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Speaker 2: I guess when did you kind of have those conversations.

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Speaker 2: What did you talk about?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so those conversations were kind of ongoing before we

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Speaker 1: signed them. Good to get them back here. We're focused

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Speaker 1: But glad to have him back here. Excited to kind

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Speaker 3: You good experience with a guy coming in, you know,

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Speaker 3: this league and having to play a lot of snaps.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you can ask all thirty two teams.

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Speaker 1: There's guys that come in on Tuesday that end up

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Speaker 1: playing on Sunday throughout the year, you know, so dealt

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Speaker 2: You describe the aggressiveness of your defense guys.

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Speaker 2: I keep hearing you use the word aggressive in guys here,

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Speaker 2: keep saying it's aggressive, but aggressive in a different way

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Speaker 2: than we've been aggressive in the past, which is obviously

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Speaker 2: blitz heavy. Now, would you describe your plan to be aggressive?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I want these guys to attack like. I want

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Speaker 1: them to have an attacking mentality with everything they do,

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Speaker 1: whether it's attacking the line of scrimmage up front, playing

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Speaker 1: It's a play style, right, like you play defensive football.

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Speaker 1: there's an expectation of physicality, toughness, aggression, being aggressive throughout.

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Speaker 1: Totally different than the scheme and kind of what that

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Speaker 1: have another option, right and across the board. You want

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Speaker 1: competition at every position. You want the roster to be

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Speaker 1: So that's ultimately what we're trying to get done is

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Speaker 1: And how it sorts out, and how it sorts out,

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Speaker 3: Obviously, with the player like Decks and even Brian Burns,

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Speaker 3: I'd love to have them on the field one hundred

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it depends on the guy. I think

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Speaker 4: Going back to your point about being aggressive, how do

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Speaker 1: when you when you give these teams fifteen yard penalties

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Speaker 4: For the hip drop tackle, I don't think it's coming

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Speaker 3: You've gone up against Elie's neighbors here for the last

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Speaker 4: What what kind of a headache is he going to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's talented. I mean, I'm not going to do

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Speaker 2: Let me go here, go ahead, a Tennessee where always

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I think as it relates to red zone defense,

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Speaker 3: What makes Kevin O'Connell difficult to coach against, what makes

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they got a good scheme. He does a good

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Speaker 4: Well being with Dexter Lawrence. Now, as long as you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was one thing I'm I'm surprised with when

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Speaker 3: With sim Is there anything that you could really take

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Speaker 1: Do you think he's gonna be a different player. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's it is different. I think probably going

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