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Speaker 1: All right, guys, go ahead, Good afternoon everyone. Hey Mike,

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Speaker 1: how you doing? Mike doing well? Thank you. This this

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Speaker 1: all season is obviously so unusual and not unlike anything

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Speaker 1: until training camp. I think really the approaches has just

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Speaker 1: the initial approach was just you know, this is how

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Speaker 1: call some things the same as what we called them

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Speaker 1: and most importantly, make sure you define every every every

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Speaker 1: as far as why things are called a certain way

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Speaker 1: we had we had an offensive team meeting this morning,

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Speaker 1: back to us. So we're really keeping it about football.

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Speaker 1: We we we spent some time on the personal component

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Speaker 1: a mouth on the philosophical approach. I had plenty of

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Speaker 1: you think about those types of things. I'll be honest

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Speaker 1: And as a staff, you know, we're we're we're planning

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Speaker 1: why my best time has been served in just the preparation.

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Speaker 1: So we're you know, we're still on the planning stages

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Speaker 1: Fall the line. As a coach script practice you envision

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Speaker 1: clearly UM made everybody I know, especially myself. I'll take

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Speaker 1: And I think you really got to trust your instincts,

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Speaker 1: But we we've also have spent you know a lot

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Speaker 1: I think that those type of messages are continuous. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's a different format. Oh yeah, no doubt. I mean

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Speaker 1: I pretty much have been here, um since before the draft.

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Speaker 1: Might be me right now? Hello, Mike. You mentioned that

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Speaker 1: you have friendships obviously with other coaches and managers and

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Speaker 1: ste in other sports. If you don't mind, you can

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Speaker 1: you share with us some of the guys that you

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Speaker 1: might have visited with and compared notes with. I really,

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Speaker 1: I really haven't done much of it, um, So I

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Speaker 1: wrote a whole lot of offer. Actually, I've had two

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Speaker 1: very personal conversations here the last week and just thinking

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Speaker 1: back and and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to share that with you. But uh, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't spend you know, a whole lot of time in

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Speaker 1: that area. I mean, I know there's more assistant coaches

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Speaker 1: that I'm I'm friends with, and you talk more in generalities, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean Tom Creane, you know, head coach University.

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Speaker 1: George is someone that anytime I definitely want to get

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Speaker 1: a unique perspective. Um, you know Tom, Tom or really

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Speaker 1: uh talk a lot of philosophically and things like that.

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Speaker 1: So on this and there's some other coaches that I

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Speaker 1: have a relationship with. Does anything you need to be

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Speaker 1: adapted in terms of your schematic and so given the

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Speaker 1: lack of practice rets, the relative lack of practice rets,

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Speaker 1: is it easy to be simplified um in any capacity

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Speaker 1: or are you just installing the same volume of yeah,

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Speaker 1: scheme plays that you would be otherwise? Well, I think

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Speaker 1: it's an extent question. And when you talk about this

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Speaker 1: challenge the role going to have and you know, we

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Speaker 1: have a number of when we spoke to as coaching

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Speaker 1: principles and then one of them is less vol and

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Speaker 1: more creativity. And I think that's definitely a principle that's

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Speaker 1: a big challenge this year. So UM and that's really

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Speaker 1: uh in kell and I've been having these nightly meetings

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Speaker 1: and UM and that's much awe Like the end every

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Speaker 1: night is is you know, when you get into these installs,

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Speaker 1: you know how much you know how much do we

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Speaker 1: want to give them in the first install and because

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Speaker 1: it's always you know, always made that decision based on

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Speaker 1: you where you think your football team is. And in

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Speaker 1: the irony for us is, um, we haven't you know,

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Speaker 1: had our first team meeting with alone Affilly and two

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Speaker 1: and exactly where we are. But you know, I am

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Speaker 1: excited because this is probably going to be the most

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Speaker 1: experienced team that I've I've been coaching. The coach though,

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Speaker 1: will definitely rely on that and and um, I think

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Speaker 1: if we're gonna you know, push to one side the other,

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Speaker 1: we've definitely pushed on the side of the volume because

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Speaker 1: of our of our veteran experience. Hey, coach, you mentioned

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Speaker 1: Alvin Smith for a guy who's missed this much football,

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Speaker 1: and this goes for Rindy Gregory too. What should coaches

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Speaker 1: and even fans expect from guys who have missed who

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00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 1: missed that much time from the game. You know, I

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Speaker 1: wish I had an experienced answer to give you there.

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Speaker 1: I haven't been through that um with the players. So

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Speaker 1: I think the most important thing that I can do

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Speaker 1: as a coach to make sure that you know, we

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Speaker 1: we we give, we give all of our guys. You know,

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Speaker 1: you know all included, you know, the foundation to you know,

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Speaker 1: stack success and you know, try not to do too

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Speaker 1: much too fast. Um. You know, I think I think

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Speaker 1: we're all going to be really you know, um watching

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Speaker 1: that closer than ever. You know, this year is a

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Speaker 1: as a coaching staff and support staff and make make

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Speaker 1: sure that we're you know, we're hitting the target of

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Speaker 1: getting the team ready. But you know, um, it's it's

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Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see you know, the acclamation

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Speaker 1: period of the players that they do come back. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know how they go through that and then you

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Speaker 1: know the first time you get in the pads and

498
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Speaker 1: you know, those those kinds of things. So again, I

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Speaker 1: think you just really rely on your resources, rely on

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Speaker 1: the experience, um in the instincts and awareness of your

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Speaker 1: of your professionals and and obviously at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, the player knows his body that aren't anybody. UM,

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Speaker 1: So the communication and just make sure we're staying on

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Speaker 1: top of that because you never want to see a

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Speaker 1: player injured because you know the process push them too

506
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Speaker 1: you know, push them too far or you know, or

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Speaker 1: let them get too far, because it's you know, with

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Speaker 1: with with these guys, you're gonna have to. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to hold some of these guys back ups for sure.

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Speaker 1: Any coaches wanting to clarify something, are you are you

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Speaker 1: in Green Bay with your family or are they here

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Speaker 1: with you? And if you're in Green Bay, how long

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Speaker 1: have you been there before they sat down? I am.

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Speaker 1: I am in Green Bay. I've been here. I can't

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Speaker 1: tell you exactly the days, but I came back here

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Speaker 1: before the draft. I want to buy I can force

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Speaker 1: prior to that. Um, when when the beginning of the

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Speaker 1: pens and the pandemic started? Yeah? Thank you? Okay, Mike.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if we asked you this in the draft,

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Speaker 1: Prepp or we talked to you after the draft. But

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Speaker 1: what do you what can Poe and McCoy bring to

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Speaker 1: you guys on that defensive line? Why would the important

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Speaker 1: to get those guys? I mean, there are two damn

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Speaker 1: good vetteran football players that a lot of experience. UM,

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Speaker 1: definitely pit we're trying to do up front, you know,

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Speaker 1: inside I mean, you know, or I'll work on on

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Speaker 1: how you play defense. You're still going to stop the running.

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Speaker 1: And then you got two big guys that can give

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Speaker 1: your pass right through. So you know, we just you know,

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Speaker 1: there's definitely a big part of you know, changing the

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Speaker 1: walk and you know in the emphasis of how we

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Speaker 1: want to play in the interior. The defensive line. Its

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Speaker 1: luck Mary Austin and the questions they were good. Thanks

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Speaker 1: a lot, everyone. Thank you. I got to run that

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Speaker 1: one o'clock that we appreciate you jumping on. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: appreciate thank thank You're so healthy, all right,