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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the From the Podium podcast. I'm Jason Gibbs.

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Speaker 1: The Browns back in Berea at the Cross Country Mortgage

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Speaker 1: Campus on cutdown Day twenty twenty four. The initial fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster is out and immediately after practice, which

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Speaker 1: was from three o'clock to four o'clock, head coach Kevin Stefanski,

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Speaker 1: tackle Jack Conklin, and corner Greg Newsom the second talk

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Speaker 1: to the media and addressed the media in advance of

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Speaker 1: next week's matchup with the Dallas Cowboys. First up, it's

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Speaker 1: head coach Kevin Stefanski who talked about the initial fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster.

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Speaker 2: A lot we can talk to quarterbacks.

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Speaker 3: Is that the plan going up Mourning too?

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Speaker 4: QBOT four just seven?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we have four good quarterbacks, simply.

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Speaker 6: We have four.

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Speaker 4: On September eighth.

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Speaker 5: We'll see. I can speak for today. What's to day?

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Speaker 4: What is it? Nobody knows? What youay is? Yeah.

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Speaker 7: You get a couple of uh Mile Miles and Jamari specifically,

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Speaker 7: who who really came on through this course of the

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Speaker 7: kupe just the way they they kind of captured, you know,

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Speaker 7: and kind of caught your attention over it.

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Speaker 4: What what you know how did you see them kind

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Speaker 4: of grow?

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Speaker 5: Well, Like we've talked about it, it's it's an incredible

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Speaker 5: accomplishment to make any NFL roster for all of our guys.

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Speaker 5: This is a competitive roster. There's a lot of competitive

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Speaker 5: rosters out there, so it's to be able to make it.

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Speaker 5: It's a big deal and you know, excited for those guys.

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Speaker 5: That's also only half the battle for for these young

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Speaker 5: players that they need to carve out a role. They

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Speaker 5: need to continue to work, need to get better. But

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Speaker 5: I don't want to dismiss that it's a great accomplishment

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Speaker 5: for those guys.

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Speaker 4: Could you explain why how Wills is cleared to practice

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Speaker 4: but is in practice? Is if he's not ready or

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Speaker 4: are there are other factors that.

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Speaker 5: He's uh clear, he's cleared to practice, he's doing walkthroughs.

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Speaker 5: He's not gonna practice just yet, but he's progressing through

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Speaker 5: his rehab.

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Speaker 4: How do you do? Go ahead? Pardy Jack?

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Speaker 6: You know, Greg?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought all those guys looked good. We had

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Speaker 5: a good long individual period just to really focus. Today

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Speaker 5: was refining our position skills, and I thought the guys

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Speaker 5: did a nice job with that.

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Speaker 4: So both guys look good. Kevin.

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Speaker 2: I know it's I know it's been the case all summer,

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Speaker 2: but I'm assuming you anticipate James to.

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Speaker 4: Be your number two week one.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, like we talked about earlier, we're not

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Speaker 5: setting the depth chart at any position. Obviously, we think

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Speaker 5: very highly of Jamis and all those guys. YEA, then

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Speaker 5: I got in like maybe only two running bats. That's

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Speaker 5: a thinking Yeah, as you got you could probably just

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Speaker 5: rewind what I said last year. At this time, it's

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Speaker 5: the first fifty three, it's not the final fifty three.

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Speaker 5: So I'm sure there's moves to be made down down

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Speaker 5: the line here. Uh. You know, I don't envy Andrew

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Speaker 5: these days, because this is some tough decisions to make.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 4: And uh, he's got a plan and we'll work through it.

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Speaker 4: That Don de foy and what did uh why did

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Speaker 4: you not know this to you? Again?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 5: First fifty three not the final fifty three. Dante is

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Speaker 5: a guy we think highly of. It's just, uh, sometimes

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Speaker 5: it does come down to a numbers game.

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Speaker 4: Could you say where they were conclin work at lifetime?

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Speaker 5: Could I say?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Uh No, I think at this point we're just gonna

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Speaker 6: Jack specifically, he's dealt with some injuries the last few

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Speaker 6: years in his career. I'm sure you saw him all

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Speaker 6: off season trying to train to get back. So I guess,

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Speaker 6: just what does it take for him at this stage

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Speaker 6: of his career to make it back at this day.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's a good question, Scott. And I think

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Speaker 5: about guys like Jack and guys like Nick, and uh,

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Speaker 5: I get to see them work every day and and

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Speaker 5: I mean it's every day for those guys, and they're

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Speaker 5: seemingly we're no days off and they're in the training room,

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Speaker 5: anybody that then gets back out on the field, it's

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Speaker 5: a very big deal. So good to see Jack out there,

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Speaker 5: Good to see him working, uh, and really good to

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Speaker 5: see all the work that he's put in get him

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Speaker 5: to this point. And again he's going to continue to work.

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Speaker 5: But excited for him.

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Speaker 6: Someone who.

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Speaker 4: Likes the hand full size and some tight ends the

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Speaker 4: back to you.

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Speaker 2: I com too, just what are those conversations like with

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Speaker 2: the Andrey when you came to the decision that you

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Speaker 2: can start off at.

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Speaker 4: Least with two. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I think we go into every year making sure that

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Speaker 5: we make the best decisions based on the roster and

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Speaker 5: that type of thing. I feel really confident in Andrew

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Speaker 5: and and our personnel department and putting this team together.

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Speaker 5: Like I mentioned, it's it's always in flux. The roster's

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Speaker 5: in flux daily in the NFL, and that's just the truth. So, uh,

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Speaker 5: we work hard, just like all the other teams, find

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Speaker 5: plan together.

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Speaker 4: No comment. When Nickins was signed, he can talk.

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Speaker 8: He was so upbeat about being ready for even the

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Speaker 5: What happened, Yeah, I don't know that there's a I

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Speaker 5: don't think anything happened, other than to say, Tony, with

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Speaker 5: any injury, you rehab based on how the players feeling,

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Speaker 5: how the injury is responding to the rehab, those type

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Speaker 5: of things. So another young man that is working extremely

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Speaker 4: Good. Okay, thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: Next up, it's all pro Jack Conklin talking about how

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Speaker 1: excited he is to be back and the struggles that

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Speaker 4: All right, how's it going great? It feels great. I mean,

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Speaker 4: Jesus has been almost a year now.

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Speaker 8: It's just it's nice to be back out here with

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Speaker 4: What was the season like in the off season for

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Speaker 4: you as the injury and got back to you know,

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Speaker 4: it's just it's a lot of work.

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Speaker 8: You know, It's something I've obviously been through a couple

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Speaker 8: luckily with the training staff and the strength staff.

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Speaker 4: Here that you know, they did a great job helpument.

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Speaker 9: That perhaps might fill in there at left tackle or

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Speaker 8: Do you feel about the Yeah, you know, I'm I'm

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Speaker 8: whether it's left or right, you know, I'm excited to

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Speaker 8: you know, wherever it is.

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Speaker 6: I've been going through these past rehabs.

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Speaker 4: Jack help. You know how long it would take to

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Speaker 8: You know, everyone's a little bit different, but you know

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Speaker 8: it's all usually you know, nine to twelve months, depending

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Speaker 2: Did you have like a here we go again moment

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Speaker 2: or anything or where you were really down?

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Speaker 8: Of course it's I mean it's never easy, but like

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Speaker 8: I said, after we're going through it before, you you

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Speaker 4: Know what the process of that is. Did you do

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Speaker 4: you have to think like why me again? You don't?

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Speaker 8: No, I mean, it's it sucks and uh, but you

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Speaker 8: know it's football and twenty eight hate helmet guy falls

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Speaker 8: inside of your legs. There's no rehab or strength that's

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Speaker 8: I had the opportunity to rehabit and get back.

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Speaker 4: Having to go through another long react. Did you ever

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Speaker 8: No, No, this is you know, this is my profession

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Speaker 8: and I feel like I still play it at the

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Speaker 8: it's just about getting back to that and I know

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Speaker 8: I'm feel I feel great.

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Speaker 10: Jack, was there some like trying to figure out of

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Speaker 8: Like these last few it's it's you know, it's still

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Speaker 8: know now it's just keep progressing, you know, into practice

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Speaker 9: How is it to go from the right side all

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Speaker 9: if that's what you have to do, and what does

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Speaker 4: Able to do that, you know, I don't know, it's

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Speaker 4: not like it's a challenge.

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Speaker 8: I've already done, you know, because I played left all

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Speaker 4: So it's really not that big of a deal.

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Speaker 8: And it's just doing, you know, getting you know, if

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Speaker 8: if that's what they want, then just getting the reps

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Speaker 4: So your work rookie year, why were you switched right?

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Speaker 1: Was the one?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yep, the one was U going into a third

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Speaker 1: Any point in your career at Tyna City think it's

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Speaker 8: Time you were Oh, he stayed the whole time. I

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Speaker 8: mean after the first year, you know, he made Pro

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Speaker 8: Bowl and that was all pro right tackle, so there really.

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Speaker 4: Was no no reason to do any switching.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, if you practiced it the left tackle at all

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Speaker 8: NCOM Usually every off season I tried to, you know,

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Speaker 9: Of these times when we're talking, he was saying that

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Speaker 10: What has it been like for you to you know,

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Speaker 4: Were hanging around here last year. No, it's great.

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Speaker 8: You know, we'll see it's about getting out there, and

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Speaker 4: It's just getting out there and doing it, you know.

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Speaker 4: What's the most important thing for you in your mind

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Speaker 8: Really just you know, play get back to the level

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Speaker 4: Practice the Yes, No, it was great.

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Speaker 8: It's just you know, just mentally getting back out there,

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Speaker 4: When did you know that he'd be able to get

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Speaker 4: Got my MRI and they said tour.

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Speaker 3: It's the plan. So I know you said planning on

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Speaker 3: being back earlier than the kind of diagnosis, But do

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Speaker 3: you think he'll be ready and physically accomic?

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Speaker 4: You a fool go on before a thousand percent?

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Speaker 6: So did you said it early? You didn't think it

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Speaker 6: was that bad. So when you saw or heard about

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Speaker 6: the MRI being torn, were you're surprised or did it

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Speaker 6: get worse? And you said, Okay, actually it needs surgery

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Speaker 6: because it's so bad.

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Speaker 11: Nah, I was surprised. I was jogging and doing i's

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Speaker 11: and stuff before the surgery, so I thought it wasn't

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Speaker 11: that serious. When I got the MRI back and they

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Speaker 11: told me I needed surgery, I was just confused. But no,

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Speaker 11: obviously I didn't actually need surgery. It was one of

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Speaker 11: those things like I could choose, and they said, if

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Speaker 11: I get surgery, I'll be able to have a chance

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Speaker 11: of making it back.

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Speaker 6: So I opted to do that.

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Speaker 3: Greg, I saw you like during training camp to be

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Speaker 3: working with Brandon plans to be on the cornerback was

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Speaker 3: kind of backpilling and stuff. They kind of walking through

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Speaker 3: some of the stuff you were doing to maybe stay

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Speaker 3: in shape and just kind of stayed mentally locked in.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, in shape, that's hard. You know, you can't be

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Speaker 11: in in great, great shape unless you're out here running.

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Speaker 11: So I was doing all that I can, you know,

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Speaker 11: just working with the strength staff inside, just doing dB drills,

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Speaker 11: just staying engaged in meetings. You know, I I look

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Speaker 11: at everything as a blessing, like me getting hurt. Obviously,

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Speaker 11: I never want to get hurt. But you know, we

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Speaker 11: had guys like Cam getting more reps. Miles Harden emerged

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Speaker 11: as a as a steal of the draft, so you know,

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Speaker 11: guys like that getting being able to get more reps,

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Speaker 11: and me just helping and coaching along like it w

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Speaker 11: It was fun to see Greg.

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Speaker 10: It just seemed like every time you guys were out here,

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Speaker 10: you could hear you sidelines and see, like how important

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Speaker 10: was that as far as being a part of you,

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Speaker 10: staying engaged with what was going on and just still.

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Speaker 4: Being vocal out here.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm always gonna do that, you know, teams first,

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Speaker 11: whether I'm hurt or not. You know, I feel like

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Speaker 11: I'm one of these leaders, one of the leaders on

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Speaker 11: the team. So I'm always gonna stay engaged, just try

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Speaker 11: to keep the guys up, and you know, I always

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Speaker 11: just try to be that extra coach, extra you know,

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Speaker 11: set of eyes for them, you know when I'm not

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Speaker 11: on the field.

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Speaker 4: Oh are you and the other dv's gonna build and

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Speaker 4: what you guys did in last year?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, We're We're gonna keep working every single day. You know,

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Speaker 11: we say we're the best in the world, so you know,

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Speaker 11: we gotta continue to prove that and I think we'll

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Speaker 11: we'll do that again. But you know, it starts every

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Speaker 11: single day. It starts game one and it starts tomorrow.

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Speaker 11: So now that we you know, we got our guys

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Speaker 11: out there, we're we're just looking to grow with each other.

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Speaker 9: How about c d lamb Uh, just in the nick

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Speaker 9: of time, he signs the big blust blush through contract.

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Speaker 9: Are you excited about the fact that he's gonna be

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Speaker 9: out there for this game?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 4: For sure.

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Speaker 11: You know, I'm a competitor. You know, any of alignes

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Speaker 11: a lot in that slot, so I'll definitely be excited

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Speaker 11: to go against him.

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Speaker 6: Good, do your expectations for yourself change it all?

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Speaker 4: Because uh, getting a little bit of a late.

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Speaker 6: Start to the presee him.

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Speaker 11: Nah, never same expectations and my expectations are the same

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Speaker 11: every years. Just to try to do whatever I can

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Speaker 11: to help this team win, you know, whether that's special teams, outside, inside,

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Speaker 11: whatever I need to do, I'll be willing to do

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Speaker 11: it to help this team, you know, achieve our ultimate goal.

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Speaker 9: And how did you worry about Denzel? I know that

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Speaker 9: Denzel always does his research and he knows what's.

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Speaker 4: Best for him.

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Speaker 9: But do you worry about him with the fifth concussion?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 11: Nah, I don't worry about him cause he doesn't worry

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Speaker 11: about it. You know, he's a warrior, he's a leader,

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Speaker 11: and you know he knows his body better than you

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Speaker 11: know what anybody you know could say about it. So

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Speaker 11: if he's confident, I'm confident too, and you know we're

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Speaker 11: we're excited, you know, to hopefully get him back soon.

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Speaker 4: Greg.

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Speaker 10: I know you you mentioned Myles there briefly, but it

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Speaker 10: seemed like we got a look at his ball hock tendency.

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Speaker 10: He's at different points throughout this camp, like do you

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Speaker 10: feel like he he adds something different to this room?

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Speaker 10: And I know you said you thought he was a

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Speaker 10: steal of the draft obviously.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: Nah, he doesn't add anything different. He adds the same

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Speaker 11: that we all got, you know, the best in the world.

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Speaker 4: He's a part of it.

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Speaker 11: So you know, I definitely a hundred percent think he's

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Speaker 11: he's a stealer draft. Like I mean, you guys seen

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Speaker 11: him you know, in a game, uh, playing outside a

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Speaker 11: little bit more. You've seen him at the joint practices,

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Speaker 11: picking the ball off and doing uh, a lot of

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Speaker 11: great things out there. So now we're just super proud

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Speaker 11: of him and super excited to add him to the room.

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Speaker 4: Greg, What what is it about that room?

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Speaker 2: It seems like everybody that stuff's putting there comes out

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Speaker 2: here and performs and performs on game. I mean, what

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Speaker 2: is it about a reformer?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, it's just a standard. We hold ourselves with it,

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Speaker 11: and it starts up top with uh, you know Coach Lynch.

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Speaker 11: You know, he instills greatness all the time like we

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Speaker 11: d we d we never lack, and we say all

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Speaker 11: the time we expect the most from our best players.

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Speaker 11: So if you watch Gonzel out there, me Martin, you know,

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Speaker 11: we're all setting that example. So you know, when you

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Speaker 11: come in and you see us doing things right and

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Speaker 11: always practicing hard. You know, guys have to follow suit.

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Speaker 11: So you know, whoever we add to this room, you know,

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Speaker 11: they always for some reason end up ball. And we

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Speaker 11: said the same thing all the time, like like Faye

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Speaker 11: hicks Man that last game he played unbelievable, like and

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Speaker 11: and I think that's just a just just Brandon Lynch

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Speaker 11: just being a you know, best corners coach in the

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Speaker 11: in the NFL.

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Speaker 9: How did how did Brandy help.

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Speaker 4: You as the injury the mental aspect of its.

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Speaker 9: Like you staying engaged with what's.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, he just always you know, helped me

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Speaker 11: to that same standard. You know, when I was out,

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Speaker 11: I was in meetings, even when they were you know

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Speaker 11: at the Greenbrier, I was getting in the meetings as well.

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Speaker 11: And you know guys like Ward and MJ.

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Speaker 4: They they always checking on me.

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Speaker 11: Making sure that my headspace is good, making sure asking

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Speaker 11: me questions, making sure I'm still engaged. So I think

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Speaker 11: they did all of a great job, was just keeping

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Speaker 11: me engaged.

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Speaker 4: This hamstring game on the.

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Speaker 9: Heels of it looked to me like one of your

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Speaker 9: best hometas and mini camps. I mean you were just

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Speaker 9: right south. Uh did you do you feel like you've

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Speaker 9: elevated your game this.

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Speaker 11: Year, an ah, for sure. And I think, honestly, it's

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Speaker 11: the mental aspect. I think, you know, I always hold

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Speaker 11: myself to a high standard, but I think mentally, especially

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Speaker 11: after that that last year, you know, we all have

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Speaker 11: that just bad taste of our mouths from that playoff game.

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Speaker 11: So I think we all, you know, went into the

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Speaker 11: off season with a with a mindsett and a goal.

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Speaker 11: And I think when everybody came back, I feel like

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Speaker 11: we as a group, we had our best OTAs and

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Speaker 11: you know, even just watching practice, I feel like the

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Speaker 11: group did a unbelievable job during this training camp. So

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Speaker 11: now it's time to reinsert myself in there and just

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Speaker 11: you know, continue uh trending upwards.

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Speaker 2: How do you how do you swear that balance of

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Speaker 2: last year where you guys were the best defense in

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Speaker 2: the league for the entire season, that it didn't the

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Speaker 2: ways wanted.

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Speaker 11: You know, I just feel like you you just find

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Speaker 11: ways to get better. And for us it was on

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Speaker 11: being on the road. You know, at home we are unbelievable.

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Speaker 11: On the road, we weren't so great. So just you know,

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Speaker 11: finding ways to start faster. And I think we'll do that.

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Speaker 11: We got the right guys in a room where you're older,

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Speaker 11: where you're wiser. A lot of us, you know, is

609
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Speaker 11: our first time going to the playoffs, so you know,

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Speaker 11: we are a little star struck, you know, in a

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Speaker 11: sense of getting to the playoffs. So now I feel

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Speaker 11: like since we've been there, we'll be ready to go

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Speaker 11: this next time.

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Speaker 2: Why the home road splits were so dramatically.

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Speaker 11: No, Our crowd is amazing. You know, the Dog Pound

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Speaker 11: is the you know, best fan base in the world.

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Speaker 11: So they give us a lot of energy, and you know,

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Speaker 11: we just got to find a way to bring our

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Speaker 11: own energy, you know, when we get on the road.

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Speaker 10: Good.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate it. That does it today.

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Speaker 1: From the Cross Country Mortgage Campus, we are back with

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Speaker 1: mandated NFL time off, and then it's the countdown to

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Speaker 1: the season opener against the Dallas Cowboys. Keep it locked

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