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Speaker 1: How you guys doing. Hey, Josh, uh saw you left

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Speaker 1: the game early today. It's everything all right for you. Physically.

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Speaker 1: I'm terrific. You're terrific. Got um a couple of pressures today.

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Speaker 1: Did you feel like all that work you've been doing

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Speaker 1: this offseason came together tonight a little bit? Um? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just trusting the coaching from my coaches, you know, and

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Speaker 1: just trying to execute my assignment every play and you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever happens happens. I mean, yeah, definitely, you know, put

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Speaker 1: some working in this offseason and you know, just trying

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Speaker 1: to work every day to make sure it pays off. So, Josh,

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Speaker 1: how important was it as a group to just fly around,

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Speaker 1: get out there as quick as possible and kind of

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Speaker 1: set the tone. I mean, it's the first preseason game,

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Speaker 1: so I mean, definitely important to get our toes wet,

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Speaker 1: you know, first real real contact against another opponent, and um,

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Speaker 1: you know, it was definitely an emphasis to fly and

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Speaker 1: just try to get our feet wet again, you know.

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Speaker 1: So definitely a great, you know way to get to

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Speaker 1: do that is to play someone else, So Josh, for

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Speaker 1: you guys, is a defense playing against the different opponent

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Speaker 1: for the first time, how much should the communication improve

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Speaker 1: with so many new guys? How much you to to improve

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Speaker 1: from the from the beginning of the game and the

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Speaker 1: longer that you were in there as you as you

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Speaker 1: got used to playing with each other. Um, I think

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Speaker 1: it just comes back to our coach and you know,

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Speaker 1: falling back on our coaching or on our coaches who

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Speaker 1: do an outstanding job and just you know, trusting that

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Speaker 1: training we've been doing. You know, we've been putting in

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Speaker 1: work since the spring and kind of just relying on that. So, hey, Josh,

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Speaker 1: that's how you take some snaps at insidelnebacker tonight. Just

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Speaker 1: where's your comfort level with that position right now? Right now,

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Speaker 1: I'm just doing whatever the team needs me to do,

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Speaker 1: you know, wherever that may be. You know, I just

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Speaker 1: got to execute my sign. So you feel like you

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Speaker 1: have a lot of versatility, Like in that linebacker room

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Speaker 1: between yourself, Judon Van Noys, a lot of guys can

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Speaker 1: play inside the end out. I mean, yeah, you just

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Speaker 1: said a lot of names, so you know, definitely a

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Speaker 1: lot of versatility in the room, and you know, just

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Speaker 1: trying to learn from the older guys and kind of

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, do what they do. I'm a

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Speaker 1: copycat if you will. Hey, Josh, what were your first

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Speaker 1: impressions of quarterback Mac Jones tonight? In his first you know,

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Speaker 1: true pro game setting. I mean, I'm not a quarterback guru,

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Speaker 1: so I can't really you know, tell you too much

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Speaker 1: about mechanics or checkdowns or you know x's and those.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, you know, definitely seemed like he has

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Speaker 1: some you know, some poise and you know, he went

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Speaker 1: out there and you know it's for the coaches to judge,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I'm not really I'm not one of

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Speaker 1: his coaches, so it's hard for me to kind of

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Speaker 1: judge his performance. So Josh, last year, you didn't have,

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Speaker 1: you know, the preseason. You went right into the regular season.

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Speaker 1: So just tonight as the first preseason game, give you

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a baseline to see where you

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Speaker 1: some of the other defensive players have been in a

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Speaker 1: situation where you can figure, Okay, we have to work

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Speaker 1: on this, we have to work on this. Um you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's what preseason is for. You know, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't count towards a regular season. It gives teams a

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Speaker 1: chance to kind of you know, figure out, you know,

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Speaker 1: what it is they want to do or how they

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Speaker 1: can improve. And I mean, you know, for both teams tonight,

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Speaker 1: I mean I feel like, you know, guys walked away knowing, hey,

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Speaker 1: I could be better at this or I could do

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Speaker 1: this a little better. So, you know, definitely definitely a

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Speaker 1: great opportunity for both teams to kind of work on

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Speaker 1: their craft. So correct me if I'm wrong. But this

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Speaker 1: is a first time playing in front of home fans

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Speaker 1: since Big House, Right, Well, yeah, what's the experience like

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Speaker 1: for you? Uh? First of all, I want to say

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Speaker 1: I love you here, by the way, I just want to,

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Speaker 1: you know, just want to say that. Um. Second of all, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's been a while since I played in

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Speaker 1: front of some fans, and you know, before ball its

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Speaker 1: football at the end of the day. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: not too much really changed for real. So Josh, going

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Speaker 1: back to the question before this was sorry my glass

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Speaker 1: fucking up. This was your first preseason game. You played

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Speaker 1: a full NFL season before that. I can't imagine a

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Speaker 1: lot of NFL players have had that kind of experience.

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Speaker 1: I know you have nothing to compare it to, but

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Speaker 1: having been through regular season games and now coming out

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Speaker 1: for the preseason, how did you kind of just mentally

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Speaker 1: prepare for this game, specifically learning what you learned last year.

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Speaker 1: I mean again, just kind of leaning on my coaching,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of leaning off the on the offseason

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Speaker 1: work I put in and kind of just you know,

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Speaker 1: still understanding, you know, Rome wasn't built in a day,

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Speaker 1: and just kind of taking that approach and getting better

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Speaker 1: each day, brick by brick and just kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: trying to get one percent better, you know, So thank

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Speaker 1: you guys,