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Speaker 1: Sorry about that. Good morning, you're Rudd. I'm wondering what

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Speaker 1: you've seen from Anthony Jennings over the last few weeks

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Speaker 1: that has allowed him to increase his opportunities on game day.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you from the first day, Anthony has come

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Speaker 1: in with a great attitude, a learning attitude, a guy

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Speaker 1: who's learned not only from me, but also the other players. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: he has all the physical attributes you want a good linebacker.

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Speaker 1: He's a smart guy. He's making contributions to this defense.

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Speaker 1: So obviously still a rookie, still have a long way

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Speaker 1: to go, but he's getting there. How valuable is his

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Speaker 1: versatility to be able to play on the ball and

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Speaker 1: off the ball. That's one thing we pride ourselves on

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Speaker 1: around here, especially in the linebacker room, is just our

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Speaker 1: overall versatility is definitely valuable, especially when you lose a

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Speaker 1: guy like High Tower and some of these other guys

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Speaker 1: that we've lost in the past. So it's definitely a

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Speaker 1: huge value value add for this defense and we always

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Speaker 1: want that in our in our defense. In ours, I

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Speaker 1: don't see any other hands race. So Jim, if you

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Speaker 1: have some more questions, you can continue also ask anybody

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Speaker 1: else just me and Gerade this point, I'll take that. Um,

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Speaker 1: I guess I'll ask you about another rookie and josh

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Speaker 1: Ucha and how how anxiously I ed to see him

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Speaker 1: on the field and kind of take what he's learned

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Speaker 1: on the practice field. I know he's been he's been

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Speaker 1: kind of dinged up, but what's he been fooling you? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: very very anxious to get him back out there. Excited

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Speaker 1: to get him back out there, and I know he

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Speaker 1: feels the same way. Obviously, he's a great athlete. He's

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Speaker 1: also one of those versattle guys that can do a

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Speaker 1: bunch of different things, which which fits well with our

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Speaker 1: game plan mentality. Um. Definitely definitely waiting for him to, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, have an opportunity to show it on the field.

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Speaker 1: The last couple of weeks, some running backs have had

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Speaker 1: some success against your front seven. What kind of things

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Speaker 1: do you do in practice to kind of show up

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Speaker 1: those and kind of maintain gap control. Yeah, it's definitely

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Speaker 1: a a process. We continue to work on our just fundamentals.

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Speaker 1: You know, that includes block destruction, tackling, run reads, you know,

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Speaker 1: all those all those different aspects of the game that

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Speaker 1: we just have to get better at Obviously we all

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Speaker 1: walked out of this, you know, the last few games disappointed.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to get back on track. So definitely stressing fundamentals,

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Speaker 1: just getting better. If you're know it's sick of my voice,

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Speaker 1: I will fill out one more to you. Shali Calhoun

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Speaker 1: is a guy that we've seen a lot of increase

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Speaker 1: in his playing time this year too. Was was last

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Speaker 1: year just a product of him being kind of buried

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Speaker 1: on a depth chat with with Kyle and Dante and Jamie,

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Speaker 1: we always do you know the type of player that

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Speaker 1: Shlik is and was you know, he's a great pass rusher.

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Speaker 1: He's also one of these athletic guys that we like

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Speaker 1: to have on the edge. So it goes back and

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Speaker 1: I hate to sound like a like a tape recorder,

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Speaker 1: but just his overall versatility is definitely um needed and

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Speaker 1: wanted on this defense and he's doing a good job

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Speaker 1: for us. Thanks Joe, Thanks Jo. Next we'll go to

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Speaker 1: Eric Rube. Good Morning Drive. I'm wondering, if you know

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Speaker 1: this week with Buffaloes, does that team match up better

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Speaker 1: with you guys maybe than San Francisco. Did you know

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Speaker 1: that that's tough to say? You know, I will say

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Speaker 1: they they provide different challenges right, um, this team in Buffalo, Like,

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Speaker 1: these guys are dangerous all over the place as well,

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Speaker 1: I would say, you know, the San Francisco game, obviously

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Speaker 1: we didn't go out there and play the way we

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Speaker 1: wanted to or needed to. Uh, And so all of

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Speaker 1: our focus right now is on Buffalo. These guys are

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Speaker 1: good up front, good at their skill positions. Obviously, their

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Speaker 1: personnel groups are a lot different than what we saw

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Speaker 1: last week, right with ten personnel and eleven personnel. So

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Speaker 1: I would say it's different. I wouldn't say we match

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Speaker 1: up better or worse, It's just different. And that is

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Speaker 1: when I asked that question. Is that one of those

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Speaker 1: things people like me ask because we're we don't know

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Speaker 1: does that actually exist? Are there better matchups for teams

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Speaker 1: or is that just something some people say. I'm sure.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there are better matchups for h you know,

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Speaker 1: as far as team on a team, the team basis,

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Speaker 1: you know, depending on where the strengths and weaknesses lie

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Speaker 1: on that given team. So for us, we feel like,

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Speaker 1: you know, we just need to get better overall, you know,

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Speaker 1: as far as our fundamentals, that that would be that's

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Speaker 1: the number one thing that we're working on this week,

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Speaker 1: trying to get back to being good tacklers, good, good,

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Speaker 1: good upfront and good in the back end. So I

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Speaker 1: think that is that is a thing. And I appreciate

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Speaker 1: that question because it definitely shows up cable pause for

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Speaker 1: one moment. And if everybody wants to jump in for

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Speaker 1: a final question too, what you're on, please jump in.

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Speaker 1: All right, I think we'll call it there. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much, Tu you