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Speaker 2: Look like I didn't notice.

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Speaker 1: It looked like it was flowing pretty good during the

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Speaker 2: You guys were having fun while you were gone.

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Speaker 1: No, you took a shot at me for a vacation

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Speaker 3: Well, I just thought that that would be somewhere where

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Speaker 1: I mean, from what I can remember, I've.

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Speaker 2: Been there a numerous times. I mean, it's a good.

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Speaker 1: Time of the kind of the shot. Yeah, but how

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Speaker 1: do you I'm assuming you and Morgan Walland know each

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean he played.

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Speaker 3: I saw him play in front of twelve hundred people

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's doing pretty good for himself.

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Speaker 4: Really does he does?

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Speaker 1: He?

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Speaker 2: How does that work?

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Speaker 1: Does he call you? Or do his people call?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: How does how do they lock you in for the walkout?

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Speaker 2: Uh? He handled that, he does.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was cool. Gronk did a did a good

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Speaker 2: Night.

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Speaker 1: I mean he spiked the guitar. I don't know, of

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Speaker 1: course he did. Well, we are do you want, by

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Speaker 1: the way, do you want some sort of a walk

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Speaker 2: No? No, no, I don't think we have to do that.

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Speaker 1: You don't, you don't?

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Speaker 2: Okay, maybe a coffee but wait, we'll get your coffee.

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Speaker 1: What do you what do you want? Black?

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Speaker 1: All right, so we're we're getting down to it here

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Speaker 1: meaningful football in less than two weeks. Uh, your first

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Speaker 1: the You in the same mindset as Wiggy and ty

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Speaker 3: That's what the you know, the tracking and the the

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Speaker 5: It's different, Mike. It's about the balance, right, I know.

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Speaker 5: The balance is different, especially for preseason games. Do you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think that through the joint practices

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Speaker 1: Trevion Henderson said Wednesday that you and the organization have

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Speaker 7: You talk about being intentional, how important is it to

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean I think that when you talk about

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Speaker 1: I know you don't want to talk about players that

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Speaker 3: Well, again, we want to continue to strengthen the roster.

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Speaker 4: I won't say no names, but thank you. When you

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Speaker 5: One of the guys that I think a lot of

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Speaker 2: And again, I think that they're building a connection.

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Speaker 3: I think that there's you know, we've we've played a

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Speaker 3: You know, the expectations. This is professional football. So but

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Speaker 6: When you were asked about you on Pole last week,

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Speaker 2: Have you figured out? Guys?

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Speaker 3: I love how you guys take everything out.

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Speaker 2: We got to run with it, get all nervous.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's rats all over the place, but do you

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Speaker 2: I just love the flow of information.

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Speaker 3: And I just felt inclined and I was pissed off

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Speaker 1: So you don't have to smoke them out.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think they we'll have to smoke them out.

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Speaker 3: I think we just want to be careful again the

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Speaker 2: I think that's the most important thing.

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Speaker 3: Now, I haven't looked at that one bit. I haven't

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Speaker 2: And that that's been my focus.

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Speaker 4: Mike, what's that relationship like?

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Speaker 5: Because I think a lot of people like we look

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, I wouldn't get caught up in that. I mean,

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Speaker 3: We met with the you know, the players, and when

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Speaker 6: Two specific players, Drake and Will Campbell, have been talked

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the games matter. I think they do.

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Speaker 3: I think the live contact and the you know, the

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Speaker 3: Everybody thinks that there's a sack every single play and practice,

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Speaker 3: He said five, And I said, you think you got

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Speaker 3: that's how it goes. And I think that the joint

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Speaker 1: Speaking of stats, I think for you preseason two fights

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you haven't been in too many fights because

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Speaker 2: They were wrestling.

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Speaker 1: I love you get right in there. I mean, it's

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Speaker 3: I just don't want to see any punches, darn. I

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Speaker 6: No scarring on the cheek either.

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Speaker 4: Never hit a guy with a helmet on that.

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Speaker 5: You look at this offense and you look at a

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Speaker 4: I like to know what has how has his progression

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Speaker 5: Protection right, because you know that is a huge pot

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Speaker 4: How has his progression been?

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Speaker 3: The thing that we talk about with young players is

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Speaker 1: I know you want to win every football game. It's

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Speaker 2: Is that part of your process do you? You know?

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Speaker 2: We're undefeated right now.

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Speaker 2: No, I've never looked at it like that.

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Speaker 3: I think that that there's a that there's a growth,

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Speaker 3: You know you're gonna have to win some close games, right,

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Speaker 3: and you know we'll have to do that. But now,

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Speaker 3: I've never looked at what a you know, a successful

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Speaker 3: that's what that first. That goal is, you know, win

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Speaker 1: I saw recently one of your media rules for the

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Speaker 2: What does that mean?

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Speaker 3: Well, you asked me, He asked me what Elliott meant?

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Speaker 3: And I'm not going to say, well, Wiggy thinks, how

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Speaker 2: I'll let you know.

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Speaker 3: I'll let you know nobody knows, nobody knows, right, because

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Speaker 2: I don't know you guys. You guys want to speak

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Speaker 1: We dealt with the guy for a lot of years

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Speaker 2: Thing during the interview was very difficult. So how were those.

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Speaker 6: The scariest Sunday night into Monday in my life?

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Speaker 2: How much?

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Speaker 7: When it comes to your you have a support group,

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Speaker 1: Are as a coach? How much of that is is

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Speaker 3: I mean quite a bit, just as I learned a

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Speaker 1: And Bill was on the show last week talking about

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Speaker 2: Tyler's helping out, and he's excited.

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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you, I don't know how much time

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Speaker 3: So he's like, he's like, after the first scrimmage, I said,

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Speaker 2: We only use the same fing.

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Speaker 3: Cadence every time I said, I texted back, welcome to coaching.

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Speaker 6: That's the hardest part of that.

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Speaker 2: Welcome coaching, Tyler.

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Speaker 5: What it's like to be on the other side. You

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Speaker 5: know what's interesting, Mike. You bring up and you say,

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Speaker 2: This team to be?

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Speaker 4: I know you talk to them, what what is that?

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Speaker 2: Well? I mean I want you to see.

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Speaker 3: I want our fans to see a team that plays together,

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Speaker 2: We got old linemen that are down the field.

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Speaker 3: and you.

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Speaker 2: return couple.

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Speaker 3: screening and using their rules and doing it the right way.

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Speaker 1: the date, six thirty eight.

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