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Speaker 1: camp and this spring for the last six months or so. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been fun this week. Um, you know you kind

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Speaker 1: of switch into game plan mode and um, yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: preparing for certain looks. Were kind of you know, scheming

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Speaker 1: up our offense to put us in the best position

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Speaker 1: to to uh you know, make plays and succeed. But

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Speaker 1: you know, it's about us. It's about us executing our

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Speaker 1: plays and and doing what we need to do as

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Speaker 1: a unit uh and an offense. So um, you know

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Speaker 1: we're preparing for them, but we're really you know, focus

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Speaker 1: on us this week. How is it practicing out there

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Speaker 1: in the rain that we've got those conditions could be

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Speaker 1: there on Sunday. Yeah, it was good. I thought guys

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Speaker 1: did a good job handling it. Uh did a good

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Speaker 1: with their cuts. I thought we did a good job

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Speaker 1: handling the ball. Um. So yeah, I think, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of helpful that we had those conditions today. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, knowing that Sunday could be rainy. You know,

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Speaker 1: obviously the relationship between the quarterback and the head coach

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Speaker 1: is an important one. What's been the best part of

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Speaker 1: working with Brian so far from you and your development? Um? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think he's just always thinking. He's always,

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Speaker 1: uh you know, thinking about a new way to run

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Speaker 1: you know that's kind of constant with him. It's uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, in the cafeteria, it's through the hallways obviously,

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Speaker 1: in meeting rooms. He's always kind of thinking and coming

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Speaker 1: up with new ideas. Um. So that's been fun. You know,

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Speaker 1: you learn a lot that way. Um, you know, as

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Speaker 1: I'm learning the system, but also just learning kind of

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Speaker 1: the way he thinks about football, how he sees um

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Speaker 1: be successful. So it's been fun working with him. He's

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Speaker 1: obviously talked about wanting to bring the best out of you.

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Speaker 1: Is there's something about his system in particular that you

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Speaker 1: think does bring out the best in you in your

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Speaker 1: skill set? Um, well, I think it's a versatile system.

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Speaker 1: I think it um, you know it it uh allows

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Speaker 1: the quarterback to do a lot in the pocket outside

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Speaker 1: the pocket in the running game. Um, it allows us

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Speaker 1: get into advantageous looks depending on what the defense does,

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Speaker 1: you know, easily getting in and out of place. So um,

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Speaker 1: I think for all from all those perspectives, it's it's

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, I certainly enjoyed working with him. For guy

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Speaker 1: who's played entering his fourth season, do you still get

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Speaker 1: butterflies as a season approaches, Uh, yeah, I do. I think, Um,

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Speaker 1: you kind of get that excitement or you know, butterflies

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Speaker 1: a little bit. But um, it's all a good thing,

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Speaker 1: and you know it helps you know that you're you're

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Speaker 1: you're getting ready to go. But um, once we get

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Speaker 1: out there and the ball gets snapped, you know that

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Speaker 1: normally calms down a little bit. You get into the

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Speaker 1: flow of the game. But I'm excited to get going.

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Speaker 1: And if you've learned anything about your offensive line, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's been crazy, a lot of injuries and stuff,

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Speaker 1: But have you learned anything through camp, through in preseason

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Speaker 1: and maybe you didn't know coming in, Um yeah, I

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Speaker 1: physical group of guys. Um, you know, we've done a

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Speaker 1: really good job getting on the same page. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: John's done a great job obviously knows the system well

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Speaker 1: from being in Buffalo and kind of bringing everyone along

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Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, getting everyone on the same page,

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Speaker 1: getting the calls straight, and UM, I think those guys

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Speaker 1: uh you know you see the chemistry playing with each

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Speaker 1: other communicating up there, and and uh you know, I

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Speaker 1: think they've done a great job. You just said, it's

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Speaker 1: something about how sophisticated the codes are, uh, that they

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Speaker 1: that has to take in a lot of information, can

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Speaker 1: you empathize or understand how sophisticated it is? Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: is it. It's Uh, it's a lot for them to remember.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, code words and uh calls they've

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Speaker 1: ready to hear a call and know what to do immediately.

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Speaker 1: So um, yeah that we put a lot of them

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Speaker 1: this guy's play and they do a really good job

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Speaker 1: handling it. So it's been impressive. Are you and your

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Speaker 1: fourth verbiage for a quarterback? I mean you've changed code

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Speaker 1: you so much? Has he changed again this this season? Uh?

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Speaker 1: The verbone, Yeah, the bourbon, which is definitely different uh

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Speaker 1: this year. Um, you know that's probably you know, that's

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Speaker 1: something you gotta you gotta learn. It just takes time

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Speaker 1: to study, memorize the you know, the words and and

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Speaker 1: how we're gonna call things. But you know, the next

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Speaker 1: level of that is understanding the concepts of plays and

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Speaker 1: kind of getting used to seeing it against certain defenses

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Speaker 1: and knowing what to expect. Would you like it back?

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Speaker 1: And Mike's gonna continue calling plays? Yeah? I mean I

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Speaker 1: think he's done a great job. I thought he did

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Speaker 1: a great job through the preseason and in training camp,

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Speaker 1: and I really enjoyed working with him. Um, so yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm I've really enjoyed it.