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Speaker 1: I make the things that you learned about in lights

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Speaker 1: about Tommy this summer when he was playing.

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Speaker 2: And time has continued to grow every single day that

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Speaker 2: he's been here from from rookie camp and just learning

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Speaker 2: in the offense and understand how to be a pro

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Speaker 2: and doing all the little things, all the things that

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Speaker 2: kind of work into that, whether it's studying his preparation,

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Speaker 2: you know, being in the huddle with the guys, being

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Speaker 2: a leader and a teammate, and then understanding what the

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Speaker 2: NFL game is about and how much detail that goes

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Speaker 2: into that. I think he's really honed in on that.

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Speaker 2: Each week you see you look at his notes, it's

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Speaker 2: just like getting better and better every single day. So

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Speaker 2: that's probably the biggest thing.

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Speaker 1: It seems like just as a follower on that he's

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Speaker 1: and you've obviously played the position before and whatnot, and

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Speaker 1: ever since July when he first you know what training

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Speaker 1: game started, he always conducted himself as somebody.

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Speaker 3: Who felt that he belonged, which is got to be

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Speaker 3: difficult for a free agent rookie.

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Speaker 1: What is it about his confidence level that you've noticed

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Speaker 1: and and is that rare?

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Speaker 2: He approaches the position with confidence and you know, Obviously,

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Speaker 2: when you're playing quarterback, you want to have that confidence,

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Speaker 2: you want to have that demeanor when you walk into

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Speaker 2: the huddle. I think he has that, and it's something

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Speaker 2: that you know, looks like he's had his whole life.

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Speaker 3: And then he's a confident.

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Speaker 2: He's a confident kid, not just on the field, but

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Speaker 2: also off the field too, and he brings, you know,

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Speaker 2: an energy with him that that kind of permeates throughout.

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Speaker 4: The room that when he arrived here.

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Speaker 3: I guess where did you first see that confidence come in?

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Speaker 4: Was it on the field? Was it in a meeting room?

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Speaker 2: You saw it right really quickly, even when we had

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Speaker 2: him in for that rookie camp in the in the

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Speaker 2: you know, in the meeting rooms, interacting with him, and

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Speaker 2: then you know once you get in the field that

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of learning, there's a lot of stuff

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Speaker 2: in a lot of growing that goes with it.

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Speaker 3: So it doesn't just come right away on the field.

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Speaker 2: But I think as he as he got more comfortable

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Speaker 2: within the system and got more comfortable with his with

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Speaker 2: his specific.

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Speaker 3: Job, I think you saw that growth there.

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Speaker 4: You were in a round pick. It's pretty rare in

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Speaker 4: the league. What do you think of the jump from

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Speaker 4: undrafted rookie to starting as a rookie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I think for him just understand that it's

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Speaker 2: you know, it's not portunity to take advantage of. It's

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Speaker 2: no obviously not something happens all the time, like you said,

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Speaker 2: but it's an opportunity, so he's got to go out

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Speaker 2: there and take advantage of it.

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Speaker 5: You've talked in the past about, you know, when you're

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Speaker 5: a play call or you're trying to get a feel

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Speaker 5: for your offense. I mean, you spend you know, all

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Speaker 5: summer getting a feel for one offense, and now the

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Speaker 5: offense is going to kind of really invented twice in

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Speaker 5: the last couple of weeks with different quarterbacks. How do

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Speaker 5: you gain a feel for what your quarterback now can

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Speaker 5: do with pieces that he really hasn't been with other

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Speaker 5: than the emergency situations on game Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 2: You know, my time with with that quarterback room, Tommy

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Speaker 2: and all the guys that are in there, you know,

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Speaker 2: you spend time with them. You try to get understanding

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Speaker 2: for what they like and what some of their favorites are.

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Speaker 2: Obviously you're doing that when you're calling games and the

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Speaker 2: preseason stuff like that. And you're working through the game

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Speaker 2: plan the week, you look back at some of the

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Speaker 2: stuff he did well in preseason or stuff as if

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Speaker 2: he did well in college, and try and try and

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Speaker 2: get a real good feel for how he likes to operate.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, you put together a plan that

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Speaker 2: not only fits that person, but all the other ten

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Speaker 5: Like Jordan said, you have that experience at playing with

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Speaker 5: you know, you're trying to get up the ladder.

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Speaker 3: As far as you know, rising in the depth chart.

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Speaker 5: He mentioned yesterday his throws to Slayton were the first

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Speaker 5: time he's ever thrown to Darius.

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Speaker 3: Things like that.

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Speaker 5: Is that what you guys are trying to speed up

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Speaker 5: over the last you know, yesterday, today and tomorrow. The

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Speaker 5: idea that he's now playing with essentially teammates.

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Speaker 3: But new guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got you know, we're we're working that throughout

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Speaker 2: the practice and getting everyone on the same page. And

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Speaker 2: he's done a great job of bringing those guys together

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Speaker 2: and talking through with them and opening those lines of

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Speaker 2: communication and whether it's with the coaching staff or with

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Speaker 2: the players, And I think that's just you know, part

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Speaker 3: You know, when you have something like this. It's not

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Speaker 3: necessarily just that quarterback.

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Speaker 2: What's at any position you have a new person in there,

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Speaker 2: you know, you got to ramp up those levels of

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Speaker 2: communication and detail.

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Speaker 4: You saw him in week one.

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Speaker 3: How do you have a plan for Michael Parsons? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean Micah is a really great player.

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Speaker 2: They're there, They have a lot of great players on

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Speaker 2: that d So you know, we got to make sure

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Speaker 2: we put together a great plan that we can support,

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Speaker 2: support those guys and make sure that you know, we

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Speaker 2: handle some of the things that they do up front,

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Speaker 2: handle some of the things they do in the back end,

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Speaker 2: and put our players in the best position to be

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Speaker 4: The league and pressure percentage forty fwhere right around there.

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Speaker 4: What's the key in your mind to slowing that defense down?

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Speaker 2: I think I think the biggest part is, you know,

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Speaker 2: putting together a plan that our guys can go out

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Speaker 2: there and execute. I think, you know, whether it's in

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Speaker 2: the run game, in the past game, things that you know,

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Speaker 2: our guys can play fast.

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Speaker 3: These guys play a fast style.

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Speaker 2: Of defense and agressive style of defense, so you know

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Speaker 2: we have to be able to match that. And I

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Speaker 2: think having the right mentality throughout the speak of practice

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Speaker 2: and putting out to the right plan for those guys

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Speaker 2: to do that, I think that's going to give us

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Speaker 5: Is it too simple to think that if they're a

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Speaker 5: good pressure defense, the easiest way to beat them is

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, I don't think there's one way

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Speaker 3: to do that. I think you have to be multiple.

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, in this league, if you just

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Speaker 2: do one thing, I think, you know, teams kind of

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Speaker 3: So you want to be multiple.

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Speaker 2: We want to make sure we have a wide variety

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Speaker 2: of things that we can we can use, whether it's run,

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Speaker 2: different variables within that with motions and shifts and stuff.

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Speaker 3: So we want to try and be as a variable

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Speaker 5: Andrew Thomas thought he was a little rusty in his words,

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Speaker 5: but you know, I thought he kind of started finding

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Speaker 5: it in the second half. What did you see and

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Speaker 5: obviously having him back out there kind of changes something.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was it was great to have him back

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Speaker 3: out there.

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Speaker 2: He saw it right away. I think it was. I

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Speaker 2: don't know if I would disagree with him, but I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, He did a great job in the game,

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Speaker 2: and you know, I think the more he's gonna play there,

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Speaker 2: he's gonna look and I think, you know, it's one

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Speaker 2: of those things. He's a he's a leader, he's a captain,

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Speaker 2: he's back in the huddle. You know, that whole offensive

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Speaker 2: line now ramps up. There's a little bit more juice

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Speaker 2: there too, and you know he certainly sends the tone

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Speaker 2: and tempo for that group.