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Speaker 1: Hmm.

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Speaker 2: If you guys can solidify early the guys who are

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Speaker 2: playing guard on either side of you, how much of

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Speaker 2: an advantage is that for you as a center.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's a it's.

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Speaker 3: A at the end of the day, the coaches, coach Karm,

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Speaker 3: coach coach Dable, they'll make the decision to start and

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Speaker 3: who's uh.

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Speaker 1: Who's going to be in that position, But.

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Speaker 3: At an early stage, you like to to solidify who's there.

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Speaker 3: There's always gonna be a competition though, but at the

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Speaker 3: end of the day, it's you like that what I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna trying to say here from Yeah, you need that

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Speaker 3: uh more reps together.

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Speaker 1: So you know how to play with one of them.

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Speaker 1: How hard is it to get those reps in a

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Speaker 1: situation like this where there's no bad it's involved.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why you gotta be very mindful and very

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Speaker 3: conscious on even if it's Indie reps and we're doing

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Speaker 3: uh drills as we're working together and stuff, and make

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Speaker 3: sure we're to have the work on our fundamentals, our technique,

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Speaker 3: great footwork, and at the end of the day that

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Speaker 3: right now while we're working on our hand placement.

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Speaker 1: So that's a big thing for us.

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Speaker 4: So what about you personally, John, what did you work on?

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Speaker 2: What did you zero went.

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Speaker 3: On for the last year this year, Yeah, a lot

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Speaker 3: of was a lot was my footwork and uh that

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Speaker 3: second level blocking for me, uh, maintaining blocks and at

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Speaker 3: the end of the day at the center position, take

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Speaker 3: leadership and take control of the leadership role.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, how.

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Speaker 2: Was calm Obviously it's a new voice in your How

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Speaker 2: was that change things? And you know, changed maybe the

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Speaker 2: dynamic of.

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Speaker 1: The whole room.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, CON's been coach Karmen has been a great addition

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Speaker 3: to the line room. Is a great amount of knowledge

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Speaker 3: of the game and has helped every single one of

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Speaker 3: us out to be better players and holds us to

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Speaker 3: a high standard each and every day. And h and

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Speaker 3: we go out there and compete and get batter each

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Speaker 3: and every day.

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Speaker 2: As you said, anything to you in the short time

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Speaker 2: even with him that had, you know, struck stuff with

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Speaker 2: you or something you hadn't thought her before.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, just uh, just how he sees it.

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Speaker 3: How it could be just id in front or just

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Speaker 3: his mindset on what to do here. And he's very

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Speaker 3: now knowledgeable and has a great expertise of the game.

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Speaker 1: You gotta give him credit for that.

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Speaker 4: Unlike you always hear rookies talk about, you know that

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Speaker 4: first year they spent most of their off season, you know,

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Speaker 4: training for the draft, training for the combine, and then

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Speaker 4: you roll right into the season when you got to

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Speaker 4: take a breath and started looking at your off season

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Speaker 4: training this year, did you make noticeable changes and how

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Speaker 4: you approach things to help you and what you learned

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Speaker 4: as a rookie and maybe you couldn't have anticipated what

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Speaker 4: you did.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like for me just watching back the

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Speaker 3: games through this offseason and honing in on the technique

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Speaker 3: and just the play my play out there. And you

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Speaker 3: can't every every single day, you can't focus on a

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Speaker 3: million different things. You got to pick one thing that

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Speaker 3: you want to get better at each and every day

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Speaker 3: and and just hone in on that. And if it

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Speaker 3: was footwork one day, if it was hand placement.

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Speaker 1: The other day, if it was.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I d in fronts and just the

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Speaker 3: knowledge of the game and that that was a big

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Speaker 3: off season for me of my football IQ and uh

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Speaker 3: just continue to get better with that.

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Speaker 2: What does becoming more of a leader and taking on

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Speaker 2: that leadership role mean to you like, how do you

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Speaker 2: do that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the biggest thing for me when times

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Speaker 3: are tough, you really know who a true leader is

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Speaker 3: when you hit adversity, you hit a tough.

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Speaker 1: Time and uh.

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Speaker 3: All the guys looked at someone and I want to

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Speaker 3: be that for the for our room and take charge

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Speaker 3: and take a chance.

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Speaker 1: Take it. That's what it was. Take a charge. So yeah, what.

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Speaker 2: About what is your sense about running and a little

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Speaker 2: bit and help stay up the two guys.

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Speaker 1: So left them right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah they are Uh, we made great additions to the

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Speaker 3: old line room. I'm very excited to have those guys here.

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Speaker 3: And uh, they're great guys, not only on the field

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Speaker 3: but off the field. They they want to be here,

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Speaker 3: they want to get better. I'm very excited for our

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Speaker 3: old line room and yeah, we're headed in a great direction.

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Speaker 2: Is there a difference when you line up with guys

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Speaker 2: you left and right who are experienced?

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Speaker 1: You know what they're doing?

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: It's not you know, they're more experienced than you obviously

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Speaker 2: been seen a lot more.

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Speaker 1: Can you sense that as you wind up with them? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean they they they helped me out, They let

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Speaker 3: They they help me understand certain situations and what to

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Speaker 3: be aware of what they're seeing on film, and it

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Speaker 3: could be a different view of what I'm seeing, uh,

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Speaker 3: because they've had more experience, like you said, so yeah,