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Speaker 1: you know, coach Fish was in La. He's been in

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Speaker 1: other places where they did more of this stuff than

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Speaker 1: we have, um, you know, and and there's there's been

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Speaker 1: some great insight given from Jed this offseason on things

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Speaker 1: like that. Um, you know. And obviously you have certain

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Speaker 1: your playbook, you have in your system that you choose

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Speaker 1: a certain period of time, and then you bring it

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Speaker 1: back out when it's applicable. So, UM, you know, it's

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

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Speaker 1: a it's always kind of interesting when you embark on

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Speaker 1: trying to learn and execute a new scheme and some

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Speaker 1: things like that. We always try to put new schemes

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Speaker 1: each day in training camp because that's really what simulates

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Speaker 1: a normal game week for our players. Thanks passion YEP