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Speaker 1: It's fantastic, right, what do you see from this one?

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Speaker 1: on everything they do. I mean they're good at every level. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: missing Vaughan this week is big for him, I know,

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Speaker 1: but I mean linebacker and safeties. I mean they all

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Speaker 1: those guys have been playing together for the last few years.

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Speaker 1: You know, they know each other and they communicate well.

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Speaker 1: They're fast, they keep everything in front of him. They

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Speaker 1: make you really earn everything. So it's a tough defense

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Speaker 1: to go. Gains tells about players. He has been one

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Speaker 1: of the better safeties in the league for a number

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Speaker 1: of years now. Yeah, he just produces. Man, he's out

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Speaker 1: there and he's tough to go against. He's tough, he

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Speaker 1: everything in front of him. He's disciplined, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: and smart too him. He's been around and seeing a

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Speaker 1: tough to go against Austin Knox. Go to you, he did, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he did, I did? I did. Um. You know, you

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Speaker 1: got to talk to him and know him. You know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of tight ends across the legue. That was

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Speaker 1: I think that's kind of one of the biggest things

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Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of honestly, one of the biggest things.

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Speaker 1: he's a great dude. He's fun to watch and really

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Speaker 1: good player. Do We talked about two you guys a

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Speaker 1: lot about when this three games in twelve days started.

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Speaker 1: What's it now? What's it feel like now that you're

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Speaker 1: but you know, body feels good. You know, mentally, I

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Speaker 1: you get to just play these you know, play games,

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Speaker 1: my body feels good, so you know that there's a

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Speaker 1: fun side to it. Then we get to get to

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Speaker 1: another game faster. As a passing offense. From the Minnesota game,

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Speaker 1: I think there's some things we can build on, for sure.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we did some things and we were able

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Speaker 1: so I think that's something we need to build upon.

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Speaker 1: But there's definitely some things that we can take from

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Speaker 1: Mac and just sort of you know, you've got this

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Speaker 1: here today. Yeah, he's I mean he's doing a great job. Man.

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Speaker 1: You know he this year has been tough at times,

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Speaker 1: see him have success and just the leader he is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we just continue to ride him throughout this

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Speaker 1: to just go out there on Sundays, Thursdays, whatever day

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Speaker 1: I mean I think it's it's changed. Right. So last

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Speaker 1: You're not just gonna be a vocal leader all of

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Speaker 1: last years, last year, This year is this year. But

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Speaker 1: we didn't. We didn't show him who we were. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But I think everybody's excited to go out there and compete,

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Speaker 1: Would about it's used team you think might be most

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Speaker 1: really really good. Sweet wow questions least they played a

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Speaker 1: lot more mean coverage as you guys last two meetings

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Speaker 1: much as you know, you can do different things at

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Speaker 1: some point, one on one is what I want. You

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Speaker 1: got to overcome that, right exactly. I mean it's mono imano.

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Speaker 1: You know, you just gotta beat you gotta beat the

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Speaker 1: fundamental technique, all that work you put in, um, studying

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