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Speaker 1: I mean it means a lot coming from him, but

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Speaker 1: really just helping the team wherever I can, you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever role it is, UH playing that nickel position, safety corner,

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Speaker 1: wherever it is. So that's how I look at it.

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Speaker 1: How would you describe kind of just getting where I

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Speaker 1: fit in, you know, whatever the team needs, I just

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Speaker 1: go out there and play. So could you think the

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Speaker 1: first game, who's ever want to play some Devin? Now?

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Speaker 1: I think it was good. You know, we worked at

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Speaker 1: it a lot during UH camp, during OTA's getting out

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Speaker 1: there and trying to figure out, you know, who's gonna

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Speaker 1: be where and how we were gonna communicate. And I

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Speaker 1: think that was a big goal of our stience. Devin

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Speaker 1: was a pretty much the communicator of the whole defense.

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Speaker 1: So I think guys stepped up pretty big, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we kind of filled that void and now we're just

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Speaker 1: continuing to try to build on that. How do you

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Speaker 1: simulate the speed that you're gonna see from their receivers?

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Speaker 1: You know what? That's that's very tough to simulate and practice.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's hard to find guys that I don't

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Speaker 1: know that can just run that fast, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? So I think we just got to go

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Speaker 1: out there, you know, prepare how we are now, watch

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Speaker 1: the film, and then when we go out there practice,

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Speaker 1: try to you know, prepare the best we can and

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Speaker 1: then go out there and execute on Sunday. That Christian

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Speaker 1: with you guys so far, that's good. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: a real real quiet guy. But you know, he he

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Speaker 1: comes to work every day. He takes the coaching from

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Speaker 1: not only the coaches but the players as well, and

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Speaker 1: he's just he's just here to get better. How hard

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Speaker 1: physical with a defensive background. The rules are what they are.

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Speaker 1: But is that something that you've try to do. Slowing down? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think anytime you can slow down, you

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Speaker 1: know speed, you know, get those guys you know from

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Speaker 1: not going from zero to one hundred so quick. You know,

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Speaker 1: it helps a lot. But those guys are quick, they're fast,

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Speaker 1: so that combo and makes it tough to you know,

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Speaker 1: slow him down. So I mean we're gonna try to

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Speaker 1: get out there slow him down the best we can.

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Speaker 1: You talked about all the roles you play in the defense, corner, nicols, safety.

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Speaker 1: What's the hardest part about playing multiple different positions in

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Speaker 1: one game. I think it's just understanding like the totality

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Speaker 1: of the defense understanding which each job has, and then

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Speaker 1: just putting that together and there might be you know,

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Speaker 1: little nuances they motion and you have to go to this.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's just like the small nuances within

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Speaker 1: our defense that you know, those different positions offer. So

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Speaker 1: I know you've been basically bouncing around to a lot

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Speaker 1: of different spots ever since you got here. Since has

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Speaker 1: it gotten a little bit easier for you to to

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Speaker 1: handle those different responsibilities kind of each year you've been

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Speaker 1: in the league. Yeah, I think most definitely, Because all

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Speaker 1: I do is if I have a question at corner,

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Speaker 1: I would go ask Stefan Gilmore, H Jason mccordy JC.

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Speaker 1: If I had a question about Nickel, I asked John Jones,

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Speaker 1: question that safety asked dev So. So I think it's

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Speaker 1: just I made it a task for my of me

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Speaker 1: to go out there and you know, be curious, ask

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Speaker 1: these guys, all right, what did you see on this

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Speaker 1: play when it was a good play? What did you

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Speaker 1: see when it was a bad play? So just trying

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Speaker 1: to learn, and you know, I just look at the

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Speaker 1: the game like that that in itself. I asked Slate

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Speaker 1: about things he does, even though I might not play

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Speaker 1: the same role. It's just you know, fixing that curiosity

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Speaker 1: and in a place in ded and having so many

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Speaker 1: different moving pieces there at safety. How important is it

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Speaker 1: that so many of the guys in the group are

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Speaker 1: experienced and putting this defense for a number of years. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I think it's very important because one, we know the

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Speaker 1: expectation and the standard, you know that dev dev is

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Speaker 1: set for us and that we have to meet. But also,

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Speaker 1: you know, just the experience itself. I think experience is

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Speaker 1: the best teacher you can have. So having guys you know,

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Speaker 1: prep one role and then going out there and playing

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Speaker 1: that role. And I think it's just a credit to

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Speaker 1: the coaches, you know, them going out there, giving a

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Speaker 1: feel for, you know, how our defense works. I think

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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's just a a combination of all

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Speaker 1: those things and recommended that grass. It's a I think

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Speaker 1: it's an ongoing deal, you know. I it's it's been

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Speaker 1: looked at, and I think it continues to need to

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Speaker 1: be looked at. Me personally, I don't have like I

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Speaker 1: you like playing on grass a lot more, and I

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Speaker 1: understand the upkeep of it and all that. But I

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Speaker 1: don't think I halean or I'm on one side of

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Speaker 1: the fence or other so get injuries cause they kind

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Speaker 1: of blame the not uh, not necessarily. I mean the

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Speaker 1: game of football. You know, every time you step out there,

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Speaker 1: you can get injured, whether it's a grass or turfs.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to tackling guys, like, is there anything

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Speaker 1: you have to do differently or maybe overemphasize when it

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Speaker 1: comes to tackling those guys, I think it's just angles.

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Speaker 1: I think in the game of football, if you look

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Speaker 1: at football, it's a it's a game of angles. You know,

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Speaker 1: no matter if you're throwing the ball, running the ball, blocking, like,

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Speaker 1: it's all about leverage. So I think when it comes

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Speaker 1: to those guys, just making sure we have good leverage,

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Speaker 1: understanding where our help is, and then going out there

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