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Speaker 1: Blake. Are you Are you at all surprised at how

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Speaker 1: quickly this team seems to have taken shape in in

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Speaker 1: sort of formed to Joe Judges vision and identity. I'm

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Speaker 1: not not really. I think, um, you could just every

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Speaker 1: single day you go to work, you see the guys

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Speaker 1: that's on the team, the coaches that are around us. UM,

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Speaker 1: they just just give you that sense of urgency, that

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Speaker 1: sense of wanting to to get better. UM. Every single

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Speaker 1: guy wants to get better every single day. Everyone's trying,

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Speaker 1: um to the best of their ability to improve on

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Speaker 1: the weaknesses, UM and make their strengths stronger. UM. It's

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Speaker 1: just been awesome to see that continual improvement. And and

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Speaker 1: like you said, you're starting to see the type of

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Speaker 1: team we could be when when everybody's doing doing what

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Speaker 1: they need to do on every play. Does it help

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Speaker 1: that he's thirty eight years old and he's kind of

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Speaker 1: like your age group. I don't want to say your

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Speaker 1: thirty eight, but no, I agree you're saying, UM, I

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Speaker 1: think so. I think At first one, obviously, Coach Judge

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Speaker 1: is a very serious personality at first, UM, but as

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Speaker 1: you you got to see him outside the meeting rooms

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Speaker 1: and things like that he can, He's able to connect

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Speaker 1: to anybody. Um, he knows everything about you, he knows

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Speaker 1: he wants to know everything about you. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's just been awesome aspect of him as a head coach.

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Speaker 1: You're not scared to talk to him, and and he's

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Speaker 1: always got a joke or two to mess with you about.

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Speaker 1: And it's it's just been fun. Like what's your what's

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Speaker 1: your level of concern now with this team that you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna be Yeah, it's gonna be a full week

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Speaker 1: without being on the field. I know you guys are

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Speaker 1: doing virtual meetings now. Uh you know is that a concern?

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Speaker 1: Is that? Is that too too much time off? Um?

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Speaker 1: I think I think at the end you kind of

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Speaker 1: take it as a normal bye week. I would say

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Speaker 1: I think typically, uh, in a normal season during the

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Speaker 1: bye week, most of the time you'd have that whole

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Speaker 1: week off. But it's something as professionals that you know

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Speaker 1: what you need to do during that time. I'm actually

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Speaker 1: in our weight room at the apartment, just trying to

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Speaker 1: make sure that I stay ready to go so when

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Speaker 1: I do come back, say Monday, Um, I'm all setta,

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Speaker 1: not rusty or uh more. Tired than I normally was

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Speaker 1: before the bye week. Ryan Dunley Blake for the defense

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Speaker 1: as a whole, here, you guys have had pretty much

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Speaker 1: the same guys in the lineup for the first ten

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Speaker 1: games except at that second cornerback spot. How impressed are

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Speaker 1: you guys with the way that or how are you

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Speaker 1: guys managing to play good defense with kind of a

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Speaker 1: revolving door opposite James Bradberry, whether it was Balantine early

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Speaker 1: or Ryan Lewis or yacht him, It seems like that's

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Speaker 1: the one spot you guys can't get figured out. How

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Speaker 1: are you guys working around that? Yeah? I think that's

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Speaker 1: just kind of a test to the type of group

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Speaker 1: that we have every you know, a week. We we

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Speaker 1: know um that no matter who's going in, just from

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Speaker 1: the leadership from top down on our defense and just

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Speaker 1: our team in general, that whoever's gonna be in is

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Speaker 1: gonna be ready to go for that given week, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna know where to be um, And then it's just

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Speaker 1: on us to make sure that everyone's comfortable out there,

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Speaker 1: everyone's calm, especially me as a middle linebacker the defense,

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Speaker 1: just making sure that if there's any questions, any adjustments,

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Speaker 1: that we just get to expressed all throughout the defense

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Speaker 1: all eleven, um, no matter if it's the second quarterback

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Speaker 1: spot or the D line, whatever it is, and it

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Speaker 1: allows people to just play that much quicker. Last one here,

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Speaker 1: Tom Canavan. Hefe like this is gonna sound like a

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Speaker 1: stupid question, But I was looking at the agg at

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Speaker 1: the other day after the game. Did you really only

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Speaker 1: have four tackles? Yes, it was a game. You know,

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Speaker 1: It's just one of those games that I think it's

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Speaker 1: really good team defense across the board. Then I think, um,

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Speaker 1: everyone around on the defense has made place, and it

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Speaker 1: was it was just a fun game to be able

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Speaker 1: to go out there and whenever the place came to

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Speaker 1: be made them. And obviously there's things to clean up

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Speaker 1: in every single game that I would want back, um,

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Speaker 1: But yeah,