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Speaker 1: You're still basking in that Media guy award. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I forgot about that. I appreciate you guys for voting

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Speaker 1: for me. You can't win two years in a row. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I was honestly surprised I won because I

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Speaker 1: feel like I givedon a lot of crap whenever he

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Speaker 1: But exactly what do you think of Mike Martindale's defense

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Speaker 1: and the aggressiveness. It seems like it would be a

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Speaker 1: lot different than what you guys played under a Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think, uh, you know, any position you play,

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Speaker 1: you know style from a defensive coordinator. Every defensive player

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Speaker 1: wants to make big plays, get TFLs, get sacks, get

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Speaker 1: those big type of players, and this is the type

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Speaker 1: of defense to do it. And you know, he's blitzing

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Speaker 1: guys from all different directions, and uh, you know what

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Speaker 1: I've gotten from him that's been helping me with the

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Speaker 1: defense is uh to to learn it as a concept,

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Speaker 1: because if we learn it that way, it'll it'll show

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Speaker 1: you that you know, it could be the same pressure,

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Speaker 1: but like five different guys could be doing that same pressure.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's a fun, fun defense. So far

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Speaker 1: people talk about the business in the NFL and our

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Speaker 1: year change for your career, We're gonna take a step

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Speaker 1: back and realize how many changes don't you change? Them?

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Speaker 1: Change for you? How do you approach change? Basically? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've really been dealing with in my whole career since

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Speaker 1: even in college. Um. But the way I approach it is,

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Speaker 1: every team is different every year. I mean, the same

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Speaker 1: or anything like that. And I think I learned that

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Speaker 1: and like even throughout the season, like the same locker

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I don't. It's it's different every year,

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Speaker 1: and the nature in the scheme and the personnel you

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Speaker 1: expect your defense? I'm not sure. Yeah, I mean we've

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Speaker 1: only um putting the basics of install Uh you know,

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Speaker 1: we watched on film on the Ravens. We know that

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Speaker 1: this is a wink style of Um you know, defense

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Speaker 1: we definitely want to see a lot of TFLs sacks

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Speaker 1: be able to play on the straight in here yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't say surprised because I

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Speaker 1: mean this is his stomping grounds. But uh, it was

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Speaker 1: awesome to see him out here. You know, even though

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Speaker 1: around the around the guys addressed the group with it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: right after the stretching, Actually he broke the huddle and

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Speaker 1: how we're gonna approach practice, how we're gonna approach just

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Speaker 1: But I mean, I think right now they're they're doing

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Speaker 1: And I think it's it's even starting in the classroom

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Speaker 1: type of you know, defense that he wants, and that's

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Speaker 1: the type of leadership he wants to see. And the

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Speaker 1: Like how how sick are you of hearing that? I

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Speaker 1: mean it's been some sixteen We're on a win now team.

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Speaker 1: How sick are you hearing the rebuilding stuff? And how

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Speaker 1: how do you think this team could ma be surprising people?

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Speaker 1: And actually people here? Yeah, I mean with um, you know,

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Speaker 1: rebuilding that I'm sick of. It's the losing that I'm

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Speaker 1: taking taking things at your own hand. Does that include

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Speaker 1: urging guys to be here all right? Oh yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the season, why was it a question for you? Because

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Speaker 1: I know guys say like they could do some of

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Speaker 1: the physical stuff else were so like, why for you

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Speaker 1: was it a question? And maybe you weren't control just

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Speaker 1: like you said, it was just like I feel like

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Speaker 1: the and the new coach and staff. When when you

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Speaker 1: is there a player that you kind of fixate on

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Speaker 1: my game? Oh yeah, Calais Campbell actually, just because uh,

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Speaker 1: I see the way they move them all around the line,

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Speaker 1: I first started off just watching a bunch of you know,

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Speaker 1: all these different pressures and stuff like that and how

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