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Speaker 1: all you guys in a different state. I haven't seeing

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Speaker 1: a different team. It's great, you know, it's fun. Let

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Speaker 1: me just say he's off. Yeah, be a little easier. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was great just getting to go up

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Speaker 1: against our guys. You see these the same looks, but

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Speaker 1: also a lot of different stuff, you know, defense experiment

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Speaker 1: just see different you know, structures and all that and

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Speaker 1: our base rules, but really putting them to the test

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Speaker 1: and really challenges us just to communicate, especially up front

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Speaker 1: and then all the skill group and making sure we're

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Speaker 1: on the same page. You had a bunch of different

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Speaker 1: coverages then we're used to from our defense. So um,

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Speaker 1: it's good, you know, it challenges you. Um. I thought

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Speaker 1: we had a great day to day. I thought we

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Speaker 1: was good. It things like you guys look particularly sharpen

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Speaker 1: in the red zone, near the end of the day, like,

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Speaker 1: what what sort of change in terms of the mindset

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Speaker 1: The defense is throwing a lot of different coverages out,

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Speaker 1: And I just thought guys did a good job of

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Speaker 1: We ran the ball great today too, which was really

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Speaker 1: good to see. Back in your home state. Were you

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Speaker 1: able to kind of see any family or anything. This week,

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping so, you know, I really figured it out.

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Speaker 1: I'm still kind of working through the schedule. See if

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Speaker 1: work something out. I'd love to see him. Um. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it feels good to be back in Georgia. It's you know,

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Speaker 1: But just haven't been back in a while, so it

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Speaker 1: feels good. How long does it take for the offense

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Speaker 1: the corrections It's hard. You can draw it all on paper,

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Speaker 1: Just trying to limit turnovers and that's a simple thing

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Speaker 1: And then also just mastering the system, you know, from

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Speaker 1: very conversational UM, I think it's always you know, they

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Speaker 1: Oils from Jacksonville. Yeah, yes, and no obviously you're not

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Speaker 1: Christiane Kurk, very different from Levisko Chanel. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing in this game is knowing your matchups.

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Speaker 1: It's one thing you can have a perfect play call,

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Speaker 1: and who you like on the matchup. So no and

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Speaker 1: And I think that's something that this coaching staff has

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Speaker 1: You're always kind of figuring out more and more who's

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Speaker 1: into Week one. Awesome. Thank you all. I appreciate you