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Speaker 1: Can you tell me a little bit about what you've

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Speaker 1: learned about the Davante downs uh the past month. Yeah. No,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of a funny story. My wife's brother played

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Speaker 1: with him in college, so kind of got an early

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Speaker 1: kind of UM synopsis of him. Just personality wise, knew

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Speaker 1: that he was a great guy, UM, but football wise,

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Speaker 1: he's just kind of showing up every single day. UM

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Speaker 1: whatever it is, run past blitzing, UH. Communication wise has

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Speaker 1: just been so it's just been awesome to kind of

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Speaker 1: work with them throughout this camp. Earlier in UH, in

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Speaker 1: training camp, you had talked about trying to learn this defense,

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Speaker 1: trying to become the guy that was you know, really

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Speaker 1: kind of the calming factor for you know, for the group.

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Speaker 1: Where are you in that process you think? And how

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Speaker 1: comfortable are you entering week one? No, I feel really

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Speaker 1: comfortable kind of moving in this week. Has done a

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Speaker 1: great job installing UM throughout training camp and just all

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Speaker 1: this stuff we've put in this week UM to get

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Speaker 1: ready for the game on Monday. It's made it pretty

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Speaker 1: easy to be that calm, cooling factor for the for

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Speaker 1: the group. And obviously there's some guys starting for the

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Speaker 1: first time. UM, so it's gonna be a big component

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Speaker 1: for me to be able to do that for the game.

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Speaker 1: Joe Judge was talking yesterday, you know, we were asking

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Speaker 1: him about game planning for game week, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of attention always goes to, you know, how much does

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Speaker 1: the quarterback get involved? And he made a point that

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Speaker 1: he wants to be really in sync with all of

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Speaker 1: his signal callers and he included you obviously, uh, and

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Speaker 1: then across the board for special teams. But I'm just

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Speaker 1: curious for you on game week, is that something new

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Speaker 1: for you that you would kind of be involved, that

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Speaker 1: that the coaches would bounce ideas off of you, what

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Speaker 1: you like, what you don't like, UM. And I'm just

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Speaker 1: curious what that process has been like for you with

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Speaker 1: Pat and obviously Joe No. Yeah, So I had Pat

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Speaker 1: my third year, as you guys know, m He kind

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Speaker 1: of brought that to the system I was in previous. UM,

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Speaker 1: So I kind of got used to it, having kind

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Speaker 1: of meetings and things like that to kind of go

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Speaker 1: over UM, anything that's confusing, UM or anything that's doing

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Speaker 1: really well, just random feedback and stuff like that. So

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Speaker 1: I've been used to it, UM and it's just been

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Speaker 1: awesome to kind of have. Obviously moving forward and keeping

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Speaker 1: that going. Isn't an interesting situation going into week one

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Speaker 1: where this is really the first time and I'd imagine

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Speaker 1: week four you kind of have a better idea of

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Speaker 1: what you have a good handle on as a group,

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Speaker 1: but you don't now you're going into week one. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what was that conversation like, I mean you kind of

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Speaker 1: break out your list and say, all right, here's what

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Speaker 1: I think from three weeks ago kind of thing. No, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a tough part right now. Um, obviously

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Speaker 1: we don't have preseason normally you can kind of get

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Speaker 1: little things here and there, um, just off what guys

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Speaker 1: are doing at least this year. UM. But yeah, going

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Speaker 1: into this, it was kind of like Joe, Joe has

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Speaker 1: always kind of said, is these first four weeks is

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Speaker 1: all fundamentals and situational football. UM. So at that point,

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Speaker 1: it's just focus on what we can control, um, and

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Speaker 1: what we can do every given play and execute it

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Speaker 1: as much as we can. What did you think of

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Speaker 1: the energy at today's practice? It seemed like Joe kind

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Speaker 1: of huddled you guys up and almost made you start over.

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Speaker 1: Is that kind of how it went then Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was one of those moments where, um, we just

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Speaker 1: didn't come out the right way and we need to

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Speaker 1: kind of refocus and get things going again. UM. And

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Speaker 1: we did that, and we had to bounce back and

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Speaker 1: kind of show our resolve, UM and our kind of

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Speaker 1: ability to adapt um and kind of as a team

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Speaker 1: understand what we're doing wrong and come back and fix it.

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Speaker 1: How rare is that? I mean, have you ever been

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Speaker 1: out of practice in the NFL where you had a

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Speaker 1: kind of reboot? Uh? No, Yeah, that was the That

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Speaker 1: was definitely the first time. UM. But it was it

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Speaker 1: was really cool how kind of everybody UM took it

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Speaker 1: in a positive way. Wasn't kind of like ah, here

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Speaker 1: we go, like why are we doing this? It was

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Speaker 1: just like, hey, this is what we need to fix.

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Speaker 1: We need to make sure we get this right. Because

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Speaker 1: I think we all understand how big this first week

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Speaker 1: is to kind of set a statement, um for ourselves

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Speaker 1: as a team on what we want to be moving

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Speaker 1: throughout the season. What's it like playing for a head

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Speaker 1: coach who is in his first season? What if you

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Speaker 1: gotten from him? What do you think that he's try

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Speaker 1: to um relay to you guys? As a team. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think. I mean, ever since the first time that

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Speaker 1: I've had a team meeting with Coach Judge, been the

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Speaker 1: same room as Coach Judge, whether it's zoom or UM

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Speaker 1: actually in our facilities, it's to me it's never seemed

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Speaker 1: like he's a first year head coach. UM. Every single

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Speaker 1: day has come with certain things fundamental wise, UM, situational,

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Speaker 1: just every position he's able to coach UM, individual, lee,

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Speaker 1: as a group, UM, and you feel like he just

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Speaker 1: knows so much about football UM. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing that I've I've gone from this is

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Speaker 1: I've gotten so much better as a player in this

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Speaker 1: past month of training camp than I ever have, just

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Speaker 1: in the ability to understand why we're doing certain drills,

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Speaker 1: how it's gonna corporate, incorporate in the game. UM. And

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Speaker 1: then just overall as a player, just my awareness every

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Speaker 1: given down, whether his first, second, third down, UM, to

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Speaker 1: know what's coming, UM and what to expect. Hi, Leonard,

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Speaker 1: hey Blake, Sorry if you got asked this already, I

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Speaker 1: was a little bit late. Are you healthy? Um? Is

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Speaker 1: this injury that you've been dealing with going to prevent

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Speaker 1: you from playing on Monday? How are you feeling going

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Speaker 1: into the game. I mean, I feel good practice today,

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Speaker 1: So just keep taking it one day at a time

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Speaker 1: and getting ready for Monday. UM. I was curious, Um,

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Speaker 1: given the fact that you know, Joe Judge has never

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Speaker 1: been a head coach before, is there anything it surprised

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Speaker 1: you about him working with him for the first time

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Speaker 1: and just kind of what stood out? Yeah. I think

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Speaker 1: the biggest i'd say surprise for me was obviously, like

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Speaker 1: you said, first year head coach. Um, you kind of

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Speaker 1: wonder how they're gonna be, if they're gonna be trying

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Speaker 1: to be something different, Um, change things up all the time,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to say, just all over the place. Uh,

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Speaker 1: But he never was. It was always, hey, this is

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Speaker 1: how I'm gonna be every single day. Um. There was

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Speaker 1: no switching up. It wasn't all right if you're the

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Speaker 1: star player or you're undrafted free agent. He was the

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Speaker 1: same way to every single person. If you're doing it wrong,

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Speaker 1: you knew you were doing it wrong, and he was

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you in front of everybody, UM, no matter

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Speaker 1: what your status was. And I think that was a

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Speaker 1: big surprise to me, and it was it was awesome

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Speaker 1: to have Um, because it just shows how he wants

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Speaker 1: the team from top to bottom to be