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Speaker 1: Today change everything in a sense that you know, all.

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Speaker 2: Summer it's been preparing and now what you see ahead

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Speaker 2: of you as Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean heightened anticipation for sure, But this week

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Speaker 3: we're still focusing on us, hammered down our techniques, fundamentals,

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Speaker 3: really laying that final foundation before week one.

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Speaker 2: I think we saw six inside backers out there today

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Speaker 2: and you probably have had at least one play with

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Speaker 2: all five of the other guys.

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Speaker 1: That were with you. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I know there's something about familiarity, but how big, how big.

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Speaker 1: Is it for you to have some continuity here going forward?

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Speaker 1: It's good. I mean that speaks to the talent in

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Speaker 1: our room.

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Speaker 3: I think you know, every guy in the room is

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Speaker 3: plug and play, can play Mike or will and play

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Speaker 3: well for us. So you know, as we get in

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Speaker 3: the season, Like you said, continuity is great communication hammering

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Speaker 3: that in so you know, game day is seamless.

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Speaker 1: But I feel confident with all the guys various able

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Speaker 1: to handle. Like if he if he's starting week one

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Speaker 1: next to you, yep, what could what can he do?

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Speaker 1: What can he defense?

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Speaker 3: You know, he's an old school football player. I think

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Speaker 3: you got you. I mean, I don't know if you

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Speaker 3: saw it, but you might have heard it. That big

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Speaker 3: hit in the Jets, he ran that running back right over.

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Speaker 3: So he plays physical, he plays fast, he plays the

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Speaker 3: game the right way and smart. So he's a plug

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Speaker 3: and play guy for sure.

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Speaker 4: There's a.

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Speaker 2: Week one you have a rookie next to you, guy

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Speaker 2: prepared for his first debut, rather than somebody.

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Speaker 3: Maybe with a little bit more experience potentially, you know,

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Speaker 3: just communication. Obviously it's his first live game, so jitter's

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Speaker 3: excitement there. But you know, there is a such thing

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Speaker 3: as youthful exuberance. So that's what he brings to the table,

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Speaker 3: that excitement, that energy. He flies around with the tear

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Speaker 3: on fire.

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Speaker 4: How different does the defense look to you with Brian

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Speaker 4: Burns as part of it? Right now? Thibadeau's in kind

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Speaker 4: of a different role and adds, you know something that

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Speaker 4: they got a different guy that they have to double

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Speaker 4: for you as a middle linebacker. How different overall are

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Speaker 4: you guys just by adding him?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we'll see in game speed obviously saw

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Speaker 3: in the Texans game is getting out quick.

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Speaker 1: Quarterback really doesn't have an option, but.

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Speaker 3: He just adds a extra dynamic of you know, flexibility,

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Speaker 3: speed athleticism on the edge that we haven't had.

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Speaker 4: Do you think it makes a big difference to have

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Speaker 4: like a sort of a better term star or you

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Speaker 4: know edge rusher or all pro type edge rusher.

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Speaker 3: I mean when you add it to the group for sure.

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Speaker 3: Now you can't just double decks and you know, decide

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Speaker 3: to have one on ones. You got kt we finished

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Speaker 3: what I love him the half sacks last year, you

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Speaker 3: got Burns, who's we signed a big contract.

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Speaker 1: You got Deck.

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Speaker 3: So it's a kind of pick your poison right there.

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Speaker 1: Actually said team Daron Rodgers did very well. He's been

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Speaker 1: questions about the.

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Speaker 2: Second deary, are there questions for you?

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Speaker 1: H No. I mean we have a young group, like

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Speaker 1: I said, but we have a lot of talent.

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Speaker 3: We got a lot of youth, and you know those

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Speaker 3: guys are growing, which you're in real well. Jason Pinnock's

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Speaker 3: doing a great joble in that group. Obviously, Dean tay

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Speaker 3: Banks first round pick, he's locked down. So those guys

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Speaker 3: are coming along. Extra communication from my end and a

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Speaker 3: great password will help everybody is.

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Speaker 1: To put more pressure on the front seven.

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Speaker 3: It can't you know, as we figure out our game plan,

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Speaker 3: figure out how teams are starting to attack us.

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Speaker 1: We'll figure out our strategy. Bobby.

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Speaker 2: Last year you had you guys had I think it

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Speaker 2: was ten captains and then.

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Speaker 4: Who got hurt?

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Speaker 2: Who got a step up? Yep, Dave's hold us and Andrews.

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Speaker 2: You guys have five this year, have a half the amount.

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Speaker 2: Does it add weight to the idea of the captains

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Speaker 2: knowing that it's not ten guys now it's just on

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Speaker 2: the five of you guys with the sea.

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Speaker 1: On your chest. Yeah, not necessarily.

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Speaker 3: I mean every year is a different year, every team's

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Speaker 3: new team. So I think the best fit for our

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Speaker 3: team this year was the five captains. You know, great

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Speaker 3: guys who have different leadership styles, different experiences in wisdom,

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Speaker 3: and I think we'll do a good job.

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Speaker 1: Why do you think the best fit is five this

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Speaker 1: year at the time last year?

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Speaker 3: I mean just obviously, you know, coming off the twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty two season, having established leadership there and having a

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Speaker 3: successful year, then bringing in free agents like me and Waller,

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Speaker 3: you know, it was kind of a room of a

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Speaker 3: lot of leaders, but with departure of some guys obviously,

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Speaker 3: say Quan X aren't here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just based off everything that's unfolded. Its kind of

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Speaker 1: the right fit.

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Speaker 4: That's something Dave's talked about with you guys, and I

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Speaker 4: think he maybe gave input on maybe it was better

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Speaker 4: to pare the number down to No necessarily.

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Speaker 3: I mean we all voted as a team today and

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Speaker 3: I think that's just how the votes came out.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned about different personalities. Is that important when you

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Speaker 2: have captains that not everybody leads the same way, it

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Speaker 2: talks the same way.

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Speaker 3: Uh, not necessarily, I mean you kind of deal with

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Speaker 3: you have, Like if we all have the same personality,

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Speaker 3: I mean we'd figure it out too, But different leadership styles.

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Speaker 1: Some guys lead by example. Some guys are rock guys,

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Speaker 1: which just adds to the collective