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Speaker 2: How you feel about your competition with time, Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: feel good, man. This is what camp's about. It's about competition.

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Speaker 2: So now we get to throw some pads on. It

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Speaker 2: make us all better.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like everyone's getting a fair shape that position.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I do, Yeah, I do well. I credit the

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Speaker 1: How you feel the other day, Yeah, no, I feel good.

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Speaker 2: It was it was very minor, so I was back

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Speaker 1: In the moment. It didn't look minor.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I didn't feel minor for a second. But

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Speaker 2: luckily I feel great now. So the person to you

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Speaker 2: to get the opportunity you're receiving, you know, when you're

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Speaker 2: out there, we should at the top of unit, taking

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Speaker 2: at account what you went through with your Yeah, it

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Speaker 2: means a lot, obviously. You know, I have been through

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Speaker 2: a lot of my career and I learned really on

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Speaker 2: in the league. Every opportunity you get is you have

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Speaker 2: to be grateful for it. So I am very grateful,

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Speaker 2: and you know, I'm excited about being in a position

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Speaker 2: to help this team win.

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Speaker 1: It's not a personal level. How does it feel at

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Speaker 1: this camp this year? You've heard that the best? Yeah? Special?

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Speaker 2: You know I have said this before, but I really

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Speaker 2: really like the approach that Mayo is taken to the team,

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Speaker 2: focusing on relationship, making sure that we have a cohesive culture.

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Speaker 2: That makes a real big difference, I think, and how

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Speaker 2: you feel when you're playing next to your guys, So

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Speaker 2: you know, it's exciting before that, everybody who's healthy will

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard anything specific about that.

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Speaker 2: I guess I'll probably hear a little bit more when

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Speaker 2: I go inside, but uh, yeah, I'm sure.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure everybody will play. What's it like?

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Speaker 2: You talked a little bit right there about being coached

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Speaker 2: by Mayor and having him leave the team.

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Speaker 1: Can you just talk a little bit about what that

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Speaker 1: experience has now got money, I mean.

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Speaker 2: Like like six months and now, just what that's been

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Speaker 2: for Yeah, I have, I've really appreciated it.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: You I don't know what it's like to go from

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Speaker 2: he was a coach for a while before he became

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Speaker 2: and I feel like he's done a really really good

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Speaker 2: we gonna step in any role. So I think we

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Speaker 2: all feel that, and I think we all benefit from

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Speaker 1: And it comes. He also kind of said, like he's

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Speaker 1: How do you kind of see him.

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Speaker 2: Incl bring himself into the offense and learning not a

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Speaker 2: at least to me, I think it's pretty obvious that

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Speaker 2: don't know how much of that is guys in his

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Speaker 2: having the note wherewithal he's a pretty intelligent guy. So,

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Speaker 2: but it's very evident that he that he's he's studied

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Speaker 2: you take into Scott Peters strike system and given your

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Speaker 2: incorporate your techie Yeah, I have. I really do have

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Speaker 2: so he's another guy who's played before, and I think

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Speaker 1: So I really appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: It'll be great to see what that looks like on

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Speaker 2: And you have to transition very quickly, and hopefully these

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Speaker 2: it's time for business. That thatwn's time to show why

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Speaker 2: I belong here, and you'll have to show that for.

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Speaker 1: The rest of your career.

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Speaker 2: So you know, the advice I'd give him is taken

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Speaker 2: to you. I will never forget it. I was playing

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Speaker 2: I never forgot that. So you know, it's a good moment.

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Speaker 2: Never forget it. The set, well, you say little when

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Speaker 2: to say. Any injury is big man. You gotta you

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Speaker 2: gotta push through.

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Speaker 1: That isn't making things easier on you, guys. But they

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Speaker 1: also met you have competitive you've been so I'm curious

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Speaker 1: where do you feel like you guys have done both

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the implementation of the strike system is

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Speaker 2: making sure we're on the attack mode. We're protecting, but

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Speaker 2: I think as we continue to grow and play games

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Speaker 1: That's where we'll get better.

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Speaker 2: I think with the cohesion, making sure all five guys

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Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward.

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Speaker 2: Last question, guys, how hustle is it to add a

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Speaker 1: Obviously they've been together, know the system. They both kind

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Speaker 2: Itself though that they're kind of Yeah, even with Zakobe too,

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Speaker 2: so they're not, you know, creating something new. This is

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Speaker 2: can lean on that confidence because you can feel it

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Speaker 1: These guys have been there and done that. The best

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Speaker 1: question we said after it's like a fret secor game.

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Speaker 1: But it's how critical are these textually great to you know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, in the NFL, every opportunity

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Speaker 2: to get matters, and there's an offensive line, it matters

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Speaker 2: that you, you know, establish who you are as a

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Speaker 2: player as early as you possibly can. And I think

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Speaker 2: to build that cohesion because it's a long season. So

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Speaker 2: you know, I would encourage anybody just like I would

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Speaker 2: tell myself to show what you can do as early

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Speaker 1: Thank you, coming appreciate you guys. Man,