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Speaker 1: Head coach dmarrong with us on Draft night nineteen, the

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Speaker 1: first round coming up a little bit later this evening.

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Speaker 1: I know you're onto the players that are here now,

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Speaker 1: but I'm curious about the process for you and your

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Speaker 1: coaching staff leading up to the draft. At what point

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Speaker 1: did you guys move forward to the players that were

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Speaker 1: here and what was this, you know, the scenario for

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Speaker 1: you guys on a day to day basis when you

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Speaker 1: were looking at players. Yeah, I think I think for

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Speaker 1: us when it starts off obviously the season ends, and

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Speaker 1: you know, the first thing you do is you're you're

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Speaker 1: looking at evaluations of your own team and you want

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Speaker 1: to make sure you're correct on that. And then you know,

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Speaker 1: when it comes down to acquiring players after that, your

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Speaker 1: first process as the coaches is to look at, you know,

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Speaker 1: the NFL free agents, free agents around the league that

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Speaker 1: you know we can we think that can help our

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Speaker 1: football team and and really you know, write evaluations on

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Speaker 1: them and hand them to our you know, pro personnel department,

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Speaker 1: you know, and they'll look at that. And then you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously coach Coughlin and Dave Call well look at those

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Speaker 1: you know players and see which ones you know fit

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Speaker 1: in both you know, financially and the ones that can

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Speaker 1: help our football team. You know, that process goes on

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Speaker 1: for a while UM obviously, and then you know, as

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Speaker 1: you're working on UM you know, upcoming playbooks and schemes

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Speaker 1: and schematics for the following year, you know, the next

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Speaker 1: process that you have to be ready for is is

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Speaker 1: the combine. So you know that's gonna be our first

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Speaker 1: time where we really get to meet the players or

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Speaker 1: sit down an interview with them. So you know, we

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Speaker 1: try to do as much background as we can. We

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Speaker 1: get tapes together, UM, and we really haven't had enough

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Speaker 1: time to put a full UM report and yet, so

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Speaker 1: you know, we get down to combine, we do that,

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Speaker 1: then we start working on you know, the college players.

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Speaker 1: So we'll get x amount each coach will that x

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Speaker 1: amount of players. I'll get a certain amount of players

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Speaker 1: that you know, we'll look at and basically we'll just

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Speaker 1: rate those players like you know how you know, where

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Speaker 1: do they you know, where do they fit? Who's the

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Speaker 1: best one? You know, just simple and then you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: if if we were acquired as players, this is how

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Speaker 1: we would fit into our system. So you know, we

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Speaker 1: we do reports on that and that gets handed in

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Speaker 1: um obviously now to coach Coughlin and Dave Calwell, and

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Speaker 1: it goes into our uh scouting services, you know, and

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Speaker 1: looking at that and then basically, um, probably a week

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Speaker 1: before the players report, you know, or basically about ten

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Speaker 1: days it takes for us to sit down. We'll sit

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Speaker 1: down with the scouts and everyone in a big room

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Speaker 1: and we'll read our reports and what we liked and

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Speaker 1: what we did, and we'll watch film, um pretty much

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Speaker 1: on on each player that we've talked about, and then um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're getting ourselves ready for you know, the

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Speaker 1: players coming in and you know, the players are coming

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Speaker 1: in and we're in a phase one where we can

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Speaker 1: meet with them, so you know, we're getting our meetings

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Speaker 1: ready or cut ups ready or things like that. So

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Speaker 1: we're not uh involved as much as I would say

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Speaker 1: the people on the other side, the scouting department, which

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Speaker 1: you know really they're doing this stuff all year around,

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Speaker 1: so uh, they have a great understanding of the of

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Speaker 1: all the players, you know, basically that involved. They have

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Speaker 1: a better understanding of where these players will probably be chosen. Um,

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Speaker 1: and we as coaches just sit back and you know,

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Speaker 1: work with the players out of here because that's the

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Speaker 1: one thing you can guarantee and then look forward to

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Speaker 1: seeing what players you require that might be able to

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Speaker 1: help our football team when you're looking at college players

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Speaker 1: in that time frame. Um, how much do your way

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Speaker 1: the tape versus the conversation with the player in your

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Speaker 1: final grade and your final report. I think nowadays it's

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Speaker 1: it's a difficult um process, meaning that you know, they

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Speaker 1: take so many different types of test. You know that

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Speaker 1: you know, evaluate their personalities, their backgrounds there, you know,

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Speaker 1: how them motivated and and and so you're going through

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Speaker 1: sources of things of that nature, and you're trying to

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Speaker 1: create a picture in your mind of you know, the

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Speaker 1: personality of the character of the player that you're gonna

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Speaker 1: down with them, you know, they may have past all

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Speaker 1: the check marks, and you know, you may sit down

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Speaker 1: on him and something may not feel right, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna bring that up. And I would say

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Speaker 1: make sure you address and have a better knowledge of that.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you sit down with him, you say, okay,

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Speaker 1: that makes sense. I understand where he is. Um. I

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Speaker 1: try to when I sit down with the players, you know,

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Speaker 1: get a sense of who they are, how they're going

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Speaker 1: to be motivated, how they communicate, you know, how I

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Speaker 1: can get to him, um, things that that nature, and

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Speaker 1: have a plan for them outside of just you know

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Speaker 1: what they're gonna do on the football field, but have

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Speaker 1: a plan for them on you know, how you can

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Speaker 1: develop them as a person and how you can you know,

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Speaker 1: develop that type of trust in that relationship that I

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Speaker 1: think you need to be successful in this league. Doug, tonight,

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Speaker 1: what's your role in the draft room? You'll obviously be

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Speaker 1: in there with Tom and Dave and the rest of

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Speaker 1: the scouting staff and everybody involved. But what do you

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Speaker 1: bring tonight to the table in that draft room? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean I would like to sit here and say

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Speaker 1: that I bring a ton but I don't think it'

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Speaker 1: it works that way. I think that you know, I

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Speaker 1: just you know, part of the process, so you know,

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Speaker 1: ask questions. You know, Um, you know, what do you

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Speaker 1: feel about this? What you feel like that? But we've

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Speaker 1: done so much prepping I mean, there's there's so much

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Speaker 1: that's done prior to you know, where you're going through,

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Speaker 1: so many scenarios, so many different things You're going through

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Speaker 1: the players, and you just keep doing it and doing

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Speaker 1: it where you know, I'm a little bit more separated

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Speaker 1: from the coaches and players, you know the last couple

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Speaker 1: of days, you know, as we build up to this draft,

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Speaker 1: to be involved in those conversations and be able to

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Speaker 1: answer questions, and you know, basically I'm I'm pretty much

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Speaker 1: there for support and whatever questions that you know people

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Speaker 1: may have of how we feel like we're going to

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Speaker 1: use someone, um, you know, just to reiterate those things.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's basically you know, you know what I'll

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Speaker 1: be doing, and you know I'll be tracking what what

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Speaker 1: the other teams are doing. Confident you'll get a solid

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Speaker 1: football player at seven. I mean, you go into it

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Speaker 1: obviously that's the expectations you want to you want to

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Speaker 1: get you know, a football player at every player that

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Speaker 1: you acquire, you know, via the draft. Like you know,

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Speaker 1: I met with the players today and I told him,

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, people have come here in a

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Speaker 1: lot of different ways. And um, really how you're acquired

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Speaker 1: really doesn't matter to me personally. You know, it's what

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Speaker 1: you do on the field, and the best players are

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Speaker 1: going to make this team. I think there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of success stories. You know, we we pointed out a

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Speaker 1: J boy A today. Um, you know the great success

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Speaker 1: story last year our secondary you know, three have out

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Speaker 1: of a four starters or free agents. Uh. So there's opportunity.

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Speaker 1: And I think when you have opportunity, you've got to

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Speaker 1: take advantage of it. And you know, if you think

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Speaker 1: you know, because of your status, the way you've been drafted,

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Speaker 1: that you know you're you're you're a definite, you're in,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about it, I think that

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Speaker 1: that creates a lot of problems for yourself. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a change from college to the NFL, and it's

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Speaker 1: a transition, and you know a lot of these players

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Speaker 1: be going through a lot of transition to the next

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Thank you, good luck tonight. All right,

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Speaker 1: thank you,