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Speaker 1: Coach.

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Speaker 2: Can you start with why coming here to Pittsburgh to

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Speaker 2: be the defensive coordinator made sense for you?

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Speaker 3: One starts with Mike and just knowing Mike for my

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Speaker 3: time at Green Bay and just you know how much

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Speaker 3: I admired him throughout my career being a young coach,

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Speaker 3: and you know, respect for I had for him, and

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Speaker 3: then finally get to work with him for one year,

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Speaker 3: and then you stayed in contact to the tradition of

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Speaker 3: the Steelers, you know, as a defensive coach.

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Speaker 1: To be able to come here, to be up.

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Speaker 3: To try to earn our place in that tradition, that's

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Speaker 3: really near and dear to my heart, and I don't

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Speaker 3: take it lightly. I'm very fortunate to be in that situation.

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Speaker 3: And then, as it always comes down to when you

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Speaker 3: have a choice, that it comes down to the players.

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Speaker 3: There's so many good and productive football players on that

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Speaker 3: side of the ball here, and just as I've gone

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Speaker 3: through the process so far a getting a chance to

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Speaker 3: meet those men, I'm really really excited.

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Speaker 2: What are you most excited about the Steelers defensive rosters

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Speaker 2: We sit here today, the size.

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Speaker 3: The year than the mass of the human beings that

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Speaker 3: we have lined up out there. This is I mean,

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Speaker 3: this is what you envision in terms of your defense

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Speaker 3: to look like. In terms of you know, length, size, mass,

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Speaker 3: They're just they're just big men. Like every time I've

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Speaker 3: met one of them, most of them are all bigger

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Speaker 3: than me. And you know I'm not a small guy,

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Speaker 3: but you know they just dwarfed me. And I'm like, yes,

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Speaker 3: this is exactly what I wanted.

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Speaker 1: To look like.

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Speaker 2: Coach McCarthy said in his introductory press conference, wants to

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Speaker 2: stay with the three four, wants to try to keep

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Speaker 2: the language the same. How do you go about doing that?

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Speaker 2: What are the steps that you have to take to

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Speaker 2: get there.

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Speaker 3: It's so much easier for myself and the coaching staff

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Speaker 3: because we're less and lesser in numbers. We can learn

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Speaker 3: the language as opposed to having all forty five of

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Speaker 3: these guys learned the new language as we go. So

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Speaker 3: wherever we keep it consistent, because again, it's been successful here,

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Speaker 3: you know, Coach tomlin Bilt, what the coaches before and

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Speaker 3: built all those guys that have been here has been successful.

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Speaker 3: So whatever we could use the same, like, we'll go

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Speaker 3: ahead and.

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Speaker 1: Use the same.

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Speaker 3: It's not it's easier for us as coaches to learn

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Speaker 3: something new that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned coach McCarthy in your time that you spent

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Speaker 2: with him in Green Bay while it was short. What

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Speaker 2: did you take away or learn from him being able

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Speaker 2: to be on his staff the first time, you know.

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Speaker 3: Just prior to getting there, and I just admired how

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Speaker 3: he sequenced the game as an offensive play caller. I

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Speaker 3: remember Coach Belichick talking about him, like when we get

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Speaker 3: ready for the games against Green Bay and just watching

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Speaker 3: and being on defense and having to go against it,

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Speaker 3: how he was able to sequence the game.

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Speaker 1: And so that really stuck with me.

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Speaker 3: Then when I got there and got a chance to

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Speaker 3: talk ball with him and then work for him, just

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Speaker 3: how organized and how thought out everything is in terms

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Speaker 3: of seeing things in advance, and you can see how

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Speaker 3: it and then you're like, oh, it makes sense.

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Speaker 1: That's his day to day.

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Speaker 3: That's how it carries over to the game planning, and

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Speaker 3: that's how it carries over to how he calls the

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Speaker 3: game in terms of he's able to see ahead of

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Speaker 3: you know, and anticipate things, and he's so organized that

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Speaker 3: I've used a lot of those things I learned from

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Speaker 3: him as I've moved along in my career.

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Speaker 2: Were you surprised or excited? What was the feeling when

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Speaker 2: you got the phone call from him to come in.

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Speaker 3: And interveal Thankfully, you know, coach, you know, was able

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Speaker 3: to see he knew me, know what I've been able

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Speaker 3: to do working with the defensive units I've had to

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Speaker 3: work with, and and you know, knowing what the vision

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Speaker 3: I have for a defense and so I was. I

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Speaker 3: was happy that was still in place, and when he called,

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Speaker 3: I was very happy.

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Speaker 1: I was very I was very excited.

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Speaker 2: What do you think about the rest of the staff

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Speaker 2: under you? Some familiar faces, some new faces for everybody,

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Speaker 2: But it feels like Coach McCarthy had a rhyme or

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Speaker 2: rhythm of why he chose the guys to build the staff.

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Speaker 3: I love the fact that a few of us have

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Speaker 3: worked together before, and then some of the guys have

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Speaker 3: there's some familiarity there, especially on the back end. You know,

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Speaker 3: whether it's Joe wid Jason Simmons and Scott McCurley, those

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Speaker 3: one the vision of the three four In terms of

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Speaker 3: when you're looking over the totality of the defense.

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Speaker 1: Two.

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Speaker 3: We've all worked together at some point, so there's some

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Speaker 3: common language and we all know how to work around

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Speaker 3: each other in terms of you know, everybody knows in

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Speaker 3: the morning, I'm a little you know, I need my time.

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Speaker 1: Everybody, they all know that. I don't have to go

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Speaker 1: through that process there.

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Speaker 3: And then up front, these guys are just really I

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Speaker 3: mean NFL playing experience, really really hungry, really detailed teachers.

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Speaker 3: When they went through the interview process, I'm excited about that.

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Speaker 1: And then great energy.

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Speaker 3: So you know, again, I think anytime you bring in

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Speaker 3: the less experienced coaches, I'm gonna tell them I need

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Speaker 3: to feel your energy, you know, so like there's no.

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Speaker 1: Moping around in the building.

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Speaker 3: I don't care how what's going on when you're young people,

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Speaker 3: young guy, there's no moping for you guys. You got

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Speaker 3: once you're ended. We gotta feel your energy. And I'm

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Speaker 3: glad that they're here and the fact that they're good

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Speaker 3: coaches and they've had success where they've been.

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Speaker 2: One of the other characteristics that coach McCarthy mentioned was

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Speaker 2: a grinder. Do you feel like you kind of grew

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Speaker 2: up with that mentality of being a grinder in the

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Speaker 1: That's how I learned it.

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Speaker 3: You know, it starts back to my first job of

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Speaker 3: Walt Hamline at Wagner College. Then my last job in

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Speaker 3: college with coach Charlie Weiss and Cormyn Brown and John Tanuda.

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Speaker 3: Those are the guys I worked for and Notre Dame.

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Speaker 3: And then I go to New England and coach Belichick.

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Speaker 3: You know, Matt Patricia, you know Josh mcdan, all those guys.

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Speaker 3: That's those are the people I learned from in terms

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Speaker 3: of grinding. And again people think grinmings, we just stay

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Speaker 3: in the office for hours. Now it's all the you know,

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Speaker 3: we stayed in office ade of the one. We got

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Speaker 3: to stay in the office to get worked onne. But

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Speaker 3: really the grind part is trying to find the age.

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Speaker 3: Can I find the age? Not selfishly before the players?

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Speaker 3: That's what everybody has. When you grind like that, it's

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Speaker 3: searching for answers and ways for the players to be successful.

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Speaker 3: So I always think it's funny when people are like,

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Speaker 3: who's a player's coach? I'm like the people that grind

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Speaker 3: and try to find the information for the player to

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Speaker 3: help them play better.

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Speaker 1: On Sunday, those if I was a player.

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Speaker 3: That's what I want is my players, coach and most grinders,

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Speaker 3: I know that's what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: How can I help him play better? On Sunday?

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Speaker 2: Is there anything you want Steelers fans to.

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Speaker 1: Know about you football? I take this thing very seriously.

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Speaker 3: If you're not serious about football, you're probably not in

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Speaker 3: my life outside of having to be. And I'm very

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Speaker 3: fortunate and I feel fortunate to be part to have

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Speaker 3: an opportunity to earn my place.

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Speaker 1: In this tradition. And I'm not going to take that lightly.

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Speaker 1: It's it's very special to me.

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Speaker 3: I'm very excited about this, all right, trying all right,

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Speaker 3: thank you,