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Speaker 1: Good doing all right, Senor? Uh? Uh really comfortable, you know. Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's where you know I've made the most stride in

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make my mark and you know sax day

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Speaker 1: around in this league. But uh, you know I've really

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Speaker 1: been able to kind of hone in on my you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not right now with it this morning. And you

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Speaker 1: said they that they wanted to get involved preach your thing.

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Speaker 1: How did you pied to do that this summer? Uh?

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Speaker 1: I think you know, working with UH coach Peters has

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Speaker 1: definitely improved a lot, for sure. UH Coach Peters UH

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Speaker 1: really preaches on the strike system, being very direct and

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Speaker 1: precise with your hands, and I plays really right into

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Speaker 1: my game. It's really helped me develop. Uh since he's came,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I've really learned a lot from him.

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Speaker 1: How difference is that from what you've done prior? Uh,

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Speaker 1: It's not really different. It's never just really been a

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Speaker 1: point of emphasis with a lot of old line coaches.

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Speaker 1: This is the first old line coach who's I've heard

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Speaker 1: of a strike system from so I I've always kind

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Speaker 1: So it's really just kind of helped, you know, kind

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Speaker 1: was uh you know used to doing. Got a lot

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Speaker 1: what's the message from the coaches when it close to

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Speaker 1: best combination, you know, the best starting five to you know,

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Speaker 1: right now, Darius, if you look back at the from

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Speaker 1: lots of meet what do you cover? What what are

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Speaker 1: you like about what you've done in the press? Hands

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Speaker 1: and what do you still kind of s n I

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Speaker 1: be said, I I'm just I my my my main

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Speaker 1: Uh So just listening to Coach Peters, he's always you know,

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Speaker 1: coaching me up every single you know, past protection to

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Speaker 1: you know, just focus on little things that I can

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Speaker 1: work on to kind of perfect up can you take

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Speaker 1: us through this? Can you take us through the sack?

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Speaker 1: It was uh, something like maybe the chip threw you

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Speaker 1: off a little bit. Yeah, yeah, it was just miscommunication,

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Speaker 1: that's all. That was, nothing more, nothing less. You know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes when you don't communicate, you know, a guy doesn't

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Speaker 1: they didn't expect. You know, things like that can happen.

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Speaker 1: But you know, we gotta hand on the sideline, and

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Speaker 1: we talked about it through the meetings and everything like that,

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Speaker 1: so we can be better next time. Do you do

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Speaker 1: you guys like chips like g This is man, this

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Speaker 1: is the NFL. This is the NFL. There are so

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Speaker 1: many great rushers. Everybody's a good athlete. The the more

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Speaker 1: I can get help, you know, trying to stop a

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Speaker 1: inch very like, then yeah, please go ahead. Performances that

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Speaker 1: you do like that different from against the campers? What

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Speaker 1: improved from the first? Sam? Really just uh, that practice

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's It's really good cause you kind of

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Speaker 1: really being very particular, you know with my game. I'm

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Speaker 1: So you know, working with them so from I can

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Speaker 1: what matters, you know, just getting the reps against all

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Speaker 1: the the great talent that kind of helps you, you know,

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Speaker 1: just taking big strikes this year wolf steps for one

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Speaker 1: of the things you hear that you've wanted to see

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Speaker 1: that in terms of what what doing? What they want you?

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Speaker 1: How you feel like that? M Like I said before,

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Speaker 1: I l using my hands, Uh, just in my protection.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of always been a part of you know,

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Speaker 1: coach Peter's coming here, Uh, it's been an even bigger emphasis.

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Speaker 1: So you know, just making sure down in and down out,

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Speaker 1: you know I'm playing my game, uh, the way I

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Speaker 1: wanna be played, and you know, just kind of using

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Speaker 1: the technique that's being coached one hundred percent. One hundred

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Speaker 1: percent can call a question you guys, being a swing tackles,

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Speaker 1: can you make your market? See so, but now you'll

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Speaker 1: this starting with tell the play. Definitely, Definitely, I have

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Speaker 1: the most confidence on myself and I'm very particular with

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Speaker 1: possibly be, and I love nothing more than to have

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Speaker 1: you know, the coaches, the coaching staff, you know behind

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Speaker 1: me pushing me day in and day out, to to

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Speaker 1: be to be better because you know that that's what's

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Speaker 1: out there and perform. That's what's making me comfortable. And also,

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Speaker 1: I I I've never been shy of constructive criticism. I've

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Speaker 1: never been shy of you know, someone you know picking

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Speaker 1: get better at. So you know, I love that Coach

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Speaker 1: Peter's and Coach Koug's you know, uh help you know,

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Speaker 1: they do that and it helps me. It just makes

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Speaker 1: me get better every day. A questions are not else YEP.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you. Appreciate you