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Speaker 1: I think everyone else that's at the preseason a certain way. UM,

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Speaker 1: But since I've been here, you know, it hasn't always

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Speaker 1: been like first preseason game you play this, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like we never know. So I think

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Speaker 1: for us as players, um, first and foremost has always

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Speaker 1: improving on the things that you know, we came in

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Speaker 1: here Friday and watch walk through practice. You know, those

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Speaker 1: are the things that you don't want to mess it up.

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Speaker 1: Like you feel like this shop, I feel like you

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Speaker 1: never know. Um. I think this is a good test. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Caroline is always a very tough football team. UM. You

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Speaker 1: know they're gonna be well coach, You're gonna know exactly

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Speaker 1: what they're doing. UM. I having North Turner, we've played

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Speaker 1: him numerous times always UM a tough you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of offensive coordinated to play against a high you at

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Speaker 1: tax you so, UM, I think for us it's a

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Speaker 1: good test. UM. But I still doesn't I just don't

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Speaker 1: think it's like the end all be all, But you

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Speaker 1: want to go out there and play well against a

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Speaker 1: very good football team, UM and try to just keep

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Speaker 1: that going. I think it's important for us as a

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Speaker 1: team coming together, um, and then for all of us

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Speaker 1: individually to go out there and play against some tough matchups.

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Speaker 1: You always but when you get a chance to see

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Speaker 1: you they get supported on like him and pay out

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Speaker 1: there because it kind of raised the level because I

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Speaker 1: know when Tom gets out there, raising the level for everybody. Also, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you just know you better come ready to play, but

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Speaker 1: come ready to tackle him if he just hides the run,

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Speaker 1: get on guys and the firing the ball, you know,

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Speaker 1: anywhere on the field. So, um, we've seen him before.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, we've never had we've never had an

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Speaker 1: easy game going against those guys. Um shoe. Last year

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Speaker 1: they came here and beat us, So we know exactly

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Speaker 1: what they're cable on offense. Um, and we know something

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Speaker 1: a tough test. You know, even watching the game last

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Speaker 1: week against Miami, you know, second player the game seventy

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Speaker 1: yards or so. Um, it's gonna be a tough test

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Speaker 1: for its defensive Heavin. You think that this is a

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Speaker 1: good meeting for the rookies for the first time they

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Speaker 1: sort of you're at least somewhat game planning for a team.

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Speaker 1: You know that they get to see how you guys

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Speaker 1: are going to game planning for a team. And the

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Speaker 1: regular shows not more important. I think as a rookie,

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Speaker 1: every every week's important life, you know. I think for

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Speaker 1: us you say that game playing. For them, they don't

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Speaker 1: know what anything is, so you can't kind of wait

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Speaker 1: till the third preseason game. I think for them the

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Speaker 1: progression is even harder because each week is something new

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Speaker 1: they just don't know. So um, I think each week

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Speaker 1: that they get to be here a little bit longer,

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Speaker 1: it's very important to just show that you're progressing, you're

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Speaker 1: learning things. It's never gonna be perfect for anybody. Is

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Speaker 1: surely not gonna be perfect for a rookie, so you

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Speaker 1: just want to keep progressing and learning. But I wouldn't say,

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Speaker 1: you know, this one game is a most important aspect

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Speaker 1: for them. They have to just keep getting better. It's

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Speaker 1: one of the leaders on this team. You're trying to

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Speaker 1: have to tell guys, even rookies are young players, you know,

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Speaker 1: just stay calm this time of year because there's just

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Speaker 1: so much roster movement. You know, you never know what. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I always tell guys, just play football. Yeah, something I

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Speaker 1: learned from my mom. You play, you do the best

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Speaker 1: your control. So I always I'm always saying that. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling guys that before the game, right in pre

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Speaker 1: game not to worry too much. Just go play football

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Speaker 1: players and take down playing that they do a helmet

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Speaker 1: Bols appreciated the other night. What's what's been Darren freshing up?

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Speaker 1: How that blascumby Goll? I mean we could, you know,

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Speaker 1: I could do a long interview, could write articles that Always.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if I go out there and I

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Speaker 1: get the flag three times. Um, it's something I think

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Speaker 1: that everyone has to adjust to. We're all out there.

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Speaker 1: You know. Sometimes okay, you know that's what we watch.

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Speaker 1: I get it. Then there's other times July, I don't

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Speaker 1: kind of see what they're looking for. Um, you got

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Speaker 1: clear picture on a lot of things. So I'm probably

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Speaker 1: the wrong person to ask. I just try to go

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Speaker 1: out there and play the way I played, you know,

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Speaker 1: my whole career. What did you think of I have?

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Speaker 1: John Bentley called related plays into the huddle during the

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Speaker 1: first for the second preseason game. He's done a good

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Speaker 1: I think he has been confident when you come in

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Speaker 1: of huddle, getting a place communicates everyone, you know, I

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Speaker 1: he's done his whole career. So, um, he's a guy.

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Speaker 1: I think he stepped in there and once the games

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Speaker 1: and stuff got gone, he was like, I was just football,

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Speaker 1: Like I've done this before. And I think he's done

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Speaker 1: a good job of going out there. Whatever you know,

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Speaker 1: we're being taught or done in practice, he's going to

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Speaker 1: executing that Is it surprising or impressive that twenty one

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Speaker 1: year old is telling relaying place to guys like you

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Speaker 1: High Tower John. It's great. Um, I never have expect

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Speaker 1: saying like, well, I don't know any of these guys,

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Speaker 1: like I don't have no idea who Joan Bentley was

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Speaker 1: in college. And I think the cool thing for us

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Speaker 1: as veterans as we see these young guys come in here,

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Speaker 1: some really ready to play, some progressed throughout OTAs till now.

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Speaker 1: N LP the same way throughout the season. So I

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Speaker 1: try not to you know, expect you know, lower high

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Speaker 1: expectations for any of these guys, but come in and

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Speaker 1: give him a shot to just get better. You know.

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Speaker 1: Felt like when I came in here as a rookie,

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Speaker 1: all the older guys was like that with me. You know,

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Speaker 1: they told me to think, told me things over and

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Speaker 1: over again, gave me chances, and I think that helped

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Speaker 1: me grow as a players. Looked munching groups game does that.

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Speaker 1: We always say pass rush covers just married together. So

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Speaker 1: when those guys do a good job, we used end

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Speaker 1: up doing a good job. If we do a good job,

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Speaker 1: you know, they're usually happy getting sacked. So it's something,

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Speaker 1: um now, we got to continue to work on each game.

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Speaker 1: It's not gonna be the same as just you know,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough covering people and they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to be guys and win one on one. So that's

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Speaker 1: something we always talk about. Though. I think we have

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Speaker 1: to just keep getting better throughout the preseason. Like I

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Speaker 1: don't think, you know, we can play terrible Game one

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Speaker 1: and two, play Game three pretty good and just say, hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: we killed the preseason like I think we gotta keep

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Speaker 1: getting better. Fix some of the things that didn't look good,

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Speaker 1: like we gave up too many deep balls, Like we

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Speaker 1: have to fit, Like those are the things I think.

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Speaker 1: Game the game, you gotta get used to doing, because

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Speaker 1: that's what we're doing a regular season. You know, we don't,

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Speaker 1: you know, circle a game on the calendar and say

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Speaker 1: this is a game we try to get better. EGM