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Speaker 1: Was your bye week, George. Yeah, we flew out to Jackson, Ol,

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Speaker 1: It was really nice to go out there and breathe.

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Speaker 2: What's it been like just having a Christian back on

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Speaker 2: the field this week?

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Speaker 1: It's been awesome, man, just what he brings to the table,

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Speaker 1: and and really just firing everybody else up around, you know,

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Speaker 1: feeling good and fresh, and then you get two three

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Speaker 1: next to you in the backfield. It's been awesome. Looks

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Speaker 1: great moving around, and he's trending in the in the

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Speaker 1: right direction. So we're excited to see what happens. Played

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Speaker 1: together a lot, But do you need a little extra

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Speaker 1: time just in terms of some of the past game stuff,

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Speaker 1: getting back on the same page, getting timing.

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Speaker 2: Do you do any of that this week?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just in the past game with you know, we

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Speaker 1: do a lot of stuff where you know, he makes

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Speaker 1: just being on the same page and that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So it's you know, sinking back up into that kind

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Speaker 1: of world. But obviously he's really smart and and it's

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Speaker 1: been it's been a pretty good transition so far.

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Speaker 2: Is preparing to face to the Buccaneers, How is it

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Speaker 2: different than two years ago when you were going through

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, two years ago, it was

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Speaker 1: more of you know, I got approved my teammates and

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Speaker 1: everybody that you know I can I can step in

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Speaker 1: and do the role really well as a quarterback for

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Speaker 1: this team and compete in that regard. Now it's like,

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Speaker 1: all right, we're, you know, going into year three and

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Speaker 1: and we've we all know what I've been able to

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Speaker 1: do and what I can do for this team. And

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Speaker 1: so now it's you know where we're at. We're four

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Speaker 1: and four coming off the buy, and it's how can

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Speaker 1: standard that we need to be successful right now? And

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Speaker 1: so that's the mindset. It's a little different. Obviously I

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Speaker 1: was trying to prove and make a statement two years ago,

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Speaker 1: but playing this defense now man personnel is a little different.

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Speaker 1: But the scheme is there, and you know, they're they're

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Speaker 1: a good team overall. So that's the mindset going into

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Speaker 2: A couple of times I'm curious why you think that.

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Speaker 2: The almost seems like it's a starting cut for you

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Speaker 1: I mean it's nice that you know, we had to

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Speaker 1: together and it's all right. We know how important the

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Speaker 1: second half the season is, and it's it's all about

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Speaker 1: one game at a time and and you know, stacking

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Speaker 1: up wins and everything. So we've obviously known that from

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years, but every year is different.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean it's going to be guaranteed this year

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Speaker 1: that we're gonna go and and do the things that

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Speaker 1: we did the last couple of years. It's we got

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Speaker 2: So what stands out to you about Todd Bowles's defense

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Speaker 1: I think just the pressures and and all the variations

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Speaker 1: He does a really good job with that. He always

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Speaker 1: has guys play together and they're gritty. You don't see

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Speaker 1: anyone on the tape that gives up or anything like

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Speaker 2: Change against a team pots as much as they do.

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Speaker 2: Having Christian how does that maybe sort of.

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Speaker 1: Change how you can attack the Yeah, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think it's always nice knowing, you know, you have Christian

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Speaker 1: can open up other guys in the past game. But

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Speaker 1: more than anything, we have really good playmakers across the board,

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Speaker 1: nice though knowing that I can go through my read

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Speaker 1: So but that's that's the name of the game. Man.

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Speaker 1: You they're gonna pressure and try to get you off guard.

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Speaker 1: And off schedule, and we's got to be on top

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Speaker 1: of our assignments. So you mentioned a lot of man coverage,

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Speaker 1: especially Christian, and how much do you think he maybe

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Speaker 1: effects have teams preparing that way. Yeah, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think you know, years past, there's usually been defensive schemes

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Speaker 1: uh just double them. And that's been you know, it's

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Speaker 1: obviously tough because you want to get in the ball,

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Speaker 1: So but that is the blessing of having really good

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Speaker 2: More an imposing guy to look across the line at

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Speaker 2: his feat of veil when you ta get a snap

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, he's definitely a guy that you got

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Speaker 1: to know where he's at every play, every snap. He's

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Speaker 1: very disruptive and a strong guy. He's been like that

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Speaker 1: for however long he's been playing man, he's he's always

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Speaker 1: a problem and we face him multiple times and he's

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Speaker 1: had his moments, and so for us, it's like, how

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Speaker 1: can we be smart both in the past game, run game,

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Speaker 1: knowing where he's at and understand that he can change

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Speaker 1: the game at any moment. Thanks, Thanks guys. M