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Speaker 1: It's nice. It's like it's on vacation. Hi, Karen, how

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Speaker 1: are you great as a player?

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Speaker 2: Did you ever sweat out cutdown day or goes through

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Speaker 2: what a lot of players are.

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Speaker 1: Going to be going through tonight. Yeah, I think probably,

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Speaker 1: you know, early on in my career, I think that

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Speaker 1: first few years, I think in Pittsburgh, until you know,

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Speaker 1: you become an established player, and then I think there's

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Speaker 1: other conversations that that kind of go on. So have

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Speaker 1: been through a lot of these things, and like we said,

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Speaker 1: we try to do them as respectfully and professionally as

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Speaker 1: we possibly can.

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Speaker 2: With learning this new offensive.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think it's continuing to build and grow, and

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Speaker 1: now we transition into a new new phase of game

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Speaker 1: planning and looking at a different defense, and and working

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Speaker 1: to win. So I think that it's been good and

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Speaker 1: now it'll be the next challenge here to take the

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Speaker 1: next step of game planning and understanding how to prepare

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Speaker 1: and you've given any thought when the regular season comes

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Speaker 1: to whether you'll be thinking about deferring or receiving, Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that there's other factors that go into that.

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Speaker 1: we return them. But you know, having put a whole

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Speaker 1: we'll see where that ends up being. And kind of

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Speaker 2: You seen from Martine Mapu took the course the summer

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Speaker 2: and how he's grown into or roll in this defense.

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Speaker 1: He's been you know, been a in practice and in

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Speaker 1: you know, has worked at some spots on the inside.

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Speaker 1: And I think that he's continued to develop. I think

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Speaker 1: Uh and and showed us a lot by by getting

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Speaker 2: Like I heard you say that you were a little

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Speaker 2: and I'm just wondering what was the most nerve racking

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think probably I just ran out of

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Speaker 2: Out here today?

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Speaker 1: Or is the hate pretty much in the barn as

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Speaker 1: you know, the evaluation process has been a large one

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Speaker 2: Ponner so far, and did you expect him when he

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Speaker 1: I think for a young outside linebacker that hadn't played

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Speaker 2: Christian Dallas Uh, obviously the position he plays, speed and

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Speaker 1: He's working hard to get healthy, and I think that's

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Speaker 1: That'll be my stance on injuries, that confident that the

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Speaker 1: I think that's probably different for each guy. You know,

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Speaker 1: So whatever that takes, that that takes. And I've said

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Speaker 2: Right now, is still kind of open.

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Speaker 1: You don't have that set starting five yet.

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Speaker 2: Has it become more clear in recent days or are

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Speaker 1: To work through that you making anything official, It'll be

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Speaker 1: just not going to do that right now and still

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Speaker 1: want to get some work in today, compete against ourselves

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Speaker 2: What do you mean to see.

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Speaker 1: Well, there'll be a rotation. I mean, we're gonna play

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Speaker 1: I've had plenty of conversations with Kean and and love

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Speaker 1: We're gonna need all three of them, four of them,

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Speaker 1: five of them. However, many guys can can help us

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Speaker 2: Is there anything you can't do in a non padded practice.

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Speaker 2: He's obviously not gonna hit to work on that besides

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Speaker 2: After this for about a month or so, now in camp.

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Speaker 1: Is there something that you've learned about this team of

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Speaker 1: And I think that they have improved on that. But

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Speaker 1: be ready to go when our first preseason game. All

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Speaker 1: these things that I've asked them to do, I think

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Speaker 2: Indication you said you wanted to remove the sets of

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Speaker 2: entitlement when you came here. Is that a sense have

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Speaker 2: you gotten the impression that by doing those things, they're

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Speaker 2: meeting you where you want them to, they're doing that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, again, I don't maybe look at it necessarily

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Speaker 1: something that we feel strongly about. And I would say

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Speaker 1: help us win.

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Speaker 2: A player or two that you've been particularly for us

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Speaker 1: There would be more than one or two. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not big on singling guys out, So I think that

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Speaker 1: think there'll be a time for that. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna meet with you guys inside, whether it's on

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Speaker 1: So I don't know how you try to pref is

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Speaker 1: meet with us on the Hill, So can you? You

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Speaker 1: guys get to watch Stretch and Indie.

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Speaker 2: How would you break most of the rap music that

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Speaker 2: we hear is rap music hip hop music? How would

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Speaker 2: you grade the music you want? Country today?

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Speaker 1: I can make that happen easily. I think the music

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Speaker 1: is good. I mean, I don't complain, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: good music, bad music. No, I'm I'm. I can go

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Speaker 1: in any direction, usually loud and something that I remotely

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Speaker 1: can certainly have that happen. Appreciate you guys. Thanks,