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Speaker 1: kind of drive you here and kind of spread that

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Speaker 1: process off No, that was that was very important because, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, just just knowing them and and being familiar

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Speaker 1: feel very comfortable with offense already. There's some ricles here

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Speaker 1: and there that I need to learn, but I feel like,

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Speaker 1: you know, if i'd hop in right now, I'd be

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Speaker 1: pretty comfortable out there. We like about this group that

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Speaker 1: you're with now, it's been great so far. I mean

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Speaker 1: I'm still you know, meeting everyone and then trying to

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Speaker 1: get a personal relationship with everyone. But it's been very

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Speaker 1: very good week here and I'm really really happy and

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Speaker 1: looking forward to this upcoming season. How important was it

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Speaker 1: for you to get back to being a tackle something? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, tackle, I've had the absolute most experience.

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Speaker 1: They're just from from high school to college the pros. Um,

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Speaker 1: I have the most experience of tackle. So last year

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Speaker 1: I played all guard. Year before that mainly tackle with

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Speaker 1: it was different, you know, playing guard. Um, I feel

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Speaker 1: like my experience there will help me though, UM, going

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Speaker 1: back to tackle and I learned a lot there and

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Speaker 1: but I am looking forward to be playing tackle. Good.

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Speaker 1: Why did they move you to guy? I think that

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Speaker 1: was just you know, they thought that was the best

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Speaker 1: to do whatever I can win games. And coaches think

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Speaker 1: that's the best way, then I'll do whatever it takes.

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Speaker 1: When you come to achieve, You're coming here there's a

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Speaker 1: team that needs you, that needs help. When the offense,

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Speaker 1: your line, is there any different? You're going to a

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Speaker 1: team that change is stacked that already has n't make

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Speaker 1: you feel a little bit more confident, confident coming in.

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Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, it's competition is is makes everyone better. So, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, they've got some great players here and um

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Speaker 1: and uh so that'll help everyone develop and and getting

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Speaker 1: one ready for the season. You and Kevin have been

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Speaker 1: leaked for a long time, but um, uh, well, like

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Speaker 1: what's your relationship? Have you have you cross pads in

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Speaker 1: the past before and I never have. That's the first

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Speaker 1: time I met him, and he's great. I love him

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Speaker 1: so much. I mean, I know, be a guy that

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Speaker 1: you know we'll have a good time, good time this season.

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Speaker 1: How do you get that on field chemistry to click

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Speaker 1: like this last weekend today even like you know, we're

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Speaker 1: we're doing O T you know, ots and going up

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Speaker 1: against our defense and it plays over you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: seniing youre watching right now, and they've been right after

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Speaker 1: we come in and we'll talk about certain scenarios and

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Speaker 1: how how we want you know, to work out differently

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Speaker 1: I think that that's been really well for us, working

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Speaker 1: well for us in the line room and on the field.

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Speaker 1: Just communications critical. What's it like having such a small

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Speaker 1: guy next to you? That guy is enormous. He makes

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Speaker 1: me feel really small. I mean he's a wide guy,

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Speaker 1: so he definitely looks the part, and you know he

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Speaker 1: you can just tell a much of means to him

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Speaker 1: and that helps. That helps you know everyone around him.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can see how hard and he's working

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Speaker 1: and it pushes everyone else working harder. If some of

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Speaker 1: the guys they brought in you included, um talking about

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Speaker 1: also being culture builders. Guys, you know what does that mean?

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Speaker 1: You know what culture I mean? I guess you just

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Speaker 1: you know, you're working with you know, coaches and players,

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Speaker 1: You're working with them all day, every day, and you

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Speaker 1: know you don't want a guy that maybe is a

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Speaker 1: you want to have someone that you can work well with. Um,

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Speaker 1: and I you know, I guess they think that and

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Speaker 1: I work well with them, and UM, you know, I'm here.

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Speaker 1: I'm here to learn, I'm here to be coached, and

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to improve as a player. So you're saying

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Speaker 1: thinks I'm a jerk. So I'm thinking that that that

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Speaker 1: sitting there going let's run every place. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: I love that. I love running the ball. So um yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's he's amazing. I mean, just this last week I've

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Speaker 1: definitely looking forward to blocking form. When do you think

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Speaker 1: I feel great right now, so I'll see see what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing doing really well. So, um, like I said,

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Speaker 1: hopefully soon you would. Did you would high ankle getting

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Speaker 1: was kind of tough, you know, because you're you got

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Speaker 1: you got five games, you know, you gotta win some games.

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Speaker 1: So I had to play god a little bit. But

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Speaker 1: uh yeah it recovered though it took a little bit longer.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I didn't expect you to say now I

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Speaker 1: was started all the year. Yeah, no, I recovered. I

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