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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Thursday,

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Speaker 1: June fifth. The Ravens had another open practice of OTA's,

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Speaker 1: but before they had that practice, the big news out

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Speaker 1: of the Castle was that wide receiver or Shad Bateman

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Speaker 1: reached a contract extension with the team. The contract extension

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Speaker 1: is reportedly a three year extension on top of the

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Speaker 1: two years that Bateman already had left remaining on his deal,

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Speaker 1: so this will keep him in Baltimore through the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty nine season. Batement met with reporters after practice and

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Speaker 1: talked about his excitement for this new deal.

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Speaker 2: Can you just give us a little maybe a little

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Speaker 2: background on how this all came about the contract extension point, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, it was this two parties kind of met, we

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Speaker 3: kind of been negotiating since the end of the season,

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Speaker 3: and you know, it was something that both parties wanted

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Speaker 3: to do and it just made sense for both of

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Speaker 3: us and we worked it out. So I'm happy to

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Speaker 3: be here, bliss Unfortunately, so keep chasing the super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: So it was less of the surprise this year the

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Speaker 4: last definitely last.

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Speaker 3: Year, less of a surprise this year. This year made

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Speaker 3: sense to me for sure, most.

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Speaker 4: Definitely why why didn't make sense to you?

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Speaker 3: Because I feel like I finally did something on the

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Speaker 3: field that was you know, impressive, is something that you

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Speaker 3: can you know, respect and stand on. Before that, it

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Speaker 3: was a a little bit shocking. I had some up

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Speaker 3: ups and downs here and there. So, you know, to

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Speaker 3: be able to be here now it feels good, you

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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: Is there a time when you might not have been

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Speaker 5: sure that you were gonna be here for eight or

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Speaker 5: nine years when you're are you Maybe you didn't know

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Speaker 5: for sure that you.

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Speaker 3: Wanted to I mean, like, er, is it did it

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Speaker 3: take some time to get there?

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Speaker 6: Or is this is the right thing?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 3: I knew I've always wanted to be here. I just

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Speaker 3: think as a player, you you don't know when your

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Speaker 3: time's up. You know, like you don't know the conversations

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Speaker 3: that have had, you know, when you're not around or

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Speaker 3: in the meetings or or those type of things, so

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Speaker 3: you know, you're always wondering what's gonna happen to you.

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Speaker 3: You've seen some of the best players get traded sometimes,

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Speaker 3: so you just never know. But you know, we've had,

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Speaker 3: you know, some good transparent dialogue throughout this whole I said,

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Speaker 3: So they was honest with me. I was honest with them.

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Speaker 3: And you know, here we are today, what do you

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Speaker 3: have lost?

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Speaker 4: You look at this system?

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Speaker 7: Do you have your break down, your lessons to go back?

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Speaker 8: For fucking what more shouldn't you say for me? What

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Speaker 8: more you think to be here?

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Speaker 3: I just know I can play ball, and it's like

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Speaker 3: everybody knows that now, and I'm not I'm not here

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Speaker 3: to prove that to nobody. You know, I I wanna

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Speaker 3: prove that to my teammates and i'm'a go. I work

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Speaker 3: for the Ravens. You know what I'm saying. I work

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Speaker 3: for you know, Lamar Jackson technically, and if these guys

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Speaker 3: will pleased with you know what I'm doing and you

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Speaker 3: know my work ethic and and all of that, then

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Speaker 3: I feel like as a as a team, that's what's

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Speaker 3: important to me. So I've done that, and you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm definitely looking to continue to build off of that.

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Speaker 3: For sure.

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Speaker 8: You look at the contract or for what validation shout looking.

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Speaker 3: At the palm sho strive for sure? Yeah, yeah, most definitely.

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Speaker 3: It's a uh it's kind of highest lead words. You

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Speaker 3: get paid if you're doing the right things. You know,

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Speaker 3: on and off the field and disrespect thing. It's showing

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Speaker 3: that dogization you know, believes in me. It's showing that,

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Speaker 3: you know, I believe in them. So you know, hopefully

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Speaker 3: this thing keep on keep on trucking in that direction.

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Speaker 4: Should does it take trust from between player and organization.

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Speaker 9: That look, if I outperform a contract that I even

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Speaker 9: if I just signed it, if I outperform that this

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Speaker 9: organization's gonna take care.

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Speaker 3: Of me in the wrong way. That's what you would

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Speaker 3: guarantee anything. You know, I got a good relationship with

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Speaker 3: the GOSTA, and I think you know that helped us. Well,

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Speaker 3: that helped us well, you know, they respect you know

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Speaker 3: that's why I'm still here, I hope, so not just

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Speaker 3: So I'm definitely hoping to continue that that mindset and

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Speaker 4: For Shure, that's us.

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Speaker 3: So I don't even know if he's really talking to me.

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Speaker 3: I think I just like wrapped him up and and

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Speaker 3: kind of kept it moving. But Harves has always been

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Speaker 3: a guy that's believed in me since I've been here.

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Speaker 3: Cool guy, cool, cool guy. And you know he's good

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Speaker 3: for the team and he's good for all of us.

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Speaker 3: So what are shot?

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Speaker 7: You guys have DeAndre Hopkins and the receivers bringing out

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Speaker 7: like order contract for quite a few more years.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna be the best of the leader in this

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Speaker 4: dring for a while.

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Speaker 7: How do you approach that role and how do you

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Speaker 7: see yourself developing as a leader in this SoC.

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Speaker 3: I I'll continue to do what I do. Uh lead

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Speaker 3: by example. Some people are vocal and some people you know,

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Speaker 3: lead with like the way they work, you know. And

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Speaker 3: Lamar's like a good example. You know, Derek is a

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Speaker 3: you can tell, you know when it's time to you know,

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Speaker 3: and I I think that's more you know what I am.

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Speaker 3: You know, Rokowan he's more of a vocal you know leader.

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Speaker 3: Calvin NOI he's a he's a vocal leader, you know.

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Speaker 3: But they they they work hard as well. But uh me,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna show up every day, you know what I'm

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Speaker 3: saying the work. Continue to do that and you know,

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Speaker 3: hopefully that helps others around.

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Speaker 4: Me for shot, And what did the last season do

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Speaker 5: Just to I obviously the contractors they've led that, But

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Speaker 5: what what impacted and have to do to be able

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Speaker 4: Season healthy, have the kind of year you had?

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 4: What did it do, not just physically but mentally for you?

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Speaker 10: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I just think last year was fun overall. I don't

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Speaker 3: before the season started, I was kind of, you know,

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Speaker 3: just because I know I was in a better headspace,

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Speaker 3: you know, throughout the whole year. So you know, hopefully

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Speaker 3: we keep that mindset as well, and you know, plenty

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Speaker 3: more big plays to come.

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Speaker 8: Sean, are you you played with a veteran like Odell Beckham?

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Speaker 8: Now you have d hop here? Is is there anything

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Speaker 8: that you are hoping to pick his brain about? Is

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Speaker 8: there anything you wanna take from him.

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Speaker 3: I mean, not nothing in particular, but I think with

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Speaker 3: just I'm ready to ask him anything, you know, as

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Speaker 3: far as you know, catching hands, rock, running body, taking

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Speaker 3: you was in year one compared to year five, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's a lot of different variables. I'm a I'm a

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Speaker 3: deep thinker, so I I'm not like a one a

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Speaker 3: I wanna you know, keep digging into you know, I

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Speaker 3: And de Hop has already been a you know, a

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Speaker 3: trust to he'll continue to help us out in that way.

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Speaker 4: Shot Under said here play a little bit in.

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Speaker 11: A ask year so respect that to be.

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Speaker 3: I I honestly don't know. I really I really never know.

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Speaker 3: I I just I really never know.

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Speaker 7: Bro.

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Speaker 3: So you just gotta be prepared for it all. Just

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Speaker 3: show up and be ready to play. So i'm'a just

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Speaker 3: continue to do that. Yeah, whatever they want me to do,

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Speaker 3: i'm'a do. I just like playing football and at this point, bro,

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Speaker 3: I'm great for for it all. So you know, they

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Speaker 3: the chip block, whatever, I I'll I'll do it. Especially now.

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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 9: Not many, not many players get three contracts with the team.

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Speaker 9: Did you take a minute to kind of take that in,

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Speaker 9: especially since early on there was some it was kind

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Speaker 3: I just think for me, that's it's more. It hits

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Speaker 3: We we continue to go through a lot, you know

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Speaker 3: I I'll just say it means a lot, you know,

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Speaker 3: I mean hopefully we continue to you know, make plays

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Speaker 8: I'm sure how you mentioned.

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Speaker 11: Your relationship with Eric da Costa earlier. He's publicly said

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Speaker 11: over the past, you see, and he's fullish about your talents.

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Speaker 11: So what does it mean to you just to have

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Speaker 11: him kind of stick beside you, continue to defend you

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Speaker 11: at and continue to sign you.

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Speaker 3: It means a lot. I mean that coming from that's

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Speaker 3: coming from the top man that you know that pay us.

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Speaker 3: So honestly, you know, if you got you know, got

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Speaker 3: you know, and you know hopefully that continues to develop

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Speaker 3: and you know grow over the time of me being here,

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Speaker 3: but being able to build a relationship with him, you know,

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Speaker 3: even all the coaches. It's been it's been real good

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Speaker 3: and it's been real beneficial.

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Speaker 11: Have you had an opportunity to share this mom over

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Speaker 11: with your family? What was their reaction?

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Speaker 6: Nah?

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Speaker 3: I told my mom about a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 3: but I haven't called it yet.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: I kind of signed and then came to work after that,

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Speaker 3: So i'm'a go call it right now. You heard from you.

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Speaker 4: I suppose that Lamar not yet.

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Speaker 3: Not yet. I don't know if anybody heard from tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: I think so we'll find out soon.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 10: I'm excited about the young group that we brought in, man.

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Speaker 12: We're throwing a lot at them right now. They're picking

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Speaker 12: Great communicators, great leaders, get us right, get us in

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Speaker 10: So I'm fired up about him.

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Speaker 7: And Jared hey Wigs talked about he's put on some

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Speaker 12: I thought Nate did a great job going to work

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Speaker 12: But what I see him focusing on now, Man, he's

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Speaker 10: A more consistent basis. Like last year.

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Speaker 10: The sky's the limit for him.

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Speaker 5: You get the outside linebacker moving back and attack. Plus

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Speaker 5: Mike Green. When I know it's early, but when you

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Speaker 12: Yeah, Man, I see a guy who comes out here

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Speaker 12: So I think he's gonna be a real valuable piece

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Speaker 10: But Uh, I'm happy with Mike.

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Speaker 12: I think that he's doing a good job of what

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Speaker 10: He really has a lot of the.

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Speaker 4: Defense you've been Trent, this guy he stayed high on

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Speaker 10: And these stays out of Yes, he's.

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Speaker 12: A lot more confident, man. This is the most confident

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Speaker 12: I'm excited, man, We're excited about him. I think has

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Speaker 10: Trend upwards for us.

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Speaker 12: Say again, man, shoot, Teddy plays like a raven you

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Speaker 10: So I'm excited about Teddy. We threw a lot of

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Speaker 12: He's playing both positions for US, Mike, Will and Don

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Speaker 9: Hey, exactly, we see Chalen Davis floating all over your defense,

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Speaker 10: He can play all the positions.

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Speaker 12: But he's just the one of the guys we're starting

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Speaker 10: We all know what it is.

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Speaker 12: It's a contract year for him. We know his individual goals.

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Speaker 4: In the process. You know, the interceptions just got to

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Speaker 12: real valuable. So I think that's what really stood out

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Speaker 12: to me about him this year, Zach.

445
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Speaker 2: Obviously the defense didn't start off the way you wanted to,

446
00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:43,840
Speaker 2: but by the end of the season, I mean statistically

447
00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,640
Speaker 2: you're one of the best, you know as finishing best team.

448
00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:50,440
Speaker 2: What did you learn maybe the most throughout last season?

449
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Speaker 10: Man, I just probably just learned that it's a week

450
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Speaker 10: to week league.

451
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Speaker 6: Man.

452
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Speaker 12: I mean I knew it, but you got a chance

453
00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,280
Speaker 12: to see it's week the weekend. You got to go

454
00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,040
Speaker 12: out there and do it no matter who you got

455
00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,920
Speaker 12: back there. The names don't mean nothing. Our names on

456
00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:07,160
Speaker 12: our jersey, we take pride in that. But the team

457
00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:09,119
Speaker 12: coming in trying to trying to whoop our butt, man,

458
00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:11,760
Speaker 12: and the players we got real accomplished players and coaches.

459
00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:13,879
Speaker 12: The team that's coming in that's playing us don't care

460
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Speaker 12: about that. So you can't rest on what you've done

461
00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:17,680
Speaker 12: in the past. Man, you got to show up as

462
00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,639
Speaker 12: a team, as a coach, as a player every single

463
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Speaker 12: week and get your respect. And I think that when

464
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Speaker 12: we finally fully embraced that, our game too went to

465
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Speaker 12: another level. And the only way you can do that

466
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Speaker 12: is out here on this practice field. You know, it's

467
00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,840
Speaker 12: not just gonna happen on game day. So you know,

468
00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,280
Speaker 12: that's why I probably learned is just continue to preach

469
00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:39,320
Speaker 12: that message, continue to stay on top of that all

470
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Speaker 12: the time.

471
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Speaker 10: Man, Like we talked about it today. So we're gonna

472
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Speaker 10: be a little angle about it. And that's good.

473
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Speaker 12: If you love football, you want to be challenged, you

474
00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:47,760
Speaker 12: want to be coached, you want to get pushed. So

475
00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,680
Speaker 12: if that's the type of uh, you know, player and

476
00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,840
Speaker 12: coach you are, you're gonna thrive here. If not, then

477
00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,639
Speaker 12: you know it's probably not gonna be the place for you.

478
00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,040
Speaker 10: You got old Chusa Johno at GB Experts or anything

479
00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:00,440
Speaker 10: when you first got here. Of that, he said that

480
00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,000
Speaker 10: he like the way you guys have group. Last year

481
00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:04,080
Speaker 10: he came in.

482
00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:06,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean definitely, man.

483
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Speaker 12: I mean the biggest thing that he just jumped off

484
00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:10,359
Speaker 12: jumped off the tape to him just watch him. Was

485
00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,520
Speaker 12: you know, just the communication back back there, and some

486
00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:15,639
Speaker 12: of that, like I said, it was was on me

487
00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,520
Speaker 12: as well, you know, tightening the menu up, but just

488
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Speaker 12: the communication. And then he said, once we got that fixed,

489
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Speaker 12: you know, this the the skies, the limit. You know,

490
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Speaker 12: we a talented group back there. And then the other

491
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Speaker 12: other thing that stood out to him was technique. You know,

492
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Speaker 12: we got to get better with our technique in the

493
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Speaker 12: back end. Man, it's like we we we make real

494
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Speaker 12: good plays, but we give up plays. We shouldn't give

495
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Speaker 12: up because.

496
00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,320
Speaker 10: Our eyes not right, our leverage is not right, or

497
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Speaker 10: our body position is not right.

498
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Speaker 12: So those are just little nuances he picked up. And

499
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Speaker 12: I think it was impressive. Is a lot of guys

500
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Speaker 12: went up to him. He might not even know I noticed,

501
00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:50,639
Speaker 12: but a lot of guys went up to him and

502
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Speaker 12: asked him one on one what he could what they

503
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Speaker 12: could work on. And he had an answer for every

504
00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,359
Speaker 12: single one of those guys, a deep, detailed summary. So,

505
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Speaker 12: like I said, man, it's it's great to have him

506
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Speaker 12: here in the building. And like I said, he don't

507
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Speaker 12: be fooled by his age. You guys can talk to

508
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Speaker 12: him here.

509
00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:05,480
Speaker 10: In a second.

510
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Speaker 12: His dude got real juice and energy and knowledge, man,

511
00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,080
Speaker 12: So I'm fired up about him and.

512
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Speaker 10: All the coaches that we brought in.

513
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Speaker 1: We also heard from We have a secondary coach, Chuck Pegano.

514
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Speaker 1: He was the former defensive coordinator here. Of course, he

515
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,040
Speaker 1: was the head coach of the Indianapolis Coults. He's excited

516
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Speaker 1: to be back in Baltimore, and he talked about what

517
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Speaker 1: this opportunity means for him.

518
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Speaker 2: I mean, you're part of the media for a little while.

519
00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,400
Speaker 2: Doing that didn't any knocking off Russ getting back into coaching.

520
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,679
Speaker 2: What was it like getting back into coaching for him?

521
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Speaker 6: You gotta get in football shape, you know.

522
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Speaker 13: We tell the guys we're fixing the sent him home

523
00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,600
Speaker 13: for the summer, and you always worry about that, right

524
00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,840
Speaker 13: because they're in great shape now, and then everybody's got

525
00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:48,679
Speaker 13: a month off, so you want them to come back

526
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Speaker 13: in football shape. But you really can't replicate, you know,

527
00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:54,040
Speaker 13: the pads and all those kinds of things. Coaching is

528
00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:57,080
Speaker 13: no different, you know. So I'm pretty damn good on

529
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Speaker 13: a peloton, you know, I ride my tail off on

530
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Speaker 13: that bike. But coming out and running around with these

531
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Speaker 13: guys again, that that took them inte, you know, and

532
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Speaker 13: I don't have the the bounce of my step that

533
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Speaker 13: I used to, but uh, it's been, it's been awesome.

534
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Speaker 6: I'm so grateful and thankful for the opportunity to be back.

535
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Speaker 4: You know.

536
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Speaker 13: It's it's always something when you have something, you kind

537
00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:24,960
Speaker 13: of take it for granted, and then when when you don't,

538
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,879
Speaker 13: you realize just how special it was to coach and

539
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,680
Speaker 13: uh be a part of something, be a part of

540
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Speaker 13: a team, have the relationships, uh you know that you

541
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Speaker 13: that you develop and build uh when you're part of

542
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Speaker 13: something like that. So it's it's been awesome. Got obviously

543
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:47,480
Speaker 13: a gold standard of organizations top down, and the familiarity

544
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 13: with with John Staff's a lot different. But you know,

545
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,920
Speaker 13: felt like I knew everybody. You know Manny, you know

546
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Speaker 13: in the kitchen, you know, he bugging me every day still,

547
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,720
Speaker 13: you know, like I never was gone. You know, see

548
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Speaker 13: all you know tell of familiar faces. So it's been

549
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Speaker 13: they've they've all made a you know, pretty easy transition.

550
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Speaker 7: Is that.

551
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Speaker 4: Jameson still being here, what's been about sort of? I mean,

552
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Speaker 4: like you said, it's been a bunch of years since

553
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Speaker 4: you were here last. But the more organization's pretty famous

554
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Speaker 4: for its.

555
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Speaker 6: Mean, what do you kind of notice on the back

556
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Speaker 6: of the h just the same. I mean, the standard

557
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Speaker 6: is the standard.

558
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Speaker 13: I know that's that's cliche, is you know, but you know,

559
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Speaker 13: the type of people like if you don't John talked

560
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Speaker 13: about it today. Gruden was here today, Like, if you

561
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Speaker 13: don't love ball, you can't survive here. You know, there's

562
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Speaker 13: a big difference between like and love. You know, in

563
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,760
Speaker 13: a relationship. You know, it's gonna be thirty six years

564
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Speaker 13: in July for me and my wife. If I would

565
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Speaker 13: have just kind of liked marriage, that would have been

566
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Speaker 13: over probably thirty five years ago, you know, but she

567
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 13: sacrificed a lot. But you gotta you gotta love ball

568
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 13: and the type of people that they bring in here,

569
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Speaker 13: the football character, the football IQ uh, the standards, what

570
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:06,680
Speaker 13: the expectations are. That hasn't that hasn't changed, you know,

571
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Speaker 13: just seeing Oz every day, Eric every day, John, it's like,

572
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Speaker 13: I like you never really left. You know, Buildings a

573
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Speaker 13: little bit bigger, they're adding on again, some of those things.

574
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Speaker 6: But it's been pretty seamless.

575
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Speaker 10: Look around the league. It's especially on the defensive side

576
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Speaker 10: of the ball.

577
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Speaker 8: You're seeing more positionless football guys, they could play all

578
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Speaker 8: over the place. The Ravens have a couple of those

579
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Speaker 8: guys on their defense. How different is that, you know,

580
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Speaker 8: trying to scheme up and coach those types of guys

581
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Speaker 8: compared to you know, guys used to play just setain positions.

582
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, when you have a guy, I'm assuming

583
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Speaker 13: you're talking about a guy like Kyle, you know Hamilton,

584
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Speaker 13: you know Marlon Humphrey, you know, veteran, veteran guy, been

585
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 13: in the league a long long time, can play outside,

586
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 13: can play the nickel. Kyle played deep, play big nickel,

587
00:23:55,840 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 13: played dime linebacker, played deep in coverage, play man lets,

588
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,399
Speaker 13: all those kind of things. When you have you know,

589
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 13: chess pieces as we like to refer to them, and

590
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 13: you can move those things around. Not only you know

591
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 13: his football character, but then his skill set and his

592
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Speaker 13: ability to do all the things you think about, you know,

593
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Speaker 13: the wide receiver groups that that we're gonna have to face,

594
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Speaker 13: the quarterbacks that we're gonna have to face, You're gonna

595
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Speaker 13: have to have, you know, dudes like that Roquan.

596
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Speaker 6: I was with Roqan as you guys know in Chicago.

597
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Speaker 13: You know I knew the minute, you know he came

598
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Speaker 13: over here that he was going to be a game changer,

599
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Speaker 13: you know, for for this defense and for this unit.

600
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Speaker 13: Those guys again, they their football smarts, their football IQ,

601
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Speaker 13: their love for the game, their passion for the game,

602
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Speaker 13: their passion for playing for one another is off the charts.

603
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Speaker 6: So you can't you can't have enough of those guys.

604
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Speaker 4: You've ensure that the secondary hits the ground one second.

605
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's going to be a second year of Playboer,

606
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Speaker 6: what has.

607
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Speaker 2: Stop out to you?

608
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Speaker 6: A value set?

609
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Speaker 13: H Zach is awesome, as you guys know, a ton

610
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Speaker 13: of energy, a ton of juice, ton of passion. He's

611
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Speaker 13: super smart, super intelligent. He knows this, you know, defense

612
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Speaker 13: inside and out. And I just look at the transformation

613
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Speaker 13: like what happened here on defense when you look at

614
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Speaker 13: from the bye week on, there wasn't a better defense

615
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Speaker 13: in the National Football League. They gave up probably an

616
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Speaker 13: average of two hundred and seventy two hundred and eighty

617
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 13: yards total. Pass defense was awesome. Rush defense, of course

618
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Speaker 13: they led the league anyway, and that they're turnover margin,

619
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Speaker 13: third down everything was was you know, number one or

620
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Speaker 13: two in the National Football League. So I think it's

621
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Speaker 13: a process you know, and stepping into that role. You know,

622
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Speaker 13: I stepped into that role back in twenty eleven here,

623
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Speaker 13: you know, coach the secondary for three years and then

624
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Speaker 13: all of a sudden the guy leaves and you get

625
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 13: the opportunity of a lifetime to be that play call

626
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Speaker 13: that was. That's a process that takes time. Now the system,

627
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 13: you know, it's been in place, the players were, you know,

628
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 13: the same. So Zach's fortunate that way. I was really

629
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Speaker 13: fortunate that way. And he's got a bunch of great coaches,

630
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Speaker 13: you know, excluding one sixty five year old man you know,

631
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Speaker 13: in that defensive room. So I'm just trying to do

632
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 13: my part, stay in my lane, know my role. But yeah,

633
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Speaker 13: he's he's he's been tremendous. And you know the thing

634
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 13: about Zach, he's gonna hold himself accountable, but he's not

635
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 13: afraid to hold these kids accountable, these players accountable, you know,

636
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Speaker 13: And he's gonna he's gonna be honest with him. He's

637
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 13: gonna be upfront, he's gonna be fourthright, and he's gonna

638
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Speaker 13: tell them what they need to hear, not what they

639
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 13: want to hear, which is to me, which is huge,

640
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 13: and that's a great quality to have.

641
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Speaker 2: How do you ensure that the secondary hits the round

642
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Speaker 2: and running this here, because I think those guys will

643
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Speaker 2: be the first to say that they didn't play up

644
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Speaker 2: to the standard that they expected for the first half.

645
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Speaker 6: Of last year.

646
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Speaker 13: I think we're off to a great start, you know

647
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Speaker 13: right now. Uh Donald Delecio as a secondary coach, he

648
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 13: comes over from from Kansas City. He's done a phenomenal

649
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,879
Speaker 13: job of you know, to this point of getting not

650
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 13: only the veterans that have that have been here, but

651
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 13: these young players, these rookie players, Malachi, the couple of

652
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 13: corners that we drafted, you know, bk and and Beam,

653
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Speaker 13: you know. So he's done a great job. But we've

654
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 13: got another you know, handful of OTAs. We've got a

655
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 13: mandatory mini camp. We'll do a great job and give

656
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Speaker 13: these guys kind of a prescription when they leave for

657
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Speaker 13: that month of what to you know, keep working from

658
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 13: a skill development.

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Speaker 6: They'll have their iPads, they'll get to take all the tape.

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Speaker 13: Home, all the corrections home, all the film home, and

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Speaker 13: and keep studying, you know, and keep growing that way

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Speaker 13: so that when training camp comes, it isn't like you know,

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Speaker 13: back in the day, when I was here in O

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Speaker 13: eight we were going to Westminster. You know, there's no

665
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Speaker 13: CBA in place that said you had to you know,

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Speaker 13: practice you know, shorts, shorts, shorts, maybe spiders, then maybe

667
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Speaker 13: get into pads, have this ramp up.

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Speaker 6: Like day three we were full pad, Day four we

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Speaker 6: were full pad. Day five we were full pads.

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Speaker 13: And it was two days you know, so you couldn't

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Speaker 13: And my point is like you had to show up

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Speaker 13: in shape that you wouldn't make it through the first

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Speaker 13: three days of camp. This is really no different. So

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Speaker 13: we've got you know, good veteran group. We got you know,

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Speaker 13: leaders in the back end there that will that we

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Speaker 13: will lean on. Donald myself will lean on to stay

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Speaker 13: connected with with all the guys in the back end

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Speaker 13: so that when we do show up, we hit the

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Speaker 13: ground run and we're in shape.

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Speaker 6: You know physically.

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Speaker 13: If you don't show up in shape, then as soon

682
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Speaker 13: as you get tired, this thing slows down. You lose folks,

683
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Speaker 13: lose concentration. Then you have you know a bad day

684
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Speaker 13: and then followed maybe by another can't happen.

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Speaker 9: You're a if you had that wanted that made you

686
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Speaker 9: want to get back in or what's happened. How did

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Speaker 9: this opportunity come about? If you gave us a lot

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Speaker 9: of background, Was this something that was kind of stewing

689
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Speaker 9: with you that you were kind of getting the itch

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Speaker 9: to get.

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Speaker 13: Back in, And yeah, I never really stopped thinking about

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Speaker 13: coaching and thinking about the game. I was fortunate, you know,

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Speaker 13: Pat having me on and doing that show, being on

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Speaker 13: the program with him and the boys. You know, that

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Speaker 13: was kind of my football fix, you know, but that

696
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Speaker 13: was six months out of that was football season, you know.

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Speaker 13: But it kept me connected to the game. But I

698
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Speaker 13: never really stopped thinking about, you know, maybe coming back

699
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Speaker 13: at some point. My kids, my wife, my daughters. I

700
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 13: got three daughters, I got five grandkids. They don't know

701
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 13: any better, but they all thought I retired too young

702
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Speaker 13: as it was.

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Speaker 6: But it was twenty twenty. It was coming off of

704
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Speaker 6: COVID and I just kind of had enough.

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Speaker 13: I was like, okay, I need a break, probably like

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Speaker 13: everybody else in the world, but never really stopped thinking

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Speaker 13: about it.

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Speaker 6: This was just a probably the only opportunity.

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Speaker 13: That would get me off the couch, you know, because yeah,

710
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Speaker 13: I was playing golf and working out with my grandkids

711
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 13: and life was pretty good, you know. A lot of

712
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 13: my friends back home like, are you out of your mind?

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Speaker 13: Why would you go back to the grind? You can't

714
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Speaker 13: replicate this. You can't replicate the grind. It's hard to

715
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 13: It's hard to fill your days. You know, My day

716
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Speaker 13: was usually I was done with the workout, honeydewes chores,

717
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 13: and it's ten o'clock in the morning, and I'm like,

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Speaker 13: I can't start drinking, you know, I wait a certain

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Speaker 13: time to start that.

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Speaker 6: But you know, it's hard to fill your days, you know.

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Speaker 6: So yeah, it was.

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Speaker 13: It was, like I said, an opportunity of a lifetime

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Speaker 13: and and probably the only the only place that that could.

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Speaker 5: Get me to come back you or you're gonna be

725
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Speaker 5: out here wearing steaveld shirts or something.

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Speaker 13: I don't think no John John would kick me out,

727
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Speaker 13: Like if you don't have the you gotta wear the

728
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Speaker 13: right attire. You're not in the right attire. You're get

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Speaker 13: sent back in.

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Speaker 6: You don't care how old you are and how many

731
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Speaker 6: years you got in. You know, sir, you gotta yeah, no, no, tank,

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Speaker 6: I got guns too, you'd be.

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Speaker 5: Uh, we're exact stated when we first got here, A

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Speaker 5: bunch of guys that come to you seeing one on one.

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Speaker 10: Advice scarious with the accavation process you place for years

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Speaker 10: to they and you can share about some of those.

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Speaker 13: Conversations they were. They were more like just trying to

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Speaker 13: build relationships from that standpoint. You know, you get hired,

739
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Speaker 13: you read you know they're not here, they're off you know,

740
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Speaker 13: in the off season stuff. So you start text thread

741
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Speaker 13: texting the players, introducing yourself, tell them how much you're

742
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Speaker 13: looking forward to, you know, being part of their their family,

743
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Speaker 13: their team, being part of this organization.

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Speaker 9: Uh.

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Speaker 13: And then once they start to filter in and you

746
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Speaker 13: just really start to build a relationship with them, and uh,

747
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Speaker 13: not so much even the football side of it. Some

748
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Speaker 13: had played more than others. Some had a bunch of

749
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Speaker 13: tape you could look at. Some you know hadn't really

750
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Speaker 13: been on the field yet. You know, first year guys

751
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 13: got injured, didn't get much at TJ you know guy

752
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Speaker 13: like TJ BO. You know, so the conversations were great. Again,

753
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Speaker 13: it was more of just building relationships with these these players.

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Speaker 7: And and.

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Speaker 13: You have a if you have a you know, a

756
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Speaker 13: strong bond and you know did for Meal said a

757
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 13: long time ago, he said, these players don't care how

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Speaker 13: much you know until they know how much you care,

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Speaker 13: you know, And so I I think that's I've kind

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Speaker 13: of lived by that philosophy my entire coaching career. So

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Speaker 13: it was more about just building relationships, getting to know

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Speaker 13: these people up now.

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Speaker 2: That you're back coaching again, any any desire to be

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Speaker 2: a head coach again in the NFL, No.

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Speaker 13: Sir, new sir, you know that again. I was right place,

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Speaker 13: right time, got the opportunity of a lifetime. Mister Ursay.

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Speaker 13: You know, God rest his soul and rest in peace.

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Speaker 13: What a great man. He gave me an opportunity of

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Speaker 13: a lifetime. All that I went through in year one

770
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Speaker 13: stood by me, had my back the entire time.

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Speaker 6: But you have no idea.

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Speaker 13: Nobody has no idea until you sit in that seat.

773
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Speaker 13: And you know, it's one thing being a position coach.

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Speaker 13: It's another thing being you know, a coordinator on one

775
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 13: side of the ball. You know, you kind of live

776
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 13: in your own little world, but you know, sitting in

777
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Speaker 13: that seat kind of looking for the head coach manual.

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Speaker 13: You know, two days after I was hired Nindy, I

779
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Speaker 13: was presser was done and all the meating was gone,

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Speaker 13: and I'm going through Jimmy Caldwell's desk looking for the

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Speaker 13: head coach manual, hoping he left it behind. You know,

782
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Speaker 13: I looked at Tina, I was like, what the frick

783
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Speaker 13: did we just do to ourselves?

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Speaker 10: You know?

785
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Speaker 13: So I loved I loved it, you know, but I'd

786
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Speaker 13: love just you know, some of my fondest memories and

787
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 13: best coaching moments were like the first time I was

788
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Speaker 13: here and just being a secondary coach and having that

789
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Speaker 13: room and that group and that bond.

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Speaker 6: Head coaching.

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Speaker 13: They'll tell you you got to stay involved, you want

792
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Speaker 13: to keep coaching, but it's damn near impossible because you

793
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 13: got you know, you have to do this three out

794
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 13: of the four days a week. You get a Thursday

795
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Speaker 13: off because John still get Thursdays off.

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Speaker 7: You know.

797
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Speaker 6: I used to love Thursday, not because I didn't love

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Speaker 6: the media.

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Speaker 13: Everybody's great people, but it's just a break where you

800
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,720
Speaker 13: could actually go in and maybe look at some tape

801
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 13: and coach some guys up. But you get pulled away

802
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 13: from what you love doing, and that's coaching the game,

803
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 13: because you got so many other things going. So I

804
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 13: know that was a long winded, you know, answer to

805
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 13: your question, but no, I'm good. I've had enough of that.

806
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 13: I'm just trying to hold on to my job.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 13: You know that scanner thing, you know every morning when

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Speaker 13: I come in, I scan, it says access permitted. I'm like,

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00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 13: thank you, you know, because you go up and you

811
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Speaker 13: scan that and it access deny. It'll say access denied,

812
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 13: and I'm like, what did I do wrong? You know, boy,

813
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 13: How'd I screw this up?

814
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:54,520
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