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Speaker 1: Chick joins us there and we'll start with Jim McBride

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Speaker 1: followed like Chris Ryan. Encourage others to raise your hand

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Speaker 1: if you have questions. Are good morning, coach, Hi Jim, So,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about John new Smith his

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Speaker 1: blocking ability. It seemed like he was really strong at

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Speaker 1: the point of attack yesterday he had one of those

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Speaker 1: wind blocks where he came down the line and really

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Speaker 1: opened up a nice lane for for Romandre and just

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Speaker 1: wondering what you're seeing from that aspect of his game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: John is uh, you know, he's a pretty good blocking

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Speaker 1: tight end. He's tough kid. Um, you know, it's got

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Speaker 1: good playing strength for his size, and he's certainly very

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Speaker 1: willing blocker and a good athlete that can make some

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Speaker 1: adjustments and um, you know, a lot of times just

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Speaker 1: a lot of legs and feet and you get tangled

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Speaker 1: up in there and guys, you know, getting hit from

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Speaker 1: different directions a lot. But he has good playing strength,

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Speaker 1: good balance and uh and good took guys, a good toughness,

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Speaker 1: very willing blocker both in line and down the field.

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Speaker 1: So he does a good job for us there A

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Speaker 1: lot of times. He's a lot of times he's blocking

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Speaker 1: guys that you know, weigh him by you know, forty

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Speaker 1: fifty whatever pounds, but he again he plays strong and

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Speaker 1: plays tough. Thank you. Yeah, you're next question Chris Ryan,

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Speaker 1: fall Bay, Zach Cox, Morny Bill. How are you hey?

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Speaker 1: Chris Good just wanted to get your upshot on where

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Speaker 1: things are at with the team, you know, through obviously

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Speaker 1: nine games heading into your the buy and you mentioned

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Speaker 1: earlier this year that it takes time, obviously to get

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Speaker 1: a field for who your team is. Do you feel

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Speaker 1: like you you know at this point is that still

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Speaker 1: being developed? Well every week it's a little bit different

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Speaker 1: because the new team that you play in the matchups

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Speaker 1: and so forth. But yeah, we certainly know a lot

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Speaker 1: more about our team after nine regular season games than

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Speaker 1: we did back in you know, September after three preseason games.

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Speaker 1: So it goes a good chance here in the next

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Speaker 1: few days to look a little closer and find some

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Speaker 1: areas that we can improve in, um, you know, as

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Speaker 1: we go forward, and hopefully that all helps. Who do

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Speaker 1: you feel that the team is at this point? I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: but who do you like? Who do you feel like

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Speaker 1: the obviously your identity is always wanting to do whatever

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Speaker 1: it takes to win. But do you have a sense

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Speaker 1: for you know, how good this this team is, their potential,

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Speaker 1: you know, etc. Yeah, Well, I mean we we've had

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Speaker 1: good moments and bad moments over the course of the season.

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Speaker 1: I think the big thing is has been a consistency

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Speaker 1: um that's shown up a little bit in all three

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Speaker 1: phases of the game, So between the coaching staff and

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Speaker 1: the players and and you know, just a consistent performance

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Speaker 1: play in and play out, week in and week out. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think that's really the biggest biggest challenge for us

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Speaker 1: moving forward. Thanks, you're welcome X Christian zach Cox, followed

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Speaker 1: by Nicko Manning Bill Zach A couple pretty productive games

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Speaker 1: in the past rush department from buch What are you

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Speaker 1: seeing from him that that's maybe allowing to be a

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Speaker 1: little more consistent in that area these last couple of weeks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think Jobs has been pretty consistent here for a while. Um.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes those the numbers come in bunches and um or not,

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Speaker 1: or they could come in draughts too. Um. But you know,

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Speaker 1: his overall pass rush skill is is good. He's got speed,

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Speaker 1: he's athletic, and he's developing more more power and and

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Speaker 1: UM timing and execution on pass rush games. So UM,

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Speaker 1: doing a lot of things well, doing some things better,

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Speaker 1: and there's always room to improve. And it changes a

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Speaker 1: little bit each week based on who's blocking in, who

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Speaker 1: the quarterback is, and how you have to rush that

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Speaker 1: quarterback or the protection scheme that that team, that particularly

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Speaker 1: team uses. UM. But you know, he's done a good

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Speaker 1: job of recognizing those things and and of course he's

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Speaker 1: seen more and more here over the last you know,

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Speaker 1: three years, so UM, you know, some of the some

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Speaker 1: of the things that maybe called him a little bit

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Speaker 1: by surprise or it wasn't quite ready for in the

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Speaker 1: past are more familiar to him now. And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just better decisions, better awareness, UM, better execution. And

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Speaker 1: Judn mentioned last night that Josh is taking off the

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Speaker 1: kind of single color role and do that third doubt package.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel like he's developed in that? Yay, good,

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Speaker 1: He's worked hard on that. I'll start in the off

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Speaker 1: season going all the way back to UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: after last season and into the early parts of the

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Speaker 1: he's been doing that for quite a while. We've given

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Speaker 1: everybody has a lot of confidence in him doing that. Great.

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Speaker 1: Thank there you're walking. Next question, Nicko rally favored Kakoine.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask about a cool strange and what

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Speaker 1: his status is right now. After the game, he said

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Speaker 1: that he talked with the coaches and said that there

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Speaker 1: were some fundamental issues with his fundamentals he had to

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Speaker 1: work on. What sort of progress do you need to

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Speaker 1: where he was as a as a start to finish

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Speaker 1: starter on the offensive line. They Cole is a good

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Speaker 1: player and he's going to be a better player as

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Speaker 1: You know, we have used a lot of guys they're

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Speaker 1: on the offensive line. We had to had too in

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Speaker 1: a couple of cases. But um, you know he'll well,

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Speaker 1: we'll we'll use multiple players and and I'm sure that

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Speaker 1: you know he'll help us. And what did you see

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Speaker 1: from Isaiah that made you think that he'd be a

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Speaker 1: good fit moving from the right tackle spot to left guard.

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Speaker 1: Play left Garden College or played Garden College is not

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Speaker 1: the not his last year at George over the year

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Speaker 1: before that, he played guard, um so, and he's done

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Speaker 1: that for us as well. Uh, he's mostly played tackle obviously,

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Speaker 1: but um yeah, he has this, definitely has his skills

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Speaker 1: to play. Guarden's played guard in the past. Thank you, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're welcome. Next question to cot Reno, he built. We're

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Speaker 1: nine games into the new coaching configuration on offense, just

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Speaker 1: wondering how do you think things are going with you,

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Speaker 1: Matt and Joe and have there been any sort of

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Speaker 1: big adjustments that you've made along the way since the

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Speaker 1: end of the day. Yeah, well, I mean every week's

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Speaker 1: its own week, you know, in terms of game planning

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Speaker 1: and practicing, preparing for that team and then moving on

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Speaker 1: the next week when the next team comes. That's the

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Speaker 1: way it is for on offense, defense, special teams, um

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Speaker 1: you know, for everybody so and for our entire team.

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Speaker 1: So that's all we'll keep doing, keep grinding away here.

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Speaker 1: And as I said, our consistency and in all three

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Speaker 1: phases of the game is definitely something that we need

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Speaker 1: to be better at UM, so we'll start with that.

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Speaker 1: And Nick, did you have another quession? I know that

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Speaker 1: was just my handstand up as I know their hands

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Speaker 1: are back to Dakota Rango. Yeah, I guess it's a

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Speaker 1: few games in a week for few weeks in a

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Speaker 1: row now that Brendan Schooler has been around the ball

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Speaker 1: and it sort of made plays. Um, I guess just

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Speaker 1: what have you seen from him on spedial teams this season?

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Speaker 1: And it looks like he's got some, you know, a

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Speaker 1: pretty good nose for the ball he does. Yeah, Schools

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Speaker 1: is instinctive, kitty, picks things up quickly. And he's played

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Speaker 1: multiple positions for US, um in the kicking game, UM

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Speaker 1: in both the coverage and the return units. So that's

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Speaker 1: been uh valuable for US. And and it's been you know,

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Speaker 1: a good, you know, good experiences for him. Again, I

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Speaker 1: think when you play multiple spots like that, you not

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Speaker 1: only learn how to play the spot you're in, but

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Speaker 1: then you understand what some other guys are doing, what

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Speaker 1: their issues are, how they can help you or not

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Speaker 1: player and a smart kid. You know, Cam and Joe

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Speaker 1: you know, with Schools, Um you know of course now

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Speaker 1: with Webb in there and and DeMarcus Mitchell, Um, those

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Speaker 1: And of course Slate's done a great job with him

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Speaker 1: of time together. They're kind of our core group and

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Speaker 1: they're on just about every unit except for vehicle protection.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, Schools you know, continued to to make some

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Speaker 1: instinctive plays and and you know he's seen he's been doubled,

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Speaker 1: but they've also doubled Slater a lot as well, and

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Speaker 1: so that that's given other guys opportunities. Playing with Slater

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Speaker 1: you know, he's going to attract a lot of attention.

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Speaker 1: But um, you know School is starting to draw some

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Speaker 1: double teams too, So I guess that's it's a compliment

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Speaker 1: in a way to recognizing his production. Thank you are welcome,

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Speaker 1: Thank you coach, Thanks everyone, right, thank you