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Speaker 1: What does uh the Darius need to do this offseason

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Speaker 1: to make sure your two is a lot more it's healthy,

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Speaker 1: right first of all, productive then than your one has been. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think, uh a lot goes into that. I think

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Speaker 1: as a rookie, sometimes these guys don't know, they really

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Speaker 1: don't know how long the season is. You know, most

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Speaker 1: guys in college at the end of the season, it's

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Speaker 1: like half the season in NFL. You probably would eleven

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Speaker 1: or twelve games in in the NFL. I mean, well

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Speaker 1: when in college when they have eleven or twelve games,

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Speaker 1: for us, that's like we we're probably an eighth game

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Speaker 1: or ninth game something like that, counting preseason. So I

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Speaker 1: think for the long haul is no one what to

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Speaker 1: do and take care of your body because obviously no

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Speaker 1: one knows your body more than you. So he's take

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Speaker 1: care his body a little more, you know. Um, you

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Speaker 1: don't learn from other guys, you know what kind of

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Speaker 1: routine they have, Um, you know, and pray and stay healthy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's you know, it's it's uh,

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Speaker 1: it's a tough business. You know, it's a physical business,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's collision on every snap. So you have

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Speaker 1: to do the best you can to be able to um,

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Speaker 1: maintain your body. Whether it's you know, nutrition, whether it's

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Speaker 1: being with the trainers, whether it's massagists, whatever, just do

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Speaker 1: whatever you can to make sure your body is the

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Speaker 1: best possible condition to go out there and play. What

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Speaker 1: about with Kenny's I would say that the season didn't

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Speaker 1: go Maybe that's the way he expected, Like what what

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Speaker 1: he what needs to improve there, whether it's getting the

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Speaker 1: ball more and doing something different or anything like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think with Kenny, Um, you know, working with Kenny

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Speaker 1: has really been good this year. First of all, Um,

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Speaker 1: he's really taken well to coaching. Um, that's some things

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Speaker 1: he can improve on. That's some things I can help

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Speaker 1: him with. But the thing Kenny has been doing really

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Speaker 1: a standard course and and hadn't really been concerned about

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Speaker 1: who's doing what because he knew he has a job

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Speaker 1: to do. So that's the main thing with Kenny. Just

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Speaker 1: keep doing your job and doing it better, you know,

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Speaker 1: And I can help him more with that, so it'll

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Speaker 1: be much better you know next year. Any thing was

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Speaker 1: this year. Now, no one can control you know, who

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Speaker 1: gets the ball, when you get the ball, that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff. But I don't think he can do is

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Speaker 1: go out there and do his job to the best

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Speaker 1: disability every snap and uh and see what happens. He's

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Speaker 1: never he's never been a big separation guy, at least

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Speaker 1: according to the analytics. Does that take time with the

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Speaker 1: same quarterback over and over to realize when when like

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Speaker 1: he might not look open, but you have to throw

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Speaker 1: the ball to Kenny or you're never gonna throw the

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Speaker 1: ball to Kenny because's never gonna be wide open. You know,

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Speaker 1: you raise a good point. You know you probably have.

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Speaker 1: It's probably some validity to that. You know, it's having

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Speaker 1: guys feel more comfortable and thrown to a guy when

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Speaker 1: he doesn't quote unquote see him open. But like I

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Speaker 1: tell a lot of people all the time Kenyan six four,

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Speaker 1: so all the time he's open when he's not open

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Speaker 1: because of his catch radios. So and if a quarterback

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Speaker 1: or whoever is not used to throwing the guys like that,

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Speaker 1: then that may take some time. So yeah, I got

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Speaker 1: some validity to that. I can't him Like I think

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Speaker 1: Tay Pettis was the last receiver to score a touchdown

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Speaker 1: for you guys, which before Halloween? How do you make

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Speaker 1: sense of that longer stretch without a receiver, get any receiver,

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Speaker 1: get that touched him. Yeah, I mean it's hard to

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Speaker 1: make sense of that. But you know, um, we can

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Speaker 1: only control. We can control. You know, when I go

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Speaker 1: out there and try to coach my guys, I try

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Speaker 1: do their responsibility on every play, whether it's a run game,

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Speaker 1: and be as productive as possible. And then you know,

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Speaker 1: we don't have one job to do as a receiver.

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Speaker 1: I say one job, but we don't control one person

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Speaker 1: to do their job. And that's what we try to

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Speaker 1: So you know, everybody has a job to do. We

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Speaker 1: plus we can. He seemed to be the only deveteran

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Speaker 1: this week with maybe Garious and somebody else coming, I

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Speaker 1: certainly hope. So. I think some other guys have been

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Speaker 1: But you know, nobody cares. You know, we gotta got

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Speaker 1: him to do a job, and we won't go out

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Speaker 1: there and do our job the best of ability to

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Speaker 1: who's available, and uh we expect the same results. We

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Speaker 1: expect to go out there and have great results and

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Speaker 1: try to win this game this last game. Did you

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Speaker 1: double him a lot? I wouldn't say that double him

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Speaker 1: a lot? No. I just think they've played their defense.

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Speaker 1: I think they pressured more than they have shown in

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Speaker 1: recent past. UM And it was just, you know, it

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Speaker 1: what to do on offense because they're doing a couple

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Speaker 1: of things that more different than they've shown on film.

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Speaker 1: So uh so we have to go out there and

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Speaker 1: to just and make the plays when they come our way,

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Speaker 1: to be a run game and past game and and

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Speaker 1: see what happens. Why do you think from a big

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Speaker 1: picture perspective that the last two years have been such

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Speaker 1: a struggle offensively. Um, I don't know. I can't ask

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Speaker 1: lot of things. A factor in, you know, health factors

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Speaker 1: in having guys healthy, experience, factors in got some inexperienced

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Speaker 1: I can't really pinpoint that one thing. There's several things

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Speaker 1: we need to prove on as a team and as

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Speaker 1: an offense to be better next year. And if I

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Speaker 1: probably like you said, it's a lot of things. I

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Speaker 1: was just curious, like some of the first things that

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Speaker 1: came to your mind, right you You mentioned injuries there.

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Speaker 1: I mean obviously that that's been How how big handicap

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Speaker 1: has that been this year for you guys? It's been huge, huge,

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Speaker 1: the the injury slash COVID stuff. Everybody deals with that,

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Speaker 1: that way. So I think health is a number one

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Speaker 1: they've probably been the team that's been the most healthy,

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Speaker 1: you know, throughout the close of the year. They kind

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Speaker 1: of a similar question, I guess, but almost asked the

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Speaker 1: opposite way. Like, you've been in a lot of systems

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Speaker 1: you've had, You've been on offenses that have had a

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Speaker 1: lot of success. I just asked Pat Graham what makes

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Speaker 1: him the hardest time? He actually said Gary Kubiak's offense,

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Speaker 1: to have fast receivers? You have to get the ball

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Speaker 1: like what makes the best offense? I think if I

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Speaker 1: I make sure all the guys are healthy first of all,

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Speaker 1: because all the NFL players are good players. That's why

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Speaker 1: the NFL. So if you have healthy guys and a

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Speaker 1: you can have a good offense, good defense, good special change, whatever,

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Speaker 1: but it starts with the health of all your guys.

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Speaker 1: I believe that professional Yet I think he's working on that.

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Speaker 1: I think he's working on like all rookies are. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can actually about any rookie in NFL and they

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Speaker 1: will say, well, they're working on that, and he's no

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Speaker 1: other and he's no different in any other rookie. He's

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Speaker 1: working on it. He's learning from some vets, he's learning

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Speaker 1: from the coaches of how to do things, you know,

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Speaker 1: from the trainers. The matter. It's it's it's a work

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Speaker 1: in progress. You can't come into the NFL is rookie

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Speaker 1: and say, okay, I'm a pro. I mean you could

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Speaker 1: say that, but it's a process you have to go

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Speaker 1: through in order to quote unquote be a pro. And

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Speaker 1: I think he's working through that. And um, I think

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Speaker 1: he's going in the right direction to neither us pointed

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