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Speaker 1: Going back to last year and the pressure of people

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Speaker 1: I always feel good regardless of the circumstances. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: one of the best plays. Um, you know, as a

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Speaker 1: the same time, so it's it's only one week, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. Uh, it's only the first week

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Speaker 1: of the season. I'm not satisfied. I'm ready to keep

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Speaker 1: working with the rest of my team, rest of my

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Speaker 1: to to keep getting home and then uh, from a

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Speaker 1: defensive line rocation, you played the most of anybody. There

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Speaker 1: were some snaps. There were like no defensive lineman in

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Speaker 1: What did you think of the way the front four

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Speaker 1: was deployed to seem like there were some creative looks there.

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Speaker 1: I like it. I think even the rotation, UM was

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Speaker 1: pretty well. I was was pretty good. We rotated really good.

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Speaker 1: I think everybody was able to stay fresh and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I thought every time I was in um,

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Speaker 1: And I think it also contributes um to the way

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Speaker 1: we worked in camp and uh, you know how hard

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Speaker 1: we worked and and how much we focused on on conditioning,

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Speaker 1: and I think it showed. It looked like you and

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Speaker 1: Dexter Horns both did a really nice job of getting

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Speaker 1: I was like, it was it was a race who

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Speaker 1: got there first. So just curious in terms of your

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Speaker 1: relationship with Dexter, how that's kind of evolved, you know

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Speaker 1: since you've been here, and um, just the pairing of

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Speaker 1: you guys both along that line. Uh, dex Man, I

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Speaker 1: love that guy, I think, Uh, you know, since day

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Speaker 1: like that. And uh, I don't want to play no favorites,

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Speaker 1: but he's like one of my best friends on the team.

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Speaker 1: How much easier does it make it for you to

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Speaker 1: a lot, obviously. Um, you know, sometimes offensive line can't

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Speaker 1: D line and uh, you know it's not just me

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Speaker 1: and it's not just DECKX, it's uh, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: all of us on the on the on the front. Um.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to play against the defense when you can't

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Speaker 1: sing a lot one person, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: if they go, if they slide protected one side and

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Speaker 1: to stay on Dexter for a second if I could. Leonard,

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Speaker 1: what was the reaction in the film room to the

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Speaker 1: tackle he made on that screenplay when you kind of,

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Speaker 1: field when that play happened, so I've seen it live

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Speaker 1: and it looked crazy, but after watching it on film,

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Speaker 1: I I went up to him and I was, man,

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Speaker 1: I know you got a sack and we all love sax,

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Speaker 1: but that might have been your best play of the game.

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I think it was just really

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Speaker 1: to break through the line like that, find them back,

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Speaker 1: Q from a d lineman because you know, usually the

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Speaker 1: lineman want to get a sack, so you feel that

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Speaker 1: the back immediately tracked them with his eyes and pulled

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Speaker 1: and this is the last one. Hey, Leonard, I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to ask you really two part question. You played

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Speaker 1: more snaps than any other defensive lineman the other night.

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Speaker 1: Does it give you confidence you know that that that

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff feels good enough to put you out

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Speaker 1: there that much? And do you do you like the

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Speaker 1: idea of kind of moving up and down the line

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Speaker 1: the way the way you were the other night as well? Uh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm a little confused on the first question,

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Speaker 1: but I'm definitely excited with the way we rotate and

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Speaker 1: the way we move around. I think even when we're

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Speaker 1: in like a base three down lineman, me and Dex

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Speaker 1: will flop side sometimes just because we wanna try different

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Speaker 1: we'll say, like, oh, if you're on the right side

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Speaker 1: and you're feeling better than you are on the left side,

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Speaker 1: like let me know, and I'll let you work the

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Speaker 1: right side more and stuff like that, you know, what

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Speaker 1: I mean. So we we try to like move around

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Speaker 1: keep everybody fresh and able to keep rushing out to

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. You guys doing some of that moving around

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Speaker 1: on your own. What's up? You guys doing some of

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Speaker 1: that moving around flopp inside? You're doing that on your own.

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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of it is obviously scheme, Like

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Speaker 1: when I'm standing up outside and you know, like you said,

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Speaker 1: uh the question earlier, there was no D line in

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Speaker 1: down line and three down line and a lot of

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Speaker 1: that is all, you know, defensive scheme. But uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: every once in a while, since me and decks are

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Speaker 1: played basically the same position, but on opposite side, like

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Speaker 1: sometimes we just like to switch different switch sides. So

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Speaker 1: I fill out the fill out the offensive line,