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Speaker 1: You make no excuses. But when you look at all

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Speaker 1: the changes to the offense this year, changing quarterbacks five times,

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Speaker 1: difficult was it just on a on a daily basis

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Speaker 1: around you. It's tough. I mean, um, you know, this

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Speaker 1: is not an excuse driven league. I mean, it's all

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Speaker 1: about production and what you can do on the field

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Speaker 1: and um. But just it seemed like every week that

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Speaker 1: what we were talking about in the media was never

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Speaker 1: about the game plan. It was about what was transpiring

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Speaker 1: around us or you know, the new news or the

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Speaker 1: the pieces together and keep it consistent, it's hard to do.

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Speaker 1: I mean, um, you know, even on the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: it took us, you know, half the season to figure

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Speaker 1: it out to where we wanted to well, where we

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Speaker 1: felt was the right place. And so, um, that's what

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Speaker 1: I just texted tolling you to just it's just it's

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Speaker 1: hard to get in a rhythm, you know, and that's

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Speaker 1: that's a hard thing to do. And make no excuses

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Speaker 1: about it. We'd you know, nobody had played good enough

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Speaker 1: to the standard of what we want to but um,

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Speaker 1: you know, and then in the hands we were dealt,

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Speaker 1: I thought we played better towards the end of the season.

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Speaker 1: Do you appreciate the season that a guy like Bernard

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Speaker 1: Ryman just put in. I mean there was a lot

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Speaker 1: to grow and get better in year one. Yeah. I mean,

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Speaker 1: not letting us down and not letting the quarterback down.

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Speaker 1: So I mean that's that's first and foremost. And I

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Speaker 1: thought he just got better every week. And trying to

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Speaker 1: give him, you know, words of encouragement, just from a

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Speaker 1: young guys perspective, from old guys perspective of what that's like.

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Speaker 1: And going into your first off season after rookie year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, rookie years is just the stress of it,

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Speaker 1: the men that mind tality, you know, the mentality, everything's new.

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Speaker 1: It is always really tough. I thought he did a

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Speaker 1: you're the longest tenure cult you've You've seen it all

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Speaker 1: since twenty sixteen. There's been a lot of players come

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Speaker 1: where does where does this season rank? For you? It's

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Speaker 1: seventeen was tough, but I was on IR so you know,

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Speaker 1: I was young. I didn't really understand what was going on.

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Speaker 1: But um, when you've got so much change and turnover,

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Speaker 1: just you're constantly in a state of what's next, Who's next? Right,

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Speaker 1: and like I said, when it's not happening for you

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Speaker 1: right now, it's very you know, very frustrating. You know,

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Speaker 1: in sating, you're hired to play at a high level

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Speaker 1: tough is it just as a person to compartmentalize all that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: You know, your locker room. As soon as you break

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Speaker 1: So that's always a tough thing to handle and a

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Speaker 1: very real reality for a lot of young guys in

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Speaker 1: this room. Is you know, it's just that's kind of

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Speaker 1: for better days ahead. Bryan, how are you feeling just

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Speaker 1: physically right now through the grind? Actually better than I

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Speaker 1: thought would feel, So, you know, mentally tired, but physically

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Speaker 1: I'm feeling all right. So get healthy and look forward

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Speaker 1: next year. How do the off seasons now look for

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Speaker 1: kind of my my role too, thing is to get

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Speaker 1: back with my friends and people I don't get to see,

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Speaker 1: you know, during the season. All right, lastly, will you

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Speaker 1: how will that make you feel? Yeah, I only watch it.

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Speaker 1: I only watch when i'm when I've finally done. Can't

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Speaker 1: hurts not to be, you know, to be in there,

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Speaker 1: And um that's it's a it's a good remembrance of

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Speaker 1: how how tough the game is. All right, brother man,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the time and we'll see in the spring.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate Brough