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Speaker 1: James Bridbury doesn't seem like the kind of guy who's

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Speaker 1: you could just what have you seen about from him? Uh?

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Speaker 1: So far it just played this the first two games,

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Speaker 1: just a skill set, his ability to match up with

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Speaker 1: the best receivers on the other team and actually match

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Speaker 1: up with him pretty well. He's done a good job

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Speaker 1: just coming in accepting his role and doing it well,

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Speaker 1: and we just need need more of it. He sawly

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Speaker 1: got that great play and he's had a couple of

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Speaker 1: breakups pass breakups. We just need that type of stuff

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Speaker 1: to get where we want. The ends of the pass

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Speaker 1: rush through two games has been better than it was

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Speaker 1: last season. Do you attribute that? Especially you? It seems

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Speaker 1: like you guys are getting home more, getting more stacks,

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Speaker 1: not just pressures. Is that this different scheme and you

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Speaker 1: guys being comfortable in it. Is that just Hey, it's

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Speaker 1: your third year, not your second, access second year not

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Speaker 1: his first. Is that attributable to you guys just developing

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Speaker 1: or is this a better stick for the way you

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Speaker 1: guys play? Yeah? I just say that it's all of

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Speaker 1: us trying to take the coaching do what we're close

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Speaker 1: to do and play ball fast. I wouldn't say that

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Speaker 1: it is like any different scheme, but it's just all

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Speaker 1: the guys that we're working together better. We're getting to

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Speaker 1: know each other, what each other do, weaknesses and strengths are,

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Speaker 1: and we just played that. All of us are out

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Speaker 1: there hungry. Everybody's out there. I wanted to get the sacks,

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Speaker 1: want to get the big plays, but we're really just

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Speaker 1: trying to play cohesive ball, play um complimentary football for

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Speaker 1: the back end, and they do the same for us.

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Speaker 1: Is there any more urgency this year, like in like

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Speaker 1: feel not you know, like feeling or urgency like it's

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Speaker 1: your third year, it's the big year. It's a contract

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Speaker 1: year for Leonard Williams, d J. Hill, third year, like

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Speaker 1: all you guys kind of come into age and they're

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Speaker 1: more urgency this year, Like we're not young anymore. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even think we think about the

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Speaker 1: contract year or the third year thing. It's more we

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Speaker 1: know the guy as we have in the locker room,

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Speaker 1: and we know the guy the abilities that we have

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Speaker 1: on tape. We've seen it, we've seen flashes. It's more

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Speaker 1: let's put this together consistently and all the time and

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Speaker 1: help our help out the secondary and help our team

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Speaker 1: get wins. It seems if you look at your stats

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Speaker 1: in the first half and the second half, you know

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Speaker 1: you're giving up points in the first half the second half.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're making adjustments, but you've given

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Speaker 1: up ten all ten points all season in the second half.

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Speaker 1: What's happening? I think. I think it just comes down

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Speaker 1: to coaching, our coach to do a good job coming

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Speaker 1: in to halftime making adjustments, but also the players. Um,

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Speaker 1: we know we have to start fast and finish strong,

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Speaker 1: and that's one thing that we focused on. Finishing strong,

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Speaker 1: and we try to put ourselves in the best position

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Speaker 1: to win. And if the defense, if the offense can't

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Speaker 1: score points on the other side there that helps us

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Speaker 1: win games. Just picking backing off a little bit from

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Speaker 1: a previous question, it looks like the coaches have been

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Speaker 1: asking to do different roles than were in the past,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just wondering, is what I'm seeing you know

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Speaker 1: accurate when I say that? And number two, do you

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Speaker 1: feel more comfortable with what they're asking you to do? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's the game plan is changed by weeks. So coach

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Speaker 1: told us from the jump. Um. One of the main

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Speaker 1: pillars of our defense is putting the team first, and

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Speaker 1: that includes doing different things each week. So whatever coach

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Speaker 1: asked me to do, if he wants me to play

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Speaker 1: I mean he does. He has a reason for it,

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Speaker 1: and he lets us know with explanations. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm comfortable pretty much wherever he puts me, and if

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Speaker 1: I'm not comfortable with it, we can have those conversations.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a pretty open relationship with coach Graham

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Speaker 1: and the defensive players. So we we have communication. We

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Speaker 1: talked about what works, what doesn't work, and we just

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Speaker 1: go from there. Have you gone to him actually and said,

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Speaker 1: you know, going back to early on saying hey, coach,

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Speaker 1: we tried there? I mean, has he taken your suggestions

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Speaker 1: about what works, what doesn't work. Um, well we need

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Speaker 1: what we can do better and whatever works works. Um,

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Speaker 1: we're the player. He lets us know also that we're

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Speaker 1: feel like we need to do something different, then we

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Speaker 1: feels like we need to do it or it's a

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Speaker 1: reason we're doing it, then we's got to suck it

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Speaker 1: up and play ball. But he's open. It's an open relationship,

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Speaker 1: open communication. In terms of the game plans stuff, how

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Speaker 1: there was so much emphasis on details in the summer,

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Speaker 1: but now that you're kind of going a week to

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Speaker 1: week situation. Uh. Here from some guys, it does sound like,

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Speaker 1: change depending on who you're seeing. So I would imagine

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Speaker 1: that puts a lot on your plate in terms of

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Speaker 1: you have to embrace really week to week. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's pretty different. But the good thing about it is

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Speaker 1: Coach Graham. Coach Graham, from the first day of virtual

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Speaker 1: meetings in the spring um we started going over the

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Speaker 1: defense as a whole and we learned at it conceptually.

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Speaker 1: So everything is pretty much if you understand this defense,

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Speaker 1: the defensive shale, there you can play pretty much anywhere

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Speaker 1: to grasp once you actually understand the defense as a whole.

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Speaker 1: Um playing a different position is just understanding where you

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Speaker 1: are in the shield. I think it was coach Bielmo

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Speaker 1: who mentioned the other day that you know, all you guys,

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Speaker 1: you kind of have you know, five six starting groups

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Speaker 1: that he would consider based on packages and whatever packages

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Speaker 1: of who has more snaps, was less snaps. What do

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Speaker 1: you like about your outside linebacker group that has been

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Speaker 1: able to kind of embrace that from the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, we just support each other and we

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Speaker 1: we all know that. Like you said, it doesn't matter,

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Speaker 1: um who starts out there, we're we're all going to

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Speaker 1: can do Each package is different and each package you

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Speaker 1: still rotate, so you can be a one in one

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Speaker 1: we all support each other. Or outside backer group is

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Speaker 1: pretty close and we got some good players, so there's

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