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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It's Monday, June ninth,

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Speaker 1: and the Ravens wrapped up another day of organized team

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Speaker 1: activities and after practice we had a chance to hear

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Speaker 1: from a few players and coaches. First up, Malachi Starks.

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Speaker 2: There's there's levels to football and just the knowledge and

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Speaker 2: the accumulation that we have in our room, not just

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Speaker 2: in the dB room, but in the linebackers room, in

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Speaker 2: the D line room, even on the offense side of

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Speaker 2: all the tight ends room receivers. Just being able to

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Speaker 2: really get out here and watch guys and learn how

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Speaker 2: they move and how they see the game of football

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Speaker 2: from a different perspective than I do has been huge

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Speaker 2: for me.

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Speaker 3: Where do you feel like you've grown the most since

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Speaker 3: arriving for rookie camp. I know it wasn't that long,

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Speaker 3: you know, but there's been a lot of football between

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Speaker 3: now and then.

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Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing for me is the landmarks.

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Speaker 2: So the field is completely different than college. And when

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Speaker 2: I first got here, I could feel myself like they

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Speaker 2: would say if my job was at the numbers, I

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Speaker 2: was going to the college numbers, but I was missing

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Speaker 2: the the league numbers. So just being able to work

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Speaker 2: on that, you know, stay after practice and just watch

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Speaker 2: a lot of tape and just kind of reprogram myself

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Speaker 2: into this is where I'm supposed to be at has

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Speaker 2: been the challenging thing, but it's it's getting a lot

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Speaker 2: better with all the help and you know, all the

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Speaker 2: reps that I'm getting is huge in my development.

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Speaker 4: Okay, like you're playing more in a free safety role,

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Speaker 4: I guess I would say, do you do you appreciate

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Speaker 4: playing one position as opposed to being moved around a

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Speaker 4: lot of love New Gildren.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like being anywhere. From being honest, we talk

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Speaker 2: about as a positionless defense, So just being able to

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Speaker 2: move around. I've been playing a lot of free safety,

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Speaker 2: but I've also been to other safety and I got

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Speaker 2: some ups to dom as well. So just being able

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Speaker 2: to move around. We have a lot of guys that

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Speaker 2: move around, just the way our defense is set up,

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Speaker 2: you know when you look at it, you know, you

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Speaker 2: see Kyle everywhere, you see Marlin everywhere. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: guys move around a lot here and there. So just

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Speaker 2: really really being able to dive into one thing and

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Speaker 2: expand my mind from that has been a great opportunity.

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Speaker 4: Not the same position, but in the secondary it's Marlin

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Speaker 4: Like for you as as a mentor guy who's been

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Speaker 4: doing it for so long, it's such a high level.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, Marlin's a great vat man.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Just being able to we were just sitting over here talking,

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Speaker 2: so just being able to like learn from him and

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Speaker 2: just all the ball that he's seeing, all the people

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Speaker 2: that he's played with, just for me to be able

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Speaker 2: to sit in the same meeting room be like, hey,

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Speaker 2: like when they do this, what do you think about this?

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Speaker 2: Or whatever? And then just you know his character. I mean,

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Speaker 2: he's a he's a funny, goofy guy. I mean, not

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Speaker 2: what I expect him to be whatsoever. Uh, He's He's awesome, man.

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Speaker 2: I'm blessed to be here with a vet like him

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Speaker 2: and a lot of the guys in the room here.

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Speaker 2: John talk a lot about what he's learning how to

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Speaker 2: practice as a professional, like part have you?

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Speaker 4: How do you feel like you've done with that? And

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Speaker 4: is there anybody on the team that.

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Speaker 5: You kind of watching and maybe taking some little practice happens.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not saying I had all figured out, but uh,

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Speaker 2: I H I had pretty good practice. Coming from the

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Speaker 2: University of Georgia, they always talked about practicing loc a

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Speaker 2: pro so staying off the ground, being smart, taking care

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Speaker 2: of your teammates, things like that. I mean, it's the

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Speaker 2: same thing here. And I've been watching a lot of

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Speaker 2: the older Vets as well, Like I said, not just

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Speaker 2: from my room but everywhere, just to saying, you know,

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Speaker 2: how they disengage from a block, how they handle the

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Speaker 2: situation when it comes up, because you know, every place

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Speaker 2: is a little different. So just being able to watch

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Speaker 2: guys and take what I already know and figure it

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Speaker 2: out as I go, That's what I've been doing.

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Speaker 1: So you come down to.

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Speaker 6: Break up there in the short passing practice today. How

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Speaker 6: much faster do you feel like you're playing now again?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a lot. And I think that just

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Speaker 2: comes with the knowledge of the defense. You know, the

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Speaker 2: more you learn, the faster you can play. You can

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Speaker 2: be free. And I think, you know, I just want

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Speaker 2: to keep expanding my knowledge and keep diving into the system.

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Speaker 4: In the past game against you're kind of like, man

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Speaker 5: Didn't know that guy had that.

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Speaker 4: You're talking about here or here, who's been hard, who's

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Speaker 4: been harder to come up?

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Speaker 2: That's tough. Uh Isaiah I had a repp against Isaiah

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Speaker 2: the other day and he he's a lot quicker than

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Speaker 2: what he looks on TV and in person. So uh,

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Speaker 2: like I said, you know, just being able to learn

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Speaker 2: from him, you know, just the knowledge that he's had

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Speaker 2: while he's been here. I mean, just the way he

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Speaker 2: does things. You know, every tight end is a little different,

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Speaker 2: but you know, he's very quick, he very knowledge about

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Speaker 2: the game of ball. So just being able to go

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Speaker 2: against him, it's only making me better.

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Speaker 3: Pagano obviously stands out as a former NFL head coach.

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Speaker 3: He worked with Ed Reid when Ed was at Miami,

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Speaker 3: and he worked with the Mere Baltimore. What are your

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Speaker 3: impressions of someone like that who has that kind of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I told I told Chuck when I

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Speaker 2: first got here. I was like, you remind me of

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Speaker 2: Musshamp a lot. Will Muschamp. I was like, you know,

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Speaker 2: its fiery, Uh must jamp is snap in a minute.

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Speaker 2: But I was like, just just the way they go

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Speaker 2: about their business, you know, and just like the knowledge

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Speaker 2: of football that they both have. Just he texted me

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Speaker 2: like at five this morning, Uh, with film from Thursday practice. Uh,

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Speaker 2: and I woke up. I was like, okay, cool, Like

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Speaker 2: that makes sense. So just being able to have somebody

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Speaker 2: like that's how that's how I wanna be coach. I

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Speaker 2: received that very well. So just being able to have

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Speaker 2: somebody like that in my corner, I mean, it's a blessing.

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Speaker 1: You were a leader.

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Speaker 7: I'm at Georgia Defense, very active communicator. How do you

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Speaker 7: balance that when you're coming to the pros and learning

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Speaker 7: a new playbook with new teammates.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think the first thing is, you know,

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Speaker 2: don't don't bite off more than you can chew.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 2: So just really realizing, you know my place in this defense,

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Speaker 2: in this organization, and you gotta know what to do

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Speaker 2: before you can start demanding stuff from other people. I

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Speaker 2: think as a leader, you know, you shouldn't ask somebody

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Speaker 2: to do something that you wouldn't do with yourself. And

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Speaker 2: it's also you know, when I got to University of Georgia,

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Speaker 2: I had to learn how to follow the right people

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Speaker 2: before I could lead, and that really taught me how

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Speaker 2: to move around while watching people lead while becoming a

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Speaker 2: leader myself. So it's nothing new. Uh, I think I'm

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Speaker 2: still gonna lead in the same way that I've always led,

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Speaker 2: and I think I'm gonna use that with the other

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Speaker 2: guys that's also leading here as well, and just trying

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Speaker 2: to you know, figure out my mode in the in

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Speaker 2: the organization.

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Speaker 6: Nothing you mentioned learning.

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Speaker 8: From different guys can maybe have different perspectives from me.

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Speaker 8: Where some of the guys that have help, do you

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Speaker 8: see things and ways that you hadn't seen anything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think the biggest guy is Roquan Uh,

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Speaker 2: just him being that, you know, the voice of the defense.

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Speaker 2: But also I watched all of his tape when he

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Speaker 2: was at Georgia. Uh so just it's a cool moment

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Speaker 2: for me. But just to see the way that he

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Speaker 2: handle his business and you know, he's he's super smart.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, you gotta learn what to do before

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Speaker 2: you can start telling people what to do. And uh

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Speaker 2: he has that respect from everybody on the team. So

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Speaker 2: just watching him and how he moves and you know,

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Speaker 2: even the guys on the offense, you know, the guy's

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Speaker 2: just moving different way and it works in different ways

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Speaker 2: and everybody has to leave in the same way. So

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Speaker 2: just really trying to figure out, you know, take pieces

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Speaker 2: from everybody and put it into my own mold you

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Speaker 2: ever watch any No, I didn't. I didn't go watch

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Speaker 2: I didn't go to a Georgia game til I was

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Speaker 2: a recruit and he was gone by then. But uh

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Speaker 2: I did watch a lot of his tape for sure.

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Speaker 6: Even though you're in different rooms this group on ever

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Speaker 6: look at the field with you and kind of go

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Speaker 6: over stuff.

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Speaker 2: No, we haven't. We haven't really got a chance to

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Speaker 2: to connect. I think, you know, I'll go home and

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Speaker 2: I'll watch the tape and I come in with questions

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Speaker 2: and I ask uh here and there. But I think

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Speaker 2: when things start to, you know, pick back up, we

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Speaker 2: will get the opportunity and I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 3: And then one kind of warning what next week may

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Speaker 3: look like when Lamar is here and more guys are

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Speaker 3: here and it just increases with the management many camp.

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Speaker 8: But what that's gonna be like?

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Speaker 2: You yeah, I think, uh yes, And no, you know,

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Speaker 2: he's he's a really big part his team, and you know,

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, ball is ball. And

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Speaker 2: you know, when he was here, I got a chance

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Speaker 2: to go on the field with him and just you know,

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Speaker 2: see how he moves. Uh you know, you watch him

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Speaker 2: I don't know, it's crazy to see it in person,

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Speaker 2: but uh, just to be able to learn from him

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Speaker 2: and just kind of watch how he moves and you know,

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Speaker 2: it's only gonna bring the energy up more when he

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Speaker 2: as well. So I'm excited. All right, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Next up, Travis Jones.

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Speaker 8: This year, what have you worked on to try to

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Speaker 8: step into that?

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Speaker 9: Just going to year four? Just be trying to be

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Speaker 9: more vocal, trying to help gods on little details, techniques

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Speaker 9: and stuff, those little things like that. Yeah, how hard

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Speaker 5: Er n It's just not your nature to be that

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Speaker 7: But you know, if you wanna be the leader, it's required.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: I gotta just gotta get used to doing the uncomfortable

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Speaker 9: things like speaking up more. Like the other day, coach

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Speaker 9: having me break down the huddle, I was a little uncomfortable.

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Speaker 9: I'm getting more comfortable with it now.

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Speaker 6: Is that something you were intentional.

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Speaker 3: About the soft season or I thinking like that.

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Speaker 9: Or is it kind of happen out for Uh? Nah,

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Speaker 9: I wasn't n n on the front of my mind,

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Speaker 9: but it just it started coming to more national I'm

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Speaker 9: getting more comfortable with it now, Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 6: What's some of the mentality is if like the year's

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Speaker 6: retired and I know you started taking a lot of

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Speaker 6: it snaps last year, but you know, kind of filling

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Speaker 6: that role to a degree. Yeah.

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Speaker 9: Uh no, Mike p was a great player, so I

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Speaker 9: got a lot of big shoes to feel. But I'm

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