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Speaker 1: I mean they have pretty good online, they have a

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Speaker 1: pretty good running back and uh, you know, Teddy Bridgewater

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Speaker 1: can still move around. We've got to make sure that

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Speaker 1: we close the pocket on him, get some middle pressure,

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Speaker 1: um and all of him step up into the gap

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, showing his arm strength and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that. So I think as far as a defensive

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Speaker 1: but we just have to do a good job up front.

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Speaker 1: But the way you think of that, Damie Johnson the

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Speaker 1: third so you're kind of working with him by yourself.

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Speaker 1: The other day, I mean I've you know, I told

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Speaker 1: him that, you know, he's one of the sneak guys

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Speaker 1: that's gonna step up this year that you know, people

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Speaker 1: probably sleeping on. Um. You know, he's undrafted guy. So

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Speaker 1: he has that like that big work ethic, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's just trying to He's he's being a

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Speaker 1: sponge out there right now, trying to suck up as

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Speaker 1: much knowledge as possible. And uh, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: he's doing a good job so far. He's asking me

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Speaker 1: a lot of questions or are you grabbing him and

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Speaker 1: showing him a little bit of both. I'll grab him

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Speaker 1: to the side every once in a while and Uh,

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Speaker 1: me and him are both transitioning that, uh you know,

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Speaker 1: inside and outside. So I think that's the reason why

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Speaker 1: he comes to me a lot because of me and

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Speaker 1: I were the only ones in the the line room

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Speaker 1: that kind of play a little bit outsideline back her

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Speaker 1: anti line. Uh yeah, so with a little bit hybrid position,

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Speaker 1: and I've been able to teach them a little bit.

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Speaker 1: You had a big sack year last year. I'm curious

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Speaker 1: how you approached this year, Like in order for you

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Speaker 1: to consider a success for you personally, do you need

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Speaker 1: to put up big sack numbers or do you look

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Speaker 1: at it as you know, you don't you don't care

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Speaker 1: about that so much. I mean, I think I just

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Speaker 1: gotta approach it the same way I did last year.

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Speaker 1: And uh that's something that coach Judges, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: taught me and something that I learned throughout the season

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Speaker 1: last year. It's just ignoring the noise. You know. I

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Speaker 1: was able to not focus on any of the outside

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Speaker 1: noise and just focus on my work. And uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the outside noise last year was negative

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Speaker 1: going into the year, whereas like now, the noises of

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Speaker 1: the opposite, you know, and I still have to ignore

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Speaker 1: it the same way. Um like if I believe if

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Speaker 1: they say something bad, I have to believe, you know,

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Speaker 1: the same same way opposite. And uh, I just have

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Speaker 1: to keep working on where you paying potential into it

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Speaker 1: more like two three years ago. Uh, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: I think I just I'm not sure if I was

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Speaker 1: playing attention to it more compared to last year or not.

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Speaker 1: I just was able to just like coach just said,

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Speaker 1: just ignore the north and focus on the process and uh,

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Speaker 1: just be where my feet are and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: just make make the best of the day and practice

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Speaker 1: and stuff and you got success last year. Did you

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Speaker 1: find teams doubling you more? Uh? Yeah, I mean it

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Speaker 1: definitely happens a lot. Especially when I would play that

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Speaker 1: the end position. I was getting a lot of chip

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Speaker 1: blocks and tight end chips and back chips and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that that I wasn't really used to because I

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Speaker 1: played the inside position majority of my career. And last

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Speaker 1: year when I played and a lot more in team

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Speaker 1: started seeing that I was playing the end position a

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Speaker 1: lot more, I started getting a lot of different looks

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Speaker 1: that I wasn't used to. And uh, you know, the

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Speaker 1: coach did a good job of like showing me what

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Speaker 1: I was gonna possibly get in practice. And you know,

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Speaker 1: now that I had a year of it under my

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Speaker 1: belt and another training camp up playing that in position

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Speaker 1: a lot more, I'm feeling a lot more comfortable with it. Zo.

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Speaker 1: What have you seen positive and encouraging from him that

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Speaker 1: he can make an immediate impact? I mean, honestly, just

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Speaker 1: his confidence. Um, you know, when he first came in,

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Speaker 1: I could tell he was young. Uh he was still

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Speaker 1: trying to find himself in the defense and on the team.

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know rightfully, so as a young guy,

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Speaker 1: you can't come in and like be above everybody. Uh

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Speaker 1: you know, he he knew the position that he had

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Speaker 1: to take. But now he's really stepped into himself. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's shown a lot of promise out there

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Speaker 1: on the field, and and I think he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a great player first defense. Yeah, I think he just

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Speaker 1: got more comfortable with himself. I'm not saying that he

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Speaker 1: wasn't comfortable before he got here, but just seeing his

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Speaker 1: comfortability level between um like him and other players, and

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Speaker 1: his ability, um to just do you know, be himself

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Speaker 1: out there on the field and not be like a robot.

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Speaker 1: Just trying to play a system like now. He he

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Speaker 1: knows himself and knows how to play, and he's doing

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Speaker 1: great for you think the guys on both sides of

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Speaker 1: the ball. What kind of the psychological uh impact can

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Speaker 1: say one being back half for you just kind of

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Speaker 1: an emotional knowing what he's gone through the last year

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Speaker 1: to get back here. I mean he's a captain of

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Speaker 1: the team, he's a great player on the team and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, guys definitely look up to him and respect him.

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Speaker 1: You know, having him out thereund the field would, like

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Speaker 1: you said, psychologically be a big big deal for the team. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we obviously don't want to rush this process.

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Speaker 1: Um you know, when no one's expecting him to be back.

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Speaker 1: He's the only one who really knows when he should

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Speaker 1: be back, and uh, you know we're all going to

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Speaker 1: be ready to support him when he does come