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Speaker 1: What is another year and Patrick Graham's defends you feel

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Speaker 1: more comfortable absolutely, you know, definitely within the second year

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Speaker 1: of any scheme, you know, you definitely get more familiarized

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Speaker 1: with it and now you can play that much faster.

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Speaker 1: You understand the guys next to your job that much more.

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Speaker 1: You know to play to your leverage and you don't

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Speaker 1: know when you can take chances and when you can

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Speaker 1: you personally, Uh, you're on the last year of your deal.

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Speaker 1: How do you approach that coming into this year, I'm

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Speaker 1: not even thinking about that. You know, I got another

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Speaker 1: opportunity to be out here with my guys and get

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Speaker 1: better man as the first day training camp, other than conditioning,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's my focus is how's yea? Well? Obviously

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Speaker 1: you have to keep building, but you know we're all

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Speaker 1: football guys. You know, just the verbage is different, so

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Speaker 1: you know it's hasn't been that hard, but you know,

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Speaker 1: we know we should have a long way to go. Bro.

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Speaker 1: When you come here and it's your second time that

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Speaker 1: everything you know feel here, are you faster? This? Things

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Speaker 1: just happen faster. You feel like a faster rafter because

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Speaker 1: you know what's going on. When you have a great

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Speaker 1: understanding of what it is that asking you to do.

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Speaker 1: You play fast because you're not thinking as much, and

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Speaker 1: you know that's all it is. And did you feel

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Speaker 1: like even day one, do you kind of feel laughter

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Speaker 1: a bit if you think back the last year? Day one? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: You know. Last last year was a lot more thinking

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Speaker 1: for me, you know, trying to understand where he wants

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Speaker 1: me to be my spots. This year, you know, same scheme.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm more familiarized with it. You know, we

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Speaker 1: had a great install, have great teachers. So you just

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Speaker 1: go out there and play. When you look around, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know everybody absolute the doories and you know, well

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Speaker 1: me and the Dororry go back to his high school,

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Speaker 1: so you know you haven't lined up with him. Yes, yea.

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Speaker 1: So when you look at that, did you think, man,

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Speaker 1: we can do so much more because I know it

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Speaker 1: might know like you know, you know everybody you know

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Speaker 1: what they can do. I mean, you know it's only

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Speaker 1: the first day. You know, we we know we still

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Speaker 1: have a long way to go. It's a great start,

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Speaker 1: you know, but we sat a long way to go. Bro,

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Speaker 1: you you've talked throughout your career. Yeah, I wish I

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Speaker 1: had the numbers, so apologize. Is this the first time

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Speaker 1: that you came back from the season where things seem

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Speaker 1: to be in a place around you defensively that you

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Speaker 1: didn't have a change the coordinator. One of the very

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Speaker 1: few seasons you know that we you know, keep the

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Speaker 1: same system saying coaches, Um, you know we had the

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Speaker 1: addition of Jeremy Kruett, but you know that was a

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Speaker 1: great addition. You know, great football god, great teacher, and

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Speaker 1: he definitely helps make things slow down out there for us.

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Speaker 1: What does that do for you for your game instead

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Speaker 1: of constantly learning new things and to figure out where

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Speaker 1: we obviously you can build on it. Um, you know

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Speaker 1: you can play that much faster, not too much thinking

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Speaker 1: out there, and you know it's just spots. Now. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely familiarized with the defense to where you know,

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Speaker 1: I know what each guy out there is doing and

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Speaker 1: I can use that to my adventage. Obviously, you know

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Speaker 1: we're competitive, but you know it's the first day. It

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Speaker 1: felt good to get out there running around people with

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Speaker 1: the offense a little bit. But you know, we still

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Speaker 1: have a long way to go, but this is definitely

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Speaker 1: a great stuff. Is it to really to kind of

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Speaker 1: identity is defense. Like that's that's what training camp is for,

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Speaker 1: you know, to finds itself, finds your identity and build

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Speaker 1: off that carry that into the season. Obviously he's he's

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Speaker 1: an athletic guy. You know, runs fast, jump high, has

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Speaker 1: great technique and um, you know, as long as he

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Speaker 1: keeps improving like we all need to during this training camp, man,

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Speaker 1: you know, good things can happen to finding what it's

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Speaker 1: just challenging, you know, it's it's it's training camp. You

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Speaker 1: know where we're training for the season. You know we're

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Speaker 1: not just out here just going through the motions. You

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Speaker 1: know you're gonna run, you're gonna compete, and you're gonna

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Speaker 1: condition after practice no matter how you feel. Building that

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Speaker 1: mental toughness. So it gives you that confidence during the

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Speaker 1: season to go out there to play fast, hard knows football,

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Speaker 1: totally in the niche and left that first feel everyone

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Speaker 1: exactly that kind of tone. I mean, he sets the

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Speaker 1: it has been set. You know, you know what's expected

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Speaker 1: high level. Did realize training camp as usual? How much

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Speaker 1: more special teams be a priority for you team? Obviously?

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Speaker 1: You know we we love special teams. I love special teams.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's one of the three phases. Games

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Speaker 1: to treat it as such. You know, it's a it's

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Speaker 1: a big emphasis here, and you know the best guys

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Speaker 1: that we're gonna play know that, and you know, just

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Speaker 1: just gotta keep building off of it. Can you all

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Speaker 1: as a guy who got to line up against the cheapers?

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Speaker 1: You know, Darius and I don't think ye, Kenny John Raws.

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Speaker 1: these guys could bring online. Absolutely, you know, all athletic

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Speaker 1: guys who do run fast and catch the ball, that's

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Speaker 1: what you need appen. Did you see you draw something kickoffs?

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Speaker 1: I did? Yeah? I did. I was back there. I was.

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Speaker 1: I was back there with him. Yeah yeah he was

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Speaker 1: there than he wasn't. You know, I'm gonna want to

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Speaker 1: be what do you but I go to come out

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Speaker 1: here and get better each and every day. You know,

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Speaker 1: I can't look too far. Hey, you can't look past,

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Speaker 1: look in the past. You know, we're out here getting better,

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Speaker 1: getting a condition, going through the going through our football

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Speaker 1: When I see you come you would uh you mentioned

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Speaker 1: not really, you know. I think I think they know.

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Speaker 1: I think they know when they come here, you're gonna run.

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Speaker 1: You know. I think anyone that stems from that tree

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Speaker 1: And I think the guys want you know, when you're

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's injury proof. Um, you know. And

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Speaker 1: you know me personally, it gives me a mental edge,

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Speaker 1: you know when it comes to you know, third fourth quarters,

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Speaker 1: you know I'm not tired. You see the other guys

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Speaker 1: lot more than oh yeah, shot to you when you first,

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Speaker 1: expected exact from that tree. It wasn't it. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: a shot, because he explained, He explained to us, He

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Speaker 1: let us know what the standard is, how we're gonna

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Speaker 1: go about business, and what's expected of us, and as professionals,

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Speaker 1: we gotta moved. How professionals moved. Did you actually feel

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Speaker 1: more fresh playing games last year your first two years?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely can't getting you contribute that to condition, And absolutely

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Speaker 1: you missed doing in person interviews with us. And I

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Speaker 1: missed you, guys, man, I missed you guys. Now we

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