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Speaker 4: Welcome to another episode of the Giants Little Podcast, brought

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Speaker 4: to you by Citizens, the official bank of the New

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Speaker 4: York Football Giants. I am John Schmelk, and today we're

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Speaker 4: joined by a very special guest, entering his eighth year

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Speaker 4: as head coach of the Minnesota Golden Golfers.

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Speaker 1: Second year, we have the pleasure of talking to the

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Speaker 1: head coach, PJ. Fleck. Coach, how are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing elite? Thanks for having us on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and look we had you last year. It was

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Speaker 4: a Giants you have to John Michael Schmidz. And now

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Speaker 4: the Giants dip right back into that Minnesota pool of talent.

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Speaker 4: They select Tyler Nuban. What let's start here. What is

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Speaker 4: it about you think the character of the kids and

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Speaker 4: the players that you develop that make them attractive to

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Speaker 4: a team like the Giants, who also kind of value

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Speaker 4: I think a lot of those same characteristics.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think they're NFL ready, you know. I think

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Speaker 3: that kind of gets thrown around a lot across college

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Speaker 3: football and even into the NFL. And what that really

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Speaker 3: means is for us, I think our players love their life.

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Speaker 3: They love their whole life academically, athletically, socially, and spiritually.

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Speaker 3: And as they go from eighteen to twenty three years old,

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Speaker 3: needs to be cultural and program things put in place

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Speaker 3: back to the well because they know exactly what they're getting.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's what makes our players really attractive.

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Speaker 3: They love football, they love their life. How they do

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Speaker 3: one thing is how they do everything. They're very consistent

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Speaker 3: new cultures coming in, new processes, new ways of doing things.

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Speaker 3: But like you said, we're going on year eight here

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so let's go back. You've been, like you mentioned,

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Speaker 4: heading into your eighth year, you recruited Tyler. He from

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Speaker 4: reading about his recruitment, he got to offer some teams

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Speaker 4: when you did try to recruit him to bring him in?

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Speaker 3: Well, the first and foremost is the type of person

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Speaker 3: He can cover, he can hit like a linebacker, he

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you you have a much better selling job

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Speaker 3: Well, people talk about being a student of the game,

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Speaker 3: And I think that's where you separate the elite from

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Speaker 4: Joe Shane, the Giants general manager after the Giants drafted him,

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Speaker 4: refer to him as a potential culture changer and he

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Speaker 3: Well, culture is one of those words use that's really

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Speaker 3: It's all cultures do, all right. They connect people and

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Speaker 3: So I think that goes hand in hand. He'll never

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Speaker 3: it's authentic and he'll talk. Now, listen, he'll have no

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Speaker 4: He had a great quote, coach, and you mentioned he

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Speaker 4: You know, he didn't get to do a lot of

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Speaker 3: One thing about him is very self aware, but he

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Speaker 3: Tyler Nuban did everything for his teammates. He played through

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Speaker 3: He's like, it's football, Coach, It's just it's just football.

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Speaker 3: It happens. You know, I'll be back like it happens.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's everything that Davioll talks about and what

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Coach, final one for you, and you kind of

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Speaker 4: It's a new city. You're playing against the bath assets

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Speaker 3: Well, he's the ultimate competitor. I mean, I can't tell

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Speaker 3: He's in business. He's running his own company. You know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we love a two coach.

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Speaker 4: Anything before we say goodbye, that you know, a story

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Speaker 3: No, I think that I always tell people that you know,

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Speaker 3: I promise he will have no problem marketing whatever you

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Speaker 3: He's one of my all time favorites and cannot wait

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Speaker 4: Coach, I can't wait to watch him play and spend

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Speaker 4: some time with him. We really appreciate the time. Best

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Speaker 4: of luck in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: You got it.

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Speaker 3: Roaseboats, guy, I Mago Gophers and go Giants. Thanks for

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Speaker 4: now we welcome in our second guest. He is the

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Speaker 4: We appreciate you taking a few minutes from your busy

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Speaker 2: Absolutely doing a leak? John, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: I was the same answer to that Coach gave you.

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Speaker 1: You guys are all on the same page.

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Speaker 4: I like that, all right, So let's talk about Tyler.

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Speaker 4: You know, Coach Fleck just was on with us and

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Speaker 4: You're in the meeting room with him every day.

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Speaker 1: Right. What is it about Tyler as a person? You know,

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 4: How does he lead a room, and how does he

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Speaker 2: And that's what Tyler did for us for five years.

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Speaker 2: And you know, it's great to see his growth from

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Speaker 2: You know, he's a guy that takes something from the

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Speaker 2: and coaching the young guys and coaching everybody up, watching

435
00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,240
Speaker 2: extra film with people. Just like I said, he's a

436
00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,200
Speaker 2: coach's dream in terms of the leadership part.

437
00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:54,280
Speaker 4: And you talk about the safety's room, you guys go

438
00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,440
Speaker 4: from Anteline Winfield to Tyler Nuban. That is not a

439
00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,840
Speaker 4: bad transition. How much do you think he was influenced

440
00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:01,960
Speaker 4: by by being on there Antoine, seeing how he led,

441
00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:03,960
Speaker 4: how he played the position, and how much he learned

442
00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,560
Speaker 4: from him from just not just playing safety but also

443
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:07,680
Speaker 4: being a leader in that room.

444
00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:09,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was huge for him.

445
00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,119
Speaker 2: I mean Antoine was a pro before he was a pro,

446
00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,440
Speaker 2: and Tyler got to see that. You know, Tyler got

447
00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,440
Speaker 2: to see his you know, study habits, He got to

448
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,800
Speaker 2: see his how he practiced. How you do one thing

449
00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:23,480
Speaker 2: is how you do everything. You know, we say that

450
00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,560
Speaker 2: all the time in this program, and Antoine was a

451
00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,520
Speaker 2: great example of that. And you know, Tyler got to

452
00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:33,640
Speaker 2: be that young freshman learning from him, watching him every day,

453
00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,280
Speaker 2: absorbing him just being a sponge. But it helped him

454
00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,520
Speaker 2: out greatly. And then it was awesome to see him,

455
00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,880
Speaker 2: you know, rise to that level that Antoine had here

456
00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,440
Speaker 2: and and you know, setting that example of what it

457
00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:46,560
Speaker 2: means to be a safety here at the University of Minnesota.

458
00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,399
Speaker 4: When we talked to Tyler after he was drafted, we

459
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:51,719
Speaker 4: asked him about his thirteen interceptions and you know how

460
00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,080
Speaker 4: he's able to be such a good BALLHWK And he said,

461
00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:57,639
Speaker 4: all those interceptions were the result of my preparation. You

462
00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:00,920
Speaker 4: saw him prepare, You helped him prepare. What is it

463
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 4: about his preparation that made him special?

464
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tyler is next level in terms of the information

465
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,879
Speaker 2: that you can give him. You know, as coaches, we

466
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,960
Speaker 2: look for everything. We always say there's no stone unturned

467
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,800
Speaker 2: in terms of our preparation for translating it to the guys.

468
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,440
Speaker 2: You know, some guys can can handle more than others.

469
00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,680
Speaker 2: Some guys you can't give a lot because then you've

470
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:27,240
Speaker 2: got information overload. With Tyler, it was he wanted so

471
00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,200
Speaker 2: much information and we were able to give that to him,

472
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,480
Speaker 2: and and that just allowed him to play faster. And

473
00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,119
Speaker 2: you know, all those tips and things like that. I mean,

474
00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:38,600
Speaker 2: he would be in on Sundays the day after the

475
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:42,080
Speaker 2: game and watching the next opponent and getting ready before

476
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,639
Speaker 2: the coaches even gave him the information. He was already

477
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,400
Speaker 2: kind of getting the head start with in his mind,

478
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,040
Speaker 2: you know who he was going up against quarterbacks, things

479
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:55,960
Speaker 2: like that route recognition. So in terms of film study

480
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,120
Speaker 2: and things like that, he is he is next level

481
00:21:58,160 --> 00:21:58,640
Speaker 2: in that case.

482
00:21:59,119 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny.

483
00:21:59,800 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 3: You know.

484
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,480
Speaker 4: The old expression is in the NFL rookies, it's like

485
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 4: trying to drink water at our fire hose. Right, you

486
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,320
Speaker 4: got so much coming at you to learn so much,

487
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,719
Speaker 4: and to your point, if you can't information overload him,

488
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,200
Speaker 4: that's that's pretty important. Somebody around your program told me

489
00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 4: that heading into his last year, he went at his

490
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,680
Speaker 4: way to learn every position on the defense so he

491
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,920
Speaker 4: could help line people up and know what everyone's responsibility

492
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 4: is so he could play his position better.

493
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Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a player do that before?

494
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 2: I haven't, And that's what makes him really special. You know.

495
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,920
Speaker 2: In the in the off season, we would talk about

496
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,200
Speaker 2: what the will linebacker would do. We would talk about

497
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 2: the rush end because for him, he wanted to help

498
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,679
Speaker 2: out everybody possible as possible. And when he allowed when

499
00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 2: he does that, he allows himself to play faster as well.

500
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:47,800
Speaker 2: You know, we always talk about it too. It's just

501
00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,000
Speaker 2: like when you're in an airplane, you know, in the

502
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,439
Speaker 2: and the oxygen comes down, you got to put your

503
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,600
Speaker 2: mask on first, right before you help everybody else. You know,

504
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 2: that's the analogy that that we gave these guys. And

505
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,720
Speaker 2: you know, he did a great job of understanding and

506
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,159
Speaker 2: mastering his job that then in the off season, now

507
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 2: he can you know, learn the other jobs to help

508
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 2: as much as possible.

509
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's amazing.

510
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 4: How does he learn? You know, some guy's a visual learner.

511
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 4: Some guys have to be out on the field to

512
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,360
Speaker 4: do it. What was the best way Tyler was able

513
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 4: to kind of absorb with all that information and learn

514
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 4: what he had to learn.

515
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,199
Speaker 2: You know, like I said, Tyler's a guy that can

516
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,119
Speaker 2: take it right from the classroom and bring it out

517
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 2: to the field. You know, he's not a rep guy

518
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 2: where he needs it a bunch of times. He's a

519
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 2: guy that is a very visual learner that you show

520
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 2: him on the board, then you show him on the film,

521
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,120
Speaker 2: and then you go out into the field and he's

522
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,200
Speaker 2: got it from there. So in terms of his learning

523
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,680
Speaker 2: and his process, you know, I joke with the guys

524
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 2: all the time because I would take pictures of his

525
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 2: notes just as references to show the guys. How that's

526
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 2: how you take notes at this level and we still

527
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 2: show those today. So he's a guy that definitely takes

528
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 2: it from the classroom and brings it right to the field.

529
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 4: And I asked coach Fluck about this too, But I

530
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 4: think since you're in the meetings with him, you probably

531
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 4: a better feel for this even than the head coach does.

532
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 4: You know, you can prepare, you can know what the

533
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 4: other team's gonna do, but without the instincts to recognize

534
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 4: it and react quickly. You know, you can have all

535
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 4: the book knowledge if you want, if you can't apply it,

536
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:14,880
Speaker 4: it's not going to help, right. Can you just talk

537
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 4: about the instincts part of the equation for him and

538
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,400
Speaker 4: just his natural ability to understand and play the sport

539
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 4: of football when everything is going around going on around

540
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 4: him at such an intense speed.

541
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think it's it's something that that

542
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 2: certain people are born with, you know, is what he has.

543
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 2: You know, Antoine was very similar in that regard to

544
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 2: you know, I think coach Saban called it athletic intuition

545
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 2: the other day and watching the draft, and he's completely

546
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 2: right with that. I mean, you can coach a guy,

547
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 2: you know, how to high point a ball. You can

548
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 2: coach a guy when he's supposed to, you know, take

549
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,440
Speaker 2: out the receiver, But at the same time, how do

550
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,120
Speaker 2: you coach him in that gray area? And that's where

551
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 2: Tyler really excelled was he had that athletic intuition to

552
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 2: make the decision whether to go pick off the ball

553
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 2: or bat it down, or cause a collision to separate

554
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 2: the man from the football. Those are the things that

555
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 2: he's naturally gifted at. But once again, it goes back

556
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 2: to the preparation part, because when you're prepared and the

557
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 2: play presents itself well, if you take the first step

558
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 2: in the right direction before everybody else, now all the

559
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 2: angles change in your favor. And I think Tyler was

560
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 2: a great example of that.

561
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 4: And a lot of that is pre snap recognition, right,

562
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 4: understanding formation, what teams like to do out of certain formations,

563
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,159
Speaker 4: lining yourself upright. Then when the play starts, how do

564
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 4: you guys teach it When you're either playing that single

565
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 4: high or split safety deep thing, you're in his zone,

566
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 4: You're responsible for an area right the CFS on the quarterback.

567
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,159
Speaker 1: Is he watching how the routes develop?

568
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,200
Speaker 4: Where how do you guys teach him In terms of

569
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 4: where to put his eye so he can get himself

570
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 4: in the right position to make those plays.

571
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, when he's a zone defender, you know, everything for

572
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 2: us is based off of the quarterback. So you know,

573
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 2: understanding though the pre snap with the tip, the uh

574
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,640
Speaker 2: split of the receivers, and what we're gonna get formationally,

575
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 2: you have formation recognition within that. But once again, everything's

576
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 2: based off of the quarterback. And I think that's what

577
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 2: made him so good. You know, he's not the fastest guy,

578
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 2: he's not the biggest guy, but like I said, you

579
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 2: have that preparation and you have that athletic intuition. Well, now,

580
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 2: when the quarterback's looking around, you can make a break

581
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 2: on the ball and be very successful.

582
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 4: Where'd you use him the most? I went back on

583
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 4: the film. I saw I'm using a lot of different ways.

584
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 4: I thought he probably some of his best plays came

585
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 4: when he was in that single high spot. Where do

586
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 4: you think you read right now? Is most comfortable playing

587
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 4: eschematically based on how you used him in Minnesota?

588
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think it depends on the overall

589
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 2: scheme with the defense. You know, if it's a quarters

590
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 2: you know, we're quarters based defense, So when we were,

591
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,719
Speaker 2: you know, quarters and quarter quarter half. We used him

592
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 2: into the boundary. You know, when it's quarter quarter half,

593
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 2: he's more of a half field player. Cover two, he's

594
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 2: a half field player quarters. You know. Now he's manning

595
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 2: the number two usually it's a tight end and even

596
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 2: a guy in the slot there. And then he's heavy

597
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 2: in the run fit, which you know, Tyler loves to

598
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 2: hit and loves to be physical, so him in the

599
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:10,959
Speaker 2: run fit is not a problem at all. I love

600
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 2: him there. And then when you do get your your

601
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 2: cover one, you know, change up or cover three, change up.

602
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 2: I love Tyler in the post just because of that

603
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 2: range that he has and the ability to just be

604
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 2: a vision and break player on the quarterback.

605
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, And you kind of just broke it

606
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,679
Speaker 1: down all the different things the safety has to do. Right.

607
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 4: You can label a guy a safety, all right, Well, okay,

608
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 4: that's great, but you could have four or five different

609
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 4: responsibilities depending on the scheme, what what the offense is

610
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 4: trying to do.

611
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,959
Speaker 1: So you talked about him having in quarters.

612
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 4: You've got to have man responsibility sometimes, right, You're it's

613
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 4: like a Matt Zones. You've just played man against the

614
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 4: guy in your area and he has to match up

615
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 4: with tight ends. How did he do in those man

616
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,439
Speaker 4: to man cover situations for us?

617
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 2: You know, he did exceptional there at the end. You know,

618
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 2: I think it's you know, as a dB, you constantly

619
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 2: have to work on that. You know, every single day

620
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 2: you got to work on your coverage skills, especially as

621
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 2: guys get bigger, stronger, and faster. One in the big

622
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 2: ten in the SEC and two in the NFL, right

623
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 2: and especially now in the NFL where you got you know,

624
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 2: tight ends that that run four fours, it's pretty challenging.

625
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 2: But I thought Tyler did a good job because he

626
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 2: likes to be physical on those guys and likes to

627
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 2: get his hands on those guys and has really good footwork.

628
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 2: You know, you guys saw it in in the first

629
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 2: you know day of the mini camp. You know, just

630
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 2: his footwork and his ability to weave and break and

631
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 2: things like that. He did a really good job for us.

632
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,199
Speaker 4: And then when he has to support the run. Now,

633
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 4: a lot of it made up all the interceptions. Understandably,

634
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 4: sold coverages is a vital part of the NFL game now.

635
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 4: But you talk about a guy that wants to be

636
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 4: physical and you know, if you have the reduced down

637
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 4: into the slot, you have so many responsibilities to have

638
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 4: pulling lineman coming at you. Sometimes you had to deal

639
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 4: with tight ends, kickout blocks, outside zone, all that stuff.

640
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 4: How is he set in the edge when he had

641
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 4: to be put into those situations in that slot area.

642
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tyler was was really good for us and run

643
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,959
Speaker 2: support and you know, like I said, and Cover one

644
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 2: and Cover three, you love him in the post, but

645
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 2: at the same time, as a coach, I love that,

646
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 2: you know, big physical mentality that he had down there

647
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 2: in the run game as well. You know, Tyler will

648
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 2: will not only get you on the ground, but but

649
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 2: he'll make you feel it. And and he loves to

650
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 2: ignite the team that way. It loves to ignite the

651
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Speaker 2: fans that way. His physicality and taking on blocks and

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Speaker 2: shoot tackling and things like that. I mean, he loves

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Speaker 2: doing that stuff. And that's what just makes him such

654
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Speaker 2: a special player because he's not just a great ballhawk, right,

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Speaker 2: He's a he's a guy that loves to loves to

656
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Speaker 2: get dirty and loves to be physical.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, at the same time, he catches the football right,

658
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Speaker 4: which for defensive backs, as you know, coach it's it's

659
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Speaker 4: not a given the old joke. You know why you

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Speaker 4: played defensive back, Well, I couldn't catch the ball will

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Speaker 4: On up a wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: But he you know, he has wide receiver background, right.

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Speaker 4: Can you just talk about how he's able to almost

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Speaker 4: turn himself into an offensive player when he does locate

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Speaker 4: that ball in the air.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You know, part of the reason why we loved him

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Speaker 2: in high s was, you know, his wide receiver stuff.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's he's a Now he's a guy that

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Speaker 2: naturally catches the ball, and I think that's hard to find,

671
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Speaker 2: especially in today's day and age, you know. So he's

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Speaker 2: a natural ball catcher. And you know, those are skills

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Speaker 2: that we work on every single day in practice. You know,

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Speaker 2: at the end of practice and guys are catching a

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Speaker 2: certain amount of balls, and he goes above and beyond

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Speaker 2: to do extra drill work in that, whether that's getting

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Speaker 2: on the jugs or whether that's getting the scout team

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Speaker 2: quarterback after practice and having them throw a bomb. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, we talk about all the time, catch the

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Speaker 2: ones they throw you, because if you drop him, you

681
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Speaker 2: give the you give the offense the opportunity to see

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Speaker 2: the next play and we do everything we can to

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Speaker 2: you know, catch the ones that are thrown to us

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Speaker 2: so that you know, we eliminate those right away and

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Speaker 2: give our offense the ball on a great situation.

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Speaker 4: And then you talked about practicing against the jugs machines,

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Speaker 4: working on those throws down the field. When he gets

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Speaker 4: match up one on one, he's trailing somebody deep or

689
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Speaker 4: hanging with somebody deep. How do you guys teach playing

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Speaker 4: the ball? Do you are you playing through of hands

691
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Speaker 4: at the catch? Do you teach to get your head

692
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Speaker 4: around to try to you know, deflect the ball on

693
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Speaker 4: the way down? How do you teach that when he

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Speaker 4: gets into that kind of one on one vertical type

695
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Speaker 4: of pass game down the field.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll keep it short because I could do about

697
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Speaker 2: an hour clinic on that one. But you know, we

698
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Speaker 2: talk about we separate the levels of the field level one,

699
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Speaker 2: level two, and level three and level three is anytime

700
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Speaker 2: it's fifteen plus down the field. And when you get

701
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Speaker 2: into that, you know, your eyes go from the hip

702
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Speaker 2: to the to the va the neck. I talk and

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Speaker 2: you know, when you're in you're either in a in

704
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Speaker 2: phase situation or out of phase. And if I'm in phase.

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Speaker 2: Then I'm either shoulder or shoulder. I'm on top of

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Speaker 2: the guy. When I'm in that phase, I can lean.

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Speaker 2: When I can lean, I can look. If I'm not

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Speaker 2: in that situation, now, I play with poise.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: And when we play with poise, we play through the hand.

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Speaker 2: So that's the uh, the reader's digest of it. You know,

712
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 2: there's you know those things that you know, we drill,

713
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Speaker 2: like I said, all the time, and it just becomes

714
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Speaker 2: second nature for those guys when they're in those situations.

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Speaker 4: It's funny we interviewed Andrew Phillips's defensive coordinator, and you

716
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Speaker 4: had the same exact answer that you just had. When

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Speaker 4: you're in phase, you look for the ball. If you're

718
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Speaker 4: at a phase, you play through the hands, and that's

719
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Speaker 4: how you do. It's funny that you guys explained that

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Speaker 4: the fact same way. Absolutely last one and this might

721
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Speaker 4: be a vague question, and if you can't answer, I

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Speaker 4: apologize ahead of time. But what are some of the

723
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Speaker 4: really basic principles when you guys teach coverage and specifically

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Speaker 4: zone coverage. We expect the Giants to be a pretty

725
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 4: heavy zone team this year, whether it's you know, cover two,

726
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Speaker 4: cover six, you know, cover quarters, cover four. What are

727
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Speaker 4: some of the basic principles that you know day one

728
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Speaker 4: of install you're trying to teach and get through to

729
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Speaker 4: these guys. You have to be good at these things

730
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Speaker 4: if you want to play zone well in our defensive system.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the first part is your eyes right

732
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Speaker 2: because that's going to take you in the direction that

733
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Speaker 2: you need to go. And then it's everything else is

734
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Speaker 2: based off of your footwork. And you know, in certain situations,

735
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 2: sometimes you're going backwards, sometimes you're growing horizontal. Sometimes it's

736
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Speaker 2: a weave where you're getting with and depth. So those

737
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 2: are the skills that you got to kind of practice

738
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Speaker 2: every single day. You know. Those are you know, footwork

739
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 2: drills for us we do every day, and you know,

740
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 2: the boring habits create those elite instincts. You know, that's

741
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 2: what we talk about. And when you do it over

742
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 2: and over and over again, now it just it's it

743
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 2: becomes second nature to you. So I think eyes and

744
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 2: feet are the two biggest part of zone coverage. And

745
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Speaker 2: then you're able to play the ball once it's in

746
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Speaker 2: the air.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 4: Finally, coach you around him, probably as much as any

749
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Speaker 4: other coach over his career Minnesota. Any stories or anecdotes

750
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Speaker 4: that maybe people haven't heard that you would like to

751
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Speaker 4: share with giant fans that will maybe give them a

752
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 4: little bit of insight into Tyler, either as a football

753
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Speaker 4: player or just as a guy.

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Speaker 1: You could take this any direction you want.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Tyler's just he's gonna be the hardest,

756
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Speaker 2: hardest worker in the room, and he's going to be

757
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Speaker 2: a joy every single day. I think you guys have

758
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 2: seen that with the media and some of the questions

759
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Speaker 2: that that he's gotten in some of the light answers

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Speaker 2: that he's given, like the Spider Man comment and things

761
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Speaker 2: like that. He just he likes to have a good

762
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 2: time and a very confident young man. And like I said,

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Speaker 2: he's just gonna come to work every single day and

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Speaker 2: give you everything he has. And at the end of

765
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Speaker 2: the day, like everything with him is about family. And

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Speaker 2: you know, he surrounds himself with with the people he

767
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 2: loves the most and tremendous job with you know, his

768
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Speaker 2: parents raising him and to the man he is today

769
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Speaker 2: and you know brother on the team as well, and

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Speaker 2: you know, he's just he loves the people around him.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I just I love the guy and

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Speaker 2: I can't say enough good things about him, and he's

773
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Speaker 2: gonna have a tremendous career there in New York, and

774
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Speaker 2: I just can't wait to watch him.

775
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 4: I can't wait to watch him play as well and

776
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 4: get to know him a little bit better. Danny Collins,

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Speaker 4: the safetyes and past game of coordinator for the Minnesota

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Speaker 4: Golden Golfers. Danny, thanks so much for taking out of

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Speaker 4: the time out of your recruiting schedule to join us today.

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Speaker 1: We really appreciate it and I best look in twenty

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Speaker 1: PJ.

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Speaker 4: Fleck, the head coach of the Golden Golfers, give me

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Speaker 4: his insight into Tyler from a kind of a twenty

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Speaker 4: thousand foot view as a leader, as a guy, as

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Speaker 4: a player. Really good conversation, and we kind of dove

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Speaker 4: Collins as safeties coach in the past game coordinator with

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Speaker 4: the Minnesota defense. Thank you for joining us so much

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