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Speaker 1: Hello, I'm good. I'm good. That's good. Well what's this

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Speaker 1: week like for you? Uh? Individually? Well, how excited are

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Speaker 1: What's Sunday morning life? Would you kind of go through

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Speaker 2: Well, I may to say I'm excited to get this

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Speaker 2: thing started as kind of an understatement, but right now,

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Speaker 2: I think the best thing is to take it one

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Speaker 2: But like I said, yea we e, I'm excited. I'm

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Right now, we're still in the preparation stage. But all

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Speaker 2: this part is all this stuff is just the process,

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Speaker 2: So I'm excited for it all.

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Speaker 1: How different is this for you? I don't think you've

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Speaker 1: played in the preseason.

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Speaker 3: I might have compared the past years.

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Speaker 1: Since that changed, That's right. How different it is? I

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Speaker 1: guess playing the open right, like you think you want

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Speaker 2: Feel like well, I think Uh as far as the

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Speaker 2: preseason concerned, coach's decision, Uh, as far as everything else, man,

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Speaker 2: I was just looking forward to week one. We had

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Speaker 2: a few joint practices, was able to get after it

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Speaker 2: that we got a lot out of those. Uh But

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Speaker 2: as far as week one is concerned, that's legit been

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Speaker 2: the process. So all the preseason games, uh, I mean,

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Speaker 2: you can't really do nothing about that. That's the coach's decision.

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Speaker 2: But week one, that's that's kind of been the focus.

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Speaker 1: It's basically what I was asking. Oh yeah, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure, that's not that's no question at all. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: They their run game is described as diverse.

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Speaker 3: What makes it unique the sort of the things that

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Speaker 1: Week basis okay.

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Speaker 2: Uh So as far as the run game is concerned,

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Speaker 2: they got a lot of dynamic players. When it come

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Speaker 2: they get they make sure you're paying attention to everything,

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Speaker 1: P's and q's.

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Speaker 2: Uh So, at the end of the day, we just

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Speaker 2: got to make sure we make the plays that we're

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Speaker 2: they're gonna they're gonna make their play.

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Speaker 1: We just gotta make sure we.

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Speaker 2: Kind of hone in on what we want to stop

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Speaker 3: If when you mentioned the run game, how do you

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Speaker 3: strike a balance with their oo ski where they also

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Speaker 2: Well, it really just takes everybody just doing their job.

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Speaker 2: Everybody has a has a role to play. I mean,

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Speaker 2: So it's kind of like a do your job kind

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Speaker 1: So that's that's gonna be. That's the main thing for sure.

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Speaker 1: What do you see it from Christian Key Marketakas as

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Speaker 1: far as the preparedness.

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Speaker 2: They've been, they've been soaking up everything as far as like, uh,

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Speaker 2: as much as we would like that to happen. That's

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Speaker 2: just not the case. Is you kind of gotta roll

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Speaker 2: But they've done a good job of just grasping information

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Speaker 2: But I'm excited for them all.

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Speaker 1: You want to mention that those guys are rookies, your

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Speaker 1: rookie year. Of course you played with Tom. He won

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Speaker 2: Oh, man, it's great, it's great. I would say, uh,

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Speaker 2: Tom has always been I call it the og. Even

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Speaker 1: He reaches out.

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Speaker 2: He definitely still is a guy that every now and

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Speaker 2: It's like, man, you know, you know, you know my name,

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Speaker 1: Even even like little things like that.

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Speaker 2: So having him come back and kind of be honored

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Speaker 1: And I have nothing but respect and love for Tom J.

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Speaker 3: Want can you explain what the mentality of the defense

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Speaker 3: center offense, they quite likely he's gonna use all four dolls,

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Speaker 3: even if it's fourth, three.

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Speaker 1: Fourth and fourth. Do your job. Everybody has to do

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's gonna sound repetitive when I say that,

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Speaker 1: Uh, but everybody just playing assignment in football.

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Speaker 2: That's all we could ask is you give like your

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Speaker 1: What's your job.

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Speaker 3: When they run that kind of rugby scrum on fourth

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Speaker 3: the clayff whats you dea able to this fourth?

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Speaker 1: So you need to play.

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Speaker 3: It's not a lot of tape, probably a lot of

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Speaker 1: So what's the what's the question?

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Speaker 3: What's your job when that happens.

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Speaker 3: You're what's you from behind? It's about two thousand pounds

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Speaker 1: You don't agree with that, honestly, it's a quarterback sneak

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Speaker 2: They have an interesting way running the quarterback sneat So

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Speaker 2: we have to go out there and we have to stop. Okay,

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Speaker 2: how that happens, it depends on our play and it

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Speaker 2: depends on how they they They just don't run the

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Speaker 1: So yeah, next question, Yeah, that's a question as one

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Speaker 2: How does that challenge you and maybe how do you

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Speaker 2: we're being aggressive. We got to make sure we're like

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Speaker 2: feel like I'm saying over like we're doing doing our job. Yes,

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Speaker 2: we just gotta make sure we were doing all the

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Speaker 2: white things. Obviously everybody's were really excited, but the day

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Speaker 2: we got to calm down and be ready to play football.

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Speaker 2: At the end of the day, this is football, it's

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Speaker 2: not it's not something new that we've been introduced to.

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Speaker 1: So we gotta go out down. We gotta play our game.

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Speaker 1: I was back get up with the favor.

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Speaker 2: Of these stories of Tom a you football related or

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Speaker 2: any uh. I would say, me being doing some young

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Speaker 2: I G which is in hindsight, you're looking like, look

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Speaker 2: I had the opportunity to ask him to follow me

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Speaker 2: and he did it.

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Speaker 1: I was shocked. I was shocked.

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Speaker 2: So as I think back on you, like dang I

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Speaker 2: as a rookie. But that's that's definitely one that's kind

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Speaker 2: of non football related.

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Speaker 1: How if you remember that, you might have bring up

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Speaker 2: He probably I he I doubt he probably really was that,

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