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Speaker 1: Okay, need, I was wondering how you view the uh

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Speaker 1: the competition with Matt there right tackle? What looks like

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Speaker 1: a competition between between you two. Um. You know obviously

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Speaker 1: a lot of big difference between your your experiences, but uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, how what how do you how do you

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Speaker 1: go into this situation? You know, I don't think the

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Speaker 1: competition is just between the two of us. I think

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Speaker 1: it's a team competition. I think that they want the

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Speaker 1: best eleven football players out there, UM, and I'm working to,

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Speaker 1: if not be one of those, make those guys the best,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So that's my job, my role,

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Speaker 1: just to go out there every day be the best

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Speaker 1: that I can be and help make others that way too.

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Speaker 1: What have you seen from him? What did you see

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Speaker 1: from him last year when you were not with the team,

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Speaker 1: and and what do you what have you seen from

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Speaker 1: him so far in a couple of days and he's

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Speaker 1: been on the field. It's early, um, but it's been

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Speaker 1: great to play with him and all the other guys. UM.

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Speaker 1: I think we got a long ways to go, um,

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Speaker 1: but hard working guys, guys that care, smart, tough, um,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to continue to develop who we are

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Speaker 1: and what we're all about, like seeing all he need. Um.

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Speaker 1: One of the things we heard when you know you

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Speaker 1: didn't play last year as well, you know for a veteran,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe sitting a year out and getting a

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Speaker 1: body to rest is a good thing. Um. Looking back

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Speaker 1: at that and now being out there first time in

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Speaker 1: pads yesterday, has it been a good thing? Do you

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Speaker 1: feel younger, fresher, stronger, you know all those things. I

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Speaker 1: don't feel younger, but I did feel great. My body

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Speaker 1: feels recovered healthy. I think there is a cumulative toll

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Speaker 1: that playing every season takes on you. So actually have

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Speaker 1: that time to let some of those uh bumps and

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Speaker 1: bruises kind of helop has been a good thing. And

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Speaker 1: in the obviously you knew Joe before he came here

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Speaker 1: and had a little time last spring, I guess the spring.

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Speaker 1: But this is your first time really you know working

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Speaker 1: with him. Has he been like what you expected as

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Speaker 1: a head coach? Yeah? The great thing about Joe and

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Speaker 1: have tremendous respect for him and what he's all about. Um,

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Speaker 1: he's the same guy that I've always known. Um. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that he's trying to put on airs. I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's trying to be anything that he's not.

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Speaker 1: He's exactly who he says he is. And um, that's

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Speaker 1: just his integrity, and I think that's shown through in

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Speaker 1: the last week that I've been here. I'm curious. You've

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Speaker 1: been in a bunch of offensive line rooms, including in

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Speaker 1: New England where they had some interesting, uh set ups

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Speaker 1: with the coaching staff there in that in that specific room,

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Speaker 1: You've got a lot of coaches this year in your room.

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Speaker 1: Out of wondering, what do you think of that? And

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Speaker 1: is it Have you ever been in a room with

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Speaker 1: as this many coaches? I'm one decision group. Oh man,

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Speaker 1: it's excellent to have the resources. Um. I knew Ben

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Speaker 1: from before. UM getting to know Coach Sale and Coach

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Speaker 1: Flats um uh, you know Coach Flats and me sitting

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Speaker 1: down from time to time, I can just hear so

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Speaker 1: much of the experience and when when Coach Sale goes

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Speaker 1: through it, he's clearly knowledgeable and he helps us get

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Speaker 1: on the same page. And the biggest thing with any

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Speaker 1: old line it's important that you know what you're doing,

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Speaker 1: but it's also important that we're working together. So I

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Speaker 1: think that's been through the coaching staff all the way

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Speaker 1: through to the players. So that's been a great group.

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Speaker 1: Tom yam Man, Hey, Nate, does that T shirt say fight? Yes?

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Speaker 1: It does? Yes, it does? It was it? Did you

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Speaker 1: pull it out of the closet after yesterday? Uh? Now,

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Speaker 1: this is this is about a mentality. It's not about

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Speaker 1: it's not about an activity. That's right, Okay, thank you,

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Speaker 1: all right? And they where was your take on what

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Speaker 1: happened yesterday practice and the aftermath of it? Well? I

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Speaker 1: think a couple of things. I think that it's a

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Speaker 1: good thing that we have competitive guys, the guys that care,

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Speaker 1: guys that are willing to be scrappy. Um. But I

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Speaker 1: think it's also important Um. What the coaches say too

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Speaker 1: is we have to be disciplined and intelligent and smart

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Speaker 1: and make good decisions. So I think it's both. And

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Speaker 1: we're always walking that fine line in the football on

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Speaker 1: the football field at all times. So we want to

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Speaker 1: be tough, but it's got to be within the rules

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Speaker 1: and we gotta do it um at a high level.

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Speaker 1: And then a real quick before you go, did you

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Speaker 1: have a chance to talk to Joe Looney before he

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Speaker 1: made his decision or or after he made his decision,

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Speaker 1: and and and left. I didn't get a chance to

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Speaker 1: talk to him in depth. Um, I was not aware

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Speaker 1: until this morning when it was announced to the team

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Speaker 1: that he retired. But I'm you know, he's had a

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Speaker 1: fantastic career. I know he's making the best decisions for

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Speaker 1: his family. He's a man of Christ like myself, and

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Speaker 1: we had immediate unity and so I know God's fighting

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Speaker 1: for him and loves him, and he's going to have

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Speaker 1: great things in his future. Do you think that the

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Speaker 1: running and everything from last night had anything to do

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Speaker 1: with his decision? No, No, I don't think so. No.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's got his own thing going on. I

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Speaker 1: don't think. Um, he's a long time veteran. I don't

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Speaker 1: think one time of exercise would change his decision though,