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Speaker 1: Help tellingly for you guys uh as offensive lineman and

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Speaker 1: those situations like this where you really can't do much

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Speaker 1: christ Yeah, I mean it. It's it's gotta keep getting

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Speaker 1: better with your technique and fundamentals each and every day.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's really important for individual work, uh with

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Speaker 1: your past, with your run block, and you can do

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Speaker 1: that every day without even uh uh doing any hitting. Uh.

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Speaker 1: So coach Bobby Johnson does a tremendous job of getting

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Speaker 1: us better each and every day. So shumping, Like, as.

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Speaker 2: Offense, what is the the first thing that you want

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Speaker 2: to get down is the terminology? Just sort of knowing

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Speaker 2: plays or what it w s. Walk me through the

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Speaker 2: progression of like learning the conference.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean just just taking it one day at

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Speaker 1: just doing that.

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Speaker 2: So how like, wordy, is this compared to your offense

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Speaker 2: in college in terms.

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Speaker 1: Of a little yeah, a little different. Uh, but at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's I mean, we're playing football,

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Speaker 1: just different terminology and uh yeah, I'm I mean I'm

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Speaker 1: play for the uh the Giants. So did you get

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Speaker 1: did you get any kind of advantage from your agent

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Speaker 1: having played for Dave's and Bobby Johnson? Uh, I mean

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Speaker 1: Jeremiah Searles and uh Alex Boon tremendous guys that uh

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Speaker 1: helpful for me to have, uh give me a uh

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Speaker 1: here and there. But yeah, that's what I would say.

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Speaker 2: Jaid mike A you storted looking at the film lesure years.

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Speaker 3: I know you and Daniel have to get on the

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Speaker 3: same page when you grows to what you're seeing out

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Speaker 3: there making the protection calls and all this stuff. So

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Speaker 3: have you had any opportunity.

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Speaker 1: To do that?

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Speaker 3: Are you still looking for?

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Speaker 1: You know what, I'm just focused on taking it one

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Speaker 3: What have they said to you about the dead snap

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Speaker 3: or the dead ball snap, whatever you call it? The

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Speaker 3: use And how'd you get started with it?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 1: I mean it's whatever is comfortable for Daniel in the

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Speaker 1: the dead ball snap or the regular snap doesn't doesn't

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Speaker 1: me to feel most comfortable to get the snap back there.

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Speaker 1: So your continued to do what you were doing.

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Speaker 3: Work that broach your take it? Yeah, have you ever

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Speaker 3: had a quarterback that didn't like that?

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Speaker 1: Or does it seem to really simplify things? Uh? Didn't

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Speaker 1: So I mean he enjoyed it. How'd you get started

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Speaker 3: You mention before the idea you know the hitting will

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Speaker 3: come at some point, but I got to say again, sorry,

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Speaker 3: The okay, Yeah, I have to come later on this summer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Is is this the longest I mean considering in the

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Speaker 3: in the spring when you guys are hitting in college. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: the longest you'll have to wait before you actually get

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Speaker 3: Did you see your Betcha Lawrenceeriors today?

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Speaker 1: Did you get the two thirty times team on the sideline?

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Speaker 3: So you are you looking forward to not compny with

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean l looking to uh just continue to

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Speaker 1: There is so tremendous opportunity to to have that. So

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Speaker 1: it looks like a pretty easy matchup, I would think, right.

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Speaker 1: Ah, No, No, he's he's he's a great player, great player, uh,

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Speaker 3: So John Michael I asked.

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Speaker 2: This as an enormous fan of amateur wrestling, did wrestling

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Speaker 3: With football in anyway?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean it's just understanding your uh body position,

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Speaker 1: the offense, learn the the techniques of fundamentals uh for

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Speaker 1: this uh uh for this offensive line room, and taking

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Speaker 2: Your relationship with Daniel is obviously like your relationship with

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Speaker 2: Daniel's gonna be really important obviously on the field, and

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Speaker 2: we saw you met him like a just a cursory

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Speaker 2: if you plan on, I don't know if you see

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Speaker 2: how do you what about that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean we we Uh. I mean it's important

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Speaker 1: to have a connection between your center and your quarterback,

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Speaker 1: making sure everyone's on the same page. Uh, definitely wanna

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Speaker 1: uh have that relationship with him and uh yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: almost some of those.

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Speaker 2: Same lines, h A one of those same lines.

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Speaker 1: Have you spoken to any of the other offensive oneman yet?

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Speaker 2: Then?

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Speaker 1: Uh? The mark, Yeah, there was a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: reached out and just congratulated me, and a couple of

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Speaker 1: quick color to 'em they cause they were getting off

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Speaker 1: the lifts and stuff. So, yeah, you have a chance

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Speaker 1: to pick the brainer right there. N y, not yet,

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Speaker 1: not yet. I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 3: Can you just explain can you just explain the dead

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Speaker 3: snap a little bit?

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Speaker 1: Like the advantages none of us have obviously ever played

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Speaker 1: the center, So yeah, you just what the advantages of Yeah,

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Speaker 1: have anybody played center? Yeah, honestly, it's just I felt

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Speaker 1: it was uh a lot more controllable, Uh with that position.

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Speaker 1: The dead snap just felt comfortable, kind of just uh

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