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Speaker 2: The reaction with where were your emotion reaction? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Where was I? I was probably at home jumping up

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Speaker 1: so you know, he's gonna make a huge impact for

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Speaker 2: Had an opportunity to spend some time with him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we we spent some time last week together.

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Speaker 1: I asked I was just kind of asking him how

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Speaker 1: eight and so you know, he's just excited to be

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Speaker 1: a part of the team, and uh, he knew he

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Speaker 1: wanted to go somewhere where he was gonna rent win

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Speaker 1: win right away. That was important to him. And that

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Speaker 1: just shows you the type of guy that he is.

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Speaker 3: Study other defenses and more specifically, you know, if you

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Speaker 3: watched his film, how much did you see him kind

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean all year long, you're kind of you're

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Speaker 1: you're keeping up with the top defenses in the league,

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Speaker 1: right you want to know, like how your defense stacks

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Speaker 1: up against the best. You know, that was something that

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Speaker 1: cause and Havoc the whole way through. You know, I've

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Speaker 1: you know, just to add that to to a position

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Speaker 2: Your first question of Steve welkspet.

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Speaker 1: Uh, he fits right in, fits right in. It's been

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Speaker 1: a seamless transition. You know, he's he's come in and

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Speaker 1: he's he's taking a hold of everything. And we all

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Speaker 1: respect the heck out of him already, you know, as

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Speaker 1: our coach, you know, the the type of guy that

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Speaker 1: he is. He you could tell that he genuinely cares

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Speaker 1: to build those relationships with us, and and you know,

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Speaker 1: we're starting to at ground at ground zero again. You know,

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Speaker 1: amazing job getting us ready.

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Speaker 2: He's going to use the things that y'all do well

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that's something that was important for you know,

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Speaker 1: bringing bringing a new coach in that. I guess he

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Speaker 1: is willing to to learn what we what we do,

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Speaker 1: and obviously adjust things to what what he believes is

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Speaker 1: gonna make us better. You know, that's his job is

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Speaker 1: making us the best uh defense and and continuing to

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Speaker 2: You fan, Do you like the draft?

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Speaker 1: And of course absolutely, yeah. I mean every year you

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Speaker 1: you you see guys who are rookies who make a

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Speaker 1: But the draft is where you know, guys like me

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Speaker 1: And so every year I love to see who's gonna

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Speaker 2: Do you petition for anybody?

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Speaker 1: No, no petitioning. I feel like the further and further

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Speaker 1: away I get from the college game, it's hard for

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Speaker 1: such a good job of finding guys that fit what

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Speaker 1: we do as well.

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Speaker 2: You remember what people said about you and in retrospect,

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Speaker 1: I for sure remember. I for sure remember everything. It

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Speaker 1: see what they need to work on. I was a project,

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Speaker 4: The guys like you in this building third round, fifth round,

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Speaker 4: seventh round, whatever, that have had a big impact.

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Speaker 2: But what is it about this place more? Why you

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Speaker 4: And do you you know, preach that to these guys

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean, I shoot, I think I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: You've seen guys who, even in later rounds, who've done

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Speaker 1: I think the important thing to always remember is it

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Speaker 1: lines is what really matters and what you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: coach Sala that you know, you're you hold the pen

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Speaker 2: Did Sean Gibson returning do for your defense?

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Speaker 1: Uh? It's huge obviously with the amazing talent player that

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Speaker 1: some guys in free agency, but uh, just kind of

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Speaker 5: For the line on Wilkes is that he's not gonna

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Speaker 1: That's kind of been the thing, like as I've been

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Speaker 1: So uh, you know, like I said, time will Tell.

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Speaker 4: Was talking about, you're trying to identify guys in the

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Speaker 4: draft that have the right football spirit that you know,

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Speaker 4: you hard, I mean all the cliches.

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Speaker 2: It seems like you know everyone to like that.

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Speaker 4: But your interactions with the Niners before the draft, I

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Speaker 2: As far as them trying to identify is this guy

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Speaker 4: Is this guy you know he plays as off all

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Speaker 1: Sure, let me let me just say I would never

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Speaker 1: you don't really know until they come here and you

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Speaker 1: know and you and you try to develop them, and

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Speaker 1: there's so many different different things that go into account

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Speaker 1: of a guy's development. But I think in terms of

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Speaker 1: having having these conversations of like not even not even

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