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Speaker 1: All right, Uh, day two here, Uh competitive, you could

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Speaker 1: tell the guys, you know, they were grinding through that.

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Speaker 1: But again, we didn't have any injuries to speak of

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Speaker 1: that you know, a couple of nagging things, I'm sure,

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Speaker 1: but for the most part, I was proud of the

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Speaker 1: professionalism that our guys showed. Gets a little chippy sometimes, Um,

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Speaker 1: Detroit did a great job. And I think because we

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Speaker 1: set the ground rules for this thing, at least till

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Speaker 1: this point, we've really both teams have gotten a lot

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Speaker 1: of really good work and I think it's it's part

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Speaker 1: of a part of being a pro is being able

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Speaker 1: to do things in different settings and UM get a

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Speaker 1: lot out of it. So with that, I'll take your questions.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of the training camps? Said I,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I don't know about the you know,

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Speaker 1: the training camp, but I think he's competed well. He's

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Speaker 1: a really really he's an outstanding football player, and he's

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Speaker 1: so competitive and he's not he's it's hard for him

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Speaker 1: not to become one of your favorite guys because you know,

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Speaker 1: he's tough, he's competitive, he loves to compete, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I just think he's he's a really good player, barely

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Speaker 1: targeted in those two days. How much of an impact

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Speaker 1: have you, like lockdown, I wouldn't. I wouldn't read too

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Speaker 1: much into that. In practice, Uh, you know those matchup

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Speaker 1: you know who gets thrown at, who doesn't get thrown at?

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Speaker 1: That that happens more in games. You know, he's on

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Speaker 1: and you know sometimes offense has become right handed. I

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Speaker 1: would I would pretty I would guess that Detroit wasn't

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Speaker 1: working matchups. They were working schemes and trying to see

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Speaker 1: what their players could do. From more perspectives, a lot

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Speaker 1: of passes were caught against you. That happened, and he

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Speaker 1: makes an interception here today, what do you yeah? Again,

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Speaker 1: I think it's competitive. You know there's times when you

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Speaker 1: compete all the way to the end, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, when you're competing, you're out there

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Speaker 1: one on one. Every once in a a while you're gonna

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Speaker 1: give up a play. But for him to make a

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Speaker 1: game changing play like he did in the most critical

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Speaker 1: situation is good? How about you? But it to see

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Speaker 1: if I had like otelical up against starts, he's on

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Speaker 1: the kind of well again, I think they they approach

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Speaker 1: their work the right way. You're right, Darius is an

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Speaker 1: outstanding player. I got to see him way too much

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Speaker 1: the last few years, and um for him and O'Dell

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Speaker 1: to be able to compete against one another, it says

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Speaker 1: a lot about their makeup. It goes into your decision

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Speaker 1: to have injured players still out there in uniform watching

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Speaker 1: and kind of staying staying around the team. Not every

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Speaker 1: team is like well, I think what's important about practices.

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Speaker 1: We talked often about mental reps and just because you

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Speaker 1: don't get the rep doesn't mean you're not responsible for

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Speaker 1: seeing what happened and try to visualize what you would

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Speaker 1: do if you're out there. So uh, there's plenty of

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Speaker 1: time in a day, as long as they can defend

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Speaker 1: themselves and it's not a lower leg injury of some

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Speaker 1: it's important for them to be out there. Part of

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Speaker 1: In actual practices, well, it's always better to be there,

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Speaker 1: you know, and to varying degrees, I would imagine if

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Speaker 1: Dante Dion and darreny Thompson to get him back on

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Speaker 1: the field. I always say, I'm I'm loving saying this

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Speaker 1: making progress to it, mean, for sure beyond you said wasn't.

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Speaker 1: Originally you didn'tink he was gonna be out long and

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Speaker 1: now it's kind of been almost two weeks. Yeah, you know, again,

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Speaker 1: He gave Davis the two minute row with dis artists. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how do you think that functioned? No, he did some

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Speaker 1: you know, Matt and I both you know, Stafford didn't

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Speaker 1: standing there on his bad leg, dribble, dribbling a soccer ball.

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Speaker 1: I mean, are you confident it's a minor injury? The

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Speaker 1: say I didn't say that. I I didn't see what

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Speaker 1: he's he's working his way back. He tweaked it, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm confident I'll be back. You're a big picture question.

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Speaker 1: How much input do you have on the defense that

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Speaker 1: you there to day to day? I'm involved, and you

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Speaker 1: know I watch it and you know, UM, I have

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Speaker 1: ideas about how we should approach things and whether we're

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Speaker 1: have those conversations with James. I do. And I trust

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Speaker 1: the coordinators though, I really do. I trust James, I

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Speaker 1: while we were here, so I could kind of keep

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Speaker 1: I trust our guys, and you know, I have input

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Speaker 1: as to how I see things, but um, I trust

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Speaker 1: them to implement what we want to do. What will

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Speaker 1: come in tomorrow and it will definitely. It'll be not

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Speaker 1: not very comp additive, but we're gonna just work together

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Speaker 1: and yeah, um, it'll be practice setting where we just

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Speaker 1: kind of worked through situations. Mica Davis for a second,

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Speaker 1: he didn't see much to say. But when he's missed

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Speaker 1: seven yesterday or even in the preseason, it's usually been high.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything you're working on him with him? Is there?

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Speaker 1: Like I knew you were being a quarterback coaches, there

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Speaker 1: is there something other than being amped that you're you're

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Speaker 1: working on him with in that regard. Yeah, there's fundamentals

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Speaker 1: tied to throwing the ball high, and we keep working

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Speaker 1: on correcting those. Right. Here was the last time you

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Speaker 1: got your mom here for a practice. It's been a

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Speaker 1: long time, but she did. She showed up today, which

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Speaker 1: see him. Thanks. We're going to get