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Speaker 1: Is it better three or your last week or your

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Speaker 2: Very especially coming in here every week and seeing you guys,

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Speaker 2: and you're gonna missess the most.

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Speaker 1: Is that what I hear?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so called it. Yeah, no, really, guys

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Speaker 2: have been awesome. It's been It's been great, and uh

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Speaker 2: appreciate everything.

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Speaker 1: Obviously a little bit of a different situation than what

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Speaker 1: you were in a year ago.

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Speaker 2: How would you assess the approach, the mood around the building? Good? Good.

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Speaker 2: You have a lot of credit to our players like

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Speaker 2: they've they've continued to fight. Like the game last week,

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Speaker 2: they fought all the way through to the end, and uh,

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Speaker 2: all the credit goes to them. They're they were prepared,

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Speaker 2: ready to play, finished the game the way that we did.

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Speaker 2: It was awesome to see, so expect that again. How

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Speaker 2: much have you learned maybe about yourself and and the

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Speaker 2: other defensive coaches this year and just because of the

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Speaker 2: challenges that that you guys have been through. Yeah, we

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Speaker 2: we've got a great staff and appreciate those guys, you know,

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Speaker 2: through the whole season and the ups and downs and everything,

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Speaker 2: and uh we've learned a lot for sure, and uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, you you learn you know so many things,

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Speaker 2: cause it's such a long season and and each week

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Speaker 2: presents its own challenges, but you try to take some

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Speaker 2: things from every week and so either we won't do

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Speaker 2: that again, or we do that again, or and things

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Speaker 2: like that, you know. And so we're getting into the

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Speaker 2: post seed after you know, this week, obviously we'll finish

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Speaker 2: strong and then you know what happens next is the postseason,

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Speaker 2: self scout y looking at ourselves really deep, taking a

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Speaker 2: deep dive into formations and what we're doing defensively and

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Speaker 2: trying to tweak it and making it better for you know,

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Speaker 2: for the future. So our our guys are staff wise,

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Speaker 2: if those guys are are studs, they've stayed the course

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Speaker 2: and continue to coach and teach, you know, throughout you know,

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Speaker 2: the season, and appreciate all of them. Really, do you

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Speaker 2: savage players through percussion protocol? What's your expect for the

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Speaker 2: rotation at safety at any he's gonna he'll get back

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Speaker 2: in there. Still expect those guys to play kind of

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Speaker 2: what you've been saying really very similar.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's amazing. Told us, I guess a couple week

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Speaker 1: or so ago that he didn't need have to learn

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Speaker 1: how to be a pro, how to take care of

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Speaker 1: his body, the right way to practice, being in a

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Speaker 1: building and watch and stuff on it. So why do

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Speaker 1: you think it takes some guys a little bit longer

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Speaker 1: than others to kind of get to that point, because

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Speaker 1: obviously the last couple of weeks he's started to show

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Speaker 1: that he can flash and play really really well.

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Speaker 2: Yes, some guys just take a little longer, you know,

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Speaker 2: some guys pick it up a little quicker. Some guys

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Speaker 2: take a little longer. Think each it's each individual basis.

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Speaker 2: Really do like, don't think that there's just a science

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Speaker 2: of you know. But really, when they when they all

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Speaker 2: come to that point of the all right, hey this

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Speaker 2: is what I have to get done, they all say, hey,

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Speaker 2: have to off the field things, take care of my body.

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Speaker 2: It's all the same thing. It's just when they really

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Speaker 2: realize that, hey, those things really do matter. And you know,

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Speaker 2: maybe a guy not saying this for him, but he

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Speaker 2: you know, he's a really talented guy, and some some

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Speaker 2: really talented guys. Some guy get by on their athletical ability,

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Speaker 2: and everybody's talented here, and so maybe that realization of like, wait, man,

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Speaker 2: I gotta work a little bit harder, study a little

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Speaker 2: bit more like these things really matter in this league.

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Speaker 2: And I'm glad he did that because you're seeing what

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Speaker 2: he His future is very bright and the trajectory that

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Speaker 2: he's on is it's pretty cool to see and how

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Speaker 2: he's working at practice and Jeremy Garrett with it, like

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Speaker 2: those guys work really well together in that room. And

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Speaker 2: see a very bright future for Mason ahead as long

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Speaker 2: as he continues to do the things that he told

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Speaker 2: you about the other week. How part of our future

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Speaker 2: in that same I guess kind of way that's jar

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Speaker 2: and have do you think moving forward?

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Speaker 1: Just what he's kind of shown since I started hearing.

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Speaker 2: Not sure he could be as good as he wants

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Speaker 2: to be, Like that's where it's gonna That's where he's gonna,

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Speaker 2: the best, and then he'll he'll continue to trend and

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Speaker 2: work that way. You know, if he thinks that this

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Speaker 2: is it, then then this is what you'll see. He's

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Speaker 2: playing really good football right now, but there's another step

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Speaker 2: in his game, you know, And that's the thing there,

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Speaker 2: there is another step and another level for him to

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Speaker 2: one of the most dominant players at his position, and

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Speaker 2: that you know, he'll tell you that that's what he

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Speaker 2: wants to do. So we just got to continue to

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Speaker 2: stay down, you know, we got to be disciplined and

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Speaker 2: the things that we do going into the offseason and

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Speaker 2: come back even better, you know next year now that

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Speaker 2: he knows the season in the NFL and he can

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Speaker 2: do it, it's just we just got to take the

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Speaker 2: one day at a time approach. Is it kind of

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Speaker 2: a difficult to find that skill set, you know, to

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Speaker 2: be able to play nickels. Somebody's wanting to blitz, play

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Speaker 2: a run and be able to cover like It's a

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Speaker 2: tough position to find for sure, and and for a

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Speaker 2: player to play it a high level is there's not

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Speaker 2: a lot of guys out there that can. It's one

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Speaker 2: of the toughest positions to find. For a guy to

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Speaker 2: come in, especially a rookie, and have an immediate impact

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Speaker 2: like he has, it's been pretty impressive. So give him

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Speaker 2: all the credit in the world because he he really

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Speaker 2: did have the right mental approach coming into the season

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Speaker 2: and got thrown in there very early, and he's taken

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Speaker 2: it and made it his position and ran with it.

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Speaker 2: You know. So it's it's been pretty cool to see

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Speaker 2: where he maybe improved the most throughout the season. The

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Speaker 2: thing is in his improvements has been his coverage. You know,

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Speaker 2: his coverage intensity throughout has been pretty impressive to see,

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Speaker 2: you know, all of the multiple coverages that we play

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Speaker 2: and the things that he has to do and the

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Speaker 2: different types of guys that he has to cover, because

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Speaker 2: that's a Sometimes he's on the tight end, sometimes he's

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Speaker 2: on a bigger receiver, you know, quicker receiver, things like that.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's not always on the outside guys. And

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Speaker 2: you know, it's been good to see him, you know,

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Speaker 2: be able to and his body control and his speed

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Speaker 2: and things like that allow him to be able to

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Speaker 2: match up well with everybody. So you know that that's

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Speaker 2: definitely a focal point in his game.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like we do you find some s

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Speaker 1: down has done it up or shutting up this season

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Speaker 1: during next year?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so absolutely. You know, first of all,

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Speaker 2: we love this place, like we want to make this

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Speaker 2: into the best place that it can possibly be, and

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Speaker 2: and we're we're here for the long haul, that's for sure. Uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, we're in it, and no one ever said

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Speaker 2: it was going to be easy, and sometimes it takes

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Speaker 2: them longer than the year, you know. So yeah, we're

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Speaker 2: we're here, We're ready to take the next step, win

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Speaker 2: this game, and then you know, go into the off season,

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Speaker 2: and we have a plan already. You know, we've talked about,

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Speaker 2: you know, our off season, what we're going to do,

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Speaker 2: the things that we've really got to focus on, and

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Speaker 2: when we get into the self scout and some positions

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Speaker 2: of you know, how to you know, maybe tweak some

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Speaker 2: things to be better next year, you know. And so

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Speaker 2: it was a great learning experience. I wish we could

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Speaker 2: have won some more games, for sure, especially those close ones.

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Speaker 2: There's so many close games that we had an opportunity

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Speaker 2: on the end, at the end of the end of

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Speaker 2: the game to pull one out here and there, and

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Speaker 2: I think it could have changed our season, really do.

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Speaker 2: But I definitely think that we have a bright future

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Speaker 2: with this football team here, and we've got the pieces

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Speaker 2: in place, and we've just got to focus on some

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Speaker 2: of the things to help us win those games next year.

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Speaker 2: If it really comes down to you know, you have

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Speaker 2: even the games that we've won, I mean, those are

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Speaker 2: one score games too, except one of them, you know.

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Speaker 2: So there's there's quite a few one score games and

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Speaker 2: you win a few early and it could change the

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Speaker 2: trajectory of the season. And that's kind of how we're

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Speaker 2: taking the approach. And we'll continue to be positive with

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Speaker 2: the guys and go into this offseason and being very positive,

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Speaker 2: but understand that we've got to do some things better

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Speaker 2: so we can change the alconymic games next year.

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Speaker 1: For sure.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate everybody very much, Okay,