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Speaker 1: Jeff Ratherick, how do you think the secondary is looking

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Speaker 1: as you had at least towards the season out. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we're still working back there. You know, we got a

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Speaker 1: lot of things to improve on, but I just think

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Speaker 1: we just focused on you know, technique, just playing fast

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Speaker 1: with within the scheme, and we're gonna be pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Are you happy with where you are individually? Not? Not really.

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Speaker 1: There's some things I'm still working on, you know. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's preseason, so I'm working them out and getting ready

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Speaker 1: for the season. Do you in regard do you wish

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Speaker 1: the board come to your direction more this preseason? In

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Speaker 1: the games? I don't even pay attention to that to

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Speaker 1: be on it, and I'm just out there playing football

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Speaker 1: and that's all I'm gonna do. From going against O'Dell,

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Speaker 1: you know, personally, you you see him as completely ready

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Speaker 1: to struck the season. Now you had a one on

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Speaker 1: one against him in the corner of the end zone,

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Speaker 1: ball was thrown over? Is that kind of play? What?

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Speaker 1: What do you think that is gonna happen on game

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Speaker 1: day on a regular basis? All I know is once

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Speaker 1: O'Dell had to feel he gonna be O'Dell. Back when

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Speaker 1: Jimmy and um, as far as I'm being ready, that's

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Speaker 1: on him. I'm just here a supporter and hopefully do

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Speaker 1: you get back out there with us? Feel now at

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Speaker 1: disappoint for what the defense sold out its identity. He's

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Speaker 1: the direction Teddy. Of course, Um, we have a man ideal,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's aggressive defense. And right now as

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Speaker 1: we finishing up preseason, it's all about you know, ticks

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Speaker 1: and the tax and the ends and outs of the

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Speaker 1: defense and everybody paying together. When you say, oh, that

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Speaker 1: was ready, Um, what makes you think that? Like? What

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Speaker 1: do you see that kind of field that makes you say, oh,

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Speaker 1: I can tell that that guy's ready to out there.

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Speaker 1: For one, he's back on the field. That's a heads up.

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Speaker 1: He's running his routes, he's doing all the drills, he's

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Speaker 1: doing everything. And um, she can continue to see you

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Speaker 1: see the same explosion and the same maybe doesn't look

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Speaker 1: any different than it was before. Don't look no different

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Speaker 1: to me, not to me? You uh, you obviously know

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Speaker 1: what a good corner to play looks like the nickel

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Speaker 1: more in the second King cornerbacks who crashed you? Ah

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Speaker 1: Ce Lou in the thirty nine He's impressed me a

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Speaker 1: lot Um Grant from uh, what's the name of s Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Grant Handy. He's impressing me a lot. And then you

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Speaker 1: know they're just learning and like I tell him, every

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Speaker 1: they just come buy and get better. Um. Every somethe

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Speaker 1: gonna happen in practice. Sometimes sometimes you're gonna make a play,

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Speaker 1: sometimes you're not. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: I just see him getting better every day. We're standing

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Speaker 1: out like the leaders of this defense. To be honest,

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Speaker 1: I think we all lean as far as Snacks LC myself,

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Speaker 1: Ogletree just think we're coming out having fun and we're

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Speaker 1: playing f e A ankle's giving up a few plays

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Speaker 1: this preseason. Do you talk to him about that? Do

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Speaker 1: you help coach him out? Did you worry? I don't worry, because,

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Speaker 1: like I tell him, you gotta understand, they're gonna catch

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Speaker 1: some balls and you're gonna make some plays. Just make

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Speaker 1: more plays than they catch ball and we're gonna be Okay.

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Speaker 1: How much diferent is I know this is obvious, But

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Speaker 1: you're healthy. Good. Odell's healthy. Like the the injuries from

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Speaker 1: last season as they mounted, everyone's healthy now. How much

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Speaker 1: of a difference does that make on the practice field

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Speaker 1: and on the game field make a lot, make a

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Speaker 1: big difference. Were all healthy, you know last year we

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Speaker 1: were a little banged up, and I just see a

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Speaker 1: hunger and everybody that would hurt eyes last year. So

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Speaker 1: I just think we're ready to go work. Is that

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Speaker 1: what you made a promise in ok S or Mini

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Speaker 1: camp or something this year was just gonna be getting

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Speaker 1: you said Jack Gravit says that she was gonna be different.

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Speaker 1: Is that what makes you think? He's six months later

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Speaker 1: you still feel that way? And is it the hunger

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Speaker 1: in the eyes? But just you know, like I said, man,

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Speaker 1: last yeall was injury. Uh y'all didn't know that. I

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Speaker 1: didn't come out and tell y'all. But I'm healthy now,

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Speaker 1: So I just feel like I'm ready to go hunt.

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Speaker 1: Is this whole team in that mood though? I mean

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Speaker 1: because they have the three wins last year, there a

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Speaker 1: different type of you send something different this year? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: everybody hungry. Man. We understand that we got a lot

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Speaker 1: of talent on this team, and it's just not that

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Speaker 1: people not gonna beat us. It's just us make a

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Speaker 1: mistake to beat our stuff. And then if we keep

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Speaker 1: uh doing everything right and everybody in position and playing

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Speaker 1: football will be okay, have you eating lunch with Shermer

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Speaker 1: in the cafeteria or anything? He apparently it's the players.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes he eating a lot with us. He'll come by

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Speaker 1: see with us talking up. Um asked us what we

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Speaker 1: think about you know, what's going on within the defense

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Speaker 1: or you know, on the team. And I like that,

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Speaker 1: what do you I was gonna say, what do you

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Speaker 1: think of a head coach? Is that rare? I mean

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Speaker 1: it's rare, but it's cool because you earned the trust

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Speaker 1: of some some guys on your team. Um, and let

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Speaker 1: you know that your head coach not scared to come

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Speaker 1: up and talk to you as a person or as

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Speaker 1: a man. Uh. And communication is key, as we all know.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever had a head coach if that even

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Speaker 1: it's ward of anyway? Probably probably in Florida when I

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Speaker 1: was in college. Uh, Coach Fisher do it every now

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Speaker 1: and then when I was at St. Louis. But just

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Speaker 1: coach Patt He's just doing it, like seeming like almost

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Speaker 1: every day, stopping getting to you. Kind of take it

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Speaker 1: by surprise me. I mean yeah, because it was unexpected.

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Speaker 1: You know, how are you get the much room and

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Speaker 1: you eat with your teammates and your head coach. You

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Speaker 1: walk up there and it's like, oh, man, he's when

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Speaker 1: in trouble or is he coming to talk? And then

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Speaker 1: the day he comes to talk, you know, chatted up

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Speaker 1: and have fun. You never bring any good food, You

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Speaker 1: never bring any good food. No, he let the character

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Speaker 1: because all the food questions you're about to shake. Oh

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Speaker 1: he's explosive. Uh, he's smart and um I could just

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Speaker 1: tell he loved football because the way he worked, how

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Speaker 1: you go about his business. And we're gonna can't wait

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Speaker 1: to see him play