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Speaker 1: Hey, Doug, I'm curious, from your time in Philadelphia to now,

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Speaker 1: how much time do you devote, let's say, on a

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's a good question.

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Speaker 3: Obviously I don't log my hours on that side of

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Speaker 3: I do spend time, you know, visiting with Mike obviously

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Speaker 3: the defensive staff, you know, during the week, not so

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Speaker 3: much just understanding the game plan, but sometimes sometimes yeah,

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Speaker 3: sometimes understanding how we want to attack an opponent or

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Speaker 3: though mainly it's been more about the personnel side, just

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Speaker 3: spots and we're you know. It's a great example of

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Speaker 3: that would be last year with with Darius Williams. You know,

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Speaker 3: he started out playing nickel, and then we felt like

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Speaker 3: his best position, which he always has played an outside corner,

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Speaker 3: you know, and moving him back to corner and things

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Speaker 3: like that and just making those type of observations and

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Speaker 3: suggestions are all things that you know that I try

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Speaker 3: to I try to try to do.

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Speaker 1: How much do you think that you're on the league,

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Speaker 1: particularly as a backup who's observing things from the sideline.

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Speaker 1: You're seeing how coaches are interacting on the sidelines with players.

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Speaker 4: And all that.

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Speaker 1: Do you almost think that being in the backup for

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Speaker 1: time basis, prepares you for where you are now better.

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Speaker 1: I've been, you know, a five time Pro Bowl quarterback

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Speaker 3: And yeah, wouldn't be a head coach if I had that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely wouldn't be standing here.

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Speaker 3: No, But I do believe that that being a backup,

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Speaker 3: you know, being in the quarterback position. You know, I

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Speaker 3: watching players, the interaction of things, I think is part

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Speaker 3: I think that preparation of being a backup quarterback, you know,

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Speaker 3: I think about those days in Green Bay and you're

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Speaker 2: And I think that really has prepared you know me.

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Speaker 3: I think as the years go on, I get I

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Speaker 3: league have definitely prepared me for this, for this opportunity.

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Speaker 4: Updates on Josh Wells, Folly, Beentre Miller, and Devon.

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Speaker 3: Devon's in the building now, he's he's here just you know,

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Speaker 3: as we mentioned last week, you'd be back in the

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Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward to you know, seeing him and

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Speaker 1: Not sure what you do with those two yet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, those are all the conversations we'll have. We started

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Speaker 5: They needs three weeks off the Blood Dinners.

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Speaker 4: Is that correct before you can have contact.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're asking a question I don't really have the

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Speaker 5: So he could be ready for week on that Yes, Okay, Yes,

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Speaker 5: Derek Perris got some defensive snaps the other night.

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Speaker 2: So I think he did a did a pretty good.

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Speaker 5: Is that part of the evaluation process, I guess moving

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Speaker 5: Him you talked about the death semuch during the preseason.

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Speaker 3: Uh, we are, We're finding that that is real. And uh,

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Speaker 3: but you know, it's just a it's a credit to

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Speaker 5: How do you look at this week? Is this a

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Speaker 2: How do you look at this week a little of both.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's obviously it's twofold, right, You're you're cutting

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Speaker 2: To you don't want to go backwards.

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Speaker 3: You don't want to like, you know, not push right

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Speaker 4: Going to just the one cut change the mechanics of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's long, it's a longer day obviously, and and

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Speaker 3: You know, do what we can to help them moving forward.

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Speaker 2: Practice squad if possible.

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Speaker 3: But but it's a you know, it's a difficult day

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Speaker 4: Cut in.

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Speaker 2: And to spank him at one point the same thing, No,

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Speaker 2: would you do the would you wanna be the.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's been through this process before, you know,

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Speaker 3: I felt, you know, y, obviously the wins and losses

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Speaker 3: That's not everything. You know, there's some of that can

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Speaker 2: Where we are.

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Speaker 2: You know, in or that that we won't get back.

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Speaker 3: Obviously Ventrail being the you know, probably being the only

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Speaker 5: Such a large rookie class, it feels like a lot

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was a great group. You know,

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Speaker 3: A lot of these guys because they're gonna you know,

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Speaker 3: Think you you're gonna see more and more teams you know,

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Speaker 3: But but very pleased with our rookie class.

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Speaker 1: You're still the central I think of Saint pretty broke

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Speaker 5: Related?

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Speaker 2: No, I don't you know.

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Speaker 3: It's again, that's that's something I don't really medically, I

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Speaker 2: You know, I just kind of coach football and I

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Speaker 5: You have.

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Speaker 1: Still feel that same way now now that we're closer

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think. I think when you really look around the.

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Speaker 3: I think Yazier's development young player did some nice things

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Speaker 2: What you see from Caleb and I mean that. You know,

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Speaker 3: He understands that, so been pleased where he's you know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, how much does that disrupt you guys?

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