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Speaker 1: The Uh, the Giants picked up your fifty year option.

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Speaker 2: Did you have a re obviously it was like the

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Speaker 2: no brainer of all time? Or did you have a

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Speaker 2: rap into that? Uh? Nah, It's definitely a blessing. I'm excited,

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Speaker 2: but uh, it's working on getting better every day. Good thing.

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Speaker 2: I'll be here at least in the five years and

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Speaker 2: just keep working getting better every day.

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Speaker 1: I'd be Obviously that means that, Uh, at that point

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Speaker 1: they can start talking about Uh, at this point in

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Speaker 1: your career, they could start talking extensions and whatnot.

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Speaker 2: Do you know how that or what they loaded you

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Speaker 2: about that?

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Speaker 1: As your age you mentioned that, you know, talks beginning

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Speaker 1: on the long term the earlier.

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Speaker 2: We haven't really got into anything yet. You know that happens.

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Speaker 2: It happens, But right now I'm just focusing on you know,

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Speaker 2: it was the first part of you know, the the

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Speaker 2: off season. Man. You know, they I'll take care of yourself. Andrew,

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Speaker 2: where did you you wanna get better specifically? I know,

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Speaker 2: probably all over? But is there any one.

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Speaker 3: Era of your game that you saw last year feeling

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Speaker 3: that you said, I gotta address this for me shows?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just uh, starting with my set and pass protection,

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Speaker 2: just being uh more consistent with my inside foot and

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Speaker 2: making sure I'm staying on the angle causistently. And then

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Speaker 2: I would say my hands and cash protection as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: especially the inside hand. I think we sure how to

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Speaker 2: keep laverage on on power moves and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: What did you see from uh like John Michael Schmidtz

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Speaker 2: And does that impact you at all in different centers

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Speaker 2: of play? How do you multiple at all at tackle? Yeah, John,

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Speaker 2: he's done a good job so far. It's a lot

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Speaker 2: to learn in our offense. We have a lot of

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Speaker 2: co words, different things that he has to do. The

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Speaker 2: center makes most of the calls upfront, so we just

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Speaker 2: encourage him to be confident whatever he calls. That's that's

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Speaker 2: what that's what we hard, that's how he that's how we,

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Speaker 2: you know, approached the game. So he's doing a good

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Speaker 2: job for us, and I'm excited to see him playing.

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Speaker 3: You had a very experienced player doing that last year,

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Speaker 3: and now you're gonna have a rookie.

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Speaker 2: Probably doing doing that.

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Speaker 1: Is that is that from more burden on the guards

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Speaker 1: and and the rest of the.

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Speaker 2: Group the tay Uh, I don't think necessarily. I think

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Speaker 2: we do a good job in meetings and and on

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Speaker 2: the practice field so far, just uh r relaying of

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Speaker 2: the message. If one person doesn't know the call, we

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Speaker 2: make sure we all you know, get it done at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, uh, regardless to who makes it.

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Speaker 2: But he's done a good job so far, so I'm

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Speaker 2: you know, looking forward to him playing.

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Speaker 3: There are times when you're on the field where obviously

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Speaker 3: tight ends next to you.

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Speaker 1: When you get a guy like Waller, you're I mean,

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Speaker 1: do you go back.

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Speaker 3: And start looking at tape to see what this guy

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Speaker 3: can do and how I can work with him, or

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Speaker 3: do you just stop.

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Speaker 1: To him or one?

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Speaker 2: Uh? I mean so far, Uh, he's almost like a

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Speaker 2: receiver for us. Uh. But like, uh, for me, it

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Speaker 2: really doesn't affect me that much. We haven't really got

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Speaker 2: to do too many like blocking drills with the tight

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Speaker 2: ends just cause of the rules right now. So once

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Speaker 2: we get to that, that's where we'll work with him

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Speaker 2: more and then like chips and things like that. But

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Speaker 2: right now they're doing a lot of seven or seven

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Speaker 3: And you're or early and in careers of offensive line

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Speaker 3: and you always hear about technique and how this one

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Speaker 3: wants that this coach wants to tweak it this way?

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Speaker 3: How you work aloss, have you gotten to the point

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Speaker 3: now where I understand what it made me?

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Speaker 2: Technique? Things you work on?

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Speaker 3: Right, You've pretty much have your big of tricks that

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Speaker 3: you wanna use and now it's just about refining what

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Speaker 3: you do rather than coming on with new ways to develop.

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Speaker 2: I think you're always looking for a new ways to improve. UH.

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Speaker 2: Coach Bobby does a great job. Okay, so he has

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Speaker 2: his set rules, you know, negotiable things that he has,

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Speaker 2: but he also allows us to be you know, unique

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Speaker 2: and each and every way. All of us are different players.

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Speaker 2: So if something works for one, he might let someone

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Speaker 2: do it if someone if something else works for another guy,

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Speaker 2: he'll let him do it. So that's a blessing to

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Speaker 2: have UH as a officer, IM.

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Speaker 3: But you individually, you have you gotten to a point

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Speaker 3: now where you pretty much know how you wanna handle things?

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Speaker 3: Or are you still looking for new things to come

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Speaker 3: tweak what you do technically?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So I would say that the biggest thing is

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Speaker 2: just consistency and the things that I've already learned and

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Speaker 2: I understand, but also like I said, just looking to

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Speaker 2: learn new new techniques. It might be some things that I,

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Speaker 2: you know, see on film from someone else that I

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Speaker 2: might wanna try just to see if it works for me.

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Speaker 1: How you do.

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Speaker 2: And you're you were an All Pro last year?

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Speaker 1: How do you uh build on that going forward this year?

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Speaker 1: I mean people now looking to as one of the

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Speaker 1: vast slot tackle in the league.

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Speaker 2: Do you shoulder that? I think it starts with your approach.

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Speaker 2: For me is I'm trying to get better every day,

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Speaker 2: regardless of the accolades. Obviously you want accolades and you

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Speaker 2: wanna be the best, but you don't get there by

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Speaker 2: and every day to get better. And that's what I'm

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Speaker 2: focused on. You say you wanna be the gazz the league.

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Speaker 2: Do you feel like that?

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Speaker 1: Like you so suff We're in the back of your

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Speaker 1: mind you think of I wanna be.

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Speaker 2: The best loft tackle. Yeah, I'm a competitor. I wanna

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Speaker 2: be the best for my team. Obviously, you know I

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Speaker 2: want the team to do well. It's not just about me,

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Speaker 2: but I do wanna be, you know, one of the

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Speaker 2: better players in the league. A couple of life have

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Speaker 2: you ever talk to other left tackles, to and s,

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Speaker 2: you know who who are considered great and pick their

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Speaker 2: brain if you've done that at all. When I was

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Speaker 2: actually in high school, Trent Williams was at the camp

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Speaker 2: the Nike opening, and uh, that was the first time

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Speaker 2: I met him, and obviously I'm, you know, a great player.

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Speaker 2: Even back then, he was really great and it's great

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Speaker 2: to see guys like that. But I I don't talk

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Speaker 2: to a whole bunch of guys, but I do watch

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Speaker 2: I know, I watched Tomso a lot. I watch Ronnie

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Speaker 2: Stanley just to see, you know, what those guys are doing,

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Speaker 2: cause they they've been doing it for a while. What

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Speaker 2: do you told Have you told Trent about the high

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Speaker 2: school meetings? Since you you said that? Or no, I hadn't,

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Speaker 2: but we played him this year, so I'll talk about

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Speaker 2: what do you think, uh, high school Andrew Thomas would

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Speaker 2: say it? I told him that. He said again, I.

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Speaker 1: Said, what do you think high school Andrew Thomas would

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Speaker 1: have said it? We told you in six years or whatever,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be with Trent Williams as.

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Speaker 2: The best left backles in this league. Uh, he would

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Speaker 2: have been stoked. Sorry, it's crazy. Uh for sure, M