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Speaker 1: What do joint practices mean for an offensive lineman.

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Speaker 2: It's just another opportunity to be physical against somebody that's

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Speaker 2: not on your team. Obviously it's not live, but the

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Speaker 2: mentality that we have is like what it will be

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Speaker 2: on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: So it's a good opportunity of opportunity for us to

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Speaker 1: see where we're at, is it?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I guess that would be true to a

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Speaker 3: degree for any other opponent coming, But these are the Lions.

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Speaker 1: Who were a play or a score away from the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl after two days.

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Speaker 2: And now will you know better how you guys measure

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Speaker 2: up against the best of the best. For sure, Like

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Speaker 2: I said, it's not a real game, so it's it's

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Speaker 2: not that easy to measure. But we just see like

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Speaker 2: our physicality, our technique, things of that nature.

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Speaker 1: And I'm excited for you.

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Speaker 3: The mindset that you had, Like you you're looking to see, hey,

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Speaker 3: you know this is where we kind of stand against

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Speaker 3: this team and we know is a playoff team you

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Speaker 3: guys in the locker room? Is that kind of how

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Speaker 3: you talk about these afterwards?

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Speaker 2: I remember I remember last year just being out there

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Speaker 2: and competing, and you definitely measure yourself to a team

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Speaker 2: that's talented like they are.

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Speaker 1: So we're just focused on doing.

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Speaker 2: What we can't execute him and like I said, the

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Speaker 2: mentality of being physical, cause I think that translates to Sundays.

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Speaker 1: What'd you gonn await thinking last year?

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Speaker 2: I think we didn't start fast enough, and I think

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Speaker 2: that's a emphasis for this year.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel the line has played the last

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Speaker 1: few days of camp? I said again, how do you

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Speaker 1: feel like you guys the line have played the last

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Speaker 1: few days of camp? As pieces have been.

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Speaker 2: Moving Now, I would say, Okay, there is a little

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Speaker 2: bit of movement going on. Greg's learning the system at center,

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Speaker 2: but uh, I think we do a good job of competing.

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Speaker 2: We're just working on the small details, just with the

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Speaker 2: my points and making sure we know who's highing different

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Speaker 2: protections and then always working on our technique.

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Speaker 3: We don't like having John on your side, man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, John's done a great job obviously just moved over,

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Speaker 2: but we're we're starting to jail work some double teams together,

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Speaker 2: get our calls together as far as like.

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Speaker 1: Past game and stuff like that. So I think he's

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Speaker 1: done a good job. What do you go up with

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Speaker 1: the player?

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Speaker 2: Bron Burns got with obviously a talented player. I think

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Speaker 2: he's pushing all the tackles that he goes again, and

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Speaker 2: I think he's gonna make the defense better.

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Speaker 1: What's that you get in threw in your conversations with

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Speaker 1: Evan Neil? Is he growing frustrated that he can't get

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Speaker 1: out there. I don't think he's frustrated.

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Speaker 2: I think any player will want to be out there,

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Speaker 2: you know, during his time, because this is when you

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Speaker 2: can really work your craft. But I think he's following

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Speaker 2: suit whatever the trainers you know, tell him, and helping

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Speaker 2: you know, he can come back whenever.

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Speaker 1: They say he's ready. What are your conversations with him? Been?

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Speaker 2: Like you and Evan just trying to, you know, motivate him,

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Speaker 2: just to make sure that he doesn't get discouraged, because

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Speaker 2: I've been in that position not being able to practice.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't you know, during camp, but in OTAs I've

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Speaker 2: been there off coming off of surgery, so it's not

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Speaker 2: an easy thing. But I think he has the right mindset.

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Speaker 1: When you look at the offensive line. You know, obviously

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Speaker 1: everybody talks about last year. Through two weeks. You can

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Speaker 1: you sit there and say to yourself you're better. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's it's hard to judge, you know.

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Speaker 2: Once we step on the field on Sunday, when the

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Speaker 2: bullets are really flying, that's when you really know. And

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Speaker 2: it's it's also hard to compare it to different years.

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Speaker 2: Last year it was it was so much going on

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Speaker 2: where it's injuries or rotation, so many different things. But

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Speaker 2: I think we have a good group of guys, some

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Speaker 2: veteran presence in the room, and I think that that

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Speaker 2: will help us jail together.

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Speaker 1: And the Lions are known as a team that is physical, tough,

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Speaker 1: like people don't enjoy playing. How do you how do

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Speaker 1: you guys become a team that people fear? Essentially, I

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Speaker 1: think it's just like I said, it starts with your mindset.

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Speaker 2: If you embrace that type of physicality, that kind of toughness,

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Speaker 2: and you practice like that every day, it translates to

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Speaker 2: the field.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's the mindset we're trying to build.