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Speaker 1: Daniel, How do you feel where you where you how

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Speaker 1: do you feel with you all right now? Wait read

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, I think I'm I think I'm making progress. Um,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I certainly don't think i'm I'm there at all.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think it's been a it's

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Speaker 1: been a good uh you know o t a season

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Speaker 1: off season in minicamph so far. But but um yeah,

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Speaker 1: certainly still a lot to learn, a lot to work

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Speaker 1: on going forward. But I feel like I've I've progressed,

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Speaker 1: um you know, you know, every day, learned, learning every

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Speaker 1: day and I think that's um, yeah, it's been good

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Speaker 1: so far. Care right now it's got here. I think

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Speaker 1: it's I mean, I think i'm I've made a considerable

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Speaker 1: amount of progress since since I've gotten here, and I think, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I should have. I think that's kind of

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Speaker 1: the way it's it's supposed to go. So um yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, I'm still you know, still

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Speaker 1: have a considerable amount to do. But I think I've

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Speaker 1: made augress every day and I'm you know, I think

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Speaker 1: where I am is uh you know, it's it's certainly

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Speaker 1: better than where I started. What's what's your you know,

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna talk to you now until it's up

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Speaker 1: the summer. What's you what's your mindset gonna be like

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Speaker 1: coming to training camp? And is that is that like

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Speaker 1: kind of turn it up a little bit of a notch? Um? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think, Um, and that makes it sound

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Speaker 1: like I wasn't already, you know kind of, but but yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I think once you get here, for everyone, I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, training camps, you know, another the next opportunity

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Speaker 1: to to improve as a player. So um, yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: looking forward to that, looking forward to getting back and

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, taking those steps and and you know,

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Speaker 1: I think everything will be ramped up a little bit

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Speaker 1: in training camp because that's just um, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's a training camp. But yeah, I think that will be,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of the the next step in the process,

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Speaker 1: the next opportunity to to improve. The pad always says

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Speaker 1: that the players that give the team the best chance

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Speaker 1: to play are the ones that are got up by Well,

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Speaker 1: what you've done so far. Do you feel like you

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Speaker 1: put yourself into that conversation that if needed, you feel

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Speaker 1: like you go out there and want to football game? Um? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think, um, you know, all of our

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Speaker 1: uh you know, when we go out to practice, we

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Speaker 1: want to get ready to play. I think everyone on

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Speaker 1: the team's goal was to, you know, to be ready

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Speaker 1: to play and if they're asked to play, to be

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Speaker 1: ready to play. So, um, you know, I've got a

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Speaker 1: lot to learn. I think you know, coming in here

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Speaker 1: has been it's been good. Like I said, it's been

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Speaker 1: a good offseason so far. But um, you know, I

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Speaker 1: just gotta keep keep taking the steps I'm taking and

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Speaker 1: um yeah, next step to training camp. When you leave

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Speaker 1: clear your mind for a couple of weeks or are

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Speaker 1: you one of those guys who just doesn't stop working. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'll go, Uh, I'll go back to do it and

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Speaker 1: be be working out and thrown there. Um pretty soon

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Speaker 1: I'll take a week and go to the beach with

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Speaker 1: my family. But um yeah, I mean I think, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a different kind of work, but I'll

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Speaker 1: certainly be uh working towards getting ready for training camp.

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Speaker 1: What are makes you feel more comfortable to things seeing

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Speaker 1: ned prodress. What are things you feel like you made progress? Um?

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Speaker 1: I think for me, uh, you know, a big thing

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Speaker 1: is seeing seeing defense is seeing routes and kind of

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Speaker 1: how they how they open up and making those decisions quicker.

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Speaker 1: I think, um, you know, for a quarterback, you want

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Speaker 1: to make the right decision as quick as you can,

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Speaker 1: and that has a lot to do with anticipating a defense,

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Speaker 1: anticipating a coverage and um, you know, being able to

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Speaker 1: get the ball out on time. So I think I've

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Speaker 1: gotten I've gotten better with that and I think you know,

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Speaker 1: I still have, um you know, a lot of a

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Speaker 1: lot of room to improve. But I think just just

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Speaker 1: what you eat in college, you know, some guys are

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Speaker 1: in complete different systems and it's all puddled, uh you know,

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Speaker 1: center all that stuff. But do you feel what you've

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Speaker 1: done in college both training with you know, coach cut

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Speaker 1: or not so much now? Um, I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of the um you know kind of concepts and you know,

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Speaker 1: strated way to teach kind of getting through a concept,

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Speaker 1: getting through a read has been something that I've been

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Speaker 1: able to you know, build off of something I've had

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Speaker 1: um experience doing. But um, you know, I just think

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Speaker 1: there's there's so much more of it here. I mean

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Speaker 1: there's uh, you know that many more concepts, that much

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Speaker 1: think it's all just so much more. But the the

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Speaker 1: practice and the exposure to going through and reading a concept,

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Speaker 1: I think is something that um, you know, I was

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Speaker 1: lucky enough to to be taught in college. Daniel. Do

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Speaker 1: you think you look at this as you're competing for

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Speaker 1: playing time? Do you think there's anything you can do

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Speaker 1: to convince the coaches that you should be playing earlier

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Speaker 1: than what the so called plan is? Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I'm uh, you know, I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's my focus right now. I think, um, in this offseason,

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Speaker 1: I think all of our focuses on and just just improving,

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Speaker 1: uh you know, being better than we were the day before.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's that's certainly mine and and like

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Speaker 1: I like I just said, um, you know, we're all

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Speaker 1: think every man on the team is is you know,

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Speaker 1: has that mindset when they go out to practice. So, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, whatever the plan is, I think my my focus,

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Speaker 1: to be better than what was day before. Is it difficult, though,

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Speaker 1: Like if you were in another situation and you were

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Speaker 1: the clear week one starter versus here, Is it difficult

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Speaker 1: to prepare the same way when in the back of

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Speaker 1: to recreate that preparation? I don't, I really, I really

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Speaker 1: don't think it would be a different mindset for me.

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Speaker 1: I think, um, you know, as a rookie, as a

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Speaker 1: and and you know, I've planned to focus on and

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Speaker 1: just just kind of here in this, in this moment

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Speaker 1: rest of the week. I think I've got plenty of

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Speaker 1: you know, just like I've said, improving kind of day

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Speaker 1: when is the bottom line for you? When they asked

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Speaker 1: think so, And um, yeah, I mean I think, uh

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Speaker 1: I'm asked, and that's my you know, my goal. And

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Speaker 1: do you feel like you're close to that? I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you've obviously never been in the NFL game,

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Speaker 1: you're not you gon have firsthand experience on what that

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Speaker 1: means to be NFL ready. But do you feel like

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Speaker 1: you're you're close to that right now? Uh? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean I think I've I think I've certainly made progress.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm a lot close when I was UM

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Speaker 1: and I was the first day of O T A S.

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Speaker 1: And I mean I think that's um, that's positive. Um

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Speaker 1: as far as uh, you know, if I am I

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Speaker 1: ready ready? I mean, I don't know. I've never never played,

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Speaker 1: but I know that I'm I'm improving and I'm making progress,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's positive. When you make a mistake

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Speaker 1: do you do a lot of bouncing stuff off Eli

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Speaker 1: Shermer that you do that. I think it's I think

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Speaker 1: it's kind of uh um it's a collection of all

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Speaker 1: I think we've got a you know, a dynamic in

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Speaker 1: and and that that that helps. I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: we uh, we certainly all do that. There's a surprise

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Speaker 1: the point and so far, um not not really, Um no, no,

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Speaker 1: not really. I mean I think it's just kind of

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Speaker 1: it's a daily, daily process and and learning uh as

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Speaker 1: much as you can, but it's not I can't. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure there's been a been a surprise me