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Speaker 1: How's camp going so far? It's been going good. UM,

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Speaker 1: guys getting out compelling each and every day. UM. Like

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Speaker 1: the energy on the offense, defense as well. I haven't

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Speaker 1: got a chance to watch special teams, but I can

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Speaker 1: hear him. Um, it's been competition across the board. I

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Speaker 1: read something yesterday that you and Darius later and go

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Speaker 1: way back somehow. Yeah, we've been training. So he's from Georgia. UM.

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Speaker 1: I bought a house and Georgia five years ago and

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Speaker 1: I've been training down there. So then Darius have been

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Speaker 1: years now. UM. Obviously this year made sense to get

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Speaker 1: definitely got a chance to connect on a few balls

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Speaker 1: throughout camping. Looking forward, just to continue to keep building

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Speaker 1: that chemistry. UM. I've all the trust in him as

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Speaker 1: well as other guys in that well. Obviously a room

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Speaker 1: to go out and make plays, and he's done a

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Speaker 1: good job of doing that as a quarterback. What's important

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Speaker 1: to work on this servia I mention isn't better um

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Speaker 1: I obviously, UM, everyone has weaknesses in their game. So

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Speaker 1: you try to attack it and that looks different for

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Speaker 1: every person, but ultimately it's about leading, UM responding, how

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Speaker 1: you respond and UH and tough circumstances each and every day.

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Speaker 1: Obviously it's a grind. From the quarterback perspective, it may

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Speaker 1: legs and stuff for time. UM. So it's easy to

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Speaker 1: get into the low of camp. But it's like, how

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Speaker 1: how is the quarterback responding? How how is he leading? UM?

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Speaker 1: How is he going out to execute? And UM on

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Speaker 1: long on long drives and just to detail the funds

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Speaker 1: each and every play. How do you like? HI to you? Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been different, UM, if you'd actually early in my

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Speaker 1: career I was always a lead by example. I think

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Speaker 1: the older you get, obviously more experience you have, UM,

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Speaker 1: you've become more comfortable for being vocal UM. Possibly how

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Speaker 1: do your job each and every day. UM, uplift guys,

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Speaker 1: make the guys better and trust them. Shows you're trust

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Speaker 1: don't go out do there and try to be superman. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It's a love of guys on the play on the

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Speaker 1: on the field playing for one goal and that's to

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Speaker 1: win the rep and ultimately win the game. So each

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Speaker 1: and every player, like I said, just be in detailed

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Speaker 1: and focus on execution. A bunch about Daniel left broke, Frank,

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Speaker 1: you've just gotten here. What have you learned about it?

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Speaker 1: When you seem as a couple of great competitor um friendly,

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Speaker 1: Uh kind of I mean Southern Me and my friends

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Speaker 1: go back and forth, whether Virginia southern or not. But

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Speaker 1: I kind of remind me of of of people that

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Speaker 1: I grew up with Virginia, North Carolina. Much respect for Daniel,

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Speaker 1: the way he approaches his job, beaching every day, the

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Speaker 1: way he goes out of leaves, and um, I think

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Speaker 1: just a quarterback room as a whole. Uh, we all

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Speaker 1: bring out the best of one another on whether it's

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Speaker 1: in competitions, whether it's in the weight room, whether it's

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Speaker 1: on the field. We tally up as the best throws

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Speaker 1: for the days. And this is if you're seeing our

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Speaker 1: board of uh of tally just it can get crazy,

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Speaker 1: but much respected Daniel. He's doing a great job. But

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Speaker 1: I just can't seem like things with a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: I think he's going out there and making place. UM

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Speaker 1: the receiving end, tight end, backfield. I'm he's doing a

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Speaker 1: great job of commanding the huddle and going out there.

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Speaker 1: Next to you assess the progress of this offense so far,

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Speaker 1: you've seen a bunch of different systems and a bunch

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Speaker 1: of different training Yeah. Um, I think we've taken a

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Speaker 1: step um in the right direction each day, obviously throwing

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Speaker 1: a lot of information. In the spring we were together,

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Speaker 1: that an energy roller. UM. I think coaches doing a

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Speaker 1: and making plays. You see one del being moved around

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to when they when you

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Speaker 1: came here, Shane was obviously part of the front office

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Speaker 1: that you were at with from Buffalo. You played well

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Speaker 1: you guys that even when you performed well, moved on

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Speaker 1: from Uh, that's NFL. You can't really look at it

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Speaker 1: as sometimes it's business, not more more times than not,

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Speaker 1: I'm capable of doing in any setting, and I think

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Speaker 1: I proved that every time I've had a chance to play. Um,

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Speaker 1: opportunity presented itself for me to come in A thought

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Speaker 1: it was the best decision out of the choices that

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Speaker 1: are you looking? They were obviously very clear with you

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Speaker 1: how do you look at that? Like you want to

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Speaker 1: compete to win the job, but they're not gonna let

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Speaker 1: you win the job because just started. Yeah. UM, I

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Speaker 1: mean I've said this. You could go back to my

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Speaker 1: draft prep interviews. I've said this from day one. UM,

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Speaker 1: my job is to come in and prepare like I've

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Speaker 1: Not I think I know it keeps me in a

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Speaker 1: competitive state of mind. UM. And also it just allows

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Speaker 1: it builds trust within your teammates. Um. If there's no

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Speaker 1: better our team is. Let's take more. Sure. You didn't

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Speaker 1: come in he were saying, I'm going to be black.

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Speaker 1: I came here ready to compete. And that's what this

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Speaker 1: nature of this game is. UM. Obviously it was the

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Speaker 1: only one quarterback that can play. UM. And you have

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Speaker 1: present itself. So I'm working each and every day, UM,

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Speaker 1: for presents herself. For you in your experience, is this

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Speaker 1: that and receivers and getting on the same page getting

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Speaker 1: the options and the receivers. Um. I wouldn't say. I

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Speaker 1: won't say any more than any other. UM. It's just

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Speaker 1: a level of of of focus and in detail, the

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Speaker 1: both the receiver and the quarterback have to be on

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Speaker 1: the same page. UM. There's definitely a lot of options

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Speaker 1: in this offense for the wide receivers, a lot of

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Speaker 1: that's what the spring in his training campus for for

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Speaker 1: us to learn body language, also for us to learn

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Speaker 1: different things and get comfortable with different schemes. In the league,

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Speaker 1: You've seen a lot of different roaches try to install

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Speaker 1: a culture that's confusion. Is there anything that Brian Gable

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Speaker 1: has done that's impressed you in that context? Um? Each

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Speaker 1: day he impresses me. UM the way he commands the

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Speaker 1: locker room. Uh, well, the meeting rooms is respect um

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Speaker 1: does a great job of keeping everyone involved, but also

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Speaker 1: not withholding information. He's straightforward with us, UM. And one

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Speaker 1: of the things that I like just in our meetings,

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Speaker 1: uh like today was the first, first and second time

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Speaker 1: until the season. But it's it's good to keep everybody

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Speaker 1: where the focus of the team is for that day

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Speaker 1: rather than just putting it on the table and talking

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Speaker 1: man Um, I would say, yes, called the called the

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Speaker 1: respect in the world. Just one more healthy. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: for you the two years and never again until her contract.

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Speaker 1: That's certainly know when you're not gonna have to go

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Speaker 1: another search for place this year. I'm thankful for the

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