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Speaker 1: Hey, Steve, how's it going good? How are you Alex good?

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Speaker 1: Just I'm wondering your thoughts on on Kyle Pitts and

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Speaker 1: he's had a few good weeks here. Just what you

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Speaker 1: kind of your initial impressions when you see him on tape. Uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: more than a few good weeks. This guy is a

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Speaker 1: outstanding football player. Um. He does a lot of a

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Speaker 1: lot of things very well. Um for their offense, especially

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Speaker 1: coming in as a rookie. Uh, what he's done has

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Speaker 1: been very impressive. UM. A couple of the Cross Reference games,

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Speaker 1: however you want to phrase it, Uh, that I watched

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Speaker 1: going through the draft. I saw him a couple of times,

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Speaker 1: and uh, he was a problem then and he's a

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Speaker 1: problem now. Um for defenses, he's definitely not a problem.

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Speaker 1: For their offense, he's a solution. But UM, he's been

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Speaker 1: Uh he's been a tough guy to prepare for. Um,

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Speaker 1: we got we got our hands full with him. So

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Speaker 1: he's he's impressive. Thank you. Next question Evan Bizzar, Hey, Steve,

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Speaker 1: how's it going. What's up? Not much? I wanted to

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Speaker 1: ask you about calling plays defensively and just how that

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Speaker 1: role has evolved for you over the last couple of

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Speaker 1: years and where your comfort level is now with calling

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Speaker 1: the defensive plays. I'm good with whatever my role is,

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Speaker 1: whatever I'm asked to do, I'm I'm happy to do

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Speaker 1: it as long as it helps the team win. Is

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Speaker 1: that something that you'd say is it's still very much

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Speaker 1: a collaborative effort between all of you guys on the staff.

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Speaker 1: Everything we do is collaborative. I mean, that's the that's

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Speaker 1: the cool part about football is you know, you got

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Speaker 1: eleven guys out on the field, and you know, in

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Speaker 1: in the big picture, the eleven guys on defense only

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Speaker 1: play a third of the game. So there's all offense,

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Speaker 1: there's special teams, there's multiple units of those special teams.

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Speaker 1: There's defensive guys, offensive guys play on special teams. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a it's a team game like no other.

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Speaker 1: So I I really enjoy it and I enjoy being

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Speaker 1: a part of it. And this one last quick one.

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Speaker 1: We don't really get to see Ronnie Perkins much on

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Speaker 1: game day and stuff like that. I'm just curious what

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Speaker 1: he's doing just that practice and stuff like that. He's

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Speaker 1: doing great. He's doing great. He does everything that we

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Speaker 1: asked him to do, UM, which which I appreciate as

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Speaker 1: a coach. And uh, yeah, Ronnie's doing great. UM. Happy

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Speaker 1: that he's on our team for sure. Thanks Steeve And

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Speaker 1: next question, Mike Race. Hey, Steve, I gotta keep the

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Speaker 1: camera off just because I'm driving, just to keep everyone safe.

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Speaker 1: So I apologize for that safety first, as long as

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Speaker 1: you're safe. I'm safe herehind a computer screen. I think

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Speaker 1: I love it. I just feel bad making you look

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Speaker 1: at like a blank box, you know, with my name

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Speaker 1: on it. But no, it's the world we live in. Now.

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Speaker 1: I know your face. I can put the name to

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Speaker 1: the face. So what you got, I love it. Matt

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Speaker 1: Ryan's mobility. I I'm not there watch in every snap

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Speaker 1: that he's played this year, but I happened to watch

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Speaker 1: were playing the Saints, and I thought he was extending plates. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, in a sense that caught my eye and

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Speaker 1: I just maybe that's you. Um. I missed a couple

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Speaker 1: pieces of of the question. You broke up there a

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Speaker 1: little bit, but uh, in terms of Matt Ryan's mobility,

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Speaker 1: I think that's what you're you were getting at that's right,

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Speaker 1: just like his extension of plas Yeah, I mean, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, like people talk about mobile quarterback, not mobile quarterback. Um,

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Speaker 1: there's always an element of extended plays, uh with every

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Speaker 1: he does a really good job of of feeling the

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Speaker 1: there's like there's situations where quarterbacks, you know, they try

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Speaker 1: to um to run guy. This guy's a B gap

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Speaker 1: step up guy. This guy's a you know, he'll bail

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Speaker 1: They are instinctual. Like I mean, I can't speak for

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Speaker 1: no defenses are designed to have quarterbacks step up and

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Speaker 1: run for until they get tackled, so at least not here.

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Speaker 1: So like you know, he just has good instincts and

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Speaker 1: where the rusher isn't. So, UM, I never put those

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Speaker 1: those quarterbacks into buckets. I mean you've seen Ryan scrambled

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Speaker 1: point conversion play where he walks into the end zone basically,

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't put those guys into buckets. Um.

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Speaker 1: It's all about what happens after the ball snap. So

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Speaker 1: you can you can rate athleticism of a quarterback. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's a little easier to do, Like it's gotta runs

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Speaker 1: fast as quick. This guy's hard to tackle because he's strong.

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Speaker 1: This guy's hard to tackle because he's elusive. But you

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Speaker 1: don't know how these players are gonna play out and

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Speaker 1: and kind of the circle back to answer your original question.

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Speaker 1: He does a really good job of understanding what the

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Speaker 1: coverages are. There five six, seven, eight guys max coverage,

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Speaker 1: so he has he knows, all right, I only got

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Speaker 1: five four three rushers Russian, So if I step up

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Speaker 1: can go. And I know that depending on how many

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Speaker 1: if you double all five receivers and there's one guy Russian,

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Speaker 1: so you know, like there's a math equation of there's

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Speaker 1: only eleven guys on the fields of what who's doing what?

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Speaker 1: And he just does a good job overall of seeing

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Speaker 1: the full picture, seeing the rush probably, I mean you

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Speaker 1: what they do. Who the best rushers are. Is they're

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's all a big picture thing. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I've been I don't know about. I see it in

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Speaker 1: my own way, that's how I see it. So there

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Speaker 1: I put you inside my head. I loved it, and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start asking questions that are like fragmented now

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Speaker 1: like I'm just gonna stop as if like it was

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Speaker 1: a bad connection, because it was. It's a great answer.

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Speaker 1: I just all I heard was blah blah blah, Matt

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Speaker 1: Ryan blah blah blah. Mobility. Well not blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: Tremendous adjustment by you, and probably the best question I've

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Speaker 1: ever asked. I wouldn't go by that. I liked your

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Speaker 1: question about Ivan the best. It was his birthday the

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Speaker 1: other day, Happy birthdays. And we'll do one final question

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Speaker 1: from Kevin Stak Hey, coach, how you doing? I'm great?

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Speaker 1: How are you good? Things? So I want to ask

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Speaker 1: you about Matt Judean. But from your perspective in terms

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Speaker 1: of him being like a sounding board, you know, how

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Speaker 1: much easier has he made your job both on and

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Speaker 1: off the field. Uh, you know, that's a double edged sword.

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Speaker 1: He makes things easier and he challenges challenges me, which

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that stuff. I like to be challenged. I

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Speaker 1: like to, um make myself better. Um. He sees he

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Speaker 1: sees the game his own way, just like every player does. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've been around some of the other guys

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Speaker 1: who been in the building before for a little bit

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Speaker 1: longer than him. But he sees the game his own way,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, he makes my job easier, and

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Speaker 1: he also challenges me to see it a different way

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Speaker 1: and and adjust adjust certain things to um, not to

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Speaker 1: how he sees it, but he points something out and

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Speaker 1: then and we had us to the positive points that

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Speaker 1: he's made, Like he sees something that that works, and

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Speaker 1: so you figure out, how can how can we adjust

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Speaker 1: something too to tie everybody else in together. He's just

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Speaker 1: one of ten guys, or one of eleven guys. There's

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Speaker 1: ten other guys out there on the field. So um,

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Speaker 1: he's just one piece of the puzzle. But but how

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Speaker 1: he sees it in the perspective he has is really

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Speaker 1: really good. I really enjoy it. UM all positive, cool,

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Speaker 1: Thank you great, Thank you very much, Steve. We appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: do you, guys?