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Speaker 1: you have any sense that coaching might be in Troy's

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Speaker 1: he was a player, Troy's was a very smart player,

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Speaker 1: as we all know. And Troy played certainly a lot

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Speaker 1: of offense. He was our best offensive player, um, you

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Speaker 1: know when I got here, and but he was also

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Speaker 1: gave us a lot of field position was punt returns,

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Speaker 1: but he played other positions on the King game as well,

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Speaker 1: field goal blaw, kickoff coverage, kick off return. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he was an old player who was you know, on

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Speaker 1: moved into defense in oh three, you know four, and

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Speaker 1: he played over there. So you know, when a player

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Speaker 1: that's a lot of a lot of learning, a lot

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Speaker 1: of I would say instinctiveness that comes into play there. Actually,

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Speaker 1: you can't learn everything when you just moved a position

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Speaker 1: for a short period of time like Troy did on defense.

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Speaker 1: But he picked it up quickly. He was instinctive, productive,

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Speaker 1: you know, and had good tackling skills and coverage skills

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Speaker 1: as well as skills he showed on as a returner,

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Speaker 1: fit in the right when there very small windows. He

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Speaker 1: always seemed to fit in the right one just at

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Speaker 1: the right time, make the right decision. So you know,

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Speaker 1: when you put all that together and then put it

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Speaker 1: on the other side of teaching somebody else how to

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Speaker 1: do it. Good communication skills, good personality, choice, very team

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Speaker 1: oriented person um, it doesn't surprise me that he's he

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Speaker 1: was good and help you know players that that played

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Speaker 1: his position later on in his career. All right, great,

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Speaker 1: thank you, all right. See Sunday