day out.

484
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Speaker 1: It's jumped out that you like as far as the

485
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 1: whole defense all eleven guys, what you've seen from that

486
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Speaker 1: in team periods was maybe something that jumps out.

487
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Speaker 4: We got we got a lot of guys that can

488
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Speaker 4: that cause a lot of wreck a lot of havoc man.

489
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Speaker 3: We got a lot of guys, want to hear, we

490
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 3: got a lot of guys that can wreck a lot

491
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Speaker 3: of havoc man. Like I said, it's hard.

492
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Speaker 4: It's hard not punishing your brother It's hard not hitting

493
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 4: your brothers all the time.

494
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Speaker 2: You know.

495
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:34,680
Speaker 3: Obviously that just comes.

496
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Speaker 4: With the you know, the the new age of just

497
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 4: being protected, you know what I mean. And but at

498
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 4: the same time, you got to get your own physical

499
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 4: reps too, and prepare yourself too and your style of

500
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:44,919
Speaker 4: playing how you're going to play too and be able.

501
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Speaker 1: To Sam Dan has a good mix of that, being

502
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Speaker 1: a former player, being a guy who's now been on

503
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Speaker 1: both sides. It seems like he's got a really good

504
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Speaker 1: understanding that. You guys have to appreciate that for sure.

505
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 2: For sure.

506
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 4: I mean he always has our best interests, you know,

507
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 4: all our coaches do you know, there's never something that

508
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Speaker 4: they're not going to put us in the right position,

509
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 4: on the right situation for us to you know, not succeed,

510
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 4: let alone, you know, to put our bodies in a

511
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 4: bad situation as well. So they've done a great job

512
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 4: of protecting all the guys, not just the selective guys.

513
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Speaker 3: It's literally the whole team.

514
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 4: And I think that's why as a whole we've been

515
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 4: pretty pretty healthy for the most for sure, we've been

516
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,880
Speaker 4: pretty healthy and continue that same health man, that same

517
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 4: health and blessings man. And like I said, you appreciate

518
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,159
Speaker 4: it as a player, just having that support behind you,

519
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 4: and then obviously just of trusting them as well, you know,

520
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 4: so it's a given taking that as well, just as

521
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Speaker 4: a player in the coach relationship.

522
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Speaker 1: One guy, I want to ask you about before we

523
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Speaker 1: before I let you go here. I know you got meetings,

524
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: you got busy dag going on. I appreciate you taking

525
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 1: the time sitting here after practice. Team signs CJ. Gardner

526
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 1: Johnson to be there nickel cornerback, you know, that's kind

527
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: of his role. And then this kid, Brian Branch comes

528
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: in and it's starting to be like, wow, you can't

529
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 1: really take him off the field, and so you know,

530
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,360
Speaker 1: CJ moves back to safety. Just what you've seen from

531
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,479
Speaker 1: Brian early on and maybe taking back to your you know,

532
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 1: first camp in here and how maybe things are spinning

533
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 1: and it seems like, you know, that kid's handling all

534
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: pretty well, making plays and and looks like he's going

535
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 1: to be a nice part of that secondary for you.

536
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just talk about smart and tough players, Smart

537
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,640
Speaker 4: and tough just uh I d you know, just individuals.

538
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 4: You know, he gets it, you know, and it means

539
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,439
Speaker 4: something to him, you know, and uh, you know, just

540
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,439
Speaker 4: he's just kind of that that that full pito me

541
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 4: kind of just a player, you know what I mean,

542
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 4: just what you want just a detail, just of a

543
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 4: presence of you know what I mean, just having your

544
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 4: mind in the right spot. He's got all the he's

545
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 4: got all the physical attributes that you would need as

546
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 4: a player, and then just a position flexibility that just

547
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 4: helps him him out.

548
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Speaker 3: You know, it's going to help him out all in

549
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 3: his career.

550
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 4: You know for a long time as well as just

551
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 4: all the guys that we have in the secondary. You

552
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,919
Speaker 4: can play inside everybody, you know what I mean. So,

553
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,119
Speaker 4: like I said, just just being continued to be in

554
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 4: a moving target.

555
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's.

556
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Speaker 4: Hard when you you can't line up and just you say,

557
00:25:58,119 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 4: you have eleven guys and just going to play the

558
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:00,880
Speaker 4: left sid on the right side.

559
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 3: Of the field every week, you know what I mean.

560
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,719
Speaker 4: And that gives offenses just as much to look at

561
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 4: them and game plan matchup against for sure. You know,

562
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 4: different looks, matchups, you could play man zones. I mean,

563
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 4: that's just where the game is going today. You know,

564
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 4: like I said, you've seen so much offenses is just

565
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 4: how they challenge defenses with you know, certain looks, certain

566
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,440
Speaker 4: guys on the move or just being in different positions

567
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 4: to create matchups and things like that. So you know,

568
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 4: that's a back and forth chest matchup.

569
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Speaker 3: You know, how how do we.

570
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 4: Get the guys in here who can you know, execute

571
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 4: the scheme but at the same time matchup and do

572
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 4: the things that we want to.

573
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 3: Do to have the position flexibility as well.

574
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Speaker 1: Camp It seems like you guys are certainly more prepared

575
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 1: to do that to opposing offenses. It's been fun to

576
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 1: watch you guys as a secondary develop, as a defense developed.

577
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: More hands on football's more balls on the ground. You

578
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 1: haven't been out to these joint practices they've been given. Jacksonville,

579
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: New York Giants offense.

580
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Speaker 3: It's all good.

581
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 2: All they can handle those.

582
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Speaker 1: So you ready to put the product out. It's it's

583
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. It's been exciting. I know Lions fans

584
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: are exciting. Thanks for joining me. I appreciate you, and

585
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 1: good look the next two weeks and go get Kansas City.

586
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Speaker 3: Hell appreciation. It was love one pride baby, Yeah,